Class Notes

Haven’t kept all of your Midd Mags?

Wondering what your classmates have been doing since graduation?

After many years of coaching youth, junior varsity, and middle school lacrosse, Harriette Brainard Willis took over last spring as the head varsity coach of girls lacrosse at Middlebury Union High School. After a very successful season, Harriette’s team made it all the way to the Division I finals, eventually losing to the number one team from So. Burlington. W Outside Asheville, N.C., Donna Kinney works as the English department chair at Christ School, an Episcopal all-boys boarding school. W In August, Marc ’84 and Mimi Dalbey Tabah hosted a Midd reception at their house on Martha’s Vineyard in Chilmark. Daughter Chloe is in the Class of 2011. W Kerry Callahan wrote a column for the Hartford Courant about witbier, the Belgian white ale.


Class Secretaries
Ruth Kennedy (kennedyr2@aetna.com)
Siobhan Leahy Ulrich (sulrich@westminster-school.org)



Summer 2007

Steve Genereaux sent a note in April just as he and wife Jamie were finishing up their maple syrup production for the spring. He wrote, “Our three kids ski race at Burke and we cross paths with fellow Midd alums at various races. The last race at Stowe was for 7- to 10-year-olds in northern Vermont and the following parents, besides me, were present: Vicki Seiden Gonin (whose son Sebastian won), Tom Jennings, Steve Utter ’81, Dale Hadley ’84, Cindy Gavett Mumford, and Eric Wilson ’84, whose son Matt won and whose daughter Moriah got second place. So there you have it—the list of middle-aged, ski-racing parents, carrying parkas, waxing skis, and enabling the next generation of ski bums.” W Living in Lynnfield, Mass., with wife Brenda and daughter Marissa, Bob Calamari is senior VP at Bank of America and has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. W First American Insurance Underwriters Inc. of Needham, Mass., recently named Holly Charlesworth Casner as assistant to the president. Formerly she was at Strategic Financial Partners in Waltham, Mass., where she served as a financial representative for five years. She lives in Weston, Mass., with her three children.

Class Secretaries
Ruth Kennedy (kennedyr2@aetna.com)
Siobhan Leahy Ulrich (sulrich@westminster-school.org)



Spring 2007

Setting a new class record, Kip Stone was the first to cross the Route du Rhum finish line to win the Class 2 monohull division last November. The 3,500-mile solo transatlantic race began in St. Malo, France, and ended off Point à Pitre, Guadeloupe, and took him 17 days, 22 hours, and 36 minutes. Kip faced all kinds of conditions—winds, lack of winds, hot sun, rain. At one point his headsail was shredded; at another, he was smacked in the back of the head by a flying fish! The win adds to his already impressive solo sailing resume. Kip also owns Artforms, a screen-printing company in Westbrook, Maine, and the Cool as a Moose retail stores in Freeport and Portland. • State Street Global Advisors recently appointed Thomas Stolberg as a senior high yield analyst in its global fixed income group. With over 10 years of investment management experience, he joined State Street from Boldwater Capital Management, L.P., where he served as a senior analyst.


Class Secretaries
Ruth Kennedy (kennedyr2@aetna.com)
Siobhan Leahy Ulrich (sulrich@westminster-school.org)



Winter 2007

Shelby Siems writes, “I graduated from Emerson College’s MFA program in creative writing in December 2005. On March 17, 2006, I was a panel participant for ‘On Point,’ a news program on WBUR, Boston’s NPR station. The subject was single women looking for anonymous donors. Two days later, I was the featured single mother in a New York Times Magazine cover story on the same topic. It was an exciting week as six days after that I gave birth to my second son, Charlie. He joined brother Christopher (2.5). • One of the new faculty members at Bosque School in Albuquerque, N.M., is Kevin Cummins. Kevin is a 9th- and 10th-grade English teacher. He has taught in private schools in New York, Connecticut, the Caribbean, and California. • Helen Hammond Baldwin sent this note: “It is with deep sadness that I write to tell you of my beloved husband Bob’s sudden passing. Tragically, he was killed in a plane crash on June 14 en route to one of his land projects in Virginia, Bundoran Farm. I thank God for His gift to me in Bob. He was the love of my life, my very best friend. Our time together was cut far too short, but my memories of our life together and Bob’s spirit and vision live on.” The class sends its deep condolences to Helen. • Karen Edlund, former VP and treasurer at M/A-Com Inc., in Lowell, Mass., was recently named senior VP and CFO at Leggat McCall Properties, LLC, a Boston-based real estate development, investment, and project management firm. • The Rutland Herald ran an article this past fall featuring people who left NYC after the September 11 attacks and one of those interviewed was Bruce Chase. Bruce watched the attacks from the roof of an office building in Brooklyn Heights, where he worked for a small advertising agency. In the economic aftershocks of the tragedy, Bruce lost his job and he and wife Heather decided it was time for some changes. They moved to Vermont and now Bruce teaches Spanish at the Compass School, a nonprofit, independent school in Westminster, Vt. He and Heather live in Bethel with children Harrison (14), Ann (12), Muriel (10), and Samantha (6).


Class Secretaries
Ruth Kennedy (kennedyr2@aetna.com)
Siobhan Leahy Ulrich (sulrich@westminster-school.org)



Fall 2006

Scott Laughinghouse has joined Lake Sunapee Bank as senior VP and senior commercial lending officer. His 17-year career in commercial banking includes working as a commercial loan officer at Lake Sunapee and more recently as senior VP and senior lender at Savings Bank of Walpole in Keene, N.H. • Pam Chasek hit the trifecta in March when she received tenure at Manhattan College, was promoted to associate professor, and was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholarship to spend six months at Victoria Univ. in Wellington, New Zealand, researching “Small Islands, Big Issues: Formulating Regional and International Responses to Environmental Problems in the South Pacific.” Pam, husband Kimo Goree, and sons Sam and Kai will be heading to New Zealand in early January 2007. • And introducing—in the role of baby boy—John Hall Elish, born July 31 to proud parents Andrea and Dan Elish. John joins big sister Cassie.


Class Secretaries
Ruth Kennedy (kennedyr2@aetna.com)
Siobhan Leahy Ulrich (sulrich@westminster-school.org)



Summer 2006

Brian Napack was recently appointed president of Holtzbrinck Publishers, owner of some of the nation’s leading publishing brands. Besides sharing management responsibilities with the company CEO, his role includes oversight of acquisitions, strategic planning, and business development for the company. Brian was formerly at L.E.K. Consulting where he was a partner in its media and entertainment practice and the co-head of its education and publishing practice. He has built digital and traditional media businesses at companies such as the Walt Disney Company, Simon & Schuster, and ThinkBox, an internet education company where he was the founder and CEO. • Scott Bogan reports he started working at Resnick Investment Advisors in Westport, Conn., in December 2005. It’s a great commute! Wife Lisa is busy with the Wilton Board of Education and son Doug is doing well as a freshman at Wilton high school. • In what sounds like a fun job, Rick Tetzeli works as the managing editor of the magazine Entertainment Weekly. Formerly at Fortune, Rick moved to EW after impressing Time Inc.’s editor-in-chief with his ideas to improve the magazine. “I wrote a long memo,” Rick says. “Eight to ten pages long.” Working at Entertainment Weekly gives Rick the opportunity to schmooze with the folks in Hollywood.


Class Secretaries
Ruth Kennedy (kennedyr2@aetna.com)
Siobhan Leahy Ulrich (sulrich@westminster-school.org)



Spring 2006

Anne Sudkamp recently stepped in as executive officer of Alaska EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) at the Univ. of Alaska. Life in the frozen North ("kids go out for recess here until 20 below") continues to go well for Anne, husband Tim, daughter Helen (11), and son Cole (7). Since reunion in 2003, she has especially enjoyed becoming reacquainted with classmates Carrie Bowman and Jennifer Peters. • Allegra DiBonaventura Hogan, a doctoral candidate in history at Yale Univ. and the John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics at Yale Law School, has been awarded a research fellowship by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Her project title is "This Little World: Two Manhoods in Old New England, 1678-1758." • Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Allison Burroughs has joined the law firm of Nutter McClennen & Fish, as a partner in litigation. At the U.S. Attorney's office, Allison served as coordinator of the computer hacking and intellectual property section. She is a three-time award winner for superior performance as an assistant U.S. states attorney in the fields of computer crime, international money laundering, and organized crime. • Ellen Hereford Thompson enjoys living in Denver with husband Ches and sons Andrew (9) and Fritz (7). She recently started a new job, heading up the sales group for a medium-sized publisher. She remembers Middlebury as an incredible experience. • Congratulations to Nancy Wynant and Bryan Costello, who welcomed daughter Caitlyn Elizabeth Costello on November 16, 2005. They're hoping Caitlyn will inherit some of her father's talent. He's a golf pro!


Class Secretaries
Ruth Kennedy (kennedyr2@aetna.com)
Siobhan Leahy Ulrich (sulrich@westminster-school.org)



Winter 2006

Erik Greenberg Anjou was thrilled to screen his documentary film (A Cantor's Tale) at Midd in September, "thanks to the generosity of Professors Ted Perry, Peter Hamlin, and Rabbi Ira Schiffer." Erik produced and directed the picture, which got a rave review in Variety and has won top awards in Warsaw and Tel Aviv. Erik is currently writing a feature film for producer extraordinaire Rony Yacov (Triumph of the Spirit, City of Ghosts) and is additionally producing and directing a new documentary about the legendary New York band, The Klezmatics. He sends an urgent message to classmates Bob Norberg and Brian Cabral: "Dudes —Where are you?" (Respond to eanjou@earthlink.net.) • Tom Van de Water is on leave from teaching high school science this year. In addition to working in Idaho for the Forest Service, Tom reports that he is working and traveling with wife Betsy Kepes and son Jay in Georgia, New Zealand, and Japan. • Michael Lyons is living in Norwich, Vt., with wife Stephanie Briggs and children Hannah (11), Gus (8), and Maddie (6). "Busy in private practice as a family doctor in White River. Trying to keep up with my kids—mountain biking, canoeing rivers, and getting ready for Nordic skiing and hockey seasons!" • The second picture book by Katherine Brown Tegen, The Story of the Easter Bunny, was a New York Times bestseller for three weeks last March! It will be available again in stores this March. Katherine, Doug, and children Tyler and Charlotte are still living happily on the Upper West Side. They recently had dinner with Dan Elish and wife Andrea to celebrate Dan's new book contract with Harper- Collins. • Bob Gallahue has been appointed chief financial officer at Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Molecular Insight is developing BMIPP, a molecular imaging pharmaceutical, for the detection of cardiac ischemia, initially for use in triaging emergency room patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome. • Stephen Genereaux, a physician at the Wells River (Vt.) Clinic, was recently awarded the 2005 Vermont Public Service Award by the Bi-State Primary Care Association (BSPCA). He has been instrumental in bringing together three practices (Wells River, Valley Health, and Bradford Health) for the BSPCA, an organization with a mission to foster the delivery of primary health care services to underserved communities in New Hampshire and Vermont. Stephen was careful to point out that it required a great deal of team effort to make everything happen, especially thanking his colleagues, wife Jamie, and son Liam—"who picks out my ties every morning."


Class Secretaries
Ruth Kennedy (kennedyr2@aetna.com)
Siobhan Leahy Ulrich (sulrich@westminster-school.org)



Fall 2005

After several years of enlivening the Spanish program at Vermont Academy, Bruce Chase has joined the faculty at the Compass School in Westminster, Vt. He has also coached soccer and tennis, directed and performed in theater, and led school trips to Spain and Guatemala. With an MBA from Crummer Graduate School, Bruce previously spent several years in the business world, including four years in Australia as project manager for Hewlett Packard and Johnson & Johnson. • Victoria Seiden Gonin and her family recently relocated to Concord, Mass., from Mountan Lakes, N.J. She looks forward to reconnecting with fellow Midds in the Boston area. • Dan Elish informs us that he has published his "first novel for real live grown-ups—as opposed to my others for kids." Nine Wives (St. Martins, August 2005), according to Dan, "tells the humorous (I hope) tale of Henry Mann, a fantasy-ridden bachelor in New York, looking for the perfect wife. So far it's gotten good reviews in the Boston Globe, Jane Magazine, Shape, and others." Still living in NYC, Dan and wife Andrea have a daughter, Cassie (2). Dan encourages everyone to rush out and buy his book, because "nursery schools here are really expensive—I need those royalties!"


Class Secretaries
Ruth Kennedy (kennedyr2@aetna.com)
Siobhan Leahy Ulrich (sulrich@westminster-school.org)



Summer 2005

Boston Beer Company has appointed Dave Burwick as a director of the company. He's serving as senior VP and chief marketing officer of Pepsi Cola North America. • Pamela Boucher DeGregorio and husband Michael live in Mokena, Ill., where they are raising sons Anthony (8) and Nicholas (5). "We are very active in our community. I still love politics, reading, cooking, and a new love—gardening." • Kerry Callahan has been appointed chair of the litigation department at Hartford (Conn.) law firm Updike, Kelly & Spellacy. • Debbie Smith is reportedly doing fine in Minnesota. She married fellow New Englander Nick Jordan in 2003 and welcomed Clare in December. All are well, enjoying music, gardening, etc. • Jennifer Peters works as a hospitalist at the Jordan Hospital in Plymouth, Mass. She and her family split their time between Duxbury, Mass., and Thetford, Vt.: "Our kids, Colin (12) and Sarah (9), ski race at the Dartmouth Skiway, with an occasional trip to the Snow Bowl."


Class Secretaries
Ruth Kennedy (kennedyr2@aetna.com)
Siobhan Leahy Ulrich (sulrich@westminster-school.org)



Spring 2005

Secretary Kennedy reports: Congratulations to Karen Heath, who was named 2005 Vermont Teacher of the Year! A language arts teacher for 20 years, she designed and implemented Renaissance Readers, an accelerated language arts program for students in grades three through six. As spelling team coach, she led students to victories from 2001–2003. She also co-chaired the annual regional Language Arts Festival (2003–2004) and serves as coordinator for Odyssey of the Mind in her school. As Vermont Teacher of the Year, Karen will travel the state and country, visiting schools and working with teachers. She lives in Barre with husband Christopher Howe and their three children. • Tom Van de Water is still running cross-country with Canton High School students and teaching earth science and AP environmental science (including to son Lee). Tom has plans "to work again on wilderness trails in Idaho this summer and walk for peace in '05–'06." • Since Midd, Pascal Borno has lived in Manhattan, then L.A., then Manhattan, and now L.A. again! He has three children, son Julien (16), and daughters Dominique (14) and Lili (7). Pascal loves his work in international distribution of films. He's in business with Jim Burke '84: Jim produces and Pascal sells his films. Pascal reports that Chris Grivakes (an attorney in L.A.) still beats him in tennis! • Patrice McAree recently joined Mobileway-InphoMatch as VP of application to person sales for the Americas. Before joining InphoMatch as a strategic adviser to the CEO, he served as senior VP for corporate development at News Corporation. • Helen Hammond Baldwin shares some news: "Last summer, Bob and I cruised the Maine Coast and Penobscot Bay region aboard our Boomerang, a 44-foot Alden sloop. Visited with friends en route and met up with others who joined us along the way. The rugged coast, picturesque harbors, and gunkholes made for great adventure! The sail to and from our home port of Nantucket, 60–70 miles offshore, was memorable for whale, seal, and porpoise watching—and dodging Hurricane Charley. It also provided moments of reflection, and the humbling understanding of our relative insignificance in the vast, powerful ocean." • Hugh Coyle has been managing a group of 43 editors as an executive editor with Macmillan/McGraw-Hill in NYC, though he and his partner Maynard are planning a move back to the mountains of Vermont, where they currently own a hillside farm. Hugh hopes to return to a more creative life of writing and leave managing and editing behind for a while. * After several years in pharmaceutical sales in Missoula, Mont., Bob Miessau accepted a promotion and was transferred to Flagstaff, Ariz.: "My wife (Deb) and I really love the desert Southwest. We recently summited Mount Humphreys, the highest peak in Arizona. We travel extensively in the Southwest and we spent Thanksgiving at an all-inclusive spa in scenic Tucson. If any of my Middlebury pals pass through the lonely outpost of Flagstaff, I hope they will look me up." • Drew Schembre writes that he and wife Catherine "miss Matt Ellenthal '84 and his family, who recently moved back to Connecticut, leaving one fewer Midd grad in Seattle. We still see a collection of Midd folk, including Betsy Greer Edwards and Peter Conard, around town." Drew and Catherine (Williams '82) welcomed daughter Lucy in February 2004: "The battle over where she will go to college in 18 years has begun."


Class Secretaries
Ruth Kennedy (kennedyr2@aetna.com)
Siobhan Leahy Ulrich (sulrich@westminster-school.org)



Winter 2005

Jen Baker Warren is a busy Waldorf kindergarten teacher in southern Phoenix, Ariz., where she reports that they "have a mini-farm with 30 animals—sometimes even ride my horse to school! My son, Florian, is a senior at Verde Valley School and will be applying to Midd, though he prefers Dartmouth. (Ugh!) Emma (10) paints, sings, plays instruments (recorder, piano, and violin), swims, and rides as often as possible. Lucy (5) is in my class this year. In my free time, I continue to run the nonprofit study abroad program I founded with some friends. Our Web site is www.passageproject.org. Otherwise, life is awesome. Come visit!" • Stephen Mullin was recently named president of the Washington Roundtable, a public policy organization comprised of CEOs from Washington state's 40 major employers. Since 1983, the roundtable has worked to create positive change on critical policy issues that foster economic growth and generate jobs in the area. • I (Ruth Kennedy) recently spent an evening with Kerry Callahan and his wife Maura and their two kids. It was great to catch up. In addition to practicing law in Hartford, Conn., Kerry writes a monthly column for the Hartford Courant called "Microbrew Review." The topic is self-explanatory, and since he's been writing it for seven years, my guess is that he's quite an expert by now! • I also had a great opportunity recently to catch up with John Nelson. When I asked him if I could mention him in the notes, he wrote: "By all means, let people know that around Boston there are Midd alums who are united by common experience and the passionate desire for a change in political leadership." John is the pastor at the Dover Church, in Dover, Mass., where he continues in his efforts "to invite overly busy, professional, suburban, good-hearted people to get connected with the great needs of our society—fighting hunger and homelessness, promoting joyful relationships across faith lines, and keeping the culture of consumerism from making us into its image!" I couldn't agree more.


Class Secretaries
Ruth Kennedy (kennedyr2@aetna.com)
Siobhan Leahy Ulrich (sulrich@westminster-school.org)



Fall 2004

Kip Stone is the president and sole owner of Artforms, employing 35 people and selling T-shirts to customers across the country and throughout the Caribbean. From the outset, Kip was driven by two goals: to build Artforms into a world-class, customer-service-oriented company; and to make the company successful enough for him to fund his dream of constructing an Open 50 class single-handed racing sailboat and racing in the Transat, a single-handed transatlantic race. On May 31, he set off on his first Transat race, as the skipper of his Open 50 monohull, Artforms, named after his company. Half a month later, he crossed the Boston Harbor finish line in an elapsed time of 15 days, 5 hours, 20 minutes, and 27 seconds, becoming the first American to win the Transat since 1980. • In Portland, Maine, Gary Prolman has maintained a law firm for the past 10 years: "I am mainly involved in criminal defense, but also represent professional athletes and entertainers. Currently I've got two players in the NHL and four college players that should be in the NHL within the next couple of years. I've also done work for comedians Bob Marley and Aerosmith." Gary has been heavily involved with coaching high school hockey for 15 years. He's also chairman of the board for the Maine High School Hockey Invitational. • Nancy Wynant lives in Bernardsville, N.J. She recently joined the Peapack-Gladstone Bank as vice president. • Peter Nalen and two partners have founded Compass Healthcare Communications to do brand and e-marketing for pharmaceuticals and biopharma companies. Wife Lisa is starting a premium chocolate company. They live in Princeton, N.J., with their three children. • Architect Kate Webb has been featured in the New York Times for her innovative use of small spaces and former maids' rooms in NYC apartments.(See story, page 54.) • In Seattle, the Washington Roundtable, a public policy organization comprised of CEOs from Washington's 40 major employers, recently named Stephen Mullin as president. He had served as the Roundtable's VP for eight years. • Michael Lyons writes from Norwich, Vt., where he's a family doctor: "My wife, Stephanie, and I have three children-Hannah (9), Gus (7), and Maddie (5)-to keep us plenty busy. We recently returned from beautiful Santa Barbara, Calif., where we gathered with other Midd grads celebrating the wedding of Suzannah Bishin and David Hosbein. • Carey Lennox enjoyed the Middlebury reception for President McCardell in Chicago: "Fun to see familiar faces! Reunion last year was terrific. I look forward to our 25th! My son, Mac (now 2.5) will be old enough to come and enjoy some of the festivities. Keep in touch, everyone."


Class Secretaries
Ruth Kennedy (kennedyr2@aetna.com)
Siobhan Leahy Ulrich (sulrich@westminster-school.org)



Summer 2004

Leslie Leete Smith joined Ackland Sports Medicine as the office manager in February. "When I'm not working, I still enjoy skiing in Vermont with my daughters, Kimberly (12) and Stephanie (9). • CC Bitting Cunninghamwrites: "The thought of sitting, relaxing in an art or history or literature class at Middlebury now makes me quite envious. My life now is spent in the car, driving Christopher (14) and twins Alexandra and William (11) to soccer practice, piano, and electric guitar lessons! I love it, but I miss that Middlebury time!" • Living back in Bedford, N.Y., with wife Katie and girls Emma (8) and Sophie (6), Robert Boyd is working for Dresdner Bank in NYC. "Still flying airplanes for fun and eating English muffins with jam." • After 18 years in NYC, Julia Burr moved to the eastern shore of Maryland. She's an addictions counselor, as well as painting and teaching art classes. Julia recently spoke with Jonathan Baker, who is making a splash in the L.A. interior design world. She transmits greetings to Ken Carlton '81, Carl Mueller '82, and Skye McKenzie '85. • Dilbeste Saglam and Tina Mavriki celebrated 20th Reunion in the island of Skiathas, Greece, with their families (two children each). After living in 10 countries, Dilbeste lives in Beirut, Lebanon, at the moment. Tina lives in Athens. • Tom Jennings continues to add beauty to the world with his wholesale flower business, Green Mountain Florist Supply, Inc. When not busy with work, he enjoys spending time with daughters Laura (7), Emma (6), and Adele (2). "I was sorry to miss the reunion last year, but we were busy moving into a new house and just couldn't swing it!" • Kevin Naughton has a long commute to Manhattan from Darien, Conn., but he's "loving life as a country squire wannabe. Coaching son Liam (9) in football, basketball, and lacrosse. Twins Daly and Claire are seven! Still running most mornings and enjoy doing our own painting and home improvement projects, as directed by my beautiful, smart, and funny better half, Heidi (Colby '88-her only flaw!)."


Class Secretaries
Ruth Kennedy (kennedyr2@aetna.com)
Siobhan Leahy Ulrich (sulrich@westminster-school.org)



Spring 2004

Secretary Kennedy reports: Victoria Seiden Gonin has been busy recently developing Womenade, a fund-raising organization, in her town of Mountain Lakes, N.J. While still working in marketing at IBM, that is! Womenade, which raises money by organizing small social gatherings like wine and cheese parties, raised close to $40,000 for breast cancer research in 2003. Womenade's 2004 cause is to raise awareness of good nutrition and exercise, and raise funds for diabetes research. Victoria's group received coverage in the New York Times, which spurred lots of inquiries on how to start Womenade in other towns. Get in touch if you want to know more: vgonin@optonline.net. • Working for Dresdner Bank, Robert Boyd is living in Katonah, N.Y., with wife Katie and daughters Emma (7) and Sophie (6). • Shelby Siems is pleased to announce the birth of son Christopher Kirkpatrick on October 30, 2003. • Anne Perry had a great marathon race in Athens, Greece, on November 2, 2003: "It was 85 degrees, with 15 miles of uphill climbing along with the other 11.2 flat miles! The finish in the ancient stadium was awesome. Now I can sit back and watch the 2004 Olympic Marathon and say 'I did that!' Any runners near Stow, Mass? E-mail me at anneperry3@aol.com." • I (Ruth) have some news, too: Last fall, after 15 years in Vermont, I relocated to Boston, Mass., where I'm working for Aetna Healthcare. Although I'm quite homesick for the Green Mountain State (and the Green Mountains), I'm excited about a new adventure and would love to connect with any Boston Midds.


Class Secretaries
Ruth Kennedy (kennedyr2@aetna.com)
Siobhan Leahy Ulrich (sulrich@westminster-school.org)



Winter 2004

Tom Van de Water writes that he and "trail partners Betsy Kepes and sons Lee and Jay continue to work for the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho's Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness during the summer. As winter closes in, we teach earth science and piano (Betsy) in Canton, N.Y. Visit us for north Adirondack cross-country skiing." • Janet Montgomery Welch is teaching math this year at Mt. Abram High School in Kingfield, Maine. • Victoria Seiden Gonin is spending a lot more time near Middlebury, as her oldest son is attending winter term at Green Mountain Valley School in Waitsfield, Vt. • Brad Calkins was very sorry to miss everyone at Reunion and plans to show up for the 25th. Anyway, "it was all for the best," Brad reports, "as wife Gina delivered twins Will and Ben on July 21 with no problems. They join brother Tyler (2), who is already working on his slap shot and dance moves. Since getting my MBA from Georgetown in 1990, I have been working at Rochester Midland in various jobs and cities, living in Rochester since 1994. Gina and I met in 1995 and got married in 2000. I've kept in touch with Wayne Bulling, who also lives in Rochester, and get together a couple of times a year with Will Muggia for golf in various places. Still playing a lot of guitar, as well as some paddle tennis and skiing, and looking forward to doing some hockey or soccer coaching in a few years when the lads get older." • Lise Markl Lingo writes: "Since returning from four and a half years in Hong Kong, we've been criss-crossing the country (couldn't do road trips in Asia!) and nesting furiously (couldn't do house projects in a rented flat!). Enjoying the cleaner air, great mountain biking trails, and local white water, but missing the incredible Ultimate Frisbee scene in Asia. Happy to hook up anyone—or anyone's kids—in need of Asian connections. Also happy to be hooked up with anyone who needs writing/editing services for their business!" • News from Keli McMenamy Lynch: "Amazingly enough, it is time for my daughter, Meaghan, to be applying to college. Midd's on the list; we will see. We are living happily in Princeton, N.J. Our five children have adjusted easily to life in the U.S. It's great to be back to American sports. We look forward to seeing my sister, Tara McMenamy Sheahan '82, in the 2006 Olympics for X-C skiing."


Class Secretaries
Ruth Kennedy (kennedyr2@aetna.com)
Siobhan Leahy Ulrich (sulrich@westminster-school.org)



Fall 2003

Steven Roberts has been appointed chief operating officer of MRM Partners Worldwide. Prior to this appointment, Steve had been CFO of the marketing services divisions of McCann-Erickson WorldGroup, which include MRM Partners, Momentum, FutureBrand and Torre Lazur McCann Healthcare. • Since fall 2000, Mark Conroy has been head football coach and director of athletics at the Williston Northampton School in Massachusetts. Wife Monique is a math teacher. They enjoy vacationing with children Kristina (10) and Kevin (7) at their place on the island of Isleboro in Penobscot Bay, Maine.


Class Secretaries
Ruth Kennedy (kennedyr2@aetna.com)
Siobhan Leahy Ulrich (sulrich@westminster-school.org)



Summer 2003

To mark Katherine Brown Tegen's 20th year in publishing, HarperCollins Children's Books has announced the creation of a new imprint, Katherine Tegen Books. Katherine reports: "I am always on the lookout for up-and-coming talent, and I particularly enjoy developing humorous stories and characters that represent the joys-and the longings-of childhood." She lives in NYC with her family. • Linda Estin Hirschel(paint@aquanet.co.il) reports: "I live in Israel with my husband and seven children. Have taught special ed in the past and have been doing shows for children and women. Interested in hearing from anyone who remembers me." • Helen Hammond Baldwin informs us that they have moved to Hollis, N.H. • Sarah Egan writes that she is "working as a hospitalist at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, which is where I did my residency. My field is general internal medicine. My patients and their illnesses are challenging and usually rewarding. My domestic partner and I bought a house in Brooklyn this winter. It's a lovely little house on a quiet street that is one block long."... Roger Chow was recently appointed the secondary literacy coordinator for Denver Public Schools: "This is a huge responsibility because of the state of education, not only in Denver but all over our nation. We're doing some pretty incredible initiatives here in Denver. Look to see us as models for the rest of the nation." Having spent the past eight years teaching language arts in both Florida and Colorado, Roger is working to complete his master's degree at UNC. • Mary Borah Gorman was sorry to miss reunion. After 13 years in Exeter, N.H., she and husband Steve have "headed north to Norwich, Vt., a beautiful town on the Connecticut River. Just before making the move, we took a month's trip in the remote reaches of Canada's Northwest Territory with four other Vermonters, including Phil Huffman '84 and his wife, Audrey. We took a float plane to Horton Lake, where we began a 400-mile, four-week, canoe trip on the Horton River, ending at the Arctic Ocean. Since returning, I've been working in the provost's office at Dartmouth College and settling in to this new community."

Class Secretaries
Ruth Kennedy (ruth.kennedy@cigna.com)
231 Park St., Burlington, VT 05401
Siobhan Leahy Ulrich (sulrich@westminster-school.org) Westminster School, 995 Hopmeadow St., Simsbury, CT




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