Life-Long Learning

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Life-Long Learning

BULLETIN FALL/WINTER 07–08
Life-Long Learning
Pingree Teachers are Life-Long Learners bringing new perspectives
of the world around them into their lives and into their classrooms.
Pegasus Society Profile
Pegasus Society
Make a Gift
to Pingree with
Lasting Value
For many of us, Pingree holds a special place
in our hearts. Who can forget the thrill of
seeing the campus for the first time, cheering on the home team during Wheeler Day,
or watching a loved one receive his or her diploma in the Hedge Garden? What better
way to honor that legacy than by making
Pingree the beneficiary of your will or trust.
Through your generosity, you will be providing permanent support to the School, and in
exchange receive the satisfaction of knowing
that you are helping to ensure that future
generations of students benefit from a
Pingree education. What could be a better
return on your investment?
By informing the School of your intentions,
you qualify for immediate membership in
the Pegasus Society, established in 1994 to
recognize and honor donors who have made
provisions for Pingree in their estate plans.
We gratefully thank the following Pegasus
Society members for creating a lasting legacy at Pingree School.
Judith Adamson ’67
Anonymous (2)
Amy Blodgett ’82
Scot R. Bradstreet ’79
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander K. Buck Jr. p ’02
Ellie Cabot
Trisha and Steven Castraberti p ’08
Mark Comunale ’76
James S. Craig ’80
Alice Roberts Dietrich ’68
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Drislane p ’90, ’93
Mimi Davis Emmons ’64, p ’87, ’90
Betsy and Steve Fantone p ’01, ’05
Ms. Katherine Nelson Greene ’65
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll J. Hebbel p ’82
Dana P. Jordan ’75
Anne and Bill Kneisel
(Anne Hooper Kneisel ’66)
Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood Merriman
Mr. and Mrs. Hewitt Morgan p ’78, ’80 gp ’08
Elizabeth W. Parker ’76
Sumner Pingree, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Purinton p ’74, ’82, ’88
Michael W. Robb ’76 *
Madelyn M. Sheilds p ’91, ’92
Mr. and Mrs. Binkley Shorts p ’95, ’00
Kemp C. Stickney ’75
* deceased
Board of Trustees 20 0 6 – 07
President
James D. Smeallie p ’05, ’09
V ice President
Keith C. Shaughnessy p ’04, ’08, ’10
T reasu rer
William Pingree p ’04, ’08
Secretar y
Peter M. Cowen
Headmaster
Nina S. Anderson ’77, p ’09
Richard C. Bane p ’04, ’05
Kirk C. Bishop p ’06, ’06, ’08
Tamie Thompson Burke ’76, p ’09
Patricia Castraberti p ’08
Malcolm Coates p ’01
Frederick Glore p ’04
Philip G. Lake ’85
Therese Melden p ’09, ’11
Theodore E. Ober
Mary Puma p ’05, ’07, ’10
Leslie Reichert p ’02, ’07
Binkley C. Shorts p ’95, ’00
Augusta Stanislaw p ’01, ’02, ’08
Joyce W. Swagerty
Sandra Williamson p ’08, ’09, ’10
Susan Winthrop p ’90, ’96, ’99
Brucie B. Wright
Parents A ssociation President
A lu mni L eadership B oard President
Pingree parents Steve and Trish Castraberti p’08 have been long and generous supporters of the school. Beginning with their son, Andrew’s, matriculation in the fall
of 2004, the Castraberti family has provided an unending supply of pizza, hosted innumerable team and grade dinners at their Saugus restaurant, and initiated countless friend-raising events for parents, often held at their comedy club, Giggles. In
addition to their tangible contributions to Pingree, Trish has given limitless hours of
volunteer support, including serving as President of the Parents Association and
Chair of a Pingree Parent Auction. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees.
Recently, the Castrabertis informed Pingree that they had made provision for the
School in their estate plans. Steve commented, “Still to this day, as we drive down the
driveway toward the School and admire the spectacular surroundings, we feel the
gratitude of being a part of such a great institution. Your freshman enters Pingree as
a child and your senior graduates as an inspired and confident adult ready to face the
challenges of the world.”
“When I was young, I didn’t even know that schools like this existed,” remarked
Trish. “There are days when I just want to sit down in a classroom and be a student
again. I hope that each student at Pingree understands what a profound impact this
journey will have on the rest of his or her life. Although Pingree was founded only 46
years ago, our graduates have positively changed the world around us. Every Pingree
graduate I have ever met is just a good person. We want Pingree to continue to advance into the future and inspire its graduates to go out and make the world a little
bit better for all of us.”
On the cover
Bottom row, left to right: Ailsa Steinert and June Jeswald.
Middle row: John Glessner, Lynette Gray, Kirki Thompson, and Sarah
Carpenter ’97. Top row: Eric Olson, Wendy Lawton, and Sean Hagon.
On Being a Teacher
Reflections:
from Headmaster
Peter M. Cowen
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Cover Story:
Living Proof
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22
Ed Halsted p ’08
William K. Ryan ’96
THE CASTRABERTI FAMILY LEGACY
contents
Jane Blake Riley ’77, p ’05
WIT
New Faculty & Staff
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26
Board of Overseers
Alice Blodgett p ’78, ’81, ’82
Susan B. Brown ’70
John R. Chandler p ’92, ’97
Herbert F. Collins p ’80, ’84, ’86
James C. Deveney, Jr.
Alice Dietrich ’68
John Drislane p ’90, ’93
Mimi Davis Emmons ’64 p ’87, ’90
Richard Harte, Jr. p ’69, ’74, ’77
Richard C. Kennedy p ’75, ’76, ’78
Anne H. Kneisel ’66
Susanne Phippen p ’75, ’78, ’80, ’82
Charles W. Pingree p ’78
John R. Pingree p ’74
Charles P. Rimmer, Jr. p ’86
Edward P. Roberts * p ’68, ’72
William S. Rogers p ’68, ’70
Edward S. Rowland p ’77, ’80, ’82
Gilbert L. Steward, Jr. p ’83
Alexander A. Uhle
Alumni
Gatherings
Fall Sports
Awards
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Notes from
Barbara Wilcox DiLorenzo’s ’93 Art Show
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Marketing & Communications Office
Pingree School, 537 Highland Street, South Hamilton, MA 01982-1399
Phone: 978.468.4415 • Fax: 978.468.3758
Web Address: www.pingree.org
Alumni e-mail: [email protected]
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* deceased
Director of Institutional Advancement: Kimberley C. Moore
Director of Marketing & Communications: Samantha Drislane Markowski ’93
Director of Alumni Relations: Laurie Harding Polese ’84
Director of Annual Fund & Parent Relations: Diana Batchelder Mathey
Database Administrator: Paul Tetta
Events Coordinator: Shelley McCloy Vassallo ’76
Development Office Coordinator: Donna Maggio
Editor and Writer: Samantha Drislane Markowski ’93
Alumni Editors: Laurie Harding Polese ’84 and Shelley McCloy Vassallo ’76
Photography: Blind Dog Photo, Dan Courter, Samantha Drislane Markowski ’93, David Pratt Photography,
Tracy Emanuel Photography, Ned Jackson, Mark Drury, Pingree School archives
Design: Mark Drury, Percolator Design, Inc
Printing: Cricket Press
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Community Service at Pingree
On Being a Teacher
This edition of the Pingree Bulletin focuses on the core of a Pingree education: teachers. Obviously,
it will be replete with teaching and learning moments and stories as well, but what we present you
with here is a potpourri of faculty members and their worlds: what they teach, why they teach, how
they teach, and
their love of being Pingree teachers and life-long learners.
As a teacher of 38 years, I have many perspectives I could share with you on the
teaching profession. Just thinking about
what I might share here has reminded me
of many exciting moments of teaching I
have had as an educator at Pingree and
elsewhere.
I think what I’d like to do, though, is
share with you several brief, personal,
novelesque reflections — all about being a
teacher. Perhaps this will be an appetizer
to the main course of Pingree faculty
members and stories about teaching that
will make this entire Pingree Bulletin a
very memorable one.
Introduction
“On deciding to be a teacher.”
I knew as a sophomore in prep school that
I wanted to be a teacher. David Koth, who
taught me algebra at The Pingry School in
NJ, was my main inspiration. He was
commanding, engaged, organized, and
enthusiastic. I also loved algebra. I think
it was the type A in me that spurred me to
enjoy his class and his teaching style so
much. I interviewed for a teaching job
during my senior year in college and was
lucky to be offered a position at
St. Paul’s School in Garden
City, Long Island. That was
1970. This is 2008. This is my
38th happy year in the teaching
profession.
Chapter 1
“A love story.”
Teaching has been and remains
my first love. As I have said to
Pingree parents and others, I
use the title Headmaster to describe what I do because it in-
corporates the term “master,” which is
British for teacher. Going to meetings,
asking people to support Pingree, working with Trustees, going to more meetings, giving speeches, talking with parents, engaging with prospective parents,
going to more meetings >>> that is a big
part of what I do. It is quite adult-centered.
Teaching my class of 5 seniors this fall is
what I also do and what I love most. I am
jealous of full-time teachers who interact
with students all day in class. It’s true.
Chapter 2
“The deeper rewards.”
The joy of teaching is engaging young
minds. It is an awesome responsibility
that must be undertaken with great seriousness but which yields great fun and
joy. Teaching moments are the best.
Whether it is in the hall, on the field, in
the classroom, or in my office — that moment where you realize that you have
made a connection and a positive impact
on a young mind >>> that’s why we do
it — for moments like that! The rewards
are not monetary; they are emotional,
spiritual, internal, selfless.
Chapter 3
“The daily joy.”
I now have a group of 5 seniors that meet
in my office for English class. They sit in
Pingree chairs and on the couch. Sometimes we have a fire in the fireplace. Daily,
we try to have a fire in their cerebellums.
The course is called The Loner in Literature. They discuss Hamlet, Shylock, J. Alfred Prufrock, Randle Patrick McMurphy,
Meursault, and Holden Caulfield, among
others. They’ve seen Jack Nicholson on
video in a mental institution and Mel Gibson in his castle in Denmark. That’s exciting already, but the icing hasn’t hit the
cake yet. They talk about the power society has over the individual. They discuss
the process of literary creation. They write
about how a lyric from Crosby, Stills,
Nash, and Young relates to Ken Kesey’s
novel. They teach each other. They teach
me. They articulate. They think. It is utter
joy. What more could I ask?
Conclusion
“No conclusion.”
Not here. This is the beginning of our
Bulletin, not the conclusion. There is no
end to teaching, its process, its
hurdles, its joys. That’s what we
mean when we refer to learning
as life-long. Enjoy this Bulletin,
as we enjoy teaching at Pingree!
NPH Honduras:
Where Kids Get to Stay Kids
Devon Tadler ’09
N uestos Pequ enos Hermanos (nph) is a series of orphanages with
locations all over Latin America and the Caribbean. NPH was founded
in 1954. Currently, there are 3,100 children that are within its system, in
countries such as Mexico, Peru, Nicaragua, and Honduras. In total, the
orphanages operate in seven different countries. The children in these
orphanages are non-adoptable. They are kids who have been abused, orphaned, and shuffled from different family members. NPH is a sanctuary for them, a place that they know they can stay and get an education
to be able to eventually have lives
better than their parents. Having the orphanages be nonadoptive also means that the
family unit can stay intact; brothers and sisters do not have to be
split apart.
When I was in the Eighth
Grade, I first got to experience
the love and caring of these children and once again this summer, I got to experience it again.
When I spent my time at NPH, I
was able to help them. We cleaned out a massive basement underneath
the kitchen, organized numerous bags of clothing and shoes to be handed out to the children, cleaned out food storage rooms, washed them and
restocked them, and finally cooked a lunch for the 700 people that work
or reside at the orphanage. I also got a chance to make life-long memories and bonds with their children. In the afternoon, we were able to go
play and help out the tias (basically, the people that watch the kids) in
Casa Suyapa (the baby house). They were the most adorable children you
will ever want to meet. All they want to do is hug you and tell you about
themselves. Then, in the evening, we
hung out with the older kids, making
friends and trying to bridge the language gap. NPH is an experience that
I will never forget and one that I eventually hope to get to share with the
Pingree community by possibly planning a community service trip for
Pingree students my senior year.
Esperanza Academy
Caroline Gerber ’08
Fear poured over me as I walked into
the unfamiliar cafeteria swarming
with little girls. After a warm welcome, the principal of Esperanza
Academy, the new, tuition free independent school in Lawrence, introduced me to a table of students. By my
second day, I felt a part of the bustling
cafeteria that housed a tight-knit community of fifth and sixth grade girls. I
tutored at Esperanza Academy to build
the girls’ confidence in their academic
ability, but I never anticipated the impact they would have on me. One day
a table full of girls gestured for me to
help them. Before I could sit down, I
realized that they already finished
their homework. I came to understand
that while my tutoring skills were
helpful, my consistent presence was
most appreciated. Through tutoring
the girls, helping them to organize
overflowing cubbies, watching chorus
rehearsals, and talking with them, I
joined the community of Esperanza
Academy. Each day, I drove to the
School and left glowing. The School
created a comfortable environment
that encouraged me to open up and
learn from the girls. As I reached out
to them, they reached out to me and
we supported each other.
Peter M. Cowen, Headmaster
REFLECTIONS
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FALL/WINTER 07–08 3
WIT
Taken from the
Thursday, November 1, 2007,
edition of the
Hamilton-Wenham Chronicle
By Ian Hurley
‘Wit’ cast members sheer locks for a good cause
In an effort to raise awareness about ovarian cancer
and in conjunction with their fall theater production
of “Wit,” five Pingree students from the small cast
have cut their hair and donated it to the Pantene
Beautiful Lengths organization.
Nelle Phippen of Wenham, Alexandra Perkins
of South Hamilton, Caroline Cleary of Beverly,
Shannon Burke of Marblehead, and Cara Blackman
of Rockport hoped cutting their hair would raise
the awareness of Pingree School students and also
supply real-hair wigs to children suffering from the
side effects of chemotherapy.
On November 2nd, 3rd and 4th students put on
the production of Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prizewinning play, “Wit.” Students in the theater program
worked all fall with members of the performing arts,
English, community service, health and counseling
departments to fully understand and raise their
awareness of the themes in the play, which deals
with one woman’s valiant struggle against the
aggressive ovarian cancer with which she has been
diagnosed.
In addition to cutting their hair, members of
the cast were actively involved with local and
national organizations to help support ovarian
cancer research. During the month of October,
the 18-member cast joined the Run/Walk for the
Whisper March in Boston, had a jeans day to raise
money for the Hospice of the North Shore, and
joined 15 students from the Social Concerns group
to walk in the 3-mile Hospice of the North Shore
Walk.
Tickets sold for $15, and $5 of each ticket sale was
donated to ovarian cancer research.
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Board of Trustees Notes
Pingree Welcomes New Board Members to the 2007–2008 Board of Trustees
Tamie Thompson Burke ’76
Tamie was named a new Trustee of Pingree School in June 2007. She is a Managing Director of Jones Lang LaSalle, a global real estate services company headquartered in Chicago which purchased Spaulding and Slye Colliers in January 2006. Previously she was
with Spaulding and Slye Colliers for nearly 26 years and served as a Principal of the firm
for 15 years. Tamie was the first woman to be hired as a broker in a major downtown commercial real estate firm when she entered the field in 1980 and specializes in both landlord and tenant services. Over the course of her career, she has held numerous managerial positions in the firm and has been recognized within the firm and the industry as a
trailblazer and a leader. Some of her many awards include being named a Women’s Business Hall of Fame Honoree in 2001 and the Commercial Broker Association (CBA) Leadership Award recipient in 2005. Tamie was the first female recipient of the CBA Leadership Award and was selected for this great honor by her competitors.
Tamie is a 1976 graduate of Pingree School and had four older siblings who also attended Pingree. After Pingree she received
her B.A. from Boston College in 1980. Tamie distinguished herself in athletics at Pingree and Boston College in soccer and lacrosse.
While at Boston College, she was awarded the 1980 Eagle of the Year Award as the outstanding female athlete of the year. In 1995
she was inducted into The Boston College Athletic Hall of Fame for soccer and lacrosse and in 1999 was elected into the Pingree
School Athletic Honor Society. In 1989 and 1990 she was elected as the first female President of the Varsity Club at Boston College
and was the first female to serve as president of a Division I Varsity Club in the country (1989–1990). Tamie has served for over 20
years on the Varsity Club Executive Committee and numerous other committees.
Tamie continues to serve on the Board of the Commercial Brokers Association in Boston and was the first female President in
2004. She is a Trustee of the Sports Museum of Boston (1999 to present) and has been a member of NEWIRE (New England Women in Real Estate) for nearly 20 years. She has served on the board of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board (2002–2003) and Marblehead Youth Soccer (1999–2004) in addition to coaching for five years. Tamie participated in the Boston College Connections program which is a women’s mentor program for female students at Boston College both in its inaugural year (1999) and as time permitted thereafter.
Tamie and her husband William C. “Twig” Burke III live in Marblehead, MA with their daughter Shannon ’09, and son, Rory,
who attends the Eaglebrook School in Deerfield MA. In her spare time she enjoys boating, golfing, tennis and spending time with
her extended family.
Joseph Edwin Halsted
Ed Halsted retired in 2003 after a 35-year career as President of Halsted Design Group,
a firm that specialized in marketing communications for the education, retail and
technology sectors. Since 1992, Ed has contributed his design and marketing talents
to his community in Manchester, MA and to his youngest son’s schools, Pingree and
Brookwood.
Ed is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Manchester Historical Society. He
has also served on the board of The Manchester Community Center and The North
Shore Seminar Series as well as Committee Co-Chair for the Manchester July 4th Parade, Manchester Yacht Club, and the Manchester 350th Anniversary Celebration. In
support of these organizations, Ed spearheaded several fundraising campaigns and
special events, and was the principal designer for newsletters, publications, brochures
and exhibits. Ed also designed and produced a 700-page commemorative history/photography book that chronicles 350 years of life in Manchester, MA.
Ed was active on several Brookwood School committees, including the auction, dances and special events. Since 2004, Ed has
been an active member of the Pingree Auction Committee, designing and producing the auction catalog, invitations, and marketing
materials and helping to create the atmosphere for the special night. Ed served as Vice President of the Pingree Parents Association
in 2006–2007, and as a Co-Chair for Pingree’s record-breaking Auction in 2007. He is currently the President of the Pingree Parents Association.
Ed lives in Manchester, MA with his wife, Carol, and son Taylor ’08. He also has two older sons and one grandson. His personal
interests include tennis, fly fishing, boating and raising orchids.
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Therese Melden
Therese Melden and her husband, Kurt, live in Manchester, MA. They have two daughters: Emily ’09 and Annie ’11.
Therese received her B.S. from Boston University and an MBA from Northeastern
University. She has worked as a Service Coordinator for the Department of Mental
Health and Retardation, and as a Training Consultant and Partner at Innovative Concepts in Worcester, MA.
Therese has served on the Board of Trustees at both Shore Country Day School and
Summit Montessori School in Framingham, MA. At Shore, she served on the Diversity,
Development, Nominating, Marketing and Education Committees and was the Chair of
the very successful “Streetball” event which raised $51,000 for financial aid for students
of diversity. At Summit, she led the Parent Association.
Bill is a 1996 graduate of Pingree School. He received his B.S. from The Carroll School of Management at Boston College with a major in Finance. He is Vice President and Director of Research of Ryan Financial and is a member of Ryan Financial’s investment committee. He holds
Series 7 and Series 65 securities licenses, and is a registered investment advisor representative.
Bill is a member of The Boston College Club where he serves on the Charity and Golf Committees, and is an active member of the Networking Club. He also serves as President of the
Pingree School Alumni Leadership Board. Bill and his wife Alison live in Marblehead, MA,
with their daughter Catherine and son Marty.
Binkley Shorts
Binkley C. Shorts was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Seattle, Washington where he
attended Lakeside School. He went on to Pomona College in California, majoring in economics.
After serving in Vietnam as an army engineer, he attended Harvard Business School and then
pursued a career in financial management. For 35 years, he worked at Wellington Management
until he retired at the end of 2006.
Bink has served on the boards of the Massachusetts Arthritis Foundation (Chairman 1998);
North Shore United Way (Chairman 2004); Hamilton-Wenham Open Land Trust; Shore Country Day School; Boston Foundation (current); Foundation for Excellent Schools (current); and
North Shore Community College Foundation (current). He is married to Paula and they have
three children, Stephanie, Elizabeth ’95 and Alex ’00. Paula and Bink live in Wenham, MA.
Joyce Wilson Swagerty
Joyce Wilson Swagerty is currently the Head of Upper School at Brookwood School in Manchester, MA where her leadership responsibilities include oversight of student development and progress, supervision of faculty, and facilitation of the parent-school partnership
for Grade 6 through Grade 8. She joined the Brookwood faculty in 2001 as a middle school
math teacher and Grade 6 Advisor. Prior to her tenure at Brookwood School, Joyce worked
for twenty years as a manager and consultant in the corporate sector. During her 15 years at
J. Howard and Associates, Inc. (now Novations, Inc.), she served as a director, senior consultant, and project manager supporting Fortune 500 companies to mobilize human resources and increase workforce productivity.
Joyce is a cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1978) and earned her Master of Education degree from Lesley University. Joyce and her husband live in Lexington, MA and are the parents of two adult daughters.
Daina is a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Camille is in her junior year at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. In her spare time Joyce enjoys gardening, writing, and a variety of artistic endeavors.
Greetings from 10,000 feet! I’ve been at the High Mountain
Junior Addie Davis
writes to us
from her semester
away at the
High Mountain
Institute
in Leadville, CO.
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Institute (HMI), a semester school for juniors in High School in the Rocky
Mountains, for 3 months now and couldn’t be happier. The weather is beautiful,
often sunny and cold and it has been snowing for the last few days. The HMI
campus overlooks the two highest peaks in the state, which are constantly
snow capped (even when I first arrived in August). We’ve gone on two
expeditions backpacking in the back country, and have summited at least two
peaks of 14,000 plus feet. The students here come from all over the country,
spanning California and Texas to Wisconsin and Minnesota, and there are seven
students from the Boston area. Each student comes from a very different
background and skill level in backpacking. One student is even training for the
US Olympic Ski Team!
Here are a few highlights from our semester so far:
During the first expedition we separated into four groups, half backpacking
in the San Juan Mountain Region, and half, including myself, in the Collegiate
Mountain Region. My group summited Mt. Antero and was able to watch the
sunrise from halfway up! We learned the basics of backpacking, from cooking
on a hiking stove to staying dry and healthy. Let me tell you, it wasn’t easy to be
without a shower and a bed for two full weeks!
In between expeditions, we have a great time on campus. Every Saturday
night, the cook-crew (each student cooks breakfast, lunch, or dinner three days
a week) picks a theme and everyone dresses up. Previous themes have included
Cowboys/Indians, Jane Fonda, Beach, Gender Bender, and Pirates/Ninjas. After
dinner there is always a fun activity. We’ve gone bowling, played a huge game of
capture the flag, and chilled out at the local hot springs. Saturday mornings,
and the occasional Sunday, students get the chance to spend time in town. We
do our laundry, go grocery shopping, raid Melanzana (a local store with
handmade clothes) and the thrift store, and hang out at Proving Grounds, the
local coffee shop. Often, on weeknights, we end the night with a spontaneous
dance party in the kitchen and Sunday mornings are usually devoted to
Quidditch (yes, the game from Harry Potter). Each Cabin is a House and we’re
all competing for the House Cup!
The second expedition began with community service on Mt. Elbert and Mt.
Massive, the two tallest mountains in Colorado. We did trail work in places
where the trail was rundown and unsafe. After two days of work on Mt. Elbert,
my group woke up at 3 o’clock on a snowy morning and began our summit
attempt. We summited to the highest point in the Rocky Mountains just after
the sun rose. It was a challenging climb (especially in such poor weather), but
we made it. On the way down, several students ‘penguin slid’ down the paths in
the fresh powder. The rest of the trip was spent hiking from lake to lake in the
Sawatch Mountains (crossing paths with other HMI groups) before hiking back
to HMI with Independent Student Travel (IST). It was an extremely successful
expedition, and we all excelled!
After the expedition, the campus filled with excitement. It was time for
Parent’s Weekend. Parents met with teachers (yes, HMI is a school believe it or
not) and adjusted to the altitude before we each ventured out around the state,
some skiing and others visiting colleges!
The end of the semester will conclude with an expedition in the Canyon
Lands of Utah. I couldn’t be happier here in Colorado, and I encourage other
Pingree students to consider taking the risk I have taken. It has been worth
every minute!
INTERNATIONAL
EXCHANGE
French Exchange
Pingree just finished Part One of our Third Annual French Exchange
with a private high school in Paris, St Michel de Picpus. From October
27 to November 7, 2007, we welcomed 12 French students, ages 14–16,
who were placed with Pingree families, and two teachers. The group
participated in a variety of activities both in and out of school. On
some days, the French students followed their Pingree hosts’ class
schedules or attended special classes set up just for them. On other
days, they went on group field trips which included Crane’s Beach, the
North Shore Mall, the Peabody-Essex Museum and Salem (on Halloween), Harvard University, sites in Boston on “The Freedom Trail”,
Quincy Market, Newbury Street, Portsmouth, NH, the Kittery outlets,
and even a “Duck Tour”. Just by chance, they were in Boston and able
to witness the extraordinary Red Sox Parade and Rally after the World
Series! The French students also attended sporting matches, our fall
theatre production of “Wit”, and followed our Pingree tradition of
community service by doing work at the Gloucester Food Pantry. All
attended a farewell dinner with their host families at Prince Pizza,
courtesy of Pingree parents Steve and Trish Castraberti P’08. There
were tears and hugs as they parted and promises to write and return.
Part Two of the annual exchange will be in May, 2008, when a
group of Pingree seniors will go to Paris for a home stay, go on excursions and attend some classes.
England & Barcelona
Exchange
Pingree hosted two foreign students
during the months of October and November. Alice Castle, from the Wakefield Girls’ High School in Yorkshire,
England stayed with senior Bridget
Harris for two weeks, and Irene Escudé,
from Pare Manyanet School in Barcelona, stayed with junior Elizabeth Geer.
Bridget visited Wakefield last March,
and Elizabeth hopes to visit Pare Manyanet next spring.
Elizabeth Geer and Pare Manyanet
student Irene Escudé.
Viking Invasion
From November 17 to 30, for the 7th consecutive year, Pingree hosted a
group of Danish students from the Århus Købmandsskole, along with
their teachers, Mai-Britt Fennefoss Nielsen and Conni Paldam. Once
more and thanks to the generosity of Pingree families, our Danish
guests stayed with host families, attending classes and going on field
trips to the JFK Museum, the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center,
and the Hilton-Winn Farm in Ogunquit, ME. In addition, through the
generosity of Pingree parents Steve and Trish Castraberti P ’08, both
guests and hosts enjoyed an evening at Prince Pizza in Saugus.
The Danish visit has become a wonderful Pingree tradition, and we
always look forward to their arrival and to the openness and curiosity of
spirit they always bring with them!
Dr. Luke Hunter Speaks
at the 6th Annual
Dorsey Lecture Series
On October 10, 2007, Pingree School, as
well as family and friends of the late
Eleanor (Ellie) M. Dorsey ’66 attended
the sixth annual Memorial Lecture in
Ellie’s honor. Ellie, a 1966 Pingree graduate was only 51 years old when she died
of an inoperable brain tumor in 2000,
dedicated her life to conservation efforts
and environmental causes.
A memorial fund has been set up at
Pingree School in Ellie’s honor, and each
year a lecture is held to increase awareness of environmental and conservation
issues among members of the Pingree
community. This year Dr. Luke Hunter,
Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Great Cats Program was the
lecturer, and his topic, On the Verge of Extinction: Saving Iran’s Cheetahs was very
well received by both the student and
adult members of the audience.
A coffee reception for Ellie’s family
members followed in Uhle Hall.
Dorsey Family, Friends and Pingree Alumni gather at the reception following the Annual
Lecture. Luke Hunter, 3rd from left.
Luke Hunter, Ph.D., Director, WCS Great Cats Program
Traditionally, the cheetah is thought of as endemic to Africa. However, until recent times its former
range stretched as far west as India and north into Kazakhstan. Today, the last remaining Asiatic
cheetahs are represented by a small and critically endangered population in Iran. Estimated at no
more than 100 individuals, this subspecies is currently distributed throughout the isolated Kavir
desert. Small fragmented groups, decreasing viable habitat and limited access to prey have left the
Asiatic cheetah extremely vulnerable to extinction. The future of this subspecies is uncertain, but
with the help of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the Iranian government launched a major initiative to save their cheetah, its habitat, and its prey.
Luke Hunter has conducted fieldwork on large cats since 1992, focusing on efforts to restore
species to areas of their former range. He has contributed to more than 50 scientific papers and
popular articles, and has written five books. Dr. Hunter is currently working on his sixth book, a
field guide to all carnivore species of the world.
James Jandl, Amy McGowan p ’07, ’10, Mike
McGowan p ’07, ’10 and Rob Mainiero p ’07.
Pictures of
Hope
Farewell Destinos
In late October, our Spanish AP class watched the last episode of our soap
opera Destinos. We had watched Destinos since the beginning of our junior
year and felt sad that our two-year Destinos journey had come to an end. Our
AP class then decided to commemorate the event by coming to class the next
morning all dressed in black. In addition, we decided to gather together for a
special lunch in the Commons to mourn the loss of Destinos’ colorful,
cultural characters and to celebrate the fact that soon we will all be moving
on to our own new “Destinies”.
Seniors Nikki Starrett , Lauri Pérez, Amanda Sweat , Adam Geiger, Winsthon
López, and Lily Carey
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The 17th Annual
Pingree School
Golf Tournament
On September 24th, the 17th Annual Pingree School
Golf Tournament was held at Myopia Hunt Club.
Over 120 parents, family and friends turned out for
the occasion which raised over $28,000. All
proceeds from the tournament go towards
scholarship support for students who could not
otherwise attend Pingree. The day of golf wrapped
up with a dinner and raffle. Special thanks go to
trustees Ted Ober and J.D. Smeallie, P ’05, ’09 for
co-chairing this exciting and successful event!
William “Amory” Parker ’08
Interview conducted by Samantha Drislane Markowski ’93
Amory Parker ’08, spent over five weeks this past summer traveling through Costa Rica and Kenya, and the
experiences have had a lasting effect on him. Equipped with his camera and guitar, Amory experienced Costa
Rica through a community service program called Cross Cultural Solutions. He worked in a high school, an
orphanage and a day camp. He said he’d always thought about teaching as a career, but that this trip has really encouraged him to look into the field more seriously in college. After leaving Costa Rica, Amory, continued
onto Kenya, where he met up with his family, and where he again visited schools, and spent time with the local
children. Taking pictures all along to document his travels, Amory says he started taking photography classes
at Pingree, and has found he has a talent and a passion for it. Amory’s photography was on display and for sale
at Pingree. Several of Amory’s photos have already been purchased, and he hopes to sell more. With the proceeds, Amory plans to send art supplies to some of the schools he visited in both countries. “Some of the kids
I met were so artistic, and the cost of art supplies is so high, that they only get to indulge their talents a few
times a year. I’d like to change that for at least a few of these children,” he says.
For more information, or to purchase any of Amory’s work you can contact him at [email protected].
Sean Hagon
Wendy Lawton
I’m currently completing my Master of Science degree in Music Technology at Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI). I’m a cum laude graduate
of Berklee College of Music with a B.M. in
Professional Music (Music Education, composition and music technology). In my 5th
year at Pingree, I’m currently teaching AP
Music Theory, Instrumental Music and
Music Production and Technology classes.
Outside of Pingree, I compose music for
film and T.V., and completed music for my
first T.V. show called “Celebrity Build” which
aired on Fox Sports Net New England this
past spring. It featured Matt Light of the
New England Patriots and Jon Runyan of
the Philadelphia Eagles.
Apart from teaching, I am also the
owner of MusicMedia Solutions which provides clients with customized music and
sound design for film, T.V., corporate videos, student films, web sites and more.
(musicmediasolutions.com).
You can also find me performing as a
keyboardist with the national act, The Dan
Lawson Band which recently released a new
self titled CD. It can be purchased at FYE
and Newbury Comics stores. I am featured
on tracks #3 “Roadkill” and #5 “Miss Me”.
The Dan Lawson Band is an original blues
band. danlawson.com. —Sean Hagan,
Music Teacher
This summer I participated in a graduate course out of the
Colorado School of Mines on the ecology of the Colorado
River. We followed the river from its headwaters in Rocky
Mountain National Park outside of Denver to the Grand
Canyon. Along the way we drove, canoed, went rafting, and
camped as we studied the flora, fauna, water quality and geology along the river. The river is utilized as a water source
by 11 different states which creates significant controversy
over water rights and conservation interests. Trips like
these, made possible by Pingree’s Summer Professional
Development Programs, directly impact the information and activities I share with my Pingree students.
This summer’s course had multiple connections with course content in both my ecology and AP environmental studies classes. —Wendy Lawton, Science Teacher
Sean HagOn
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living
proof
Eric Olson’s sculpture ’Factions’ at Maudslay State Park, Newburyport.
Eric P. Olson
I earned my BA in Studio Art/Mathematics with a minor in Physics from St. Olaf College, Northfield,
MN. Following college I worked as a designer/technical illustrator for Jonathan Press in Cannon Falls,
MN before going into teaching. I began teaching in 1987 in Northfield, MN, Stavanger, Norway, and West
Tytherly, England, prior to coming to Pingree 13 years ago. I teach math, as well as one section of art;
freshman technical drawing. I also coach the boys’ varsity tennis and soccer teams, and founded the
Pingree Table-Tennis Club. To stay active in each sport, outside of Pingree, I recently earned my US Professional Tennis Association license, so I am a Level 3 Tennis Professional, which helps me coach and
run the All-Court Tennis Camp in the summer. I play for two Over-40 mens soccer teams; one indoors,
one outdoors, in addition to playing in competitive table-tennis tournaments.
I earned my Master’s Degree (AML) from Harvard Extension School, 2005, in the History of Science. My thesis on the Mathematics of the Design of the Parthenon won the prize that year my field. I
It has often been said that “When you stop learning, you stop living.” It is safe to
say that Pingree educators take this phrase with the utmost seriousness, as their
thirst for knowledge is alive and well, not only in the confines of the school
itself, but in every facet of their lives. As you read the following stories, you
will find that those who teach at Pingree are students themselves, constantly
delving deeper into the study of their discipline, or taking great departures from
their comfort zones to embark on entirely new challenges, thus broadening
their horizons and bringing new perspectives of the world around them into
their lives and into their classrooms. Math teachers who are also sculptors,
Spanish teachers who have a love for genealogy and administrators who are
published authors are just a few of the people who believe life is about learning,
and they are living proof!
hope to publish the thesis in the next year.
Currently I am enjoying the use of a small
bronze-casting foundry I set up this summer in
Newburyport to cast sculpture. In addition to
my own work, Pingree art teacher Rich Erickson
and I may be casting some student work in the
spring.
I have exhibited my sculpture in eight of the
last ten shows at the Maudslay Outdoor Sculpture
Exhibition in Newburyport. One of the pieces
wound up on the grounds of the Peabody Essex
Museum in Salem for the summer of 1999.
I am a strong believer in life-long learning,
and enjoy cross-referencing my varied interests
in class. — Eric P. Olson p ’04, ’06, ’07, ’08,
Mathematics Teacher
Ailsa K. Steinert
One of the finest aspects of teaching at Pingree
over the years has been the help I have received
through its professional development policy.
There are a number of different grants available
through the School, and I have gained immensely both as a teacher and a writer by making use of them.
This last summer,
through Pingree’s Summer Professional Development Program, I spent
two weeks at our house
in New Hampshire and was able to provide day
care there for my husband who has Alzheimer’s.
Dylan Thomas, I am not, but I do have a
writing shed — once a hen house, then my mother-in-law’s puppy nursery. Now, I share it with the
spiders, and occasionally a hornet, and write my
poems looking out over the fields and the neighboring farmer’s cows who graze there.
I have been working on putting my poems,
written over the past few years, into a manuscript for possible publication as a chapter book.
Again, through Pingree’s professional development funding, I have, during this period, taken
part in the weekly workshops for publishing
poets, Poemworks, with Barbara Helfgott Hyett
in Brookline, MA. I have also attended her workshop in the south of France
(summer 2006).
I have had poems published in Orion, The Larcom Review, The Comstock
Review, Saltmarsh Press’
Mountain anthology, an
upcoming anthology of
poems dealing with Alzheimers, and most recently, in Inkwell magazine. I
have read my poems at
Pingree at a faculty and
Lynette Gray
former-faculty reading,
and also at the Beverly Library, and at Porter
Square Books in Cambridge.
Thanks also to last summer’s sabbatical, I
worked a number of times independently with
Barbara Helfgott Hyett on editing the poems
after returning to Massachusetts.
My work with poetry has enriched my
teaching, both in Creative Writing classes and
in regular English classes.
I am deeply grateful to the School for their
backing… and will let you all know what happens to the book! — Ailsa K. Steinert p ’78, ’81,
’88, English Teacher
Lynette Gray
Lynette Gray earned her undergraduate degree
and graduated Summa Cum Laude
from Merrimack College after years
of taking courses part-time. She received the Victor J. Mill medal for
being 1st in the School of Continuing
Education, and was also selected as a
contributor with her essay on “Representations of Black Death and Social
Death” to The Fiction of Toni Morrison, a compilation of essays recently
published by the National Council of
Teachers of English. — Lynette Gray
p ’96, Assistant to the Headmaster
John Glessner
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Two years ago, my wife and I spent 10 days in Ghana, in the western part of Africa,
visiting our son Ian who graduated from Pingree with the class of 1997, and who was
in Ghana doing an independent study for his major, Sociology/Anthropology at the
University of Maine. While there, we spent an extensive time visiting the slave castles
on the coast of Ghana from which thousands of blacks were kept in chains until a
slave ship could carry them to the West Indies or America. It was a pretty
stirring occasion, and brought home the stinging inhumanity of slavery,
especially when we were shown “The Door of no Return”, through
which slaves proceeded to be picked up by rowing boats and taken out
to slave ships which lay just offshore. Once through the door, no one
returned. The female slaves were treated the same as males, except
that many of them were selected by the masters of the castles to
satisfy their sexual desires before being shipped to the new world.
What I saw, and what I learned from talking to the Ghanaians, I have
been able to intimately describe in my US History classes. The trip was
not billed as professional development, but it certainly turned out to be
one. Last Christmas, my wife and I went to Florence for a week, and that
cultural experience taught us that there is a world outside of our own,
which is rather more steeped in history than our own, and that city
was one of the cradles of the Italian Renaissance. I use these
experiences in my classes to try and impress upon my
students that History did not begin when Columbus
discovered America.
I have been teaching History at Pingree
since 1992. I have taught the AP U.S. History
course for 10 years, as well as a course on the
U.S. Constitution to seniors, capitalizing on
my prior life as a lawyer. —
John Glessner p ’97, ’99, History Teacher
Ralph
Sneeden
Pingree English Teacher, 1988–1994
Maintaining and stoking a writing
life outside of my teaching has not
been easy, especially since I’ve
spent the last decade (and then
some) as the head of a boys’ dorm
at Exeter. There’s a lot working
against securing that aesthetic and
psychic space essential to writing. Piles
Poet Dave Smith
and Ralph Sneeden.
of papers to be graded, books to read, re-read in
preparation for class — not to mention the omnipresent bustle and
hum of the school community and all of its responsibilities. But you learn how to
claim that time, whether it’s being hunched on the couch with a laptop in the dark from 5AM
to 7AM before the family is up, or between classes with the classroom door locked. When I’m writing
and productive, I’m a happier, more patient teacher. Erecting protective barriers between my writing
and my “career” as a teacher has always seemed an exhausting and necessary exercise, but over the
years I’ve begun to sense, warily, that the two realms engage in more commerce than I’d realized.
I did a lot of growing up at Pingree (I was twenty-three when I started), and headmaster John Chandler
was passionately supportive of my forays into graduate programs, and of my writing itself. The Bread
Loaf School of English at Middlebury College was one of the first key increments in my maturation as
a teacher and a writer; at the age of twenty-seven I was addicted to being a student again. Becoming
more confident with my subject (literature) and my art (writing) always seemed mutually exclusive
endeavors: one for teaching, the other for myself. But at Bread Loaf, and then at the MFA Program for
Writers at Warren Wilson College, I began to suspect the essential fusion of the two. At some point in
the mid-Eighties I began reading the poems of Dave Smith, first in the New
Yorker magazine and then after buying his books. In Smith’s poems about
childhood and memory, I found something that inspired me to consider
writing my own poems, and just as compelling was my impatience to share
his poems with my students at Pingree, hoping that his narratives, evocative
settings, and haunting images would provide students a model for exploring
their own pasts. John Chandler’s suggestion that I apply for a Klingenstein
Fellowship at Columbia University was probably the best professional advice
I’ve ever been given, and helped me realize once and for all that writing and teaching were not at
odds. New York changed my aesthetic, but most importantly, it drove me deeper into poetry, let me
write my own stuff while I researched ways to introduce students to narrative poetry as an alternative
to writing the personal prose narrative — to find more poets like Dave Smith. Well, over twenty-years
later, I finally brought Dave up from Johns Hopkins, where he runs the Writing Seminars, to do a
reading and teach a few classes at Exeter. For me it was an emotional and spiritual culmination of so
many elements in my career.
Learning
from the
Journey
Of course, the most uncanny and compelling connection between my writing and my teaching is that
the person who ended up publishing my book, and someone whose writing I admire a great deal, and
have for a long time, is Nathaniel Bellows, Pingree ’91, whom I had as a student during his senior
year, and who was listening carefully as I played a tape of Dave Smith reading his work. Nathaniel and
I have been great friends for many years, but neither of us anticipated that he’d be the one to rescue
my book after its disastrous two year experience with a publisher in California, and that Dave would
provide an endorsement on that back cover. My bringing Dave Smith to Exeter to work with students,
Nathaniel’s founding of Harmon Blunt Publishers in New York City with his brother Matt, and his
publication of Evidence of the Journey, trace a full circle, or, better yet, a sort of helix in which the
strands of my teaching life and writing life have become inextricably bound.
Ralph has been teaching at Exeter since 1995, and this winter he’ll be the Bergeron Writing Fellow at the
American School in London. More information about his book Evidence of the Journey can be found at:
http://www.harmonblunt.com/HBP_books_ETOJ.html
http://www.poems.com/poem.php?date=13735
http://www.exeter.edu/documents/Exeter_Bulletin/Winter_07_A_Place_for_Poetry.pdf
Sarah Carpenter ’97
Kirki Thompson
Knowing a foreign language makes me quickly feel at home in new places. That can be as
close as Lawrence and as far away as Costa
Rica or France. My interest in painting dovetails with a love of travel, so this past June,
with the assistance of the Pingree Summer
Professional Development Program, my husband and I traveled to the Basque region of
northern Spain and southwestern France.
The Basque homeland straddles the western
Pyrenees, a mountainous area with lively fishing ports in Spain and sandy stretches of
beaches and pine forests in France. With bare
bones supplies to sketch and record scenes, I
later paint the scenes on snow days or during
school vacations. The photos here are examples. The shot of the young French surfers is a
painting waiting to be executed.
Apart from my love of art,
family history is another great inspiration of mine, and so far I’ve
compiled three histories of family
surnames, the latest this summer
of the Kirk family. My grandfather and the last
male in our Kirk line, was the Surgeon General
of the U.S. Army during World War II. Fourteen generations before him, the first Kirk I
found was a doctor during the Scottish border
wars in the mid 1500’s. The discovery made for
a striking circle of events.
— Kirki Thompson, Spanish Teacher
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June Jeswald
It was 1971 when I came to Pingree part-time to
teach dance. There was music and a part-time
visual arts teacher, but not an art department.
A few years later I realized that a private
school which placed a strong emphasis
on excellence needed an art department
to complete the picture. And so, with a
lot of help, I started one. The rest is history. We have a strong department with
faculty who are practicing artists and
teachers.
My discipline is dance and after all of these
years, my passion for art and the creative process remains strong.
Professional development has provided me
with many opportunities to take classes, to
travel to distant countries, to view and study
the art of various cultures and to attend professional concerts.
Currently, I am taking classes in Pilates
and Gyratonic. I keep abreast of the professional dance world and work to promote equity in
dance education in schools. It is a privilege and
a joy to teach young people about art, and to inspire them and open up the world of art and the
possibility of spending a life engaged in work
which is deeply rewarding. – June Jeswald P ’79,
GP ’05, Dance Teacher
Katy Gibbs & Ann Lyons
Helping others and embarking on a scouting
mission for Pingree students who love animals
were the dual purposes of Director of Community Services Katy Gibbs and Director of Study
Skills Ann Lyons’ trip to Best Friends Animal
Sanctuary in Kaneb, Utah. Following a lead
about a special place in Angel Canyon (where
the Lone Ranger series was filmed) Mrs. Gibbs
and Mrs. Lyons traveled to Utah
in July, where as Mrs. Gibbs
commented “It is 112 degrees in
the evening!” The mission of
Best Friends is the simple philosophy that kindness to animals helps build a better world
for all of us. Assigned “large animals” for their
work during their stay, Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Lyons delivered food, water and medicine to horses, mules and donkeys roaming the grounds or
confined in corrals throughout the canyon.
“Bumping along in an old
pick-up truck was an experience like no other we
have had!” they reported.
The scenery was spectacular and the work very rewarding. Best Friends educates and supports humane groups nationwide to bring about a time when there are no
more abused and homeless pets. As a result of
their trip, Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Lyons will be
organizing a service trip for interested Pingree
students to Best Friends next June. – Written by
Lynette Gray, Katy Gibbs, Director of Community
Service, and Ann Lyons, Director of Study Skills
I’ve been teaching for five years in a variety of
atmospheres and genres. I began teaching directly out of Middlebury College with a combined third/fourth grade class in rural Vermont. The travel bug soon hit and I joined the
Peace Corps as an English as a Foreign Language teacher in a rural village in Côte d’Ivoire.
The country soon fell into political disarray, so
I transferred to another
rural African village, this
time in Madagascar.
Upon completing my service, I returned to the
United States to complete
a Masters in International Educational Development at Columbia University. New York City
was a shock and I missed
teaching, therefore I headed north to New
Hampshire to teach History at a boarding
school. Fate then took a turn and brought me
back to my alma mater to teach Spanish with
my old AP Spanish teacher as my guide! I have
also been lucky this year to take over the girls’
ice hockey program at Pingree School from my
old coach, Jim MacLaughlin ’84 p ’08, who transitioned to the boys’ program to watch his son
after founding and coaching the girls’ team at
Pingree for 19 years.
While being in the classroom is what I love
to do, I fuel this enthusiasm and energy
through weekend and summer expeditions in
and outside of the country. Prior to returning to
the United States after my Peace Corps service
for example, I headed across the Mozambique
Paintings by
Kirki Thompson
Channel from Madagascar to Tanzania to climb
the impressive Mt. Kilimanjaro; the highest
peak on the African continent. I continued on
to Kenya and South Africa to go on safari and
climb the imposing Drakensburg Mountains.
Back in the United States, I spent time as a teen
backpacking guide in New Hampshire for a
summer while taking many trips on my own
across
the
mountains of
New England
and across the
country to Colorado, California as well as
the beautiful
Alaskan coast.
All of this exploration and
adventure is
the reason why the Pursuit program at Pingree
was a natural fit and something that has become a true joy to coach as I can share my love
of the outdoors with my students.
Ice hockey is my other lifelong passion outside of the classroom that I uphold through a
women’s Senior B team in NY/NJ. Playing for
this team and traveling around the country to
play keeps me fresh with the world of ice hockey, but more importantly maintains that enthusiasm and excitement for the sport that I can
then transfer to my team. Last year at the USA
Hockey Women’s Senior National Tournament
my team finished 3rd in the country and this
year we will be competing once again for the
title in March.
Returning to the classroom and academic
enrichment, this past summer I honed my
Spanish skills while spending time at a local
school in Santiago, Chile. I chaperoned students from my previous school and lived with a
host family just as my students did. This “winter in summer” trip exposed me to the places
where the poet Pablo Neruda spent time building extraordinary houses full of his collections
from around the world and one can truly understand the inspiration for his poetry while
standing on the beaches of Chile. I was also
lucky to take on the famous ski slopes of the
Andes Mountains while learning how to cook
like a local as well as bargain like one too at the
local, outdoor markets.
My time in Chile when combined with my
experiences in Madagascar as well as my travels all over the world, bring a global perspective
and real life examples to my students which
they cannot pull from a textbook. This view
helps my students to understand a culture other than their own and encourages them to become global citizens.
Up next? Of course I have many adventures on tap for the upcoming summer. Rock
climbing, backpacking through Alaska, Madagascar and the Olympic Games in Beijing, China are all on the list. The adventure never ends!
— Sarah Carpenter ’97, Spanish Teacher
National Merit Scholarship Program Commended Students
Pingree School is proud to announce that seven of their students have been named Commended
Students in the 2008 National Merit Scholarship Program. Those students are Adam Geiger ’08 of
Boxford, Taylor Halsted ’08 of Manchester, Anna Huzar ’08 of North Andover, Kelsey Jamerson ’08
of Georgetown, Nathaniel Leach ’08 of Salem, Adam Logan ’08 of Melrose, and Nicole Starrett ’08 of
North Andover. A letter of commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC)
Left to Right: Meredith O’Hare ’09, Anna Huzer ’08 , Kelsey Jamerson ’08, Heather Lyon ’09, John Nugent ’08, Erika Mitkus ’08, Nicole Starrett ’08,
Adam Logan ’08, Stephanie Simmons ’08, Lily Carey ’08. Missing: Adam Geiger ’08, Ethel Mickey ’08
will be presented to these scholastically talented seniors. Senior Matthew Rubin of Reading, has
earned the high honor of being a semifinalist in the Scholarship Program.
Twelve
Pingree Students
Awarded
Highest Honor Bowls
Peter Cowen Elected to Country Day
School Headmasters’ Association
About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional
This past spring, Headmaster Peter M. Cowen was elected to The
students who entered the 2008 competition by taking the 2006 Preliminary SAT/National Merit
Country Day School Headmasters’ Association of the United States.
Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).
Pingree School is proud to announce
that twelve of our students are
recipients of Highest Honor Bowls for
the 2006–2007 academic school year.
The bowls are awarded to students
who earn and maintain an average of
95 or above for the entire school year.
Congratulations on all your hard work!
Founded in 1912, the Association’s active membership is limited to
100 school heads nationwide. This select group meets annually to
academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2008 competition for National Merit
Scholarships, Commended Students placed among the top five percent of more than 1.4 million
discuss issues and trends unique to independent country day
“The young people named Commended Students in the 2008 National Merit Scholarship Program
schools. To be selected to join is an honor certainly for Peter, but
are distinguished by their strong academic performance in this rigorous competition,” commented a
also for Pingree School. Former Pingree Headmaster John
spokesperson for NMSC.
Chandler p ’92, ’97 and long-time trustee Malcolm Coates p ’01 were
also elected members of the Association.
New Faculty and Staff
q Sarah E. Carpenter ’97 is returning to Pingree School as a Spanish
teacher. Sarah earned her B.A. from Middlebury and a Master of Arts in
International Education Development from Teachers College at Columbia
University. After serving as an education volunteer with the Peace Corps in
Madagascar, she has taught at Denver Academy in Colorado and Kimball
Union Academy in New Hampshire. Sarah is living on campus and coaching Pursuit in the fall and girls’ ice hockey this winter.
w Lizanne Hourihan joins the History Department, coming to us from
County Cork, Ireland, after completing a year’s fellowship at Boston College. She is a graduate of the University College Cork, Ireland, with an
advanced degree in education and an undergraduate degree in geography
and history. She has taught history and is coaching field hockey at Pingree.
Lizanne has prior coaching experience in field hockey at Christ King
Girls’ Secondary School in Ireland, and she is a rugby enthusiast.
e Jennifer Kane returns for the 2007–2008 school year after
her stint as Michelle Connor’s maternity leave substitute at
the end of last year. Jenn has a B.A. from Colgate University and an M.S. in Science and Mathematics from the
University of Pennsylvania where she was the recipient
of the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. In addition to her teaching duties at Pingree, Jenn is an advisor and assists with the Math Team.
r David Medvitz joins the Pingree faculty as Technology Educator. A graduate of Northwestern University and Harvard Divinity School, Dave brings a
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broad range of experience to Pingree. He has held positions in the classroom and in technology at Walnut Hill School, River Valley Charter
School, St. John’s Prep, and The Newman School.
t Susan Tully comes to us from Arlington High School where she taught
biology. Susan has a B.S. from Stonehill College with a major in biology
and a M.A.T. from Simmons College. She is teaching math and science
courses at Pingree as well as advising and coaching. Susan is engaged to
Peter Mason, Pingree Class of 1996.
y Substituting for Sofia Sidmore while she is out on maternity leave is
Maria Elena Leslie from Danvers. Maria is from Ecuador and has been
teaching in the Danvers school system for several years.
u Alex Tinari received her MFA in poetry from The University of Mon-
tana and her BA in Liberal Arts with a concentration in writing from The
New School for Social Research. At the University of Montana, she taught
freshman composition and served as staff writer for the Vice
President for Student Affairs. She also taught creative writing
at various middle schools through the Missoula Writer’s
t q
Collaborative. In 1995, Alex participated in a service-learnww y ing semester on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, where she returns each year to visit her host family.
At Pingree, Alex teaches freshman, sophomore, and senior English and coaches yoga and Pursuit. She looks forward to chaperoning on Pingree’s South Dakota trip to
the Rosebud Reservation this summer.
Patti Leasure and Michael Rubin p’05, ’08
Parent of Alumni Event
Barbara Willcox DiLorenzo ’93
From September 10th through October 21st, Barbara Willcox
DiLorenzo ’93 showcased her recent art work in the Bertolon
Family Art Gallery entitled, “Visual Comparisons of Independent
Retailers Versus Big Chain Stores in the Plein-Air Method.” A
reception for Pingree alumni, families, friends and faculty & staff
was held on Sunday, September 30, 2007. While guests enjoyed
the thought provoking display of art, they were also treated to a
culinary feast catered by Barbara’s husband, Rennie. To support
local business, ingredients were purchased from the Coastal
Green Grocer and Russell Orchards. Zumi’s café, generously
donated fair trade organic coffee, and was also featured as one
of the paintings in the show.
Barbara created this show specifically for the Pingree
gallery, keeping in mind the thinking population of the
students and faculty. She entered five of these pieces in the
North Shore Arts Association, and was juried in as a
member. Barbara was encouraged by the positive
experience, and looks forward to expanding her paintings
both in physical scale and in social commentary. For more
information about Barbara and her work as a painter,
illustrator and web designer please visit her website at
www.wavepaint.com.
Several alumni attended Barbara Willcox DiLorenzo’s Art Exhibit.
Among the attendees were: (left to right) Seth Bartlett ’91, Laurie
Harding Polese ’84, Samantha Drislane Markowski ’93, Barbara
Willcox DiLorenzo ’93, Jessica Wistran ’93 with her son, Dylan,
wearing his “Pre-Pingree” bib (Pingree class of 2025?!) and Patricia
Asselin Ferris ’93.
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On November 4th, 2007, Pingree held its 2nd
Annual Parent of Alumni Reception. With
more than 60 guests in attendance, the purpose of the event was to reconnect parents of
alumni with each other, with current families
and to give them an opportunity to see how the
School has grown. Guests were able to watch
the Patriots vs. Indianapolis game on several
SmartBoards® in Uhle Hall while being treated
to a cocktail reception. During half-time, Headmaster Peter M. Cowen shared some highlights
from the school year to date. The evening was a
great success. See you next year!
Stacey Kacoyanis p’05
Cub Morgan p ’80, ’78, gp ’08
Lyn Shields p ’91, ’92 chats with Paula and trustee
Bink Shorts p ’95, ’00
Home Away from Home:
An Alumni Perspective of her Freshman Year at College
When Liz Mainiero ’07 was looking at colleges she wanted
something that was similar to Pingree, a place where she could
feel safe to take risks and be herself. She found just that place in
Fairfield University. With only 4,000 students, she says it’s small
enough to know everyone. She credits Pingree’s College Placement Office in helping her find the ‘right fit.’ “They spent a lot of
time listening to my likes and dislikes. In the end, I couldn’t be
happier!” Liz says she had the expected trepidation of any student about to leave home and head out on her own for the first
time. “The first two weeks were the hardest, but the overall transition was much easier that I expected. Having grown up as an only
child, I love dorm life. I have two roommates and we have a blast!”
Liz says the greatest thing Pingree encouraged in her was the
natural instinct to be involved. “Pingree made it cool to be a part
of clubs and activities.” As a result, Liz is a member of Fairfield
University Student Association (FUSA), Club Ice Hockey, and the
campus community service program. “The Club Sports are a
great way to meet upperclassmen. I would definitely recommend
getting involved in some sort of activity for any college freshman.
It makes the transition much easier.” Another advantage that
Pingree gave Liz that helped make the transition into college easier is how prepared she has felt. “I was amazed at how prepared
I was. Academically, my stats class has been like a review with Mr.
Filosa, and I placed into an upper level French course, and still
feel like I am far ahead of the game!
“When I call my parents, who I talk to daily while at school,
and tell them ‘Hey, I got an A,’ they say ‘Pingree made it cool to
be smart,’ and I agree. At Pingree, I learned to work hard, play
hard, and just be a good person, and these have turned out to be
my greatest assets!”
Interview conducted by Samantha Drislane Markowski ’93
Coming events this spring:
March 23–April 23
Parents Association Silent
Auction on-line.
pingree.maestroweb.com
Bid Often!
Alumni from every decade — 1960’s through 2000’s — have been seen at the well attended Alumni receptions and events this fall and early winter. Guests have enjoyed reconnecting with each other, reminiscing with their favorite former faculty members
and meeting and networking with alumni from other classes. At most of our events,
Headmaster, Peter Cowen has shared with the guests all the great things that are happening here at Pingree — in the classrooms, on the playing fields, outside the School
with Community Service, and in the Admissions, College Placement and Advancement
Fundraising Departments. The Alumni Relations Office and the Alumni Leadership Board
host these events to keep our alumni connected with each other, informed about
Pingree today and OUR plans for the future.
April 28
Spring Auction sponsored
by Parents Association
May 3
Reunion Celebration
Alumni Holiday Gathering in Boston at The Living Room, December 6, 2007
May 19
Senior Career Development
Series — volunteer panelists
needed!
Top Left: Kathleen Dyer ’02, Beth Savarese ’99, Elsbeth Taft ’01 and Tova Kaplan ’02. Top Center: Nancy & Peter M. Cowen,
Headmaster. Top Right: Director of Athletics, Alan McCoy, Zach Brady ’00 and guest.
Bottom Left: Dave Archer ’01, Jay Henderson ’03, Justin Parker ’02, Michael Nelligan ’02 and Nick Walton ’02.
Bottom Right: Kevin Schwartz ’96, Anna Wistran Wolfe ’95, guest, Andrew Goldberg ’95 and Jeremy Hood ’95
Reception
at Bryant Park Grill,
New York City,
October 11, 2007
Top Left:
Janice StemmermannSteinert, Buddy Taft, and
Russell Steinert ’78
Top Right:
Christy Fisher ’91, Brian
Ritter ’94 and
Laura Winthrop ’96
Bottom Left:
Sarah Durkee ’73,
Marissa Walsh ’90 and
Nicole Serratore ’93
Bottom Right:
Drama Teacher,
Lynn Weltler and
Ryan Serhant ’02
North Shore Alumni Reception, Newbury, MA at the home of Mary Gene Tuthill Clavin ’83, November 16, 2007
Top Left: Bill VanLoon ’83, Alena Matses Dunn ’83, Karen Pandy VanLoon ’83, and Phil Dunn. Top Right: Dean of Student Life, Buddy Taft
and Mary Gene Tuthill Clavin ’83.
Bottom Left: Bob Weatherall ’78, Ann Pulver p ’81, ’83 and Bob Pulver p ’81, ’83. Bottom Center: Callie Roberts ’83 and Dianne Pappas ’83.
Bottom Right: Karen Pandy VanLoon ’83 and English Teacher, Ailsa Steinert p ’78, ’81, ’88.
College Age Alumni Brunch, November 21, 2007
Director of Annual Fund & Parent Relations,
Diana Mathey and Samuel Mathey ’04
Associate Director of Admissions, Mary Dyer,
Sira Grant ’07 and Elena Brandano ’07
Mike Gibson ’03 and
Justin Gordon ’04
Joanna McDonaugh ’07 and Co-Director
of College Counseling, Steve Carey
Elena Brandano ’07 and
Christina Brandano ’07
Andrew Vassallo ’06
and Dan Morgan ’06
Abby Evans ’05 and
Dan Hamel ’05
Dave Archer ’01 and Will Brengle ’04
Juan Gonzales ’05
Daron Greelish ’95
Jay Henderson ’03
Ray Roy ’04
Paul Knight ’00
Chris Connolly ’97
at the
Pingree Alumni Basketball Game on December 21st, 2007. Laurie Harding Polese ’84 and I,
the only alumni from the 80’s in attendance,
were so pleased to see almost 20 former players both male and female arrive at the gym to
show what they still had in the tank. The festivities began by shooting free throws to choose
teams. The decision was made that the first
people to hit their free throw would be the
White Team and after about 40 minutes we
were ready to play some
alumni gatherings
ball. I suited up for the
Blue Team (I didn’t atalumni basketball game
Mark W. Ferrante ’86
tempt a free throw) and
donned the appropriate blue mesh, practice shirt as did my teammates. As I struggled into my uniform, I wondered aloud why they were making these shirts
smaller than when I played here, and how long
the gym washing machine had been broken. I
don’t remember raw onion and anchovy sandwiches being on the menu when I was in
school. Anyway, another important decision
was made to have the White Team wear white
shirts so there wouldn’t be any confusion about
to whom to pass the ball. My request to go
shirts/ skins instead of the blue and white
A terr ific t i me was had by all
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practice shirts was met with some resistance.
GAMETIME! As I walked onto the court for
tip-off I felt an old sense of Pingree Pride rush
back into my 40 year old body as those pregame butterflies seemed like flying saucers
smashing into my inflamed, ulcer-ridden
stomach lining. I gazed at the 1986 Eastern
League Basketball Championship banner in
the rafters. Boy, was I thinner then… Before
the action started I noticed a young woman on
the White Team who graduated in 2004 and
mused if she knew that I would be swatting
her first shot into the sixth row. Just like old
times…
Back to the game. The first half was a blood
bath. The White Team was on fire. They
knocked down 3 pointer after 3 pointer. The
point guards were ruling the evening with
skillful chucking every time down the court.
They had a brilliant game plan of pretending
they were on the court by themselves. Their
stat sheets were burning up (except for assists).
The Blue Team’s problems were compounded
when our tallest player went down with a bad
ankle sprain; he would not return. We found
ourselves down by 18 at half time. My left arm
was numb, my lips were blue and my chest was
tight, but I refused to quit.
WHAT A COMEBACK! I can’t say enough
about the courage and resiliency of the Blue
Team. The 2nd half saw a complete dismantling of the White Team’s earlier success. Our
guards took over. Swish after swish cut into the
White Team’s lead. 15, 10, 8, 5 — we were
knocking at the door. We were substituting
freely to keep our legs fresh, but when the
buzzer sounded we looked at the scoreboard —
White Team 63 Blue Team 61. Although the
loss was devastating, my thoughts soon turned
positive realizing that hot pasta and cold beer
awaited me at the Taft’s house. The younger
alumni decided to stay and play another game
while the older alum, meaning me, decided
that flattened arches and bleeding eyes were
good indications to say my farewells.
Many thanks to Laurie for her hard work
with the event and for her skillful work of the
scoreboard and especially for all the alums
who attended. Also, thank you to the Taft’s for
their hospitality. It was a lot of fun. We’ll see
you all next year. I hope for enough people to
show up to do a mini-tournament of sorts,
complete with refs. Please let me know if you
have any other ideas to make this event a “can’t
miss”!
Email Mark at [email protected].
Paul Knight ’00
Jess Seymour ’01
Jess Seymour ’01, Holly O’Donohue ’99,
Nate Leach ’08
2007
Pingree Fall
Sports Awards
Varsity Golf: 5–9
4th place in the eil
eil all-league
Jack Whelan ’11
eil honorable mention
Colin Kenny ’11
rookie of the year
Jack Whelan ’11
most improved player
Nevin Pathak ’10
coaches’ award
Benjamin Bradley ’08
Boys’ Cross Country: 5–11
eil all-league
Jesse Sullivan ’08
Jolmi Minaya ’09
most valuable player
Jesse Sullivan ’08
coaches’ award
Peter Kritikos ’10
Ian Hatch ’09
most improved runner
Tyler Maren ’11
Caroline Mead ’11
Girls’ Cross Country: 6–12
eil all-league
Nicole Starrett ’08
Nicole Starrett ’08
Boys’ Varsity Soccer: 15–2–2
eil champions
Lemarre Rey ’09
Boston Globe All-Scholastic
Girls’ Varsity Soccer: 13–3–1
eil champions
eil tournament champions
Billy Nickerson ’08
boston globe all-scholastic
Caitlin Doherty ’09
Cara Lemire ’08
Ariana Twomey ’11
Michela Colbert ’09
offensive most valuable player
Andrew Rodriguez ’11
eil all-league honorable mention
most valuable lineman
Alex Conrad ’10
JV Field Hockey: 11–2–1
Daniel Rogers ’09
coaches’ award
eil all-league
Jackie Lee ’08
eil all-league
boston globe all-scholastic
Daniel Guley ’08
Adam Logan ’08
Jake Barnett ’08
Amy McLaughlin ’08
Kellie Barile ’08
Jamie Cappucci ’10
eil all-league most valuable player
Amy McLaughlin ’08
coaches’ award
Jackie Lee ’08
Nathaniel Leach ’08
most improved players
eil all-league
evergreen league all-league honorable mention
Carlos O’Donnell ’08
Defensive Most Valuable Player
William Taft ’08
Narayan Plourde ’11
JV Boys’ Soccer: 9–2–3
coaches’ award
Alexandra Glazer ’09
sportsmanship award
Kimberly Barrett ’10
Derek Pratt ’09
defensive most valuable player
Brit Mscisz ’10
Lauren St. Pierre ’10
Andrew Faulkner ’10
Veronica Corning ’10
Noah Feldman ’09
defensive most valuable player
JV II Girls’ Soccer: 8–2–2
Jake Barnet ’08
Samantha Taylor ’08
coaches’ award
most improved players
dedication award
Patrick Williamson ’09
Kellie Barile ’08
Emma Arnold ’11
Nora Doherty ’11
sportsmanship award
lionheart award
Cara Lemire ’08
Zach Rochman ’09
sportsmanship award
Benjamin Coleman ’10
Elizabeth Geer ’10
team most valuable player
“surprise defensive” player
Haley Thompson ’09
coaches’ award
Andrew Smeallie ’09
“surprise offensive” player
William Taft ’08
Derek Pratt ’09
Cat Dioli ’10
Kate Roman ’08
Haley Thompson ’09
Dale Bishop ’09
Liza Richardson ’08
Lindsay Thompson ’08
Brittani Yeung ’08
coaches’ award
Emma Chandler ’08
JV II Boys’ Soccer: 8–3–2
Varsity Field Hockey: 13–3
eil champions
eil tournament champions
evergreen league all-league
Charlie Hildt ’11
Jackie Lee ’08
Caroline Lubbock ’8
JV Girls’ Soccer: 5–3–4
Jason Kramer ’08
Carlos O’Donnell ’08
Lamarre Rey ’09
team spirit award
JV Wrap Ups
Heather Lyon ’09
Emma Johnson ’10
Morgan Bell ’10
coaches’ award
Nathaniel Leach ’08
Allen Williamson ’09
Ned Seigel ’08
Varsity Football: 3–5
Grace Steward ’11
Liz Scoble ’09
JV Girls Soccer Team
Grace Grinnell ’11
Brittani Yeung ’08
Dale Bishop ’09
Alexis Demoulas ’11
hustle award
sportsmanship award
Samantha Jones ’11
Lily Carey ’08
Coaches’ Award
Lauren Zion ’09
Samantha Taylor ’08
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A letter from William K. Ryan ’96, President, Pingree Alumni Leadership Board
Dear Fellow Alumni,
of doubles tennis, keeping track of the number of games won.
The winners of the tournament were Jen Mscisz ’10 and Larry
Mitkus P ’08, ’11. Proceeds from the event support the Pingree
Scholarship Fund. Congratulations to all of the players as we
look forward to more tennis next fall!
First Annual Pingree School Tennis Tournament
Sally Wigglesworth
Cioffi ’86, Doug
Cioffi ’84 and their
daughter Alexa.
Taylor Perkins ’07 and Hannah McGowan ’07
Pingree School Homecoming
was held on Saturday, October 20, 2007.
Many Pingree friends stopped by the Alumni
Tent to have refreshments, enjoy a craft with
their children, and to socialize. Pingree's fall
Amy Singleton Adams ’82
and her son Alec.
athletic teams competed against Concord
Academy for the Chandler Bowl on this
Senior Career Day
beautiful fall afternoon. Pingree captured the
most wins and retained the victory bowl! After
the games, Pingree's Parents Association
hosted class tents in the front courtyard. Each
tent offered an opportunity for
parents, students and alumni to
mingle and enjoy a cookout
together.
Chrissy McCarthy Lemos ’96, Bill Lemos ’95
and daughter Caroline
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Heidi and Mark Ferrante ’86 with
daughters Emma and Isabelle
Jack Pruett (son of Paul Pruett ’84)
and Will Hundahl (son of Betsy
Hoffman Hundahl ’80)
Alumni
Isabelle Ferrante, daughter of Mark ’86
Skate
PINGREE SCHOOL HOMECOMING
Alumni Leadership Board
On a bright, but blustery Sunday in September, thirty tennis
players met at the Pingree courts for a friendly Round Robin
tournament. The First Annual Pingree Tennis Tournament was
a huge success, thanks to the organizing efforts of Nancy and
Ron Pruett ’81, P ’09, ’11. Each participant played at least 6 sets
Pingree’s Alumni Leadership
Board (ALB) is full of enthusiastic
members who are giving their
time and energy to bringing all
Pingree Alumni together. An important part of our role is to serve
as Ambassadors to the School. We
spread the word about the value of
a Pingree education, we recommend prospective families to visit the School and we
encourage people to support our School financially.
Bill Ryan ’96 with wife Alison and
children Cate and Marty
The Alumni Leadership Board will be hosting the fourth annual Senior Career
Development Series (SCDS) on Monday, May 19, 2008. For the past three
years more than 50 alumni have returned to campus each spring to share their
career insights with the graduating class. Discussion panels have included:
Law and Government; Medicine and Health; Starting Your Own Business;
Writing and Literature; Graduate School and Networking; Careers in the Arts
and Education. This past year’s event culminated with a lunch for the students
and alumni in the Library. The ALB welcomed the seniors to the Alumni Association. The Office of Alumni Relations presented a PowerPoint slide show
featuring all the events & opportunities our graduating class has to look forward to as they become alumni.
We are currently seeking Alumni to volunteer for the 2008 SCDS. If you
would like to participate please contact Laurie Harding Polese ’84, Director of
Alumni Relations at [email protected] or 978-468-4415 x310.
In collaboration with the Alumni Relations Office,
we have already hosted several successful events on
and off campus. Look through this Bulletin to see pictures and highlights from the following events: Barbara Willcox DiLorenzo’s ’93 Art Show; Annual Ellie
Dorsey ’66 Memorial Lecture; New York City Reception; Homecoming Day; Alumni Reception in Newbury, MA; College Age Alumni Brunch; Boston Holiday Gathering; Open Skating and Alumni Hockey and
Basketball games. We’ve been busy and we send a big
thank you to everyone who has participated!
Event invitations and annual fund appeals will continue throughout the year. We have several more
events in the coming months and we will continue our
Annual Fund efforts to increase Alumni participation
up until the deadline of June 30, 2008. Pingree celebrated the most successful Annual Fund last year. We
hope that you will celebrate with us this year by attending our events and that you will again consider
supporting Pingree with a donation.
If you would like to hear more about our programs
and would like to get involved, please contact me or
Laurie Harding Polese ’84, Director of Alumni Relations, [email protected]. Thank you for “Celebrating and Reconnecting” with Pingree!
Warmest Regards,
President, Alumni Leadership Board
[email protected]
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Alumni Notes
Alumni
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C lass A gents
Merrilyn Clay Belliveau
17 University Lane
Manchester, MA 01944
978 526-7915
Suzanne McAleer Morrison Wolski
[email protected]
Leslie Smith Gill writes, “I recently retired
from teaching mostly First Grade in the
Marblehead Public Schools for the past 33
years! I do miss working some and seeing
my friends every day, but not the long hours
of preparation. I have recently visited
Charleston, SC and am renting a place in
the Caribbean for the holidays with my two
daughters, son-in-laws and 3 grandchildren.
I plan to go to Florida in March and visit
Naples and Boca Raton. I love being retired
and enjoy my book club too.”
Anne Keefe credits the teachers she had at
Pingree for shaping her life and for showing
her how to appreciate learning and how to
learn. Anne writes, “They had faith in me
when I really needed it and I feel, if only to
honor them, I had to write for this Bulletin. I
send a never-ending ‘Thank you’ to Mr.
Rogers, Mr. Kennedy, Mrs. Nickless and the
others. I have done a bit of teaching, though
not recently. For three years I taught the
third year stage managers at The Yale
Drama School. It was a real eye opener. I
was surprised that I knew enough to teach,
and that they wanted to hear what I had to
say. I have since been in a position to give
jobs to a couple of the people I taught, and
that was very gratifying. I still read theses
from the current students, occasionally.
When I was the Associate Artistic Director
at the Westport Country Playhouse, I also
mentored a number of interns. It was
hugely satisfying.
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My own daughter was so affected by the
teachers she had, primarily at Sarah
Lawrence College, that she is currently at
Cornell pursuing a doctorate. Of course, all
of us who are fortunate enough to be
parents are teachers in a way, aren’t we?
Those moments when we see the fruits of
our labors are some of the most thrilling
I’ve ever experienced.”
We work to protect whales, seals and elephants around the world — and other endangered species. Recently, I have gotten together with Heidi Knights Adams, Pinny
Mayo Randall and Rebecca Sonnabend
Leavitt.”
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Christopher M. Sanders
[email protected]
C lass A gent
Susan Oliver Schneider
[email protected]
Second Class Agent WANTED
REWARD if found volunteering!
Please contact Laurie Harding Polese ’84,
Director of Alumni Relations
978 468-4415 x310 or [email protected]
Please consider joining Susan as a Class Agent. Being a Class Agent is a great way to stay connected
to Pingree and your classmates. Twice each year we
ask you to collect news for the Bulletin. For more
information, please contact Laurie Harding Polese
’84, Director of Alumni Relations, 978 468-4415
x310 or [email protected].
Jody Franklin Burrows writes, “So here is a
brief summary: still married to the same
man, three children Matthew, age 35 (yikes)
married with two children, Sarah, age 31
and married and Joanna, age 24 who graduated from the U. of Colorado last December
and still living, and enjoying, Boulder.
Working full time as a Crisis Intervention
Specialist with children and families. Enjoy
singing with choral arts group, swimming,
hiking, working in garden, protest-marching and proud to be a modern American
Liberal!”
Kay Gamage Green writes, “I continue
to live on Cape Cod and work for a wonderful international not-for-profit organization.
Please send news and consider joining Christopher
as a Class Agent. Being a Class Agent is a great
way to stay connected to Pingree and your classmates. Twice each year we ask you to collect news
for the Bulletin. For more information, please contact Laurie Harding Polese ’84, Director of Alumni
Relations, 978 468-4415 x310 or lpolese@pingree.
org.
Randi Nectow Coleman responds to Christopher’s email, “Crissy, of course I recognize
your name. You are forever imprinted on
my memory and it was wonderful to see you
again at the reunion. Funny, it is hard to remember whether it was last year or the one
before, but yet I can remember Pingree days
as if they were yesterday. At least some of
them. To update you and everyone:
I am currently living in Palm Beach
Gardens, Florida working as an interventionist. My company, Addiction Intervention Resources, has its home office in Minnesota, and I travel across the country meeting with families and taking their addicted
family member to treatment. I love my work
and the extraordinary people that I have encountered while doing it.
Continuing the theme of teaching through the class notes section of the Bulletin, please look for the notes highlighted
in brown, as they indicate our Alumni teachers and their stories of education and life-long learning.
I have two daughters, Flynn, 26 and
Chelsea, 25. Currently Flynn is living in Dakar, Senegal working for a NGO regarding
water rights as well as taking law school
classes at the local university. She will graduate from Boalt with the class of 2008 and
will, most likely, work in the area of human
rights. Chelsea is enrolled in a theater program in Los Angeles as well as performing
Improv in the evening. She also loves doing
Shakespeare on stage. She certainly did not
inherit any of this from me because I have
memories of Shakespeare as being the bane
of my Pingree experience along with Miss.
Diennes’ Russian History which, as she
would say ‘put me in the soup.’ I never really
knew what that meant but coming from
Miss Diennes, it was formidable.
I still see Jill Eiseman Brennan regularly
and we laugh about times at Pingree. I have
the fondest memories of my Pingree sisters
and the antics we would get up to. Often I
yearn for those days of lounging on the
grass with our reflectors made from Beatles
albums and smoking without worries for
our health in the Senior Room. I miss Art
History classes from Mr. Davis and his
daughter, Fanna, terrorizing her underclassmates. The bus rides back home picking up dear friends along the way, Rebecca
and Chrissy and Sue and Heidi in Marblehead… and who can forget Sarah Stiles and
Polly and Jane and all of you. I think of you
all and hold you in my heart forever.”
Jill Eiseman Brennan’s daughter graduated last year first in her class, cum laude,
and is now a sophomore at Boston College.
Jill and her husband recently bought a small
house outside Charleston, SC which they
love.
Sarah Stiles who lives in Swampscott,
just switched to a new job she really likes,
which involves distribution of educational
books. Her son, Hall, is in college in Maryland. Sarah, by the way, mentioned awhile
ago that she might be interested in helping
with the class agent job. This would be
good!
Christopher Sanders writes, “I am still
living in Arlington, MA, and in the real estate business at Coldwell Banker. My oldest
son, Aaron, is a social worker in Cambridge,
and my younger son, Dana, who graduated
last fall from Drew University, has just
moved to Venice, CA, where he is working
at a law firm. I see my dear friend Rebecca
Bennett, who lives in Somerville, quite frequently.
Linda Caffray Carpenter and her husband Larry write “We are enjoying our
grandchildren, our careers, and our friends.
Life is busy and fun. A new grandchild is
due in early May.” Linda and Larry live in
Andover, MA.
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Please help us locate the following alumni from
your decade, so that we can get them back on
track and reconnected with Pingree today.
Please send updated contact information to
Laurie Harding Polese ’84, Director of Alumni
Relations at 978 468-4415 x310 or lpolese@
pingree.org.
1964 Ms. Julia C. Hammer, Ms. Linda Holgerson
Herrick, Ms. Charlotte Warren Oostmeyer 1965
Ms. Marietta Amy, Mrs. Patricia Warnock Burke,
Ms. Linda Slade Dolan, Ms. Susan Kaye, Ms.
Christina Thompson Malkemus, Ms. Elaine
McDiarmid Nichols, Ms. Kathie Brown Tibbetts
1966 Mrs. Patricia King Carnahan, Ms. Jean
Symonds Frederiksen, Ms. Jane Robertson Glass,
Ms. Donna Cahoon Hauck, Ms. Barbara Kanter,
Ms. Sherry Merrow, Ms. Arnelle Pappas Meyer,
Dr. Joyce L. Peabody, Ms. Cynthia Pratt 1967
Mrs. Rebecca Monroe Bulwa, Ms. Judith A.
Fitzgibbon, Ms. Florence Pearson, Ms. Catherine
Shepard Picariello, Ms. Susan Smith 1968 Ms.
Sherry Barkan Dreyfuss, Ms. Ruth Rindler Floyd,
Ms. Paula Koslowski, Ms. Marcy Rubin, Ms. Jane
Roediger Tomeny, Ms. Linda Whittier 1969 Ms.
Christine Bailey, Ms. Madeleine Chesney, Ms.
Gretchen Gharrett, Ms. Julia M. Johnson, Ms.
Constance Phillips Jones, Ms. Kathleen Parker
Kucera, Ms. Deborah McManaway, Ms. Deborah
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many ways, but in others, it’s a logical
continuation of what I’ve been doing all
along: educating, mentoring, counseling,
and providing therapy and a listening,
compassionate ear. I’m honored, delighted,
and humbled to be taking on this new
challenge. Husband Nicholas, son Sam,
and daughter Clementine have all been
wonderfully supportive, if occasionally
skeptical, of my new career, as have my
three sisters and ever-enthusiastic mother.
Reinvention and expansion of the self at 58
is a wonderful thing! All best, Bebe”
Dale Grant Dick writes, “I am teaching
writing at an incredibly innovative school
that opened its doors in September of
2006. New England Academy is a small,
private school in Beverly, MA that changes
the lives of students whose social and
emotional disabilities stand in the way of
their success. Our mission is to provide a
challenging academic curriculum in a
therapeutic environment so that each
student can develop his or her academic,
social, and emotional skills in preparation
for college and life. Our students have
average to superior intelligence - many are
considered “exceptional” — yet are not
achieving their full potential and have often
lost hope of continuing on to college. I have
seen miracles at this school and I am proud
to be part of a vision that is making such a
difference for students and their families.”
Posie Means Mansfield is actively teaching
and training EMT’s for the Lynn area Police
and Ambulance squads. She is also serving
as a regional faculty member for the
American Heart Association and oversees
two of their centers.
M. Twinkelle Thompson Wilkinson
[email protected]
WELCOME NEW CLASS AGENTS!
Dale Grant Dick
[email protected]
Karen Durkee Heywood
[email protected]
Bebe Brown Nixon writes, “My news — and
it’s right in line with your theme of
education and teaching, in the broadest
sense of both those words — is that after
over 20 years in the filmmaking, writing and
producing world of public television and
educational programming, and nearly a
decade of making films for health care
providers and their patients around
women’s reproductive health issues, while
also working as a crisis counselor at
Planned Parenthood, I completed my
Masters’ degree in clinical social work at
Boston University this past May, passed my
licensing exam in September, and am
beginning work as a family and couples
therapist/clinical social worker at Brigham
and Women’s Hospital. It’s a big change in
1968
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CLASS AGENTs
Betty Wheeler Raymond
[email protected]
reunion
MAY 3, 2008
Ann Woodard
[email protected]
Please save the date for a memorable 40th reunion
celebration planned for Saturday, May 3, 2008 at
Pingree. Please contact Laurie Harding Polese ’84,
Director of Alumni Relations, if you would like to
get involved with the planning, lpolese@pingree.
org or 978-468-4415 x310.
Judy Adamson writes, “Our son, Kevin Adamson-Jackes, married Alejandra Echeverria on September 27 in Manhattan with a
wonderful wedding fiesta at The Foundry
in Queens the following day. And, while I
wait patiently for grandchildren, I’m happy
to say I have an adorable rescued grand-puppy named Figaro.”
Alumni Notes
1969
CLASS AGENT
Katherine E. Bradford
[email protected]
Katherine Bradford has been the 1969 Class Agent
for the last several years and would love to share this
position with another classmate. Please consider
joining Kathy as a Class Agent! Being a class agent
is a great way to stay connected to Pingree and your
classmates. For more information, please contact
Laurie Harding Polese ’84, Director of Alumni Relations 978 468-4415 x310 or [email protected].
Esther Darling Mulroy writes, “I have a
Masters degree in Speech Therapy from
UVM and have been working in the field of
Early Intervention for 13 years in the cities of
Lynn and Salem and 5 other surrounding
towns. I travel to the home and teach
families to learn to communicate effectively
with their babies and toddlers age birth to
three who are eligible for our services.
Sometimes the children have a diagnosis,
Hearing Impairment, Pervasive
Developmental Disorder, Cerebral Palsy,
Autism, Apraxia and some are eligible
because they do not pass our screening
test. They have found that Early Intervention
can change the neurology or can teach the
child how to be aware of their weak area and
learn to accommodate. For example, if the
child has an auditory processing issue we
would give therapy to shorten the amount
of processing time and simultaneously
teach the child to keep focused and attend
to a task and not think ahead of the next
thing to do and respond or express
themselves thoughtfully. I have worked with
families of many different cultures
including: African Nations, Dominican,
Puerto Rico, Columbia, Brazil, Cambodia,
China, German, Italian and American. It is a
great learning experience as well as being
able to share my skill and knowledge with
the families. I use translators and am
certified in CPR and First Aid.”
Ester also writes about her busy family
life, “My husband, Michael, and I moved to
Marblehead, MA 7 years ago. We had two
sons graduate from Pingree and one son
who graduated from Swampscott High
School. Conor, the Swampscott High graduate, is a musician. He won prizes for playing
his classical guitar at New England Conservatory and has currently completed one semester of a masters degree in music composition at Washington University in Cheney,
Washington. Tom ’01 is in his second year of
Medical School at Ross University in Miami, Florida. Robert ’04 is attending Salem
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State College. Mike works at Talbots in their
Hingham main office in the management
construction department. He is a member
of the Boston Braves Soccer Team. The team
travels all over the world to play veteran professional soccer teams. Having a love for the
sport and meeting the native people of the
different counties has been a great experience. They have a mission statement to play
and bring peace and understanding between people of different cultures. I traveled recently with the team to Hamburg,
Germany. We had a great time. So life has
been good to all of us. I now have two nieces
at Pingree, Jena Pruett ’10 and Anna McGinn
’10, and several of my cousins have children
there too.”
1970
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Sarah Darling Pruett
[email protected]
zons, a day center for adults with developmental disabilities. I have three children Nathalie is a bilingual 4th grade teacher in
inner city San Francisco, Katharine and
Stewart (all Alsops) are students.”
1972
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Nathalie S. Binney
[email protected]
Kathleen Duff
[email protected]
Laura Lorenz writes, “I am in the throws of
writing my doctoral dissertation on living
with traumatic brain injury. My research
participants — 12 brain injury survivors —
have been taking photographs of their lives
and talking with me about their photos. I
am using narrative analysis methods to analyze the visuals and interview text. It’s an
exciting time in many ways! My son and
daughter-in-law are expecting a child. I
can’t wait to be a grandmother. My daughter
is working in northern Virginia and participating on a roller derby team called ‘Scare
Force.’ I guess you could call it rugby on
wheels! I didn’t realize how much fun the
‘50’s’ can be!”
1973
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Sarah “Sandy” Durkee
[email protected]
reunion
MAY 3, 2008
Susie Brown and the staff at the Boston Center for Adult Education spent their lunch
hour at the Boston Red Sox World Series
Victory Rolling Rally. (photo submitted by
Jennifer Scott.)
1971
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Deborah von Rosenvinge
[email protected]
Lisa Aronson Newmann
[email protected]
Valerie Potter Duecker writes, “For the past
three and a half years, I’ve been pastor of
Stonington United Methodist Church on
the island of Deer Isle, in Downeast Maine.
It’s a mighty, small church that has miraculously raised enough money to renovate
most of the building. We host the local Episcopal Church, as well as Downeast Hori-
org or 978-468-4415 x310.
Please send news and consider joining Sandy as a
Class Agent! Being a Class Agent is a great way to
stay connected to Pingree and your classmates. For
more information, please contact Laurie Harding
Polese ’84, Director of Alumni Relations 978
468-4415 x310 or [email protected].
Liz Allen Taft will be hosting the “All Girls”
cocktail reception at her home prior to the
Reunion celebration on Saturday, May 3,
2008. Please contact Liz if you would like
details about this milestone event, ltaft@
pingree.org. Pingree will be sending information and the invitation in the coming
months. Please save the date and join in
the fun!
Elizabeth Updike Cobblah: “I have been
teaching at the Fenn School (all boys grades
4-9) in Concord MA for the past 10 years. I
love it. I have variety and growth
opportunity in my job teaching library skills/
language arts to 4th and 5th graders and Oil
painting to 8th and 9th graders. I am a
dedicated passionate member of the
Diversity Committee and fortunate to have
been sent to four NAIS People of Color
Conferences and to the 2007 NAIS Summer
Diversity Institute - amazing, profound
experiences!! Fenn is a collegial, supportive,
stimulating place to work. I love working
with middle school boys. My husband, Tete,
works here too! Life is good! I still write
poetry and practice yoga. That’s me, more
or less!!”
Amy Swanson writes from Paris, “Hello
everyone, I hope you are all well and happy.
I had a great visit with Sarah and her
wonderful, talented and beautiful family
while I was in NYC this past September.
I’m rarely teaching but did do a master class
at Bard College for the Dance Across
Borders USA 2007. I did love giving that
Duncan class to all those eager good
dancers — we were over 60 professionals
from all over the world sharing our work,
policies, thoughts about art and creating…
so yes, I can give a good master class in the
technique and repertory of Isadora Duncan.
I can also receive guests from Pingree students or alumni in France — either here
in Paris or in Normandy at la taille, a new
artist’s residency. Go see the web site at
www.alataille.com. My daughter, Zoë (18), is
now going to Institute Universitaire
Technique — for management — eventually
arts management, and she’s learning to
manage on her own in an apartment in the
courtyard where I have my dance studio.
Clarisse (15) is in hotel school and wants to
become a chef. She loves it and is
appreciated by all. They may both be
looking for internships in the USA if anyone
has suggestions. Lots of love to all, and I’m
happy to be in touch!”
Meridith Pepin Duca encourages you to
view Amy Swanson’s performance video
clips available online at http://on-line-dance.
tv/amy_swanson.htm. “The quality is random and ephemeral but fascinating none
the less.”
1974
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Emily Perkins Rees
4 Mayflower Drive
East Hamstead, NH 03826
1970 Ms. Betsy Works Cooke, Ms. Jane Bolles Dan,
Ms. Deborah Epstein, Ms. Sarah Fuller, Ms. Hallie
Kaiser, Ms. Pamela Potter, Ms. Linda Shepley, Ms.
Constance Jones Telek, Ms. Jo-Allison Valentine,
Ms. Ellu Virkkunen 1971 Ms. Clara Arena, Ms.
Jane Chesney Cornforth, Ms. Sarah Davis, Ms. Lisa
Aronson Newmann, Ms. Mary Rose Etherington
Selman, Ms. Elizabeth Tindley, Ms. Nancy Walker
1972 Ms. Dianne Collatos, Ms. Marla Ginsberg,
Ms. Sian Britten McDermott Dr. Anne Griffin
McSand 1973 Ms. Suzy Keefe Allen, Ms. Susan
Miller Chase, Ms. Sally Southgate Gordon, Ms.
Anne Howry, Ms. Megan E. Miller 1974 Ms.
Fiona Brown, Mr. Andrew H. Cabot, Ms. Lizabeth
Stier May, Ms. Diane Parker Meredith, Ms. Gail
Serafini Richmond 1975 Mr. Michael Abbot, Dr.
Anthony Allan, Mr. Michael Fusco, Ms. Ellise
Garber, Ms. Dana E. Kennedy, Ms. Gillian Rome,
Ms. Martha Schleck 1976 Ms. Martha H. Brown,
Mr. William B. Frothingham III, Ms. Kimberly A.
Keany, Ms. Johanna Mason, Mr. Robert M. Nippe,
Ms. Jane Banash Sagerman, Ms. Linda J. Snow
1977 Mr. Mark Ashford, Ms. Arden Donovan, Ms.
Elizabeth O. Hall, Mr. Christopher R. Hopkins,
Ms. Leslie Wheeler 1978 Ms. Susan A. Fennings,
Mr. Richard Gray, Ms. Maggie Cotreau Harenberg,
Ms. Hannah Bennett Harrington Ms. Rebecca
Lewis, Mr. Donald McCaughan, Mr. Brian R.
Walsh, Jr., Ms. Mary Weglarz, Ms. Caroline Wilson
1979 Ms. Angela Gibbons, Mrs. Suzanne Ho, Mr.
Stephen Leistinger
Please send news and consider joining Emily as a
stay connected to Pingree and your classmates.
Twice each year we ask you to collect news for the
Bulletin. For more information, please contact
Diana Lorenz Weggler and family reside in
Northfield, Vermont, where she is an editor
at Norwich University. She and her husband
of 27 years, Bob, have four children: Ryan,
25, graduated from Cornell in 2006; Rose,
21, is a senior at the University of Vermont;
Wilhelmina, 15, and Pearl, 13, attend public
school in Northfield. In her spare time Diana plays ice hockey for a women’s team.
Claire M. Donaldson is in her second
year of Seminary at Boston University,
working towards her Masters of Divinity.
She writes, “I found it was time for a midlife
career ‘shift.’ My call is to be a Hospice
Chaplain, and I am currently interning at
Hospice of the North Shore. My son, Nick,
is a senior at Salem High School and com-
pleting his college application process, with
a few nudges from Mom.”
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Frederick “Sean” J. Fawcett II
129 Goden Street
Belmont, MA 02478
Please send news and consider joining Sean as a
Ren Robb: “My Pingree experience was so
enjoyable, great teachers and friends, and I
have loved education ever since. My interest
was piqued when I substitute taught at Vero
Beach High School and found it fun and
rewarding. Initially, I didn’t consider
teaching as a profession/career because I
thought I needed to make more money. But
after ten years in the financial management
business, sitting behind a desk, burning out
and becoming increasingly unhappy, I took
a vocational aptitude test that came up
resoundingly ‘Education!’ So I moved to
Florida and took the pay cut in exchange for
a change in lifestyle. I got certified in
Economics (it was my least favorite subject
in business school, but the quickest route to
getting my certification) and started
teaching at risk teenagers in a dropout
prevention program at Vero Beach High
School. After five years in that program, I
was asked to take over for the retiring
Economics teacher and reluctantly agreed.
That was fourteen years ago and I have had
more fun every year. I teach AP, Honors,
and Regular classes and enjoyed a 100%
pass rate on the Advanced Placement test
my first three years teaching it. Ten years
ago, I was asked to become an
administrator, but turned down the
opportunity to stay in the classroom where I
felt I could make more of a difference. My
worst day teaching is better than the best
day I ever had in business. The kids keep
me young and the summers keep me sane.
I can’t think of any other vocation in which I
would rather be working.”
Kemp Stickney writes, “I turned 50 in
September and my wife Edith and I celebrated the big day in Paris with close friends
and family and then off to Burgundy for a
few days where we try to spend a month
each year near Cluny. I was recently elected
a member of the Board of Trustees of The
Alumni Notes
Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach,
FL. I continue to be interested in art history
and attribute that life long passion to my
parents and to all of those art history courses with Fellowes Davis. I can visualize the
old library with Vivaldi or some other period piece playing before Fellowes would begin his class. I still wear bowties in his honor. My son Crocker (19) got his EMT designation and tells me that he wants to be a
Para-Medic and a Mountain Guide. My
daughter Eliza (16) is an avid skier and has
raced for the Jackson Hole Ski Team for the
past two years. She says college in California may be in her future.
I understand that Jud Smith continues
to race successfully in the Etchell’s class in
Marblehead and ventures to Coconut Grove
in the winter to race out of the Biscayne Bay
Yacht Club. I keep expecting to run into
him while I am having lunch there but maybe it will happen this coming season. Jud, if
you see this, send me an email or call when
you get to Miami. I am still running Wilmington Trust in Florida out of North Palm
Beach but we recently opened an office in
Boston so I invited a few friends to our reception at the Institute of Contemporary Art
in Boston earlier this month including Livia
Cowan ’77 and Mark Glovsky. I don’t get to
Boston very often but maybe now that we
have an office there I will have an excuse to
come to Boston more often… and what about
those Red Sox?”
ed to have a major mid-life crisis when I
turned 50 in April. I love to cycle, and have
always aspired to riding a century (100-mile
bike ride), but I had never managed to ride
more than 25–30 miles. I decided that turning 50 made this a good time to reach that
goal — so I joined the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s team-in-training program.
On September 22nd, I rode 100 miles; from
Hampton Beach, NH to Newburyport, MA,
up to Ogunquit Maine and back to Hampton Beach. It was great to raise money to
support a good cause and I loved training
for and succeeding in riding 100-miles. I
have decided that my next goal will be to
ride the 100-mile around Lake Tahoe in
June 2009. (I am on the right side of the
picture riding with my coach Jim and my
teammate Katie). I was very sad to see my
good friend Cathy Call ’76 and husband pack
up and move to Seattle this spring. But on
the bright side — Emily and I are hoping to
visit them in the spring. It will be worth the
trip because Cathy’s husband, Blake, makes
the best coffee in the world!”
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Shelley McCloy Vassallo
[email protected]
Catherine Thenault writes, “Life is busy and
hectic in RI. This past year has been full of
lots of milestones! Our firstborn off to college and our youngest turned 13! The biggest roller-coaster ride was getting my eldest daughter Elizabeth through the whole
college process. But she and I survived and
she is currently attending Carnegie Mellon
where she is studying computer science/robotics. My other two children keep my husband, Ernie, and me very busy. Emily is 15
and a sophomore and Spencer is in 8th
grade and just turned 13!
In addition to work and family, I decid-
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Henry Kennedy writes, “Here’s a picture of
me and my folks in our NYC firefighter garb.
Every summer we donate a week of ‘family
camp’ at Kieve to NYC firefighters and
Pentagon families who lost family members
on 9/11. Also, what started as ‘Pingree
North’ at Kieve in the 60’s is now called
‘The Leadership School.’ We serve 10,000
kids a year. Kieve teaches approx. ¼ of all
kids in Maine.”
Please send news and consider joining Shelley as a
Laurel Samson Starks says, “Things are
pretty much the same with us (luckily, we’re
healthy and happy and busy!) — I’m
teaching history at Milton Academy. My
husband, Keith, is in the Plastics
first holidays here. Aside from having family get-togethers not much else is going on
but will be getting ready for our annual visit
to Italy in August to see the in-laws and the
rest of the family! Would love to hear from
you, drop a line [email protected].”
Dale Hawkes Seamans reports, “I am
currently the director of Communications
for the Massachusetts Behavioral Health
Partnership in Boston, a managed care
company that delivers behavioral health
services. In my free time (of which there’s
not much), I do a lot of running and housecleaning. Caroline ’06 is enjoying her second year at St. Lawrence University, and
Henry ’08, a senior at Pingree, is anxiously
awaiting to hear from colleges, but his
hope is to go to school out west. Campbell
’75, when he is not hard at work at Mariposa, is hard at work at home, creating art or
creating mayhem.”
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Henry Kennedy ’76 and his parents, Dick and Nancy.
The Reverend Nancy James Deming writes,
“Dear Pingree friends, I am an Episcopal
Priest and the head pastor of an urban
parish in Philadelphia. I also sit on the
board (chapter) of the Episcopal Cathedral
of Philadelphia. Parish life of worship,
teaching the faith and service in the name
of the crucified and risen Lord keeps me
extraordinarily busy. My free time is spent in
the solitude and comfort of my home with
my husband, Philip, and two standard
poodles.”
1976
Coasting through mid-life, Catherine Thenault (on right)
rode 100 miles for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
Manufacturing business and we have a
junior at Milton Academy, Lyndsey, who
enjoys volleyball and softball and an 8th
grader at Milton, Tyler, who enjoys baseball.
I am on the search committee for the new
Head of School.”
Marion Hewson Knowles
[email protected]
reunion
1979
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Whitney Thayer Shepard
[email protected]
Please contact Laurie Hardin Polese ’84,
Director of Alumni Relations 978 468-4415
x310 or [email protected]
Please send news and consider joining Whitney as
a Class Agent! Being a Class Agent is a great way
to stay connected to Pingree and your classmates.
Jane Pirie is the Athletic Director at
Brookwood School in Manchester, MA. She
writes, “Having been at Brookwood for the
past 20 years I have had the pleasure of
teaching and coaching many Pingree alums’
kids and then have sent many of my
students on to become Pingree alums. I am
also very excited that our oldest son, Taylor
is currently a freshman at Pingree and
loving it. It’s great to be back at Pingree
more often — what a beautiful campus!”
MAY 3, 2008
Wendy Morgan Richardson
[email protected]
1977
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Jacqueline Price Griffin
[email protected]
Third Class Agent WANTED
Please contact Laurie Harding Polese,
Please send news and consider joining Jackie as a
Jackie Price Griffin says, “It was such a pleasure to see many of you in May. As always,
thank you, Jane Riley, for hosting such a
lovely party. News here is mostly about preschool and potty training - oh joy! My son
Nathaniel is 3 1/2 and crazy for dinosaurs
and monster trucks. I didn’t believe in the
gender preprogramming idea too much before having this child. Now I see that boys
just come wired to seek out moving parts
and destructo opportunities, but it’s also incredibly fun to hang out with him.”
Martha Stasio Maffeo writes, “As they
say, no news is good news. My husband,
Pellegrino, and I are enjoying our new
home in Saugus and look forward to our
spent 1981-82 in Beijing, China. Pursued
my first career in Asian Art Conservation
working first in NYC at the Metropolitan
Museum then at the British Museum in
London. Had a great time but ultimately got
tired of fixing broken things, and developed
an irreversible interest in preventing breakage in the first place. In 1990, I married
David Charles Collins and we had a son,
Zachary, in 1992. During my pregnancy I
started a consultancy in private art collections management, and have been actively
working at preventative conservation ever
since, caring for private and corporate art
collections, as well as estates and sometimes artist studios. Soon we moved to Park
Slope, Brooklyn to settle down and live the
Brownstone renovator’s life. We had a second child, Willa, in 1994, and a standard
poodle was thrown into the mix a few years
ago. All of it keeps me very busy and so the
years speed by. We get to Marblehead to visit my step-mother, and whenever possible
try to see Lisa Griffel Perroncello and her
husband, Joe, and 3 children in Boston. Our
girls have a great time together. Griff is
completely unchanged, she looks 25, maybe. I have no other active Pingree connections at the moment, but welcome hearing
from classmates. Everybody comes to New
York City at some point!”
org or 978-468-4415 x310.
Please send news and consider joining Marion and
Wendy as a Class Agent! Being a Class Agent is a
great way to stay connected to Pingree and your
classmates. Twice each year we ask you to collect
news for the Bulletin. For more information, please
contact Laurie Harding Polese ’84, Director of
Alumni Relations 978 468-4415 x310 or lpolese@
pingree.org.
Wendy Morgan Richardson, Chris Pingree, and Bob
Weatherall met this fall to begin plans for the 35th Reunion
this Spring. Please save the date, Saturday, May 3, 2008.
1980
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Laura K. Morgan
[email protected]
Whitney Thayer Shepard ’79, Wendy Morgan Richardson
’78, Jane Shotwell Pirie ’79 and Hope Amory Bachelder ’77
gather at the Alumni Tent on Homecoming Day before
watching their children compete against Concord School:
Lyndsey Shepard ’10, Eliza Richardson ’08, Taylor Pirie ’11
and Sam Bachelder ’10.
Emily Batchelder, “Kevin and I are very
excited to be moving into Charlestown as of
November 1, 2007. The move will greatly
improve our commute during the week and
we plan to be up in Hamilton on weekends.
My daughter, Alexandra, is now a sophomore at Union College. I am currently working with CBRE as the General Manager of
101 Arch Street in Boston.”
Maura Kehoe Collins was “Surprised
but happy to be ‘found’ by the Alumni Office (Thank you Lisa Novak!). So, this will be
my first class note in 28 years! Seems impossible, but it is true. It has been so long
since graduation that it is hard to know
where to start with ‘news’, there is so much.
Of the salient bits, I guess I would have to
say I graduated from Mt. Holyoke in 1983,
Please send news and consider joining Laura as a
Julie Jackson Flynn writes, “My son, Eric, is
at a great nursery school and enjoying it. I
am a booking agent for a cable arts program
in Boston.”
Alumni Notes
1981
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Elizabeth Dana Parker
[email protected]
W elc o me new class agent
Gail Cairns Steele
[email protected]
Gail Cairns Steele writes, “Here I sit in my
comfortable suburban house in total awe after reading Nanda’s humble description of
her latest journeys and accomplishments in
the most recent Bulletin. Yikes. Candidly, I
have lots of fond memories from our school
days, but I don’t really think about Pingree
too often - now that we are decades past
graduation (‘you are almost elderly,’ my 9
year old son, Dylan, said recently!). I always
love to hear news about old classmates. Lily
King’s latest novel (another oh-so amazing
person), The English Teacher, has a hauntingly familiar description of a warm old
school building. If you haven’t already read
it, you should. Seeing Eric Stacey makes me
1) feel guilty about not working out enough
— have you seen him recently? - and 2) want
to catch up with many people I’ve lost touch
with over the years. This past year was filled
with many wonderful things to be thankful
for and a few too many reminders that life
can be very short. Keeping that in mind, I
am submitting my first contribution to the
Bulletin in 26 years. Now its your turn.”
Chris Lorenz and Gabrielle Brunner in the Andes above
Ushuaia, at the southern tip of South America in
Argentina.
1983
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Michelle Guzowski Litavis
[email protected]
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MAY 3, 2008
Tennille Bistrian Treadwell
[email protected]
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true international spirit. My wife, Gisele,
and I have three children, Natasha (9), Alexandra (6 1/2), and Zachary (2 1/2). The girls
attend the bilingual Chinese International
School, which teaches in English and Mandarin Chinese. I sit on the development
board of CIS, which will soon celebrate its
25th anniversary. The spirit of CIS and the
devotion of the faculty, student body, parents, and a young group of alumni reminds
me of Pingree in so many ways. I am still
with Morgan Stanley, where I am a Managing Director and run our Prime Brokerage
business in Asia. As such, I travel quite a
lot. This is especially the case for Tokyo,
where I seem to spend about a week of each
month. If you or any other old Pingree
friends ever find yourself out here, please let
me know, and I’ll be sure to show you how
magical Hong Kong can be. I hope to see
you one day soon. Perhaps at the school, or
maybe one of the Alumni Events in NY will
line up with one of my quarterly trips.”
Betsy Case Quigley proudly announces the
addition of Tyler Collins Quigley to their
family!
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Nanny Pope Noyes
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Cid Johnson Rogers
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Chris Lorenz, “For the last 5 years I have
been a ‘seasonal’ project manager (spring
and fall) at the Weston Racquet Club, where
I taught and directed the tennis programs
for 10 years or so. In the other 6 to 9 months
of summer and winter I travel and backpack
all over the world or spend time in Maine,
kayaking and visiting with family. Last winter included southern Brazil, Chile and Argentina (Patagonia) and Bolivia. Life as a
nomad is great and I have been sharing it
for 17 years with Gabrielle Brunner, who
came to the 20th with me.”
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Betsy Case Quigley’s son, Tyler Collins Quigley.
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Bill McGrath
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Sigrid Barton Orne
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Kurt Baker says, “Life in Hong Kong is good.
Sometimes it is hard to believe that I have
been here for 18+ years, but I can’t imagine
living anywhere else. Hong Kong is an
amazing city, with an amazing pulse and
Christine Kneifel Haley’s daughter, Emily (3), gets ready for
Halloween!
Becky Ward Acselrod has been busy
with her recent move from Medfield, MA to
Westport, CT. She writes, “My husband,
David, had started a new job in Westport in
September 2006 and was spending the
week in Westport and weekends in Medfield. After almost a year of that, David and
I and the kids, Sarah (7) and Braeden (5),
made the move. We’ve settled in and are
making new friends. We enjoy being 10
minutes from the beach and an hour from
NYC.”
Sigrid Barton Orne says her life has
been a little crazy and exciting. Sigrid and
her husband, Steve, started a business 5
years ago, “Glee,” woman’s clothing boutiques. Sigrid says, “This year we basically
doubled in size. We now have 5 stores: Beverly Farms, MA, Hingham, MA, Belmont,
MA, Guilford, CT, and West Hartford, CT.
Sorry I’m shameless… stop in to shop!
Opening 2 stores within 3 months of each
other leaves you spinning. We have 2 girls
Lindsey (11) and Eliza (8 ½… that ½ is important). Both are into surfing and skiing. Lindsey went to sleep-away camp for the first
time this summer for 2 weeks… she loved it!
Steve has been playing hockey with Bill
McGrath and Doug Cioffi. This is their Sunday night guy time, they play hockey (it’s actually a real league) and drink beer after.
I’m looking forward to ski season. I love being outdoors all day and I enjoy the family
time together. Plus I get time to knit.”
Alex (Cindy) Alexander replied to Sig’s
request for news, “Hi Sig! Alex here! aka —
Cindy. I looked at your website. You carry
many of the brands that they have at my favorite boutique chain in San Francisco.
Congrats on your success! I am now working as a pilates instructor as well as a massage therapist (which I have been for 18
years now! My God!). I love teaching pilates
and mostly do individual sessions. I am still
pursuing acting and just finished a short action thriller where I got to struggle on the
edge of a cliff! I am also in a play right now
where I play a presidential candidate. It’s a
comedy. Life is good. I’ve adopted a third
dog and still happy with my fab wife, Stacey,
who works for the city.”
Jagruti Patel writes, “I have come to love
‘Glee’ and I am proud of my fellow Pingree
female colleague’s success. I am so proud of
you. Well my news, I have two boys ages 3
and 5. Both are at school at Notre Dame
Children’s Class. It shocks me that two individuals from the same parents are worlds
different in their persona and attitude. Besides being a taxi driver and rolling around
on the floor with the two loves of my life, I
am still practicing cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery at Beverly Hospital. My
poor husband, Rahul, ends up being last on
the priority list after the two boys, the dog,
the parents and parents-in-law. Rahul is doing extremely well with his company which
he started a few years ago on healthcare consulting. In general, I cannot complain. I
have a great place to shop to look phenomenal (sorry to brag for you Sig, but I am in
love with Glee, yet a new priority on my list!)
and we are all well and healthy. I would love
to hear from the rest of our class.”
Carrie Ives Schluter writes, “My husband, Doug, are I are living in Marblehead,
after having moved ‘back’ (for me, at least)
from the Washington, DC area five years
ago. Kids: Christian (8), Anna (5) and Nicholas (3), better known as ‘Iggy’ due to an early mispronunciation by his sister!) are all at
Bell School, where I spent seven years. A lot
of deja vu! Doug started a design-build firm
when we moved to town, and is finding it to
be a welcome change after eight years behind a desk at National Geographic. Last
month I quit my job as editor-in-chief of the
Environmental News Network to focus on a
business I founded at the beginning of the
year with a California-based partner. We’re
providing PR, marketing, and media services to companies committed to environmental sustainability — mostly green developers and builders. It’s going well so far, and
allows me time to stay involved in the children’s lives, volunteering in the classroom,
etc.”
Linda Hopkinton Maude has been living
in Marblehead for the last 12 years. She
writes, “My husband and his family have
lived here all their lives. I have three children. Jared is in kindergarten at the Bell
School (in the same class as Laura Capshaw’s ’85 son, Finn). Ashleigh is at preschool at Bell School and is in class with
Carrie Ives Schluter’s son Nicholas. Small
world! Ian is 2. I just quit work in August to
continue my MBA, something I have wanted to pursue for many years but, due to life
altering events, could not until now. So for
the next 2 years I will finish school and
drive the kids to and from school and take
care of Ian, big change from working in the
corporate world although I am also consulting for the company I worked for so I am not
completely out of the loop. After I complete
my MBA, I am sure I will be in the rat race
again.”
Sabrina Sweeney is living in Good
Hope, Georgia just outside of Athens. She
writes, “My husband, Freddie Garcia, and I
have been married for 14 years and we have
4 children: Owen (12), Ferran (9 and the
only girl), Noah (7), and Jacob (4 ¾ — That
too is very important!). We live on a 20 acre
farm with 5 horses, 5 dogs, too many chick-
ens to count, and 2 cats. The kids go to Athens Montessori School. I am the Fundraising Coordinator there and ‘very’ active with
the parent organization (Mr. Paulus would
pull out his ‘very’ can!). I ride when I can,
but the kids keep me busy with tennis, theater, soccer, and school outings. Freddie is a
farrier. He specializes in horses with lameness problems. He is about to have his first
book published. I look forward to hearing
how the others in our class are doing.”
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Christina Clifford Comparato
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Marc A. Steinberg
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Paige Bronk says, “It is great reading about
old friends from Pingree, what they are doing and where they are located. Reading
their names brings back great memories.
The faces of Bing, Marc, Bo, Hunter, and
even Joey Mac are imprinted in my memory. My time at Pingree seemed like yesterday, but will never be forgotten due to its
significance. Glad to see that both Buddy
Taft and Alan McCoy are still at it. My family and I are currently living and working in
Newport, RI. Look me up some day for
lunch if you are in the area and if you like to
boat and fish, definitely call me.”
Paula Alex Soteropoulos writes, “I recently saw Pam Karlyn Mazow at a kid’s
birthday party. I have been at Genzyme
Corp for 15 years and am currently Vice
President of Global Strategic Marketing for
our Transplant business. My husband, Taki,
and I have a 9-year old daughter, Alexia.”
Marc Steinberg, “I am still living in
Manhattan with my wife, Stephanie, and
our 2 beautiful children, Alexander and
Caroline. I am in the real estate business
and develop property from Northern New
England down to Pennsylvania. I recently
went to Colorado to watch the Red Sox beat
the Rockies in the World Series! I was a
guest of Hank Aaron’s at game 4 and sat
with him during the Red Sox victory. It was
an experience I will never forget. Happy
40th Birthdays to the class of 1985!”
Lori Dine Murray writes, “I moved to the
west coast to attend UC Santa Barbara and
never left. I met my husband, Craig, at
UCSB and we just celebrated our 15 year anniversary. We have 2 kids, Matthew (11) and
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Kara (7). I’ve been working at a local bank
originating real estate loans for the past 14
years. We usually come back to Marblehead
in the summer to visit my mom and
friends.”
Ross Dohrmann went to Julie & Phil
Lake’s 15th wedding anniversary party in
their barn in Essex. Also seen at the celebration were Ted Thayer, Scott Pulver ’83, Doug
Cioffi ’84, Sally Wigglesworth Cioffi ’86, Tim
Everitt ’84 and Abby Collins Schibli ’86. Abby’s husband’s band entertained the party.
Ross says, “This was the first time I’ve seen
Pingree folks in years. Everybody looks exactly the same. Just more dignified, especially after midnight. Cheers to you!!”
Dana Limani Tarlow announces, “Dan
and I are thrilled to tell all of our Pingree
classmates that we had a baby boy, Drake
Aaron Tarlow, on June 21, 2007. The first
day of summer! Our little beach baby
weighed 8lbs 10oz. He enjoyed his first hike
up Mt. Tecumseh, his first 4,000 footer in
the White Mountains. I am still working at
Entercom Communications as a Senior
Marketing and Advertising Consultant for
WEEI, WAAF, Mike 93.7, and WRKO.”
Rick Case and his wife, Daye, are living
in Salem, MA with their two sons, Trip (2)
and Mac (1). Rick writes, “We spend a lot of
time reminding Mark Ferrante ’86 and his
wife, Heidi, how much weddings cost and
wondering how Steiny halted the hair loss
process at age 30!?”
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Leah Cataldo
[email protected]
Julie Clifford Smail
[email protected]
Meredith Goddard Stravato and her husband, Rick, welcome Henry Goddard Stavato to their family. Henry is a lucky little boy,
he has two big sisters to give him lots of advice, Lexi (9) and Abby (6).
Jon Ward writes, “I don’t have much to
share other than as the boys (6, 4) get older,
it gets easier. My wife, Jen, and I just celebrated our 13th Anniversary. So the obvious
jokes around the number 13 have been flying around.”
Sandy Weisenfeld writes, “I am a telecom engineer contracted to work with the
FAA in telecommunication operations. I
make sure air traffic controllers can talk to
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airplanes and vice versa. If you fly in, out or
over New England air-space, I install, troubleshoot, configure and fix all circuits and
hardware that carry operational telecom
data and voice.”
Jody Comins writes, “My older daughter, Talia, is in 3rd grade and my younger
one, Elizabeth, started Kindergarten so I decided it was time to go back to work! I’m
working part-time at Brandeis University in
one of the graduate programs: The Hornstein program for Professional Jewish Leadership. I’m the Director of Fieldwork &
Alumni Relations. It’s fun to be back in the
working world and I continue to volunteer
as the Vice President of Community and
Education at the MetroWest Jewish Day
School in Framingham where my girls go to
school. Mike and I still live in Framingham
and recently celebrated our 10th anniversary! I would love to hear from folks — send
me an email [email protected].”
Van Car: “As I write this I am administering
‘necap’ tests to juniors, so I guess I should
write about my life and education. Believe it
or not, I have been teaching French for 12
years at a public high school in Morrisville,
Vermont. When I was at Pingree, I had
some interesting adventures on our high
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1980 Mr. David Aulson, Ms. Viana Daly, Mr. Jose
I. Gilmartinez, Ms. Pamela Mori Holcombe, Ms.
Jennifer Kline, Ms. Allison C. Mitchell, Ms. Cherie
Thibodeau Morin, Ms. Tiffany Rockwell, Ms.
Maryellen Rooney, Mr. Christopher R. Yukins 1981
Ms. Sally Johnson Daly, Mr. Kevin M. Hanson,
Mr. Daniel Kavanagh, Ms. Nancy Schena , Mr.
Geoffrey Seager 1982 Mr. Malcolm Harper, Mrs.
Anna Thistle Brecher Miller, Mr. Mark Mitchell,
Ms. Leslie Teeling 1983 Ms. Lee Goldsborough
Cramer, Mr. Chris Hume 1984 Dr. Matthew A.
Collins, Ms. Heidi Goehring, Mr. Erik Lufkin, Ms.
Vanessa Reed 1985 Ms. Rebecca D. Cox, Ms.
Heidi M. Grassley, Ms. Elam Miriam Radebe,
Ms. Susan M. Tierney, Mr. Matthew Tinti 1986
Ms. Linda Furey, Ms. Heather L. Huston, Ms.
Kristin W. Robbins, Ms. Susan Webster 1987 Mr.
Timothy K. Hollander, Jr., s. Emily J. House, Ms.
Ann M. Macoul , Ms. Victoria S. Masotta, Mr. Ian
C. Rice, Mr. David W. Sauer 1988 Mr. Austin P.
Manchester, Ms. Jennifer L. Moniz, Mr. Henry C.
Mustin, Ms. Lisa M. Pantano, Mr. David C. Roselli,
Mr. Peter L. Winnick 1989 Ms. Rachel E. Coburn,
Ms. Katrina V. Howard, Ms. Andrea Moore Ice,
Ms. Merete Thorsvik
school trip to France. In fact, Monsieur Le
Flem left me behind in France while
everyone else returned to the U.S. One
might find it ironic, that I am now in charge
of chaperoning students to Europe and
Quebec. I haven’t lost any kids yet, but I
have had my share of adventures with high
school kids oversees. Next week, 20
students from Switzerland are coming to
our school to stay with our students for two
weeks. We then travel and visit the same
students in Geneva in February. Other than
education, I am living the Vermont life with
a wife who also teaches and a son and
daughter, who both attend a one-room
school house.”
Mary Moossa-Jurek: I have a master’s
degree in special education and am
teaching moderate to severe children at the
professional center for child development in
Andover, MA. My youngest daughter was
my inspiration as she has fairly severe
special needs herself as well as being
medically complicated. She does have the
most incredibly joyous spirit and is the
biggest Red Sox fan in America!
Kate Cairnes Kellogg writes, “Jamie ’85
and I have three children: Jay (6 ½) and
Phoebe & Julia (4 ½). We are at such a busy
stage — but fun! I talk to Robin Olney
Hutchinson frequently and she says it has
already snowed where they live in Jackson,
WY! My girls are looking forward to taking
skating with Christine Cataudella ‘Cat’ Hopkins again this winter! It’s fun for me to
catch up with her and Phoebe & Julia love
skating with her!”
Leah Cataldo: “I have been teaching at
BB&N for ten years. I am currently in my
third year as Upper School Science
Department Head and I have previously
served as Sophomore Grade Dean and as a
Trustee of the School (BB&N has one
faculty member sit on their Board of
Trustees for a three year term. My term just
ended in 2007.) I teach Biology at both the
introductory and Advanced Placement
levels and I have designed a new course in
its second year entitled ‘Current Topics and
Research in Science and Technology’. The
new course provides students who are
deeply interested in science an opportunity
to pursue contemporary topics in science in
depth that I choose (samples include Global
Warming, HIV/AIDS Education in Africa,
Scientific Misconduct) but also that they
choose. Students present their work at our
CTR Science Symposium, an evening event
hosted at the school, and students also
engage in research internships
(approximately 20 hours/week) during their
eight week senior spring project. Last year
the students enrolled in the course
completed lab internships at three MIT labs
and at two Dana Farber labs studying topics
ranging from hurricane dynamics,
engineering design, protein structure and
targeted therapies for cancer.
As for instrumental teachers at Pingree, they
were more influential in my choice of
discipline (biology/science) and not
necessarily my choice to teach… that came
later once I realized that I could not only
understand science but also communicate it
well (those don’t always go hand-in-hand)!
Mrs. Sacharuk and Mr. Furnari were
inspirational to me.”
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Patti Pruett
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Page Cogger Sostek
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Deborah Coppola Scaringi and her husband,
Stephen, are proud to announce the birth of
their third child, Nicolas John. Nicolas was
born on May 18th at Massachusetts General
Hospital in Boston and weighed in at 6 lbs
11.5 ounces and 19.5 inches long. Nathan (8)
and Sophia (5) are thrilled to welcome their
new little brother to their home in Southborough, Massachusetts. Besides keeping busy
with 3 kids, Deb is the Marketing Director
for the Massachusetts’ law firm, Fletcher,
Tilton & Whipple.
Adair Kendrick Look has two children.
“My daughter, Austen, is 16 months and my
son, Jansen, is almost 4. My husband, Rod,
and I have recently moved to Sebastopol, CA
from San Francisco. Rod is an ER Doctor in
Napa and I am a psychiatrist specializing in
Women’s Health. We love the weather and
look forward to our third child, due in about
a month!”
Patti Pruett with Giraffes in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Jennifer Huber Laugier
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th
reunion
MAY 3, 2008
Kerri Goddard Kinch
[email protected]
get involved with the planning, [email protected]
or 978-468-4415 x310.
Congratulations to Louise Cornetta who was
promoted to Program Director II. She writes,
“My job is to oversee our talk shows on the
network as well as at our five owned and operated stations. I still freelance for ESPN The
Magazine as well. I covered the Red Sox
World Series run and it was almost as much
fun as the 2004 World Series because I was
able to take it in more and just enjoy this
time.”
Kerri Goddard Kinch welcomes her second son, Edward “Teddy” Kinch. Teddy was
born on September 9, 2007. He has an older
brother, Charlie, who is two. We are still living in Hamilton, though relocating to a new
home next month. It is hard to believe, but
our 20th reunion is fast approaching this
spring! I hope to see most of you then.
Beth Levitsky married David Stracher on August 11, 2007.
Pictured above, Kristen Levitsky Godkin ’88, Sarah Harding
Glickman, Beth Levitsky Stracher and Jennifer Kneifel
Lutton smile for the Pingree group shot.
Patti Pruett is the Southeast Franchise
Director for Sports Illustrated/SI.com. She’s
been living in Atlanta, GA for almost 3 years
and absolutely loves it. Any chance she gets,
she tries to travel. In the last year, she’s been
to Southern Spain, Mexico, Dubai, Kenya
and Tanzania.
Kerry Goddard Kinch’s boys, Teddy and Charlie.
Adair Kendrick Look’s son, Jansen, visiting with Arthur
Steinert.
Kristin Orne Dean moved into her new
home in Belmont on Halloween 2007 after
418 days of renovations. She writes, “The
boys, 5 and 2, keep us incredibly busy and
they are thrilled with their new stomping
grounds.”
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Rosette Cataldo Jones
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Leigh Armstrong Hebard
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Kelli Duggan
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Will Carr sent in some vital statistics: “Still
Married, 2 kids, heavily in debt, and frequently drinking with fellow Pingree classmates.”
Mary Cahill Farella has been married for
12 years and has five children. She has
worked at WGBH for 15 years (“How did
THAT happen?”). Mary got together with
Lauren Carusi Consalazio a few months back,
and can attest that she is just as wonderful
as ever.
Sarah Orne Herring has a four-year old
son and has been married for 8 years now.
For 5 years she has owned and run a media
rep firm representing 6 Conde Nast magazines.
Jamie Jamitkowski celebrated his 5th wedding anniversary and has a four-year old
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daughter. He has been running “Undercover Wear” since his parents’ retirement. He
also owns the largest professional wrestling
school on the East Coast. He writes about
his sad career irony: “I see sweaty, overweight men in spandex 10 times as often as
I see shapely females in lingerie!”
Carrie Egan is living in San Francisco
which she says, “is great fun. I see lots of
Pingree friends in the summer in Marblehead. I have a daughter, Addie (5) and a son,
Stuart (4).”
Ned Foster is a proud “SAHD” — Stay
at Home Dad and living in Memphis, TN.
He has been married for ten years and has
two children, Dwight (4) and Emily (16
months). Ned writes, “Since we moved to
Memphis, the Patriots and Red Sox have
won championships and those few Pingree
Alumni that I see when we’re back in MA
have all agreed that I am not allowed back in
MA until the Celtics and Bruins each win a
Championship!”
Tom Winship writes, “I just moved up
the street into a home I bought in April. I
am now officially a homeowner in the Boogie Down Bronx! Not much else is new here.
I am still working in the South Bronx for the
FDNY. I even saw Kathy Mac a year or so ago
on the Deegan, going to work. Although I
don’t get to see as many sweaty men as
Jamin does, I do get to hang out in housing
projects a lot. Hope all are well, and if anyone is in the NYC area and want, to grab a
beer, feel free to drop me line.”
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Jennifer Riley Desmarais
[email protected]
Molly Northrup Bloom
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Kristyn Burtt
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Shannon Kehoe Boucher’s daughters, Kayleigh and
Brooke.
Shannon Kehoe Boucher writes, “My
husband, Pat, and I have lived in Beverly,
Massachusetts with our 2 daughters,
Kayleigh (10) and Brooke (8) for 5 years. I
recently graduated from Lesley University
with a master’s in Education and I am
currently working as a Reading Specialist at
Cove Elementary School in Beverly. Outside
of work, I am the director of the Destination
Imagination program at my daughters’
school, and coach two DI teams there. I am
enjoying teaching, being a mom, and living
back in the area! I was happy to reconnect
with some old Pingree classmates, Emily
Woodside and Matt Feldman, who are both
doing great!”
with a few Pingree alums out on the road
this year and I am happy to have the opportunity to be a Class Agent for the Class of
1990. It has been fun catching up with everyone!”
Matthew Feldman writes, “I recently
finished my PhD in Social Work at Columbia
University, and I am now directing a NIDA
(National Institute of Drug Abuse) funded
research study at the Center for HIV/AIDS
Educational Studies and Training in New
York City that is looking at the effectiveness
of an intervention to reduce drug use and
unsafe sex among young gay and bisexual
men. I also am an adjunct assistant
professor at the Columbia University School
of Social Work.”
Leslie Owens writes, “In December I’ll
be starting a new job as an analyst at Forrester Research in Cambridge.”
Andra McCallum Lurie is living in the
Washington, DC area with her husband,
Eric, and one-year-old daughter, Ava. Andra
has an independent technology consulting
practice concentrating on construction projects in Washington, DC, and New York City.
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1990 Ms. Molly M. Bloom, Ms. Kristen K.
Franklin, Mr. Carl H. Lackey 1991 Ms. Anna
Morrison Bissell, Ms. Christine R. Fisher, Ms.
Heather E. Macarty, Ms. Alicia Kramer Murphy,
Mr. Lucas D. Shelley 1992 Mrs. Elizabeth Ring
Beltran, Ms. Sarah J. Ford, Mr. Davide Gonzalez,
Mr. Jim O’Hara, Ms. Jenna Petersiel, Mr. Randy
Ward 1993 Ms. Allison Hoyt, Mr. Geoffrey T. T.
Riquier, Ms. Shelley M. Smith 1994 Ms. Alexandra
M. Corwin, Ms. Kristin E. Doherty, Mr. Mark R.
Gustavson, Ms. Cara D. O’Reilly, Dr. Jay W. Patti,
Mr. Christopher Pollak, Mr. Aaron M. Zachko
1995 Mr. Fabian G. Loschek 1997 Ms. Erica
Petersiel Chamberlin, Ms. Jesse K. Marsters, Mr.
Michael S. Tarshi 1998 Ms. Ann E. B. Matson
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Kristyn Burtt and cousin, Michael Riendeau ’98, on the
Great Wall of China in 2005.
Kristyn Burtt writes, “I have lived in Los
Angeles on and off for the past 7 years. I
work as an on camera host/spokesperson
where I am currently touring the US with
Toyota talking about alternative fuel vehicles and working on a show called Toyota
Live. My job has also allowed me to catch up
’06, my Dad was diagnosed with ALS, more
commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Since then, family and friends have made
many efforts to raise funds and create
awareness in the fight against the disease.
One of those efforts occurred last July in the
form of a bike ride from Boston to NY called
the Tri-State Trek benefiting the Cambridge,
MA nonprofit ALSTDI (www.als.net). Our
team consisted of 22 family and friends, including classmate, Donovan Wildgoose. We
raised nearly $70K. We’ll be doing the ride
again in ’08 and hope to beat last year’s fund
raising sum.” If you are interested in joining Dave and his team or donating to the
cause, please contact Dave at davevirden@
yahoo.com.
Seth Bartlett writes, “This summer my
wife, Wrenn, and I had a Pingree Alumni
kids pool party. Andy Smith ’90, Will Carr
’89, Kate Dale Payne ’90, Susie Scrymgeor
Hamilton ’90, Eliza Whitmore Denitto ’90,
Jim Brady ’90, Chilton Ames ’91, Tracy Cohen
Orloff ’91, Stephanie Cohen Curran ’91 and
Shannon Patti Yates ’91 all attended with
spouses and kids. We would have liked to
have more join the party, but 22 kids (future
Pingree Highlanders) in my parents’ pool
all at once was an interesting experience!”
Shannon Patti Yates and her family have
decided to stay in Marblehead. Her daughter, Lily, started kindergarten this year and
her son, Benjamin, is in Pre-K. She keeps
herself busy helping out with the PTO and
is enjoying spending time pursuing her interest in the culinary arts.
Tracy Cohen Orloff writes “We’ve had a
great summer boating and beaching in
Marblehead. The kids and I got to catch up
with some friends from near and far at the
pool party hosted by Wrenn and Seth Bartlett. Our family spent a week in Maine with
Shannon Patti Yates and her family in August. All our kids are the same age so we
had a blast.”
Elizabeth Emmons married Todd K.
Ulutas at the Phillips Library in Salem, MA
on June 22, 2007. The reception was held at
the Peabody Essex Museum. Alison Emmons, was Liz’s Maid of Honor, and the
groom’s father, Dincer Ulutas, was the Best
Man. Liz and Todd honeymooned for two
weeks in Hawaii. The couple will remain
living in Marblehead, MA. Congratulations
to Liz and Todd!
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Shannon Patti Yates
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Andra McCallum Lurie’s daughter, Ava.
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Fire Dept. and take a drive by Pingree for
old time’s sake.”
Jim Brady writes, “I work at a commercial real estate firm in downtown Boston
where I have been for the last ten years. I
live in Manchester, MA and have 3 kids with
my wife, Wendy; Molly (6), Hayden (4), and
Quinn (2). Recently had lunch with Jessica
Drislane who works at Mellon and talk with
Chapman Downes who is a producer at HBO
Real Sports often. I also see Alison Taylor,
Jemma Tory, Andy Smith, and Chris Wilson
from time to time who all live in the area.”
Kate Dale writes, “My husband and I are
living in Chicago at the moment. We have a
son Trevor (18 mo) and we’re on our way to
pick up his new little sister Neely (7 mo) in
China in early November 2007. In my spare
time, I’m a leadership coach and facilitator
for Proteus-International and I have my
own life coaching practice on the side. I love
what I do and also feel very fortunate that
I’ve found some balance between work and
home. We were home visiting this summer
and had a wonderful mini reunion at Seth
Bartlett’s. It was so fun to see everyone!”
Greg Kirkpatrick is getting his PhD at
Cornell in geophysics and has been happily
married for 8 years.
Kristin Tomaselli writes, “I just started a
new job a couple of months ago in Andover
at Philips Electronics North America Corp.
Flat screen anyone?? I am living in Methuen.”
Brantly Westfall writes, “I started new
job as a permanent firefighter/EMT with
the City of Larkspur, CA, also joined California Army National Guard. I just withdrew from my Bachelor degree program 8
classes short in order to concentrate on FF
probation for the year!! Bought a townhouse
in Corte Madera, CA and own the Balance
Workout (www.thebalanceworkout.com) fitness studio with my partner, Michele
Vaughan. Whenever I can get back East I
make sure to visit Skip Mullin at Hamilton
Please send news and consider joining Shannon as
a Class Agent! Being a Class Agent is a great way
to stay connected to Pingree and your classmates.
Left to Right Back Row: Sydney Hamilton, Ryan Hamilton,
Jack Curran, Grace Orloff, Kate Curran, Annabelle
Blaisdell, Emily Blaisdell, Thurston Blaisdale (children of
non-alums), Molly Brady, Lily Yates. Left to Right Second
Row: Taylor DeNitto, Izzy Cole, Benjamin Yates, Zoe Carr,
Amelia Carr, Luli Bartlett, Quinn Brady. Left to Right Kids
sitting in front: Miles Smith, Bodie Smith, Tucker Smith,
Trevor Payne (standing), Hayden Brady.”
Elizabeth Emmons and her husband, Todd Ulutas, on their
wedding day.
Dave Virden and Donovan Wildgoose team up to raise
funds for ALS.
Dave Virden is helping to fight ALS in support of his father. He writes, “In October
Pool parties are not just for kids! The “Cohen sisters” and
Seth Bartlett.
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1992
Class Agents WANTED
Please send news and consider becoming a Class
Agent! Being a Class Agent is a great way to stay
connected to Pingree and your classmates. Twice
each year we ask you to collect news for the Bulletin. For more information, please contact Laurie
Harding Polese ’84, Director of Alumni Relations
978 468-4415 x310 or [email protected].
Jack Michaud completed his Master of Science degree in Computer Science at the
University of Southern Maine, in December
2006. He is enjoying his career as a Software Engineer in Portland. Jack lives in Falmouth, Maine with his wife, Janelle, and
children Teddy (5) and Dory (2). He has also
recently started a side business as a semiprofessional photographer. He sent in this
picture of his son. “My classmates might
get a kick out of this because I’m told there
is a strong family resemblance!”
Derry Mason says, “Life is good in south
central PA! I am currently teaching
American Literature and I am the Director
of Outdoor Education at Mercersburg
Academy. My wife and I love the community
and feel fortunate to be here. The outdoor
program is a great success with multiple
programs, year-round expeditions locally
and internationally, high level climbers and
paddlers, and lots of connections to the
residential and academic facets of the
school.”
Jess Wistran son Dylan Richard Hart.
Jess Wistran has some happy news to
share. “I had a baby boy on June 23rd. His
name is Dylan Richard Hart. My husband,
Greg, and I are having so much fun with
him.”
Beth Moody Zschau announces, “Hi everyone. Here’s a pic of our new baby boy!
Jake William Zschau, 8 lbs 1 oz. He was
born on Monday, Oct. 1st and we are all doing great. Love, Elizabeth, Doug, and big
sister, Lily!”
Derry Mason.
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Kristin Bell
115 Cedar Street
Framingham, MA 01702
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Melissa Mantzoukas McAllister’s daughters, Chole and
Metea.
reunion
Melissa Mantzoukas McAllister writes,
“We are still living in Scarborough, Maine
but moved about a year ago to our new
home. My husband, Mike, and I have 2
daughters, Metea (4) and Chloe (2). They
are hilarious little kids and keep us busy to
say the least. Hope everyone is well out
there.”
Emily Davis Luongo has some big news.
On November 7, 2007 she gave birth to a 10
lb. 8 oz. healthy baby boy, Jude North Luongo! Jude, his proud sister, Elizabeth (4 ½)
and his parents are all doing great. Congratulations, Emily!
MAY 3, 2008
Stacey Dalton Cook
870 Salem Street
Groveland, MA 01834
781 334-2828
Jayne Seekins Lee
[email protected]
Samantha Drislane Markowski
[email protected]
Jack Michaud’s ’92 son, Teddy (5).
Gretchen Weber is in her second year of
teaching high school history and geography
at Convent of the Sacred Heart in San
Francisco. Gretchen writes, “The school is
an old mansion like Pingree, except that
instead of the pond and the playing fields, I
have Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge
right outside my classroom window.
Teaching is seriously making me appreciate
my high school teachers in a whole new
way. In other news, I’m getting married in
Sausalito in June.”
Caroline Smith Simms writes, “I’m still
living in Missoula, Montana with my
husband Matt. We’re both teachers — he
teaches art at a local high school and I
teach composition and technical writing at
the University of Montana. I have a student
this year who had gone to Exeter and had
great things to say about Ralph Sneeden.”
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ating marketing and access agreements
with land developers and REITs for Verizon’s fiber to the premise network. He is
also completing his MBA at Florida State
University. Eric says, “I’d love to hear from
everyone. Feel free to drop me a line at [email protected].”
Marcel Faulring writes, “My wife, Megan, and I moved to Roanoke, VA in August.
I am still a pilot for Piedmont Airlines (US
Airways Express) and Megan is a high
school history teacher in Roanoke. We plan
to stay in Roanoke for the long haul.”
Director of Alumni Relations if you would like to
org or 978 468-4415 x310.
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Allison DeNapoli Schill
[email protected]
Kate Lockwood Bracken
[email protected]
Michelle Marks Esaias
[email protected]
Christine McCarthy Lemos
[email protected]
Heather M. Fisher
[email protected]
Laura Winthrop
[email protected]
Elissa M. Torto
[email protected]
Mat Riendeau writes, “After four years overseas in Africa and Asia, my wife, Karen, and
I have returned to the states and are living
in Chicago. I make money directing and
running inner city volunteer projects while
working hard at honing my telekinetic powers in my spare time. I can eat fifty eggs.
Feel free to email at matriendeau@gmail.
com.”
Nicole Gilbert Cote shares some happy
news, “My husband, Brian, and I are thrilled
to announce the birth of our daughter, Devon Noelle Cote. She arrived on August 19th
and weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces. We currently live in South Hadley, MA and I just
finished a graduate program in psychology
at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.”
Nicole Gilbert Cote’s daughter, Devon Noelle Cote, born
August 19, 2007
Congratulations to Alex Sands on his
engagement to Lidia Rodriguez. An August
2008 wedding is planned.
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Rebecca Symmes Lee
[email protected]
Samantha Drislane Markowski and her husband, Kevin, are thrilled to announce the
arrival of Arden Hughes Markowski. She
was born on December 6, 2007 and weighed
5lbs. 1 oz. Congratulations Samantha!
J.B. Bingle lives on the North Shore and still
has yet to find a more beautiful place to settle. He has spent the last decade intensely
studying Lam Te Thien (Zen) Buddhism.
He cares deeply for the environment and
believes strongly in animal rights. He has
been a vegan and a wildlife defender for
many years. He hopes that many other
Pingree alums will use their positions of
privilege and influence to help create a better world for all species, animal and human,
and to help heal our Mother Earth. J.B. can
usually be found walking the woods, fields,
and beaches of Cape Ann where he spends
the vast majority of his time engaged in holistic wildlife tracking. He reminds us all to
“get outside and listen to the birds, because
they have so much to say.”
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Charles “Chaz” E. Crosby
[email protected]
Kasie Jacobs VanFaasen
[email protected]
Allison Charles
[email protected]
Marcel Faulring
[email protected]
Brett Freedman finished law school in May
and is currently working as an Assistant
District Attorney in Middlesex County Massachusetts.
Eric Burtt is currently living in Tampa,
FL. He works for Verizon Communications
as a Business Development Manger negoti-
Life is Good! Bill Ryan’s son, Marty.
1997
Beth Moody Zschau’s daughter, Lily and newborn son,
Jake.
1994
Samantha Drislane Markowski welcomes Arden Hughes
Markowski.
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Emily Davis Luongo’s daughter, Elizabeth, with newborn
baby, Jude.
5/3/08 REUNIONS!
’68 | ’73 | ’78 | ’83 | ’88 | ’93 | ’98 | ’03
Kasie Jacobs VanFaasen is so happy to report, “I married Bill Van Faasen on July 21,
2007 at the Sacred Heart Parish. We had an
amazing wedding reception in a tent decorated with blue hydrangeas at the Essex
County Club in Manchester-by-the Sea,
MA. Many Pingree alumni were in atten-
Alumni Notes
dance, Allison Charles ’97 (maid of honor),
Mandy Charles ’00, Brendan Greelish ’97,
Michael Tarshi ’97, Michael Tigar ’97, Elizabeth Ware Sargent ’95, and Heather Horne
Fraelick ’99. We took a fabulous honeymoon
trip to Barbados to celebrate! We now live in
Salem, MA.”
Director of Alumni Relations if you would like to
or 978 468-4415 x310.
Michael Riendeau writes, “I got my B.A. In
Music and French and lived in France and
Africa. I currently live in Chicago. I am a
resident teaching artist through Urban
Gateways. I teach private percussion
instruction at the Highland Park High
school and Washburne Middle School in
Winnetka, IL. I was a teaching artist with the
Silk Road Project through the CSO and I
performed on stage at Millennium Park
with Yo-Yo Ma. I play drums in various
groups throughout the city and am active in
a community of West African drummers
and dancers. I went to China with my
cousin, Kristyn Burtt ’90, to see my brother,
Mat ’95, in ’05, and had a good time.”
Meredith Mooers Caponigro announces, “I
recently got married September 30th in
Kennebunkport, Maine to Brian! I am
working towards my masters degree in
Nursing and still playing ice hockey. My
husband started a company, Northeast
Regional Ambulance, 2 years ago. I work
there as a paramedic and teach EMT school
to educate others on the importance of
pre-hospital emergency medicine.”
Congratulations to Kasie Jacobs VanFaasen and her
husband, Bill VanFaasen!
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Kimberly A. Baker
[email protected]
Amy E. Briggs
[email protected]
Heather Horne Fraelick
[email protected]
Walter Mears
[email protected]
Patrick R. Lee
[email protected]
Tina Wadhwa
[email protected]
Jessica Lockwood Hyde
[email protected]
Ryan Nugent
[email protected]
Alicia A. Vitagliano
[email protected]
Julie Hanlon writes, “After graduating from
Penn with a BA in Anthropology and Religious Studies, I moved to India for a year to
work and study before going on to Cambridge University in England for my masters. I received an MPhil in Archaeology
from Cambridge in 2006. I am now in the
2nd year of a PhD program in Anthropology, with a concentration in Archaeology, at
the University of Chicago. I study ancient
South Asia, particularly India, and have excavated in Rajasthan and Orissa, and will be
working in Karnataka this winter.”
Jack Moreschi’s parents sent in this update for Jack, “After graduating from The
College of Holy Cross in 2004 with a major
in Political Science and minors in Middle
Eastern and Asian Studies, Jack was commissioned an Ensign in the United States
Navy and was selected for flight school. After two years of intense academic, physical
and flight training Jack was awarded his
‘Wings of Gold’ and designated a Naval Aviator (Pilot) in July 2006 at the Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas. Jack was selected to fly the Navy’s P-3 Orion Maritime Surveillance and Special Operations aircraft
and was assigned to Patrol Squadron VP-45
in Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida.
Jack has served in El Salvador flying Counter Narcotics missions in support of a Unit-
Heather Horne Fraelick writes, “In July I took
a new position as an Account Strategist with
PerkettPR — a virtual PR firm where I’m
working from home doing tech PR. Also, we
recently moved back to Massachusetts and
are happy to be close to family and friends
again. We just returned from a recent vacation to Morgan’s Rock in Nicaragua.”
Ali Charles and Mandy Charles ’00 on the dance floor
celebrating Kasie Jacob VanFaasen’s wedding day!
Ashley Sands writes, “I am doing well
and coaching gymnastics in Beverly… I love
it!”
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reunion
Laura Coltin
[email protected]
MAY 3, 2008
Kara Tanzer
[email protected]
Heather Horne Fraelick and her husband, Richard,
vacationed in Nicaragua.
Meredith Mooers Caponigro and her husband, Brian, on
their wedding day.
Megan Cassella recently became engaged to Thomas Hand, a graduate of Governor Dummer Academy and UMASS Amherst. Megan works in Boston as a Spanish
translator and marketing writer for Health
Dialog. Thomas is a landscape architect at
Carol R Johnson Associates.
Please send news and consider joining Laura and
Kara as a Class Agent! Being a Class Agent is a
great way to stay connected to Pingree and your
classmates. Twice each year we ask you to collect
news for the Bulletin. For more information, please
contact Laurie Harding Polese ’84, Director of
Alumni Relations 978 468-4415 x310 or lpolese@
pingree.org.
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2000
Alicia Vitagliano was instated as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC)
in Massachusetts. She recently left her position as an emergency service psychiatric clinician for the Boston emergency services
team. Currently she is working as an urgent
utilization review clinician for Beacon
Health Strategies, LLC. This spring she will
be starting her Ph.D. in Media Psychology
at Fielding Graduate University.
Cassie Vitali writes, “I am working for a
local television station on the North Shore
as an on-air talent and also doing acting professionally for a comedy dinner theatre company based out of California that performs
here on the East Coast.”
Megan Cassella and her fiancé, Thomas Hand.
ed Nations sponsored program and is currently in Turkey/Italy flying missions in
support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Since
Jack could look up at the sky he always wanted to fly. He has reached that goal now. He
is currently in North Africa hunting Al Qaeda and is in his element.”
Jack Moreschi and his crew in from North Africa.
Nicole Pasciuto is excited to share that
she just received a promotion to Wine Festival Coordinator which is a yearly festival of
wine pairing dinners with winemakers or
proprietors of wineries from around the
world. She writes, “The festival is in it’s 19th
year and will take place from January until
April and include over fifty events. I have
been working very closely with the Executive Chef, Daniel Bruce of ‘Meritage’, in coordinating these upcoming events and am
thrilled to be expanding my knowledge of
wine and food. I invite all to learn more at
www.bostonwinefestival.net and I hope to
see some familiar faces here this year!”
Amy Briggs writes, “I have just finished
my Master’s program in Museum Education at Tufts University and have recently
started as the Manager of Museum Guide
and Tour Programs at the DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA.”
2001
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Cara N. Angelopulos
[email protected]
pingree.org.
2000 Ms. Kathleen E. George, Mr. Tyler M.
Prudden, Mr. Gustavo T. Rojas, Mr. Mathew J.
Santos 2001 Ms. Lindsay E. Harris, Ms. Rebecca
F. Risk 2002 Mr. Sean D. Azlin, Ms. Megan A.
Linehan, Mr. William E. Rojas, Mr. Samuel L.
Schwartz 2003 Ms. Rachel D. Harmeling 2004
Ms. Foloshade T. Bello 2006 Ms. M. Alexandrine
Claycomb
Sarah Fitzgerald
[email protected]
Class Agent WANTED
Recently she visited Kara Burke in Portland
and spent a long weekend with friends at
the beach in San Diego.
Allison Cassidy is also on the west coast,
living in Sacramento, CA where she works
as a Clinical Research Coordinator in the
Ophthalmology department at the University of California, Davis Medical Center.
She is currently applying to medical school
and hopes to start in the fall of 2008.
Sarah Fitzgerald is working at Arnold
Worldwide’s Boston office in the New Business department. She is a part of the pitch
team that tries to win new clients. Sarah ran
into Tova Kaplan in the elevator recently — a
new addition to Arnold!
Elsbeth Taft is living in Brighton, MA and
working as a seventh grade social studies
teacher in Shrewsbury, MA. It is her first
year on her own; she did an internship last
year in a seventh grade classroom in Dover,
NH as work for her masters degree.
Dave Coates wrote from a hotel room in
Cleveland, OH, while watching the Red Sox
take on the Indians — an ironic place to
have to travel for work! Dave shared the
exciting news that he got married this
summer — the wedding was in Small Point,
ME where he met his wife, Sophie. The
newlyweds have settled in Baltimore, MD.
Dave is still working for Northrop
Grumman in Annapolis while taking classes
at John’s Hopkins for his masters degree.
Sophie works for the Baltimore City
Teaching Residency; they hire teachers from
non-traditional (doctor, lawyer, engineer,
just out of school, etc.) backgrounds to
teach in the high need Baltimore City
schools.
Jennifer Bertolon is living in Washington, D.C. and is working as a staff accountant for the Washington Nationals Baseball
Team.
Cara Angelopulos is working in Harvard’s Alumni Affairs and Development
Office in Cambridge, MA. She oversees the
senior class gift campaign, undergraduate
programs of the Harvard College Fund,
and student group fundraising. She recently attended Ryan Nugent ’00’s wedding, celebrating the special occasion with
Mat Santos ’00, Paul Knight ’00, Gretchen
Knight, Chris Fusco ’00, Chuck Manning
’00, Tyler Prudden ’00, and Caitlin DoranSerafino ’00.
Kristin Hibner is living in Phoenix, AZ and
is the Regional Sales Manager for Lutron
Electronics. She covers sixteen states and
has enjoyed exploring the west coast cities.
Alumni Notes
Ryan Serhant ’02
Pingree Alumni celebrate Ryan Nugent’s wedding: left to
right are: Tyler Prudden ’00, Cara Angelopolous ’01, Paul
Knight ’00, Chris Fusco ’00, Caitlin Doran ’00, Ryan, Mat
Santos ’00, Gretchen Knight ’01, and Chuck Manning ’00.
Adeline (Addie) Lutts is employed at the
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in the conservation department. Her expertise is gilding and restoring frames and furniture.
She’s taking classes in woodworking at the
North Bennet Street School and living in
the Fort Point area of Boston.
2002
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Zacharay B. Chase
[email protected]
Justin J. Parker
[email protected]
Elizabeth L. Reichert
[email protected]
Jessica A. Seymour
[email protected]
Katie Healey, Caitlin Connolly, Elizabeth
Reichert, her brother Alexander Reichert’07,
and P.J. Yasi ’07 all rode in the Pan Mass
Challenge this summer in support of their
family and friends who have been affected
by cancer. It was a two-day 196-mile bike
ride to raise money for the Dana Farber Jimmy Fund.
Elizabeth Reichert and Alexander Reichert ’07 after the
Pan Mass Challenge.
Jessica Seymour is in her second year
teaching Spanish at Savannah Country Day
school and coaching soccer.
Sam Seymour is working at a medical
research lab and applying to medical
schools.
Aaron Nossiff graduated from Bates
College in May with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.
Brian Zinn is working at Fidelity Investments as a Retirement Investment Specialist. In his position, Brian provides guidance
to employees of non-profits including hospitals, schools and charity organizations.
2003
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Keri A. Barrett
[email protected]
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As for any advice Ryan can give to
current Pingree students looking to
pursue a career in the arts, he says,
“If it’s something that you really love
doing, something you can’t imagine
going without, go for it. Take the
wonderful values you learn at Pingree
and apply them! No one is special in
this industry, you have to self-motivate.
Acting is the only thing I ever found
personally rewarding, therefore, I had to
take the leap. I’m glad I did!”
MAY 3, 2008
J. Bradford Currier
[email protected]
Kate L. Hoenigsberg
[email protected]
or 978 468-4415 x310.
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Ryan says his dad is his personal hero.
He taught him to “work as hard as
possible.”
reunion
Michael P. Meyer
[email protected]
Katie Healey and Caitlin Connolly complete the Pan Mass
Challenge.
When Ryan Serhant graduated Pingree
School, becoming a television star was
certainly a wonderful dream, but the
reality is much sweeter. Ryan went on
to Hamilton College where he doubled
majored in English Literature and
Theatre, and he credits Pingree theatre
director Lynn Weltler for encouraging
him to pursue theatre in college. After
his graduation in May of 2006, Ryan
quickly moved to New York City. Since
living in New York, Ryan has found
success on a reality show, as well as an
Off-Broadway production called Purple
Hearts, but his biggest break came this
fall with a contract on the hit soap opera
As the World Turns. Ryan plays Evan
Walsh IV, a young, hotshot, biochemist.
Brad Currier graduated summa cum laude
from Boston University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. Brad
was awarded the College Prize for excellence in political science and as the student
speaker at that department’s graduation
ceremony. He was also inducted into the
Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society, the
Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science
Honor Society, and named a 2007 Junior
Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Brad is now settling
down in Washington D.C., where he has
been selected a George Washington University Law School Presidential Merit Scholar.
Holly O’Donohue writes about her
experiences with Pingree’s Prep@Pingree
program and her teaching career. “Six
summers ago, Prep@Pingree rerouted my
life permanently. Perhaps that is a bold
statement with which to begin these
thoughts but it’s the truth. I write this now
as a faculty member at The Governor’s
Academy. I teach math, coach ice hockey
and soccer, supervise students in the dorm
and advise 6 young women. Were it not for
the opportunity to learn the art of teaching
Prep@Pingree afforded me, I would have
never found myself in this place or in such a
personally rewarding profession for me.
Teaching has been a thrill for me since day
one in the classroom. Working with Prep@
Pingree’s hardworking and dedicated
students, staff and teachers gave me the
time to witness and live what true teaching
and learning is all about. I’ve heard over the
past 6 years that Prep@Pingree breaks
down walls and opens up doors for its
students. I can add, without question, that
the same statement is true for Prep@
Pingree staff.
I’ve matured considerably as a student,
teacher, and person through my
experiences with Prep@Pingree. I’ve
witnessed the evolution of the program and
made my best effort to keep pace with its
growth. Prep@Pingree students challenge
me every summer to come to class fully
engaged and committed to learning by
demonstrating these qualities day in and
day out. Their enthusiasm and openminded approach to education is truly an
inspiration. I have been privileged to work
with such wonderful people and I look
forward to seeing what’s in store next for
Prep@Pingree.”
Bridget Keown graduated cum laude
from Smith College this May with a double
major in History and Russian Literature
and Language. She was named to the Dean’s
List, as well as to the list of First Group
Scholars, ranking her among the top ten
percent of her class for grade-point average
and academic achievement, as well as receiving High Honors in History for her
honors thesis, entitled: “Imperial Insanity:
The Role of Imperial Ideology in the Treatment and Understanding of Shell-Shock in
the First World War”. While at Smith, Bridget founded the Smith Repertory Theater
Company and directed five of the group’s
shows, all of which received high praise
from the Smith Sophian and the Northampton community. She was also active in the
Smith College Glee Club, with whom she
performed Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at
Carnegie Hall in the spring of 2005, and
the Smith College Department of Residence
Life, serving as a House Community Advisor and Head Resident in two houses on
campus. During her junior year, Bridget
spent a semester at King’s College, London,
where she was enrolled in the War Studies
and History departments looking at the influence of imperialism on the armies of various combatant nations in the First World
War. The following summer, she worked as
an archivist at the Imperial War Museum in
London, working the Department of Documents to preserve and catalogue newly-ac-
quired letters, diaries and personal papers
related to the First and Second World Wars.
Following graduation, Bridget was accepted to the King’s College History Department as a master’s student in Imperial and
Commonwealth History, for the 2008–9
academic year. In the interim, she is working at Harvard University in Houghton Library, spending her mornings in the main
stacks, which house the most important collections of American manuscripts and rare
books and her afternoons in the Houghton
Theater Collections, where she is helping
with a massive re-cataloging process that
will make the extensive collection of objects
and papers in this department more accessible to researchers and the interested public. She is also working part-time at Harvard
Law School as a document-controller in the
capital projects office. Following her upcoming year in England, Bridget hopes to
return to the States to pursue a degree in
archival science and thereafter her doctorate in History, hoping to remain in the
world of books and military history for as
long as possible.
Keri Barrett opened a clothing and accessories boutique in Andover, MA with her
sister. Keri writes, “We had a Grand Opening Party for our boutique ‘First Date’ and
there was a great turnout from Pingree
alumni including Ryan Hendrickson, Jay
Henderson, Kate Whitney ’02, Cassandra Leone, Irene Farnham, and Kate Hoeignsberg
as well as some Pingree alum parents including the Belhumeur’s, the Barrett’s, the
Leone’s, Mrs. Whitney, and Mrs. Farnham.
Many Pingree people have stopped by the
store including Dana Swartz and her mother, Mrs. Caselden and her daughter Gina
’08, who is a senior at Pingree, and Rachel
Harmeling has stopped in several times. We
had a ‘Bunny and Chad’ trunk show on December 3rd. Bunny and Chad are totes and
clutches that we sell at First Date and the
designer of these pretty preppy bags is Rebecca Ryan ’97.”
Tom and Cynthia Belheumer P ’04, ’06 join the festivities
at Keri Barrett’s opening celebration.
Alyssa Bertolon is completing her final year
at the University of Richmond, with a
Spanish major and a double minor in
education and business. She will be student
teaching this spring.
Colin Davis led a three month, 4,000
mile bicycle ride from Boston to San Francisco this summer for a Sustainable Future.
The goal of the ride and the accompanying
documentary is to raise awareness that
greenhouse gas emissions and their link to
climate change are a serious threat, and to
highlight what innovative individuals and
businesses are doing to curb them while investing in a cleaner future. Colin explains,
“Climate change is a serious issue, but I
also see it as an opportunity for us to take a
fresh look at the way we do business. I hope
that by educating others about practical
ways that they can implement green technology and increase efficiency in their
homes and businesses, we can motivate efforts toward a more sustainable society.” For
more information, visit www.ridetosustain.
com
Pingree Alumni celebrate with Keri Barrett at the opening
of her boutique, “First Date!”
Diana Stapinski graduated from Colby College in May.
Alumni Notes
Diana Stapinski graduated from Colby
College in May with cum laude honors and
a double major in Economics and distinction in Spanish. She spent a semester abroad
her junior year at the University of Salamanca in Spain. Diana has accepted a position as a consultant for IBM out of the Fairfax, Virginia office and is living in Arlington, VA.
Price Williams graduated from Union
College this spring with BA in mechanical
engineering. Price was a Dean’s List student, president of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity
and senior member of the College’s Society
of Automotive Engineers Mini Baja team,
which designs, builds and drives a race car
in intercollegiate competition. He was elected to Sigma Xi, the national scientific research honor society. Price presented his research, “Development of drag reducing boat
tail plates for use on tractor trailers” at
Union’s annual Steinmetz Symposium, an
exposition of student creative, scholarly and
research achievement. He has accepted a
position as a mechanical engineer at Raytheon Corp. in Tewksbury, MA where he
worked as an engineering and management
intern last summer.
Dane Cunningham graduated from
Bates College in May with a B.A. in theater.
In 2005, Dane played the role of Hortensio
in the theater department’s production of
“Taming of the Shrew.” In 2006, he participated in the production of “The Skin of our
Teeth.” He received the 2007 Senseny Memorial Award, which recognizes his creativity and promise in the dramatic arts.
2004
C lass A gents
Morgan R.H. Baird
[email protected]
Chloe Lutts in Beijing.
Chloe Lutts spent the spring semester
of her junior year in China, studying at the
Beijing School of Foreign Studies. She
wrote a blog about her trip at chloelutts.
com, which she has continued now that
she’s home, writing commentary on world
affairs. Now she’s back at Brown University
for her senior year, majoring in International Relations.
Julia Stahl is now in her senior year at
Hamilton, majoring in history and organizing her research for her history thesis. She
got a start on some of this research when
she landed a Levitt Grant this past summer;
research efforts took her digging into the
National Archives. Last year, Julia enjoyed
spring semester abroad in Edinburgh, possibly made better by the fact that Ira Baci
was doing her semester abroad there as
well. Julia has enjoyed singing with the
Hamilton Choir which included a European
tour freshman year.
Harry Bane is loving Middlebury where
he is finishing his junior year after starting
post Pingree in February. He is an economics major, and was named captain of the golf
team, where he was just named First Team
NESCAC for the third consecutive year. He
spent this summer at the Tuck Bridge Program at Dartmouth.
2005
Jacob J. Marvelley
[email protected]
C lass A gents
Henrick F. Lampert
[email protected]
Elizabeth F. O’Hare
[email protected]
Johnna E. Marcus
[email protected]
Nicholas N. Pratt
[email protected]
Jenny Ha graduated from George Washington University in May of 2007 and is currently in Seoul, Korea studying for her LSAT’s.
She is also working at the Korean consulate
and planning to return to the states to attend
law school as soon as possible.
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Please consider joining Henrick and Johnna as a
Brian Zapert writes, “I’m studying abroad in
Madrid at the moment, living up the good
Spanish life. I recently traveled to Amsterdam, Heidelberg, Paris, Geneva, Toulousse,
and Barcelona. Me encanta la vida española.”
Andrew Orenberg is currently a junior
at Emory and just started his first semester
at the Goizueta Business School. He writes,
“As of now, I’m planning on getting a BBA
with a focus in Marketing and Finance. I’m
also close to completing my music minor.
I’m in a coed a cappella group here called
AHANA A Cappella and we sing primarily
R&B music. This is my second year in the
group and it has been a blast so far. I’ve also
sung in the University Chorus for 2 semesters and am in it for a third semester this
fall. This past summer I interned at American Greetings in Cleveland, Ohio. I worked
in their product management department
for alternative cards, in which I helped to
manage the different card lines and came
up with long term ideas to help improve the
Jewish card line. I’m hoping to find an internship in either consulting or finance for
the upcoming summer and I would like it to
be either in Atlanta or Boston. I’ve really
loved college so far and I’ve made some
wonderful friendships that I hope will last
for the rest of my life. The experiences I’ve
had and the lessons I’ve learned are irreplaceable and I can’t wait to see what’s in
store for me in the next 2 years.”
Haley Bane is in her junior year and is
in the hotel school at Cornell. She spent last
summer in NYC doing two internships in
special events for a corporate showroom,
and in marketing for an internet publishing
company. At Cornell she has started a women’s golf program, and is hoping to achieve
varsity status in 2008.
Johnna Marcus sends a big “Hello to all
in the Pingree Community! I am really enjoying Emerson College this semester! I
have just gotten my own apartment in the
city and love being out of dormitory life. I
am taking some really interesting classes
including ‘Professional Voice and Speech’,
‘American Sign Language’ and ‘Conflict
and Negotiation’. As always, I wish the
Pingree community all the best and I hope
to stop by and say hello sometime soon.”
Kate Seymour is finishing up her 5
month study abroad in New Zealand and
has been having an amazing time traveling
around and seeing the country! She writes,
“I highly suggest that everyone takes a trip
there sometime in their life. It is impossible
to be bored when you’ve got hiking, skiing,
bungee jumping, sailing, and so much
more right at your finger tips. I will miss it
all, but I cannot wait to get back home to see
my family and friends and relax before
heading back to Denver! I hope everyone is
doing well and wish you all a happy holiday
season!”
Kate Seymore studied abroad in New Zealand.
Abbey Evans writes, “I have been having a wonderful time in college this year.
I’m an anthropology major at American
University, but I’m currently in the middle
of my study abroad in Australia and loving
it. Although I have yet to see a kangaroo, the
experience has been one-in-a-million. The
people here are so nice and I’m learning
how to play Australian Rules Football,
which is a combination of rugby and soccer.
I don’t want to leave! After Australia, I’m doing another study abroad, this time in Scotland. I’ll be studying at the University of Edinburgh and learning all about Scottish culture. It should be a great time! My email is
[email protected].”
John Bertolon is a sophomore in the
Carroll School of Management at BC majoring in finance with a minor in Spanish.
Christinah Barnett spent the summer
attending primatology field school in the
rainforest of Costa Rica. She writes, “Now
I’m spending the fall semester studying
abroad in Ankara, Turkey and the spring semester abroad in Prague, Czech Republic.
My concentrations are anthropology and
studio art double major with a minor in art
history.”
Katie Ventimiglia spent last summer in
Saratoga Springs, N.Y. where she worked as
a production intern with the Lake George
Opera Company and with Studio Arts Entertainment. During fall semester, Katie
participated in the IES Dublin Theater Performance Program where she took courses
at the Gaiety School of Acting.
Page Riley is spending her fall semester
in Copenhagen, Denmark attending the
Denmark International Studies Program
(DIS). She is living with a wonderful host
family and having a great time with the program and traveling throughout Europe. On
the first day that Page was in Copenhagen
she attended orientation for the program
and ran into Caroline Kilpatrick. Caroline is a
junior at Colorado College and also studying at DIS for the semester.
Danny Hamel writes, “All is well with
me. This summer I was an instructor for
White Pine Programs, and nature-based education and survival skills school in Maine.
I worked to develop a curriculum on the
natural world for the Museum of Science to
use with high schools. This fall semester I
am attending a wilderness skills/survival
school in upstate New York, and I’ll be
spending the spring semester in New Zealand.”
Kate Carnevale is studying elementary
education at Boston College and planning
to teach 3rd grade. She says she is really
looking forward to it!
Dennis Fantone writes, “I had an enjoyable summer. The highlights were being in
a bowling league with fellow Pingree alums
Thomas Smeallie ’05, Will Fischer ’06 and
Eli Marcus ’06 as well as Andrew Smeallie
’09. Also I participated in a Women’s over
40 soccer league where I competed with
some pretty intense women and also
Pingree alum Martha Lyness Smeallie ’78,
P’05, ’09 and Angela Smeallie and some
other very fine ladies.”
I’ve been busy playing on the BC women’s
club soccer team, and coaching soccer at
Newton Country Day. I am really enjoying
working in the school environment, and
also getting to reconnect with Pingree
through the EIL! I am a Human
Development major in the Lynch School of
Education at BC, which I absolutely love.
The mission of the Lynch School is to
improve the human condition through
education, a goal which is pursued through
excellence and ethics in teaching, research
and service. The underlying aspect that
brings this all together is the aspiration to
enhance the human condition, imagination,
and to make the world more just. I have
found that all of my classes incorporate this
social justice ideal into the course work,
which makes it truly engrained within the
students. The School of Ed here is a tight
knit community that in a sense reminds me
of Pingree, and I am thankful to be a part of
it!”
Kip Lange is going to Barcelona to study
for the spring semester.
Thomas Smeallie has been helping out
with the Special Olympics soccer program.
Athletes from Brighton come to a field near
BC every Tuesday and student volunteers
from BC put on a practice. At the end of the
season they have a big tournament at The
Governor’s Academy.
Henrik Lampert has transferred from
the University of Denver to University of
Colorado at Boulder and loves it. He says,
“My classes are really fun, and I’m playing
intramural hockey and dodge ball during
the week.”
Morgan Atkins writes, “I’m currently in my
third year of the education program at
UVM, and I am really enjoying it! I have
started a portion of my student teaching
this semester in a third and fourth grade
combination class at Edmunds Elementary
school in downtown Burlington, and truly
love the experience. The education classes
here have been extremely helpful, and I am
anxious to be in the elementary classroom
full time during my senior year.”
Dennis Fantone warming up for a big match at Soccer Etc.
Caroline Kenerson says, “Everything is great
at BC! I am preparing now to study abroad
in Madrid this spring, which I can’t wait for.
Alumni Notes
2006
says, “I see a lot of Jill Wexler. This past
summer I traveled to South Africa and volunteered at an AIDS clinic, something I’m
hoping to do again next summer.”
C lass A gents
Sam Logan
[email protected]
Jill Cappucci
[email protected]
Andrew Vassallo
[email protected]
W elc o me new class A gent !
Kathleen Whalen
[email protected]
Emily Somach’s school has a program
where students can teach staff members of
the school how to do certain things. She
writes, “I taught two women, one
housekeeper and one copy center
employee, how to use the internet and
Microsoft Word. It was a really great
experience, and I’m going to be teaching
some new staff members this semester,
and then I might even co-teach the class the
semester after.”
Chrissy Cronin writes, “I’m majoring in
Sport Management at Syracuse, and I did
an internship with the New England Riptide this past summer, which is a professional women’s fast-pitch softball team. I’m
also part of a student management team at
school working for the company SyracuseSteiner Collectibles which is being launched
this year. I’m also a member of the Sport
Management Club, which puts on an annual charity auction in the spring. Last year
our speaker was Bill Walton and this year
will (hopefully) be Donovan McNabb.”
Alex Geiger writes, “I’m at Dickinson
College with an art history major and philosophy minor. I’m planning to go to St. Andrew’s University in Scotland next year if I
can get in. I’m on the equestrian team at my
school. I also joined a sorority, Kappa Alpha
Theta. This past summer I rode, worked at
an antique bookstore and babysat for an
awesome British family.”
Drew Bishop sent some news about herself and Caroline Seamans, “We are rooming
together at St. Lawrence in an upper classroom dorm on campus and loving sophmore
year. I am majoring in sociology while Caroline is majoring in psychology. For our fall
break we both went out to Colorado to visit
Kyle for the weekend. CC is the perfect place
for him, a small liberal arts college in the
middle of the beautiful mountains. It was a
great change of scenery for us!”
Nicole Panico is a freshman at Amherst
College this year and I’m loving it so far. She
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Heather McLeod has a double major in
elementary education and communications
at Boston College. She writes, “I made first
tier dean’s list. This semester, I am student
teaching (my pre-practicum) in a second
grade classroom in Brookline at St. Mary of
the Assumption School. I have the
opportunity to make and teach lessons and
also conduct read aloud interventions with
an ELL student (English Language Learner).
I am reading with a little girl, who is
adopted from China. In the fall of my junior
year, I hope to be teaching abroad in
Australia! For Halloween, some other
Pingree alums, Thomas Smeallie ’05,
Dennis Fantone ’05, Kip Lange ’05, my
roomie, and I had a quality team costume,
‘The Rugrats’.”
Sam Brakeley is a sophomore at Colby.
He is playing Club Rugby this season and
having a ball! He is studying Enviromental
Sciences and will be hiking the Appalachian Trail beginning this February and
completing the trek in August 2008.
Sam Brakeley and his rugby team at Colby.
Dillon ’08 and Andrew Vassallo with their younger brother,
James.
Andy Vassallo enjoyed his first year at
the University of Richmond. He was named
to the Dean’s List and inducted into the Phi
Beta Eta Honor Society for freshmen who
have a cumulative grade-point average of 3.5
or above and rank in the top 20% of their
class. In May he was selected as a Book
Award recipient by the Art History depart-
ment. He entered the Robbins School of
Business this fall at Richmond as a Business major with a minor in Art History.
Andy is playing again this year on the Richmond Club Baseball Team as pitcher/shortstop and is the facilities manager for the
team. He also plays on an intramural soccer
team and will be coaching a City of Richmond youth basketball team with his roommate this winter. Andy and his brother, Dillon ’08, spent the summer together working
as launch operators at the Sandy Bay Yacht
Club in Rockport and keeping an eye on
their younger brother, James. James sails in
the sailing program at SBYC with his favorite instructor, Alex Levin ’07!
Toni Balzotti is pursuing a major in
communications and thinking of transferring to UCLA. She writes, “I interned first
semester at a movie production company as
an assistant to Jon Voight and I learned a lot
about the movie industry… basically it is not
for me! Now I am interning at a PR company that reps some of my favorite fashion labels and working at a boutique in Beverly
Hills. I think about everyone at home all the
time even if I don’t always keep in touch!
Heather, Lauren, and Zach have come to visit and I was so happy to see them! No matter
how many great people I meet out here, they
don’t know the old stories and memories
that keep you smiling! Nothing compares to
old friends!”
Emma Laing writes, “I’m currently a
double major in theatre and philosophy at
New England College. I made the Dean’s
List last year and this year I’m stage managing the main stage production at school. I
bartended in Boston all summer and I have
a book published now! It’s a collection of poetry called ‘A Beautiful Hallucination’ and it
is available on Amazon.com and BarnesNoble.com. It’s also currently in stores in the
Midwest. I’m especially busy since I plan on
graduating in 3 ½ years rather than 4.
Venetia Lowell writes, “I love Babson
this year and thankful to be back in MA after living in NYC for the summer. I’m putting my Pingree tour guide skills to work
here by joining the Admissions Assistant
Program.”
Dan Morgan is playing for the UMASS
Rugby Football Club. He’s been working
out and says, “Everyone should see how
jacked and tan I am!”
Hugh Harriss, “Hey, school is going
great. I’m Pledging Phi Sig at Gettysburg
right now. I’ll be at the same fraternity as
Sam Mathey ’04. I am majoring in Globalization Studies and Spanish and hopefully
studying in Madrid with Calder Zwerling
and Edwin Guerrero next year.”
Chris Novotny is majoring in Environment Design with an emphasis in architecture and design studies. He is looking to
study abroad next year, or possibly take the
year off. Chris says, “I’m living the good life
in colorful Colorado with Nick Corvinus and
Will Fischer. I’ve started promoting for a local venue, so I am getting to see a lot of live
music.”
Emilie Winslow is taking a year off from
school. She writes, “I am in the middle of a
NOLS semester in the Rockies, doing backpacking, whitewater canoeing, climbing
and canyoning and then I am heading to Patagonia in the spring for about three
months.”
Calder Zwerling says, “Syracuse is good.
I’m still not 100 percent sure of my major.
I’m going abroad probably to Madrid with
the Brit (Hugh Harriss).”
Juliet Jacobs writes, “I’m at Fairfield
majoring in marketing, minor in Spanish.
I’m living in a sweet dorm that basically
runs my life… volunteering in Bridgeport,
Connecticut at a literacy center with the cutest kids in the world… teaching freshmen
about surviving college… absolutely loving
school and planning to go abroad to Nicaragua or Spain next year.”
Eli Markos say, “Hi. I’m in my second
year at Syracuse studying communications
and rhetorical studies. I am also playing for
the club rugby team and enjoying it.”
Kathleen Whalen is a Biology major with
a Mathematics minor and plans to attend
veterinary school after Colby. She writes, “I
am going to study aboard probably in Australia next year to study marine biology, and
hopefully at the same university as Heather
McLeod if things work out.”
information, please contact Laurie Harding Polese
’84, Director of Alumni Relations 978 468-4415
x310 or [email protected].
raise money for the Dana Farber Jimmy
Fund.
Alexander Reichert has had a great start
at Claremont McKenna College enjoying
his new friends, professors, classes and of
course the weather. He is volunteering in
the Admissions Office, was selected to work
as a research analyst at the Financial-Economic Institute and is playing on the Club
Lacrosse team.
Sarah Williamson Outback.
Sarah Williamson spent 3 weeks this past
summer touring Australia participating in
a research program on giant mantas in Exmouth, WA with the St. Mary’s Anglican
Girls’ School (Perth). Sarah is wasting no
time getting involved in activities at Georgetown. As a freshman, she was selected to
the governing board of “On the Docket” –
The Supreme Court Society of Georgetown
University, and she is writing for the
Georgetown Voice. “On the Docket” is established in order to promote an understanding of the constitutional legal system
primarily through attendance at Supreme
Court hearings and discussion of the history and merits of relevant cases currently before the Court. Email: spw27@georgetown.
edu
2007
SEVERAL Class Agents wanted
Chances are the alumni news section is the first
place you will look when you receive a Pingree bulletin. Please consider becoming a Class Agent! Being a Class Agent is a great way to stay connected
to Pingree and your classmates. Twice each year we
ask you to collect news for the Bulletin. For more
P.J. Yasi and Alexander Reichert complete the Pan Mass
Challenge.
P.J. Yasi, Alexander Reichert, Elizabeth
Reichert ’02, Katie Healey ’02, and Caitlin
Connolly ’02 all rode in the Pan Mass Challenge this summer in support of their family and friends who have been affected by
cancer. It was a two-day 196 bike ride to
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Profile
Written by Samantha Drislane Markowski ’93
in memoriam
Alumni
Edward (Ned) P. Roberts
Heidi L. Schulz ’80
Monsieur Marcel LeFlem
Edward (Ned) P. Roberts formerly of Wenham,
husband of Alice Jaques Roberts, died at
Brooksby Village, Peabody, on November 2,
2007, at the age of 90. In addition to his wife, he
is survived by his daughters Alice and her
husband Curtiss Dietrich ’68 of Boston, Polly
and her husband Rex Swain of Washington, CT,
and sons Edward, Jr. and his wife Susie of
Dedham, William of Steamboat Springs, CO,
and Joseph and his wife Angela of Wenham, and
a grandson, Edward, III and his wife Michelle of
Tampa, FL. He is also survived by several nieces
and nephews who were endlessly amused by the
antics of Uncle Neddy. A 1939 graduate of
Harvard College, Edward “Ned” Roberts’
business career spanned textiles, banking, and
transportation. He was a founding trustee and
treasurer of Pingree School in Hamilton, trustee
of the Wenham Museum, past chairman of the
Greater North Shore United Way, and past
president of the Massachusetts Society for
Promoting Agriculture. He was a longtime
member of the AD Club, Myopia Hunt Club,
India Wharf Rats, and the Tavern Club.
Contributions may be made to the Massachusetts
Society for Promoting Agriculture, c/o Mr. R.T.
Hall, 22 Proctor St., Manchester, MA 01944.
Heidi Luise Schulz, 45, of Newburyport died
peacefully Saturday, September 29, 2007 at
Massachusetts General Hospital with her family
at her bedside. Heidi, the daughter of Hans and
Margita Schulz of West Newbury, was born
March 4, 1962, in Quincy, MA. She grew up in
Newburyport and West Newbury. She was a
1980 graduate of Pingree School and earned her
bachelor of arts degree from Bennington College
in 1984, and a master’s degree in comparative
literature from Brown University in 1990.
She excelled in writing, languages, literature and
art. She was an empathetic, supportive and
loving friend, sister and daughter, and a
nurturing mother to her two children Tess and
Owen. She was a gourmet in the kitchen and an
artist in the garden.
For the last two and a half years of her life,
Heidi struggled with cancer. She fought fiercely.
Heidi refused to let her illness define her, and
her courage in the face of an uncertain future
was impossible to ignore. It was one more thing
to admire about her.
Heidi is survived by her parents; her children,
Tess and Owen Matthews; her sister and her
sister’s husband Maria and Marc Ralston of
Roslindale, MA.; her brother Michael Schulz
and his wife Marie Mahaer of Placitas, NM; her
brother Hans Schulz and his wife Christine
Morris of Windham, NH.; her brother Julian
Schulz of Malden, MA; the father of her children
James Matthews of Jamaica Plain, MA; her
nieces Kate, Lindsay, Emma and Iris Schulz, and
Isabel Ralston; her nephews Jesse Schultz and
Jake Ralston; and her companion Michael
Updike of Newburyport.
Donations in Heidi’s memory may be made to
the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center,
55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114; or to the
American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 22718,
Oklahoma City, OK 73123-1718.
“En souvenir de Monsieur LeFlem, ancien
professeur de français à Pingree “
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Monsieur Marcel LeFlem died on
June 1, 2006 after a short illness. Hired
by Pingree’s first Headmaster Robin
Rogers, Monsieur LeFlem was a beloved
French teacher at Pingree from 1967 –
1987 and served as Department Chair of
Foreign Languages. He retired in 1987
and moved to Pampano Beach, Florida
with his wife Rita. Monsieur LeFlem
leaves behind his wife, a son, a daughter
and five grandchildren.
Amy Singleton Adams ’82
Driving onto the campus of
the College of the Holy
Cross on a beautiful September morning, I anticipate meeting Amy Singleton Adams ’82, an Associate Professor of Russian
Literature, author, researcher and mom. I expected to
meet a fast paced, high
powered, possibly aloof,
scholar, but the woman
who greeted me warmly
and spoke of her fondness
for Pingree School, her love
of teaching and her devotion to her family was alto- Amy Singleton Adams, Associate Professor of Russian Department of
Modern Languages and Literature, College of the Holy Cross
gether different.
Adams, who looks as
greatest and most valuable asset. There’s
youthful as some of the senior girls walksuch a feeling of mutual respect in the
ing the halls at Pingree, says her time at
classroom that students can’t help but
Pingree was the best four years of her
feel encouraged to perform beyond their
life. “I made some of my best friends
own expectations. Ailsa Steinert’s apthere, and our families still get together
proach towards literature was sophistias often as we can.” Amy talked about
cated for the high school level, but we
some of her extra-curricular activities at
rose to the challenge; we couldn’t help
Pingree as opportunities to try new
but catch Francie Caudill’s enthusiasm
things and take risks. “I was on the first
for the natural sciences.”
cross country ski team with Coach Bill
I asked Amy when she first became
Reagan; we were his ‘Bad News Bears.’
interested in Russia and its language.
Part of our training was carrying each
“I’ve always loved languages, and I think
other on our backs up the back stairway.
I got interested in Russia when I was
We had a good time!” Amy also fondly
only about six years old. I loved watching
recalls music teacher Nancy Kennedy.
the Russian gymnasts, the ballet, and
“She organized the glee club and the
Dr. Zhivago. Funny how a childhood
plays and had an amazing knack for getpassion can turn into a career.”
ting all the boys to participate.”
Amy loves teaching at the college level
When I asked Amy about her experibecause, she says, “you can teach what
ence with academics at Pingree she had
you’re thinking about in your own rethis to say: “The faculty at Pingree is its
search.” When asked about her language
teaching style, Adams credits yet another
Pingree teacher. “The way Marcel LeFlem
taught French influences how I teach
Russian language. He focused on understanding, teaching grammar by modeling
it, not by discussing it. I still remember
his unforgettable World War II stories, although I heard them only in French. I use
a communicative approach, based on the
same belief that communicating is the
primary goal of language. There is no
English spoken in my class. I use things
like posters, PowerPoint, and even my
kids’ toys to teach. Recently, I’ve incorporated music into my language classes so
students can sing vocabulary and grammar without needing to discuss it. One favorite is the Russian version of ‘Head,
Shoulders, Knees, and Toes!’”
On the topic of family, Amy’s warm
smile broadens, “It’s a juggling act being
a working mom, and I really depend on
the flexibility that’s built into my job. Because of my field, my boys are aware that
there are people in the world with different languages and traditions. They even
know some Russian! As far as schedules
go, we try to keep things simple, focusing on family activities that let them explore things like nature, art, and sports.
Simplicity is the hardest goal I’ve ever
set, but it keeps us grounded and focused
on the important things.”
Amy is currently in the process of
writing a second book, “Mothers and
Sons: Christian Myth and Social Protest in
Soviet Era Literature.” Her first, “Noplace
Like Home,” published in 1997 under her
maiden name, Amy C. Singleton, can be
found in the Pingree School Library.
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