Class Note 1980
Issue
July-August 2022
Paula Holmes-Eber and her husband, Lorenz Eber, announce the release of their new book, Breathtaking: How One Family Cycled Around the World for Clean Air and Asthma, a fascinating epic recounting their family cycling trip around the world on two tandem bicycles. Their journey raised awareness and funding to support sufferers of asthma and other respiratory diseases. For more information on the book, contact Paula’s publisher, Maura Cahill ’20, at mcahill@rowman.com.
Mike Wall and his wife, Suzanne, may not have cycled around the world, but they too completed an impressive journey. For their wedding anniversary in February these two Minnesotans booked a weeklong Nordic ski trip on the Appalachian Mountain Club lodge-to-lodge trails through the wilderness of northern Maine. The first day of their trip required them to plow through 10 inches of fresh snow for more than six hours, which Suzanne described as “Type 2 fun,” meaning, “not fun when you are experiencing it, yet fun to talk about later.”
Emily Katz Anhalt reports that she is still living in Guilford, Connecticut, and teaching classical languages and literature at Sarah Lawrence College. Her most recent book is Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny (Stanford University Press, 2021), which “argues that Ancient Greek myths, told in epic tales and Greek tragic plays, offer us a lifeline out of our current sea of raging, mutually destructive, political passions and polarizations.” Timely wisdom.
Shaun Smith retired in the spring of 2019 after four decades in commercial real estate finance. She and her husband, David Hov ’78, thereupon moved to Leesburg, Virginia, where they are close to their daughter and first grandchild, Aidan Preston Lincoln.
Mike Perrella is running a commercial division for a 100-plus-year-old community credit union. He and his wife, Alison, are imaging retirement but not there yet. They are enjoying their first grandchild and looking forward to their daughter’s wedding this summer. Mike would love to hear from classmates who are in central New England or the Boston-Manchester, New Hampshire, area.
Jim Leahy is still practicing investment management law with a focus on regulatory compliance in New York City. He and his wife, Noreen, now have three grandchildren. Jim reports enjoying reading Dr. Seuss (I assume to his grandkids) and singing in the choir.
Though we live no more than a mile apart, I had to hunt down Cathel MacLeod to pry out some news. He responded ruefully, “Sadly, there are consequences for a surgeon’s life. Now that I am retired it seems my invisibility cloaking has failed. I had a quiet but rejuvenating winter. I am hoping to make it easier for college newsletter classmates by doing in retirement all I put off for decades.” We shall see.
Save the date for the “When I’m 64” birthday super mini-reunion, October 9-12, at the LaFonda on the Plaza in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For more info contact Brian Boyer at brianboyer7@gmail.com or Lisa Shanahan at lisashan@msn.com.
—Meg Coughlin LePage,8 Brookside Drive, Cumberland, ME 04021; (207) 791-1382; mlepage@pierceatwood.com; Wade Herring, P.O. Box 9848, Savannah, GA 31412, (912) 944-1639; wherring@huntermaclean.com; Rob Dinsmoor, 14 Rust St., South Hamilton, MA 01982; (978) 269-4069; dinsmo@earthlink.net
Mike Wall and his wife, Suzanne, may not have cycled around the world, but they too completed an impressive journey. For their wedding anniversary in February these two Minnesotans booked a weeklong Nordic ski trip on the Appalachian Mountain Club lodge-to-lodge trails through the wilderness of northern Maine. The first day of their trip required them to plow through 10 inches of fresh snow for more than six hours, which Suzanne described as “Type 2 fun,” meaning, “not fun when you are experiencing it, yet fun to talk about later.”
Emily Katz Anhalt reports that she is still living in Guilford, Connecticut, and teaching classical languages and literature at Sarah Lawrence College. Her most recent book is Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny (Stanford University Press, 2021), which “argues that Ancient Greek myths, told in epic tales and Greek tragic plays, offer us a lifeline out of our current sea of raging, mutually destructive, political passions and polarizations.” Timely wisdom.
Shaun Smith retired in the spring of 2019 after four decades in commercial real estate finance. She and her husband, David Hov ’78, thereupon moved to Leesburg, Virginia, where they are close to their daughter and first grandchild, Aidan Preston Lincoln.
Mike Perrella is running a commercial division for a 100-plus-year-old community credit union. He and his wife, Alison, are imaging retirement but not there yet. They are enjoying their first grandchild and looking forward to their daughter’s wedding this summer. Mike would love to hear from classmates who are in central New England or the Boston-Manchester, New Hampshire, area.
Jim Leahy is still practicing investment management law with a focus on regulatory compliance in New York City. He and his wife, Noreen, now have three grandchildren. Jim reports enjoying reading Dr. Seuss (I assume to his grandkids) and singing in the choir.
Though we live no more than a mile apart, I had to hunt down Cathel MacLeod to pry out some news. He responded ruefully, “Sadly, there are consequences for a surgeon’s life. Now that I am retired it seems my invisibility cloaking has failed. I had a quiet but rejuvenating winter. I am hoping to make it easier for college newsletter classmates by doing in retirement all I put off for decades.” We shall see.
Save the date for the “When I’m 64” birthday super mini-reunion, October 9-12, at the LaFonda on the Plaza in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For more info contact Brian Boyer at brianboyer7@gmail.com or Lisa Shanahan at lisashan@msn.com.
—Meg Coughlin LePage,8 Brookside Drive, Cumberland, ME 04021; (207) 791-1382; mlepage@pierceatwood.com; Wade Herring, P.O. Box 9848, Savannah, GA 31412, (912) 944-1639; wherring@huntermaclean.com; Rob Dinsmoor, 14 Rust St., South Hamilton, MA 01982; (978) 269-4069; dinsmo@earthlink.net