Class Note 1981
In early August I went to see JayZ and Justin Timberlake at Fenway Park with my son Liam and one of his friends. As we watched the crowd we found ourselves trying to segment the audience—who were Jay fans and who was there for J.T.? Then it struck me that I was being judged similarly—I wonder what camp they had me in? From the extended 617….Last summer Hap Brakeley’s house in Marblehead, Massachusetts, was overtaken by Sony pictures. Adam Sandler, Salma Hayek and crew took over the place to film Grown Ups 2. Hap tried to get Adam out for some golf, but Adam was content to play hoops and swim. Hap wants you to know, “the deer is not real.” After 12 years on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Eric Pierce and his family returned to the Boston area two years ago. Eric is director of the Ocular Genomics Institute in the department of ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School. He and wife Debora Hoffman and their daughters Emma and Hannah live in Belmont. Jeff Johnson reports that daughter Holly is entering her fourth year at Gettysburg College as a math major (like her dad was at Dartmouth) and is on the women’s tennis team. Jeff and Holly just finished their fifth national father-daughter doubles tennis tournament at Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Son Chris is entering his second year of graduate school for physics at UMass-Lowell after graduating from Union College. Jeff and Chris have hiked 87 percent of the Appalachian Trail in sections during the past 16 years. Jeff’s wife, Susan, whom he met at Dartmouth, takes care of all of their home duties while he continues his work as an emergency physician at the local community hospital. Allen Smith’s oldest daughter graduated from Mt. Holyoke College in 2010 and will be starting in the physician assistant program at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. His oldest son just graduated from Bowdoin College and is working for a company that creates apps for large corporations. Son No. 2 will be a sophomore at New England College while son No. 3 will be a sophomore at Pingree School in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. Allen reports: “I was fortunate to be able to run the Boston Marathon on April 15 for Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where I work. I finished about 10 minutes before the terrorist bombs went off and was lucky to be among the ones who got out safely but was very proud of what the caregivers all around Boston were able to accomplish on that day.” Lynn Noel is now a program manager of IT collaboration services at NTT Data, the sixth largest global IT service provider. Lynn remarried in 2009, and she and her husband live in Waltham, Massachusetts. ’Til next time, “I’m so far ahead of my time, I’m ’bout to start another life. Look behind you, I’m ’bout to pass you twice.”
—Robert Goldbloom, 324 Warburton Ave., Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706; (914) 231-5117; robertgoldbloom@gmail.com; Brian Cusack, 26 Ocean Ave., Marblehead, MA 01945; (617) 710-7228; briancusack13@gmail.com
