Class Note 1981
Issue
January-February 2022
We are blessed. We have come together, we have seen deeply into our interests, and we have toiled long enough to know there is more. Among our blessings includes the time we have now. Maya Angelou spoke of this in “On the Pulse of Morning.” “Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need/For this bright morning dawning for you/The horizon leans forward/Offering you space to place new steps of change.” The most recent class big question inquired about the next stanza.
There are no brighter mornings dawning than the fresh start of wedding bells. Kalita Beck Blessing, Jane Alexander, Pat Berry, and Patti Marchand Bradbury joined Jill Martin as she married Mark Dorfman in Falls Church, Virginia, in October 2021. All the best to you two!
Jake Weinbaum, speaking of his family and business journey with his wife, Cindi, says, “Now as we enter our 60s and contemplate retirement or continued careers, we think with more urgency about our health and cognition. After witnessing the decline in health and the passing ofour parents, we wonder whether we will age successfully and stay mentally sharp and what we can do about it. This is an area I have been investigating for the past 10 years, having watched my dad suffer from Alzheimer’s.”In 2020 he formed Applied Cognition with a mission to treat and prevent age-related decline in cognitive function. “If nothing else, one of the proven methods for maintaining cognitive function as we age is to stimulate your brain with novel challenges. Starting a career in a new area in your later years I hope will provide that benefit.”
Rachel Kenzie King says, “I’ve loved my career in biotechnology, but for a number of reasons and the feeling that I simply want to do other things with more flexibility in this next stage of life the time was right to move to the next phase.One thing I’m excited about is a program I am now about halfway through—a master’s in writing fiction at Johns Hopkins. This is giving me a new way to see things and to engage with a fun and different group of people.”
Geoff Hathaway responded, “While I did some teaching for PE cred at the Skiway in the late 1970s, I never thought I’d become an owner and operator of a ski area. But that unforeseen turnaround did take place in 2016, and now I, along with seven other ’81 investors, own Magic Mountain in Londonderry, Vermont, just about an hour away from Hanover.” The mountain has been included in Teton Gravity Research’s newest ski movie In Pursuit of Soul, about mom-and-pop independent ski hills.
FYI: March 4-6 should be a weekend reserved for being with a spirited group of ’81s at Magic Mountain. Thaxter Sharp has booked a room already in the Upper Pass lodge! Last year was a legendary great time, and this year should be even better.
—Emil Miskovsky, P.O. Box 2162, North Conway, NH 03860; emilmiskovsky@gmail.com; Ann Jacobus Kordahl, P.O. Box 470443, San Francisco, CA 94147; ajkordahl@gmail.com
There are no brighter mornings dawning than the fresh start of wedding bells. Kalita Beck Blessing, Jane Alexander, Pat Berry, and Patti Marchand Bradbury joined Jill Martin as she married Mark Dorfman in Falls Church, Virginia, in October 2021. All the best to you two!
Jake Weinbaum, speaking of his family and business journey with his wife, Cindi, says, “Now as we enter our 60s and contemplate retirement or continued careers, we think with more urgency about our health and cognition. After witnessing the decline in health and the passing ofour parents, we wonder whether we will age successfully and stay mentally sharp and what we can do about it. This is an area I have been investigating for the past 10 years, having watched my dad suffer from Alzheimer’s.”In 2020 he formed Applied Cognition with a mission to treat and prevent age-related decline in cognitive function. “If nothing else, one of the proven methods for maintaining cognitive function as we age is to stimulate your brain with novel challenges. Starting a career in a new area in your later years I hope will provide that benefit.”
Rachel Kenzie King says, “I’ve loved my career in biotechnology, but for a number of reasons and the feeling that I simply want to do other things with more flexibility in this next stage of life the time was right to move to the next phase.One thing I’m excited about is a program I am now about halfway through—a master’s in writing fiction at Johns Hopkins. This is giving me a new way to see things and to engage with a fun and different group of people.”
Geoff Hathaway responded, “While I did some teaching for PE cred at the Skiway in the late 1970s, I never thought I’d become an owner and operator of a ski area. But that unforeseen turnaround did take place in 2016, and now I, along with seven other ’81 investors, own Magic Mountain in Londonderry, Vermont, just about an hour away from Hanover.” The mountain has been included in Teton Gravity Research’s newest ski movie In Pursuit of Soul, about mom-and-pop independent ski hills.
FYI: March 4-6 should be a weekend reserved for being with a spirited group of ’81s at Magic Mountain. Thaxter Sharp has booked a room already in the Upper Pass lodge! Last year was a legendary great time, and this year should be even better.
—Emil Miskovsky, P.O. Box 2162, North Conway, NH 03860; emilmiskovsky@gmail.com; Ann Jacobus Kordahl, P.O. Box 470443, San Francisco, CA 94147; ajkordahl@gmail.com