Class Note 1984
Issue
September-October 2020
The world’s been on lockdown but one day we will all travel again. As your trusty co-secretary, I am ignoring the students in my Zoom classroom for however long it takes to write this column. I’ll guide you toward some interesting places to visit once the pandemic is over. And who said travel agents were obsolete!
For those of you living on the East Coast, why not drive to Maine? You could visit Kate Hotchkiss. Kate is debuting her first book, On Harbor’s Edge, the first in a series of dramatic, generationally layered stories from 1912 to the present, against the backdrop of Maine island imagery that award-winning author Susan Conley describes as “so rich it is its own character.” Kate is empty-nesting with her husband, Ellard, on a Maine island with their adult sons’ dogs.
And if you live on the West Coast, why not drive up to Alaska? Gas is cheap now. The roads are empty. Shouldn’t take too long. We have four classmates living in Anchorage: Sarah, Steve, Janice and Ken. (There will be a quiz later.) And if you’re not feeling well, never fear, as we have two doctors. Sarah Burrell Troxel, M.D., is a plastic surgeon. Steve Compton, M.D.,is a cardiologist. Steve writes: “My wife and I have two college-age boys who are back for the summer and who knows how much longer. Alaska is probably the easiest state to socially distance. We’ve been getting outside, hiking, biking, fishing, kayaking.” Janice Tanaka Tower is the owner of Tower Health. Ken Miller is president of Denali FSP Fundraising Consultants. Ken writes: “I have been doing well, in contact with a few fellow classmates, including Peter Ellis and Gary Witherspoon. I have been active in the conversations around anti-racism and remain privileged to mentor and support young men of color. Beautiful summer so far in Alaska but miss traveling to the Lower 48.”
Traveling past Anchorage, you could visit Jennifer Reynolds in Fairbanks, where she’s a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences. Or drive south on the Highway 1 and stop at the Kenai peninsula to see Katie Tongue Bramante, accountant at Peninsula Internal Medicine.
Or you could sail out to Hawaii. Just think of the excuses you’d have to get off that Zoom call. “Sorry, I’m losing you. Boat has limited wi-fi.”
In Honolulu you could visit Terry Yee, M.D., in case you got sick on the boat.
Monica Latini King also lives in Hawaii but over in Kauai, where she’s been the editor of Hawaii Fishing News since 1984. Monica writes: “Almost everyone else in the islands has been fishing, so life is full of thrilling fishing stories and fresh ’ah and ono. Sharing the home time with our two teenage boys has been an added bonus.”
Fishing, hiking, plastic surgery—just be sure to write me a thank you note after visiting all of these great classmates. I’ll be waiting to hear from you.
—Juliet Aires Giglio, 4915 Bentbrook Drive, Manlius, NY 13104; julietgiglio@gmail.com; Eric Grubman, 2 Fox Den Way, Woodbridge, CT 06525; (203) 710-7933; grubman@sbcglobal.net
For those of you living on the East Coast, why not drive to Maine? You could visit Kate Hotchkiss. Kate is debuting her first book, On Harbor’s Edge, the first in a series of dramatic, generationally layered stories from 1912 to the present, against the backdrop of Maine island imagery that award-winning author Susan Conley describes as “so rich it is its own character.” Kate is empty-nesting with her husband, Ellard, on a Maine island with their adult sons’ dogs.
And if you live on the West Coast, why not drive up to Alaska? Gas is cheap now. The roads are empty. Shouldn’t take too long. We have four classmates living in Anchorage: Sarah, Steve, Janice and Ken. (There will be a quiz later.) And if you’re not feeling well, never fear, as we have two doctors. Sarah Burrell Troxel, M.D., is a plastic surgeon. Steve Compton, M.D.,is a cardiologist. Steve writes: “My wife and I have two college-age boys who are back for the summer and who knows how much longer. Alaska is probably the easiest state to socially distance. We’ve been getting outside, hiking, biking, fishing, kayaking.” Janice Tanaka Tower is the owner of Tower Health. Ken Miller is president of Denali FSP Fundraising Consultants. Ken writes: “I have been doing well, in contact with a few fellow classmates, including Peter Ellis and Gary Witherspoon. I have been active in the conversations around anti-racism and remain privileged to mentor and support young men of color. Beautiful summer so far in Alaska but miss traveling to the Lower 48.”
Traveling past Anchorage, you could visit Jennifer Reynolds in Fairbanks, where she’s a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences. Or drive south on the Highway 1 and stop at the Kenai peninsula to see Katie Tongue Bramante, accountant at Peninsula Internal Medicine.
Or you could sail out to Hawaii. Just think of the excuses you’d have to get off that Zoom call. “Sorry, I’m losing you. Boat has limited wi-fi.”
In Honolulu you could visit Terry Yee, M.D., in case you got sick on the boat.
Monica Latini King also lives in Hawaii but over in Kauai, where she’s been the editor of Hawaii Fishing News since 1984. Monica writes: “Almost everyone else in the islands has been fishing, so life is full of thrilling fishing stories and fresh ’ah and ono. Sharing the home time with our two teenage boys has been an added bonus.”
Fishing, hiking, plastic surgery—just be sure to write me a thank you note after visiting all of these great classmates. I’ll be waiting to hear from you.
—Juliet Aires Giglio, 4915 Bentbrook Drive, Manlius, NY 13104; julietgiglio@gmail.com; Eric Grubman, 2 Fox Den Way, Woodbridge, CT 06525; (203) 710-7933; grubman@sbcglobal.net