We have a new youngest ’88 baby! Congratulations to Antony Parchment and his wife, Julie, on the birth of their son, Liam Alan, on September 20. Liam joins big sister, Grace, who is almost 4, and is an incredibly doting big sister. According to Antony, Liam “has a very serene quality about him and a cute crooked smile. He has rounded out our family perfectly.” He also notes, “It’s both funny and a little scary. The rest of you are going to be retired and traveling the world and I will be attending parent-teacher conferences.” After time in New York and Detroit Antony and his family were very happy to move home to Boston’s North Shore in January 2013. Antony attended Tim Burger’s wedding that same year, and also made a slight change in his career direction. After 20 years of digital marketing and big agency life, he now works on the client side, leading an innovation research and development team at Liberty Mutual in Boston. Antony also keeps up with his flying hobby: “So, if anyone wants to see the New England coast from the air, give me a call.” He recently started developing a business plan for a travel service using private aircraft to access, and to provide air-taxi service between New England restaurants, hotels and vacation spots. Antony would love input from business-minded ’88s.


In other news, I am just back from Homecoming in Hanover. A number of ’88s were on hand to help celebrate our Class of the Year Award by leading the parade on Friday night. I caught up with R.A. McDonough and his wife, Gerda, in town from Los Angeles to visit their daughter, who is an ’18. R.A. also has a half-brother who is a ’17. Several other ’88s were in town to visit their children, including Alan Moss, whose daughter Savannah is an ’18 and a cheerleader. Anne (Chmielewski) Kushwaha was also there, on the tail-end of a college scouting trip with her daughter, Brooke, who is a junior in high school. Anne is a radiologist breast specialist at M.D. Anderson in Houston, and she lives with her husband, Vivek, in Houston. In addition to Brooke, Anne has a son, Blake, who is a junior at UCLA, and another son, Matthew (14), who is an avid football and baseball player.


Laura (Sweeney) Parks, who lives in North Arlington, Massachusetts, attended with her husband and daughters Kaitlyn (13) and Erica (8). Laura shared her memories of being the only woman on the Butterfield intramural hockey team and of the only goal she scored during her four years on the team. I enjoyed talking to Kaitlyn, who is a champion tap dancer. In fact, she competed in the world championships in Riesa, Germany, where her team placed fifth—she was honored to carry the U.S. flag in the parade of nations. Lizann (Nagel) Fragiotta drove from Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Enzo, her two sons, Lucas (12) and Jason (9), and Erblin, the 17-year-old exchange student from Albania who is living with them this year. In between telling us how fabulous Erblin is, Lizann almost forgot to mention that Lucas will be singing at Carnegie Hall next spring! Kate Haffner was in town from Boston. After practicing law for eight years at two different Boston firms, Kate has been working in various fundraising roles and also has raised funds for several Democratic candidates, including our own Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. There were a number of other ’88s there, but I am up against my word limit, so for the rest, you’ll need to see Stephanie (Welsch) Lewin’s update in our recent e-newsletter on the ’88 website (www.dartmouth88.org).


—Jere Mancini, 34 Wearimus Road, HoHoKus, NJ 07423; d88correspondent@gmail.com