Class Note 1988
Issue
Nov - Dec 2018
In my inaugural Class Notes column, I want to begin with an enthusiastic thank-you to Jere Mancini, who has inspired, regaled, and informed us writing this column during the last five years. Kudos to you, Jere, on a job extremely well done! We appreciate your work in support of the ties that bind this wonderful class into a supportive community that is truly “Better Together.”
As I begin my tenure as the author of this column, I ask that you please let me know your news, your personal or professional milestones large and small, your chance meetings with other ’88s around the globe, and other notes of interest Thank you in advance for the privilege of serving in this role, and I look forward to hearing from you!
And now to news of our classmates.
Two classmates have recently moved to new communities. Leigh Dingwall has moved back to her home state of North Carolina after nearly 20 years in Connecticut, where she worked at her alma mater Choate Rosemary Hall as a teacher, coach, and advisor and also developed its women’s studies program. Now that she is back in North Carolina, she is living in a “tiny house,” and her abode was featured in a design magazine earlier this year. Sandy Broadus, too, has made a move, but hers is westward to California, where she and her husband and three adorable children will trade the Northeast’s snow for the West Coast’s surf.
Speaking of the California surf, Jennifer Taylor reports that she enjoys going surfing with Amanda Hanson in the Bay Area, and that they also have formed an active book group. A former lawyer, Jennifer has embraced a new career path working as an educational consultant helping families identify appropriate academic or therapeutic programs around the country for their children. With her own two boys at boarding schools, Jennifer has been putting in many miles on her bicycle and will ride from Prague to Budapest this fall. Amanda is also a former lawyer who made a career change. She now works as an acupuncturist in her own clinic after earning her master’s.
Back in Boston, two classmates are long-time contributors to their academic communities. Susan (Lindsay) Lively earned her Ph.D. in history from Harvard University, where she has taught history and expository writing and has held numerous other posts, including assistant dean for the arts and humanities. Susan currently serves as secretary of the faculty, with responsibility for working with faculty, staff, and students regarding policies and practices of the faculty of arts and sciences.
Miyuki Yamaguchi is a research technician at Brandeis University, putting to good use the Ph.D. in biochemistry she earned from Duke University.
Miyuki, who was my freshman-year roommate along with Townley Slack, is married with two boys and has enjoyed living in Newton, Massachusetts, for nearly 20 years.
I look forward to hearing from you.
—Victoria Woodin Chavey, 128 Steele Road, West Hartford, CT 06119; torychavey@gmail.com
As I begin my tenure as the author of this column, I ask that you please let me know your news, your personal or professional milestones large and small, your chance meetings with other ’88s around the globe, and other notes of interest Thank you in advance for the privilege of serving in this role, and I look forward to hearing from you!
And now to news of our classmates.
Two classmates have recently moved to new communities. Leigh Dingwall has moved back to her home state of North Carolina after nearly 20 years in Connecticut, where she worked at her alma mater Choate Rosemary Hall as a teacher, coach, and advisor and also developed its women’s studies program. Now that she is back in North Carolina, she is living in a “tiny house,” and her abode was featured in a design magazine earlier this year. Sandy Broadus, too, has made a move, but hers is westward to California, where she and her husband and three adorable children will trade the Northeast’s snow for the West Coast’s surf.
Speaking of the California surf, Jennifer Taylor reports that she enjoys going surfing with Amanda Hanson in the Bay Area, and that they also have formed an active book group. A former lawyer, Jennifer has embraced a new career path working as an educational consultant helping families identify appropriate academic or therapeutic programs around the country for their children. With her own two boys at boarding schools, Jennifer has been putting in many miles on her bicycle and will ride from Prague to Budapest this fall. Amanda is also a former lawyer who made a career change. She now works as an acupuncturist in her own clinic after earning her master’s.
Back in Boston, two classmates are long-time contributors to their academic communities. Susan (Lindsay) Lively earned her Ph.D. in history from Harvard University, where she has taught history and expository writing and has held numerous other posts, including assistant dean for the arts and humanities. Susan currently serves as secretary of the faculty, with responsibility for working with faculty, staff, and students regarding policies and practices of the faculty of arts and sciences.
Miyuki Yamaguchi is a research technician at Brandeis University, putting to good use the Ph.D. in biochemistry she earned from Duke University.
Miyuki, who was my freshman-year roommate along with Townley Slack, is married with two boys and has enjoyed living in Newton, Massachusetts, for nearly 20 years.
I look forward to hearing from you.
—Victoria Woodin Chavey, 128 Steele Road, West Hartford, CT 06119; torychavey@gmail.com