Class Note 1989
Issue
November-December 2021
It was great to be back on campus in July visiting our daughter during her Sophomore Summer. I saw Ray Prado (who’s working on storyboards for multiple new projects, but I’m sworn to secrecy) and his wife, Gesine, and am hoping that by the time you read this I will have seen many more ’89s at Homecoming this October.
On that East Coast trip I had coffee with Barbara Krautheimer in Amherst, Massachusetts, and it turned out she and my wife had colleagues in common—small world! Barbara is now the dean of the college of the humanities and fine arts at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I had tried to connect with Chris DeFrancis, Andrew McCallum, and Kyoungho Koh, but hope we’ll connect next trip.
Our own Connie Womack Britton starred in the HBO series White Lotus. It’s a great look at what happens at a high-end resort in Hawaii and—no spoilers—worth a watch.
I heard from John Sveen several months ago: “All is well. I live outside of Syracuse, New York, on Skaneateles Lake. My wife, Anne, and I have three daughters, Sarah (23), Mia (19), Lily (11). I’m an ophthalmologist and my wife is a pediatrician specializing in dermatology. Sarah will be starting Boston University dental school this summer, Mia is a sophomore at Colgate, and Lily is my little fifth-grade buddy. I reconnected with Chris Bailey and Deanna Emberley Bailey a few years back and we’ve had several nice summer visits. We are hoping to visit them one day in Bali now that they’ve moved! What a fun surprise to see my old roommate Dave Frey on 60 Minutes a week ago [on a segment about Camp Ritchie, the World War II military intelligence training center]! Super cool. Hoping he and Beth Wood Frey will stop by one day when they are visiting their daughter at University of Rochester Medical School!”
I caught up with Greg Williams on our biweekly Zoom meeting; he recently spent two years running the nonprofit Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. Greg moved back to Seattle as his daughter wanted to finish high school there and is living in the CHOP neighborhood. He still keeps in touch with his sister, Laura Williams Gal ’91 and her husband, Christian Gal ’91; his sister-in-law, Bridget McCaffrey ’88; Jeff Zarse; Dave Heisterkamp; Marcus Weiss ’90; andLaurie Adams ’88, who is the CEO of Women for Women International, a nonprofit that is doing incredibly important work for the women in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
I asked on our ’89 Facebook page what was one thing people were hoping for this fall, and Kelley Busby Tiemens shared: “For the pandemic to get under better control, for people to be kinder to one another and for real stepping up, individually and collectively, around the climate crisis. It’s now or never.”
What are you hoping for in 2022?
—Ned Ward, 2104 Graham Ave., #B, Redondo Beach, CA 90278; ned@nedorama.com
On that East Coast trip I had coffee with Barbara Krautheimer in Amherst, Massachusetts, and it turned out she and my wife had colleagues in common—small world! Barbara is now the dean of the college of the humanities and fine arts at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I had tried to connect with Chris DeFrancis, Andrew McCallum, and Kyoungho Koh, but hope we’ll connect next trip.
Our own Connie Womack Britton starred in the HBO series White Lotus. It’s a great look at what happens at a high-end resort in Hawaii and—no spoilers—worth a watch.
I heard from John Sveen several months ago: “All is well. I live outside of Syracuse, New York, on Skaneateles Lake. My wife, Anne, and I have three daughters, Sarah (23), Mia (19), Lily (11). I’m an ophthalmologist and my wife is a pediatrician specializing in dermatology. Sarah will be starting Boston University dental school this summer, Mia is a sophomore at Colgate, and Lily is my little fifth-grade buddy. I reconnected with Chris Bailey and Deanna Emberley Bailey a few years back and we’ve had several nice summer visits. We are hoping to visit them one day in Bali now that they’ve moved! What a fun surprise to see my old roommate Dave Frey on 60 Minutes a week ago [on a segment about Camp Ritchie, the World War II military intelligence training center]! Super cool. Hoping he and Beth Wood Frey will stop by one day when they are visiting their daughter at University of Rochester Medical School!”
I caught up with Greg Williams on our biweekly Zoom meeting; he recently spent two years running the nonprofit Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. Greg moved back to Seattle as his daughter wanted to finish high school there and is living in the CHOP neighborhood. He still keeps in touch with his sister, Laura Williams Gal ’91 and her husband, Christian Gal ’91; his sister-in-law, Bridget McCaffrey ’88; Jeff Zarse; Dave Heisterkamp; Marcus Weiss ’90; andLaurie Adams ’88, who is the CEO of Women for Women International, a nonprofit that is doing incredibly important work for the women in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
I asked on our ’89 Facebook page what was one thing people were hoping for this fall, and Kelley Busby Tiemens shared: “For the pandemic to get under better control, for people to be kinder to one another and for real stepping up, individually and collectively, around the climate crisis. It’s now or never.”
What are you hoping for in 2022?
—Ned Ward, 2104 Graham Ave., #B, Redondo Beach, CA 90278; ned@nedorama.com