Class Note 2002
Issue
July-August 2024
Hello, ’02s!
This first update appeared on my television screen one night when I was watching Disney Plus with my kids. We had just started watching Explorer: Lake of Fire, a National Geographic documentary about a remote volcano in the far southern Atlantic ocean, when Freddie Wilkinson appeared on screen!
Freddie was a climbing guide on the mission to explore the remote volcano Mount Michael on Saunders Island in the uninhabited South Sandwich archipelago. The documentary features Freddie leading volcanologists to the edge of and into Mount Michael to determine if the volcano has an active lava lake. Both the television documentary and the companion article Freddie authored in the November 2023 issue of National Geographic magazine are fascinating and worth checking out!
I reached out to Freddie and he replied, “Needless to say, it was an honor to work with such a talented crew and have the opportunity to explore a completely unique landscape. Otherwise, I’m doing good living in the White Mountains of New Hampshire with my wife, Janet, and our kids, Casey and Oscar. Our climbing gym business Salt Pump Climbing Co. has locations in Scarborough, Maine, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire—stop by and say hi!”
Kristin (Shigley) Livingston and I met up in Essex, New York, with our families for the total solar eclipse on April 8. In between a couple of muddy hikes and prepping eclipse glasses and a pinhole camera we had a chance to stop by Jen (LaBerge) Hutchins’ house to say hello. The morning of the eclipse was a beautiful, clear day and we were in the very small village center at the local café getting ice cream for our kids when we bumped into Laura Grey, who was in Essex visiting her in-laws. Luckily, the line for ice cream was long, so the four of us had time to chat and reconnect before heading our separate ways to observe the truly spectacular natural phenomenon of the total solar eclipse. Three minutes of stunning totality and then—light, warmth, and back to reality.
Happy summer, ’02s!
—Anne Cloudman, 215 W 98th St., Apt. 12C, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com
This first update appeared on my television screen one night when I was watching Disney Plus with my kids. We had just started watching Explorer: Lake of Fire, a National Geographic documentary about a remote volcano in the far southern Atlantic ocean, when Freddie Wilkinson appeared on screen!
Freddie was a climbing guide on the mission to explore the remote volcano Mount Michael on Saunders Island in the uninhabited South Sandwich archipelago. The documentary features Freddie leading volcanologists to the edge of and into Mount Michael to determine if the volcano has an active lava lake. Both the television documentary and the companion article Freddie authored in the November 2023 issue of National Geographic magazine are fascinating and worth checking out!
I reached out to Freddie and he replied, “Needless to say, it was an honor to work with such a talented crew and have the opportunity to explore a completely unique landscape. Otherwise, I’m doing good living in the White Mountains of New Hampshire with my wife, Janet, and our kids, Casey and Oscar. Our climbing gym business Salt Pump Climbing Co. has locations in Scarborough, Maine, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire—stop by and say hi!”
Kristin (Shigley) Livingston and I met up in Essex, New York, with our families for the total solar eclipse on April 8. In between a couple of muddy hikes and prepping eclipse glasses and a pinhole camera we had a chance to stop by Jen (LaBerge) Hutchins’ house to say hello. The morning of the eclipse was a beautiful, clear day and we were in the very small village center at the local café getting ice cream for our kids when we bumped into Laura Grey, who was in Essex visiting her in-laws. Luckily, the line for ice cream was long, so the four of us had time to chat and reconnect before heading our separate ways to observe the truly spectacular natural phenomenon of the total solar eclipse. Three minutes of stunning totality and then—light, warmth, and back to reality.
Happy summer, ’02s!
—Anne Cloudman, 215 W 98th St., Apt. 12C, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com