We’re counting down to our 30th reunion in June! Reunion will be June 13-16, so mark your calendars, request vacation time and get ready to have an entertaining weekend. The office of alumni relations now schedules programming for many reunion activities. Last year featured a performance of Stomp and fireworks on the Green. Also, don’t forget about Homecoming Weekend, October 26-27, when we host Hahvahd for soccer, field hockey and yes, football.


In classmate news, Magnet Schools of America named Wendy Nelson Kauffman NationalTeacher of the Year. The highlight of this school year for Wendy, though, was being one of 15 student-teacher teams selected by National History Day to study World War II in Normandy, France. As part of the Albert H. Small Normandy Institute: The Sacrifice for Freedom, Wendy and her high school student researched two local Connecticut brothers who were buried at the famous American Cemetery in Normandy. Not until her student read their eulogies at their gravesites this summer did cemetery officials realize that the two men were brothers who normally would have been buried side by side. Wendy corrected the record, and their life stories are now being incorporated as part of the narratives told at the American Cemetery. As an added bonus, her inspiring lead professor was C. Thomas Long ’65.


Jennie Norman is ecstatic to report: “Bill and I have not one but two little grandsons, courtesy of my stepdaughter Sarah and her husband. Harvey is 17 months old and Dexter is almost 6 weeks. They live two miles away, so we see them almost every day.” The babies had a wonderful time with Loren Batchelder Wright and husband J.B., Lolly Jewett, Abner Oakes ’81, Martha Sundberg Hartfiel and husband Jim, along with Lolly and Abner’s son Charlie and Jennie’s nephew Eric a couple of weeks ago when they all came to visit Bill and Jenny at their home on Silver Lake in Harrisville, New Hampshire. “The Jewett-Oakes clan comes to visit us in New England every summer and we have a traveling party between our place in New Hampshire and Loren and J.B.’s in Maine. This year Martha and Jim joined thanks to daughter Casey’s college visit trip East. Many lobsters sacrificed their lives to help us celebrate!”


Guy Bacigalupi left the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to take a somewhat riskier job as chief risk officer of Aircastle, a small, publicly traded aircraft leasing company based in Stamford, Connecticut. His wife, Muriel, also left her job at NBC to take a mergers and acquisitions/strategy job at the parent company of Condé Nast. “Lots of change professionally, other than that same old same old. Alexia just finished her freshman year at high school, Noemie her first year at middle school and Jeremy is trying his best to get thrown out of elementary school (fortunately for him we are in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and they don’t do that sort of stuff).” Guy managed to get Larry Ramin out of Boston a couple months ago and he sees Alex Stein and Geoff Durno fairly regularly.


Debbie Michel Rosch let us know that her twin daughters Catherine and Amelia graduated from Castilleja, a girls’ school in Palo Alto, California, in June. “I’ll abruptly become an empty nester this fall when they both go off to college, Amelia joining the class of 2016 at Dartmouth, Catherine not too far away at Brandeis in Boston. In a nice symmetry Lynn and Peter Kidder’s twins Tommy and Laura (born a week before mine!) follow a similar pattern, with Tommy at Dartmouth and Laura at BU in Boston.”


That’s all I have! Forever green!


—Maren Christensen, 173 S. Nardo Ave. Solana Beach CA 92075; marenjc@yahoo.com