Class Note 1979
Dateline December 28, 2012: Stuck in Mount Kisco, New York, peering over the edge of the fiscal abyss. The bad news is that we’re likely to go over; the good news is that we survived the Mayan calendar doomsday and will be around for the fall. Let’s hope it isn’t too steep!
It was great to see John Saer and his wife, Shelby, in Hanover this fall. “Shelby and I live in Greenwich, Connecticut, and have three kids. The oldest, Kenneth, is a sophomore at Dartmouth. Kenneth joined Alpha Delta this past fall and has taken up rugby! Tobin is a senior at Brunswick School in Greenwich and Julia is an eighth grader at Greenwich Academy. We all get back to New Orleans regularly and recently joined Ken Beer on a fishing trip down there. I’m still involved with a number of boards, including a Johns Hopkins-based research center focusing on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other neurological diseases. Meanwhile I’m having fun building an investment business with Rick Magnuson.”
Dave Stone writes: “Trina and I became grandparents recently. Earlier in 2012 we took a six-month sabbatical with Youth With A Mission in Hawaii, French Polynesia and Paris. The second half of the year was spent traveling back and forth between Texas and Afghanistan, India, Turkey, South Africa and England for business and volunteering. In addition to our investment software business in Texas, we have a programming company in Kabul, Afghanistan, and a back office company in India. If anyone would like an escorted trip to Delhi and Kabul, please join me on one of my four annual trips. I can be reached at dstone@firstrate.com. In October I spent a long weekend with my roommates Dave Brown, Curtiss Rooks and Andy Kline. Dave, president of the Omaha, Nebraska, Chamber of Commerce, hosted us for a Nebraska vs. Michigan football game. Curtiss is a professor and associate dean at Loyola Marymount University and Andy is an Episcopal priest in Philadelphia.”
Congratulations to Helen Davis Picher, who was named interim president of the William Penn Foundation in late November, returning shortly after being let go due to a restructuring! “I had been at the foundation for nearly 30 years. Now I’m leading the implementation of the new strategic plan and managing the staff restructuring of the $2-billion foundation, which is dedicated to improving education, the arts and the environment in greater Philadelphia. My family and I have been living near my hometown of Media, Pennsylvania, for almost 20 years. My husband, Ver, is a content marketing consultant; son Davis graduated in May from Widener University Business School; and daughter Caroline is a senior at Vassar College. We see a lot of Vince Marriott and his wife, Jeanne. Together we embarrass ourselves annually on stage at the Rose Valley Folk Variety Show.”
One final note: I want to give a shout out to Ted “Ted-O” Winterer, who won a four-year term in the November 6 Santa Monica, California, city council race. Way to go, Ted-O!
—Stanley Weil, 15 Peck Rd., Mt. Kisco, NY 10549; (917) 428-0852; stanno79@gmail.com
