Class Note 1982
On November 20 Corinne Heyes married Rachel Rivin, UMass Amherst ’86, at the Cornell Club in New York. Class of ’82s in attendance included Brook Tolley Confort, Crashy Zacher Brown, Gail Koziara Boudreaux, Sharon Flynn McClymonds, Laura Murray Dobbin, Gina Kunz Podlesak, Ann MacAffer and Sherri Carroll Oberg.
Corinne reports, “A Wednesday may seem like a strange night for a wedding but it was our 23rd anniversary. With the demise of the Defense of Marriage Act I figured it was time to make an honest woman out of her!”
While Corinne and Rachel are newlyweds, Michelle Gosselin Wright and Bill Wright ’81 have been married for 28 years. Michelle and Bill have lived in the same house in Bedford, New Hampshire, for 26 years and Bill has been a software engineer with Oracle for 33 years, but a few years back Michelle started down a new career path. After graduation Michelle spent 15 years at DEC and Oracle, but when her two kids were in school she quit her job. After a few years at home Michelle began directing a children’s ministry and then slowly started back to school, at first one class at a time. In 2010 she received her M.A. in counseling from the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Michelle is now licensed and recently opened a private psychotherapy practice. As she develops her practice Michelle is mastering the challenge of being a small business owner.
Our class president, Cathy Judd-Stein, also has a new job. She now serves as general counsel in the office of the state treasurer in Massachusetts. With all Cathy does for our class, it isn’t at all clear to me how she manages to also hold down this day job.
Two of our classmates are working to support our nation’s youth. Ed Frechette is now the chief innovation officer for United Teen Equality Center (UTEC) in Lowell, Massachusetts. UTEC’s mission is to ignite and nurture the ambition of the most disconnected young people to trade violence and poverty for social and economic success. Ed’s role is to create businesses where proven-risk young people, 16-24, can work and fail in a safe environment before going out to get jobs in the real world.
By day David Andryc is a managing director at Auda Private Equity, but one night in November David found himself sleeping on the streets of New York City. Along with his brother Phil and 180 others, David was supporting Covenant House’s efforts to end youth homelessness. In part through support from members of our class, David raised more than double his goal for this important work.
Audrey Freudberg contributed to David’s efforts because of the importance of his cause and her commitment to preventing others from feeling alone and helpless in the world. Audrey is living in Los Angeles and is in the process of putting together a book of her writings and drawings.
—Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016 robinshaffert@yahoo.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net
