Class Note 1986

Alex Gutterman writes that his first feature film, In Winter, went to eight festivals and is in distribution. He is busy in early pre-production with a second feature, The Hunter. “Work is art film in the European tradition,” he writes. “My kids seem well.” Greg Hulbert recently saw from a distance Chip Mellen in his normal habitat, the middle of the fairway; yes, right in the middle on his way to the middle of the green. Betsy Crawford Ragan shares, “I’ve lived in Lexington, Massachusetts, now for five years and work for the Penzias Group marketing Harvard Medical School’s live continuing medical education courses to physicians and other clinicians. I sing with the Jameson Singers and I’m in a Women of Dartmouth book club with fellow readers who span the grad years 1975 to 2010! I spent a wonderful October afternoon with Maureen Ragan getting a VIP tour of the Ernest Hemingway collection at the JFK Library! Son Jimmy Ragan ’16 teaches fourth grade in Lochbuie, Colorado, and sings with the Colorado Symphony Chorus.” Mark Baldwin announces that he will be inducted into the Massachusetts Baseball Coaches Association (MCBA) Hall of Fame in January. “The MBCA is an organization of state high school coaches. This year is my 23rd year coaching baseball and teaching history and economics at Northampton High School in Massachusetts. This year is my 29th overall coaching high school sports. But I’d rather brag on my kids: My oldest daughter, Emilie, will be graduating from Western New England University this spring; my younger daughter, Abby, plays field hockey and lacrosse at Mount Holyoke College. She’s an all-conference player.” After five years at Penn State, Andy Schulz and his family have relocated to Tucson, Arizona, where Andy began in August as dean of the college of fine arts at the University of Arizona. Andy adds, “Please let us know if you find yourself in southern Arizona.” Dr. Brian Moore is a neuropathologist and pathology residency program director at the University of Colorado in Denver. Ted Farrell shares, “I have been working as an immigration attorney in Louisville, Kentucky, since getting a J.D. in October 2010. I developed a program to get volunteer attorneys to represent immigrants in bond proceedings in the immigration court. My daughter, Fiona, is graduating from Bennington in Vermont and my son, Silas, started at Loyola University in New Orleans. Rob Bilodeau has been living in China since 1994. I had dinner with him when he was visiting Lexington, Kentucky.” Mike Rich, who is an associate professor of Chinese and Japanese at Eastern Kentucky University, began the forestry program at University of Kentucky. He is currently enjoying being an undergraduate again and taking a chemistry class. Mary Frances Sabo had lunch with a co-worker at the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), Jeff Waddle. “We are both attorneys at our state’s financial regulator, me in health insurance and Jeff in banking. It was nice to catch up! Jeff has been at DFS for about four years and I have been there for—gulp—18.”

—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com