1980
As we splash into summertime, I hope that you have made plans to do some "splashing" in Lake Winnepesauiee at our minireunion weekend, August 26-29. If you forgot to send in your reservation, you can contact Dan Zenkel to see if there is still space available. Dan can be reached at (914) 997-2174 or .
Regina Rehkamp Ketting and husband Jaap are splashing around in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. The Kettings moved to Brazil in August 1997 and will remain there until the end of this year. Jaap is VP at Church & Dwight (Arm & Hammer baking soda products), which he is representing as CFO in a Brasilian company located in Camacari, the largest petrochemical complex in all of Latin America. While on her job hiatus from the Peddie School (Princeton, N.J.), Regina is active in the American International Society, playing tennis and golf, taking piano lessons, and absorbing all of the Afro-American culture in Salvador da Bahia. Regina extends an open invitation to anyone who would like to visit her in Brazil (the exchange rate has been over two recently so its a great budget vacation!). You can contact Regina and Jaap at 55-71-379-2978; .
Cindy Biondi has made a big splash at the Brunswick School of Greenwich, Conn., where she has been named to the board of trustees. Cindy holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School and resides in Greenwich.
Sheila Cheston has returned to her position as a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (Washington, D.C.). Sheila spent the past several years in the USAF, where she held many distinctive (and splashing!) roles including general counsel, chief legal officer, special associate counsel to President Clinton (April-September 1994), and department liaison. Sheila was awarded the Air Force Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service. At Wilmer, Cutler & Picking, Sheila will practice in the firm's litigation and international practice groups.
Joe Mannes has been appointed chief financial officer for Clearwire Technologies Inc. of Dallas, Texas. Clearwire is a new company and focuses on providing wireless local access solutions for ISPs, CLECs, and NSPs. Joe has "splashed" around in corporate financial management for more than 17 years. Most recently Joe served as VP and general manager of online games for Interactive Magic (Raleigh, N.C.).
In February I completed my master's degree in education from Lesley College (next door to Harvard in Cambridge, Mass.). The focus of the program was integrating the arts in education. I am now splashing storytelling, poetry, music, and drama into my seventh- and eighth-grade visual art classes.
Soooooo...how can you add a little "splash" to your life? I leave you with a snippet of prose (author unknown) that I hope will inspire your creative nature. How to be an artist: stay loose, learn to watch snails, plant impossible gardens, invite someone dangerous to tea. make little signs that say YES! and post them all over your house, make friends with freedom and uncertainty, look forward to dreams, cry during movies, swing as high as you can on a swing set, by moonlight, cultivate moods, refuse to "be responsible." do it for love, take lots of naps, give money away—do it now, the money will follow, believe in magic, laugh a lot. celebrate every gorgeous moment, take moonbaths. have wild imaginings, transformative dreams, and perfect calm, draw on the walls, read everyday, imagine yourself magic, giggle with children, listen to old people, open up. dive in. be free, bless yourself, drive away fear, play with everything, entertain your inner child—you are innocent, build a fort with blankets, get wet. hug trees, write love letters.
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Pope Grant Reeher '82 celebrates during a medieval party sponsored by Zeta in the spring of 1980.
