1981
Mark your calendars for October 23-24 when we’ll celebrate our 50th birthdays together at Homecoming Weekend—details on the ’81 Web site. Shelley Warren Wieler speaks for most of us when she says, “Personally, I am terrified of turning 50, but a group party sounds like a great panacea!” Shelly finds time to serve on the Medway, Massachusetts, school committee in between substitute teaching at Medway High and cantoring at funerals. She has two kids in college, one daughter planning to start at Ithaca College in the fall and a fourth in high school.
John Sconzo caught up with me upon his return from visiting son LJ at Dartmouth First Year Family Weekend, where he got to play pong with Tom Waldo and his son. John is a full-time anesthesiologist living in upstate Queensbury, New York, but these days he also indulges a passion for food, with a small, fledgling business as a food photojournalist. As John says, “What began as a hobby and a passion has morphed into a busy but fun small business of chronicling the food world from top restaurants to small farms to international culinary congresses. The exposure to world-class chefs affords me entry into an amazing world of creativity from a vantage point few non-chefs ever get to see.”
SHE [share, help, empower] Network is a nonprofit organization based on Boston’s North Shore that provides assistance for women in transition. Julie Stiles Matuschak and a few like-minded professional women are developing SHE and its volunteers to help women facing overwhelming situations in their life such as cancer, domestic turmoil, financial stress, etc. “Getting this organization up and running has been a great way to give back to the community and to give others the chance to get involved to do the same,” says Julie. When not working with SHE Julie is judicial case manager for the Essex Probate and Family Court. She lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with son Alex (16) and daughter Jennie (13). Her oldest, Nick, is a junior at BC.
Larry Dunn and his wife, Cindy, live in Plymouth, Massachusetts, with 17-year-old daughter Aileen. Daughter Bridget is a junior at Mt. Holyoke; older sister Reilly finished her M.S. in library science at Pitt last summer. Larry writes, “With only one child at home we get out a couple or three times a month to see bands. (As I write this I’m at The Dead show—lots of down time while they’re noodling around—I bet but can’t prove that Pete Weller is here somewhere.) I play soccer two or three times a week and will admit, under pressure, to being, age-adjusted, a damned fine goalkeeper!” Larry’s at BNY Mellon Wealth Management, where he’s traded asset-backed and residential and commercial mortgage- backed securities since late 1996. Despite the economy Larry notes, “Being an investment- grade, unleveraged shop, we’ve had three good years, driven mostly by clean living relative to our peers.”
Nancy Milholland writes from San Francisco, “For nine years I’ve been working at Genentech in IT and helping out at St. Gregory of Nyssa (Episcopal Church) as a priest. For fun I’m learning Irish as well as piano. I’ve also started playing the drums, something I did as a kid. I got my hip resurfaced a year and a half ago—it’s the ‘young’ person’s hip replacement. I’m back to playing ice hockey a couple of times a week and, more importantly, walking pain free.” Nancy caught up with Frances Wood recently when she was visiting the Bay area from Washington, D.C., for an energy conference.
On a sad note, James Albert Grubbs died on December 1, 2008. Our condolences go out to his family.
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