Class of 1979

WELCOME TO ANDOVER'S CLASS OF 1979 PAGE

CLASS OFFICERS

Class Secretaries:

Amy Appleton

Rick Moseley

Doug Segal

Head Agent:

E. Foster Conklin, Jr.

30th Reunion Liaison: TBD
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Message from the Class of 1979 Webkeeper: 

This is the class of 1979's webpage.  It can be everything we dream of, as long as we dream modestly.  It can be a place for announcements, links to class notes, pictures from the past and present, births of babies or graduations, and especially for up-to-date reunion information when that rolls around in a couple of years.  But I need you to help by letting me know what you'd like to see on our page.  I'm here to serve, to the utmost extent of my ever so limited ability.

A Formal Plea:  Please send pictures  for the website to this email address - current life moments, local chapter events,  memories made long ago - whatever you are willing to share.  Any size - I'll make them fit.  I'll even scan them if you come across some 1975-79 vintage analog types rolling around your memory chests and want to entrust them to me. (In that case, email me and I'll send you my address.  And I will return them without fail.) To get us started, I'm throwin' down a few from June 2004. 

Class Notes from the Summer 2007 Bulletin

Amy Appleton
2201 Hall Place NW
Washington DC 20007-2217
202-338-3807
Applta9@aol.com

Rick Moseley
7103 Sherman St.
Philadelphia PA 19119
215-753-8809
rmoseley@doxentric.com

Doug Segal
1556 North Orange Grove Ave.
Los Angeles CA 90046
323-969-0708
dougsegal@earthlink.net

PArent Dan Ryan says he would make his "last
trek to PA as an Andover Parent" for son Alex's
graduation in June. Dan runs a small software com-
pany in Laredo, Texas. He is happily married and
has a 13-year-old stepson, who is "a great kid and
a pretty good baseball player." Dan is co-chairing
the 29th Annual Jalapeno Festival, interviewing
Harvard applicants from Laredo, and helping or-
ganize fund-raisers for various organizations.

Geri Pope Bidwell was just back at Pember-
ton Cottage, helping her daughter pack up after
her first two years at Andover. She enthusiasti-
cally encourages classmates to consider Andover
for their own children.

Ranie Crowley Pearce's daughter, Katharine,
will be attending Andover this fall as a lower.
Ranie says it will be fun to have an excuse to visit
PA. In California, Ranie is training for a
marathon this coming October, and a swimming
"Escape from Alcatraz" this June.

After three years in London, Bill Schultz is
planning a move back to the States. His son Josh
'06 loves Cornell, and daughter Rebecca has just
finished her lower year at Andover. Bill's youngest,
Daniel, who has been wearing a "PA Class of '12"
shirt since he was 7, applies in the fall.

Chris Peacock's son Timothy is a junior at
Blair Academy and is starting a college search.
Chris's daughter Katie is a "sweet, happy first-
grader." Chris joined Masterwork chorus in Mor-
ristown, N.J., this past January, and he tells us he
will have the honor of singing Handel's Messiah
in Carnegie Hall on Dec. 22.

Jamie Marks writes, "Mimi Won Techentin has
just succeeded me on the super-delightful Abbot
Academy Association board." During Jamie's six
years of service, he reports, the association "made
grants of about $2.5 million to projects large and small at PA.
To celebrate my expanded leisure
time, my partner, Mark, and our 5-year-olds, Ann
and Peter, will be sailing away this summer on one
of Rosie O'Donnell's cruises populated with
gay/lesbian-headed families with children."

Daniel Wheeler had an open studio to show a
new suite of his photos. He is scheduled for a gallery
show in Easthampton, N.Y., this summer and a mu-
seum show of them in San Diego in December.
Daniel's whole family sings on the weekends with
a gospel choir started by his wife, Maggie.

Howard Stearn and his business partner have
moved their structural engineering firm of 16
years to a new office in downtown Chicago,
across the street from the Sears Tower. For fun,
he and Dave Daskal will attempt to fly a large
radio-controlled model glider in a park south of
the Sears Tower. "We're hoping to make the
evening news (and stay out of jail)."

Bruce Aylward has his "own shingle" in Bend,
Ore., where he works on the economics of water
and ecosystems. His children, Rianna, 13, Calvin,
11, and Nolan, 6, all play soccer. Bruce's daugh-
ter's team just won the state championship and is
headed to regionals.

Stevie Lake wrote from Italy, where she said
she was "going to the Mille Miglia (a vintage car
"race") and eating the best food in the world with
a bunch of other vintage car nuts!"

Robert Doar moved from the Hudson Valley
to N.Y.C. with his wife, Sara, and their four chil-
dren to work for Mayor Bloomberg as the com-
missioner of the city's welfare agency. "For
someone who grew up in Brooklyn," he says, "it is
great to be back."

Cathy Barr Taylor has two daughters, ages 15
and 12, and is a full-time volunteer in Wellesley,
Mass., and a part-time strategic marketing con-
sultant to a few small businesses in the area. She
says she is "leveraging" 10 years at Kraft Foods in
Chicago in brand management," and is "looking
into a career switch into life as a math teacher."

Tory Read lives in Denver with husband
David Grinspoon. Tory, a photographer and a
writer, is working on her first book, and adds, "I'm
also touring an exhibition of photographs I shot
documenting a Samoan clan in the South Pacific
and their experience of globalization." Tory re-
cently heard from Tom Lloyd, who is living in
Los Angeles and doing very well.

Bill Miles says he recently moved to Wood-
stock, N.Y., "to hang with the hippies in the
Catskill Mountains." He is still photographing, is
traveling to Iceland in July for an advertising
shoot, and had a fine-art show at a gallery in
Woodstock in May. "Between kids' activities, I
am trying to cycle when it's warm and ski when it
snows. Life is good!"

Forty Conklin is busy with lots of little-league
games for both children, Foster and Janet. Forty
says his work at Merrill "marches on in West
Nyack," and sometimes he wishes he could "jump
back to an afternoon on the Vista so many years
ago for some Frisbee."

In August 2006, Neil Sheehy married Julie
Rumley, a widow with five children. "Our com-
bined family (including nine children) lives in
Minneapolis, Minn. It seems that all of us have
made an amazing adjustment to our new life."

Neil is a lawyer representing NHL players in his
sports agency business.

Parker Rockefeller lives in Annapolis, Md.,
with wife Jeanette and their children, Connor,
16, Jake, 14, and Abby, 10. Parker runs a big non-
profit in Baltimore that provides education and
job training programs for disadvantaged kids,
which he calls "very challenging and rewarding!"

Thanks for great responses. Please excuse my
editorial hatchet. Until next time, see you in the
notes. Amy

PHOTO GALLERY

Got pictures? Send 'em in!  Previous reunions, regional events, kids' recitals, your favorite toys...share them here. 

PRIMING THE PUMP -- Here are some from our 25th Reunion in 2004.  (Click on an image below to enlarge.)

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(For any of those who remember me at our 25th reunion as "the pregnant one," our third son, Riley, was born September 3, 2004.)