SPRING 2019 PEARLS AND SEAWEED NUMBER 59

Tackling Climate Justice: Let the daily tide leave some deposit on these pages, as it leaves sand and shells on the shore...This may be a calendar of Maxine Burkett f92 the ebbs and flows of the soul; and on these sheets as a beach, the waves may cast up pearls and seaweed. by Sarah Leibovitz s19 –Henry David Thoreau

ecently Maxine Burkett spoke to us about her work as a law dinner and he responded by pointing silently at a live chicken. After Rprofessor, researching the implications of climate change for graduating high school, Maxine attended Williams College and the the world’s geopolitical landscape—climate displacement, migra- U.C. Berkeley Law School. She now works as a law professor at tion, and relocation—and how national and international legal sys- the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. tems can be used to help people at risk of losing their land. She opened her presentation with the idea that climate change is not Maxine was always interested in the environment, but her time the elephant in the room, so much as the octopus in the parking lot. here made her appreciate how lucky she was to know the natural She then showed us an image of a parking lot at high tide in Miami world so well. with an octopus parked behind an SUV. Something that Maxine said that really stuck with me was that she In her most recent article, “Behind the Veil: Climate Migration, didn’t say it is up to young people to save the world, but that it is Regime Shift, and a New Theory of Justice,” Maxine discusses how up to all of us. And also that it was okay to feel sad about it tonight, climate change threatens worldwide stability, and how we need a but that we wake up in the morning and do something about it. “swift, just, and equitable response.” Because we don’t know what climate change will do to the world’s socio-political landscape, Maxine describes the world as behind a “veil of ignorance,” We asked some teachers to respond to Maxine’s presentation: similar to political philosopher John Rawls’ well-known thought experiment. “Maxine put clear words and images In particular, she focuses on the people to an aspect of climate reality that I who have and will be displaced by the haven’t found the words for myself, and effects of climate change; these people that I need to pay attention to. But then do not fit into the legal definition ofa I went back to Derby House that night, refugee, and often belong to communities assuming somehow that the girls would least responsible for climate change, such feel equally positive. They didn’t—at as small island nations and indigenous least not that night. They were so sad coastal peoples, both threatened by rising about what they had heard. They needed sea levels. I think her closing words said time, literally, to grieve over Maxine’s it all: “The sincere hope is that we will presentation. That experience made me choose the least-worst option.” wonder: As we educate students, how much curriculum should we devote to On Tuesday morning, Maxine and I curtailing carbon emissions, and how walked around campus together. We much curriculum to climate adaptation visited the twin lambs who had been and justice? How do we help students born the previous morning and went up see the hard truths about climate change to Conard, where Maxine lived during Maxine Burkett f92 while inspiring them toward action?” her time here. Maxine remarked that not —Alden Smith much had changed here in 27 years. “I found Maxine’s talk to be sobering and inspiring. While I Maxine is originally from Jamaica, but her family left when often think about the limitations of global governance from the she was very young, moving to N.Y.C. where Maxine attended perspective of addressing the root causes of climate change, the Spence School in Manhattan. Despite growing up in such an Maxine got us thinking urban environment, Maxine had some experience with farm life about the gaping holes Continued from page 6: Maxine Burkett in Jamaica. She remembers once asking her uncle what was for we’ll face in dealing with

1 Letter from the DIRECTOR

Twilight of the Ash

By Alden Smith

love white ash trees. I find old groves of them in steep, rich to identify—has become sacred. We return to the same groves I soil—often north and northwest facing—near remote streams every spring to search among the tangle of living ash roots. Morels and marshes that make logging tricky. The season of discovery are rare—harvesting a few dozen would make a banner year, tends to be winter and early spring, when I ski after tracks of bob- according to one guidebook. They are ephemeral—only growing cat, fisher, and coyote. I’m following the trail through hemlock and in late May and early June. They’re delicious—perhaps the maple; suddenly I find myself in a cradle of old ash that feels more choicest edible in all the north woods. And they’re maddening—a ancient than it is. white ash grove that grows two-dozen morels one year will often yield nothing the following. Fast-growing, light, and strong—white ash enjoys special status in the north woods as well as in our forestry program. Each leaf I’m grateful for this twilight season for the ash, which has lasted has seven leaflets, making an excellent shade tree. And there’s longer than Markus Bradley predicted. Every morel mushroom I nothing quite like pounding a maul through a block of ash, having find among the roots of an old, healthy stand feels like agiftI it split perfectly in half. Forestry manager Kit Halsey Leckerling don’t deserve. There’s no saving the trees, but I wonder: in the sometimes hauls ash logs from our woodlots to library hill so that next few years, through savoring white ashes and documenting students can split wood as a study break. It’s sweet to watch them them, through splitting wood and collecting mushrooms, maybe out there, pounding away. Still, in my heart, there’s something else we’ll strengthen our resolve to protect other treasures that seem that makes the white ash special. like they’ll last forever. We’re on the verge of losing so much of what I grew up taking for granted: coral reefs, coastlines, glaciers, These magnificent trees are doomed. Fifteen years ago, Mountain the wild polar bear. Knowledge of imminent threat may hurt my School forester Markus Bradley told me that every ash would be heart, but it also deepens my gratitude for what’s here now. I’m dead within the decade. The emerald ash borer—a small beetle stronger for it, surely. from Asia—arrived in Michigan in 2002 and has been on the march every It can be motivating too. For the next since. Hundreds of millions of trees year, students and teachers will be are already gone. One year ago, an joining our neighbors in GPS-mapping infestation finally appeared just north all the roadside ashes in Vershire. of Vershire. I wish I could say that Our plan is to help the town identify there’s hope for white ash survival in the trees and plan for a program of my lifetime. But the bugs are coming, harvest and wise use that protects our and once the larvae get inside the roadways, power lines, and economy. bark, that tree’s a goner. Even if we’re powerless to stop the emerald ash borer, hope comes from My love of the white ash can also doing something—together—to make be traced to a secret. I remember the it all better. This group effort will first time I stumbled upon a trove of save the town thousands of dollars, morel mushrooms in an ash forest. I strengthen social bonds, and deepen was walking with Liz Niemiec f98 our resilience against future threats. and some other alumni near a remote marsh at their ten-year reunion. We We’ve lost the chestnut, the elm, and passed through some giant white ash Missy Smith among morel mushrooms much of the beech. Let’s cherish these trees and practically tripped over the good old days when white ash are morels. We harvested a dozen big ones right around us, and I still plentiful, and morels too. I keep faith in the durability of our returned to that area alone the next day, returning home with many woodlands, which are still thriving now in ways they were not more. two centuries ago. The morel is only the fruiting body of a vast underground network of fungi—a complex tangle of associations Since then, morel hunting has become an obsession in our beneath our feet. I hope for deep resistance within that soil, for household, where the white ash—the first tree our children learned strong resilience within ourselves.

2 FACULTY NOTES: We Tried That By Jack Kruse

enjoy turning through alumni magazines of big schools. They • Five maternal hens (to warm the chicks in case of a power I detail exciting initiatives—pilot programs, green libraries, fit- outage; the hens bullied the chicks) ness centers—and they should, in part because those ships are so • Guinea hens, geese, ducks, breeding sow and boar, guard hard to turn. And also because their communications office has dog, guard donkey, work horse (Mostly not worth the effort. access to colorful graphics, architectural renderings of the project We moved the boar on, for instance, when we realized we were ahead, tiny students strolling in the courtyard. These aspirational housing and feeding a 700-pound lethargic beast, year-round, for paintings make for terrific cover art, and they prepare alumni— three minutes of utility.) who hope their alma mater will never change—to accept that they will return to a campus transformed. Bad Idea from the Start: What were we thinking? • Shooting skunks during director Anne Stephens’ lecture in the It’s different here. We don’t change the look of the place much, library* and we get to start fresh twice a year. It’s easy to experiment in a • Blowing up woodchucks during lunch on Farm Day** school with a cultural memory of sixteen weeks, easy to change the • Licensing students to drive tractors and trucks on campus lunchtime, say, or the dress code. (Lunch is at 12:30 now, by the • Blasting wood chips into the shed with the tractor-mounted way, and we’re no longer allowed to wear cotton in cold weather.) snow blower We’ve had our share of improvements along the way, but I’ve been • Sailing aluminum canoes full of sledders down a luge run on thinking recently about the experiments that bombed. Here are few Underwood Hill things we don’t do anymore, at least not for the time being. Historically significant Okay idea at the time; times changed • The Cow Pie Cow by environmental artist Alan Sonfist • The Dating Game (role-playing a gender-binary Chuck Barris (cowpies in an outline of a cow, which for years left a trace of TV show—studio band, painted sets, costumes, wigs, the whole longer grass in that pasture) shebang) • STRAP week (half the students on solo, half on campus doing a • Final exhibitions (a single demonstration of all skills, group project, then swapping roles; discontinued when finally got knowledge, and attitudes acquired over the course of the 45 sleeping bags. STRAP stood for nothing in particular, despite semester) the speculation.) • Rock climbing (discontinued for impact on bobcat habitat) • White sugar served in the dining hall October 1984-June 2018 • Pond in the center of campus (dug as a firepond, supplied by the (The original Mountain School never served those empty calories, Underwood well, leaked year-round) and we began in ’84 with that policy, then bowed to public • Halloween parties for local schoolchildren (the elementary demand within a month. Now, with plenty of honey and maple school moved out of town) sugar, there’s no need for cane.) • Squeegeeing as part of the mopping protocol (its advocate Dave Stephens retired) It makes sense to repeat experiments, even when they haven’t worked out the first time. Still, when a new teacher floats a bright Still a good idea, but we can’t find a way to make it work idea—to flood a pasture for hockey or get a team of oxen—it’s • Change and Choice (independent project on global challenges hard for us curmudgeons not to block it. We fold our arms and and adaptation) grumble, “We tried that.” • Core-curriculum art class (ungraded, once a week for all students) Please send your thoughts about bright ideas, Guinea hens, • Restoration (a free period, protected from meetings and squeegees, curmudgeons, or carrot juice to Jack.Kruse@ homework) mountainschool.org. • No shoes in the dining hall (too many scofflaws, leaving the others with wet socks) * About those skunks—a whole family of them, feasting daily on • Daily food chores: carrot juice for morning snack, cheese and the compost piles by the henhouse, all getting to be dog-sized and crackers for dorm check-in (the carrot juice was bland and sludgy, bold. It wouldn’t be long before they’d be in the henhouse itself, and no one remembered to pick up the snack) eating the eggs and the chickens themselves. Jim Leonard and I waited for dusk when all the students were occupied with Anne in Worth the experiment; might have worked the library, and if the skunks lined up, we imagined we could take • Showers with timers, solar drying closet (installed in Conard as care of them with a pair of shotguns. It worked great. We took all green initiatives—scrapped immediately) five on the first volley—and since they were already in the compost • Weighing uneaten food for table-by-table competition pile, they could complete the circle of life in situ. Well, we thought (grotesque) it worked great, but of course we were upwind with hearing • Anemometer on Garden Hill (to test wind for a turbine; too little protection, and the library wind to justify the real estate) doors were wide open, Continued on page 6: We Tried That • Growing potatoes in hay (they grew fast but hollow-hearted) downwind.

3 Kruse Excel: a Tale of Technology By Sam Kelman, Work Program Manager, Sugarmaker

ow do you decide what piece of technology to embrace or an old fashioned version of excel? Surely with my modern mind I Hignore? I’ve been thinking about this in terms of the work should be able to adapt Google Docs to Kruse docs, right? But still, program. Over the last six seasons in sugaring, for example, I’ve I committed myself to doing Jack’s method this semester. After 35 slowly introduced a natural-vacuum tubing system in the sug- years, he must have a reason for doing things by hand. arbush which has helped gather more sap, spread the workload throughout the semester, and given the students a more realistic A few days before the Spring ’19 semester started, I drew up the vision of what a modern sugarbush looks like. This semester, I’ve board, filled in the names, and felt like a defensive football coach started taking over the responsibility of managing the school’s who had not seen his players or his opponents yet. The first Sunday work program. Since the first semester, Jack has been the archi- morning as the students started stumbling into the dining hall, I was tect of the semester, managing work requests from the faculty (and dividing them up into science hike, activities, outdoor program and sometimes students), and creating groups of students who would work, trying to make sure I didn’t put half of a dorm on wood get the job done in the 150 minutes we have every day. These jobs crew together. The board was filling in just as if Jack himself was vary from mucking the chicken barn, peeling onions and garlic for there coloring the small squares yellow to represent Monday, or a meal (where we serve an average of 70 people), splitting wood penciling in “POD” which stands for “Sewing and Podcast,” an for our boilers, or harvest- activity led by graduate ing in the garden. Similar resident Emily Sartin f11. to the Mountain School’s After the first couple days, I practice of filling in a dining realized I would be pulling room table before choosing this board out maybe four a seat at the next one, the or five times a day, when work program is an area of students didn’t know where the school where students they were supposed to be, get to know each other and or if I needed to switch a the faculty outside of dorms student into “Science Hike” and the classroom. But how because they had missed it do you make sure that room- earlier in the week due to mates are not on every work a doctor’s appointment. I period together? Or that the started to become attached same four students don’t end to the colorful board and up always mopping the din- the way it captured the work ing hall? How do you make and part of the semester, the sure that every student gets way it felt in my hands. I get to experience the different the same sort of feeling after aspects of the work here? stacking firewood, where Well it ain’t easy. you can plainly see the work you’ve done and know that Jack has developed a 2 by 3 ft board with hand drawn graph paper your house will be warm in winter. After just one week, I could covered with tiny letters and color codes. Sounds complicated, look at the board and see the huge amount of work the students right, well it is. In the Fall, Jack left for a few days for an EMT had already done. training, and I filled in for him. I got a five minute lesson on the board, where I nodded my head and looked like I was absorbing it The board is so large that I don’t take it with me anywhere. This all, when in fact, it was more like a 60-75% retention level. He left, means I don’t take the work home with me and therefore I don’t and I was there staring at the small colored squares with initials overmanage it. It also means my kids can’t spill things all over it. In like “GD” which meant livestock work with Gwynne Durham, or these “modern” times where you can sit on a tractor in the middle “MOP,” which meant, well, mop. The students were listed in squares of a hay field responding to email, check your phone for weather by dorms and inside more squares that listed them by room. Each reports as you drift off to sleep, and then just take a quick peek at day had a color, and each student has three work periods, except your email and feel obliged to respond, so-called convenience has Saturday where all 45 students are working. Follow me? Didn’t also become a burden. But when I get an email about some change think so. After a few minutes of placing students in jobs and then in a student’s schedule, I take it slow. I know the board will be erasing that list because someone I assigned to “wood moving” waiting for me, tucked behind the cabinet in the dining hall ready had just done it the last work period, I began to get the rhythm. By for any last minute changes the next morning. Turns out, it’s a lot the end of the three days, I felt comfortable that I could continue more convenient to have a giant 2 by 3 foot board that can barely this system for a few more days. So, when it came time for me to fit into the front seat of my car, than an app on my laptop that tries take on this responsibility entirely this semester, my first thought to think for me. Thanks, Jack. was one of modernization. I thought to myself, isn’t this board just

4 Farm and Dining: Less...and Better? By Liana Horster, Farm Manager and Alison Baker, Dining Manager

wo years into our collaboration on farm- and dining-related Yet, any way you measure it, the school community eats a lot of Tplanning, the number of questions seems a constant, even with food the farm does not – cannot – produce. We might grow all our progress and increased clarity in many areas. Here’s a look at how potatoes, but not enough tomatoes. What, then, about our claim to we’ve decided to make some practical changes to our linked pro- self sufficiency? Barring drastic changes to our diet, to our labor duction strategies. model, or to our production methods, there is no way our farm could meet that need across the board. Until quite recently, aiming for maximum production has been our way of meeting stated values of having a real, working farm, growing to meet our consumption needs, and fulfilling the goal of “food from here.” There have been significant educational benefits to it: When we aim to produce as much as possible of what we are going to eat here on the home farm, students gain a more realistic perspective on the operational scale required, and directly experience some limited but real sense of the intensity of labor necessary for that level of food production.

Another, less-visible yet compelling reason to produce as much of our food as possible relates to nutrients. Our production methods are focused on maximizing nutrients throughout the system, with the objective of delivering the greatest nutrition to the end product (plants, animals or humans), a luxury many commercial farmers do not have. Prioritizing regenerative methods that maintain and build optimal health precludes the seemingly obvious shift to efficiency through mechanization. The healthiest agriculture-based food system for humans, livestock and plants relies on more human Was self-sufficiency still the right goal to aim for? We wondered. labor, not less; it is labor-intensive by design. We see farming this Should we be trying to produce as much of every vegetable as way as both a responsibility and an opportunity; we nourish bodies possible? We certainly didn’t need to; we are not an island, in fact, to the fullest and make clear the fundamental connection between the Mountain School is located in one of the richest regions in the food and health, and this requires time and effort. country in terms of availability of high quality, locally produced foods. And they are accessible to us economically. Oh, but have mercy on the potato diggers! Remember the interminable, tedious, mundane work of hand-harvesting, week As part of the global food system, located where we are, it makes after week throughout the fall term even until fingers emerge sense for us to think about the best use of our privilege. We have the numbed from working in almost-frozen soil? Was the refrain that responsibility to model for our students what ethical participation this is what it takes to grow all our potatoes in the healthiest way in a thriving local food system looks like. It asks us to redefine any consolation then? We could almost see them dreaming of fuel- our sense of food from “here,” expanding it from on campus to guzzling tractors (or, more likely, robots) that would liberate them taking a regional view of place-based eating, as an embodiment from this work. And, indeed, we wondered too about the limits of of our mission’s goal to know a place and take care of it. How the educational value of this necessary work. can we best support not just ourselves but our community’s need for healthy, sustainable food? How can we best support producers Should we grow fewer potatoes, then? Less time in the potato to keep their farms practicing regenerative agricultural production field would mean more time for other educational opportunities, methods? How can we demonstrate that we value their stewardship and a loss of the comprehensive understanding through physical, efforts? How can we, as an institution, actively help to protect visceral experience of what it takes to grow, harvest, and process and strengthen a thriving regional food system? By buying from that quantity of food using regenerative methods. But, it could other farmers and forming partnerships, we are positioned to more be argued, the students don’t really get that experience, anyway, visibly dispel the myth of independence, replacing it instead with participating in only a fraction of the year’s production cycle at a more accurate narrative of interdependence. best. What, then, should we grow? Eat? What factors should limit the And we, at least, could see that growing all of our foods in this quantities of food we produce? What system and quantity of way was impossible. The narrative for why we grow our own food production has the most educational value in terms of student at all has always turned on self-sufficiency, celebrations of what participation? What are the ethical traps here? Is it ethical to we did ourselves: “eighty percent of our vegetables,” “all of our “outsource” soil-depleting practices to other local commercial meat, eggs, and maple” “seventy percent of all our food,” or “most growers who have no Continued on page 12: Farm & Dining of our food,” are regularly included in promotional materials. choice but to rely on

5 Harvest Kitchen: My Home Away From Home By Kareen Obydol-Alexandre, French Teacher

ands washed, hair tied, apron on, knife safety course re- in control in the harvest kitchen. Now, I just have to follow Kathy Hviewed, silence for ten minutes. Food prep, GO! Hooke’s advice and eat raw garlic when I have a cold, and my love story with garlic will be complete. When I was growing up in Guadeloupe, I never cooked with my mother. She wanted me to focus entirely on school. However, she allowed me to take on a handful of tasks in the kitchen, tasks that I truly enjoyed. These included cleaning the guts out of fresh fish as soon as they were caught from the ocean, cutting off parts of a chicken and, my favorite, peeling garlic.

I also spent my childhood taking care of my tropical garden— growing everything from sugar cane to bananas to flowers—and caring for some animals, including goats, donkeys, horses and pigs. It should come as no surprise, then, that I was completely intimidated by Garden Hill’s beautiful crops when I first encountered them. I could not identify most of them, nor could I orient myself to the different rows of vegetables. If there was no label, it was over! I love weeding, but I worried about unearthing perfectly healthy plants because I would think they were weeds.

I soon found my safe place, though, in the harvest kitchen. There, I.am.home, and garlic is my favorite ingredient to prepare for the chefs. Give me buckets of garlic from the squash room, and let the peeling start. Whether the task is just to separate cloves or take their delicate film off, it’s a treat that brings me back to Sainte- Anne, Guadeloupe. Except for the day that I confused shallots L-R: Kareen Obydol-Alexandre and s19 students with onions (they were, after all, the same size and color!), I feel Oliver Zink, Helen Sileshi, and Olivia Bush

Continued from page 1: Maxine Burkett Continued from page 3: We Tried That the geopolitical fall-out. Beyond that, Maxine inspired me to reflect ** Rob’s dog, Delphinium, used to eliminate the woodchucks on the incredible gift and awesome responsibility of teaching at around here, but Delphi died, and we began finding craters in the the Mountain School. How do I harness the hope and potential hayfields, defoliation in the garden. The woodchucks got wise to of each new cohort and give them tools to work for change in the Have-a-Heart traps, so we began experimenting with shock a world full of challenges? I think for me it all comes down to and awe. The technique is to flow propane from a barbecue tank giving my students an opportunity to connect deeply with a place and oxygen from the welding cart (both are denser than air) down and with each other, to help them understand the complexity and into a woodchuck hole, until the mixture fills the warren. We have interconnectedness of earth systems, and to relentlessly challenge a sparking gizmo on a long cable, which allows us to get well them to communicate clearly. Soon this current batch will say away, flat on the ground, wearing helmets and turnout gear, before goodbye to the place they’ve come to love and head out into a we ignite it. The explosion is impressive, rocking the earth and world that needs them more than ever. It gives me hope for the blowing rocks and dirt out of every hole. We were sure everybody future of this planet to think of them joining Mountain School was in the noisy dining hall before we did it, but we didn’t know alumni working for the common good in so many different ways, that there was a family visiting, enjoying their lunch on Derby in so many corners of the world.” porch, when bits of Garden Hill and woodchuck rained down from —Kathy Hooke, Environmental Science and Math the sky.

6 Greetings From the Admissions Desk By Emily Boren, Director of Admissions

his year marked my fifth admissions season at the Mountain A few numbers: TSchool. The night before I made the final list for each semester, I couldn’t sleep. I was too excited about the future students. I kept • 205 total applicants for 90 spots (fewer than last year) running through names, stories and lists in my head. My husband • 65% girls, 34% boys, 1% self-identified or gender non- was surprised: “It’s not like it’s your first time doing this—you conforming (much higher number of boy applicants than past should relax! Give yourself a break and trust in the process!” If years - last year was only 27% boys) only it were that easy. Each of the 90 spots feels like an enormous • 23% of the overall applicant pool from New York City area gift that I have the privilege of giving. And conversely, not being schools (slightly lower than last year) able to accept a student that we know would thrive here sits with • 29% students of color (same as last year) me for a long time. The process of reading applications feels like • 32% seeking financial aid (down from 38% last year) reading a book of short stories; I still think of the characters regu- larly. I find myself wondering about past wait list students who wrote beautiful essays about their family or life experiences— where did they end up? How did their story evolve? It’s one of the many things that makes this job so fulfilling, and challenging.

We had a few big changes in our admissions process this year. Everything has moved online now: students fill out their application online, we read everything digitally and then accepted students use another online platform to submit their enrollment agreement, legal forms, course registration and health information. To counteract the intangibility of that process, we put together a new acceptance packet this year: a simple white box that has the official acceptance letter, a beautiful photograph of campus and a small bottle of our homemade maple syrup. We enjoyed sharing a small taste of our school with accepted students, and we heard from a lot of families that they enjoyed the creative take on a traditional acceptance packet. Dillon Sheekey f18 While that process changed, the process of finding these applicants was very much the same! We still rely on a lot of help from alums. Here is one of my favorite essays from last year’s admission This year, that list included many alums from the Fall ’17 and season. Dillon Sheekey was just here this past fall, and wrote this Spring ’18 semesters who were back home in their senior year, essay for his application to the Mountain School a year ago. especially Andres Santana s18, Dante Filippetto f17, and Phoebe Kinder s18 who gave presentations, and Anna McNulty s18 and Lily Laesch s18 who hosted open houses for prospective students Dillon Sheekey f18, Fieldston School at their homes in New York and Seattle. Nick Martin f09 and Carl Neisser f09 presented at their alma mater, Collegiate, in New The most exciting time at the Natural History Museum is from five York. Bowdoin students Maddie Hikida s17, Sophie Friedman to six o’clock in the evening. During most hours, the museum feels f14, and Aida Muratoglu s15 teamed up to visit a local school like a busy New York City subway, but once the clock hits five, it in Maine. Ben Friedman f03 presented at a school in California, is magically transformed into peace and quiet. and Aarav Sundaresh s00 presented at Classical High School, the school where he teaches in Providence, RI. Jake Upton s88 I used to savor the five to six o’clock sliver; it was my time to draw and Jared Liu s94 also presented at schools in their area. Even the animals that enchanted the halls of the museum. As I trudged one of our most recent alumni, Tristan Connell f18, stepped up to with my oversized sketch pad dragging on the marble floor, my give a presentation at his school with senior Brooke Nyman f17 footsteps ruptured the silence. Gazing through the thick display just weeks after returning from his own semester! We couldn’t do glass, I thought of myself as a contemporary Picasso, dissecting this work without alumni help. If you’re interested in representing each animal into abstract shapes and curves. the Mountain School at a local high school in your area next year, please let us know! One day, I planted my heavy sketchpad next to a display of a rabbit. Once set up, I lightly skimmed the thick paper with my pencil As we waited to hear back from accepted students in April, I was and outlined the figure. Comparing my drawing with the creature sure some would go to other programs, some would choose to in front of me, I made out stay home, and eventually we’d end up with 90 students, 45 each several differences between Continued on page 12: Admissions semester. I can’t wait to see how their stories unfold. the two. My

7 Welcome to Spring 2019

A good semester for: A bad semester for:

• Doing less...better: We decided to give some maples a • Optimism: Maxine Burkett (f92), speaking before the rest and tap 300 fewer trees than last year. Yet we still had school, spelled out the human and societal calamity of a great season, making 155 gallons of syrup. climate change so cogently that we were robbed of all • American insularity: London resident Allegra Albanese denial. s19 fielded so many questions from classmates about • Dog doo: Eleven dogs either live on campus or come to Brexit that she spent her entire morning humble giving a work with their owners—a Mountain School record. Brexit for Dummies. • Codes and passwords: We’re testing different • Adolescent playdates: Students have turned Friday systems for how to lock the dorms at night. The day evenings into arranged conversations with peers they want a combination lock was installed on Derby House, to get to know better. everyone ended up being locked out, even the residents. • Winter: The final patch of snow finally disappeared from • Grass regeneration: The Miles boys play Spikeball library hill on May 7th. every day, turning their dooryard into a mud pit.

Student Artwork

Abby Iliff s19 ink and watercolor leaf transposed into four emotions

Olivia Bush s19 Andrew Willwerth s19 self-portrait, pastel self-portrait, acrylic in the style of Pablo Picasso in the style of Vincent Van Gogh

Zar Cordova-Potter s19 self-portrait ink and watercolor

Sarah Leibovitz s19 watercolor

8 Spring 2019 Photo Gallery

TMS Bookshelf

Here in This Island We Arrived: Fierce Joy: Shakespeare and Belonging Choosing Brave Over Perfect in Immigrant New York to Find My True Voice

By Liz Kinsley f99 By Susie Rinehart, faculty member 2002-2011

n this book, Elisabeth H. Kinsley weaves the stories of racially hat happens when a medical crisis forces you to give up Iand ethnically distinct Shakespeare theatre scenes in late nine- Wperfectionism and your identity as a champion runner? In teenth- and early twentieth-century Manhattan into a single cul- this compelling memoir based on her TEDx talk, Susie Rinehart, tural history, revealing how these communities interacted with former English teacher and Assistant Director at the Mountain one another and how their work influenced ideas about race and School, redefines bravery to include lying down and doing less. belonging in the United States during a time of unprecedented im- She challenges the messages women receive that their worth is migration. measured only by their achievements and their looks, and finds a way forward by choosing brave over perfect. Timely and immensely readable, this book explains This incredible story is about HERE IN THIS how ideas about cultural healing, rediscovering yourself, belonging formed and and becoming a warrior in a new ISLAND WE transformed within a particular way. For anyone who has lost human community at a time their voice in the never-ending ARRIVED of heightened demographic struggle to please others, Susie change. Kinsley’s work will offers hope. In each section of be welcomed by anyone the book she offers a series of interested in the formation takeaways—lessons she learned Shakespeare of national identity, when life forced her to slow and Belonging in Immigrant immigrant communities, down and step back. New York and the history of the theatre scene in New York and the To watch Susie’s TEDx talk on rest of the United States. YouTube, go to: https://bit.ly/2vFJRGr. ELISABETH H. KINSLEY —Penn State University Press

9 News from the Alumni Office

Spring 2019 Garden Hill Fund Grant Recipients retreat center farms in California and Massachusetts. These retreats will allow young people who are grieving to gather in spaces that his spring’s round of the Garden Hill Fund saw 13 applica- are created for them, by them, as an alternative to traditional Ttions from alumni ranging from Fall ’88 to Spring ’15, each re- support spaces. questing anywhere from $1,000 to the maximum grant of $10,000. The range of topics was equally broad, and in the end, the Alumni You can read about the Garden Hill Fund and previous grant Committee and current students in Jack’s Humanities class select- recipients and apply online at mountainschoolalumni.org/garden- ed the following four proposals: hill-fund.

Augustus Griffin f08 – $1,141 Apis arborea – Vermont Garden Hill Fund fall application deadline: The goal of the Apis arborea project is to focus attention on bees September 15, 2019 themselves rather than their product, honey. By further centering www.mountainschoolalumni.org/garden-hill-fund on trees—bees’ natural habitat—beekeepers can begin to develop strategies to help bees persist in a climate that is increasingly toxic to their existence. The project will provide natural nest sites for bees in the form of hollowed logs placed in trees, and the apiaries will be defined by watersheds. Using alternative hive designs and progressive beekeeping techniques, bees will be encouraged to evolve with the environment they inhabit. In addition, Augustus plans to act as an ambassador in the watershed, seeking out fellow beekeepers and working with them to curb the influx of exotic genes.

Ben Weiss s15 – $9,000 Summer Session: You’re Invited! Havenly Fellowship – New Haven, CT July 26-28, 2019 Havenly (www.havenlytreats.com) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to support and empower unemployed female refugees in n 2018, the Alumni Committee and the Mountain School began New Haven, one of the largest centers for refugee resettlement Ia new tradition: a weekend of alumni teaching alumni across all in the United States. A major obstacle facing refugee women is semesters, held at the Mountain School. The first Summer Session unemployment, as the city’s integration efforts are mainly focused featured workshops on a wide range of topics, from carbon pricing on men and heads of household. This funding will support the and building a values-based career to beekeeping, design think- expansion of Havenly’s culinary fellowship program, which ing, yoga, fiction writing, timber framing, and more. Intriguing combines paid work experience with educational workshops to and inspiring sessions, combined with evenings of bonfires and prepare refugee women for employment. entertainment, amazing homemade meals, and all-day activities for children, made for an incredibly fun and fulfilling weekend. Carmen Ribadeneira s15 – $2,750 And the feedback from attendees, many of whom are planning to Cooking Supplies for Grinnell High School – Grinnell, IA come back this year, was overwhelmingly positive. One attendee This project—an expansion of the existing work of Local later wrote, “My family and I enjoyed our weekend at the Moun- Foods Connection (www.localfoodsconnection.com) in the tain School more than I can properly describe.” Grinnell-Newburg School District—aims to improve the health of low-income students and families in the district and improve Summer Session returns to campus this July, and you’re invited! knowledge of healthy eating while supporting local farmers and Whether you recently visited campus or you haven’t been to Garden strengthening Grinnell’s sustainable food system. The project will Hill in decades, all alumni are welcome. We want more attendees add local, healthy foods and kitchen tools to the Grinnell High as well as more presenters. If you have expertise to share or School Invisible Closet, a resource that provides items to students something about which you’re excited and knowledgeable, please and families in need. consider leading a session in this fun and casual environment. Contact Annie Janeway, Director of Alumni Relations (annie. Chloe Zelkha s07 – $7,109 [email protected]) to propose an idea for a session. Young Adult Grief Retreats – California & Massachusetts Chloe, along with workshop facilitators, will run two young adult For all details and to register, go to: grief retreats, bringing together groups of 20- and 30-somethings www.mountainschoolalumni.org/summersession from across the country who have experienced significant loss. These residential, weekend-long gatherings will be hosted on Continued on page 43: Alumni

10 At the Table with Alumni Food Entrepreneurs By Annie Janeway, Director of Alumni Relations

f you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to run a farm-to-table res- for materials and product. The treatment and input of employees, Itaurant or what it takes to become an aspiring “B Corp” food en- their benefits and incentives, the diversity of the workforce, and the trepreneur, then sitting down with Irene Li s07 and Claire Cheney socially responsible sourcing of product materials down to things s01 is a great beginning. Thanks to Irene and her team at Mei Mei like toilet paper used at a business, all factor into certification by restaurant, Boston-area Mountain School alumni got such an op- the third-party nonprofit administrator, B Lab. Claire explained portunity this April. About forty graduates and friends enjoyed it is a more detailed process than obtaining the designation of sampling the food prepared and learning from two progressive organic, which involves only a second party. culinary entrepreneurs. Irene, whose business began as a food truck with her siblings in 2012, and Claire, the owner of Curio Another way Claire brings sustainable sourcing and transparency Spice Co. in Cambridge, established in 2015, took turns sharing to customers’ attention is offering educational events and classes the lowdown on the restaurant business, their love of telling stories around spices. Through Curio Spice Co.’s Spice School, one can through food, and practical tips on how to be conscientious cus- dive into the history, aromas, blendings, and cooking traditions that tomers. They shared the inside scoop regarding tipping and server heighten one’s appreciation of flavors. One notable event Claire wages, farm-to-table economics, and the importance of transpar- mentioned was the 2nd anniversary party for her Massachusetts ency in operations and sourcing. Avenue store when local spice farmers came together to share their knowledge of chili peppers and the paprika that is produced Both Irene and Claire work directly with farmers who provide in-state. high quality, sustainably-produced ingredients. Irene focuses on forty farmers she knows in New England and New York, and Being an astute purchaser and appreciator of farm-to-table even obtains maple syrup from former Environmental Science products and cuisine also means paying attention to whether a teacher Tina Hartell. Irene explained that the provenance of staple business composts (look behind the restaurant), asking farmers if ingredients like eggs, flour, butter, is just as important as caring they indeed supply a particular business, and tipping appropriately, about heirloom tomatoes. at least 20%. Irene explained that a restaurant is typically paying for about one-third of the server’s pay, and the other two thirds are Claire’s work involves traveling with her family to meet with up to the customer to contribute. Servers in Massachusetts start at farmers in Curio Spice Co.’s ever widening network. Locally, $4.35 an hour in many places. She advocates patronizing tip-free she obtains and sells seaweed, sea salt, mushrooms and herbs and service-included establishments since they offer a more just from New England. On the global scale, ten different countries system for remunerating food workers. are represented in Curio Spice Co.’s extensive offerings. These are all sourced from fair-trade, sustainable, and organic growers Of course, there is no better tip-free place to dine than in one’s and make their way to restaurants and consumers who buy retail, own home, and both Claire and Irene love helping others develop online, and wholesale. cooking skills. With her new Double Awesome Chinese Food cookbook (Roost Books) and dumpling making classes (which she In the area of business management, both Irene and Claire adhere has previously brought to students at the Mountain School), Irene to a high level of transparency in their business practices. Paying is well positioned to share her food values with alumni and friends servers a strong wage, incentivizing employees to help renegotiate far and wide. And this July, Claire will be on campus for Summer supplier contracts, and pooling tips over two weeks to adjust Session (July 26-28) to lead a workshop in spice blending. Thank for fairness—Irene works with her team to understand the costs you, Irene and Claire, for providing the right ingredients for a involved and the decision-making that affects everyone. Practicing doubly awesome experience. open book management, every four weeks the staff at Mei Mei looks at the profit and loss statements together. “The goal is to get employees invested and interested in how we are making decisions in running the business. And of course, the decisions we make affect them on a day-to-day basis. Working on the front lines of the business, the servers see things I might not notice and can suggest changes that reduce costs and waste.”

Curio Spice Co. was founded as a public benefit corporation and Claire is still pursuing Certified B Corporation status, which is a little more difficult to achieve for small companies. A “B Corp” uses business as a force for good, delivering not just product to customers and profit to stakeholders, but improving the world in some way (think Patagonia or King Arthur Flour). She aims to earn points toward certification, a process that takes into account all aspects of one’s business and connections with other B Corps Irene Li s07 and Claire Cheney s01

11 Continued from page 5: Farm & Dining mechanization for the viability of their businesses? These are the water intensive and we have good perennial substitutes; celeriac, luxurious questions no commercial farmer gets to ponder, and that because we have a good local source; artichokes, because they our institution must grapple with in the context of our role in this are a novelty item and take up too much field space; dry beans, ecosystem. because we lack good processing equipment and we can get them locally. Here’s the harder risk for us to navigate: if we decrease production, at what point does the farm become a token enterprise? The We have also decided to reduce production of the following items potential, when doing less, is that production, and the value of (because of regular surplus and labor): strawberries by 30%; corn human labor in the system will go invisible. How can we help by 50%; leeks by 30%; maple syrup by reducing tapping from 900 students and faculty understand this piece, which has so much to taps to 600 taps; potatoes by 75%. do with the pervasive cultural devaluation of farms and farmers and of direct connection to the land, physical work, manual skills? These are not easy decisions and our hearts ache a little making It’s the main focus of our ongoing work. them. By giving up our stores, we put ourselves again in a vulnerable place of depending on the bounty of our neighbors. And For now, we’ve come to the following practical decisions: we agricultural bounty these days can be hard to come by. Still, when will transition to growing less on our home farm and buying more neighbors show up to deliver a proud harvest of potatoes, we can’t from partner farms, in conjunction with an increase in the kitchen help but feel a little pride too. It’s what neighbors do. budget. The main goals: maximize the educational component (by reducing the urgency and frantic pace of trying to produce to capacity); reduce the total number of students hours in the field, and build resiliency moving forward within our regional food production system.

Here is what we are eliminating from our home farm production this year: onions, because we can get them locally and don’t have good infrastructure for long-term storage; celery, because it is

Continued from page 7: Admissions perfectionism manifested itself as I quickly erased my etchings I cannot stop playing and dwell on it. I must accept my mishap and until the messy residue covered the paper. keep going.

“Remember, don’t erase,” my art teacher Tonja said in a thick, Not erasing my mistakes also allows me to take greater risks. heavy accent. “Dealing with your mistakes is part of the process.” During my first week working for the school newspaper, as the Tonja had a quiet compassion to her, and she encouraged me to editor read out ideas for articles, my feet tapped anxiously on the explore diverse techniques in art, from Surrealism to Cubism. creaky wooden floor. I was nervous to write something that the “What process?” I thought. “Why can’t I erase?” entire school would see and feared that I would take the wrong position or explain it poorly. And once it was printed, there was no The eraser, once a perfect rectangle, was now beaten and torn from way I’d be able to erase it. my rough strokes. As I picked up my pencil, my hands shook over the paper. I felt like grasping the eraser and purifying the drawing “And who wants to do an op-ed on the Las Vegas Shooting?” the of its mistakes, but the art gods were watching over me to make editor asked loudly and enthusiastically. I anxiously raised my sure I didn’t give in to temptation. hand because even though I had my doubts, I also knew I had something to say. I finally put the eraser into my backpack and decided to deal with my mistakes. While wary at first, I began to draw confident lines Two weeks later, my article was published. Throughout the day, my that captured the beauty and curves of the rabbit. My mistakes teachers and classmates greeted me with positive and thoughtful were no longer a burden; they were an asset. As I returned to the feedback. Ever since, I have no longer feared speaking my mind. I museum week after week, I learned to embrace each imperfection, write my authentic opinion and incorporate my personal views and and I became a better artist because of it. style into my work.

This concept, “don’t erase,” is not just limited to art. Whenever I As I continue to embrace new challenges knowing that I won’t fear I’ve made a mistake, I remember my time at the museum. I’m erase my mistakes, I can’t help but be thankful for the five to six reminded that the only way to get better at something is to embrace o’clock slot at the Natural History Museum. the errors you might make along the way. I apply this concept to music because when I perform with my jazz band and miss a note,

12 Alumni Notes

been planning to run the race with me. ment firm after 15 years of government passing through! Spring ’85 We ran our own informal marathon in service. Best wishes to all s85-ers! From Mindy Scott: Official empty and around Elmira, NY (we call it the nester here! That’s the big news. Quite Susan Timpano “C & M Marathon”, since it was just a shift. Familiar but different, just the [email protected] Mike and me), and then three weeks two of us rambling around getting to reetings! We have many wonder- later ended up meeting in Savannah, know each other again after the swirl of Gful updates this spring, so enjoy GA to run the Humana Rock-N-Roll teens in the house. Phil will be graduat- the reading! Marathon. In the end, I think it’s fair to ing from St. Lawrence University this I, Susan, have just returned to say that the training did not go to waste! spring and moving to NYC for a job in teaching after over 10 years of being Running in the Panhandle isn’t the same finance. Sam started Syracuse U this home and parenting full time. It’s a sig- as it was before the storm and won’t be From Liz Brewer: Meg (17) is fall and is contemplating physics as a nificant transition for our whole family, for a long time—as is true with most studying abroad in Rennes, France, major. Greg and I are looking forward but a good one. My kids are learning things around here; it’s hard to even be- with School Year Abroad for her junior to exploring both cities and other far to be more independent, my husband is gin to describe the devastation. Just as year, so Chip, Tim (14), and I went to away places over the next few years. super-supportive and learning how our with a marathon, though, the long haul visit for the holidays. She’s having an I’m contemplating my next chapter as daily routine works, and I feel person- of recovery comes one step at a time. amazing, challenging, life-changing ex- I wind down my career with New York ally fulfilled. The mystery of “where And, it’s often the difficulties of life perience (sound familiar?), and it was State Parks and Rec. So much to do, mom works” was finally dispelled that help shine new light on the many so great seeing her world! like actual recreating! Hope everyone when Clare and Anna came to the blessings it’s otherwise easy to take for is well! school to pick me up and got a glimpse granted. I am so grateful to be living From Michele Baker: I have one of my teacher life. They were awed by in a part of Florida that has something son heading off from high school— the size and design of the campus. It akin to the rural feel of Vermont but either he’s going to go to college or was an incredible eye-opening expe- nothing like the winter weather...and to to school to become an auto mechan- rience for me to observe this private have a flexible day job (bookkeeping ic… Time will tell. My other son is school environment from their public for a property management company) firmly ensconced inth 10 grade. The school, child-centered one. We recently that allows me to do my real work, whole family is trying to keep mov- returned to Colorado for our February which is prison ministry. Worshiping ing: running, playing hockey, rowing break and are now fully in the throes of with and journeying along side those From Nina Klose: (As of time of crew, and otherwise hanging out with the lacrosse season, where I am coach- who are incarcerated has truly become writing…) We are in Colombia about to friends, family, and two very cute dogs. ing and both kids are playing. Some my passion; in particular, I’m incred- set off tubing down the Don Diego Riv- (Her husband is taking the photo, thus things change and some stay the same. ibly fortunate to facilitate a Centering er. We travelled to Colombia to meet up his absence!) So good to hear from Chandra Prayer group inside one of our many with my son Nik and his girlfriend Lara Hanson! “Last year, I trained for my local prisons. In case it’s of interest, (both 19) on their gap year travels in first marathon. It was undertaken asa here’s a link to an article I wrote for the South America. Nik and Lara returned memorial to a friend I had supported Contemplative Outreach e-bulletin last to the UK to start university this fall. when she ran the Burlington (VT) City year (https://bit.ly/2COjIJo) that gives Sonia (12) is in Year 8. Asya, now 18, Marathon 20 years earlier—at which a glimpse into where my heart really graduates from secondary school in time I had ZERO interest in running lies these days (even more than with June and will be setting off on a gap even a mile. My chosen race, Running running, though I do also love to run).” year this fall, hopefully also to South for the Bay, was scheduled to take place America, to practice her Spanish. Any in Apalachicola/St. George Island (FL), suggestions of interesting volunteering on October 21st...which happened to be opportunities, or contact details for any 11 days after Hurricane Michael made other gap year offspring welcomed! From Pete Weiss: The Weiss clan landfall about 35 miles to the west. Andy, the kids and I are still based in continues to live, work, play, and learn Needless to say, the race didn’t hap- London. Please drop me a line if you’re in Salt Lake. Almost 35 years later, the pen as planned. Although the eye of lessons of TMS continue to live with the storm passed right over my town, I was extremely fortunate that my house and workplace were both essentially unscathed, which allowed me to think And Ted McCutcheon! We live in about things like how not to let all that Miami, much easier winters than VT. marathon training go to waste. Long My 17 y.o. twin sons are in a maritime story short, I ended up driving to New science magnet school, and my wife is York State to meet up with the Chi Run- a prof of psychology at U Miami medi- ning coach I’d met online and who had cal school. I’m an attorney at an invest-

13 us. And with daughters who are now co-producing two Broadway shows: a over Vermont to meet with counselors. 11 and 14, we look forward to the op- musical comedy, The Prom, and King He wrote that the change “has been a Spring ’87 portunity to send them to their own Lear. totally different challenge and a posi- experience! As far as I know, Vannesa Hought- tive one, so far.” On the family front, Jeanne Hargett And Karen Guttentag: Happy to lin’s daughter, Sylvie, is the first second Matt shared the following: “My daugh- [email protected] share that I’m starting a new adventure. generation Mountain School student for ter, Zealy, is now 16 and a sophomore ngela DelVecchio’s family hit a I’ll be bringing my 18 years as a dean our class. Sylvie attended in the Fall of in high school. She played varsity field Amilestone this year with a daugh- at Middlebury College to a close this 2018 and had a wonderful experience hockey this fall, had a lead in a school ter in her first year in college. “The spring, and in July will begin a new “making good friends, living in a dorm stage performance and her indoor track house is super quiet without Eliza chapter as the dean of students at the with our friends Jack and Sue, upping team just won the state championship. here—poor Dam (a high school fresh- amazing Putney School in southern VT her game academically, and thinking of Perry is 14 and will head to high school man) is getting all the attention. We are (shout-out to Mike Bailey, right?). I’m herself and the world in new ways. I next year. He cranked at running cross busy with ailing mothers. I head off to thrilled to be returning, with my nine- was, of course, thrilled and grateful for country this fall and just wrapped up a chaperone the local high school trip to year-old daughter Syd and our intrepid her to have the experience, and thinking fun Nordic ski season. I am still mar- Guatemala soon. It’s an amazing ex- dog Jack, to a farm-based life of close often of all of you and my own experi- ried to the same amazing woman I perience for the kids where they focus community, progressive educational ence there. It was over in a flash, re- met 25 years ago this year. I am still on environmental and social justice is- values, and amazing students. TMS in- minding me of how extraordinary it is pretty into birding—one of my goals is sues while living in traditional Mayan fluence, much? that my few months there have played to know every local bird by sight and homes. If anyone comes to Acadia Na- Thank you to everyone who wrote such a disproportionately huge role in sound. Last year I saw almost 200 bird tional Park, look me up! Don’t come in in. Wishing everyone a happy and my life.” Vannesa included a photo of species in Vermont, so that challenge August—it’s gotten to be too crazy!” healthy spring ’19! her family with Sylvie (in the center) on is ongoing.” Matt included a photo of Sidra Smith relocated last sum- Garden Hill during the family celebra- him, Perry, and Marsi in a below-zero mer to the DC area. “We now live 30 tion in October. snowstorm on New Year’s Eve at mid- minutes from my sister, her wife and night (and a banana phone). my awesome four-year-old nephew. It Spring ’86 feels good to be back on the east coast. (But she misses San Diego.) I lived on Ashley Mattoon a military base for a few months. In [email protected] January, my husband and I moved to reetings, classmates. I hope these Alexandria, Virginia, closer to both of Gnotes find you and your families our jobs. Two weeks after moving in, all well. It was another relatively slim we had a pipe burst. The damage wasn’t year for notes, but I was pleased to get bad, relatively speaking, but it was still some updates from a few of you. Some- a bummer.” In 2017, Sidra chaperoned one we haven’t heard from in a while Vannesa wrote that she is “hap- a trip to India and in 2018, to China. was Nick Finn, who recently celebrated pily teaching toddlers, expectant and This spring includes a weekend trip to his oldest child’s graduation from high new parents at our town’s little Waldorf Charleston with a classmate from Win- school. His daughter, Caroline, is now school.” Her oldest, Elodie, is now a sor and a weekend in Montreal with her a freshman at Georgetown. His son, sophomore at Skidmore, a dance and husband. Nicky is a sophomore at Berkshire, and political science double major. Her son, Elizabeth Redwine “worked his daughters Annie and Maggie are in Daven, is in sixth grade at North Coun- hard in our Congressional district and eighth and sixth grades, respectively. try School, a farm-based school nearby throughout the state volunteering to Nick is still commuting from Bedford, in Lake Placid. Sylvie attends Saranac turn our own district blue for the first NY to his job with UBS in New York Lake High School and, at the moment, I, Ashley, am still enjoying life time in 35 years and helped get Mikie City and wrote “the train steals my soul both she and Daven are deep in the Nor- in DC, where I am a high school sci- Sherrill elected to Congress. This was daily.” He recently met a fellow TMS dic skiing season. “Sylvie will be com- ence teacher at the National Cathedral really exciting for our community. Four grad, Baxter Wasson f92, who is also peting in Junior Nationals in March in School. I have taught AP Environmen- of the five Republican districts in the at UBS. Nick and his family rented a Anchorage, and thanks to an amazingly tal Science for several years, which is a state also went Democrat due to vol- house in Dorset, VT this winter. They generous and surprising gift of frequent lot of fun. This year, I am also teaching unteering every weekend for months were close to the Merck Forest in Ru- flier miles from one of my students, I chemistry for the first time in a while. and months. I now have the two cats pert, VT which brought back many will be joining her! It will be my first I am often reminded of some Kevin (recently adopted), the dog, and Na- memories of the Mountain School with time in Alaska, and I can’t wait! I found Mattingly sayings that I still remember thaniel, 15, Cal, 13, and Lila and Jed snow covered hilltops, cross-country a cheap Airbnb with a woman from from taking chemistry at the Mountain who are 11. All four are in the local ski trails, and spectacular views. Queens with seven pet birds!” School. My children, Mary Louisa (14) public schools, 9th, 7th, and 5th grades Abby Solomon wrote that her Matt (Beagle) Bourgault is still and Andrew (10) are growing up too respectively. Jonathan works in the city daughter, Becky, is now 18 months old living in Vermont and has a new po- fast and keeping me busier than I would as an attorney, and I teach full time in and “super cute.” Abby put a painting sition directing a statewide federal like to be. I am looking forward to lots the English Department at Seton Hall of Derby house in Becky’s room. She grant program to help get low-income of downtime with them this summer. University. wrote that “Jasper is 6 and loves farm students into college. His job before Best wishes to you all, and please Zanthe Taylor “is still living in camp, so I am already telling him he focused on a smaller region as an out- be in touch! Brooklyn, two houses over from fel- will love TMS.” Abby is currently reach counselor, but now he travels all low TMS alum Maggie Gyllenhaal.

14 My daughters are 13 and 15…the teen- age years (they sleep until you wake Eliza Nelson s88 them up!). My oldest is teaching ski- ing on weekends, and juggles in her by Maisie Molot s19 spare time—recently she combined her two hobbies and juggled while skiing (backwards). This summer she’s go- Eliza Nelson says that The Mountain School is the only ing on a camping trip in Norway, so I place that she “can come back to and feel at home again 31 hope she hasn’t inherited my total and years later.” She found a true community here that “puts the regrettable inability to enjoy camping, connection with people first and foremost.” She has gone first discovered on my TMS solo. My out into the world carrying what she learned. For instance, younger is finishing middle school and she says that it was her walks back to Underwood in the had her bat mitzvah in September. They pitch black that taught her silence. Her next endeavor will both have attended an all-girls camp in be firmly rooted in her experience at the Mountain School. VT for four summers, so are well im- After, sugaring with Mark McKee while at the Mountain bued with love of the Green Mountain School and then visiting family in Maine two years ago, State. They are both pitchers (softball). she rekindled her love for maple sugar. Now, she is starting I’m still working on podcasts and blog- a non-profit focused on extracting sap from native Pacific ging, and volunteering in an English Northwest Big Leaf Maple trees, and working with youth conversation group for immigrants at through her “Oregon Maple Project.” the Brooklyn Public Library. My hus- band Matthew continues his psychiatry After high school, Eliza went to Wesleyan, which she loved. She characterized the school as very practice treating adults with eating dis- political during her time there—a flag was burned on campus while she was a freshman. She orders. We will be on college tours soon felt as if she was part of a community there just as she had at the Mountain School. She lived in enough, and are looking forward to the the Outing Club House, which allowed her to maintain a strong connection with nature. (Sam flexibility in our schedules to travel. It Kelman, who is the sugarmaker at the Mountain School, lived in this same house ten years later.) all does go quite quickly, it turns out! After graduating, Eliza worked at the Yale Bush Center for Child and Family Policy. Eliza, who Melissa Davidson continues to be had done a good deal of babysitting when she was younger, knew that she wanted to do something a public librarian in Virginia’s Shenan- with kids. But, after working in an office for two years, she wanted to return to nature. So, after doah Valley and posts awesome articles hiking the Appalachian Trail, she moved to Oregon to be in the mountains. There, she began and pictures on FB covering pretty teaching reading and writing to 4th and 5th graders. She described that school as “a mini Mountain much every interesting environmen- School community,” nestled as it was in a beautiful wooded area and fostering kindness in the tal topic, plus the beauteous flora and classroom. The biggest challenge Eliza found in her job was balancing personal connections with fauna of her backyard. the students and being a leader in the classroom. Caleb Kenna “had the pleasure of running into Jack and Sue Kruse a About the Mountain School, Eliza says it is not the homework that she remembers, but the hikes, few months ago at the Hanover Coop. I talent shows, and the time sitting in the living room of her English teacher, David Grant, and knew instantly it was Jack based on his having journals read aloud. She also says that her solo has been engraved in her memory to such height and trademark profile. It was like an extent that she still remembers the smells and the sounds. She also remembers sitting on a thirty-two years had not even slipped granite outcropping while journaling and hearing a rustle in the forest; when she looked up, there by in the blink of an eye. We chatted was Jack Kruse. for a few moments, and I introduced Jack and Sue to our five-year old son. Eliza recently spent three days in April shadowing Sam Kelman, volunteering, and learning in I continue to work as a professional the sugarbush alongside the spring semester students. The experience, she said, was one of her photographer mostly around Vermont, favorites in her adult life, and she was amazed by just how much she learned in this short but focusing on portraits, editorial and rewarding visit. Prior to commercial work, as well as drone her departure, when Eliza photography. Coming back from an as- and I were meeting, she signment in the Upper Valley recently, I encouraged me and other got to travel past Vershire on a blue sky Mountain School students winter day and savor its quintessential to “say yes to everything.” Vermont landscapes. I hope to make a summer visit and introduce our son to The Mountain School. Visit www. calebkenna.com and @calebkenna on Instagram. Eliza Nelson s88 with I, Jeanne Hargett, continue to do Louisa Lindsley s19, Owen the mom thing with Anna (14), Cleo Wiese s19, and sugar- (12), and Ryan (8). In the past year, I maker Sam Kelman quit ballet due to a high ankle sprain and

15 promptly gained weight (dang it!), ran a on vinyl. Jennifer Ward, my fave thanks Ava for starting the thread of that widening income inequality.” She has a Girl Scout Cadette Troop, resigned as roommate, also has no news, “happy convo. She is also calling out Jess who son Alden (10), a husband remodeling the grade school vegetable garden coor- living in London. Wrote a book, but was one of the workshop presenters last their house one inch at a time, and plays dinator, joined an art studio to work on can’t seem to get it published. Still summer and was amazing! More plugs fiddle with a couple bluegrass/honky- my writing and visual art, and am a sub- mucking about with voice-overing and for coming to the Summer Session! tonk groups now and then. She sends stitute teacher. My husband, Chris, con- hoping for auditions. My son is 5 now Charlie Langston (fellow Cleve- warm hellos...and that you sometimes tinues to work for the US Department and we’re all well. His British accent is lander of yore!) says Howdy from get to sleep under the stars. of Commerce in DC. Last year, my kids hilarious.” Ok, so Jen’s missive dem- Portland, Maine. He’s “finally left the I was responding to Ivan John- adopted a cockatiel from a local shelter onstrates that one human’s “no news” lobster processing biz (after 12 yrs) and son’s email that he had No News but and discovered the rewards of patience is another human’s treasured glimpse am now selling drugs...as General Man- didn’t want to be rude and unresponsive when it comes to animal training. Best into the life of another from which can ager for Wellness Connection in Maine, to the multiple queries, so just wrote to wishes to everyone! be derived warm feelings that things the state’s largest medical marijuana say “Hi!” Ivan, that is so you, in itself! are well in that corner of the world. No business—fascinating industry to be in I told Ivan I was picturing his face as he News is actually Good News. So please right now.” He adds that the state lead- looked while at TMS and that we were tell me your No News. ership keeps them in suspense with the all each other’s time machines. Ivan is Spring ’88 Ian McDonald vouches for “Jenn regulations regarding medical and adult living in the burbs of Charlotte, NC and having a very cute British five year use. Charlie and his wife Cathlyn have working for Wells Fargo. “Approaching Sharon Kim Petersen old. As for me, I have two British girls, a daughter (14), and two boys (11 and the end of the biggest chapter in my life [email protected] Libby 14 and Isobel 17. Cath and I have 9). None of them have British accents. as the younger of my two babies winds ear Spring’88 Nation, been in London nearly 20 years.” His They spend a lot of time playing on the down his high school days this spring. D Many of you wrote to say girls think he is a “total idiot for letting street and sailing and fishing on Casco The nest is going to be uncomfortably you didn’t have any news. Which I my parents get rid of all his LPs 7 years Bay. He says to drop a line if you find empty...Being ‘Dad’ has been my privi- found delightful in itself because many ago, especially as they love Jimi, Led yourself in Vacationland anytime. lege and passion for 20 years. And yeah, of you started off this pronouncement Zeppelin, Otis Redding...my work is Eliza Nelson echoes the sentiment I know the kids will still need me...it’s with “dear friends.” The two takeaways done.” Well done, Ian. I myself actu- “crazy to think it has been 30 years!” just not the same as living with them. from this are 1. we have heard from ally destroyed many of my LPs when I Eliza went to TMS to apprentice with So I’m trying to figure out what I want you, therefore, you are alive with digi- joined what some may argue as a cult, the sugaring team in April. She is mak- to be when my kids grow up. Life up to tal means of communication and 2. you but that is No News for when we see ing Bigleaf Maple syrup in Oregon, this point has felt like I was following consider us friends. Cool. I think we are each other face-to-face. I wish I had my “much to the amusement of the men a well-marked road. Ahead and coming doing well even if we apply only those vinyls of CandyLand and Kiss still. But in my family—husband Alex, and sons fast I can see where the pavement ends. two standards! Fortunately, I have more I digress. Abe (14), and Emil (12). I can’t see any signs after that... Guess to share than that! Kayden Will just bought a house Amanda Yonkman is living in it’s time to lace up my hiking boots and Ava Moskin wrote in at various last summer and is busy fixing it up Vermont with her husband and kids (14 get ready for some adventures, right?” times to share news, encourage, and with the help of her son Tayo (5) who and 16) in a little house in the woods Yaaasss Ivan, wholeheartedly agree. Or cajole us to come back to Vershire for most importantly reminds Kayden that they built two years ago. Look for it as House of Pain so eloquently shouted the summer session (Thank you for when it is time to play. Kayden is also in the new Taunton Press small houses “Put on your ___ kickers and kick some that, Ava). She, her baby Elliot (2 years considering coming to the Summer book! Amanda is the business manager ___.” And Jump Around. No I mean it, in May), and husband David Oppen- Session and would love any chance to at Knoll Farm, an organic blueberry and get your heart rate up, so we live to see heimer f87 plan to come to this year’s reconnect there. Icelandic sheep farm. “When I asked each other another 30 years later. summer session. They have made a life Kayden and Jess Brooks went to my daughter if she wanted to apply to Thank you beloveds for writing. in Oakland with older son Sam, a newly the last Summer Session and “it was an TMS, she thought I was crazy since she Your notes, even if straight up data, minted 15-year-old. Ava says “sounds absolute blast.” Jess is planning on go- is surrounded by farms and trees and make me feel connected and keeps my more and more like we are all still ex- ing again this year and “seeing you all hills, so she will be spending next fall little time machine lights from flicker- actly who we were at the tender age of will make it even more excellent!” Jess in NYC at CITYterm.” ing out. Hope it is the same for you. 17—maybe a meandering back to our- is in Boston with “two sweet boys (6 & Grace McNamee Decker is 24 selves after many years of experimenta- 11) and a pretty good husband to match. years into living in Missoula, MT tion.” Yes, I heard Alden Smith say that New job—first in 16 years—at a tiny where she started a new job “as the TMS did not necessarily transform us, solar fund focused on expanding access coordinator of our county’s new Zero Spring ’89 but helped us become more of who we to renewable energy. Lots of fun to be to Five initiative, collaborating across were already. in learning and building mode. Spent sectors (health, K-12, university and in- Eric Morrissey Josh Rappaport smiles at see- last New Year’s at Brigit Beyea’s NYC formal education, social services, gov- [email protected] ing our familiar names on the email apartment, sans Brigit, and snacked on ernment...) to share data, build better yn Causey wrote in to say, “I thread sent out by Julie Brasfield our her kids’ apple sauce squeezers…” So systems and make life better for young Llive in Auburn, Alabama, where semester’s giving officer. Josh is - hap if you don’t catch Jess at Summer Ses- children...It’s fun, challenging, and I work as a self-employed historic pily ensconced in Seattle with Jennifer sion, she invites all to join her in Boston creative...learning a lot about waste, preservation consultant, mostly writ- Chase-Rappaport s87 with two sons, for coffee, a walk or a drink. Jess says food systems, and other big problems. ing National Register and National 14 and 18. He is currently doing menu Boston has good versions of all those I’m also still serving as Public Schools Historic Landmark nominations. My design for the airline catering industry, things. Trustee, where we’re wrestling with best cocktail-party examples are Flan- restoring old motorcycles, and redis- Emily Sweet says she is planning creating equitable access to strong pro- nery O’Connor’s house in Georgia and covering his love for recorded music on being at the Summer Session and grams across our district that is seeing

16 Patsy Cline’s home in Virginia, but I It’s pretty cool to see this boy from the I booked a trip to Kinshasa to discuss ers, and general troublemakers (that have also worked on less glamorous Bronx experience summer evenings, (and hopefully begin) launching an part isn’t as fun to watch, but I wouldn’t but really interesting places such as a cookouts and fireworks, corn on the cob Ebola vaccine trial with the Congolese expect anything different knowing their 19th-century family farm in north Flor- and diving off the diving board (I could health authorities, WHO, Wellcome dad). After being overworked for the ida, the parks around the Civil War De- go on); and to see my own two boys not trust, and others” last seven years, we now find ourselves fenses of Washington, and an African only show him the way, but also com- For Mike Romano’s update, he without much at all… time to reflect American school from the Reconstruc- prehend how lucky they are. had this to say: “I continue to live in an and decide what’s next… anybody have tion era. And now for something com- It’s certainly a different life than I ever-changing San Francisco with one any good ideas? Any and all input wel- pletely different...I also teach Zumba at imagined for myself when I was 16, and dog, two children, and one wife. The come from this community. And yes, a local gym. I have two cats, two kids, one I would not trade for anything. dog is new—he was raised in prison by I’ll do windows (not the computer pro- and one husband. Ty Stuelpe decided to break his inmates and trained to be a service dog gram—although I can work that, too).” Since just about everyone elected multi-decade streak of not submitting for veterans with PTSD. But he flunked Hello from Carl Stagg: to send their updates to the entire group, an update with the following entry: out of the training program (because instead of to the class scribe alone, “Since August, my clan has called Dal- he’s a scaredy-cat) and now, he’s ours. Molly Rauch wrote in to say, “I love las home...though we have yet to fully His name is Rolo, and it’s great having getting your updates. Thanks for them. commit (still renting a house while we a dog pattering around the house again. I think of you all often and it’s great to evaluate the next move). My wife is I still think about TMS often, lessons hear about your lives now. Ben and I are a counselor at the school my kids at- in gumption, spot phase succession, in DC and working on climate change, tend (Sydney, 14 and Sawyer, 11) and I and how to properly mop the kitchen. me as policy director of the advocacy work for a small, logistics related busi- No one else in my family seems to ap- group, Moms Clean Air Force, Ben as ness. As no one has really found their preciate how important these things are. a litigator at NRDC. Our kids are doing groove yet socially, we are mostly tied On Sunday, I was driving my son home well at 15, 12, and 10. We moved over up with homework, swim meets, and la- from a baseball tournament near Sac- the summer three blocks away to a new crosse games...but all is going well, for ramento and talking to my son about Eric Morrissey “continues to work house, and we love the new place. I like the most part. I nearly had a Yamada hay. He was like, ‘How the hell do you as a speechwriter in NYC. I also am try- to walk and run in nearby Rock Creek sighting during a quick trip to Chicago, know about hay?’ I wish you all the ing to raise my boy (Brendan, 4) as best Park, I play music with a rock band, but we could not make it happen. Next very best with all of my heart. I can, which includes getting him out and I read dystopian sci-fi. I stew un- time. I still picture you all as your 16-17 Karen Kane is, “still married to of the city as much as possible. I am der a black cloud of national politics by year old selves. I miss you all. my favorite fly-fishing/upland game looking forward to setting him up this virtue of my city of residence, and this Martha Nason commented, “I’m bird hunting guide, Pat, our kids are spring and summer with a fishing rod, can be tiresome to the soul. Perhaps on living in DC, working as a (usually) 9 and 11, we have four (at last count) a bobber and some bait, and I hope he a related note, I have been trying to fig- small part of the big fight against - in English setters, and I’m going on seven decides that fishing is a noble outdoor ure out what I want to do when I grow fectious diseases, teaching 1-2 nights years prosecuting cases for the state pursuit. We shall see. Thanks everyone up. Nothing to report yet on that front. a week, and trying to occasionally pull DOJ—all these things still make me for submitting the above updates.” Wishing good health to you and yours.” my three kids back out of the gaping happy. Our 9-year-old son blew his Meredith Lovejoy submitted the maw of full-blown electronics addic- two front teeth out in December (run- following note: “My life is much the tion. Sometimes my job is really bor- ning face first into the gym wall during same as probably the last time I wrote ing, and people expect me to spend my a tag game) so we are indebted to our in; I am married to my best friend; be- time telling them over and over how orthodontic provider for, like, ever. Our Spring ’90 tween us we have 11-year old twin boys, many mice they need for a lab experi- daughter is in middle school. She’s four a dog, a cat, and a house in Greenwich, ment and what their p-value is. When it years away from being able to apply to Ilyssa Birnbach Sena CT. My career has been in marketing is boring, I try to focus more on teach- TMS. Unreal.” [email protected] for design firms; in the past couple of ing them how to do some of the boring Last December, Melita Mullen Cale Jaffe had the great chance years I have gone back to school (at stuff themselves in the future, and then and her husband “opened a little shop to return to the Mountain School in night) to further my education in brand sneak out to go volunteer in my kids’ called Modern Talisman. Jewelry is our September 2018. He was in the area strategy (I just completed the program). classrooms. Oh, and I daydream a lot focus, presented with a well-traveled to participate in a colloquium on envi- I did this in an effort to move my career about quitting and moving to Vermont, supporting cast of spice boxes, rugs, ronmental law at Vermont Law School, toward something I might find more or Oregon, or maybe Colorado. Luck- blankets, amulets, beads, and the like. just down the road in South Royalton. meaningful and enjoyable. I have found ily, sometimes my job is really interest- If you require antique Thai goat bells Cale squeezed in a visit to Vershire on the job market rough. I think being in ing, and this is one of those times: these with carved bone knockers, we do have the Friday before the colloquium. He my late 40’s is a bummer; I’m smarter, last few months, I’ve been obsessing some in stock. All shall be revealed to spoke to students that evening about wiser, more comfortable with myself, over how to test vaccines for Ebola dur- the curious--with absolutely no need the politics of climate change and gath- and definitely stronger than ever in my ing the current outbreak in the Demo- to stray as far afield as Madison, WI. ered their thoughts on how to melt the life before, but I’m also grappling with cratic Republic of Congo, and when Simply seek out Modern Talisman on political polarization around climate the reality that I am becoming invisible all goes well, I get to find my way to Instagram.” change politics. (Which is the topic of to those outside my social and family the ‘grown-ups table’ and tell everyone Jeremy Cohen doesn’t “have a paper he had published in the spring, circles. what I think and why they should listen much to tell other than K and I are which folks can read here: https://bit. In the summer we host a Fresh Air to me, and a few do (which never ceas- still trying to raise our boys as best we ly/2vJY5FZ ). Fund child for two weeks; this will be es to amaze me, since mentally, I’m still can (Mackey, 6, Kiper, 4), and it’s fun Cale also had the joy of shar- our fourth summer with the same kid. about 16). Just before writing this email watching them grow into skiers, skat- ing the visit with his oldest daughter,

17 Caroline, who is a freshman in high mill, took down 37 trees and is creating sell an idea soon. In the meantime, he their lives. I echo the sentiment and school. He was immensely appreciative some beautiful lumber for a wood shed acted as the Sustainability Director for have been more reflective than ever on of the Mountain School students, who out back. He built a cob oven from clay a local Beach Ultimate Frisbee tourna- that time in our lives, now that I have a were very generous with their time and and sand found on the property. Cooks ment. It’s an annual event that draws daughter nearing the age I was when I showed Caroline around the farm and a pizza in 75 seconds! Reid and his wife about 2,000 people to Southern Califor- left for Vershire. included her in their dinner table dis- are both working full time in NYC with nia over the MLK Day weekend. Mike cussion. He also greatly enjoyed catch- two kids in private school and the ac- found that it was an amazing learning ing up with Jack and Sue Kruse and Pat companying stresses—so they are look- experience to try to bring eco-friendli- Barnes, all of whom are just as inspira- ing forward to picking some berries in ness to a large event, and he had some Spring ’91 tional as he remembered! June! great success in reducing waste and Rebecca Whitney spent the spring Adam Werbach sends greetings raising awareness. So despite Mike’s Regan Brooks of 2014 in Granada, Spain, thanks to from San Francisco and reports that lavish Hollywood lifestyle, he still has [email protected] her husband Perry’s sabbatical from all is good on his end, but he is still a little Mountain School left in him! 91 alumni who traveled to Alaska UC Berkeley. Their kids attended a recovering from the mid-term election. Justin Ruben lives in Brooklyn, Sin January and ate chocolate chip great local school, and the whole fam- Adam worked with Samantha Bee and which he believes has many wonder- cookies with me and my family: Dave ily enjoyed weekend trips and digging her show Full Frontal to create a voter ful things, but is way too far from the Wolman and… Nope, just Dave Wol- deep into Andalusian culture. Life back turnout live quiz game and has been mountains. He has two kids, Osa (9) man, who was here for some extremely home in Berkeley isn’t too bad, though. dreaming up more projects for 2020. and Rime (5) who love building things fun-sounding, aurora-seeking writing/ Rebecca is loving her work as Disabil- Meanwhile Adam has seen Justin Ru- from cardboard, poop jokes, asking work. Look for Dave and auroras soon ity Support Services Coordinator at a ben frequently and has been scheming deep questions right at bedtime, and in Outside magazine. small and diverse university in Oak- with him and Abdi about two separate winter camping. Justin is helping to Spring ’91 alumni who braved their land. Her kids keep things interesting camping trips this year. Who else wants build a national parents’ organization, email inboxes and sent in updates: with music, sports, and other pursuits. to go camping? ParentsTogether, to fight for family Chloe Sladden: “Kevin and I are Rebecca promises that she and Abdi Hannah Burr moved to Ann Ar- friendly policies like paid leave. He got negotiating the pros and cons of San Soltani will take any visitors on their bor, Michigan from Boston in the sum- back into mountain biking this summer Francisco family life. Our 3 girls (2, 3 favorite walk through the Berkeley mer of 2017 after getting married in the and managed to go two months before and 5) are thriving, throwing tantrums, hills, which culminates in tea and pas- spring to Guy Marshall. She felt it was a he crashed and needed surgery. Justin learning hip hop and ballet, speak- tries at the famous Cheeseboard. Abdi good time to leave her hometown of 43 sees Adam Werbach, Rebecca Whit- ing Italian, loving trampoline parks reports that on his recent walk with years before she and her mom went “all ney, and Abdi Soltani whenever he is and scooters, British cream teas and Rebecca, he heard all about Rebecca’s Grey Gardens on each other.” Guy and in the Bay Area, and reports that “my El Metate burritos. Kevin cycles them family’s sabbatical trip to Spain, and Hannah visited Kristin Erickson Urie love for them is exceeded only by my most everywhere in his Bullitt (a.k.a. she in turn heard updates on Abdi’s kids at Bonnieview Farm this summer on an admiration for their children, who are minivan-bike). Meanwhile, I’m starting and a kitten. In Abdi’s work, he was epic road trip and helped her wrangle spectacular humans.” This week, he has a consumer software company in the excited that his twin passions of civil two very smart sows back into their pen been thinking a lot about whiteness and parenting space, still working with my rights and environmental protection after they had thirty minutes of maraud- listening to an awesome podcast, See- investment group #Angels, and mostly came together when ACLU represented ing and adventure. In Michigan, Han- ing White. unsuccessfully trying to ride the wave the Sierra Club and a border human nah is finishing up a third artist’s book Helena Taylor has been enjoying of three children under 6. Life is full.” rights coalition to sue Trump over the on the Periodic Table of Elements and skiing up in Vermont, trying to stop her Lee Fearnside: “I am now the border wall. our inseparability with everything. It’s three boys (4, 6, and 8 years old) from Development Director for Girls on the Reid Maclean is busy growing a big undertaking she has been working injuring themselves, or someone else, Run of Northwest Ohio, and while I a food forest. He bought some land on for six years, but she has a publish- on the ski hill. Life in Cambridge, MA never thought I’d like figuring out ways upstate, watched it for a year, noticed ing team to help on this one, and it’s is otherwise treating her family well— to ask people for money, it’s pretty fun. where the water pooled after a storm been wonderful to have the interest and they can walk to work and school, keep- My 7-year-old son and I also did a se- and the shade line moved through the support of many Mountain Schoolers. ing their carbon footprint a bit smaller. ries of coloring books, including one seasons. Reid read some books by the The book will be out this summer. Han- Though they do live close to the river on animal farts and chicken mischief.” likes of Robert Hart, Toyohiko Kaga- nah is also exhibiting her artwork, run- and predictions are we will be under- (Class Agent notes: I have the fart wa, and David Jacke. This spring, he ning workshops on the intersection of water in the not too distant future! They book. It’s great.) planted eight fruit trees including Paw creative and spiritual practice, speaking have the canoe ready in the garden. Tom (Tom) Morgan: “Some years Paw and Persimmon. Reid reports that and coaching. Her backyard is a 2-inch Ilyssa Birnbach Sena is still liv- drape themselves awkwardly about there’s a comfrey patch and berries all thick sheet of ice right now, but other- ing in New Jersey with her husband your shoulders like Chester McKee’s over the place. Elderberry, raspberry, wise she is feeling grateful and wishing Rob and three daughters Blythe (14), photograph of Myrtle Wilson’s mother black and blue berry, and of course everyone all the best. Daphne (11), and Quinn (6). Life is which Nick Carraway famously de- strawberry. He sowed a cover crop of After 44 years of bachelorhood, quiet, but sweet. Since I had nothing re- scribes as hovering “like an ectoplasm daikon radish and a hedgerow of clover Michael Dow decided to hang up his ally to report, I implored all my fellow on the wall” above the overstuffed, and lavender, anise hyssop and calen- PS3 controller and be an adult. He mar- TMSers to send in updates, and am very ladies-swinging-in-the-gardens-of- dula. He also built swales and berms. ried the very lovely Megen Sterba on grateful for the prolific responses! One Versailles furniture in Tom Buchanan’s There’s a pond in progress to bring in August 25, 2018 in Los Angeles. He thing of note was that everyone ended 158th Street Apartment. It snows. It the beneficial insects and water fowl reports no kids on the horizon yet, but their update with a sentiment that TMS rains. It snows. My wife, Molly, slips supplied with rainwater collected from they do have a very needy cat. Mike is is always in their hearts and had such on the ice, breaks and dislocates her the rooftops. He also bought a portable still writing for television and hoping to a long lasting and profound effect on ankle. The boiler explodes in the base-

18 ment of our post-colonial era, creaky, nothing much has changed with us— breakfast. I have high hopes of enjoying update: “Maputo, where we live, was wrap-around house. Our three kids I’m still working as a family physician the amazing looking pool with a float- untouched by Cyclone Idai, but Beira somehow manage to escape out the in my 15th year at the same practice in ing river and cozy-looking grottos, but was devastated in March. The Mozam- back door every morning to 1st, 3rd, White River Junction, VT. I’m happy to past years’ experience is that the closest bican and international communities and 4th grades. Two of the three, of say that one of my partner’s sons just I will get is gazing at it out of my hotel have rallied together to support the course, are dyslexic. All are talkative. completed a transformative fall semes- room from the balcony. My company hundreds of thousands who were af- All astonishingly creative in the most ter at TMS (Will Forman f18)! Alex’s is releasing a new DNA sequencing fected. However, the humanitarian need inconvenient moments. “Dad, can you main job as a primary care internist at instrument in April and this year prom- is great and the response is complicated help me make a reward-system app the VA hospital continues (with hopes ises to be both fun and busy because because of the lack of infrastructure and for my third-grade invention project.” that her job will survive the current ad- the new platform will be considerably continued rains. Recovery from this di- “Ember, I’m an English teacher.” “But, ministration). We hope that everyone less expensive for our customers to run saster will take years. If anyone wants Dad, it’s a good idea.” 10,000 hours from Spring ’91 is doing well!” while still providing the same higher to donate to support the humanitarian later, we launch our first app. Molly’s Tom Guiney: “My desk is covered quality data that sets us apart from our efforts, Oxfam, CARE, MSF, and Red father, not unexpectedly, dies. It’s been with lots of things that I’m ignoring. competitors. This should allow us to Cross (International Red Cross is sup- a year like that. Full of crutches. Of le- I found if I put my Wacom tablet on talk to more researchers in fields like porting the Mozambican Red Cross) gitimate excuses. And “so, we beat on, top of all that paper mail I can put it metagenomics and cancer research are already on the ground and have the boats against the current,” inside our off longer. I still have my black leather which require high volumes of samples systems to respond efficiently to the fortunate calamity, hopeful as always, motorcycle jacket from the end of high or deep sequencing coverage. In other need.” ever alert to comical, to the tiniest mo- school. Yes, I still wear it. My kids tell news, I am totally obsessed with skiing Thank you to all who wrote in and ments of quotidian beauty.” me to wear it more often. I’m volun- this winter. I am late to the whole ski- sending love to all of you. If you’re not Stefania Fregosi: “Sasha is now teering my propaganda, er, media ser- ing party but am determined to make up able to make it to Mozambique, or even nine and in fourth grade. She’s not taller vices on behalf of the Oakland teach- for lost time by spending every possible if you are, remember that you are all than me yet, but will be soon. (Her feet ers strike. Trying to use my powers for weekend in Truckee, which has gotten also welcome for a visit here in Anchor- are longer anyway.) My yarn, Three good, not just to help companies sell crazy amounts of snow this year. I still age, Alaska. Even if you don’t come in Fates Yarns, will be in Knitting Maga- stuff. I did some get-out-the-vote vid- see Tom Guiney lots and am excited January. zine in March. It’s a UK publication. I eos for the last election, too.” (Convic- he will also be coming back to Burning changed my regular job and am now tionfilms.net/politics) Man this year.” the Sustainability Analyst at Portland Tommy Marchesi: “Thank you Heather Moran, who does not Community College full-time. It’s a for the second chance! Hopefully it’s have a desk, writes in for the very first long commute, especially for an elec- not too late. I really meant to write, time: “After almost ten years in Timor- Spring ’92 tric car, but I’m filling it up with audio especially after connecting with Alex Leste, we said sad farewells and moved books. I miss you all—a trip to Ver- Grossman who found me when re- to Maputo, Mozambique. One of the Jenny Janke Streams mont seems long overdue. Adventures searching protective soccer gear for farewells was to the oversized desk we [email protected] in home ownership see us repairing bits her daughters and found some stuff had made our first year in Timor; and his year we have updates from of house.” that I designed, and apparently, they now I perch myself around the house TNew York, South Carolina, Mas- Josh Davis: “Tara (Kini) and I like it! I am still making gear for soc- trying to catch the breeze. We moved sachusetts, Washington, and Tennes- are darn busy these days. Every week cer as well as other sports related stuff, for my husband’s job, and I had grand see. Catherine Steindler (Brooklyn) is brings a new trip, a new adventure, a the big focus these days is the protec- plans of taking a break after 10 years of fortunate to spend her days with daugh- million balls in the air, kids playing tive head guards. In the last two years advising the Australian Government on ter Eleanor and she reports that they va- soccer and baseball and rock climbing. I got married, had a kid and bought a water and sanitation behavior change. I cationed in Cape Cod this past summer Tara was in Kentucky this weekend for house and started a new company. I like had visions of more daily time with my with Jocelyn Hayes Simpson where an education conference, so Josh and to do all of the big life moments all at kids, long yoga sessions, painting, and Eleanor (left) and Jocelyn’s daughter, the kids watched movies and dined out. once. The house is a 1740 colonial in rekindling the art of handwriting letters. Lark (right), started surfing lessons to- We also constructed marshmallow guns CT, and while it doesn’t actually need Unfortunately, I was roped into taking gether. Far out! and made a mess of the house. Planning much work, I can’t resist and have al- on a long-term consultancy around to clean up sometime soon.” ready started some projects. Chopping sanitation behavior change for UNI- Dave Park: “Greetings from New kindling is still fun—check in next year CEF Rwanda. So, while this does allow Hampshire! Excellent timing with your to see if that is still the case. Haven’t me more time with family, I am also email, since earlier this week Alex and even gotten a chance to go for a hike spending a couple of weeks every other I had dinner with Tanya Oblak (nee in the state park a half mile down the month in Rwanda, which is fascinating. Tarar) and her husband Steve in Wood- road, but that should be rectified soon. Mozambique is great; amazing music, stock, VT. Alex keeps up with Tanya Hoping for snow for some XC skiing!” seafood, and architecture. We are slow- Christina Hallenbeck Rog- with a nearly-weekly phone call to dis- Meredith Ashby: “I am writing ly learning Portuguese and getting to ers (Greenville) stays busy as a wife, cuss work, home life, and everything in this update from sunny Marco Island, know people. Safaris and amazing div- mother of three, and managing rental between. Our daughters are now 16 and Florida, where I am attending a fun ing are a short car ride away. And, un- properties, but still manages to find 12, with Kiran (the younger one) spend- conference on advances in genome fortunately, there is much development time to play tennis with husband, Rob, ing most of her time and effort grow- technology—I know, sounds fun work to be done. So, I imagine we will and friends. It surprises no one to know ing taller on a daily basis and Audrey right?!? My desk has a Marriott room be here for the next couple of years. she keeps up with her regular doubles lamenting the fact that she is the short- service menu, instructions on accessing You are all most welcome for a visit.” “crusher partner”, a 6’ former German est in the family now. Other than that, WiFi, and a door hanger for ordering Heather provided this more recent professional handball player, who is

19 ten years her junior. Match point! average avid reader will get to twelve adjusting to life in Maine with lots of vallis, OR that he and his wife, Rachel, Liz Lynch (New York) blames her a year. There are about 130 million skiing and loving their re-discovered welcomed their son, Levi, to their fam- young children for her current inability books in the world (thanks, Google) outdoor life. Margaret has launched a ily. In usual Gabe eloquence: “he’s to read an entire book, but I believe it and there’s no time to waste on the bad new project to start a graduate school awesome!” may be related to the demands of a ca- ones, so I asked our class to share some in Portland—an amazing opportunity to Here in Colorado, my wife, Sarah reer shift in the last year from interna- good reads. Here’s a few: Before We create something new with the potential Peltier, our two dogs, Ginger and Mil- tional development to work on veteran Were Yours, by Lisa Wingate; Rebecca to have lasting impact on her new city lie, and I, Brian Frutig, continue to employment and small business owner- West’s novel, The Fountain Overflows; and state. love living near Boulder, and we spend ship at JPMorgan. Mommy’s tired. Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Katrina Monzon shares that she as much time in the mountains as we When it was time to collect class Hardest Things I’m Learning to Say, by is still teaching Pre-K on the Lower can. My little estate planning law firm news, Lisa Graustein’s automatic Kelly Corrigan; and by Markus Zusak, East Side of Manhattan. Most days are continues to grow and keep me busy, email reply indicated she was “taking a The Book Thief. Happy reading! filled with deep thoughts, big feelings, and I’m spending lots of time running few days off-line”, so I have no report and dance parties before snack. Good really slowly to prepare for the Lead- directly from her, but it did make me times! Sad to have missed the reunion, ville Trail 100 Run in August. wonder when I was last “off-line.” Life she loved seeing the photos and writes, Maggie Reason Mills writes that goals! Spring ’93 “I so treasure that little community we she and her husband, Gary, are loving Susannah Bothe (Salem) is a were all brave enough to join over 20 life in North Carolina. Their teenage professional photographer and spends Peter Bailey years ago—and, all the ways in which it son is incredible, and she loves her job her days looking through the lens of a [email protected] continues to grow and sustain us.” Ka- as a director at the YMCA. They also camera. Having spent 15 years living in en inches of snow fell in southern trina mentioned that Kristen Case has realized how much they missed having California, she’s not been back to TMS TCT last night—a Vermont-worthy a new book of poetry coming out in the an outlet for their culinary creativity, so since our graduation, but now that she’s blizzard! Shoveling out this morning, spring, so everyone should check it out! they recently started a food truck called based back east, she hopes to make the thinking the storm most likely brought Rob Pizem writes from Colorado Wicked Awesome Foods, which they trek to Vershire soon. Just do it! 3x the amount to Vershire, I had a flash- that he is in his 16th year of teaching run part-time and “is a blast!” They Finally, Elizabeth Angell (Brook- back to our snow-fun-filled days at high school science in Colorado. His have a house full of aquariums and ter- lyn) reports that she is the digital direc- TMS…and then I threw my back out. boys are turning 6 and 8 this year, and rariums, and crazy schedules and chaos tor of Town & Country and Elle Decor. Kidding! his wife is working as CFO of a local but they “wouldn’t change it for the Honesty award goes to Liz who admits Nearly half (!!!) of our s93 class re- construction management firm, when world.” to spending too much time on phones turned for our 25th reunion in August for she’s not running trail races. Rob still Andrew Gray writes from Wilm- but reassures us that is not true for her a fantastic weekend of memories, hilar- spends plenty of time rock climbing ington, North Carolina that “everything kiddos. Same. Elizabeth lives up the ity, and catching up. We weeded Gar- and traveling to undertake different ad- has been pretty crazy since March 10, block from Jess Yager and her family den Hill, strolled all over campus, ate ventures. 2018” when he was diagnosed with a and sent in this “ridiculous”ly cute pic- everything in sight, and laughed long And a short note from Ari Blum brain tumor—Stage 4 Glioblastoma. ture of JY, her daughter Amelia, and E’s into the night around the largest bonfire sharing that he had a nice time catch- He is still working at his marketing daughter Daphne. legally allowable in New England. Spe- ing up with Alden Smith at a Bay-area firm, Tayloe/Gray, while getting -regu cial appearances were made by former TMS alumni event this year. lar treatment at Duke University Tisch faculty Stu Remensnyder, and U.S His- As for me, my family (Karena, Brain Tumor Center in Durham, NC tory Teacher Bob Johnston, who still Noah [8], and Silas [6]) are happily en- and the local Zimmer Cancer Center in lives nearby. And of course, David and joying life in Greenwich CT. The tech Wilmington. He has had lots of differ- Nancy Grant! company Dataminr I helped start con- ent treatments over the past year, de- Liddy Wendell wrote a scathing tinues to grow and thrive—now over tails about which can be read at www. note that I didn’t keep detailed notes on 500 employees—and keeps me plenty caringbridge.org/visit/fourinchmass. everyone’s life at the reunion for this busy. Otherwise, he is “still living life and edition of Pearls & Seaweed—I sup- raising two great kids, Alexander (6) Eric Krieger (Seattle) checked in pose she remembers a more studious and Cutlar (4) with his wife, Stewart. with the excellent news that he’s “con- version of me, which is nice. But we vinced (his) 9 1/2 year old daughter did hear from a few fellow classmates Spring ’94 that she wants to go to the Mountain who weren’t able to attend in August: School.” Success! He practices medi- Chris Jons writes (for the first Brian Frutig Spring ’95 cine (cardiology for kids and adults time I can remember!) that he is living [email protected] born with heart defects) and enjoys get- in Missoula with wife Janneke and two 25th Reunion, August 2-4 Jessica Powers ting outside to ski and bike as often as sons, Eli (7) and Sebastian (4). Dr. Jons or this year’s notes, we’ll go West [email protected] he can. practices palliative care and pediatrics. Fto East! t’s been another glorious year full of I’m (Jenny) happy in Nashville He is thriving in the Glacier-Yellow- Kristy Gould Duncan writes that Ithe ordinary and the extraordinary. living as a wife and mom of three stone area, spending time running the she and her husband welcomed their As always, it’s a highlight of tax season boys and working in Development for stunning mountain trails of western third baby, a daughter named Iris Miller to be in touch with so many of you. VUMC. If I’m not with family or work- Montana. Duncan to their family of 5, and they Omayra Ortega is still teaching at ing, I tend to be reading or asking peo- Margaret Angell reports that she moved from Los Angeles to Ojai, CA to Sonoma State, everyone is still invited ple what they’re reading. The typical and Nate, Ella, and Kate are happily spend more time in the outdoors. to visit, she still loves and misses you American reads four books a year. An Gabe Winkler writes from Cor- all very much. She hopes that you are

20 eating well, enjoying your days, and Dean at a college outside of Seattle. She happy. ing to do some fun trips with them now having great dreams. has a wonderful partner and two boys, Meadow Linn had a beautiful that they are 10, 7, and 4. They spent Life, according to B Chatfield is ages 8 and 10. baby boy the day after Christmas. He Christmas in Vermont which was super wonderful and full, although things John McCrow is living in the St. came 4 weeks early...a surprise gift fun! As always, she would love to see are moving way too fast. Is that being Louis area now, and working for Mas- from Santa. He’s named James Ever- anyone passing though DC!” in our 40s? Having a kid? or NYC? All tercard doing data science. He travels to est Linn. Named after four generations Matt Cuthbertson says that his of the above. She and her husband con- the Bay Area every couple months, and of grandfathers with James as a first or class notes are always the same. Just stantly reflect on how good things are was able to hang with his buddy Matt middle name. His middle name is in bigger kids. Still living in Oakland and with their lives in Brooklyn, and in the Cuthbertson last time he was in town. honor of the mighty mountain. working as a public defender. He miss- next breath discuss where they should He says, “I miss all my TMS s95 love- es seeing all you lovely people. move, immediately, that would give lies! I hope I get a chance to see every- Tasha SegooI’s big news is that them a more peaceful life. Her daugh- one again soon!” she welcomed baby Eli into her life and ter Jane is now three, so NYC schools Rachel Bobruff wrote that she just the world this January, after welcoming here we come, next year. B is working got back from a wonderful hang with awesome 8-year-old Jack into her life on some interesting projects at NYC Anna Wolbach. She’s doing awesome this past June when she married his su- Parks, where she’s been for 2 years and her kids kicked Rachel’s ass in a per awesome mom Kendra. So it’s been now, getting to know different parts of version of Knockout, which she re- a fantastic and busy year. Eli just turned this city and how it works. members was a favorite past time for 6 weeks old and Tasha spend her days Next up, Josh Viertel: “I am proud our semester. Sadly she only hung out thinking about getting dressed, snug- to be one of several spring semester with one other Spring 95er this year, From Ben Pomeroy, “The big gling a boy on her chest, and counting Mountain School alumni using this but it was a blast too—Nick Kroll and news with me is that Ariel Mitchell and her blessings. “(Well... I also have mo- edition of Pearls and Seaweed to an- I had a serendipitous run in at Burning I got engaged in November at the Rus- ments like to tonight when Eli managed nounce my candidacy for president of Man. Rachel is still living the good life sian Tea Room over bowls of borscht to projectile vomit into my mouth when the United States.” It has been a busy, in San Francisco and loves her remote sitting in an old world red banquet. I gave him a kiss... he has my timing).” rich year for Josh. He’s got a lovely job that affords her to work from any- She’s been with me for five years and Tasha says she hasn’t kept in touch working farm, and they are in the pro- where. She did an eight-week tour of still said yes. Ariel has visited Ver- with many, but loves seeing glimpses cess of growing it into a sort of Moun- the world this summer which was life shire a couple of times and loves it, of of your lives on Facebook. tain School for grown-ups, with little affirming! She celebrated her 40th by course. I’m a lucky guy. For work, I Philippe Lanier sent his bullet cabins people can stay in, barns for throwing a surprise weekend festival chat with surfers from around the world points of news: Baby girl number 1 is events and workshops, a kitchen and for 20 friends, and the year has just for the podcast Swell Season Surf, and three months old: Petra Vuka Lanier. dining area, greenhouses, programs and been going up from there!!! In April, in an unrelated project, I am convert- Hosting the World Cup of Squash at our workshops. This has meant a lot less Rachel ran her lucky number 13th ing a decommissioned textile mill in facility Squash On Fire—excellent ex- time herding cows, and a lot more time marathon in Boston. It was torrential Ridgewood, Queens into a broadcast cuse for visitors to DC the week before herding lawyers, architects, engineers, downpours throughout, with temps in studio and small campus on behalf of a Christmas. It’s the first time this event and planning board members. For three the 20s, but the fans were amazing, and media company. Fingers crossed we are has been held in the USA, so it’s a big years, we ran a Spring ’95 reunion at the she had the best time. So much so, that done Jan. 1, 2020. Life is good. Lots of deal, its ruining my life since I am fun- farm, but Josh says that all the bedroom two weeks later she turned a marathon love to all.” draising for it in my spare time. Took spaces are taken up with farm workers relay into a full marathon in Big Sur. Amy Shopkorn says that things over the family business. So between and staff this year, so he’s not sure how That was her 4th marathon in a year, so are good. Job stuff is the same. They’ve Baby, Squash, and Job, I have no life. to make it work. It’s been lovely having she’s burnt out and taking a break. both been working like crazy. They No grey hairs yet... everyone here, but maybe someone else Emily Landsburg is still in Philly brought another old guy into the Shop- Rebecca Allyn has become addict- will need to host, and Josh will need to and mostly same old same old, which korn Home for Senior Jewish Dogs. ed to flying trapeze after trying it out on get used to participating, which might is a good thing. She reports, “I’m an- She’s been volunteering a lot with com- a whim for her 41st birthday. Turns out be good for him. Josh is blessed to see other year older. I’m genuinely enjoy- munity events in her little neighbor- there’s an entire circus culture in DC some good old friends here and there, ing a low key midlife crisis, learning hood and also at the dog rescue. She’s she had been missing out on the past and a little sad not to see more of them how to take better care of myself after headed to Vershire in April for the TMS 15 years. So, she’s making up for lost more often. He still goes fly fishing all these years. Max started an after- Alumni Committee meeting, which is time with a vengeance. “The only trick and plays guitar, but slower now. Josh school program learning cello, and they always a treat. is that the only people I’ve managed to wishes he could slow down time, but are learning to play Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ Jennifer Fritz says hi! Things are convince to join me are my fearless 10 instead, it speeds up, as he slows down. on a Prayer” and the absurdity of hear- all good in DC, kids (see photo below) year old Noah and my 25-year-old data It is so peaceful to talk about heart- ing my child play this song on a cello are keeping her busy, and they are start- scientist colleague Joseph. Other than ache and dreams by his wood burning makes my day every time he practices. that, just living the dream—started a fire with a cup of hot chocolate in hand Which is about once a week. Hannah is cool new job at Amazon last year, and and cats at our feet. Solace. And, since in a unicorn phase, so I’ve gotten really looking forward to taking the kids to I’m making perfume lately, I will also good at drawing those (dusts shoulders Malaysia this summer.” add that Josh made farm fresh candles off). We’ve managed to resist getting Sam Janis married Liza Stanley over the holidays that were scented of a guinea pig, but the battalion is weak Mindemann, whom he met in a park- cedar with heavy notes of beef fat. and low on supplies, and I fear we may ing lot after rock climbing. After some Gwyn Jones says hi! eventually fall. Also I bought new bath months of them wandering about North Allison Cohen is still working as a towels this year.” That made Alice Lee America in the sketchy red van he built,

21 they honed in on northwest Washing- hot chocolate—very tasty). I’m in my small village and having the kids meet thing in the crypto world, like climbing ton, just shy of Canada. seventh year of business helping people their great-grandmother. His startup, the 7 highest summits.” “After looking at two dozen or so in companies work together well, cre- Hostfully, keeps heading in the right Ben Ruggiero is living outside similarly sized parcels across the re- ate, and do work that is meaningful—so direction with a growing team and ex- Chicago, having “an absolute arctic gion, we dropped the dime on 15 acres it’s a lot about emotional intelligence, panding the way they help hosts from blast” with his wife, two young kids, and a mule just about five miles north communication, belonging, and well- Airbnb to professional vacation rental old dog and betta fish. The winter of Bellingham. Our hope is to start re- being. Check out my work if you’re management companies to improve weather keeps them in their PJs for storing and putting energy and life and curious—my website is my name. I’m their general operations and provide days while catching up on all forms of nutrients back into these areas using a so glad for time spent with some of you 5-star hospitality to their guests. “I’m streaming content. He found a dusty old mix of goats, machinery, native under- this past year, or emailing each other still loving the journey of startup mixtape from Underwood and decided story plants, and some yet-to-be-fully the particulars of life. Love to you all. world, and all the ups and downs that to throw it on when they had people understood form of ecological manage- Thank you. More, please. come with it.” He and Kim both work over. “It may have cleared the room, ment of water and soil, not necessarily from home and our kids go to the same but it was also getting pretty late. One in that order, come this Spring. This is school four blocks away, “so our world thing’s for sure, each tune was more all to say we’re going to try our hand has gotten quite small. But we are also random than the next and brought back at farming and restoring this land pro- Spring ’96 feeling a nice sense of community in all kinds of fond mid-90s memories. ductively and harmoniously, not neces- our neighborhood, which helps make The tape probably peaks at ‘On Broad- sarily having any all or enough of the Ned Friend the city more manageable.” As always, way’, then abruptly nosedives with ‘Ice requisite expertise, but having a fistful [email protected] they have an extra guest room and all Cream’ by Sarah McLachlin. Hit me up of desire and no shyness to call upon appy 40th birthday everyone! TMSers are welcome to crash when if you’re ever in Chicago and we can thy countless talented and approach- HThere are s96ers who want to cel- visiting SF. share a listen!” able neighbors and friends and random ebrate with you around the world, and Lily Baum Pollans welcomed a Karalyn Burke is still teaching contacts off the internet who do have some even have a place to stay! new baby to her brood last January: high school science in Morristown, VT, such expertise and seem somehow al- Laurel Thayer is still living in Ada, now 1. Shortly after she was where she lives with her husband, one- ways willing to help. There was noth- the Bay Area with her wife and three born, they moved from Cambridge to year-old son Morgan, and their dog. ing but an old metal shed here when we kids, “although my oldest is turning 20 Brooklyn so that she could start a new They bought a house built in 1900 a started, and now we’ve got ourselves a this year, so it is hard to still call him job teaching sustainability and envi- few years ago and have been fixing it scrappy little homestead consisting of a a kid.” She just started a new position ronmental justice at Hunter College. up, and otherwise enjoy spending time 24-foot yurt + cozy little bathhouse re- helping immigrant kids in the Oakland Her older son, Theo, almost 4, is in skiing, hiking and playing outside! cently connected by way of a delightful Public School District find free or low preschool and has a variety of interests, Kristian Gratton is still in Bir- circular deck made of cedar and built cost immigration attorneys. Most of the including excavators and strawberries. mingham, AL (since late 2005) prac- with the help of numerous friends and kids she works with are living in the They have a spare room and are happy ticing Emergency Medicine at a small neighbors. There’s also a chicken ‘trac- United States without their parents, so to host any wandering TMS-ers that community hospital a few miles south- tor’ in the field with 20 red rangers who they don’t have a lot of outside support. need a place to stay in Brooklyn. “I west of the city. “Birmingham itself, will head to freezer camp.” She fundraised for the position herself think of Vermont often and love hearing despite its past demons, has undergone That leaves me, Jessica Powers. (which was stressful), through a small about all of your journeys since those a small little progressive renaissance... Omayra implored me to give you more organization called the Immigrant Fam- peaceful days.” killer food scene, creative breweries... detail, claiming that I short shrift class ily Defense Fund, but so far the job has Jeff Seymour is teaching his elev- and the occasional grassroots support notes when it comes to me. So here I been great. “One perk is that I’m get- enth year of English at the Harvey for a decent senate candidate.” He’s go. I’m still living in Brooklyn in an ting really good at deciphering teenage School in Katonah, NY. He married trying his best to raise two “fiercely apartment and neighborhood that I text slang.” Virginia Holmes in June, 2017, and independent, strong willed, creative” love. I’ve started to make natural per- Peter Sheridan’s boutique re- they welcomed their daughter, Juliet, in little girls: Finn (4) and Olive (6). His fume this year, and I wear it to bed. I modeling business, Hearth, is still go- May of last year. wife, Skye, has taken up a campaign to love leathery florals and musky florals, ing strong in SF and so is the Dusty Marina Michahelles is on her 14th add a third to the mix, so maybe we’ll and I love how natural perfume evolves Rhino. He’s turning the Dusty Rhino season running her Shoving Leopard hear about that in a future news. He’s over time. It’s all beauty and decay. I’m into a non-profit to fundraise for- or Farm, in Red Hook NY. She’s plotting still running and training for ultrama- making a tincture of ambergris that will ganizations that help save rhinos and ways to lure her cousins Meg and Kit rathons, hitting the trails several times take several months to develop. I have bring awareness to conservation efforts Aldrich’s kids (Fall, early 1990s) onto a week “in search of transcendence, part of a sperm whale’s intestinal stuff through music, art and fire. His son Bo- the farm to do the weeding this sum- mindfulness.” He completed his first in my bathroom. Amazing. I’m also dhi just turned 4 and loves pre-school. mer “so the next investment will be a 100 miler this past November, the Pin- pole dancing lately, and I run slowly He is bilingual (English and Spanish) popsicle freezer.” She stays with Mor- hoti 100 in 25 hours, and is looking for- a lot. I’m happy to live near Prospect and just starting to learn how to read gen Peck in Chinatown on her monthly ward to the Pine to Palm 100 in Oregon Park and tend to go out in whatever via looking at San Francisco bus maps. visits to NYC. She shares that Morgan this fall. “I certainly look back fondly weather there is. I’ve discovered how “He loves buses more than anything.” has been writing about crypto curren- on 16 when we all came together to glorious using my own chicken stock David Jacoby spent 2.5 weeks in cy since 2011 with articles in AAAS, share our vulnerabilities and experience in cooking is, and I’m still cooking a Vietnam with his wife, Kim, two kids Harpers, and more, but is also learning a little utopia.” ton. I’ve travelled a lot this year—both (ages 6 and 7) and lots of other family locksmithing and lock-breaking. “On Lydia Pace is loving time with her work and pleasure. Most notably, I got and friends, to celebrate Kim’s grand- the weekends, Morgan and her partner kids, Celia and Anders who are now chased by an elephant while sipping on mother’s 100th birthday! It was a very Noelle find abandoned apartments to 5-almost-6 and 3, and is filled with amachocarula (it’s amarula mixed with special experience traveling to her try and break into. Apparently, this is a amazement at all the things Celia is

22 learning in kindergarten. She is still a kindergarten in the fall. We have been start rehearsals for a production of King a sandbox project in Izzy and Emily’s clinician-researcher at Brigham and exploring kid-friendly volunteer op- Lear in a former blast furnace in Pitts- backyard and Hazel wrangled Greg and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medi- portunities in the area, like beach clean burgh in April, my second show since Izzy’s brother Alex into making her a cal School working on women’s health ups, which we really enjoy. All in all, Kip was born. When not acting, I’m swing.” care and policy, and still going regu- life in LA with my little guy is pretty teaching and training medical profes- Izzy Lowell writes, “Our big news larly to Rwanda to help support breast great.” sionals in skills of empathy and com- is that baby Amelia arrived in Novem- cancer care delivery and research there. Carolyn (Leuner) Petruzziello munication.” ber! Otherwise we are about the same. “But I miss Vershire—we need another recently returned to the classroom to QMed is growing, and I’m getting to reunion!” teach high school physics “after having tour the Southeast providing transgen- Brooke Brewer is still in Spain’s journeyed from teaching kindergarten der care.” Basque Country, in San Sebastián. Her to middle school to founding principal Matt Fisken reports that his son, husband Brian is teaching at the wood- and then professor. My founding kin- Milo, “just graduated from nature pre- en boat building school he started, their dergarteners are now 9th graders in our school and is becoming an adventur- son Otis is in preschool and speaks flu- high school...making me feel old and ous skier this winter, which has had ent Basque, and “while Brian’s and my very lucky to be a part of their journey the benefit of getting me back into the Spanish is improving, our Basque is for so long. I recently spoke to some of sport after 15 years off. Nicole has been not. There’s nothing quite like not un- my juniors about my experience at the Christy Parker says she is “hap- tearing up the woods winning a number derstanding what your child is saying to Mountain School. It was amazing to pily still working at Crossroad Farm of trail runs last year, and I briefly ap- make you feel like a total immigrant.” think I was their age when I went on in Post Mills, VT. Learning to manage peared in documentary about wireless In October, they welcomed their second solo, shoveled wood chips, and experi- our beautiful post and beam farm stand. radiation called Generation Zapped. son, Oslo Maynard. “Being an expat is enced a place that continues to develop Darby (9), Olin (5), and I live in a cute I’m really hoping I can make it up for both strange and wonderful, but we in its meaning and influence years after hilltop house in Strafford, VT. It’s Summer Session!” always feel a bit lonesome for friends I’ve left.” been a fun winter of skiing, snowshoe- Nick Singer, Jen Debbane, and back home, so would love to see any- ing, and sledding. Looking forward to Alex Kaufman and his wife saw Molly one if they’re headed this way!” spring flowers soon.” Venter, her husband Eben, and their As for me, Ned Friend, I’m still in Curt Ellis and his family moved son in January in San Francisco. Then Seattle with my wife, Sara, doing tech- back to Brooklyn last summer. He’s Nick and Jen saw Molly and Eben per- nical strategy for Microsoft where I get busy with FoodCorps, and his wife, form at a house concert. the mixed blessing of small meetings Caitlin, is starting a new film distri- Sarah O’Keefe Greig says her with Bill Gates. After 16 years of com- bution company. Curt writes, “Oliver kids are “growing by leaps and bounds, muting 12 miles by bus and carpool, I (6), Birch (1), and Scio (border collie) and we’re somehow still in NYC! I fell in love with biking in every day this take turns herding each other around continue to teach architecture to 1st past year (and then bussing home). I’m the apartment. I loved seeing George, and 2nd graders and run a photography continuing to work on progressive tax Cassie Marlantes Rahm is still Alexis, Cassie, Beth Sigman Somer- business. Luckily, I have shared several justice for school funding and am the working at NRDC (National Resources set, and Alex Lloyd at the Mountain fun meals in the last few months with PTA Fundraising Chair for my daugh- Defense Council), “trying to push back School gathering in Brooklyn last fall, George, Alexis, Cassie, and Kather- ters’ local Spanish-immersion public against the Trump onslaught, and oth- and I recently watched Ian Cheney’s ine Messer—they are all doing well!” school. We tested their Spanish for three erwise running around after the kids The Most Unknown on Delta’s in-flight Scott Belsky is living between weeks in Spain last summer which was (Alex is 5, Louisa 2).” She and George movie system.” NYC and San Francisco and is now a amazing, but I’m so bummed I dropped Cullman got together with their littles Georgina Cullman entered her father of three, which he says, he can the ball on seeing Brooke! and submitted this adorable photo. second year at NYC Parks helping to hardly believe. “Latest creative side protect the wildlife in the city’s 12,000 project was The Messy Middle, which acres of natural areas. She says, “It’s a is now published. Now running product fun challenge. My husband Chris and I at Adobe and supporting a number of are grateful that our older daughter Ha- early stage entrepreneurs.” Spring ’97 zel is happy in kindergarten, and we are Shira Entis writes, “I feel like this enjoying seeing our younger daughter is the first time in a long time that I ac- Beth Sigman Somerset Laila’s personality and competencies tually have news to report. I got mar- [email protected] develop (she is 2). Very grateful for ried in September to my wonderful ome to Summer Session, friends! times with good friends close to home man Josh, and I made my own wedding CJuly 26-28. Spend time with some (like the play date with Cassie and her dress because I couldn’t find anything I great people on that beautiful hilltop Catherine Gowl reports that she’s kids). Also grateful to maintain friend- loved. We’re (still) living in Brooklyn in Vershire. You will be glad you did. living in Pittsburgh with son Kipka ships farther afield. We went down to but constantly threatening to move up- Meanwhile, here’s the latest from our (now 1) and her husband Greg. “I had Atlanta to visit Izzy and her wife Emily state/Portland/Seattle??? I’ve been run- semester: the pleasure of visiting Izzy Lowell and their two kids Amelia (3 months) ning my handbag/accessory biz, teach- Anna (Goralnick) Hopkins and meeting her youngest, Amelia, with and Charlie (2). Catherine and her hus- ing indigo dye classes, and just started writes, “Hudson will be 5 in June! We Alexis Boehmler, George, and our band Greg joined with their son Kipka, making my own indigo-dyed leather have been working hard on the school families. We helped Izzy finish a sand and Alexis came too! It was beauti- moccasins under the name Sardines, application process, and we are getting box, built a rope swing, and revelled ful mayhem with five kids aged five because I realized sardines are my spir- ready for him to transition into TK or in our little ones frolicking together. I and under. We helped with finishing it animal. Basically, I am just trying to

23 make new interesting things.” Mountain School for the 20th reunion! Siobhan Boylan says she’s teach- They’ve spent the past six months in ing “a K/1 loop in the Sierra foothills” Cleveland (w/her parents), Toronto & and loves it. “I’ll be teaching a young Georgian Bay, Canada (with in-laws), writers’ camp in Shenzhen, China for Rome and Sicily (vacation), back to the third time this July, so I won’t be Cleveland for Halloween, SF Bay for a able to make it to Summer Session.” bit, back to see family for the holidays. Thomas Whitney is spending After all that, Los Angeles was calling the year in Princeton, NJ, “where I’ve their name and now they’ve found a gone back to school to get a ‘mid-ca- sweet little place in Culver City. Think reer’ Master of Public Policy degree at of them whenever you hear the city get Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. a shout-out on NPR! Below: Madeline It’s wonderful to be in an academic and daughter Zoë pose near the wood- setting and also nice to be back in this pile on Library Hill. country after eight years living abroad. It’s been a special treat to catch up with some TMS classmates in this area. I also made it to Maine to ring in 2019 with Ian and his incredible family. We will move to Washington, DC, in the summer for a couple of years. It’s been a year of new schools for the whole family: Vicente (s17) is a freshman at Izzy Lowell s97 Carleton, Estela is a third-grader, Igna- Kit Maloney got married in Sep- cio started Kindergarten, and Carolina tember and is moving to Maine, just By Marcella Borgenicht s19 is teaching. north of Portland. They would love to I, Beth Sigman Somerset, enjoyed connect with any TMS folks in Maine! Dr. Izzy Lowell says that she hopes she “goes out of seeing Molly and Reif Larsen at the Coe Will Hoeksema, hubby Craig, business” because her work should “be standard and available Mountain School for Summer Session and big brother Owen welcomed Luca everywhere.” This Spring ’97 alumna reflects fondly on her last July (Molly was MC and a per- Sinclair Hoeksema to the family on semester which gave root to her career in transgender medicine. former for the coffee house; Reif gave May 10, 2018. Coe was thrilled to in- After Concord Academy, she attended Williams College a session about location in fiction writ- troduce the whole family to the Moun- and then the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. ing). I also got to chat with Alex Lloyd, tain School a couple months later at Although Izzy grew up in Massachusetts, she moved south Alexis, Curt, George, and Sarah at the summer reunion, where they all en- to Atlanta, Georgia where she established a gender clinic at the alumni event in Brooklyn last No- joyed meeting old and new friends, dis- Emory University in 2013. While based at Emory, Izzy also vember, where Curt did a bang-up job cussing apple trees, harvesting carrots, earned her MBA at the Goizueta School of Business. presenting about his work improving decoding the language of the landscape, school food systems and policies. Out- and feasting under a beautiful sunset on Through practicing medicine, Izzy realized that the transgender side of work, I’m navigating parent- Garden Hill. Last year, Coe shifted to population had few medical options as this group struggled hood, still coaching cross country, and digital media consulting for Dattner Ar- to find even primary doctors. To fill this medical gap, Izzy last September, I had a blast doing a tri- chitects and various related clients, in decided to learn more about transgender health, including athlon that climbed Mount Monadnock order to also manage the absurd logis- hormone therapy. She established QMed to pursue equality in Thanks for being in touch, all! I tics of raising kids in Brooklyn. the southeast by welcoming all trans and nonbinary patients. hope to see some of you at Summer Session. (Molly will be coffee house At the Mountain School and all through her life, Izzy has taken MC again and will be leading a song- an interest in many areas including art history, business, and writing session! Who else wants to lead mathematics. She asserts that the Mountain School showed a session??) her the value in “doing good in the world” and “taking care of our communities.” This school helped her foster an incredible work ethic which she and her many semester friends have applied to their community shaping efforts. She says that some Spring ’98 of the friends she made here are still there for her today. Dan Chiorean Thea Johnson is still living in Izzy swoons over the culture of community at TMS. Besides [email protected] Portland, Maine. The benefit of being staying close with people tied to the Mountain School, she n August 2018, Madeline Podnar in Maine is that she is close to Vermont, advises alumni and current students to “follow things that you IStewart and family sold or donated so it was easy to make it to the TMS love.” She stresses the importance of going toward the things nearly all their worldly possessions, reunion this year. It was such a wonder- that we believe in, so that we will find our true purpose. and set out on an adventure that would ful time! And it was a treat to introduce take them far from L.A. First stop: the her son and husband to Garden Hill.

24 Another treat this summer was seeing for spring newness. Made fudgy oat in northern VT. I practice family medi- Jessica and Irene at the college reunion Spring ’99 squares for New Year’s Eve—always cine in Georgia, and Katie is with an and spending time with Chris and his a hit.” OB/GYN practice in Burlington. We lovely new wife, Shruti, in New York Caleb Masland get down south to the Weston area fre- City. [email protected] quently to see my folks and drop in to Melina Packer is still struggling 20th Reunion August 2-4 see what projects Jon Bigelow has go- through her Ph.D. process at UC Berke- aving been informed that this year ing on! Our older rugrat Peter (4 now) ley, in environmental studies—with Hbrings about our 20-year reunion, is getting the hang of skiing and his feminist and anti-racist flair—plan- I have endeavored to find out where the sister Gabriella (1 1/2) hopefully will ning to finish by spring 2020. She re- calendar conspiracy first began. Surely follow suit soon. It’s good to be back.” mains committed to fierce and joyful it isn’t a possibility that we have spent Dave Gorin passes along these resistance against today’s fascism and greater than half our lives beyond our updates: “Last summer, my partner climate crises, balancing her bouts of time together in Vershire. I (Caleb Magda (Denes) Miller sends Charlotte and I moved to Brooklyn and righteous rage with all the good, clean, Masland) certainly am not feeling 20 along the following: “I live in Balti- got a rescue puppy, a redbone coon- food and loving, genuine people she is years beyond my late teens. Over the more and work at Hopkins as an Anes- hound named Odin—a.k.a. ‘the velvet so fortunate to have around her. She is last year, I added a partner to my coach- thesiologist. I love my job! My family bonebag.’ I’m still teaching creative always happy to hear from spring ‘98 ing business and finally achieved a very is great; both of my daughters keep me writing at Yale. As of last summer, folks, if and when, they’re in the SF long-term goal of running faster than on my toes—one is a tween, the other a I’ve also been teaching college-credit Bay Area, including, of course, those two-and-a-half hours in a marathon toddler—so they present me with chal- courses in a maximum security prison who are already here...! Kisses and (2:28:05 in Houston this January). I si- lenges to face daily. I am shocked, it’s in upstate Connecticut. Working with Revolution, y’all. multaneously refuse to accept that I will been 20 years since our days on Garden incarcerated students is teaching me a As for me, Dan Chiorean, I am be a “masters” runner soon, while being Hill. I still remember games of knock- lot I didn’t know about the world and still living in New Orleans, though I am excited to potentially peak as an athlete out, playing broomball, sitting in the literature both. As for TMS sightings: I doing a LOT of travel for work these when I do turn 40 so I can compete at steam in the sugar house, eating fudgy spent New Year’s with Charlie Mun- days, and some months, I’m away from the national level. I suppose the passage oat squares and spending time with my ford on his farm in Mississippi. We home more than I’m home. My new of time, inevitable as it is, brings both Miles girls! Such a sweet time in my made jambalaya in a large iron caul- wife and I both travel quite a bit, and pearls and seaweed. life! Thank you for the memories and dron over a bonfire, shot clay pigeons I suppose the benefit of that is often Daisuke Yasutake is living in cheers to each of you!! over a lake, walked through the woods, being away from New Orleans during Cambridge near Harvard Square and is Diana Rodin continues to live in played with Charlie’s wonderful daugh- the hottest parts of the year in the sum- working at a software company man- Brooklyn, doing health policy research, ter, Eva Simms, and talked for a long mer. We do love our lives with our two aging sales reps. He wants everyone spending a lot of the rest of her time time about everything under the stars. dogs, and both immensely enjoy what to know that if they are in the Boston as part of the board of Indivisible Na- In the fall, I caught up with Hope Bo- we do, though I’m constantly wishing area he’d love to catch up with them. tion BK, a grassroots progressive group eve at a phenomenal Greek restaurant to have more time to get away to the Bash Reeve had something of a career there, and occasionally cross-country near where she lives in Queens. Before mountains. Being at the TMS 20th re- change, or two, and is now in doing a skiing in the park when that’s an option. I left Providence, Tess Wheelwright union and seeing everyone filled my family medicine residency in Portland, Antonia (Thompson) Weisman dropped in and we walked around the soul with joy. I’ve included a photo of Oregon. He saw Cory Liu recently sent this update from across the At- city with iced coffee on a sunny day. a science hike with Pat, where you can when he was out visiting his sister, and lantic: “It is mind-boggling to me that On my commutes to New Haven, I oc- also see Coe directly behind me with passes along that it would great to see we find ourselves 20 years on… It still casionally cross paths with Ian Cheney her baby carrier. I miss everyone from any and all TMS’ers passing through. feels so fresh and yet a lifetime has hap- s97, who is teaching a course on food TMS very much, and hope to see any- Professionally, I think I was inspired by pened since then. 2018 was an event- and film at Yale. one and everyone I can, if you are ever both Chester, who ended up in family ful year as we welcomed our second Like me, I am sure there is so much in New Orleans. medicine in Vermont, and Lara Vogel, daughter Esme. Her big sister Leo is more everyone would like to share who is working in emergency medicine settling nicely into the role. We are still about what has happened recently and in Boston. And to out one more, I heard living in London, and I’m back at work over the last 20 years. Everyone should that Maggie recently married a won- as Head of Strategy for Entertainment make an effort to come to the reunion derful handsome man and continues to Marketing agency ITB Worldwide, cre- this summer from August 2-4, so that make New York City more interesting. ating strategic partnerships and content we can catch up in depth! Maggie Turner confirms: “I got collaborations for brands.” married in October to my sweetie Ja- mal Adem. We wed in Brooklyn, close to home and I am quite enjoying calling Spring ’00 him my husband.” (Sister and fellow TMSer Julia Turner f94 also pictured). Lauren Rauch “I started a new gig two months ago at [email protected] a great company called Ramy Brook. Here we go again, friends. The Still sourcing fabrics and looking for snow finally fell here in NYC, just beauty and, I get to travel! Just returned in time to for this newsletter. So, to a from Paris where I ate as many pain Chester Areson says, “My wife soundtrack of street ploughs and side- aux raisin as possible, while shopping Katie and I are settling back into life walk shovels, here is where our class-

25 mates have been up to this year: ing through the night and out of dia- the three kids under 3 thing, which we learn about the Mountain School and After many years working for pers, Emily Lowenberg is finding that can’t exactly recommend. But finally consider applying!” his Uncle and in many of Boston’s she has more energy for both work and are starting to emerge from the chaos Dave Eisenstadter writes: “Sebas- great farm to table restaurants, Tom play. “I’ve transitioned into a new role and get back to a little less-hectic ver- tian is 2 and bringing us joy with his Schlesinger-Guidelli opened his first as Associate Medical Director at the sion of life. Saw Coltere Savidge, his smiles, mischievousness, and his love restaurant this year. “Alcove debuted in community health center where I’ve wife and daughter Beatrice (Bea) up of music. We still live in Northamp- the middle of October on the water in been for years, which has been quite in Vermont this past Christmas, and ton. Over the past year, there were dif- the West End of Boston next to the TD rewarding. And on the home front, it’s they’re expecting another soon, too! ficulties at work which resulted in my Garden. Focused on a neighborhood been a joy to rediscover Roald Dahl and Hope to see lots of people at the re- helping lead a successful unionization friendly farm coast cuisine that has in- checkers with my family.” union next year!” effort at my newspaper. Shortly after spirations from my growing up on the Living just around the corner from Caroline Kerr and her family love we succeeded in our union vote, I was South Coast of MA, as well as our days Emily and seeing her quite a bit, David being back in the Upper Valley (Ha- restored to my former position leading farming at TMS.” Check it out at next Vitale-Wolff has reached his first anni- nover, NH). “William (3) and Alexan- the Valley Advocate as editor, and I’m time you are in town (alcoveboston. versary of being on paternity leave with der and Elizabeth (1) are enjoying lots excited to be back there working with com)! his son Micah. “My days are filled with of snow and outdoor adventuring. We writers on investigative pieces and fun Katie Baker writes: “I’m still playing, music and going outside.” almost managed to meet up with Mal- stuff, too. Also this spring, I will finally writing at the sports and culture web- Alex Schoenfeld and his husband lory and her family. (We’ll make it hap- be done with a data science grad certifi- site The Ringer—my recent features Ryan are happily living the ‘suburban pen.) We see lots of Rosi Kerr s92 and cate program and am looking forward have included a profile on the billion- dream-life’ with two kids, a golden family. The little cousins love romping to that freeing up more time for me to aire environmentalist Tom Steyer (the retriever puppy and a minivan in sub- together. Rosi’s daughter, Roo (3), fear- spend with my family.” highlight of which was getting an email urban Philadelphia. “I’m working for lessly leads, while William cautions Chelsea DesAutels will earn her from Bill McKibben that said ‘I don’t Pearson (the education company) and about the laws of gravity. (I’m hoping MFA in poetry from the University of have cell service right now because have been traveling a fair amount late- they’ll be in s32 together.) We’d love to Houston in May and has been enjoy- I’m on the Greenland Ice Shelf’) and ly. I recently got into running, complet- see any s00/TMS folks who are passing ing a year of writing and teaching. She an angsty essay about being a Knicks ing my first 1/2 marathon last fall and through or want to come for a visit.” and her family are looking forward to fan. I have two boys, Malcolm (1) and looking forward to the Broad Street run Eliza Ridgeway’s family now a return to the Minneapolis area to be Graham (3) and we live in Truckee, CA in Philly this spring. To mix things up, includes Ada (3) and Mira (born in closer to family. where we are getting absolutely ham- we’re considering a move to the Bay October). “We still live in Silicon Val- As for me, Laurén Rauch, I am mered by snow this season. (See photo Area, which will be decided by the time ley, and I’m still a community news having a ball watching our 16-month- of my front yard.) If anyone ever finds this goes to print.” reporter. Our outdoor adventures are old daughter’s personality explode themselves in Tahoe, please give a Mallory Michaeles and her fam- very playground and preserve focused more every day. We live on the Upper shout!” ily moved to Brunswick, ME this fall, right now, but given another year, we’ll East Side with a direct escape route where her husband Jonathan is coach- have mastered dual child backpacking. to our parents’ homes in the suburbs ing football at Bowdoin. After getting Pointers welcomed.” for fresh air and space to run around. put on endless day-care lists and never Lucky for us, Rylan has mastered the finding childcare, Mallory has been art of charming the Metro North com- home with both kids. Amelia will be muter train. I’m still working as in- three in May and Emerson turned one at house counsel for Oliver Wyman and the end of February. “So that has been would love to see folks if you’re in a huge change and a much bigger chal- NYC! Wishing you much love as al- Becca Link bought a house in lenge.” Luckily, they have loved their ways and can’t wait to see you and your Seattle this year and is generally lov- new town! families next summer on Garden Hill! ing life. She lives with her contractor Kip Battey writes: “My wife and I boyfriend, who redid their kitchen, are still down in D.C. trying to make the front yard and driveway, and even built best of things in the swamp (very clear- a second bathroom! Becca recently ly not drained), and were pleasantly, but Spring ’01 made partner with her ER group, and completely surprised, to have twin girls This past year has brought loss and is seeing some interesting stuff work- almost 2 years ago now. Until our son growth, for Aarav Sundaresh, “wit- Micah Resnick ing only nights in the ER closest to turned 3 this past fall, we were doing nessing my dad pass on and the birth [email protected] SeaTac airport. They also bought land our new child, Dara. Every day is full— o much happy news to report this and spent time in Driggs, Idaho, which teaching, making, cooking, connecting. Syear! is one hour from Jackson Hole. “Head- I think of you all warmly, especially Elana Snow is married to and the ing towards (what I hope) is a 40-day when encouraging my 10th graders to proud parent of a rescue-dog, Ricky, ski season. Mostly, just settling in and from Tennessee. She is raising the pup enjoying stability! Come visit Seattle!” with her husband, Mike, in the Boston Also a new homeowner, Tony suburbs where she gets to spend time DeLisi and his wife, Natalie, bought a with classmate Lindsey Abbey Lane. beautiful house in the fall. “Otherwise She has been working at Cengage as just working and living.” an Instructional Designer for two years Now that her kids are both sleep- and is super stoked for her honeymoon

26 to Chile. wise, I’m practicing law at Cooley LLP parties or having impromptu post-ballet giving math talks, and hiking in France Missing alum, Paul Feingold, re- representing start up companies in San sleepovers. She is currently researching and Scotland. It was wonderful! She is turned from the depths of the operating Francisco.” her next book, which will be an adven- in her second year as a math professor theater to report that he is living in New ture story about wild animals surviving at Swarthmore College, where she is Haven with his wife Jamie, 1.5 year old in Los Angeles. writing problem-based curricula and son, Jack, and at by the time of pub- I continue to provide care for the teaching discussion-based math cours- lishing, new baby Eleanor. Mazel Tov! children of Western Queens (and be- es, with an end goal of eliminating lec- Jamie works as a nurse practitioner spe- yond), while raising two spirited, intel- tures from all college math teaching. cializing in prenatal care and women’s ligent, amazing children, Lana, almost She reports that “it is very intellectually health. Paul is in the final 1.5 years of 4, and Eli, 1.5 years old, with my in- satisfying work. In October I visited his general surgery residency and is credible partner, April. Vijay Viswanathan and his girlfriend currently interviewing for thoracic sur- Amber in Boulder, CO, and we had a gery fellowships. Savage bro! lovely lunch and stroll.” Lisa Dunlop Zed is celebrating I am happy to report that Claire three years of marriage this summer to Cheney has been a mother to daughter her husband Andrew. They live in To- Linden for almost a year. Curio Spice Spring ’02 ronto where Lisa continues to work as Co. is still, “going spicily.” And Claire consultant for Deloitte specializing in is planning to be at Summer Session Therese Claxton the retail industry. The couple is mak- 7/26/19 for all who are thinking about [email protected] to Israel and Jordan this fall. going! 018 was a very busy year for the הָּיִלֲע ing Natalie Allan Teear is happy to In Eugene, OR, Nate Warren was 2s02 Mountain School Crew… report that she welcomed her second able to give Will Genge his knife and Meredith Denning has just moved child, Jackson, in November and her letter to himself that was pulled from back to Toronto after finishing her PhD daughter, Leila, turned 3 in Decem- the ground back in 2011 for our 10-year at Georgetown University. She’s a fel- ber. Wow! She is still living in LA and reunion. Only eight years late. They low at the University of Toronto, work- Also visiting Vijay, Lindsay Young working in management consulting for then enjoyed a delicious meal of tacos ing on a book, freelancing for some participated in a festive Groundhog PwC. and fudgy oat squares. consulting firms and plotting how best Day celebration in Boulder. Activities Dawn Lippert is becoming a Lisa Field shared this update: to get involved in Great Lakes policy. included a marmot dance and launch- mother. She and Brody are welcoming ”I’ve been living and working in Colo- “It’s great to be back up north, but the ing a taxidermy marmot down a zip line a baby girl any day now. Elemental Ex- rado Springs, CO for about seven years winter takes some getting used to!” to an excited crowd of kids (we don’t celarator is going strong, having now as a Registered Nurse and Nurse As- Caroline Biggers and Michael actually have groundhogs in Colorado). funded over 80 startups addressing cli- sistant Manager at Planned Parenthood. Bogino recently visited me in Boston, Life does not get any better than that. mate and urgent environmental issues I love my work, playing in the Rocky which was really awesome and you Ian Barnacle writes, “I have some from our non-profit and for profit plat- Mountains, and DIY house projects!” should all probably do it. Caroline is news! I am expecting a baby boy on forms. “If you know an entrepreneur Ken Nakamura and his husband now working in admissions at Manhat- August 4! I decided to become a par- trying to keep the planet from burning Saul have spent their seventh year in tan Country School, the only indepen- ent on my own with the assistance of up, send them our way!” She also cel- Shanghai, making it the longest they’ve dent school in the city with a working an egg donor and a gestational carrier ebrated with two mountain school al- been in one location. This summer, they farm and farm-based curriculum inte- (a.k.a. surrogate). So as of now I am ums at her baby shower. Additionally, will be moving to Hong Kong and grad- grated into its program, and she assures 16.5 weeks pregnant! I am very ex- she and Libby Hadzima Perkins met uating from the work of advertising to us that she “definitely name-dropped cited for this journey and I hope to be up with Alden Smith for lunch in San start a new venture in new retail expe- Mountain School in the interview.” Mi- a Mountain School alumni/parent some Francisco during his mid-January Bay riences. They’re also hoping to start a chael recently became an uncle for the day!” Area visit. Below: (L-R) Libby, Alden, family in the near future and look for- second time. Paige (Rossetti) Henchen updates and Dawn. ward to welcoming anybody who will David Greenhouse writes, “we us that she is leaving her corporate job be in the neighborhood. are still enjoying Berlin and have been to help her dad start a small founda- Thyra Heder, as usual, spent this doing our best studying our German to tion focused on climate change solu- year working away in her studio in keep up with Wilbur who shortly turns tions. Her dad, a lifelong conservative, the Brooklyn Navy Yard on her next 2. I went back to work and late last year changed his mind about climate change picture book, How Do You Dance? started an office here for my company, just two years ago. “Witnessing this (due in fall). For research, she went to AppNexus, as well as moving into a evolution—from skepticism, to knowl- lots of parties and made lots of danc- new more strategic role as a Program edge, to action—has been a source of ing videos. The best party of the year Manager. I’m enjoying the challenges profound hope for me.” Libby is also a new mother. She was last winter where she danced with and rewards of thinking about our strat- Libby Eberhardt reports that she wrote “my husband (Alex Perkins) and Patti Smith, Joan Baez, Flea and Claire egy regarding GDPR and data manage- is still in Boston and that she and her I just had our first baby—Josephine Cheney. Love regularly sharing card- ment, while helping to build a new Ber- husband Tony just had a baby boy, Arlo, Mica Perkins (‘Josie’) born Feb 11th board construction tips and inventions lin team. And most exciting, Wilbur is in January. “He is keeping us enter- here in Berkeley, CA. We look forward with John Lynch (who ended up danc- getting a little sister in May!” tained, happy and sleep deprived! (My to reading her Thyra’s books and bring- ing in the end papers of my book next Diana Davis spent the summer of brother Tom, TMS s99, and his wife ing her up to the Mountain School this to Ali Stein’s son, Arlo) and showing 2018 in Europe, living out of a 22-liter had a baby (Cabot) 7 weeks earlier, and summer on her first visit east! Other- up to Micah’s daughter’s huge birthday backpack, going to math conferences,

27 it’s been so fun to see them together!)”. Trail in its entirety, 200+ miles from ger news as she and her husband Parker and Liam (born in October!). He was George Beane moved to London Yosemite to Mt. Whitney in Califor- are expecting their first baby in March! recently promoted to the role of senior back in 2017 and now works with cit- nia.” Emma Haberman moved with her editor at Bright Wall/Dark Room, the ies to help them prepare for climate husband Caleb from NYC to Washing- online film magazine he has been writ- change. He is glad to report that he saw ton, DC at the end of June and loves ing for the past few years. In March, his David Greenhouse a few times last it so far. She is also expecting their new two-act play, which tells the story year before he moved to Berlin with his first child, a girl, in May! For work, of the final year of James Dean’s life wife and toddler. she manages events for World Central through the lens of his relationship with Ali (Neubauer) Miller reports, Kitchen, a non-profit founded by chef Dennis Hopper, will premier at North- “we had a lot of changes this year in- José Andrés. The organization is a net- ern Kentucky University. cluding moving and welcoming Evelyn work of chefs creating smart solutions Coogan Brennan is living in Aus- Rose into this world.” to help improve hunger and poverty in tin, TX after leaving the East Coast af- Victoria (McGeoch) Goulart says Haley (Mackrow) Sammen is still the areas of health, education, jobs and ter many years. He very much misses “things are going well here in Rhode living the good life in Denver, working disaster relief. In the past 18 months Wiley and their courageous crew, but Island. My son will turn three in May, as an evaluator, hanging with her two they have served over 5 million meals is slowly finding a nice community in and my husband and I have taken over brilliant and hilarious kids, maintaining to victims of natural disasters including TX. He is working teaching engineers the family tree farm! We have a lot of their urban family farm, and packing in some man-made ones, like the border what blockchain is and volunteers at the fun growing tropical plants, especially all the adventures. refugee crisis and the government shut- local jail teaching yoga. Biggest news, citrus, in our house to get through the I, Therese (Claxton) Fleisher, am down. though? Last year he got married to dreary winter months. I continue my art living in the Jamaica Plain neighbor- Steve McDonald didn’t send me the lovely Kathleen Hersey. Congrats from time to time, and lately, painting hood of Boston working as a Project an update, per se, but the lucky guy Coogan! with rich, vibrant colors hits the spot!” Manager in the Global Health Program spent a week in northern Vermont this Raf Kelman lives in Massachu- Sophie Eisner traveled to Zim- at a children’s hospital in overseeing winter skiing and thought a lot about setts with his partner Mary and his babwe in December with a group of the creation of a Liberian pediatric TMS. He also got to surprise Emma 5-year old Urso. He is in his third year artists, collaborated with artists there, residency program. I’m enjoying rais- with a visit in her new home in DC and teaching art at Phillips Andover. He has hiked and learned a little bit of stone ing my two kids with my husband and later this year, is heading to Patagonia even convinced a few of his students to carving. Since returning, she has been trying to fit in crafting. Come visit us! with Sophia Lear. Love when we see go spend some glory days up at Moun- busy in her Detroit studio making new each other still connecting! tain School! He’s also had some TMS sculptures in concrete, steel and cast Jessica Nepom recently landed in alumni visit Andover, including Grace rubber for her solo exhibition, Absolute her new city of Austin, TX after leaving Amber f07 who talked on all things Truth. It opened March 2nd at the Sim- Spring ’03 NYC and taking a year off to backpack trash, magic, and politics! one DeSousa Gallery. around the world. She and her fiancé Bryce Goodman is living in San Amy Streiter started a job at The Cordy Elkins (they got engaged on the trip!) spent Francisco, Haight Ashbury to be pre- Urban Collaborative, an architecture [email protected] the year backpacking in 12 countries cise, with his wife and their two dogs. and sustainable master planning firm. nother year. I honestly cannot throughout Asia, the Middle East, and Gideon Irving continues gallivant- She is still in Eugene, still working on Abelieve it, I don’t feel any older. a bit of Europe, while seeing as much ing about the land bringing his Stove poems, still missing the snow during Lots of exciting news from our Spring as possible and blogging about the trip Top Folk shows into people’s homes. winter. She sends her love to everyone. ‘03 crew, so let me jump right in, with (www.ourjauntabroad.com) before fin- He is currently based out of Boulder, Jacob Lassow is teaching senior myself. I am still living in Boston, and I ishing the trip back in the States with Utah (pop. 200) where he is training English at a rural high school in South now work for State Street Global Advi- a two-month road trip from Seattle to with horses and horse people in an- Carolina. He reports that it continues sors as the Director of Social Media. I Austin, camping in eight National Parks ticipation of his horse tour beginning to test and challenge him in new ways am really loving this new role and that along the way. She is trying to settle summer 2019. He plans to travel with daily. In addition to his time in the aca- we are a finance company with some back into normal life, while scheming two horses in a 4,000 mile loop around demic setting, he spends as much time pretty innovative marketing campaigns about how soon she can do it again! the American West over the course of as he can in a pottery studio working (the Fearless Girl statue is ours!). I’m Sydney Glassman is busy settling a year. He’s played in over 600 homes on his throwing and hiking in the Appa- also still teaching fitness classes now into her new life as a professor in the in nine countries now, but not enough lachian Foothills with his wife, “where for Equinox, a large gym chain and a Microbiology & Plant Pathology de- TMS alumni, and would love to do a we accomplish some of our best unit, as local barre studio near my apartment. partment at UC Riverside. She is cur- better job finding them! If you might well as vacation, planning. Best to all.” I’ve gotten back into hiking in the rently working with her first round of ever fancy hosting him and his show for Matt Sinclair reports that in re- White Mountains, and this summer, Ph.D. students! She recently bought a night in your home (anywhere), drop cent months, “my son Luke (3 years will participate in a charity hike for her first house, complete with guest him a line at itstruemynameisgideon@ old!) and I have been getting outside three days in the Presidential Range room for visitors (ahem! All of us!). In gmail.com or check out his website at more often and enjoying the snow. He of NH to raise money for the Eliza- December, she took a trip to Mexico mynameisgideon.com. A little while is growing up fast, and I can’t wait to beth Stone House, a shelter for victims City and Argentina to hike pyramids in ago he brought his latest home show bring him to Vermont! Professionally, of domestic abuse here in the Boston Mexico City, drink wine in Mendoza, Twinkle Clumps to TMS and had a ball. I’ve been named the practice lead for area. I’m also planning a European ad- see amazing waterfalls in Igauzu and He’s recently finished a workshop for small business consulting at my com- venture with my boyfriend for later in trek mountains in Patagonia. his two man show with Nate “Hubcap” pany, MAGNET, where we help Ohio the summer —hopefully traveling a lot Ethan Warren is settled on the Sloan called “The Gideon and Hubcap manufacturing companies grow. This more in the next year! south shore of Boston with his wife, Show for Kids, Adults and Everyone summer, I plan to hike the John Muir Emiko Neithercut has much big- Caitlin, and their two children Nora (2) Else” which tour homes and theaters

28 in 2021 and play a few shows in Los school and am growing consistently in starting to emerge. I’ve cut way down Angeles mid-March. If you’ve got kids, the job. I’m looking forward to mater- on my social media this year, and I’m or don’t have kids, come and join us! nity leave, which I hope gives us some hoping to spend more of my free time time to explore the Cascades with the getting outdoors in the next year. I’d new babe. I’m also grateful to have love to see some of our semester folks some TMS community around to help sometime in the near future. It’s been us with this new stage of life. Corinne too long!” Spring ’04 Almquist and Skylor Powell are a hop, John Szymanski has finished his skip, and a jump away. Hurray for Gar- PhD work “on the rippling excitatory ing bagels part-time at my best friend’s Zak Stone den Hill Aunties! Love to all.” activity in the musculature of the polyp brother’s bagel place (Levend Bagelry) [email protected] Daniel Glaser writes, “after spend- Hydra, which has whet my appetite to in the Boston Public Market. (The ba- 15th Reunion June 14-16 ing three years in New Haven training do something more immediately useful. gels are worth a trip even if I’m not his Summer is our 15th reunion, in Pediatrics at Yale, I relocated last Since then I cut loose from NYC for a there to say “hey!”). I’m going to Scan- Tcan you even believe it? I cannot! summer to Pittsburgh, PA with my wife bit to see if any of various ideas will be dinavia with my family in May and So much has gone on in all of our lives Emma and our 10 month-old daughter good and useful. First up is a means to Zambia with my aunt in September, so in the past 15 years, and we are all so Madeline. I am in the first year of my make existing motorcycles amphibious 2019 is already shaping up to be pretty grown. fellowship in Pediatric Rheumatol- for remote area access and flood pre- amazing! Looking forward to seeing Here’s what everyone said who ogy at the Children’s Hospital of Pitts- paredness.” whomever makes it out for reunion in took the time to say it, starting with burgh.” Logan Vincent says she is “still June.” Emma Loosigian: “Life is simple and living in Seattle, working my way As for me, I got married on New full of orchard and forest exploration through Cardiology fellowship, and Year’s Eve in L.A. Ben Mandelkern and adventure. I started a tiny busi- looking forward to moving on to Inter- and Ruthie Schwab both made it to the ness called Fresh Air Folk, sewing kids ventional Cardiology shortly. My fiancé wedding. Ben gave a speech that traced clothing and quilts, and donated three and I spend as much time as we can in our friendship back to TMS. It was an quilts to the @_stillwerise Instagram the mountains of Washington State, but amazing reflection on the past 15 years! auctions last year. Dreaming about certainly miss the beauty of Vermont. I am not sure that I will make this year’s starting a farm and forestry school but I’m hoping to make it back for out re- reunion, but I hope to see more of you currently totally engaged in parenting union this spring!” East Coasters starting in the fall. I am our awesome two-year-old. I hope to Mary French took a memorable Ruthie Schwab enjoyed reuniting moving to New York to do an MFA in reconnect with many of you at our re- trip to Iceland and Denmark this spring. recently with a Bay Area crew of our non-fiction writing at Columbia. (This union this summer.” Highlights included “riding through red semester-mates at a potluck hosted by newsletter was obviously a critical part Also in New Hampshire is Sarah lava fields on an Icelandic pony and Jay Cox-Chapman. Ben Hartman, of my portfolio!) Gibson, who is excited to be liv- walking down the black sand beach in Jane Ridgeway, Nathan Mazonson Sending so much love out to all of ing closer to TMS than she has since Reynisfjara to see the hexagonal basalt were all there too. “The group is hoping you. graduating. “Just moved from NYC, columns along the cliffs. I’ve also be- to make these dinners a regular event,” where I was producing for WNYC and gun singing with a choir after a several- adds Ruthie, “so shout out if you’ll be galavanting around with bicycle and year hiatus from singing, and it’s been visiting the SF area any time soon and banjo.” These days, she’s working as a joyful experience to sing in harmony want to join!” Spring ’05 a reporter for New Hampshire Public with others and make music again.” Joelle Kellem lives in Rosendale, Radio, where she’s reporting the news Liz Cerny-Chipman is work- NY in the mid-Hudson Valley with Niki Stellings Hertzberg from the state’s southern tier. “If people ing as a fish policy analyst for Ocean her boyfriend Zack. “I run my own pet [email protected] want to take a hike, or go apple picking, Conservancy, a small ocean-advocacy care business here and couldn’t be hap- i Spring ’05. By my (probably or buy cheap liquor—they know where non-profit. “It’s been great to dive into pier spending my days with super sweet Hinaccurate) count, 13 of us are to find me.” fisheries policy and revisit some of the dogs and cats. If any of you s04ers find married, 4 of us are engaged, 3 of us Ezra Hagerty says he’s “thor- connections we made between sustain- yourselves in the area, come on up for a are parents, and too many of us to count oughly enjoying life in Marblehead, ability and the food system at TMS (al- hike or a swim!” have advanced degrees. In other words, Massachusetts. I’ve been spending the beit in an ocean context). I spend a lot of Jena Talbot got married this past we are firmly in our thirties now. winter cooking large meals for family time translating science into a language October (hence the name change!) and Rachel Carlin is soon to start her and friends, reading by the fire and stra- policymakers can best understand and is continuing to work on her PhD in fourth year of neurology residency at tegically planning out what plants to thinking about how to effectively edu- Counseling Psychology in Cambridge, the Mayo Clinic and will then com- grow in the garden this spring. Looking cate new Members of Congress about MA. plete a one-year stroke fellowship. forward to spring and getting back on fisheries. I’m still living in DC, which Ben Woodworth welcomed the Her daughter (below) and husband are the water to fish. Psyched to see every- is...okay. The big news of my year is birth of his son Jack last July (see photo one at the reunion this summer!” that I got a corgi mix named Willie, in next column). “As you can tell, he’s Caroline Rex-Waller moved to fulfilling a lifelong dream of having my very much looking forward to TMS Portland, Oregon with her husband own dog. He is ridiculous and gives me Spring 2045.” last year. “We spent the summer and and my husband an insane amount of Casey Freedman started as a fall fixing up a house we bought and joy. Lately we’ve been enjoying taking Spanish interpreter at Children’s Hos- are expecting a baby any day now. I him for walks and hikes and seeing the pital here in Boston back in December teach Humanities at an alternative high days getting longer and spring finally and has been loving it. “I’m also sell-

29 doing well. Erin Sargent is getting married in Glacier National Park in July 2019. She is looking forward to the wedding and getting to explore a bit more of the Nathan Mazonson s04 west. Tim Wall and his wife Danielle By Andrew Willwerth s19 live in Charlotte, Vermont and start- ed a farm (ThreeChimneyFarm.com). They have 2 dogs, 2 cats, and a whole bunch of chickens and ducks. Tim is Speaking to Nate Mazonson, I found myself also still very involved in digital media learning that equally important to the search and working with startups, and he also for answers to life’s biggest questions are the recently joined the board of Pathways moments that pass us by while we search. VT, a nonprofit providing choice, con- According to Nate, understanding his sense of nection and homes to people across the duty and responsibility, while also enjoying the state. spontaneous moments that accompany them, has Leo Eisenstein is finishing medical propelled him out of bed each morning. school. This summer he’ll head home to NYC to start his residency in inter- Nate grew up in California, where he was fascinated with survival skills. He loved to explore nal medicine-primary care at NYU/ the outdoors to test his limitations. During his summers as a kid, Nate attended Tom Brown’s Bellevue Hospital. He heard there’s a summer camp, where he went on a 3-week solo with only a knife. In this environment, he learned secret basketball court on the hospital a philosophy that he carries with him today: humans only need shelter, fire, water, and food to roof which he intends to explore. survive. Now he works to ensure that these essentials are available to all. Although he loved the Maura Mathieu says that after outdoors before coming to the Mountain School, Nate found that TMS challenged him to slow years of telling Mountain School stu- down, see the beauty in life, and appreciate it. dents that everyone should take a gap year, she finally decided to follow her After his spring 2004 semester, Nate returned to this area to study at Dartmouth College, where own advice. She is pleased to report he focused on Environmental Studies and Engineering. He then went on to investigate more that, as usual, she was right. Maura sustainable trajectories for our planet. During this exploration, he realized he wanted to learn more is so excited about how she spent her about operating a business with an environmental impact. After earning an MBA from the Stanford “adult gap year.” She says to stay tuned Graduate School of Business, Nate went on to co-found Plenty, a vertical farming company focused for her memoir which will be a less dra- on localizing produce production globally by using controlled environment agriculture. In addition matic/less hardcore version of Cheryl to creating more local produce sources, Plenty focuses on using “hydroponic production”, a farming Strayed’s “Wild.” system in which water continually runs over the roots of the produce. Nate tells me that this method Jared Rubinstein moved to Bos- uses a small fraction of water compared to the water volume used in typical agriculture practices. ton last July and started a fellowship at Nate’s main current interest is Woodoo, a company that has developed “a technical process to the Arnold Arboretum. He’s in Jamaica remove the weak lignin parts of a wood board’s structure,” resulting in “a sustainable material Plain and likes it a lot. He got to see with the strength profile of metal and the cost profile of wood” (Woodoo.com). Nate describes Maura, Leo, Maya Cohen, and Greg his first project, Plenty, as focused on the food and water aspect of his philosophy, and his second Chase a little while ago. If anyone endeavour, Woodoo, as focused on the shelter aspect of his philosophy. wants a tour of the arboretum, he says to let him know. Speaking to Nate, he was eager to talk about TMS and his favorite memories. He fondly remembers After finishing up a Masters in tracking with advisor Alden Smith, finding a bear den and moose family. One particular memory Public Policy in Berkeley last year, Re- that he says gave him “not only a way of thinking, but also a way of questioning” was an exercise becca Sigel moved to New York City his environmental science class did with Pat Barnes one morning. On the top of Garden Hill, Pat in September to serve as Executive Di- drew a pie chart on cardboard with a Sharpie. The pie chart had three slices: “Things I know I rector of the International Contempo- know”, “Things I know I don’t know”, and “Things I don’t know I don’t know”. Nate reflects and rary Ensemble, a group that performs, shares with me that the “Things I know I know” section in his mind surprisingly keeps getting commissions, and develops new music. smaller, while the other two sections keep getting bigger. Nate is not upset about this; rather, he They play all over the city, country, and thinks it is a good thing. His take is that the world is complicated, and if we cling too tightly to one world and Rebecca says it would be identity, ideology, group, or passion, we’ll lose the magic of the full picture. So rather than grabbing great to see folks at a show sometime on to one ideal, Nate tries to keep an open mind. And the more open-minded Nate is able to be, the soon. easier it is for him to see and appreciate the beauty around him. Hallie Coffin-Gould got married in September 2018 and is now Hallie Morris. She and her husband are living in Pittsburgh. They just adopted anoth- er puppy, who is delighting them with both her antics and snuggles. Hallie is

30 working at Thermo Fisher Scientific in ding in Rhode Island in September. an ordinance to protect children from School in our Providence backyard!” the bioprocessing space and has been Kit Callahan is still living in lead poisoning and otherwise operates Also in Providence is Benjamin learning a ton about regenerative medi- Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He has her own solo law practice, Maurer Law Chilson-Parks, who just completed his cines. enjoyed teaching little kids how to ski LLC. Ph.D. in geology at Brown. He is stick- Erik Anderson is heading to during the winters and learning how to Also in the legal world is Laura ing around Brown for the spring, and is Emergency Medicine residency in New play rugby during the summers. Dismore, who recently moved to New channeling his inner Pat Barnes as he Mexico in June. Richard Smith purchased a house York City to work as an attorney at a teaches undergrads an intro geo course. George Warner is living in Berke- and got married in October in Atlanta, consumer protection and civil rights Leah Hamilton French is enjoy- ley, and after finishing up working for where he is living. non-profit. In her free time, Laura plays ing exploring the world and human Judge Marsha Berzon on the Ninth I recently became a homeowner roller derby and goes on adventures experience through various creative Circuit in August, will be starting a job and am enjoying NYC life with my with Elsie Kenyon whenever she can. outlets, namely photography, writing, at Legal Aid at Work in September. He husband, Tim. Pauline Abrons writes, “I have and improv acting. She would love to will largely be representing workers been doing a lot of inner work and re- host fellow TMS folks, so let her know whose employers are not paying them patterning in the last few years, it sure when you are in the Cambridge, MA their full entitled wages, and workers has been a trip. The Mountain School area! And Blase Provitola is excited who have been subjected to labor traf- Spring ’06 remains close to my heart as a guiding to be (finally) finishing their Ph.D. in ficking. George very much enjoyed light for me throughout this process of French and Comparative Literature at seeing Megan Shutzer at a TMS event Laura Dismore re-crafting what I want my life to look Columbia in May 2019, and is looking this past winter. [email protected] like. I have also just applied to grad forward to nailing down the next step Evan Pulvers is working as a fam- ello all, and welcome to this school for somatic psychology, and am in their teaching career in the coming ily doctor in Hopi Lands Arizona for Hyear’s update! Let’s get started: getting more into improvisation and months. They are also teaching at Ben- Indian Health Services. Dan Cohen is still living in San making music as a favorite pastime. nington for the spring semester and are Fiona Brown has been ski patrol- Francisco, and last April, he started Hooray!” delighted to spend some time back in ling at Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen working at Reddit. Dan was excited to Laura Tate is celebrating her 5th their home state. In their spare time, in the winter and instructing field cours- catch up with Ali Meyers-Ohki and year at Trustmark National Bank and they have been doing some transgender es for NOLS in the warmer months. Alex Johnson at a recent TMS event. has transitioned into risk management healthcare advocacy work and spend- Sharayah Heidenhain had a baby Ali Meyers-Ohki writes, “I am for the wealth management department. ing quality time with their mischievous girl, Nora Anne Heidenhain, on Dec. still living in Oakland, gardening by In October 2018, she took a grand road parrot, Ferdinand. 31, 2018. Nora is doing splendidly and day and marveling at my cats at night. trip through New England to enjoy the Also back in our Mountain School Sharayah and her husband are adapting This year was full of sparkly bright fall foliage, hike in the White Moun- stomping grounds is Ciaran Francis well to parenthood! Sharayah would spots and craggy crises. Feeling more tains, and catch up with Sophie Rob- Moloney, who writes, “I just started at love to get together with anyone who skilled, if a bit weary. Hannah and I inson. A walk in the woods on Exeter’s Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is in DC—she’s off work until October. exchanged custom leather jackets this campus and Sophie’s gracious hospital- as a nurse in the Medical ICU. Also I year in celebration of our partnership ity at her new AirBnB were highlights got married and have a beautiful dog. with a large gathering of family and of the adventure! #Blessed.” friends.” Speaking of Sophie Robinson: she Far from our shores, Matt Man- Gaea Campe continues to love moved back to her family’s farm in the delkern is in a post-doc in philosophy teaching preschool. She is now the co- Seacoast of New Hampshire, where she in Oxford. And Katie Morison moved director and co-owner of Giving Tree is starting a community center called to Doha, Qatar toward the end of 2017 Preschool in Portland, Oregon. the Robinwood Center. The center has to work on developing and implement- Lauren White (Wiant) and her four pillars: sustainability, justice, heal- ing a sustainability strategy for the 2022 husband are enjoying married life in ing, and community. Sophie recently World Cup, which will be hosted there. their new house in Shaker Heights, OH. got engaged and her Conard roommate, She’s been taking advantage of her new Lauren is still working at Colliers as a Kat Conway, helped her pick out her seaside location by learning to sail. Dana Himmelstein enjoyed hav- commercial real estate agent, where she wedding dress! ing a mini reunion with Evan and was recently promoted to Senior Asso- Clara Decerbo writes from Provi- Lizzie Ellis at Maddy Glennon’s wed- ciate. One of her current favorite proj- dence, “I finished my Ph.D. in Decem- ects is helping a local developer lease ber, so I’m finally officially DONE! It’s Spring ’07 space at a new mixed-use development been a very long 6 years in the making. just minutes from her house, called the I got hired as the Deputy Director of Van Aken District. More importantly, Providence Emergency Management Chloe Zelkha and more fun, during March Lauren Agency last spring, and I completely [email protected] and Matt are spending 10 days travel- love my job. It is a great challenge and oe Schottenfeld finishes up law ing in Italy! She hopes everyone from responsibility trying to keep the City of Jschool this spring. He’s spent a TMS Spring ’06 is well and happy and Providence prepared for whatever haz- good chunk of the past year litigating to have the opportunity to eventually ards and disasters we may face. Paul a case on behalf of the NAACP, which see all of you again someday soon! and I are getting chicks this spring, and definitely has been a privilege and a Rebecca Maurer continues to live I can’t wait to get our veggie garden pleasure. This summer, he heads out her best life in Cleveland. She’s work- started. I’m looking forward to having to SF for a quick year, before returning ing with a community group to pass our own little slice of the Mountain to the East Coast. So let him know if

31 you’re in San Francisco! Bowling, still goes by HB), is complet- Maine beach time with Anna Hager, deeper into circulation. reach out if you Mollie Bedick is in grad school at ing her MBA in May and looks forward and dinner in Boston with Emily Au- want to talk about reparations. i love University of Pittsburgh for physical to the next adventure. She hangs out subel! She misses all of you and some- you all very deeply. therapy. And frequently texts Lauren with her dog Murphy, is grateful for her times wishes she could be sixteen and a Matthew Bock finds occasionally Bryant for advice and pep talks. wonderfully supportive husband, and half again...just sometimes. seeing semester-mates such a highlight Lauren Bryant is currently in her can’t wait for spring morel hunting. Caroline Dickens is still living in and gem. He is currently deeply en- second year of physical therapy school Shauna Linn finished her first Boston and working for digital adver- trenched in work as a strategist at Grey and loving every minute of it—just year as a PA in the Neurology ICU and tising firm Criteo. She recently returned in the city, and misses/loves you all. kidding! It’s really f*@$ing hard. But step-down unit at Columbia. She loves from a ski trip to Zermatt to see the ma- Mikaela Saccoccio moved to Oak- it is worth it. It’s a direction she never working with the physicians, nurses jestic Matterhorn while visiting a close land where she’s fundraising for a farm expected, but watching someone walk and RTs to treat acutely ill patients. friend from college. animal protection nonprofit called The again, a new mom be able to support She was able to visit Madrid and Berlin Ali Andrews is finishing her Mas- Humane League. her baby in her arms, or a farm worker for the first time and eventually hopes ters degree in Design—the kind of de- Maggie Williams is living in return to his job after over a year, all to combine her passions for travel and sign where you get to talk to people and Denver, CO, where she works at an make the insane amount of learning medicine through work with an organi- collaboratively solve problems with advertising agency, hangs out with her worth it. She is currently on full-time zation like Doctors Without Borders. post-it notes. She’s particularly stoked dog Charlie, cooks lots of meals from rotation at UCSF working with cancer Sending you all love! about enabling communities to design Marilyn’s cookbook (shout out to the patients, new moms and kids. Perhaps Joe Bonasera is busy with the win- and own their own energy. Away from Gingered Butternut Squash Soup for the best part is that she and Chloe ter season in full swing in Killington, post-its, she can be found paddling out- holding rank in the heavy rotation of Zelkha run into each other in the halls Vermont. We pulled off another suc- rigger canoes out in the Bay or jogging weeknight go-to’s), and explores the and even share a patient or two! cessful FIS Women’s World Cup event in the hills, or perhaps being caught mountains via ski/bike/foot as much as Katherine Corwin is still living in for the third year in a row! I was lucky red-handed by Chloe Zelkha stealing a possible. Chelsea and working in HR for a data enough to ski 117 days last year and Trader Joe’s grocery cart in the Menlo Danny Smith is still in California, science company. She has the pleasure I’m up to 54 days this year hoping I can Park Farmer’s Market. working away on a dissertation about of running into Clare Vance as they join the 100 Day Club once again! Chloe Zelkha got married to a dreams in medieval Italian art. There is work in the same building! She adopted Griffin Hale has had an incred- steady, loving gem, and they still live in life outside of the library, though! He’s a dog in June and they are busy keeping ible year. He married his best friend the same green house in Berkeley. She getting married this spring and happily in shape living in a 4th-floor walk up! Allison. It rained, which he hears is is doing a one-year residency as a chap- cooking his way through everything he Aaron Freedman got married in good luck. With rain comes rainbows lain at UCSF Medical Center, where can find at his farmers market in San August and lives in Pawtucket, RI. Ev- and he would not have had it any other she journeys alongside folks who are Francisco. eryone is invited to record in his music way. He is still working on the Dream ill and dying and offers spiritual and Will Wickham is in Atlanta work- studio with the impossible challenge Chaser Spacecraft and making new emotional support. She still gets to lead ing on alternatives to incarceration! of improving on the TMS s07 mp3s, friends. He is enjoying the adventur- raucous singing circles and weekend Faisal Kirdar is enjoying his third which include such gems as “Taking ous Colorado lifestyle but not getting retreats on her neighborhood urban year in New Orleans and first as a medi- Off My Long Underwear”, “Don’t as many ski, bike, kayak, and kite days farm. She misses cross-country skiing cal student at Tulane. Happy Mardi Put Your Finger Up Your Nose” and as he wants. His side hustle, Full Body and all of you. Gras, y’all! “Happy Birthday Missy” as sung by Sound, is taking up more time, and he At first glance, Casey Andersen Max Shafer is brewing away in Benjamin Hooke who was ~2 years old is planning a crowdfunding campaign feels like she has no significant update Jackson Hole, Wyoming for Roadhouse at the time. later this year. He wants to apologize in to share. Then on second glance, she re- Brewing Company. Max is the Head Gracie Ogilby is in her final se- advance for spamming everyone he has alizes that she has more to say than can Brewer and is psyched to have recently mester at the Kennedy School (with ever met. Also don’t be a stranger. Grif- ever be said. She doesn’t think she’ll gotten a new 250 seat brewpub with an Emily Ausubel!). She recently got fin is getting better at playing an adult ever be able to confine to words what experimental brewery off the ground engaged(!) to a wonderful geologist and has a guest bedroom available for you all mean to her! Our s07 group and complementing our busy production named Dan and is living on her family’s TMS friends. each person who was a part, impacts facility brewing all the hits. Max also farm in Belmont, MA. She’s staying in Irene Li is still living in Boston her frequently, even to this day, 11 got married and bought a house! He and the Boston area after graduation and and just went on a belated honeymoon years later. Hit her up when you visit his wife, Elle, are super excited to have hopes you will all come visit. to Maui. Mei Mei turned 5 this past Maine. Or, perhaps she’ll hit you up on started a new phase of life together in Emily Ausubel is finishing up a year; time really flies. She picked up a a trip. Idaho. The Tetons are lovely as usual Master in Public Policy degree at the gig writing for the local NPR station, Over the summer Judy Amsalem and we are seeing tons of snow; so fun! Harvard Kennedy School (with Grace and her family’s cookbook, Double moved to San Francisco, and has been As always, Max would love to buy any Ogilby!) and will be graduating in Awesome Chinese Food hit shelves on settling in to her new life on the West lovely TMS friends a cold beer if ever May. She’s not sure yet what exactly is Chinese New Year. Cost. Early highlights include hiking in Jackson. in store for post-graduation, but she is Isabel Gregerson is still living and camping year-round, epic Burmese Jen Wenz is practicing loving hoping to be working in humanitarian in Chicago and working as a social food, and exploring this big beauti- place and people in western MA, still response. In the meantime, she is trying worker, now with young children in ful state. As always, she is very eager singing in the kitchen and relishing the to make the best of her last few months foster care. It’s intense, but they’re to share an adventure or meal with a cold, snowy winter. in school and is appreciating the op- really cute. She got married last sum- Mountain Schooler, so drop her a line Meredith Allenick is still in New portunity to dedicate herself full-time mer in Connecticut and then got to see if you’re in the Bay! York living on the Upper West Side. to learning. three S’07ers on her honeymoon! Boat lily bo shapiro is remembering She loves city life but takes weekend Hannah Kempema (formerly tour of MDI with Grace Ogilby, rural more, redistributing more, and going trips as often as possible. She also

32 works at Twitter, which she loves. The in Sao Paulo. Any interested alum are to Goucher College in Baltimore (of all before Ana moves back to the West mission is very special: we believe that invited to join the efforts and/or check places!) to complete a one-year premed coast, and a visit from Sara Tera, who every voice has the power to impact the out empowerbrasil.org. Finally, he had postbac program. Sad as she is to bid took time off from living the Califor- world. Big hugs to s07! the good fortune this summer of seeing farewell to the Rockies, she is very nia dream to revisit her old stomping Claire LaFave has surprisingly Nick Bailey. excited to go back to school and start grounds in West Philly. found herself tagging on a degree in Jambo! Maggie Sawdy has had a learning more about medicine. She is Zoe Pehrson is living in Ann Arbor business to her environmental manage- very busy year traveling among Kenya, looking for adventure buddies in the and continuing to teach. This year, she ment degree. She has learned to love New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and mid-Atlantic region! is teaching second grade and enjoying living in New Haven, and has appre- Michigan for her research on spotted Eliot Knudsen and wife Michelle it. This summer, she will finally make ciated the convenience of visiting her hyenas and red squirrels. Currently, became parents on July 13, 2018. her move back west and looks forward parents in beautiful Vermont! Maggie is in Kenya’s Maasai Mara Joshua Knudsen was born at Cornell to reconnecting with friends! Erin Claire is great! She launched collecting data for her dissertation on in NYC; the same hospital wing Eliot Hannah Walchak is busy manag- her own Human Design practice at the spotted hyenas, the best animals in the was born in! They are learning all the ing nature preserves in San Diego, CA. beginning of last year in NYC, which world! fun parts of having a baby in Manhattan She finds much joy in her work! Come has been very exciting and keeping very Ana Montgomery is about to like stroller parking, playground rules, for a visit and surf with her. busy. Her website is erinclairejones. move back to California for good, and nanny interviews. At 7 months, Bryan McKnight living in DC com. She also moved into a beautiful in order to watch the state burn and Josh is already a world traveler and has and working at a landscape architec- home in Park Slope with her boyfriend. quake from a closer vantage point, and been to Korea, UK, India, and Austria. ture firm in northern Virginia. He lives hang out with Sara Terashima. She Micha Thompson is enjoying her down the street from TMS roommate, is overjoyed to report she attended the last year of medical school, waiting to Bobby McDonald. He has recently ten-year reunion, received a painfully find out where she will be for residency gotten into bouldering and is gearing cheesy time-capsuled letter from her in pediatrics starting this summer. She up for a big spring tree planting. Spring ’08 sixteen-year-old self, and proceeded is currently on an international elec- Sara Berdahl (Davenport) is liv- to follow all of her own weird advice. tive for six weeks in rural Costa Rica ing in Washington, DC and working as Madeline Welty Especially since the reunion, she’s been learning about tropical diseases, the an emergency veterinarian. In her free [email protected] thinking a lot about s08, so reach out indigenous culture and embracing the time, she’s been pursuing her goal of revor Brown is currently at grad- if you’re in the Golden State! She’ll “pura vida”! bringing her dog Moxie to all the mon- Tuate school at Penn State Univer- be bouncing around the west coast for Arya Samuelson will soon be uments in the area. sity and in the process of obtaining a the next six months before starting law graduating with her MFA in Creative Sara Tera has relocated to the Masters in Higher Ed. Administration. school in the fall. Writing from Mills College, where she East Bay! She’s working at Planned His focus is on college success and Maddie Welty (Loughridge) is writing a novel about Jewish immi- Parenthood and enjoying fruit from the advising. He works part-time for Penn moved back to Boston after finishing gration, the messiness of desire, and the orchard in her backyard. State’s Career Services Center as a two years of teaching in Utah! After a inheritance of grief. She’ll be moving graduate assistant. In his spare time, he cross-country road trip with her sister, back to Brooklyn, NY later this sum- has been hanging out with the triathlon Maddie married Asa Welty in June. mer. club and swimming the fastest he has They now live on campus at Fessenden Ben Kramer is still living in Los ever swam! School as dorm parents for 14 middle Angeles, working as a film and televi- Spring ’09 Linus Ignatius is living in New school boys. She is still loving teaching sion writer. He hasn’t had a chance to Isabelle Rivers-McCue York City, running a video and photo 1st grade! see any TMSers lately, but would al- [email protected] production company and acting in film Jocie Fifield loved catching up ways welcome visitors in sunny Cali- eredith Sopher now lives in a and television. He will be appearing as with so many s08ers at the 10-year this fornia! Mshoebox at the top of a hundred- a lead in Shem Reut’s new feature film summer! She’s still in Boston doing Alexander Schults is still working year-old building just outside Paris. “Faking Real”. He also takes care of an global health work and racking up fre- in mental and behavioral health with She’s leaning hard on 2019 becoming African Grey parrot and is growing a quent flyer miles with a four-continent young adults. He tends to understand the Year of Financial Independence. bonsai tree. whirlwind work/play month coming and relate to those he supports way bet- Evan Mullen is careening through Ty Eldridge has been living in Sao up. In the last year, she also resurfaced ter than his coworkers/the rest of the the spring semester of his junior year (if Paulo, Brazil for the last year, continu- her love of sewing in a big way and world, which makes him great at some you will) of med school, where he’s still ing to work in solar power finance and is working towards a 100% me-made aspects of the job and terrible at others. uncertain what he wants to be when he development. He is still connected to wardrobe. She has a great air mattress He is living in Prescott, AZ with his cat, grows up. He relishes palling around TMS in several ways. Clare Steinman for anyone coming through the Boston Bo, where they are both enjoying the with the half dozen or so folks from s14 has joined his team and is explor- area massive desk he just bought to have a Spring ‘09 who have also made their ing novel applications for renewable Carey Favaloro is still appreciat- space to get back into making art. way to the New York version of the energy storage in Brazil. Also, with ing the high of seeing so many at our Mariel Cohn is graduating from concrete jungle, and can’t wait to see the help of the Garden Hill Fund, they 10-year reunion. What fun! She’s living nursing school at the end of March all the others come June. launched EMpower Brasil, a 501(c)3 out in Aspen, Colorado, but changes (thank gorp) and planning to work in Sula Watermulder is still loving non-profit that installs solar power sys- are on the horizon! Her five years of labor and delivery or the emergency living in Boston. She now works as tems for charitable organizations. This mountain living have awakened a long- department after graduation. Other ex- a GIS Technician for the state (Mass- year, EMpower installed a solar power standing—but also long-latent—desire citement includes a month in Oaxaca GIS). She was lucky enough to get to system for an orphanage that feeds, to pursue a career in medicine. So, this with Ana Montgomery to take a medi- visit the Mountain School several times clothes, and educates 300+ children spring she will pack her bags and head cal Spanish course and max out on QT last year as her sister LiXing was a

33 member of s18. She hopes to make it to VT! Sending love to all! doing a Ph.D. in political science at the reunion this summer! Spring ’10 Lex Corwin is living in Los Ange- Columbia and teaching undergrads Emily Auran is excited to be les and growing his legal cannabis com- about everything in between the U.S. finishing up her last year of medical Rafi Bildner pany, Stone Road. He’s taught himself Congress and Karl Marx. He organizes school at Columbia, with plans to start [email protected] surfing and enjoys spending time on his coworkers with the UAW Local 2110 an OB/GYN residency this summer. afi Bildner finds himself in a mo- organic farm in Northern California. and looks forward to winning a great She recently had an amazing sneak- Rment of transition and contem- Charlotte Denoyer is a literacy first contract for Columbia’s student preview of our 10-year reunion up in plation: after finishing another season specialist at a charter school in Har- teaching and research assistants, one of Vershire with Lily Adler and Bayley of guiding cycling and hiking travel lem. When she isn’t teaching reading, NYC’s newest labor unions. He has a Mullan, which included skiing the trips for Backroads all over the world she spends her time traveling and going favorite white pine tree in New York lo- outer loop and crashing Saturday night (From Sweden to Israel and all over the skiing. She looks forward to meeting up cated on 117th and Morningside Drive. dishcrew (see photo). She can’t wait to States!), he is taking some time to fig- with other Mountain Schoolers on her Taylor Lightman is presently pur- see everyone up in VT this June! ure out his next steps in life. He’s pretty travels or when they are in New York. suing a Master’s in Disaster Risk Man- close to heading out to Northern Cali- Rosii Floreak just moved to the agement & Climate Change Adaptation fornia to work with a friend opening a wild west of Oakland, California to at Lund University in Sweden. He wood fired sourdough pizza restaurant, help build ideas42’s West Coast office. welcomes visitors! In his free time, he and is also applying to some farming She’s excited to explore the city’s ur- meditates, does yoga, goes jogging, and fellowships. He’s making some radio banism, rollerskating, and storytelling works on his podcast, BarnstormingPA, stories and knitting and baking as much communities—and catch up with the which is about progressive politics in bread as he can. He recently bought a TMSers out here! rural Pennsylvania. Taylor also has used Toyota Tacoma and built out the Becky Hamilton is still living in been learning to pick banjo and hopes truck bed for sleeping. He has enjoyed Boston and working as a teacher for to bring it along to future reunions! spending special time with Sam Pow- students with behavioral needs. She Hallie Meyer recently completed ell, in Yoga practice and reflection. He eagerly awaits the warm weather so a year of service with Americorps as Isabelle Rivers-McCue moved sends his love to all in Vershire and that she can resume trapeze classes on a team leader to City Year corps mem- back to Chicago this past summer af- around the world! the weekends. In the meantime, she is bers at PS 154 in the South Bronx. She ter spending a year in Cambridge, MA Rachel Black still lives and works spending most of her time cuddling started selling homemade ice cream at a earning her Ed.M. She’s now working in Boston, though she did make an ex- with her cats and brainstorming ways cafe nearby the school, and fast forward in Undergraduate Admissions at the citing move across the Charles River to stop small children from biting her. to now, she is in the process of opening University of Chicago and loves being from Somerville to Back Bay! She is Please let her know if you’re ever pass- an Italian inspired ice cream counter back in her favorite Midwestern city, a consultant at a nonprofit that helps ing through the Boston area! and coffee bar. It is called Caffe Panna where she’ll be getting married this up- large urban school districts all over the Kate Hamilton has been living and should be open by the summer if coming August. She has a guest room country change the way they use their in Washington, D.C. and working as all goes according to plan, which it will in Chicago and would love any Spring resources to better support students and press secretary for Vermont’s one and very very likely not! ‘09ers passing through to visit (Mali’o close achievement gaps. In her spare only congressman, Peter Welch. While Phoebe Miller writes from Berke- Kodis did this past summer!). time, Rachel takes her dog on long she loves keeping up with all the Ver- ley, CA. Phoebe is in medical school, Leland Whitehouse has now suc- walks along the river and plays trivia mont happenings in this role, she will living in California and doing some cessfully left and moved back to Brook- with friends. be leaving it to attend Yale Law School hiking when she can, and trying to keep lyn three times. This time, it’s to start a Megan Butterfield is in Southern this coming fall. some semblance of work-life balance. food company with a college friend. So New Hampshire, is currently applying Megan Kallstrom serves as the Sam Powell continues to explore far so good! He’s working a lot, trying to grad school for social work, and will Legal Coordinator for Slate Magazine. his spirituality and find peace amidst to keep his houseplants alive and nomi- be somewhere else in the U.S. by the She also published an article in Slate the chaos of Manhattan. He recently nally training for a marathon. This time fall. Megan enjoyed visiting TMS this last fall on Matthew Shepard’s inter- moved to the Upper West Side to be last year—see photo—he was living summer for her sister Kristen’s s03 ment ceremony and the Christian Left. closer to his yoga community where he with both his brother Jackson White- 15-year reunion. She often thinks of the Megan lives and works in New York practices most mornings. He recently house f11 and sweetheart Mali’o Kodis Mountain School now that her parents City. had a great vegetarian dinner with Pat- in New Orleans whooping it up with his have started raising chickens and tur- Ian Kernohan has put himself on rick Reed. He and Rafi Bildner also two favorite people and falling in love keys to feed the family throughout the a solid trajectory at this point in time. embarked on a retreat in the hills of the with NOLA. year. She would love to connect with All liable to change, of course, but ‘this Berkshires at Kripalu this winter, where fellow s10 folks and hear what every- point’ consists of working as a Care they explored their spirituality and yoga one is up to! Coordinator for a major hospital in MA practice together. Sam finds great joy in Rebecca Celli is living in Park (the role is essentially a medical match- volunteering at a local vegetarian soup Slope, Brooklyn. She recently left her maker for MassHealth members). He’s kitchen. He finds himself in a moment job in documentary film distribution also a Judge for Magic: the Gathering, of career transition. to work at Chicken & Egg Pictures, runs a really neat Dungeons and Drag- Patrick Reed recently built a documentary nonprofit supporting ons campaign, and just remembered YourStake.org, which empowers every- women and non-binary filmmakers. On how fun books can be. You should call one to ask of the funds and companies the side, Rebecca’s doing some film him up, it’ll be rad, it’ll be great! where they’re a shareowner to improve programming and motivating to write Jimmy LaBelle is, against all ex- on social and environmental issues. criticism. She misses Spring ‘10 and pectations, living in New York City, Even with a small amount of savings,

34 individuals have more power than they young people with access to wealth healed, she’s loving it (and her fourth- days, she’s keeping busy cross- country may realize to steer companies towards towards the equitable distribution of floor walkup) even more. She’s grateful skiing to the post office and perfecting good. It’s free to use to take action! wealth land and power. And in Febru- for the chance to hear from her TMS her poached eggs. Shizue Roche Adachi is still liv- ary, she helped a friend convert a van classmates that comes with compiling Lowry Bass is still enjoying NYC ing in Wisconsin with her partner and into a tiny house. She’d love to connect class notes every year, and hopes that while she figures out what’s next. their odd couple pets. They stopped with any TMS alumni who want to talk you’ll reach out to her if you’re in the Mila Rostain is still living in farming last summer, in part because about safety beyond police and prisons, area and want to check out a museum, New York City. She is organizing ad- of her partner’s struggle with chronic wealth redistribution, or need a hand come over for dinner, or take a walk junct professors as a union organizer lyme disease (ticks suck). Shizue works with a building project. along the Brooklyn Waterfront. and spends most of her time loitering in branding and marketing for a craft David Andersen has been travel- outside of classrooms trying not to get coffee company and has launched a ing since September 2017 and is cur- banned from campus. She misses ev- farm-raised wool bedding company, rently on an island off of the east coast eryone and hopes to see you all soon! Patchwork Goods. Check out patch- of South Korea. He hopes to keep trav- Spring ’12 Erin Van Gessel is living in NYC. workgoods.com for a damn good sleep eling until October or November, and She misses the outdoors and VT, so and more on the company’s mission to then plans to get a working holiday visa Susanna Billings she’s consuming lots of maple syrup support the next generation of shep- for Australia in order to make some [email protected] to make up for it. She sees some other herds in the Midwest. money while continuing the travel! elda Wengrod is currently liv- TMSers around the Big Apple, and Isaac Sacca works most days in Caleb Fujimori recently gradu- Zing in sunny Los Angeles, where even spent a glorious two weeks living the summer so he can ski most days in ated from Santa Clara University with everyone should visit! She is working with David Elitzer’s mom when she the winter. a Masters in CS, and just started a job in TV development at Annapurna pic- had to exterminate her apartment. (New Steph Soussloff is in her first year at Google. He hears tales of Sam Yules tures, which is great, but she otherwise York is easy!) of an MFA program at Parsons where living half an hour north of where he’s has no real fun updates on her life. She David Elitzer is still living in Eng- she is studying Design Strategy and Or- based, but no sighting has been con- moved into her first apartment, so she land, where he frequently comes into ganizational Development. She wants firmed. Nat Haslett definitely lives in guesses that counts! She loves you all. contact with cows. Come visit! to help organizations build structures, San Francisco, and they’re going skiing Maya Delany moved on from her Anya Katz just celebrated their processes and strategies that are more together this weekend! If anyone else job in film and is currently finishing up one-year anniversary living in Hudson, aligned with the social and emotional comes to the Bay Area, he would love her time assisting on a campaign at Am- New York. They are still working on a needs of their employees. She recently to see them! nesty International USA in midtown dairy farm, milking cows and spending adopted a cat off the streets of Prospect Walker Cammack just moved Manhattan. She continues to live in time with the barn cat, Clam. They are Heights, Brooklyn, where she’s been to Seattle, where he is cooking at a Alphabet City/East Village, which she planning to apply to grad school later living for the past 3 years. She recent- restaurant called Junebaby. Junebaby still adores, and has no plans to leave this year, but until then, are happily liv- ly got her yoga certification and likes was awarded best new restaurant in the NYC any time soon. She is excited for ing a dairy-filled life upstate. to lead classes with her friends in her country last year by the James Beard new, exciting work soon to come and Nathan Lobel is now in his sec- spare time. She misses Vermont & her Foundation, which was very exciting. hopes that this next year will have a few ond year in Brooklyn, which he enjoys TMS family! He’s also hoping to get his masters in more reunions with TMS folks, seeing quite a bit, thank you very much. Just In 2018, Nora Thompson choreo- forest sciences from the University of as so many of our semester is around! like rotating the cows to the broomball- graphed her first two Off-Broadway Washington in 2020. Zoe Huber-Weiss is living in New adjacent pasture when the parents come productions—a musical about a woman Christian Boria is working in York with two other people, a dog, and up to Vershire for graduation weekend, with early-onset Alzheimer’s called If New York City at a tech hedge fund. a pull-out couch. The two other people Nathan takes all visitors to the grocery Sand Were Stone, and an absurdist play Outside of the office, he has gotten into will not mind if any of her s12 class- store around the corner from his apart- about the oddities of language, called long-distance running. He completed mates want to come visit the dog and ment as soon as they arrive in NYC Reflux. She also premiered her first the NYC Marathon this past November stay on the pull-out couch. Neither will (if they’re lucky, they get a tour of the evening-length solo dance work at The and is now trying out a triathlon for the Zoe. laundromat, too). TMS remains an or- Tank in January 2019. All the while, first time. He secretly wants to geta Sarah Gross is living in New York ganizing principle in his life; he sees she’s continuing her day job as a grant Dalmatian doggie to chill with. City and working for KIND snacks in Hannah Celli, Sarah Gross, and Kate writer for Henry Street Settlement. Sam Yules started a new job work- the Consumer Insights and Analytics Bodner f11 regularly, and their friends ing for a technology investment firm Department. Adulthood is consider- seem very confused when he tries to ex- in San Francisco and is very excited ably more boring than college—when plain where he knows them from. He’s about seeing more of Nat Haslett, who she’s not working, she does things like still working at the Columbia Center Spring ’11 recently moved to San Francisco! He cook, run, and see friends. She feels re- on Sustainable Investment, where he had the pleasure of attending the first ally grateful for the way her friendships gets to think about what equitable and Zara Corzine annual summer session this past July from the Mountain School continue to just climate policy might look like. He [email protected] and would encourage anyone who can enrich her life, with special shout outs plans to go to law school in the fall. Margaret Ringler is in her third make it to go. It was incredible being to Nathan Lobel, Zoe Huber-Weiss, Grace Stonecipher is enjoying her year of living in a group house in back on campus with a cross section and Jane Jacoby, her primary contacts second winter in Bozeman, and is still Washington DC. She designs and co- of so many different TMS classes, all for s12 reminiscing. trying to decide whether she thinks ice facilitates workshops on alternatives to bonding over the same shared high Thanks in no small part to Lowry climbing is actually fun. She’s finishing calling the police in neighborhoods in school experiences. Bass, Jane Jacoby has found herself in up her position at the Center for Land- DC. She is also involved with Resource Zara Corzine is still loving Brook- beautiful Troy, Montana, working for scape Conservation in April, and is then Generation and working with other lyn, and now that her broken ankle has the Yaak Valley Forest Council. These headed to grad school in geospatial sci-

35 ences—most likely in Madison, WI. Her dog, Mr. Bean, is looking forward prentice. relocated to Haifa and has begun to August Rosenthal is currently to more time at the dog parks! Mario Sacca is taking a month work at Adalah—the Legal Center for living in Brooklyn and planning Abby Bowling is taking time to be off from working at TimberHomes, Arab Minority Rights in Israel. His new on attending law school in the fall. outside and hike with her pup Fletcher. to sugar. He is also officially the busi- favorite types of trees are cypress and Where he is going is still a bit up in the Fresh air and warm sun cures all ail- ness owner of Bats Booms Workshop, olive. air, but he should have a better sense of ments. LLC, making functional art like tables Charlotte Edelstein lives in Phila- that by the time this little blurb is pub- Noah Mostow has settled in Den- and stools out of wood and metal. Hit delphia and works for the city govern- lished. Otherwise, he was recently fired ver, CO where he has been for nearly a him up! ment in the Office of Criminal Justice. from bartending, which was probably a year now. He’s in the mountains every Lizzy Marks is working at Union She still devotes plenty of time to play- good thing. Also, he has long hair now weekend, using the skills he learned at 32 High School in East Montpelier, VT ing ultimate frisbee. and it looks great. And, he’s flirting TMS to survive out in the frigid cold as a social studies and Spanish teacher. Joanna Lynch is living in Min- with the New York City stand-up and while snowboarding or snowshoeing. She is teaching Intro to Psychology, US neapolis and working at a non-profit sketch comedy scene. He is currently working as a Biomedi- History, and Spanish II. It’s a progres- teaching digital literacy skills. Cooper Vincent is currently in the cal Engineer for 3D Systems doing sive school, so her students (most of Nelson Mugabo is currently living process of choosing where he will start Virtual Surgical Planning for maxillo- whom are 15-17) call her “Elizabeth.” in Rhode Island with his family, learn- his Ph.D. in chemistry next year, as he facial reconstruction surgeries. Life is Fun! The first year of teaching has been ing how to cook and code. is finishing up his masters in the next amazing! exhausting, but there have been many Andrew Gong is currently living few months. James Rau is living the American moments of joy, including finding out and working in the Seattle area, making Isaac Schultz is in the last year of dream and loving the country! After that Brigitte Savard’s niece and nephew friends and building partnerships for his masters degree—he is still working graduating he spent five weeks camp- attend U32. Sabra Field’s print of the the family business. hard trying to become a professional ing off trail between NM and MT, ex- Mountain School covered in snow is Max Sopher is still living in bassoonist. He ran a mountain ultra trail ploring the continental great divide. hanging up in her classroom. She lives Cambridge. He applied to architecture race last summer. A big thank you to Noah Mostow for in Burlington, come visit. schools, so nothing new until he hears... In August, Katy Lee will com- hosting him in CO and being such a Beth Minahan is living in Boston Ana Maria Trivino is still working plete her masters in nursing from Co- good mate! James is now easing into working as a substitute teacher. Some- in the AEC industry on some interest- lumbia Nursing School. She plans his desk job just outside of Philadel- times she gets called a cool sub. She’s ing projects primarily in NYC and LA. to work as a RN in NYC in hos- phia, doing a part-time MBA and sav- doing some other stuff too, but it’s a lot She visited the Mountain School a few pice and geriatrics. She now lives in ing to sail around the world. Cheers to to explain. months ago, and it was amazing to see Queens and is really encouraging the everyone! Jasper Barbash-Taylor is in the community and campus once again. high schooler she used to babysit to ap- b0$+0|\| !!!!$$#@&*&. Kelly Tellez is still doing health ply to the Mountain School. Dan Schreck is...still in Provi- disparities research, doula work and Colby Lewis is graduating with her dence! His time on college hill, unfor- immigration advocacy in NYC. Visit Masters of Science in Information from tunately, despite much effortful striving her in Brooklyn and eat some mole en- the University of Michigan School of to the contrary, seems close to expira- chiladas! Information this May and hopes to find tion. His time in New England, fortu- Lauren Volpert is working in a job where she can continue to pursue nately, does not: he will be moving in healthcare in NYC, thinking about a and share her passion for Open Access. with Jesse Schreck s09 in the Boston move to the West Coast! She recently She adopted a dog named Chloe this Noah Henry Goodman is finish- area in August. He hopes to see many got back from a trip to Colorado with past August and is excited to see where ing his last semester at Brown and it is of your faces there. Hayley Flug, and is so excited because her next adventure takes them. fun. He is painting and doing photogra- As of press time, Nina Sayles is her little brother Jack just applied to phy and recording music (for academic hopeful that she will have her life fig- TMS! credit); it’s good. That’s it. Actually ured out, but for now, she is in a per- Hayley Flug is loving living in the one more thing—please take the next petual state of waiting on graduate Bay Area, as well as her new(ish) job eleven months to prepare yourself to school admissions offices across the as a Legal Assistant at Google! She’s consume his big art project that he will country. The goal, however, is to be excited about her upcoming ski trips to release next year, which will include starting a joint degree program in Sep- Tahoe, using her new Instant Pot (cour- original music and visuals and stuff like tember, simultaneously studying for a tesy of Lauren Volpert!), and spending that. master’s in public health nutrition and time with her now diasporic family this Hannah Celli is getting her MFA a master’s in urban planning, likely in summer. Hayley sends her love to all of in integrated practices at Pratt Institute. Boston. Whether good news or bad, you, and wishes everyone (especially Penelope Ganske is living in She’s making sculpture and videos Nina decided that there’s no better time those also born in ‘95) an epic Year of Cleveland and working in Corporate about ghosts and the woods. :) to escape reality for a few months, and the Pig! Strategy at Key Bank. She is loving her Kenny Shapiro lives in Portland, she will be gardening and cooking for a Susanna Billings doesn’t have job. In her free time, she is playing with Maine and works as a studio assistant hotel in Aragon, Spain from April until much new to report as of now—she’s her dog and hanging out with friends for a sculptor. In his free time he tries to the end of June—specifically, the small still living in the Bay Area, working for and family. make his own art. He and Kelan have town of Valaderrobres. If you happen to Tesla and enjoying being able to com- Charlotte May is currently in the been hanging recently and that’s been be reading this in Spain, let her know! fortably run in shorts year round. She’s process of moving from Stamford, cool. He misses all of y’all. After spending six months eating super grateful for the conversations and Connecticut to New York City where Kelan Nee is living in Maine falafel and learning Arabic in Amman, check-ins that come with collecting she works as an Executive Recruiter. working as a wooden boat building ap- Jordan, Jonathan Adler has recently these updates!

36 months before taking a job as head Kong, Ethan backpacked around Nepal her life). This summer, when she (hope- Spring ’13 grower at an organic farm in Pennsyl- and India which he LOVED. Following fully) gets her first real job, she hopes to vania. The farm primarily grows heir- the Spring in Hong Kong, Ethan will be either work for NPR or become a full- Hazel Edwards loom tomatoes in a 5-acre greenhouse, going back to Wilderness Adventures, time climate activist—we’ll see which! [email protected] and is also expecting the first crop but is looking for another outdoor ed- In the past year, Fiona Harbert ily Meyersohn is finishing up her from their peach orchard this coming ucation job in the fall! HE misses his finished college and moved to a farm in Lfinal term at home in Providence, summer. In November (“admittedly, I TMS fam and send them all his love! midcoast Maine. Most days, the smell Rhode Island, where the slush is incon- should have led with this,” he writes), Jules Desroches is teaching Amer- of her woodstove-heated house reminds sistent but consistently thick. She’s cur- Bram got married! He and his wife, ican Studies in Charlottesville, Virginia her so fondly of the TMS boiler room. rently doing research for her capstone Lauren, bought a house in York, PA, while working on his Master’s degree Life has been constantly churning and on genomics and race, writing all the and are excited to plant their own gar- in Education through an Independent changing in wonderful ways, and she time, and wondering what to do next den this spring. School Teaching Residency program. is excited to see what will happen next. (any good ideas?). In the meantime, Madeline Frank graduated from While this first year of teaching has She hopes to run into you soon. she’s excited to meet up with Djuna Kenyon College in the Spring of 2018 been tough for a variety of reasons, he’s Eva Borgwardt is so far succeed- Schamus and Hannah Wilton in upstate with a degree in Anthropology and enjoying seeing his students grow in ing brilliantly at her current plan to New York after Hannah finishes her English and is now living and working terms of analysis and critical thinking. never graduate college. Between a gap cross-country van trip! in Philadelphia in a Federally Qualified Sending out positive vibes to all those year and a couple of leaves of absence, After graduating from Bowdoin Health Center. She hopes to go back to who would like to accept! she still has a year left, but is blissfully College in the spring, Zoe Borenstein school for a degree in Social Work and Kalaina Thorne was glad to see excited for more time in sunny Califor- moved back to NYC. She is currently Public Health at some point, but wants everyone who came to the reunion in nia surrounded by books and friends. In going to culinary school and focusing to go abroad again first! She is always June! Since then she’s been doing a the meantime she’s been keeping busy on the farm-to-table movement. She is missing her TMS friends but is not too bit of travelling and plans on applying running a national student movement, very excited to be reconnecting to this sad that she missed the polar vortex that for grad school this fall for a program dancing, and taking care of wiggly kids topic she first fell in love with at the hit VT! focused on environmental policy or at a summer camp. She misses every- Mountain School! Richard Otis has spent the past climate change. She hopes everyone is one and was incredibly sad to miss last Marie Vaine will graduate from several months working as a part time doing well and can’t wait for the next year’s reunion; please reach out and say Northern Vermont University-Lyndon chef and maintenance worker at TMS. reunion! “hello!” in May with a major in Mountain Rec- After nearly six years of working at Since graduating Kenyon College reation Management-Adventure Lead- TMS, he is retiring to seek full-time this spring, Olivia Cucinotta moved ership and a minor in Geology. She work. The current plan is to relax for a back to New York to begin a career in will spend a third summer as a moun- few months, catch up on many years of film production. She currently works tain bike guide in Vermont’s Northeast lost sleep, and spend time applying to as an assistant at Radical Media, and is Spring ’14 Kingdom, and next fall she will be a full time-engineering positions out on always juggling a few side projects to backpacking instructor for NVU- Lyn- the West Coast. keep herself creative and sleepless. Julia Pike don. In her spare time, she has been Eliza Thomas graduated from Car- Olivia Herrington is a first-year [email protected] rock and ice climbing, biking, skiing, leton College in June of 2018 with a de- at Yale’s medical school. She adores red Baker: Fred has been enjoy- and playing outside! And of course gree in Geology, and now is living and her friends and classmates there and is Fing his last semester at Cornell. thinking about all of her TMSers! working at the Cape Eleuthera Institute working hard to learn lots of science. Like many, he tries to spend as much Hazel Edwards is excited to be in the Bahamas, where she is conduct- She spends time once a week helping time as possible with Mountain School- in her final semester at Smith College, ing coral reef restoration research. After out in the classroom in the children’s ers. He spent New Year’s with Theo where she studies environmental sci- graduating, she spent her third consecu- inpatient psych unit and feels really Kandel, Grant McCord, and Sam ence & policy and food systems. Af- tive summer leading backpacking trips grateful to get to know the amazing Dewees. One highlight from that night ter graduating, she is excited to spend for Overland Summers, and hiked 210 kids and adolescents who spend time was FaceTiming with Ruby Edlin, Eli- lots of time playing outside (and to miles in the Swiss Alps with a group there and their equally amazing doc- za Klein, Olivia Burke-Tomaeno, and work as an environmental educator). of 12 very energetic (and awesome) tors. She is looking forward to spending Violet Cole, as they were also spending A highlight of winter break this year teenagers. In addition to working on a the summer back in Tanzania, hanging the holiday together in California. This was a serendipitous Miles reunion with congressional campaign this fall, she out with more kids and teenagers (this past summer, he interned for Hillstone Lauren and Fiona at the Belfast, Maine spent a lot of time back in Boston with time with a research focus). She sends Restaurant Group in Los Angeles and contra dance! her family, which was such a treat af- lots of love to everyone at the Mountain enjoyed reconnecting and schvitzing ter being away from home for so long. School and from Spring ’13! with Sam Konsker. Most recently, he She misses you all dearly and sends you Lauren Black graduated from took a trip to Nashville to visit Theo. loads of love! Brown in December but is still hang- Starting in June, Fred will be working Ethan Savel graduated from Wes- ing around in Providence until her lease as a Sales Representative for Empire leyan in the Spring of 2018 and has ends in May. She’s currently working Merchants, a New York-based wine and been working and traveling since. He at a taco place, going to lots of Sunrise spirits distributor. He’s excited to start led a trip for Wilderness Adventures in Movement actions, and spending may- his career and is looking for roommates Alaska this summer before moving to be 25% of her total brainspace worry- who also want to live in Manhattan. Hong Kong to work for Dragonfly Ltd ing about climate change (which is, of He’s looking forward to seeing every- Bram Kyer graduated in Decem- doing outdoor education. In between course, mixing in with the typical post- body at the five-year reunion and looks ber and installed solar panels for a few the fall and spring seasons in Hong grad confusion about what to do with forward to helping out around campus

37 and cheffing up some tasty brunch. time off to work in Boston. He spends Warren Wilson College. Please anyone Violet Cole: Violet is writing a so- his time writing, doing improv, and Spring ’15 and everyone come visit! She’ll let you ciological thesis in defense of gossip. playing in a band, and would like ev- drive the tractor! Next year, she’ll move to the big apple eryone to know that he has a very cool Amir Mamdani Jamie Pitman has been talking to spread the gospel of neoliberalism to girlfriend. [email protected] about Jesus, building stuff, and picking middle schoolers via a position teach- Julia Pike: Julia Pike is finishing mir Mamdani is a sophomore at up heavy things. ing in a franchise charter. Seriously up her time at Amherst College, still AHarvard, where is he covering the Liam Zeya is loving life at UVA. though, she’s super excited to begin reading lots of books and playing lots men’s basketball team for the newspa- He’s studying English and economics, real life and wants everyone to see the of ultimate frisbee. She’s currently per, the Crimson. He loves hearing from cooks often, and recently has gotten in picture below of her cat, Leo. working on a Creative Writing thesis, his s15 friends, and cannot wait to see to “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” which is a speculative fiction novella them all next year. This summer, he will on Netflix. He also recently had to go about a boarding school in Vermont for be interning for Major League Baseball gluten-free, but is adjusting to his new domestic climate refugees, and loved in New York City, and hopes to see ev- diet well—he survives off of these deli- visiting Mountain School this summer eryone from the semester who is going cious cylindrical rice cakes they have in to do some relevant research. She loves to be in the area. He is happy to report the dining hall. And in another massive seeing Eliza Klein at frisbee tourna- that he still sees a lot of Zoe Grodsky, step for his personal development, Liam ments, and will be flying out to visit and enjoys listening to the tracks that finally got over his phobia of chickens Olivia Burke-Tomaeno during spring Jacob Kiely-Song produces. (which was birthed in Vershire) when Sophie Frank: Sophie Frank is break! Benjamin Gross finally caught and he spent a long weekend at his friend’s learning Italian and thesising about Rena Simkowitz: Rena’s in her ate a fish this summer! He was working farm in Virginia. Next year, he’ll be liv- women in her last semester at Haver- last semester at Harvard and can’t be- at the Yale Myers Forest where he took ing in one of the original student rooms ford. Next year, she will be teaching lieve that it’s been five years since a lot of DBH measurements. Right now, on UVA’s Lawn—he desperately hopes research and writing at an international Spring ’14. She is currently busy finish- he is taking leave from school to work some Mountain Schoolers will come school in Israel. As always, she’s ac- ing her senior thesis on the mobilization in NY and will be in Redlands, CA this down South to visit! tively looking for pen pals. of social scientific research, knowledge summer—let him know if you’re re- Lindsay Cartmell decided to Eliza Klein: Eliza is graduating and education during World War II motely in the area! transfer to the University of New from Williams College this spring, and how academic experts helped the Christina Duval is studying Hampshire last fall, and is now double along with Stef Hernandez. She is United States plan and prepare to carry abroad in Amman, Jordan through SIT. majoring in biology and outdoor edu- both happy and sad to be moving on to out the Occupation of Japan. She is also She is studying Arabic (or trying to) and cation. She is spending the spring ’19 the next step. In her spare time she is getting a secondary degree in Educa- humanitarian responses to the refugee semester with Round River Conserva- playing ultimate frisbee against Julia tion studies. On the extra-curricular crisis and is spending her days drinking tion Studies in Patagonia, Chile, and Pike, talking on the phone to Ruby Ed- side of things, Rena is enjoying retire- tea with too much sugar (white, sorry, recently finished a homestay with a lin (photo below of Eliza, Violet, and ment after a wild year as president of Kit). She has also explained what a se- Chilean family that reminded her a Ruby in CA), studying U.S. history, an organization that during her tenure mester school is to her entire program, lot of her time at TMS because of the and organizing fellow Jews around Pal- went from being a sorority to a newly who don’t understand why she was deep connections with food and land. estinian human rights. incorporated and independent co-ed “abroad” in high school. She gets to She is also traveling in southern South non-profit and still plays lots of sports spend the summer in her beloved Los America for several weeks after, with (though not enough broomball) in her Angeles, where hopefully, she will see Emmett f16. She’ll be back at AMC’s spare time. After a relaxing summer Izzy and Remi. She is looking forward Three Mile Island camp for a final sum- hopefully with some exciting travels, to a senior year full of GRE studying mer with Emmett and Zach f16, and is Rena will be working in San Francisco and grad school applications! looking forward to that very much. She from September and hopes that there Emma Seevak loved the fall se- hopes all of s15 is loving life, and hopes will be a good Mountain School crew mester at Harvard, where she’s living to see classmates soon! out on the West Coast next year. in a co-op, leading outdoor trips, and Oceanna Schnirman is in her last Joselia Souza: Joselia is currently studying sociology and global health. semester at McGill and will be starting a senior at Notre Dame looking forward She’s taking the spring semester off to at The Royal (Dick) School of Veteri- to getting a masters in higher education spend six months in Mexico working nary Studies (part of University of Ed- Elyse Lindahl: Elyse is living at Southern Methodist University! She on mental health services research. She inburgh) for the 4-year veterinary pro- her best life in Southern California at is looking forward to our TMS reunion greatly enjoyed seeing many s15 pals in gram in Scotland this August. Scripps College and preparing to grad- in June and graduating in May! the northeast this fall, and she hopes to The 2018 year was very difficult uate in May with a B.A. in Economics Ben Ynocencio: Ben has been see more in the coming year. for Ralph Belony in terms of going and a lot of enthusiasm for rock climb- working as a chef at Res Ipsa, a Sicilian Francesca Farris is spending this through some things with his health. As ing and outdoor education. She’ll be restaurant in Philadelphia, since Sep- spring semester studying abroad in Val- 2019 started, his health has been a lot moving to Breckenridge, CO to be a zip tember. The restaurant specializes in in paraiso, Chile. She is studying anthro- better, and he is excited for what this line canopy guide in the summers and homemade pasta, fresh ingredients, and pology and polishing her rusty Spanish year has in store. Ralph is preparing to spend her winters finding stuff to ski on traditional recipes. Ben hopes to con- skills. Call her in August to see if she intern in Washington D.C. this summer while pursuing further education in wil- tinue cooking and learning about the has accomplished her goal of master- and is excited about some trips that he derness medicine and rescue! region and its cuisine. ing the art of making empanadas. She’ll is planning. He still dances and still Grant McCord: Grant McCord is try and send you one in the mail! In does spoken words! back at Dartmouth after taking some the fall, she will start her final year at Sam Huston is living in Walla

38 Walla, Washington. He is responsible wound healing. His first semester he time at UVA, but that didn’t stop her cense. for cutting the best mullet on campus transitioned in his role as President from crying (s/o to Ben Tiefenthaler for Livia Kunins-Berkowitz just fin- and skis as much as he can. He misses of his Latin Dance Team, Sabrosura, having a tear-absorbent sweater) when ished her first semester at Bowdoin syrup and eats a lot of eggos. He cannot which was incredibly exciting for him she visited TMS to get her sister (Mary College. Highlights of her semester dunk a basketball, but wishes he could. as he began dancing and fell in love Walton Petersen f18) for fall break. She included taking a class on revolutions, Zoe Grodsky is enjoying her third with it only during his first semester of misses her TMS gang a lot and had the joining an improv group, and meet- year at Middlebury College where she college. He hopes to continue his work privilege of visiting Molly Burnett ing lots of Bowdoin/TMS pals. She is is studying sociology and education in biomedical engineering and is cur- over the summer and Hannah Soros looking forward to cross-country skiing studies. Due to a nasty concussion, rently taking a course on Medical De- in the fall. around campus this spring. Lots of love Zoe is remaining at Middlebury this vice Design where he models and de- Gemma Sack is in her fourth se- to s16! semester instead of studying in Chile. signs orthopedics and hip replacement mester at Brown, where she is enjoying Hey it’s Maddie Miller! What She is learning a lot about brains, heal- devices for Deputy and Stryker. This working for the writing center, organiz- have I been up to you ask? School, so ing, patience, and the importance of summer he looks forward to working in ing non-institutional Shabbat dinners, much school. I’m still at Mount Holy- good friends! When she’s not too busy a hydrogels and tissue engineering lab living in the football frat, and spend- oke college declared as an environ- recovering, Zoe can be found acting in at Yale, travel to Ecuador, and explore ing lots of time with Andrew and Sara. mental studies major with a focus in Beyond the Vagina Monologues, work- Google through a short internship. She is taking a semester off in the fall, policy, but also been flirting with the ing in a local preschool, dj-ing a radio Edwin Magaña is a quarter away and welcomes any and all recommen- idea of becoming an OB/GYN some show, cooking at the local foods house from declaring Environmental Studies dations of how to fill the eight months day. Over the summer, I worked at the where she lives, or celebrating a recent as his major and is thinking of a mi- between June and January! She sends Massachusetts State House as an intern victory with her divestment group. nor in Latin American Studies. He’ll her love all of s16. for my state rep Lori Ehrlich, who in- Zoe’s house at Middlebury has lots of be looking into Environmental intern- Isabel Cushing is watching the spired and taught me so much!!! After space and loves hosting guests! ships and study abroad options in Latin snow from her cozy bed in William- two months of that, I started work at my America for the next two years in col- stown, thinking about how sophomore summer camp again and worked with lege. year has been good in so many ways! the wonderful kindergarten and first Eleanor Kharasch is currently She has taken so many good English graders of Marblehead! After all that, I in the process of transferring schools and History classes and spent time headed to Australia with my collegiate Spring ’16 in hopes of being more involved with with wonderful people (including so field hockey team for a training trip. I a larger animal science program. She many TMS alums at Williams!) Also, had so many sausage sizzles and met so Wassa Bagayoko also recently applied to Tufts Cum- still playing frisbee! She spent Janu- many kangaroos you wouldn’t believe [email protected] mings School of Veterinary Medicine ary in NYC, frolicking in the big city it! This past season I started my first bbott LaPrade reports life is through their bachelors/DVM early and teaching, and now she’s back in collegiate game and played in division Agood. Middlebury is fun. No sig- decision program. “I have an exciting the third week of the semester. Looking semifinals! All super exciting! I got to nificant life updates to report. I row. year ahead of me for triathlon, and am forward to spring and warmth and pos- see Darrell and Angelica when they Occasionally give tours. And consume currently going to compete in USAT sibly a visit to Vershire! came to visit me at school! Over winter copious amounts of Cabot cheese. Collegiate Club National Champion- Jacob Hunter is currently enjoy- break I got brunch with Wassa and took Anna Saviano finally made it ships, and USAT Age Group National ing his second year at Vassar College. my boyfriend down to meet Darrell in to college this past fall! She is freez- Championships, and hopefully a few In his free time, among other things, Brooklyn! I wanna see you all, tho! I ing (but happy!) over in Middlebury, he serves on the school’s Climate Ac- will be busy this summer doing work at Vermont, most likely pursuing a joint tion and Sustainability Committee, the state house again and then trying to major in environmental science and takes frequent day trips into the scenic make money to pay for school the sec- chemistry. She dabbled in veganism Hudson Valley, and still plays frisbee. ond half of the summer back at camp! I during her first semester and has- en He has been watching a lot of Antho- love you all!! Also congrats on getting joyed wholesome activities such as ny Bourdain Parts Unknown and still married to my past boss Chloe Z s08! learning snowboarding and laying in does not make enough time for reading Matthew Magann reports “I’m her hammock (ham-MOCK) outside books. currently a sophomore at Dartmouth, when it was warm. She’s excited for Josephine Bourne says she is glad where I’m studying Government and the current semester and she misses to be back in New England spending Earth Science. I’m especially interested you all! time outdoors skiing and indoors play- in the Middle East, and I lived in Am- Avery Voehl shared that this se- ing frisbee. She is also grateful to be man, Jordan this past summer, where I mester at Cornell, “I have been doing slightly more in the loop than she was worked with Iraqi and Syrian refugees. more research on small mammals, have last year, and hasenjoyed being able to After my job, I decided to travel to Is- joined the triathlon team, and am a part more races for fun! see Mountain Schoolers more often! rael and Palestine, which was amazing of an a cappella group called The Me- Emma Glazer is a sophomore Kai Victor is having a great time (fun fact! I got detained and interro- diocre Melodies (bad singing for a good at Bryn Mawr College. She is double at Cornell! For the past semester, he’s gated at the Israeli airport, but I made cause)!” majoring in Environmental Studies and been training a Harris’s Hawk named it through eventually). I’m off again Darrell Pona has transitioned well Anthropology with a Gender & Sexu- Virgil for education programs. When this winter due to Dartmouth’s sched- into his sophomore with new exciting ality Studies concentration. Outside of he’s not birding, fishing, or exploring ule, and I’m in Boston working on ex- roles and classes. Over the summer, he her classes, she stays busy organizing outside, he’s playing harmonica and port policy for the Massachusetts state worked in a prosthetics lab at a nanopar- for If Not Now on college campuses. dreaming of getting his falconry li- government. Back at Dartmouth, I was ticle delivery lab that enhanced diabetic Eva Petersen is still having a fab recently named opinion editor of The

39 Dartmouth, the campus newspaper, and I’m very involved with the Dartmouth Spring ’17 Outing Club. I get out hiking every weekend, and I just climbed my 48th Ellie Pike and final New Hampshire 4000er! I’m [email protected] leading an outing club trip to the Grand rick Miron has been enjoying Canyon this March, and a friend and I Ehis time at college. Although he are planning to hike the Long Trail this misses high school dearly, he is hap- June. Aside from that, I work part-time py to be in a new environment closer in Dartmouth’s ice core lab, and I’m to home. In an effort to become more both a writing tutor and an Earth Sci- involved on campus during his second ence TA.” term, Erick decided to take part in a Micah Wilson started school in student-directed play, which tackles the Maine this past fall. Check out his radio issue of Latinx identity, particularly in show that he co-hosts with Clay Wack- the professional workplace. The play is erman s17 on Friday nights at 7pm. titled “Fade” and is directed by Tanya www.wbor.org Saracho. Jeremy Ornstein s17 Rebecca McCartney spent her Ellie Pike has been loving her year doing more of the same music time at Bowdoin College! Maine is By Willa Frank s19 things, hiking 1/4 of the Appalachian beautiful, and Mountain Schoolers are Trail, and working on bread recipes. as abundant as lobsters. She is in an She’s currently in India studying gender improv group and a stand up/sketch You may have seen Jeremy Ornstein’s face in the news recently and politics for a few months. Please comedy group and thus spends a lot of as part of his work for the Sunrise Movement. During a visit offer her an internship at your cool en- time making strange noises, clapping, to Deep Springs College in California, he realized that what vironmental place @TMSAlumni. and running. So far, she’s slipped on a he truly wanted was to be out in the world creating change, Ryan O’Connor spent the last lot of ice, developed a pumpkin choco- instead of sitting in a classroom, waiting for graduation. This year working at UW Milwaukee con- late chip bar addiction, and learned to realization prompted Jeremy to get involved with the Sunrise ducting undergraduate research on the downhill ski! You can find her taunting Movement, a growing group of young people pushing for the intersection between design and new Noa Schumann with buttered toast. She Green New Deal and the election of political leaders with technologies. In his spare time, he misses everyone and sends her love! climate-centric agendas. joined a bowling and soccer team, and After an unexpected early departure continues to make and show art around from her counselor job at Camp Huck- As president of the Massachusetts High School Democrats, Milwaukee. ins, Maya Egan spent the remainder of Jeremy was always politically aware, but around his junior Wassa Bagayoko has spent the her summer at a berry farm in Maine, year he recalls feeling incredibly defeated and frustrated in the past year solidifying her interest in in- taking in the afternoon sea breeze be- wake of the 2016 election. He recalls attending the Mountain ternational relations. After a wonderful fore heading down to Worcester to start School being like a breath of fresh air, and a place that gave summer at the UN, she has solidified school at Clark University. In her first him the foundation and tools to go out into the world and turn her aspirations to go to law school. This semester, Maya got involved with the his frustration into progress. fall, Wassa was lucky enough to visit climate justice club on campus and has the White Mountains again and back- met some rad organizers in the process. Part of Jeremy’s work involves coaching young people to tell pack for five days. As she considers an Sadly most of them are abroad this se- public narratives (personal stories about past challenges told independent concentration in human mester. To learn some organizing skills publicly) in order to inspire change in others. He finds this rights and the environment (or violence in their absence, Maya is in a year-long incredibly rewarding to watch people grow because “everyone and the environment?) she looks for- fellowship with Divest Ed, an organi- has got a challenge they have overcome and a story to tell.” ward to a year of new adventures and zation working to train college campus This sense of storytelling reminds Jeremy of humbles, which hopefully, a TMS s16 reunion. organizers on how to run effective fos- he says are one of the most amazing opportunities and skills Zack Herman has loved explor- sil fuel divestment campaigns. To avoid you glean from the Mountain School. ing the West and spends his time skiing the dreaded burn-out, Maya has started powder and spontaneous road tripping, to meditate and read for pleasure more. Jeremy’s advice to all of us would be to follow our hearts while also managing his part-time gig Although she thinks about her semes- and listen to the inner mind. Additionally, he signaled the as a full-time student at Colorado Col- ter most days, she is living vicariously importance of distilling what we have learned here and allow it lege. He’s recently been grateful for the through her best friend Sadie s19. to transcend into life outside of the Mountain School. values, passion for learning, and sense Tim Kim was adventuring around of adventure that TMS instilled in him. the world with HMI Gap and also by Throughout my conversation with Jeremy, what stood out He misses his s16 homies and mentors himself. He was on so many planes and to me most was the passion he brings to all parts of his life, dearly and sends all his love. felt bad because his carbon footprint whether that be a Wednesday morning meeting, a growing was enormous, but he got to experience social movement such as Sunrise, or a phone call with a current rural Chile, as well as, explore Chilean student. Patagonia, and it was some of the most remarkable outdoor adventure he’s ever

40 had. He also went to Utah with HMI every day. Now he is living 30 minutes but keeping him warm and cozy was with friends. Ben is looking forward to and had his most amazing outdoor outside DC, with other full-time volun- the satisfaction of another year full of warmer weather so he can do some hik- experience yet, climbing to the top of teers in the Sunrise Movement, fighting Boston sports championships. He miss- ing around upstate New York. Castleton Tower, and it made him really for a Green New Deal (big convo— es you all dearly! Mackenzie Whitehead-Bust is interested and excited to pursue rock let’s have it). He makes himself busy Heidi Birch spent her first semes- enjoying that #gapyear life, although climbing. Other than that, he’s trying to admiring all the people who care about ter of college studying in London and she has most definitely forgotten how find work and is applying to other cool things, and act accordingly, and share exploring Europe. She is now at Skid- to write an essay or do math (what is gap year experiences, and dealing with their courage with smiles. Also he ad- more College where she plans to pur- math). In the fall, she worked on a na- the hassle that is re-enrollment from mires Ellie Pike, for collecting all of sue a major in studio art. Heidi is ex- ture reserve in rural Ecuador, where she Davidson for the fall! these class notes. She is the real hero in cited to be back in a rural environment took her wood crew skills to the next Zyla Pinger loves her freshman this drama that spans a universe. where she can ski or go on hikes with level, spending many days felling giant year at Dartmouth! From club lacrosse, Rosalee Bayer just finished her her friends, fondly reminding her of the bamboo trees in the cloud forest with to Women In Business, to Smart Wom- first block on campus at Colorado Col- Mountain School. only an axe and rope. The only dif- an Securities, she has loved getting lege in Colorado Springs (in Colorado) Noa Schumann is loving her first ference? Lacking her bestest friends, involved in groups around campus, as after a semester abroad in Costa Rica year at Bowdoin College in Brunswick Alden, Jack, and the language skills well as meeting tons of new people and Belize. Out of class, she’s learning Maine, home of the world’s best ge- necessary to communicate literally any- from all over. College is awesome! to knit and skate and is involved with lato, where she is procrastinating just thing, she worked mostly in silence and Maddie Hikida discovered that the Sunrise Movement (à la Jéremy as much as always. She is enjoying never once peed herself from laughter she enjoys being more spontaneous, so Ornstèin). She hopes to work one of playing on the squash team and equal- while holding up a felled tree (@ro- she decided to crowdsource her note by the reunions at TMS this summer and ly enjoys the countless squash puns salee). After four hard but rewarding asking other people what they think she to see some of you there! her friends make. Come visit her and months in Ecuador, she spent a month absolutely must include about this past Luke Fredrickson says he is en- she might take you to an ~exclusive~ backpacking through Peru, spending year. From the eyes of others, Maddie joying his time at the University of Ver- squarty. Noa would also like everyone lots of time in the ocean, hiking, eat- has been standing by her strong anti- mont studying computer science and to know she is vegan (except for eggs ing Ceviche, and slowly, slowly learn- jeans (and similar pants) convictions, applied design. He thought he would be and fish, of course). If you have a burn- ing Spanish. This spring she is living going on a stand up paddle boarding prepared for winter because of Moun- ing desire to enrage her, it is suggested in Berkeley, California, spending time trip over fall break, being a “spunky en- tain School, but he was wrong. It’s very that you bring up the topic of buttered with family, interning at a publishing ergetic wizard” (even though she’s not cold, and the fact that his hair is short toast. This summer, you will find her company, taking a poetry workshop and totally sure what that means), making now, doesn’t help. But even though the adventuring in Wyoming’s Casper generally, just living the California high friends, organizing a trip from Maine to weather is cold, he has made many new Mountains. life. Come visit me, please! DC with the Sunrise Movement (along friendships which warms his heart. He Eliza Brower is currently attend- with Jeremy Ornstein, Callie Bouton, fell in love with Vermont during Moun- ing Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, Ellie Pike, and Audrey Lin s18), learn- tain School, and then is elated to be which somehow manages to be even ing how to rock climb and very quickly spending his college years here, too. colder than Vershire. She has a radio Spring ’18 getting concussed, and “continuing to Maggie Sharpe has enjoyed her show with her friend where they answer be hopelessly overbooked.” Maddie first semester and Jan Plan at Colby questions from students and give com- Spencer Adler can be seen around campus trying to College. She is a part of Colby Cares pletely unqualified advice. In addition [email protected] find the moon, dressing as the- men About Kids and Colby Dancers. Mag- to the radio, she has become a dedicated drian Whitten met up with strual cycle for Halloween, and riding gie has also done a lot of skiing at Sug- member of the Bates Badminton club, AClio Rose, Jelani Cross, Zach- around on her tiny purple bike. arloaf with her friends. and is hoping it fulfills her PE require- ary Katz, Spencer Adler, Isabel Wall- Callie Bouton can’t believe that After working at a camp in Wash- ment. gren, Sarah Hatchett, Maia King, and it’s already the second semester of our ington all summer, Ava Fleisher head- George Drumheller is playing several others from s18 at a New Year’s first year of college! She’s anticipating ed off to Smith College, where in her lots of frisbee. He is also taking an act- reunion in New York, where he outdid focusing on ethnic studies and educa- first semester, she promptly fell in love ing class. Everyone confuses him with himself baking challah, Chinese buns, tion at Brown. It has been really fun to with her astronomy class, and filled up @AddisonBent, so now he just says and other delicacies. He misses every- get to know other TMS graduates who an entire notebook just studying for her they’re twins. Shoutout @LukeNotkin one and wishes he could make it to the are here…she loves sharing a smile Chinese quizzes. This semester, she for his “Suspended Ball Routine.” reunion! with older TMSers as she walks to class tried making sourdough bread after her Over the summer, Ben Stewart Andrés Santana got his driver’s or grabs food in the dining hall. Still, physics professor gave her some starter, worked as a riflery instructor at his license in January and has been us- she really misses TMS and all of you and she’s super excited to start her radio summer camp, Camp Mowglis here ing it to explore California’s hills and lovely people—so much love to each show soon (but a bit less excited that he also led some kids on hikes around beaches. His latest adventure took him of you! her slot is going to be Mondays from New Hampshire. He went to a few through rural hills where he found a Jeremy Ornstein reports that 6-8 a.m.). Between the obligations of concerts with Will Krulak too, which large flock of wild turkeys. He drove these days he co-has a dog named Abe, college, she loves to grab a meal with was amazing. Since then he’s basically past the turkeys, communicating with who’s a yellow lab. There’s a pond in Cece f15 or Kesi f16. just been at Cornell getting through them in ancient tongues and suddenly his backyard, and today was blue and Patrick Doheny is loving his the crazy weather and schoolwork. He discovered his passion for avian com- warm. In January he went to Israel and time so far in Wisconsin, although it joined a fraternity, Chi Phi, which has munication. He’s now decided to live Palestine; let’s talk about it. In De- is strange living in a region devoid of kept him pretty busy, too. He’s also with puffins in an Icelandic hermitage cember he worked at a bookstore near ocean, hills, and aggressive drivers. It been doing some freelance graphic until he gets accepted into college and home, and a different friend walked in was certainly a shockingly cold winter, design on the side and making music

41 figures out his life. turned to the city. Over the summer she shock after Derby Pond. It’s been a called Izzy Bizzy on a daily basis. She Anna McNulty is loving second taught first graders about animals and decent winter thus far; the Nordic and wishes she could be back in the din- semester senior year. With her new- oceanography. Now she is back in the Alpine skiing have both been great. ing hall playing guitar. For a while she found free time, she is training to run a familiarly overcommitted routine. She She’s seen lots of beautiful sunsets and couldn’t go to a lot of the TMS reunions half marathon with her mom, attempt- has stage managed two high school a few nights worth of Northern Lights. in the Bay because of her job, but luck- ing to learn how to play guitar (current- plays, helped run a pop-up restaurant, This fall, she fought and ultimately held ily her employer’s business closed, so ly unsuccessfully), and FaceTiming her and is a proud leader of the endlessly off senioritis, but this spring she think she’s free now. She is enjoying her se- TMS friends at ungodly hours (she and cool Science Fiction and Fantasy Club. she’s losing the struggle. Hopefully the nior spring semester, but it can’t even Lily Laesch haven’t quite mastered the Additionally, she adopted a chinchilla reunion will alleviate some of it, and compare to the Mountain School—she art of long distance and time difference from a sketchy Facebook post and has of course her two wonderfully chub- misses everyone so much! friendships). She cannot wait to see her now been living with him happily for by cats have provided lots of solace. Jillian Lombardi is just living her semester at sugaring reunion, but in months. The coffee addiction born at She’s still waiting for visits from TMS life. She’s having fun with friends and the meantime she is living vicariously TMS has only increased—but with a friends, though! her classes. She’s trying to take time through Maura’s travel Instagram. notable and tragic decrease in maple Eliana Stern has continued her to read, write, run, knit, play paintball, Annika Hoerner still passionately syrup and MacNamara Dairy. love affair with Reading the Forest- do yoga, watch YouTube videos, and loves California. Since leaving the Cooper Welsh spent his summer ed Landscape (Tom Wessels, 1997) hang with her BFF/dog, Hazel. She still Mountain School, she has kayaked next trying not to die in Europe with his through the concentration of her AP misses TMS 24/7 but is really looking to breaching humpbacks, nearly died in brother and two friends. He misses get- Art portfolio, which explores branch- forward to Summer Session 2019. a flash flood, and thoroughly enjoyed ting roasted by Pat, but has his older ing patterns and root systems. With no Over the summer, Julia Hornstein white water rafting. She spent her sum- brother Ford f16 to fill that role. He more contentious Wednesday morning interned for congressman Josh Got- mer (unsuccessfully) working on a time finds himself with a lack of photos to meetings, she has found an outlet for theimer in DC. This school year, she’s machine to travel back to 1964 to hear take now that he has left TMS, but has her rants in her column for the Spen- been leading the Horace Mann Model Mario Savio’s “machine” speech at kept his SmugMug updated with vari- ce newspaper, entitled “Prove Eliana UN team as one of the Secretaries Gen- UC-Berkeley in person. ous reunions. He is enjoying his final Wrong.” So far no one has taken her up eral. They hosted our 33rd annual con- Audrey Lin is busy doing lots of semester of high school, and hopes to on the challenge. She’s nearing the end ference, HoMMUNC, which continues things and now spends a lot of time get a job with the extra free time he has of the leather-bound journal Jack gave to hold record attendance for a single folding plastic bags (for her senior now. Most of all, he misses getting ex- her but loves to look back on the pages day conference on the East Coast. The project). She has also become involved tensions on literally every single ESCI she filled at TMS. team and she just went to a conference with the Sunrise Movement and orga- chapter. Eliza Schiff has spent a lot of time at Harvard and are going to one in New nizes with the Boston Hub! She plans to Since it’s now second semester, (maybe too much time) on the A train. York City (NHSMUN) this weekend. take a gap year and is looking forward Dahlia Lyss is trying to make her way When she’s not underground, Eliza is Julia’s sad she can’t make it to sugaring to experiential learning like TMS. through a one volume, 1,000 page his- rehearsing the role of Sigmund Freud in but misses all of her s18 friends (and Becca Downes has been working tory of the United States as well as fin- her school’s play, fighting for the Green is excited to be going to college with her first job selling toys and baby gear, ish knitting the scarf that she started New Deal, dreaming of urban farms, a few)! reconnecting with friends, and enjoying in November. She really misses the and missing the days when her morning Since leaving the Mountain her last year of high school. She is tak- Mountain School and has been trying to commute consisted mostly of sheep. School, Lila Singer has spent a large ing an environmental science class that see her TMS friends as often as she can. Esteban Lomeli is flying out to the amount of time with children; she spent she loves, but it will never compare to Obviously, she can’t wait to come back sugaring reunion with Andrés Santa- 7 weeks as a camp counselor and is now Pat’s! She is hoping to read and journal for sugaring! Other than that, she’s just na. He can’t wait to see everyone there! interning at the Barnard College Center more as this school year winds down, trying to get through each 8 AM-4:45 Forrest LaPrade has been for Toddler Development. She enjoys and over the summer. She will continue PM school day. busy! He was kind of bored at the be- spending time with the kids, but they’re to work, hopefully travel some, and Daniel Kim is currently learning ginning of the school year and decided not as fun as the Westshire elementary catch up with TMS friends once the a bunch in physics class and simul- to try new things to make it more ex- schoolers she taught. She misses feed- weather warms up. taneously wishing that he could have citing. He got into spoken word po- ing the sheep and dominating Cooper’s Camille Murray has been appre- learned it with Pat as his teacher (or at etry with a city group called Movement SmugMug. ciating the vast beauty of California least be able to attend his ultra-popular 515, eventually performing a poem As Lily Laesch is working on before she moves away for college. office-hours). He is very much- miss about toxic masculinity at one of their fending off her persistent senioritis, She finds inspiration for her art in the ing math with the SDALFTS and the shows (partly inspired by Maura’s Eng- she’s loving running student wilderness changing weather of the Santa Cruz silo and, most of all, dorm check-ins lish class!). He also signed up for an trips, editing her school newspaper, mountains. with Ben. Lately, he has had a burn- Arabic class. It took months of studying knitting, hiking, reading Mary Oliver Chloe Schiff spent her summer ing desire to learn how to perform cool just to be able to say “This is a skinny poems, and receiving her daily dose working at a kids’ arts camp, playing flips like Lily. Additionally, he is still in man” He’s survived the polar vortex, of wisdom from Maura, all while try- soccer, and searching for hidden swim- search of a pair of rain pants and would too (so far). Iowa has had record snow- ing to prevent her friends from stealing ming holes to cool down in. This past love to hear any recommendations. fall, etc., but it gave him a great oppor- her dwindling supply of TMS syrup. semester, she has been enjoying the Dessa Gerger spent the summer tunity to wear some good winter style, She goes to dance when she can, but relaxed vibe of a small public school working at the local salmon hatchery, so he’s not complaining. Still waiting nothing can compare to the energy of while trying to see Mountain School which entailed dealing with a lot of for TMS friends to visit him in heaven, afternoon Zumba with Kareen, which friends, like Lilia Tse, whenever she fish and tourists. She did some inner- though ;). she misses dearly. On the other hand, can. tubing and wakeboarding in the waters Izzy Sanchez-Foster really misses she does not miss being greeted by dead Clio Rose has begrudgingly re- around Juneau, which was quite a cold the nightly talks in Tobold and being chickens in the morning. In the coming

42 months, she’s planning on working on trail for this summer, which she is in- is that senioritis has already kicked in. the only part with no lines or songs. a ten-acre urban farm while counting credibly excited for. She really misses It’s way too early for that. On another Of course, he and Colin Cranley have down the days until Anna, Forrest, and the slippery walk down to Tobold, the note, she’s very excited to go to China been kept busy completing top-secret Jillian come to adventure with her on toast, the tea, and of course, her amaz- over March break and see her family, Special Task Force missions that are the West Coast after graduation! When ing s18 family. but sadly won’t be able to go to the re- very top-secret and classified. she’s not pondering public policy, she’s Rebecca Pickering has nothing union. Zachary Katz complains about the either contemplating running away to to report! She does, however, look for- After suffering many defeats dur- lack of snow on the Connecticut coast the woods or just thinking about roller- ward to reading these class notes and ing soccer season, William Bugg man- this year. He was spoiled by the con- blading around with her belongings in a learning how everyone is doing. aged to end 2018 with a win as he was stant white precipitation in Vershire last shopping cart à la Gideon Irving. Sarah Hatchett has been work- accepted into Denison University’s winter and longs to cross-country ski LiXing Watermulder misses ev- ing hard to write her independent study class of 2023. He is sitting through his and trudge through the snow again. Af- eryone from s18 dearly and is sorry project, which looks at how political senior spring as all seniors should: tak- ter successfully helping to ban plastic she can’t come to the sugaring reunion. leaders use technology to create and ing two electives and one core class. bags in Westport, he is currently work- She hopes to meet up with some TMS manipulate their public image. She has Recently he tried out for the school mu- ing with a local legislator on proposals friends in Boston soon, though! also been preparing to move with her sical and he was cast as The Mute King for Connecticut to be the first state to Lucas Sheridan will almost defi- family to Beijing. The full move will be in the musical Once Upon a Mattress, pass a statewide plastic bag ban. nitely appreciate Spencer Adler writ- complete in August. ing his class notes update for him. In When he hasn’t been harassing ev- addition to a breakout performance as eryone in Spring ’18 to send their class the lead male role in his school’s fall notes updates in, Spencer Adler has play, Lucas has been riding the subway, been struggling to learn to play jazz on Continued from page 10: Alumni getting lost with his out-of-town friends the cello, navigating a love/hate rela- in Central Park (where he, incidentally, tionship with Varsity Track and Field, interned over the summer), and master- and constantly asking himself, “What From the Alumni Committee: Events Update ing the art of procrastination. He’s also would Alden do?” He’s also enjoyed learned to identify a new tree, the Lon- countless phone conversations with ased on alumni feedback, the Alumni Committee is focused don Planetree, which thrives in New Lucas Sheridan while Lucas is riding Bon organizing a few large events each year, mostly social York because it’s so pollution-tolerant! the L train, which seems to be his new gatherings with some thoughtful programming. Since last fall, Lucia Rosenast has been playing permanent home. Spencer is looking we’ve held events in Brooklyn, San Francisco, Boston, and New JV basketball and recently won eight forward to making up an entire winter Haven. Stay tuned for information about an event in Seattle in late state art 1st place awards for photog- of cross-country skiing at the sugaring October! raphy and visual art. She also won a reunion. YoungArts merit award for photogra- Tema Zelda-Roth spent much The Alumni Committee encourages you to host an alumni group phy and will be attending the regional of first semester (and, let’s be real, event wherever you live. If you’re interested in hosting an event YoungArts camp in late March. She’ll second semester too) being confused such as a dinner or brunch, we’d be happy to provide regional lists be returning to Vermont for college about what college she wants to go to. of who is in your area and discuss funding opportunities. next year, but in the meantime, she’ll be She distracted herself from this confu- playing Ultimate Frisbee in the spring sion by drawing political cartoons for For more information, contact Beth Sigman Somerset s97, Alumni and volunteering at an urban food forest her school’s newspaper, bullying her Communications Manager, at beth.somerset@mountainschool. and a food bank. In addition, she’ll be neighbors into composting, and assis- org or visit www.mountainschoolalumni.org/organize. interning with 2 independent artists as a tant directing a play. She is very ex- part of spring trimester. cited about her senior project, which in- Margot Tilley spent her summer volves reading about anarchist models campaigning for IL-9 congresswom- of education and facilitating dialogue an Jan Schakowsky, who she thinks sessions between students and teachers. could be the next Jimmy Carter with Most notably, she has recently enjoyed enough effort. She’s taken up one too having shorter hair and has reconnected many hobbies in an effort to curb her with her inner toddler by adorning ev- YouTube addiction, with harmonica ery hairstyle with the little colorful snap and stone chiseling coming out as the clips. frontrunners. She misses the pot sink So far, Vivien Qiao has been okay. and forcing everyone to listen to Rex Over the summer, she went back to Orange County. TMS to help with one of their reunions Phoebe Kinder been spending which was really fun. Then she went to a lot of time making art and enjoying an engineering program at Johns Hop- the art around her. She’s also playing kins because who doesn’t love working a lot of soccer and reading as much as with their hands? She’s constantly been she can and enjoying her family and craving TMS yogurt and their food in Uriel Hernandez f07 and two other Garden Hill Fund grant recipients friends! She’s currently planning a ma- general. The start of senior year was spoke at an alumni gathering in San Francisco in January 2019. jor backpacking trip on the John Muir horrifyingly stressful and the worst part

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