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SPRING 2016 PEARLS AND SEAWEED NUMBER 53 Let the daily tide leave some deposit on these pages, as it leaves Garden Hill Fund Recipient: Megan Shutzer s05 sand and shells on the shore...This may be a calendar of the ebbs and flows of the soul; and on these sheets as a Documenting Social Change beach, the waves may cast up pearls and seaweed. By Gemma Sack s16 –Henry David Thoreau

hen Megan Shutzer s05 attended the Mountain School, Shutzer’s project received funding in Spring 2015, and her screen- Wshe saw a documentary called “Ghosts of Rwanda,” which ings and clinics in Zanzibar sparked debate, changed minds, and sparked her interest in global citizenship and fi lm as a catalyst for empowered women. change. Years later, she set out to make her own documentary, “New Generation Queens: a Zanzibar soccer story,” which follows At one particular screening in the town of Paje, Shutzer and Zanzibar’s only women’s soccer team and explores the culture and Ohama witnessed change fi rsthand. The village chief of Paje had history of women’s soccer in Zanzibar. refused to let Shutzer set up a soccer clinic in his village because he believed that women’s soccer is immoral. After the screening in Shutzer played soccer in high school and has continued ever since. Paje, there was a heated debate in the audience about the morality When she was working in East Africa, setting up a study abroad of women’s soccer. Many adult males in the crowd were adamant program for the Harvard Summer School in Zanzibar, she noticed that they would never let their daughters play soccer, while others that, though most men played, many people viewed women’s soc- defended the girls who play. And when the conversation came to cer as immoral due to cultural gender norms. For the women who an end, the village chief rose to have the last word. In front of a did play, soccer was very em- hushed crowd he stated, “Soccer powering, as it had been for her is a sport and religion is some- in high school. thing inside of you,” and then welcomed the women’s team and Although Shutzer had no for- fi lm crew to return the next day mal fi lm training, her interest in for a girls soccer clinic. Though documentaries and international Shutzer doesn’t expect every- issues inspired her to make a fi lm one’s opinions to change as dra- about the women’s soccer team. matically and quickly as that par- Recognizing that Muslim Afri- ticular chief’s, the experience was can women are rarely allowed to gratifying and an outcome of the tell their own stories in the me- garden hill grant that she is most dia, she wanted her fi lm to focus proud of witnessing. on the subjects’ own perspectives and voices. They (and she) hoped After traveling in Zanzibar, the documentary would expand New Generation Queens: Shutzer and Ohama came to the the women’s soccer movement in Zan- A Zanzibar Soccer Story Mountain School in Fall 2015 to show zibar. the fi lm to current students. One of the students cried after seeing the movie because she was so moved by Shutzer spent one month fi lming while she was in graduate school, the women on the Zanzibar soccer team who were overcoming so one year translating the footage from Swahili, and one year edit- much to make change in their communities. ing with Corey Ohama f84. After fi nding Ohama, a professional editor, through a shared connection on linkedin (Marilyn Covey!), Shutzer continues to screen “New Generation Queens” in schools Shutzer reached out for help completing the fi lm. and fi lm festivals across America and in various communities abroad (most recently in Sudan, where she hopes the fi lm will One of the soccer team’s (and Shutzer’s) priorities was to screen empower women there who face similar challenges to the girls the fi lm in Zanzibar to show other girls that they could be Muslims in Zanzibar). She now lives in San Francisco and works for an and soccer players at the same time. With this goal in mind, she ap- international development consulting fi rm. She still recalls how plied for a grant from the Garden Hill Fund to travel with Ohama engaged everyone at the Mountain School was, and that desire to to screen her documentary and to offer soccer clinics for women. be conscientious citizens informs the work she does to this day.

1 Letter from the Director The First Week By Alden Smith

The opening days of the Mountain School can be more brutal for together and chatted. You felt bad for him afterwards because you some students than we like to admit. In the essay below, Director Alden didn’t reveal a thing, and he’d tried so hard to get you to talk. Smith imagines the fi rst week from the point of view of an anxious student. His English class read an early draft of the piece and suggested On Thursday you wrote in your English journal mostly about gathering edits. The voice borrows from Curtis Sittenfeld’s “Your Life as a Girl,” eggs from the chickens and just a little bit about feeling alienated, and an essay in our English anthology. in the wrong body. You were proud of the chicken part because you hadn’t missed your chore once or cracked an egg. One of the farmers ou had a panic attack the fi rst day of Mountain School. You even said you might have a future in farming. You couldn’t tell if she Ywere on Garden Hill and there were trees as far as you could was serious. see. It was cold and beautiful and terrifying, and you wanted no part of it. You walked toward the dining hall with some other kids, trying Your English teacher read aloud an excerpt from everyone’s journal to breathe. You pulled your hood over your head to hide the tears. during Friday English class. You expected him to read about chickens, Nobody noticed, thank God, not even your roommate. She was busy but he only shared the feelings part of your journal. You looked down, talking and laughing with the others. She knew everybody’s name. felt yourself go red, and you knew everyone was looking at you. Two other students wrote about sad things too. One classmate’s father had You fi nally smiled for real at supper that night. The Spanish teacher’s died earlier that year, and you wondered who it was. kids were sitting at your table making faces. You made faces back. The teacher said you had a way with kids. After the meal, you went Saturday evening some kids hosted an improv activity. They were to your dorm to organize your room and ended up reading notes that funny. You only had to participate once. Afterwards, a big group former students had scrawled in your desk drawers. You are so lucky. headed to Garden Hill. You almost joined them but opened your Don’t worry if it’s hard at fi rst. Cherish every moment of this place. laptop instead and saw that your best friend had fi nally broken up with Your roommate walked in and you went to use the phone. You didn’t her girlfriend. You should have called her, but instead you scrolled call anybody, just cried a few minutes in the phone closet before through the rest of your facebook feed. People seemed to be wearing walking back to the library. more makeup than usual. You laughed at your mom’s video of the dog and cringed at your uncle’s comment about your little sister’s new Monday you learned that everyone was a genius. Your math teacher profi le picture. Half an hour passed and you realized it was too late to asked you and a partner to roll a can down a ramp and calculate its go to Garden Hill. velocity at a given point. She praised your work, even though your partner pretty much did it all. After history class, you looked up the That night your roommate told you the stars from Garden Hill were word “hegemony” because a kid from New York had used it twice amazing. She said everyone was lying in the snow together, and her during the discussion. In Environmental Science, the teacher said head was resting on some guy’s stomach. You started crying and your something that blew your mind, but when you called your mom that roommate hugged you. You didn’t even know what was wrong. You night, you couldn’t remember what it was. You told her instead about had walked back to the dorm on your own, shuffl ing along the dark your humiliation during supper when your English teacher had to road, the stars guiding your way. You were confused thinking about remind you to sit at the dish crew table. it now—the walk had been lonesome and peaceful. Your roommate didn’t ask you to explain. You both just sat there, listening to Taylor Tuesday afternoon you had wood crew. You learned you weren’t so Swift. Later, she told you about her aunt’s cancer. bad with an axe. You were paired with this hilarious kid Sam. He could hardly hold the axe and talked nonstop. Your cheeks hurt from You woke up early on Sunday and ended up in the kitchen. One of the laughing. When the maple fell with a thud, you felt a rush in your teachers was there and asked you to crack open eggs. It was easy and chest. But during last period English you could hardly keep your eyes pleasant and you told him why you came to the Mountain School. You open. You cried on the phone with your mother after dinner. You felt explained how it felt to cut down a tree and have your journal read bad not telling her about the maple tree. aloud. You ate too much bacon at brunch.

On Wednesday the history teacher told you to meet him at the silo That night your dorm parent asked everyone to share highs and during third period, your advisor meeting. You didn’t tell him you lows from the week. Two girls cried and you didn’t. You even said didn’t know what a silo was, so when the time came, you wandered something that made everyone laugh. until he found you. “Hey!” he said, smiling big. “You okay?” You said yes, same as always, and smiled back. You walked around campus

2 Faculty Notes: Punishment, Shame, Guilt, and Exile by Jack Kruse

Rules: The fi rst night of the semester, Alden reminds us all of the major well have a set of stocks on Derby lawn. rules, major because a student who can’t live with them may be asked to leave the Mountain School. Here they are: Guilt: Sometimes a student misses his morning chore time and again, resisting even our fi nest cajolery. I ask him, then, if he’d prefer no chore 1. Tell the truth (no cheating or lying). at all, and if he agrees, I eliminate him from the chore program altogether. 2. Respect others (no harassment, physical or verbal). He can sleep in. It’s easier to do the chore myself than to scold, but people 3. Let us know where you are (no slipping off). accuse me of guilt-tripping, so I avoid it when I can. Besides, exiling 4. Have clean fun (no drugs). someone doesn’t make for great teaching.

The rules come as no surprise to anyone, except maybe #3, the Exile: Nevertheless, schoolteachers have been sending students to Siberia whereabouts rule, which day schools don’t always need. And most of our for ages—to the dunce stool, to the principal’s secretary, to the sideline sending schools expel or suspend students for breaking a major rule, so bench, to the tank, or back to their parents. Going away for a time may that’s no surprise either. encourage them to refl ect on their misdeeds, learn from them. Once the Summit had a student spend three days in our guest room, a rare in-house But there are a lot of other rules here, some for safety (no cotton on winter suspension. I don’t remember the infraction, but I remember bringing hikes), some for living together (keep the library quiet), and others for the the boy his meals, thinking they should be on a tin tray. When I taught work of the place (keep the apples and potatoes away from each other). preschool we called it a time out, which sounded mild then; we know now that solitary confi nement is cruel and unusual. Makes voiding lunch or rapping knuckles feel like a better option. A handful of rules that are new for most students: Natural Consequences: Good for a caribou herd with a few stragglers, not 1. Fill tables counterclockwise as you enter the dining hall; don’t so good for forty-fi ve adventurous juniors. Or for keeping the buildings save seats. warm, the grades decent, and the bathrooms clean. Better we come up 2. After limbing a felled tree, stack your brush perpendicular to with some artifi cial consequences and trust the Summit Committee to the slope of the hill. keep them creative—and maybe not so punishing as the natural ones. 3. Blow out your birthday candles with a sheet pan. 4. Do not enlist livestock in a prank. Please send your examples of local rules and punishments or your refl ections on shame, guilt, and exile to [email protected]. Punishment: Some schools have disciplinary committees that meet only when someone is threatened with dismissal; here, we have the Summit Committee (two teachers and two students, all four drawn from a hat), which can be asked to meet about any kind of infraction, major or minor.

Before soliciting volunteers for the Summit, Alden asks students to share how their schools handle violations of rules. I like to hear what they’ve come up with for punishments. One school sends miscreants “to the tank,” a room in the basement with a guard, another “voids” their lunches, and one has a shadow discipline committee (no one knows which students or teachers are on it), so no one can take reprisals against them. We know who’s on Summit, when it’s meeting, and that the group follows no precedent in their recommendation to the director; it could be dismissal or no consequence at all.

But consequences are important to everyone in the rule game. The consequence for blowing off your math homework this week? A 72% on the Friday test. The consequence for not feeding the wood boiler? Cold showers. Also shivering classmates—glaring at you, fueling your shame. Mission Statement Shame: As a by-product of letting everyone down, this one is historic— and powerful. Vershire publishes a list of delinquent taxpayers every The Mountain School cultivates a diverse and interdependent spring, and it’s the fi rst thing we turn to in the town report. Schools with community of scholars who learn to know a place and take care of fi nal exhibitions (instead of graded exams) sometimes invite the whole it. Through collaborative learning and shared work, students emerge neighborhood to witness a student’s failure. When someone oversleeps from their semester prepared to reach beyond the self and focus on the here, we catch it in morning meeting; then someone goes to fetch the poor common good. thing, who slinks into the room, tousled, bleary, shamefaced. We might as

3 What Makes a Great Sugaring Season? by Sam Kelman, Sugarmaker

t’s the last day in March, and I just got home from a boil. Look- (This comes at no damage to the tree, according to the research; it Iing at the calendar, I see we have boiled twenty of the last twenty just mimics the desired air pressure of a good season.) This year, three days and not one of those days was there more than a dusting some sugarmakers tapped in December, when right around Christ- of snow on the ground. As of writing this article we are up to 213 mas, it was 60 degrees. They thought they’d take advantage of the gallons of maple syrup, and there is still over a thousand gallons of lack of snow, thinking that the snow would some day fall. In fact, sap ready to boil. This time last year we had yet to boil, there was the snow never really came, but the sap sure did! about 3 feet of snow in the sugarbush, and the bitter cold of the winter seemed like it would go on forever. Just goes to show how In January I went to a conference with a bunch of sugarmakers, different each year is, and how unpredictable. and one of the speakers asked, who there had already tapped their trees. Almost ¾ of During the Sugaring Alumni weekend, I was the people raised the hands. This was about asked a great question by Julian Perricone a month earlier than I was even thinking of (Fall ‘14), “As a sugarmaker, can you make tapping. The speaker, who works for UVM a great season?” I almost answered “Yes, of Proctor (one of the leading maple research course,” without really thinking about it. I extensions), discussed the possibility that quickly realized that, though of course there is climate change could make one long season skill in making maple syrup, a lot of it is up to of sugaring that could start in the fall and go mother nature and what she decides to throw through the spring. Traditionally, the tempera- our way. I mean, a sugarmaker can defi nitely ture swings and pressure changes you need for burn the pan, let sap sit around too long and Spring 2016 Sugar Crew the sap to fl ow happen with the transition from spoil, or even run on the ground, but in gen- Breaking the record with 225 gallons! winter to spring. But this year we have seen eral, a great season, like this one, is just that, those swings from November until April. In a great season. the past few weeks, it rained on one end of the week and snowed (a dusting) on the other end. One of things I love about sugaring However, we humans don’t like to leave much to chance, and once is how ephemeral it is; one second we are gathering sap on snow- we start relying on something as part of our economy or our diet, shoes, the next, in our t-shirts on bare ground, and then the frogs we don’t like to see it fl uctuate. Vacuum technology has made it so are out and it’s time to move on to the Garden. This transition usu- sugarmakers have a more consistent crop year to year. They can tap ally lasts an intense few weeks, maybe a month, but a six month earlier and get more sap per tap, often twice as much as buckets. season...I think I might just fall out of love. To Affi nity and Beyond Kareen Obydol-Alexandre, French, Student Travel Coordinator, Health Liaison

eople of Color are not necessarily affi rmative action and also asked Pthe fi rst thing on your mind when what parts of affi rmative action they you think of Vermont. However, the were interested in learning about. Mountain School has built a group of Using the anonymous responses, intellectual students that contributes the group decided which topics to to Vershire, Vermont’s diversity. cover in order to answer questions and dispel misconceptions. After The Affi nity Group of S’16 has conducting individual research, the raised lots of awareness about the group congregated and assembled the experiences and cultures that exist affi rmative action Board. uniquely in America. After a small dispute about affi rmative action When this group of students isn’t during a Friday night discussion working to address prevalent racial about language, the group realized issues, the Affi nity Group meets to that not everyone had the same discuss topics relevant to them. Affi nity defi nition of the concept. In order Group meetings provide students to inform other students, the group Athena Gerasoulis, Darrell Pona, Farid Sousou, Jolaun of color with a safe space to share and decided to create a display in the Hunter, Keerti Gopal, and Wassa Bagayoko. The three discuss experiences both at the Mountain library. During Wednesday’s school faculty members are Kareen Obydol-Alexandre, Kemi Mugo, School and at home. Meetings are open meeting, the group then polled the and Maura Mathieu. to all students and faculty members who community’s knowledge about identify as people of color.

4 2016: The Year of the Dying Garden, Bees and Berries By Liana Horster, Farm Manager

hile it may sound like a grim outlook, our dying garden will not be winters. I quickly discovered that we have an abundance of other natural Wthe failing kind, rather the thriving kind full of plants that produce pollinators, so honeybees were not a necessity here for that purpose. natural pigments for plant-based dyes. Hops, hibiscus, purple basil, Japa- But this past fall, Kirk visited again and remarked that a lot has changed nese indigo, madder, marigold, hollyhock and many more. Gwynne plans around here. He encouraged us to give beekeeping another try, saying to spearhead a dye project with students next fall to produce beautifully it’s quite possible there will be enough forage for honeybees now. Sam colored yarns from our sheep’s wool. She asked me to grow the plants, to Kelman is pioneering our honeybee experiment, starting with two hives. which I happily agreed. A group of students and I then set about planning “Sugarman” is a name ever more suited to Sam, after this incredible maple the system. First, we calculated the quantity of each plant we’d need to syrup year, to which he’ll now add honey. make enough dye to color about eighty-fi ve pounds of yarn, then we de- termined the spacing between It’s the last day of March plants for a couple of dozen dif- and the orchards are ferent varieties. From there, we pruned, the dry beans are found the square footage neces- being threshed, the next sary for the whole garden and batch of shiitake mushroom then chose a location on garden logs is curing, and we’ll be hill, just below the blueberries growing oyster mushrooms on the short side. for the fi rst time this year. I have been planning an The students didn’t stop there; expansion of our fruit they also mapped out the production, to be rolled garden, allocating sections for out over the next two annuals and perennials based years. This year, we’ll be on the height of each plant, planting one hundred new and made a seeding calendar blueberry bushes, twenty by counting backwards from elderberry bushes, eleven the number of days to maturity for each. If beautifying the campus and new pear trees, four plum trees, four cherry trees, fi fty more raspberry producing natural dyes weren’t enough, another benefi t of growing these plants, twenty-fi ve each of loganberry and boysenberry plants, and ten new plants will be increased forage for our pollinators. hardy kiwi vines. Students will also have the opportunity to learn how to graft apple scion wood to root stock, as we’ll be starting a small nursery of Every semester, someone has asked the honeybee question. Do you have apple trees to gradually replace our aging orchard on Garden Hill. One of hives? Starting in 2017, the answer will be, Yes! It’s been a debated my main goals in this expansion is not only to provide more fruit for fresh proposition, and in 2010 when I asked Kirk Webster, a Mountain School eating (in fall), freezing, jams and sauces, but also for a broader range of graduate and one of the premier beekeepers and queen breeders in the juices from here. country, what he thought about keeping bees here, he said that he’d tried it four decades ago when he was working here on the farm. “There The snow is gone, crocuses are up and fi rst lamb of the spring was born wasn’t enough forage,” he told me, and the bees hadn’t survived our cold this morning. Any moment now, we’ll be in full-on planting mode! In College?

Join a Mountain School graduate community on your campus or start one of your own!

n the fall of 2015, the Alumni Committee helped to organize IMountain School gatherings at a number of colleges across the country. Alumni currently attending Carleton, Brown, and Kenyon hosted events to welcome freshman and build stronger on-campus Mountain School communities. If you are interested in getting together with other graduates who attend your college (or another college near yours), whether as an organizer or participant, please contact Beth Sigman Somerset s97, Alumni Coordinator, at [email protected]. Mountain School alumni at Carleton College

5 Garden Hill Fund joins Humanities curriculum By Beth Sigman Somerset s97, Alumni Coordinator

he Garden Hill Fund (GHF) grant program—a means by and listen to the students’ review of their methods. The students Twhich alumni can fi nancially support the work of other alumni said they really enjoyed the project, and they are already curious toward the common good—completed its sixth round this spring. about the outcomes for alumni recipients. Overall, this revised Alumni and student committees selected fi ve grant recipients who approach to current students’ role in the Garden Hill Fund was join a list of now 36 graduates who have benefi tted from GHF successful and will be continued in semesters to come. funds since fall 2013. Refl ecting on the process, Jack said, “There were some real surprises In a process change this semester, the GHF program became for me, one of which was how patient the students were with the part of the Mountain School academic curriculum, as Jack Kruse process, evaluating it as it unfolded, checking their impulses all incorporated the student committee’s work into his Humanities the time. I like the project combined with the [Humanities] course class. Also new this semester: students had the fi nal say on which work on decision making, and I love how it gets the students to projects received funding and how much, with $20,000 to give picture themselves as graduates needing help with their work in away. the world.”

In previous rounds, students volunteered to be on the GHF Alumni of all ages are encouraged to apply to the Garden Hill committee, which met outside of classes and work periods. Fund. The next application deadline is September 15, 2016. After the student and alumni groups had each read grant proposals, they would compare their funding decisions and reach an agreement. Although this process worked, it was challenging to schedule, time-consuming for students and the lead faculty member, and fi nal negotiations were cumbersome. Garden Hill Fund Grant Recipients Announced Now kids in the Humanities class are automatically on the student GHF committee. This change provides a class project that is for Fall ’15 and Spring ’16 relevant to course material, simplifi es scheduling, and allows for consistency in Garden Hill Fund procedures from one semester to ow in the third year of the Garden Hill Fund (GHF), we the next. Ncontinue to see a great degree of enthusiasm toward the program from a wide range of alumni. For the Fall 2015 and Spring As for the change in decision-making, it was clear after several 2016 application rounds, we received 26 applications requesting rounds that the student committees were exceptionally thoughtful, over $140,000. Having met the GHF fundraising goal for this year, methodical, and thorough when assessing grant proposals. And we had a total of $40,000 to distribute, evenly divided between more often than not, the alumni and student groups made very the two rounds. We are grateful for the support of many graduates similar selections for which projects to fund. Consequently, the toward the Garden Hill Fund! following question arose: why not allow students to make the fi nal decision about which projects to fund and how much money to Below are the grant recipients from the Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 give? If the alumni GHF committee takes a fi rst pass at proposals rounds. Congratulations to all winners! We look forward to hearing and sends a short list to students consisting of worthy projects, then about your work and the broader effects of the Garden Hill Fund. why not give students more responsibility and lend the experience more real-world weight? FALL 2015 Grant winners:

The Spring ’16 students in Jack’s Humanities class, like previous GHF student committees, ably handled the work of selecting grant Andrew Sloat f93 ($4,000) recipients. They devised their own course of action, including Printing and distributing an educational income tax poster each of 12 students writing an advocacy presentation for one of for migrant farmworkers in Pennsylvania the 12 proposals received, with the remaining three students in the class charged with challenging the presenters about the proposals’ This grant will support Andrew’s work on an educational potential weaknesses. They then polled their semester-mates in a poster that helps migrant farmworkers understand how to fi le an Friday evening activity, during which they presented the top nine income tax return. The project—a collaboration between Andrew, proposals. In an effort to remove unconscious bias (which they illustrator Michela Buttignol, the Pennsylvania Farmworker had learned about in class), they decided not to use the applicants’ Project, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)— helps names, gender, age, or amount requested. The Humanities students the migrant farmworkers, who are a critical part of America’s then met on Saturday morning to use their data to decide how to agricultural economy, navigate the laws that affect them. Andrew allocate $20,000 toward the top fi ve preferred grant proposals. states, “When farmworkers fail to fi le they may lose the refund In mid-March, the alumni GHF committee—represented by Ian payment they’re entitled to, risk having their wages seized by the Francis f87 and me, visited campus to attend the Humanities class IRS, or jeopardize immigration opportunities for themselves and

6 their family members. To address this issue, we are designing Matti Sloman f01 ($6,000) a visual guide (in Spanish) that helps farmworkers across Developing art and textile program for developmentally Pennsylvania (and nationwide) understand how the tax system disabled artists in Chicago, Illinois works, how to prepare for the tax fi ling process, and how to access free assistance.” The grant will allow for printing of up to The Garden Hill Fund grant will fund the development of 5,000 extra copies of the poster for wider distribution to migrant a six-month art and textile education program for artists with farmworkers in Pennsylvania. developmental disabilities. In collaboration with Envision Unlimited, a Chicago social services agency, Matti and her partner, Emily Winter, are creating textile skill-building workshops that Becky Maden f93 ($2,500) will support Envision’s art program. Matti and Emily have also Hosting agriculture information workshops for a community begun revitalizing an industrial weaving mill (aptly named, The farm Colchester, Vermont Weaving Mill) at Envision’s Westtown Center. Matti says, “Our education program will bring the Envision Art Program and The Becky will be working with the Pine Island Community Farm Weaving Mill into close collaboration, preparing Envision clients in Colchester, Vermont hosting workshops on soil fertility, pest to work more independently in the art studio or to take on paid and disease management, and cover cropping for Pine Island’s production work with The Weaving Mill. Clients will learn how seven-acre community farm. Becky explained, “The group of to use sewing machines, cut pattern pieces, and design, cut, and farmers are New Americans with over eight languages spoken and print with stencils for silkscreen. These workshops will encourage a variety of farming techniques. There is no comprehensive plan participants to be self-directed and to turn to their peers when for the seven acre farm plot, nor are there any restrictions on the they have questions, recognizing and utilizing the skills of others, products the farmers can use. During the fi rst year of production in creating a strong classroom community. By the end of the six month 2015, a spectrum of synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides cycle, we will have cemented the workshop curricula, identifi ed were applied to the community farm. Furthermore, the land is on a individual strengths of Envision clients, and laid the groundwork vulnerable fl ood plain along the Winooski River, just a few miles to start employing Envision clients at The Weaving Mill…. We from the mouth of Lake Champlain.” Becky plans to host a series want to see Westtown become a hub of creative productivity and of informational workshops this winter that will help the farmers the Garden Hill grant will allow us to jumpstart an innovative, art- “develop a comprehensive management plan for the land, to help based workshop program.” them source organic materials, and to understand the climate in which they now farm.” Shahbaz Soofi f08 ($6,000) Launching Blackseed Farmers Market in Worcester, Massachusetts Lara Bazelon s91 ($1,500) Writing a book about restorative justice This Garden Hill Fund grant will provide seed money for a new farmers’ market in Worcester, MA. Working with Muslim Community Link, “a nonprofi t information and referral agency Lara is writing a book about “the nascent movement to apply that connects the Muslim community to their community at large,” restorative justice principles to wrongful conviction cases and Shahbaz will help develop Blackseed Farmers Market, which the movement’s potentially transformative effect on the criminal will bring access to fresh organic produce and local, organic halal justice system.” Her Garden Hill Fund grant will help support her meat, and in particular will serve Worcester’s refugee, Muslim, travel and living expenses while writing the book, which is based and elderly communities. The market will be located at a local on Lara’s recent article in Slate Magazine, “Justice After Injustice: masjid (mosque), across the street from a senior living community What happens after a wrongfully convicted person is exonerated— and a church. Much of the produce will be supplied from a local and the witness fi nds out she identifi ed the wrong man.” Lara says, farm run by refugees from Nepal, Iraq and multiple African states, “I have interviewed more than two dozen people already—crime which will in turn support their livelihoods. Shahbaz writes, “We victims, the men who were falsely convicted of those crimes, their hope that by bridging the gap between the farmers, the masjid, families, the lawyers, and restorative justice practitioners. Over the the refugee community, the elderly community, the church and next six months, I plan to interview many more in cities and rural the community at large, we will be fostering a community of communities across the United States. Broadly conceived, the empowered and educated citizens who will be able to make better book will closely examine three wrongful conviction cases: one decisions for their wellness and local economy.” in which restorative justice was not applied, one in which it was applied, and one in the very beginning of the healing process. I will Spring 2016 Grant winners: tell these stories through the lived experiences of the exonerees, the original crime victims, and the concentric circles of family Elizabeth Fair f89 ($7,000) members, friends, lawyers, judges, prosecutors, detectives and Research tuberculosis stigma in Bangladesh others who were deeply affected by the false convictions. What I hope to show is that restorative justice principles, when applied with great care and thoughtfulness, can bring about personal Elizabeth will work with tuberculosis (TB) patients and health healing and social change in ways that would have otherwise been care providers in Bangladesh to better understand the stigma that impossible.” is associated with having TB, the leading cause of death among infectious diseases globally in 2015. The continued on next page

7 World Health Organization estimates that more than three million Sarah Gross s12 ($3,600) cases of TB go undetected each year. A contributing factor to Establishing a permanent garden at Seeds of Peace under-diagnosis is social stigma related to the disease, which camp in Maine disproportionately affects the poorest populations. Elizabeth will collaborate with the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), a development organization founded in Sarah works at Seeds of Peace Camp in Maine, an international 1972, dedicated to alleviating poverty by empowering the poor. camp geared toward bringing together kids who come from places of confl ict, often places that are in confl ict with each other. Despite Joseph Schottenfeld s07 ($1,400) the camp’s agricultural name, “very few literal seeds have been Creating a short documentary about migrant laborers from planted at camp,” Sarah writes. “For the past fi ve years, the camp Tajikistan has had a tiny raised bed in which we’ve planted some herbs, but I intend to use this money to build a full-fl edged garden in an Joseph is an ethnographer and researcher who will be working unused area and incorporate a gardening activity into the weekly with illustrator George Butler and fi lmmaker Tim Brown. The schedule of every camper.” She also plans to establish activity goal of this documentary is to bring to life a few particular stories plans and outfi t the gardening program with tools and maintenance of migration from a part of the world that is often out of sight. instructions to help keep the garden active indefi nitely without too “Tajikistan is considered to be the most migration-dependent much maintenance. “I would like to see teenagers from myriad country in the world,” Joseph writes. “…nearly all of Tajikistan’s different places in the world connecting to the food system and the migrants are men, and nearly all travel to Russia for work. But the natural world and taking a passion for growing food back to their weakening of the Russian economy and the introduction of harsh, communities,” Sarah said. new visa restrictions have left many of these men in precarious situations, unsure of their status in Russia or if they can even earn enough to send home.” Joseph, George, and Tim will begin Shannon Flaherty f99 ($5,000) in a rural village in Tajikistan, where they will “draw, fi lm, and Launching Goat in the Schools, a student-written children’s interview as men part from families and make the long trip—four theater program in New Orleans days by train—to Moscow for work.”

Shannon is an educator and co-artistic director for Goat in the Nate Sloan s03 and Gideon (Grody-Patinkin) Irving s03 Road Productions (GRP). The program aims to improve students’ ($3,000) writing skills and interest in writing, as well as increase students’ Creating a “Gideon & Hubcap” musical touring show creativity, confi dence, and awareness of the art of theater. Shannon geared toward kids and Goat in the Road Productions will “choose four 10-minute plays written by young New Orleans playwrights (these plays will Nate and Gideon created be generated by students of GRP’s young playwrights festival, “The Gideon and Hubcap Play/Write, in the spring of 2016)” to be put together in a “show Show,” a musical/comedy that can easily travel, but is also vibrant and captivating.” Shannon show they describe as about and her co-director will also create “a 45-minute playwriting “friendship, technology, and lesson, which will accompany the touring show, as well as a being a 21st century human.” professional development for classroom teachers as a follow-up They have performed in to the performance.” Ultimately, each student in the audience will homes across the country have the chance to write his or her own original play, inspired by and at the 2015 Edinburgh their peers’ work. “For many of the students in the audience, it Festival Fringe, in addition will be their fi rst experience watching live, professional theater,” to appearances on BBC radio Shannon said. Then, by “engaging with writing themselves, and television. Although students will be asked to think of themselves as artists.” oriented toward adults, the original show has brought a lot of joy to children, too. This welcomed side effect has “galvanized [them] to make a show expressly for Self Portrait kids, one that challenges Collage and thrills them without ever speaking down to them. We want to on paper approach them as serious audience members and put all the muscle of our craft behind creating something magical and meaningful to Jolaun Hunter share with them and their families.” Nate and Gideon will develop the new piece over the next year, “including two, month-long, intensive workshops, and then begin touring it through homes in spring of 2017.”

8 From the Admissions Desk By Emily Adler Boren, Director of Admissions

t was another great year for Mountain School admissions: so Finally, this year, we thought we’d leave you with an inspiring Imany strong applicants from schools across the country. Again, application essay, written by Keerti Gopal, who accepted our I fi nd myself amazed by the amount of work it takes fi nd the 90 offer and is here now. The prompt was: What is one concept--from students who will join us next year, and confl icted about turning a class or any other experience--that interests you? Explain how away so many qualifi ed students. I’m also grateful for our larger this concept relates to your life and why you fi nd it interesting. community, with so many people pitching in to the admissions We hope you enjoy it as much as we did! effort: faculty, alums, current students, families and schools. We gave a total of 85 presentations this year, with 10 faculty and 15 alums from all over the country joining in to help, including Grace McCleary f14, Jared Rubenstein s05, Eliza Booth The Asymptote of Equal Opportunity Paolucci f85, Colleen McCullough s06, Lindsey Cartmell s15, Niki Gruttadauria f03, Rafi Bildner s10, Matt Cerf s10, Elyse When we fi rst learned about asymptotes in math this year they Lindahl s14, Marc Elia s93, Liz Niemiec f98, Paul Costello seemed to me a little sad. Asymptote: A line which comes f93, and Kyung Mi Lee f15. This year we also hosted four open infi nitely close to a given curve without ever touching it. Like houses in different cities with help from Kathy Coleman (Boston an impossible goal, one that you can come close, infi nitely close area, mother of Annie Weathers s05 and Margy Weathers s11), to achieving, but never quite realize. This concept is one I think and the families of Greta Zorn f14 (Seattle), Spencer Janney about often, inside and outside the realm of math. f14 (San Francisco) and Amir Mamdani s15 (New York). Thanks I sat in Humanities the other day during a particularly interesting to all of you who wrote letters on behalf of applicants, and debate on equal opportunity. The majority of the class seemed encouraged friends to apply. Still the majority of students learn to feel pretty strongly that equal opportunity in the U.S. is an about the Mountain School from an alum (64% of the applicant impossible dream. As I listened to a room full of teenagers pool). Keep spreading the word! basically diagnose our country as terminally ill, I couldn’t help but feel a little discouraged. It was then that I thought of Here are some numbers about our applicant pool for the incoming asymptotes. It occurred to me that equal opportunity might be fall ’16 and spring ’17 semesters: something of a societal asymptote. We certainly aren’t there yet. We still live in a society where the cards are stacked unfairly. Equal opportunity for success - in happiness, jobs, education 223 total applicants for 90 spots and safety - is not our reality. Still, isn’t that our goal? A world 68% girls, 32% boys where your race, gender, body, sexual orientation, or economic 25% of the overall applicant pool from standing has no bearing on the opportunities you are given New York City private schools seems like a pretty great place to live. It is a world I would love 62% from the east coast to see. 23% students of color 39% seeking fi nancial aid But maybe that is our society’s asymptote. Maybe as hard as we 18% fi rst generation to college try, as close as we get, we never will quite make it. I have heard people say that we have too long a history of oppression and inequality ever to level the playing fi eld, so there really isn’t any We continue to push on growth areas for the schools that add point in trying. I’ve also heard people say that because all adult important diversity to each semester: geographic diversity, American citizens can vote, and we no longer have color-coded students of color, public school students and boys. This year, we bathrooms, equal opportunity is the reality of the U.S. had a noticeable increase in the number of applicants from the west coast (20% this year, 14% last year). Our numbers for students of Here’s how I see it. In 2015, white women are paid 77 cents to color are about the same (22% of applicant pool last year, 23% this every white man’s dollar, while black women can earn as little year), and we saw growth in public school students (32% last year, as 50 cents. In 2015, while over 40 countries world-wide have 38% this year) and boys (26% last year, 32% this year). We rely had a female head of state, we have yet to make that list. In on our alumni community to keep sharing their experiences and 2015, many U.S. citizens are unable to marry, simply because of their gender. In 2015, zoning keeps kids from low income identifying students in these categories who would be a good fi t for families in underfunded schools, making it harder for them our program. Thank you for the time you spend helping to shape to break out of the cycle of poverty. In 2015, a century and a future Mountain School classes! half after slavery was abolished, people of color are killed on the streets by offi cers of the law, and condemned by the media If you’re interested in giving presentations next fall, please let and the courts. If in 2015 our country’s institutions are still so me know. We’re always looking for alumni volunteers to help, imbalanced, how can we possibly reach the place we want to and we’ll set you up with a powerpoint presentation, videos, go? At times, it seems a little hopeless. And yet, it has gotten brochures, and more. Contact [email protected] better. As a country, we’ve made a lot of progress. to get involved.

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9 Cultural Stories: Another Way of Being Known By Maura Mathieu s03, English teacher

arrived at the Mountain School in August 2013 full of ideas it is an effi cient way to let everyone know that I am biracial, which I from the Diversity Directions Conference in Andover, MA, is not obvious from the way I look. which I had attended that summer with Gwynne Durham. Diversity Directions is a weeklong conference for educators of all Whether the topic is a fi rst hunting trip or an anxiety disorder, the grade levels from private and parochial schools. We spent part of stories allow us to see the students a little more clearly in the larger each day listening to lectures and then would return to our smaller context of their lives. The stories are not meant to be confessions. group of about eight to debrief. One of the early exercises we did Rather, like the texts in the English compendium, they are a way in our small groups was to each tell our “cultural story” in seven of helping us understand that other people are equally real. The minutes, essentially a brief history of our lives and what defi ned students can share that they, too, have been embarrassed, hurt, us as people. Gwynne and I found the exercise rewarding and excited and mistaken. They love people we don’t know and will important to facilitating closer relationships with our group. never meet.

That fall, as we brainstormed ways to make the Mountain School We hear about growing up in a family with two moms, or with only a more inclusive and open place for all students, Gwynne had an a mom, or with divorced parents. We appreciate the Little League idea. What if, she suggested, we have one cultural story in each coach and the uncle-who-is-not-actually-an-uncle who have been morning meeting, a chance for every student to share something consistent role models. We marvel at the life story of the inspiring important about who they are. Six semesters later, it’s hard to grandparent. We cheer for the pet rooster who earned the coveted imagine that there was a time before cultural stories. We offer a top spot at a laying hen farm. We are delighted by the defeat of the broad range of suggested topics including religious background, frenemy, even if it seems slightly cruel to have fed candy to her pet race, family history and traditions, gender, sexual orientation, and chinchilla. We applaud the girl who won the wrestling match on important memories. Students can reveal as much or as little as a boys’ team (despite wanting to pee, throw up, cry and run away they want to, and many choose lighthearted topics (stories about before the match began). We digest the complex feelings that come siblings and mentors are the most popular). But for some students, from going to the same school as the Tsarnaev brothers, better the stories allow them to speak about complicated pieces of their known as the Boston Marathon bombers. We celebrate the students identities that are important but may not otherwise come up in who come out, offer our support to those who have recently lost a conversation. loved one, and fi nd ourselves equally frustrated about the diatribes of the racist older relative. I always lead the fi rst morning meeting on Sunday of opening weekend. I explain the concept of cultural stories, and then I tell As the stories become part of the narrative of the semester, of an encounter I had at camp when I was little: another girl in the characters in them take their place alongside Julian from my group refused to believe that one of the counselors was my “Everything that Rises Must Converge” and Mason from “Electric brother. She was adamant that I was lying. I was equally adamant, Arrows.” The Tsarnaev brothers, the rooster, the racist relative, obviously, that I was telling the truth. In that ridiculous exchange, and the wrestling victory all become resources to draw from and I learned that many people fi nd it bewildering when different refl ect on in conversations , in classes and in journals. Regardless members of the same family have different skin colors, as do of which aspect of their culture the students choose to share, they the members of my family. I tell the story because its underlying add depth to their semesters by offering us a glimpse of the people message about assumptions is especially relevant to the beginning and experiences that serve as their roots. of the semester (and the middle, and the end, and life), and because

Our president is fi ghting to close the gender wage gap, and more enough time. Some are bigger, like the fi ght to close the gender women are running for national offi ce. gap in my own school’s student government. Some follow me everywhere, like the constant need to prove my identity as Gay marriage has been legalized in 37 states. Our high school American, with my brown skin and Indian name. Still others are graduation rate is higher than it’s ever been, and community huge, like joining millions of New Yorkers in a march against college may soon be tuition-free. We are moving towards the police brutality. When I look at these supposed impossibilities in asymptote, moving closer to a world of equal opportunity. my life, I try to remember that asymptotes can have holes, and it’s up to me to fi nd them. Maybe we, as a society, can fi nd a hole In math, there was one last thing we learned about asymptotes. in the asymptote of equal opportunity. Maybe we can’t. Still, I Some of them have holes. A hole is the one spot on the line where think even the possibility that we can come infi nitely close to all the numbers line up, and miraculously, the curve punches realizing this dream is enough for us to keep trying. through. The impossible becomes possible. -Keerti Gopal, Fieldston School. Written in February 2015 for I think we all have a lot of little asymptotes in our lives. I know I admission to the Mountain School. do. Some are small, like too many chemistry problems, and not

10 TMS Bookshelf and Films

White Nights in Split Town City Annie DeWitt s98

hen Mother turned up the radio real Wloud and sang “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” I wondered what the grapevine was and what it was they had heard through it.

It is the summer of 1990 on the last un- paved road in a rural American town. Jean is approaching thirteen and the twenty-fi rst century is encroaching from all sides. Des- ert Storm fl ashes on the television, Microsoft has come out with a new program called Windows, and the horses in the pasture are dropping Truck Farm dead from an unidentifi ed pathogen. Family life at The Bottom Feeder— Ian Cheney s97 the only home Jean has ever known—is slowly disintegrating. Jean’s mother leaves, and in her absence, Jean is torn between the adult world hat do you call a farm planted in the back of a pickup truck? and surreal fantasies of escape. She builds a fort with an abandoned boy, WThis is the whimsical tale of young Rumsey Plumb, whose Fender Steelhead, to survey the rumors of the town, but as the kids begin summer on Grandmums’s farm takes an unexpected turn when a big to uncover their neighbors’ secrets and desires, Jean discovers her own storm threatens her prize-winning crops. With the help of four old propensity for transgression. ducks, Grandmum and Rumsey plant a garden-on-wheels and fl ee to higher ground in the big city, where another adventure awaits. Included Both coming of age story and cautionary tale, this lyrical debut delves with the book is a CD featuring Simon Beins’ album of quirky songs into the beauties and dangers of what it means to bear witness, the inspired by the Truck Farm project, with special musical guest Jack psychology of isolation, and our universal need to belong. Johnson, who also narrates a reading of the book as a bonus track.

I am Radar Reif Larson s97 Digital book: Entrances & Exits Big, beautiful, ambitious . . Reif Larsen s97 . It takes narrative magic to pull off such a loopy combination, s a Borgesian love story told and luckily, Reif Larsen has it Ithrough Google Street View. to spare. His prose is addictive It’s meant to be read on your and enchanting. —Los Angeles phone or tablet. www.entrances- Times exits.com he moment just before Radar TRadmanovic is born, the hos- pital’s electricity fails. The deliv- ery takes place in total darkness. Lights back on, everyone present sees a healthy baby boy—with Film: jet-black skin—born to the stunned white parents. No one understands The Search for General Tso the uncanny electrical event or the unexpected skin color. “A child- Ian Cheney s97 birth is an explosion,” an ancient physician explains. “Some shrapnel is inevitable, isn’t it?” his mouthwateringly en- Ttertaining documentary Drawing on the furthest reaches of quantum physics, forgotten history, traces the surprising origins of and mind-bending art, Larsen’s I Am Radar is a triumph of storytelling the iconic Chinese-American at its most primal, elegant, and epic: a breathtaking journey through dish, from Shanghai to Middle humanity’s darkest hours, yet one that arrives at a place of shocking America and beyond. wonder and redemption.

11 Welcome to Spring 2016

A good semester for: A bad semester for:

• Badgers: Three s16 students hail from Wisconsin. • Ornithology: Kai’s homemade birdfeeders (peanut butter, beef fat, sunfl ower seeds and raisins) got highjacked by Ramona and • Maple syrup: Record-setting syrup totals (225 gallons here) all Violet, the Kruse’s dogs. over Vermont. First time ever making maple sugar at TMS • Low-clearance cars: A longer than usual mud season has left • Ornithology: Student Kai Victor is the President of the New higher ruts in our roads. York Young Birders Association and has everyone talking about the migration. • First time seeing snow: Worst snowfall on record since 1892.

• Celsius awareness: With a student from London this semester, • Weak immune systems: An outbreak of whooping cough has the weather at morning meeting is always announced in both an number of students on antibotics Farenheit and Celsius.

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12 Spring 2016 Photo Gallery

13 Alumni Notes Compiled by Marilyn Covey

a lot of work, but he is enjoying his new role. Like many of us his focus Spring ’85 Nature Up North: is his children. Sixteen-year-old Erika Barthelmess s85 Caroline completed a three-week Susan Timpano By Jacob Hunter s16 exchange program in Rome, and sfi [email protected] the Finns in turn hosted an Italian o news from s85, but having rika Barthelmess is currently a profes- teenager, Carlotta, exposing the Nseen a few of you last sum- Esor of biology at Saint Lawrence Uni- whole family to another culture. mer, I can attest to the ageless-ness versity in northern New York. While teach- Cathy Han is to be congratulated on her retirement of our class (as well as Jack, Sue, ing, Erika works with students directly to from private practice as an ob- and Marilyn)! I would also encour- help coordinate their majors and simulta- gyn. After 15 years and delivering age all of you, at some point, to neously runs Nature Up North, an environ- more than 3,000 babies, she left attend the 30+ year reunion that is mental outreach project that connects SLU her practice in Laguna Hills, CA. offered every summer; there are so students with the local community. Nature Up North was created with Cathy will focus on her three many cool things happening at the the intention to help locals, primarily youngsters, remember the joys of children, the oldest of whom Mountain School! the natural world and reconnect with the environment that surrounds will begin at Exeter in the fall. For me the experience them. In addition, the project teaches college students valuable skills She reports “he’s already talked was a bit of stepping back in such as community involvement and leadership while providing them about doing the Washington intern program, but no Mountain time, but more profound was with hands on work that will easily transfer over into the real world. observing TMS moving forward School for him.” You can look (think solar, tech, etc) while It’s no secret that today’s children spend several hours in front Cathy up on Facebook, which maintaining the social and ethical of a screen everyday. And, as screen time continues to increase, she just joined a few weeks ago. values that we attribute to this even children who live in more rural areas are choosing to explore Abby Solomon continues her particular semester experience. the outdoors less and less. Worried about this alarming trend, Erika career in acting and producing. Also, my kids had an excellent decided to investigate the ecological knowledge of local St. Lawrence Her son Jasper started nursery time and didn’t want to leave, County kids. What she found was that most grade schoolers could not school this year. Abby was pleased and the connections made with identify their own St. Lawrence River, let alone local plants, trees and to catch-up with Annie in London classmates and other graduates, animals. Every year St. Lawrence County competes for the poorest, last June and stays in frequent was really fun. The fresh, outdoor, lowest college acceptance, and highest unemployment rates in New contact with Leyla Morrisey hardworking aura on campus York. An unfortunate consequence of the county’s poverty is a sub-par Bader. Leyla’s four children are has not changed. Happy Spring! public school system. Nature Up North was Erika’s way to rekindle a now dispersed among 4 different bond between traditionally disadvantaged kids and their surroundings. schools in NYC. She wrote, “I am now dwarfed by Ramsay, our Spring ’86 Nature Up North has three main foci. Through family oriented 6 foot tall 13-year-old. 11-year- workshops such as weekly campfi res, orienteering expeditions, and day old Quentin is a tennis fanatic, hikes, Erika and her students get children excited about simply being Sophia, at age 8, would forsake Ashley Mattoon in nature. For example an upcoming workshop will involve making everything for gymnastics, and our [email protected] pesto using garlic mustard, a local invasive species. The second aspect 3 year old has taken to wearing eg Robertson wrote that of Nature Up North is a citizen science project called “Monitor My his Batman costume day in and the big news in her house- Maple.” This activity allows anyone living in northern New York to M day out.” Leyla manages to take a hold this past year was that her record information for maple trees on their property and upload it to day a week to go to a photography wife, Sheila, was granted tenure Nature Up North’s growing database. Participants measure their tree’s diameter and observe its overall health, record which day its buds break class, which she loves. in the Chemistry Department at or unfurl, and when the leaves change color in the fall. The fi nal piece Still enjoying life in the Amherst College. They are happy to Nature Up North is the rest of its website, which features articles, Adirondacks, Vanessa Houghtlin to know they will continue living trail maps, teaching tools for science teachers, and much more. is “raising giant children and doing in Amherst, where their children various types of work with pregnant Banti (14) and Rutesh (11) love the Erika’s project is centered around understanding a place and and birthing mothers and young community and have great friends. focusing on the local environment. It was at the Mountain School that children and families.” Her family Erika took her fi rst natural science course, which eventually led to a took a trip to Austria in January Meg continues to be happy in her career in ecology. More importantly than the class work, however, where her 13-year-old, Sylvie, work as recruiter with UNITE Erika found that she and her classmates learned how to take care of competed in cross-country skiing HERE (www.unitehere.org). Meg a place. The emphasis on working as a collective taught the value and at the International Children’s wrote, “now that the kids are get- necessity of giving back rather than just taking. It is this “experience Games. Then, in February, she ting older, I can see a time in a few of service” that Erika hopes we Mountain Schoolers of today will gain took her 16-year-old, Elodie, on years when I may be able to get from our time in Vermont. “It is easy to forget that environmental a college visit tour. About the issues are social issues and poverty issues, especially in the incredibly back out in the fi eld with our cam- experience, Vanessa wrote, “I privileged environment of TMS,” Erika says. Erika’s commitment kept forgetting for a moment that I paigns which I have missed!” to the environment and to the locals of northern New York is a great wasn’t the one looking at colleges; Nick Finn made a job change example of the capability we all have to positively impact our own it feels like I just did that.” Vanessa from Credit Suisse to UBS in communities. November. The transition has been hopes that many of our classmates

14 will attend our 30th reunion at Garden Hill, hiking in the woods and family visited me during their I’d move if I could, but then TMS this summer. She and her with Sue, and eating the delicious vacation on the Cape. It was great I wouldn’t be as near to Jody 9-year-old had a wonderful time Mountain School food can’t be at the reunion last summer and beat. My son, Andrew, found the to catch up! I hope to see more of Esselstyn who is going on year hope to return. She is pleased that weekend so fun and memorable you in the coming years...stop by 16 in Charlottesville, Virginia. the Mountain School has become that he wrote a story about it for on your travels.” “Kids are in 8th, 6th, and 1st a special place for her children. his second grade class this year. I Melissa Davidson wrote grades. This coming summer will Gus Janeway and his family will do my best to plan our summer from Florida while on vacation, be my 3rd summer as camp nurse are living in Ashland, Oregon, so we can make it back again in “which is a lovely change from my at an overnight girls’ camp on where he and his wife, Julia, have August. I hope to see you all there! librarian life in Virginia. I hope all Lake Michigan; my girls get to be both made career changes. Julia are well.” campers and my son comes along moved from teaching to being a full time artist and Gus peeled off from Spring ’87 Nicole Hoffman and her for the ride while I help out on the the wine business to start a bike daughter Carter (8) are also “still health team. Back at home, I’m shop, Piccadilly Cycles. Josephine Jeanne Philbin Hargett in Delray Beach, FL. We love the doing some volunteer work as a (8) and Theo (10) bring the usual [email protected] weather and all the family activities nurse at our local Free Clinic, and mayhem to their household. he winner of this year’s haiku in the area. I teach fi rst grade also with UVA medical and nursing Cesca McInerney continues Tchallenge is Anne Barthel. at a lovely little school near the students who are learning about to love living in Adelaide “From our house we see, Not beach called Gulf Stream School. end-of-life care...” Australia. The biggest thing to Russia but a slice of, the Harlem Carter is a third grader at GSS. So Jody lives about 2 hours happen recently in her family was River.” Anne is still in NYC work- We welcome visitors anytime, from me, Sharon Peterson, and that her son turned 5 and started primary school. Cesca noted ing at Hay House (now as execu- especially those looking to escape how I would love her counsel, some characteristics of Australian tive editor) on books ranging from the cold for a few days!” not to mention just see her lovely schools, where, in addition to spirituality to psychology to health. Finally, I, Jeanne Philbin face. I am fi rmly the meat in the wearing school uniforms with big Recent titles include a guide to Hargett, am still in Arlington, VA middle of the sandwich generation: brimmed sun hats, “they really do holistic veterinary medicine and with my husband and 3 children. helping along my aging parents call friends (and strangers) mates. a women’s empowerment mani- I was recently asked to be the who were able to move in next In fact, mateship is not only a word, festo with a consciously provoca- coordinator for the grade school door while still wiping noses and but an important concept, that seems tive slang title that’s not fi t to print vegetable garden which provides visiting the principal for offspring’s to encompass being a contributing here! both educational enrichment and infractions. My eldest daughter member of the community and a loyal friend. I think TMS Liz (Brewer) Redwine’s food assistance to families in our Eva started this spring semester at has ‘heaps’ (another common family—husband Jonathan, kids area. We got a grant from the TMS. Can you believe that? Jack south aussie term) of mateship!” (Nathaniel, 12, Cal, 10, and twins Whole Foods foundation and our Kruse says it’s just easier to call Matt Bourgault reported that Lila and Jed, 8), 15 year old lab/pit goal is a Four Season Harvest! her Sharon. My divining rod nearly things continue to “cruise along” mix, and lab/husky puppy (Sally jumped out of my pocket near at his home in Vermont. His son, Ride)—are all still in West Orange, Spring ’88 the Kruses’ residence to indicate Perry, is now 11 and his daughter, NJ. Jon is a lawyer in the city that yes, they have indeed been Zealy, is 13. Matt wrote that “they who spends weekends working Sharon Kim Peterson chugging from the fountain of are awesome kids/tweens/teens and on container gardens. Liz teaches [email protected] youth. I am glad to share my days with them.” Matt’s wife, Marsi, left her English literature and writing at he fi rst to write in is from the We are trending upwards job in education after 20+ years Seton Hall University, a couple of Tfarthest away. Our very lovely friends, with 4 of our class reporting and has started her own clothing miles away in South Orange, NJ. Jennifer Ward Woodward sends in. Let’s shoot for 10 next go business. Matt is still working with “So when it’s not awful out I can lots of love from London. “Being around as we would all love to hear low income and fi rst-generation to bike to school. We loved being a stay-at-home mom for Dillon is from you. The mundane to you can college middle and high school back at The Mountain School a thrilling for me but doesn’t make be sublime to us. students. He fi nds his work helping couple of summers ago and seeing for much to say!!” She is so modest! Eva s16 and I are going to try these students get to college both so many of our classmates. I get Dillon is a gem and even with only to make it back to TMS this August fun and rewarding. He is still together with Laura Morse Shear half of Jenn’s chromosomes, you for that annual open reunion for us working on building up his birding life list, which continues to be in the summers, and our kids have can imagine what a treat it is to be old folks. Would love to see you some good therapy after his stroke a great time together. with him at home. there. Peace. four years ago. Last year he found Benton Jones writes, “Hello And speaking of home, Ava about 275 different species and Spring 87ers! Me and my family are Moskin reports that she is switching he is hoping to best that this year. still living on Cape Cod in Brewster. homes and switching coasts to the Matt, as well as Leyla, My wife Jana and I take care of our Bay Area this year, “partly so I Vanessa, and I, are all hoping to 10 year old boy, a dog, tortoise, can live closer to Jed Parsons and attend our 30th reunion in Vershire crested gecko, and three hermit Elizabeth Steinfeld. If anyone this summer. I hope you will all crabs. I am a sculptor (primarily knows of available housing or job consider it as well. The reunion will be held August 12 – 14, 2016. My kiln-forming glass), gallery owner opportunities, let me know!” So if brother-in-law (Jonathan Mahler at my MillstoneGallery.com and you’ve been thinking of moving f’84) and I went to the reunion have recently joined the board of there, join Ava, Jed and Liz, who Self Portrait with our kids last summer and had trustees at the Cape Cod Museum are pioneering a TMS cluster for Acrylic on wood a wonderful time. Camping on of Art. Last summer Jim Ziglar easy re-unioning. Thea McRea

15 sister (Elke, 7) to spend some time Mongolia this spring, where I sledding, and generally messing Spring ’89 on Garden Hill someday. Please let think the plan is to let Brendan around. During that time Jon also me know if you ever pass through run wild on the steppe, eat lots of helped launch a new startup called Eric Morrissey Madison, Wisconsin!” mutton, and drink milk tea. We Roadie, which is a short and long [email protected] just got back from a trial run trip haul package delivery service iles roommates Ty Stuelpe to Italy, where we spent fi ve weeks which utilizes excess capacity in Mand Jon Newton recently in Milan making the most out of passenger vehicles already on the met up briefl y for coffee in Cleve- an all-expenses-paid workation. road and heading the direction land during a business trip Ty was As always, let me know if you you need. They are a cheaper, on. Ty is living outside Dallas with are coming through NYC. I have friendlier, and lower impact way to his wife and two kids, working in been pretty bad about organizing get your stuff from A to B. marketing for a spin-off start-up. anything, but promise to get better After their time off, the Ziglar Jon settled with his wife and two at it.” family returned to Atlanta and boys in the SE Cleveland area in And that is it! Not a very Jon joined Parkmobile as CEO. 2014 and continues to do supply substantial year in terms of reports, Parkmobile enables reservation chain sustainability work, now for Melita and Kazuyoshi Yamaha but as a group, s89 continues to and payment of parking through a global diverse industrial compa- have vigorous email discussions your mobile phone both on street, ny, after 14 years in SE Michigan Molly Rauch also wrote in, about TMS, fund raising, and other in parking decks, and at airports doing similar work at Ford. saying, “I had the opportunity matters less serious. We are also and event venues across the US. Jeremy Cohen writes in, to go to Paris to observe the UN very pleased to note that one of our They recently won the business “Despite residing in the state that climate talks in December. I was own, Thomas Lembong, is now for all of NYC, so Jon is hoping produced the Palins and recently there to represent Moms Clean serving as Indonesia’s Minister to have some TMSers using the supported Cruz in the primary, we Air Force and try to bring the of Trade, and we wish him every service soon. continue to enjoy Alaska. My wife voices of American families to the success. The biggest news in what has and I still run a tiny environmental international conversation about already been a crazy enough year is consulting business, are parenting climate disruption. Not sure how Spring ’90 that on January 5th, Jon and Christy our young boys as best we can, effective I was at accomplishing took in 3 foster children, all sisters, and just built a new house in that lofty goal, but I did learn a Ilyssa Birnbach Sena aged 3, 5, and 7 and are in the Anchorage. Since the plunge in lot about UN negotiations, met [email protected] process of adopting them. Their oil prices, tourism is the state’s climate activists from around the ale Jaffe was bummed to family, now boasting 2 parents, big hope. So grab your saddle bag, world, ate croissants, oui, and Cmiss the 25th year reunion, 4 daughters, 1 son and 3 dogs, is head north, and come stay in our got to see U2 and the Eagles of which confl icted with a previously fi nally complete. Everyone in the planned trip to Spain. So while new guest room. You probably Death Metal perform in concert. Ziglar house is doing amazingly his family didn’t make it to the top won’t regret it.” The last was a beautiful collective well adjusting to the new additions of Garden Hill, they did make it to Writing in from out West, experience of mourning and the top of La Sagrada Familia in and are excited for the road ahead. Karen Kane notes, “I’m still resolution over the Paris terrorist Barcelona. And while he sorely Jon looks forward to bringing the an Assistant AG, prosecuting attacks. In other news, I have missed dancing with Seth as part whole brood up to Garden Hill for cases for Montana DOJ’s Child been doing more freelance writing of the Cocina Club, Cale did enjoy the 30th! Protection Unit. I live in Missoula lately—most recently, I got to seeing his son get completely In celebrity news, Lea Koonce with my family: husband Patrick write about the lead crisis in Flint swept up in the rhythm of fl amenco Ogundiran appeared on an episode (fl y fi shing and upland game bird for Goodhousekeeping.com. I have dancing in Andalucia. of the “Antiques Roadshow” hunting guide), kids Shannon (8) been enjoying this new outlet. On This past winter, the Jaffes Charleston, SC, Episode1. You can and Seamus (6), and three English a personal note, my daughter’s Bat sadly said goodbye to the older of look up her episode to fi nd out how setters. Looking forward to a kid- Mitzvah is in a few short weeks. their two dogs. The dog had been her items appraised! free vacation to the Bahamas this There’s a fl urry of preparations a wedding present from Cale to his May (the fi rst since our honeymoon around here, and I am very proud wife, Katie, and had always been a 10 years ago). of her (despite her mastery of eye- fi xture in the lives of their children. Melita Mullen fi red in this rolling at her mother).” Cale reports that all three kids were dispatch: “In the last fi ve years, I And as for myself, Eric amazingly gentle in how they took survived University of Wisconsin Morrissey, I would like to note care of their dog in his fi nal days. Law School, got divorced, fell in the following for the record: “I It was touching and especially love with tango, and tried my fi rst am still living in New York City meaningful for Cale and Katie to case to a jury. Above all, I have and writing speeches for the same witness as parents. learned how to lose without getting companies. My wife Bolormaa Jon Ziglar reports that after lost. Like some of you, I now have and I are enjoying watching selling the business he was helping a teenager in the house (Maisie, our 14-month-old son Brendan run at the end of 2014, he and his 13). This defi es reason, because grow up, and are wondering how wife, Christy, moved with their I am now feeling younger and much crazier things can get. Both boy/girl twins (8 years old) to Desmond of Underwood, livelier than I did when she was Brendan and Bolormaa are gearing Telluride and spent the entire winter Woodblock Print, little. I hope I can get her or her up for a big trip back home to of 2015 skiing, snowshoeing, dog Elisha Mattoon

16 18-35 year-old demographic but Spring ’91 did exceedingly well with old rich people. I’m not sure how to feel about that. Otherwise, despite the Regan Brooks looming shadow of soul-crushing, [email protected] hypercharged gentrifi cation, life Liz Rumsey in Brooklyn is good. Hoping to [email protected] make it— with my wife, Alissa, appy almost-25 years and and 5-year-old-daughter, Adelaide, Hthanks to all who wrote in tow—to the reunion in August! in. This spring we’re bringing 6. She got rid of cable TV you a match-the-alum-with- this year, now lives for Saturday the-update challenge. Answers morning cartoons, and is available at the reunion (and listening to Stressed Out. She’s at the end of this update). also learning to “put fear aside photo credit: Steven Gabriel 1.This mystery alum had a as skiing becomes an amazing year of transitions. “Kevin and I part of my family’s winter life.” Seeing Change: celebrated the arrival of Vesper 7. She‘s working on a book Lacy Austin s89 Jane McElroy on a September about restorative justice and just night during a heat wave. She sold it. This is “great and scary By Athena Gerasoulis s16 adores her big sister Poppy, who because now it is real. The good in turn loves her so much that she news is that I have a fellowship to cuddles Vesper to the point of near go to the MacDowell Colony in e all want to make a difference. With an increasingly com- New Hampshire for two weeks plex world of technology, opinions, and politics, knowing suffocation (maybe on purpose?). W I started advising start-ups, angel in late March/early April to write how to do so is the biggest challenge. Lacy Austin has found her own investing with #Angels and a chunk of it. Almost like the method by blending social justice activism and self-expression in dif- joined the board of Gannett (USA Mountain School, at least as far as ferent mediums of art, ranging from photography to writing. Today). The highlight of our year I can see from the pictures.” She has been spending in depth time reports a Ben Robbins near miss Lacy grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts with her family, attend- with family and friends, especially in NYC and a San Francisco sighting of Liza Studen—who is ing Winsor School in Boston. Going to an all girls’ school and seeing hosting long dinners at home “doing exceptionally well.” For strong female leaders in her everyday life shaped many of the ambi- while the girls sleep. A particularly special recent dinner included a beautiful, condensed version of tious goals that this determined social advocate still pursues today. At her personal life, we recommend Macalaster College and New York University Graduate School, Lacy Antony, Tara, Josh, and Liz!“ 2. He knows all the words to reading the essay she wrote for the balanced both her social justice/arts-focused studies with teaching in every song on Taylor Swift’s New York Times’ Modern Love local public schools and community-based organizations. Working as Grammy winning album 1989, is column, 9/27/2015. We were glad the Arts in Education Director at The Children’s Arts Carnival, a Visual a tiger Cub Den leader, and has we read it. And glad she wrote it. Arts and Humanities teacher at the Coalition School for Social Change, recently been doing some crafting 8. He recently went to Costa and the Assistant to the Deputy Director for Programs at ArtsConnec- with six year-olds. He’s “enjoying Rica on “one of the best trips ever,” got to see Liz, Tara, Josh, and Chloe tion, Lacy grew passionate about using the arts as vehicles for change. the life of being a dad with two kids growing up way too fast.” in San Francisco last month, and is 3. He’s a budding Adele fan offi cially a maybe for the reunion. For fourteen years, Lacy has infl uenced and helped many com- 9. She is thankful to alum #4 munities, both in New York City and internationally, through her role thanks to his limo-chaperoning experience, he got to play Pillow for teaching her a little snow science as Director of Community Programs at the International Center of Pho- Polo for his 42nd birthday, and he’s last weekend, she enjoys dancing tography. Classes are available to anyone and everyone interested in still a dodge ball fan. He reports with her kids to Christine and the storytelling. Lacy’s programs are unique in the sense that they bring on the discovery of previously Queens’ Tilted, and she recently light to underserved communities across boundaries of race, religion, unknown grey hairs in his newly- watched Ben Robbins’ Madoff on sexual orientation, and socioeconomic class. grown beard and asks, “How did iTunes. You can too. It’s good. that happen?” We don’t know. Even if you’re not old and rich. 10. She still loves John The programs emphasize the idea of “concerned photography” to 4. She recently joined alum #9 in Alaska for “a gorgeous Denver, enjoys hiking with her express everyday instances of both personal struggle and triumph. By dog “through the woods or along refi ning and critiquing works, students become familiar with their own hike up some probably unnamed mountains near the tiny town of the seashore,” and stays busy with skills, talents, and future aspirations for what changes they want to see Hope, where the general store still “a home renovation, a teenager, in the world. Lacy adds that this idea of self-understanding within a safe purports to sell fi lm. She tried two big dogs, and a hamster.” She haven is also deeply rooted in the Mountain School, a place she still to get The Sound of Music out of also writes, “I take such pleasure considers a home. “Whether the students become photographers or not, her head by channeling current in the small things in life these that’s far from the goal,” she says. “Giving our young people the tools favorite, First Aid Kit, to no avail.” days: time with my daughter, laughs with friends, making my to express themselves is what matters.” 5. The miniseries he wrote about Bernie Madoff -- starring students smile, a warm day, talking Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe to my parents on the phone, fuzzy Danner -- premiered in February socks, and Netfl ix. Life is good.” on ABC. He writes: “I’m told it 11. She recently ordered underperformed with the coveted ready-to-cook meals that came in boxes but we know

17 she’s still Mountain School-y Chemeketa Community College. to the core. May be featured “This year I’m also adding a small in the accompanying photo. Community Service Leadership 12. His favorite pop song is course based around sustainability, Spirit by the Strumbellas, he was farming, and community sighted in February by Stephania engagement to my work. This Fregosi, and he may be Epic. is exciting and wonderful and 13. He’s got tall kids, terrifying all at once.” She adds: volunteer tomatoes, and a growing “As I write, Josh Davis is in our realization that his Airbox lights student center talking about Spare business is a blessing for family life. Parts, which is still rather surreal.” “I’m home with my little ones and 19. We believe that this alum our garden most of the time, most may have had an unreported Dave days of the week. Before I lose Park sighting. She writes: “it turns my kids to the wilds of schooling, out our lives don’t change much I should appreciate a business that from year to year—which I guess Worth Saying: lets me be with them quite a lot of is a good thing! We’re still living Ben Robbins s91 the time.” He also reports on his a few towns over from Vershire in By Carson Levine s16 garden: “We should have kale we Lyme, New Hampshire. Jobs are can harvest in a few weeks, beans good, kids are good— Audrey is 13 en Robbins may not seem like the model Mountain School in about a month. My carrots, and Kiran is 9! We run into Alden graduate. He doesn’t have a degree in ecology, nor did he opt for peas, beets, and edamame have all and Missy Smith and Nancy and B an outdoorsy profession. But through his work as a screenwriter, Ben, sprouted and are moving on up.” David Grant pretty often here in 14. He’s been listening to the Upper Valley, which is always in Mountain School fashion, tries to engage viewers by examining the S.O.B. by Nathanial Rateliff and fun. We met the Kruses for dinner relationship Americans have with their surroundings. the Night Sweats (but does not recently and Sue introduced us believe that its lyrics apply to to a new favorite game, called After leaving the Mountain School with a passion for writing, Ben went him), went to Australia and New Gobblet. We hope to see everyone to college intending to become a journalist. While earning his degree Zealand on vacation, and has at the reunion this summer!” in Humanities, he took a fi lm and television course and decided to been seeing lots of blue jays? (we So do we! -Regan and Liz become a director of documentary fi lms instead. Shortly thereafter, Ben talking birds?)on his way to work. (Who have also been playing began to write fi lms based on true events to afford him the autonomy to 15. She’s “working at Gobblet and also endorse it.) portray and embellish stories. AthenaHealth, trying to make Answer Key: Ben Robbins healthcare work as it should. It’s (4), Lara Bazelon (7), Claire great to be back at a mission- McNamee (10), Jess McCannon (6), Ben’s most recent project, a four-episode ABC miniseries called Madoff, driven organization, although I Antony Levine (8), Erik Andersen aired on February 3rd, 2016. Madoff gave Robbins an “exciting chance do miss the hotel perks I had at (17), Tara Kini (11), Regan to talk about fi nancial corruption” through depicting Bernie Madoff’s TripAdvisor.” She’s also skiing, Brooks (9), Justin Blumenstiel (2), infamous Ponzi scheme. In 2008, when the news of the scandal broke, taking in lots of investigative Stephanie Kohn (15), Liz Rumsey Ben observed Madoff’s position in society as a scapegoat— an easy documentaries, and planning to (4), Stephania Fregosi (18), Chloe target that made it easy to ignore the systemic corruption at hand. Soon bring her kids, ages 6 and 8, to Sladden (1), Lizzy Marlantes after, Ben set off to create a show that addressed the complexity of the 25th reunion weekend this (16), Joshua Davis (12), Alex Madoff’s story: how his delusions about being admired led him to August. “We tried to tap our Grossman (19), Josh Robbins (14), own trees last year to no avail, Tim Peih (3), Tom Guiney (13) committing fraud and how he’s merely one person in a cesspool of so they have some follow-up greed. questions for Mark McKee.” 16. She is “mommying these Similarly, an upcoming project he’s working on inspects the American days: Ben, 9, and Anna, almost 3. tendency to defi ne ourselves in terms of our enemies. He plans on We (along with husband, Nate) showcasing several recent events, exploring the roles of how justice live in DC. I have sporadically and the American dream play into our culture. been a journalist mostly covering politics before and in between Ben didn’t follow the “typ ical” post-Mountain School path, if such kids and may go back to it at some point.” This is the fi rst report she’s From l to r: Tara Kini, Josh Davis, a thing exists. He didn’t go on to revolutionize the food industry or fi led for Pearls and Seaweed. Ever. Liz Rumsey, Chloe Sladden, Antony found an environmental awareness group or an award winning organic 17. He’s still in Chelsea, Levine at a recent Bay Area dinner cheese recipe, like many of his fellow graduates for whom he still still teaching middle school, and has “incredible respect and affection.” Instead, he affects and informs he’s hoping to visit the Mountain change through his passion for fi lm. The Mountain School didn’t School this summer. Although introduce Ben to an undying fondness of television or a desire to I believe he could actually criticize capitalism, but it did give him a voice. “The Mountain School hop to the Mountain School! taught me to look hard at what it is you want to say and why,” he says. 18. This yarn-spinning alum is “Jack Kruse, along with a few other teachers, played a huge role in happy to have “put down some roots at long last here in the Willamette giving me the confi dence to take that journey.” Valley”. She’s still loving her work as the Sustainability Coordinator at Ben is pictured above with his daughter, Addie, 5.

18 balance and, at 41, she fi nds she I say, Staying found is a tall order! website and Lucy is Senior Vice Spring ’92 can accept that. She’s having a Not too far away, in Boston, President of Demos, which is a little more trouble accepting the Lisa Graustein is living with public policy organization working wrinkles! (You’re not alone Jenny. her 7-year old in “ a semi co- for an America in which all have Catherine Steindler Wrinkles came after gray hair as op” with two other families. She an equal say and an equal chance. [email protected] the thing s92ers are least happy leads diversity workshops and Geoff’s one-man show, The Object y fi rst time out as the pearl to have found along the way.) consults with area schools on Lesson, at BAM last year and on Mfrom seaweed sifter for Melissa Phillips (Barrett) is equity issues surrounding race, tour since, was magical—sad, Spring ‘92 and what a pleasure it staying found in Vermont where gender and LGBTIQ issues. charming, playful, existentially is for me to learn not only what she lives with her husband and If you’re looking for diversity frightening, and yet tons of fun. If you’re up to, but what you’d say, two children and is starting an professional development, check I were talking to my 15 year old if you were Jack or Kevin, to your education research consulting out her upcoming workshops at self, I’d say,” Go see The Object younger self, how the effort to stay business. She’s happy to be in a www.beyonddiversity101.org. Lesson—that’ll teach you how to found is going, and what you’ve community that shares so many Anne Allison is in face confusion with humor and been fi nding as you go along. values with the Mountain School. “babyland” with her 10 month old joy.” Oh wait, it wouldn’t exist John Twiss, who is living in Anne Allison is also fi ghting daughter, Greta. There’s lots of fun yet, because Geoff would still be a Scotland with his husband Tim, the good TMS fi ght, serving on and not enough sleep in babyland. teenager himself, honing his comic would tell his younger self to chill the scientifi c advisory committee She’s also in Boston, where she skills by swinging on a rope swing out and trust that yes, you are gay, for a nonprofi t that monitors gets to see Toboldians now and by his neck over a ditch. Not and things will work out fi ne. their watershed in Charlottesville then and is looking for creative, funny. He’s gotten funnier. I would He’s learned that staying found VA. She is also a member of the community, and outdoor pursuits. also tell myself not to swing by means venturing out and walking Mid-Atlantic Regional Board So if any of your Bostonians have my neck, whatever my friends do. away, and feels grateful to have for NatureBridge, a provider of suggestions, send them Anne’s way. Hard to believe, but advice giving found his husband, his dog, and environmental science education Here’s a picture of some of the is kind of what I do professionally excellent coffee (which apparently programs, and teaching biology at NYC contingent, at my house for these days. I’m a Dean at Columbia takes some doing in Edinburgh). a Community College. She lives dinner last week. Jessica Yager, University working with students Speaking of venturing out, with her husband Tim and their an infectious diseases doctor doing who are the fi rst in their families Katie Dropick, who is a creative two boys, Henry and George. HIV work, is delighted to have to go to college: I advise them and director at a digital advertising Ben Wolbach and his wife moved to a high density pocket of build programs to support them. agency in NYC, is planning her Hannah just had a baby. “Her name s92 alums (Brooklyn), where she I also teach a writing class here. next getaway to Pamplona. (Will is Matilda and she’s awesome,” gets to do things like have dinner That’s it. Thank you all for you be running with the bulls, he writes. I bet! Ben fi nds it’s at her apartment with the Lizes, being game and answering my Katie? If so, Pearls and Seaweed serious business managing both Lucy, and Geoff; trick-or-treat wants a picture for Spring 2017!) the parental and the farming life. with their families, and see Geoff questions. Can’t wait to see you Katrine Lofberg is fi nishing Jocelyn Hayes Simpson perform at BAM. She would tell all next summer at the reunion! Do up her pediatric surgery fellowship lives in LA, and has two adorable her 15 year old self to stop weeping come. It’ll be better than garden at Oregon Health Sciences children, Oliver and Elodie, whom upon hearing “Jack and Diane.” hill on the 1992 vernal equinox. University in July and then I have the pleasure of hanging Life actually has great moments embarking on a new chapter. She’s out with whenever I go out West. even if you are no longer holding not sure exactly where that will She sends everyone her love. onto 16 as long as you can. She’s be, but she’s kicking off this next Susannah Bothe lives in been surprised to discover that, as phase by spending the summer in Salem with “three furry friends traumatic as 40 still sounds, she Copenhagen, Australia, and Bali. and two small humans of the would not trade it in to return to Christina Rogers male variety” which I must 16—as wonderful as it would be to (Hallenbeck) tells me her body say sounds like the recipe for a be back at TMS. She has a 3-year- is “offi cially breaking down.” I witch’s brew. She’s working as a old daughter and a 1-year-old son refuse to accept that. She offers freelance photographer, largely and is psyched to take them to evidence—a partially torn Achilles on documentary photography for Vershire for reunion next summer. Liz Angell, Catherine Steindler, tendon, and two new best friends: independent schools in higher Liz Lynch, who lives in Geoff Sobelle, Jessica Yager, a boot and a PT. As far as I’m New York with her husband education. She often sees Lorna Liz Lynch and Lucy Mayo concerned, she’s energetic, not Campbell who is living in Boston and two daughters and works in breaking down; this was an with her husband and 6 year old management consulting doing ’93 unlucky snafu on the tennis court daughter. Lorna is a social work executive coaching for the Spring signifying nothing. Christina wants manager at Brigham & Women’s fi nancial sector in East Africa, us all to visit her in Greenville, Hospital. This is what she would would coach her teenage self to Peter Bailey SC, where she lives with her say in Kevin or Jack’s position to stop wearing tie-dye. If she were [email protected] husband and three children. her 15-year-old self: “Get out of Kevin, she would gently explain hank you to everyone who Both Christina’s and Jennifer your head. Don’t take everything that schoolgirl crushes on your Tshared their thoughts and Streams’ (Janke) oldest children so seriously. Hold onto the people science teacher are a rite of passage remembrances of our classmate are about to be teenagers! Neither in your life that move you toward and however hard it is to believe, Aaron Hess who passed away can believe it. Jennifer has 3 being the best version of yourself you will move on someday. in December. A memorial boys and is an account manager that you can be. They become your Liz Angell, Geoff Sobelle, service was held for Aaron in for the Iroquois Steeplechase, true north.” She’s discovered that and Lucy Mayo, didn’t write Brooklyn in February. Charlie a non-profi t event in Nashville every time she thinks she knows me, but I warned them I would Fiordalis, Marc Elia, Morgan that raises money for Vanderbilt where she is, she looks around and write for them. Liz Angell just Robinson, Katrina Monzon, Children’s Hospital. She’s learned fi nds she’s lost again. Amen to that, got a very cool new job as content Kristen Case, and I attended. how rare it is to fi nd a work-life director for the Town and Country Aaron’s friends shared stories of

19 his kindness, creativity, humor Charlie Fiordalis and me doing and sharp intellect and played a our best to keep up (below). recording of Aaron performing Change Though Film: an original song he wrote. If Morgan Robinson s93 anyone would like a digital copy By Keerti Gopal of the song, please let me know. Albeit under sad “There is nothing like a circumstances, it was nice to hear good story to blow one’s from so many and reconnect. Here mind and open up a whole are some updates from our class: world of possibility,” reads Ari Blum writes from San Morgan Robinson’s mission Francisco that he and his wife are doing all they can to keep up with Justin Cox reported in that statement. Stories have their two boys Henry (8) and Caleb he is living in Peterborough, NH always been an integral part (5). Ari is currently focused on with his wife Stacey and three of the human experience. building a family business in the children: Cadel (7), Senja (5), and They can entertain, pass education and healthcare industries. Cirrus (3). Justin works from down traditions, and even spark social progress. Today, with Rob Pizem, also chasing home as a Wind Energy Analyst, 21st century technology, the possibilities for storytelling are after two young sons, is busy assessing the energy production multiplying faster than ever before. Morgan Robinson is a juggling life as a schoolteacher of prospective and operating media-maker whose mission it is to tell stories through fi lm. and professional climber. This wind farm sites. Justin is keeping He is a writer, director, and producer who creates, casts, shoots year, both Climbing Magazine and TMS themes alive—living in a Alpinist featured Rob on the cover neighborhood with TMS alum and and supervises the production of movies and videos. With so and he was nominated for Teacher alumni coordinator Beth Sigman many responsibilities, Morgan’s job is a constant adventure. of the Year in his district. Good Somerset, s97––and participating “It’s amazing to be able to have a job where you’re basically thing the Tobold clan came up with in a food network with local farmers. still in school,” he said. “I think that’s the thing I love most.” the best campaign slogan ever for From the northlands to the big Rob 22 years ago, so at least he city, Morgan Robinson is living in Morgan fi rst fell in love with fi lm in high school, where he doesn’t have to worry about that. Brooklyn with his girlfriend. He’s took a class that opened him up to this method of storytelling. Margaret Angell writes from following his passions for making At Columbia University, he was geared up to major in religion D.C. that her two girls (4 & 6) and documentary fi lms and telling before he decided to take a different path. He worked odd jobs husband are enjoying an abundance more stories about climate change. of travel, outdoor activities, and Vanessa Bennett (Kroll) is for several years before getting into the fi lm industry, where he new adventures as a family. Her thrilled to announce that last year has been ever since. little one has even started running she started Dynamo Girl, a program with Mom, but Margaret says designed to build girls’ self-esteem Recently, Morgan has been working on political advertisements the kid’s form is appalling and through sports and physical to promote solar energy and fossil fuel divestment. He is also those tiny toddler legs just can’t activity in Manhattan. Next year, diving into a new medium: animation. “There’s something keep up. (just kidding…Margaret she is expanding to include more about animation where it’s like you’re really, truly in control lets her win…sometimes.) age groups and locations. Vanessa of the world,” said Morgan. “With animation, you are creating Mod Barefoot and her says taking on new experiences the world entirely and there’s something really appealing about husband Ty are working hard at and challenges, like learning to True North (truenorthwilderness. snowshoe through 2 feet of fresh that to me.” com), the adolescent wilderness powder while at TMS - helped therapy program they started. Mod inform the Dynamo Girl mission. Morgan’s dream is to create more content surrounding climate is also now a published author— Weddings and Births! Kate change and sustainability, and his semester at the Mountain contributing a chapter to a book on Berg got married last spring and School had a role in fostering this passion. “I think it helped the history of wilderness therapy gave birth in December to her me form values around issues of sustainability,” said Morgan. this year. Mod’s children Skye (7) son, Oliver. Dr. Berg continues “Climate change is scary as hell, and I want to tell stories about and Griffi n (3) love hitting the ski to see patients and do research at it.” His fi rst fi lm, Burning in the Sun, was a 2010 prize-winning slopes and splashing around with Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital documentary about sustainable energy and social change in Bernie Sanders in their Vermont in Boston. Malaika Thorne got backyard pond. Last summer, married in June, toasted by Jesse Mali, West Africa . “I love to tell stories that help people think Mod spent time with Lindsay Robinson and Catherine Chanse about how to deal with climate change in a way that is just and Anderson and her family in who were there to celebrate. equitable,” says Morgan. “Film can change our conception of New Hampshire and re-enacted a Malaika lives in Oakland, CA who we are, enabling us to relate to each other and the world in favorite TMS activity with Marc and works for Terracentric Press, a different, more sustainable way.” Elia, hiking up Pine Top and making apps, sites, and tools for sneaking around campus (stealth social and environmental projects. attack on strawberry rhubarb pie in All is well in my world. the TMS fridge). Marc reports that My wife Karena and I live in and expand. Karena and I spend in Boston to support the cause. life is good and that his family is Greenwich, CT and our sons a lot of time on B*CURED, a Please stay in touch - if you are healthy and happy. Marc recently Noah (5) and Silas (3) are a ton charity Karena runs that raises planning to visit the NYC or CT celebrated his 40th birthday in of fun but seem to be persistently awareness for brain cancer and area, please let me know and we’ll fashionable Greenwich, CT style. awake and jumping on us. The funds research for a cure. I’ll be make up the guest room at Marc’s Among the throng of his adoring company I helped start in 2009 running my 8th marathon this April house. Charlie will come over and guests was a small s93 cohort of – Dataminr – continues to grow hug you.

20 more total snowfall in Baltimore overall I feel blessed. My primary Here is an excerpt of the than Maine! After 20 years of not goal as a Pilates studio owner is to eulogy that Kristen Case, his Spring ’94 running, I was happy to rediscover teach people how to move without partner of nine years and friend it last year with several fun races pain, so I feel lucky to be doing for life, offered at Aaron Hess’ Brian Frutig here in Maine, and hopefully more something I love and believe in.” memorial service. [email protected] challenges ahead this year. Pretty Jared Liu proves that small he love is still alive in 2016 soon it will be time to get the changes can be big and exciting. Aaron Hess Tfor Spring ’94! Compiling the garden going, which we enjoyed He writes “I have a new job (and 1976-2015 notes this year has once again been last year: 2015 was undeniably a new house) but without the tax uplifting, with semester-mates the year of the (massive) benefi ts since my move was about across the country embracing cucumber. The fox left our yard, to 25 feet.... We moved from 60 aron knew better than to change, making change, and be replaced by an opossum and an Curtis to 59 Curtis Avenue. We hold back what mattered A changing things for the good. osprey. Our family is well, taking stayed in the same town and school for the sake of convention or Starting us off, appropriately, full advantage of the blessings district, which was good for the politeness. He just wasted no is Dinah Shepherd who writes of health and good friends.” kids. The move was because time with those things when from Boston to share “good tidings Alex Feleppa harks from I left campus housing and am there was something important and that nothing has changed!” Long Island to say: “All well out now working in admissions at at stake, something real. It was And that, of course, is good news here on the East End. I am still Yale SOM. A slice of pizza for obvious to him, as a nineteen- because it means First Teacher the horticulturist at an outdoor any TMS riff-raff who say hello is thriving under her leadership year-old, that the real reason museum and public garden called when in town for a campus visit.” and her family is healthy and LongHouse Reserve, working Katie Spector writes: “I guess to write a paper was not to well. Moreover, she writes that directly under the founder, an this is old news thanks to Facebook impress your teacher but to she “loves that everyone is on the internationally acclaimed textile but I had a baby (Malcolm Mitchell engage in a conversation, just email – tempting to start writing designer named Jack Lenor Spector) on Nov. 24, 2015. as it was obvious to him that the everyone!” To that I say, yes, please! Larsen, tending to the 16 acres of Hopefully a future TMSer with safety and dignity of all people Next, Elena Lewis joins us gardens. It is a very creative and Elena’s new baby! We’re making deserve protection, and that “with an offi cial update after being unique challenge and I am hoping our fi rst trip to Vermont at the end that protection is the personal absent from the class notes for a to be here for a long time. In my of March–starting him early!” responsibility of all of us. Aaron little while. The big news is that my spare time I have been focusing on Kofi Anku is keeping things husband, Joe, and I welcomed our had a sort of gift for this kind my surf photography and having a busy on all fronts in Ghana: fi rst child, Axel Ludwig Howell to lot of fun with that. Otherwise my “We’re home-schooling the boys, of vision, this recognition of our family this past January 13th. wife Krissy and I have our hands who are now 2, 7 and 8, and I the real. It was something like a The pregnancy itself was a lovely full with Fay, now 2 years old and imported a 5,000 sqm tomato really excellent BS detector, and one and I thoroughly enjoyed it! calling all the shots. If anyone green last month, so we’re hoping indeed it could operate that way, I even enjoyed spending almost a ever gets out to “the Hamptons,” I for our fi rst harvest in July.” but that makes it sound much full month in the hospital on bed- would love a visit, so give a shout! Moira Chapin writes: less kind than it was, for the rest before delivering by C-section. Gabe Winkler affi rmatively “I’m enjoying life in the SF Bay most beautiful thing about this It’s been quite an adventure so far, states: “I got one year older this year.” Area. Last year my husband and gift was its utter generosity. In and we are having a ball while Sarah Aldrich “spent a I welcomed the arrival of a baby I’m on maternity leave. It’s been a the same way that he was able magical day at TMS when I boy, so while not much else has very special time so far in 2016!” dropped off my stepdaughter, changed everything has changed to penetrate immediately to the Cecilia Giaimo f15, for the at the same time. He’s one now kernel of an idea or a situation, beginning of her semester. It was and keeping us on our toes.” he was able to see through all great to see Marilyn, Jack, Alden, Paul Alsdorf did not write, externals to what I can only and Missy. Jack snuck me down but he made the mistake of having call the essence or the soul of to the root cellar and gave me a lunch with Moira and me today a person, and meet that person bouquet of fresh broccoli to bring in San Francisco, so I’ll give an there. home to New Haven. Other than update for him! He and his wife I love more fully, more the covert broccoli delivery, what are enjoying being parents to honestly, more bravely than I Elena and Axel Ludwig Howell struck me most was something Alice, especially going on hikes Alden said to the parents during with her in a carry-pack through ever could have without the Melissa Jaffe writes to say orientation. He said something the hills of SF. And Alice is going strength and the example given that her law offi ce is fl owering. to the effect of, ‘One of the most to be a big sister later in 2016! to me by his love, for me and for “My multi-jurisdictional practice important things we aim to teach As for myself, Brian Frutig, others. Without realizing it, in has exploded; I’m now serving your children is how to have so far 2016 has brought a cross- the years that we were together, clients in CA, WA, OR, CO, real, face-to-face conversation country move from Washington, and in the years afterward, I was and international clientele. with each other.’ In an era where DC to San Francisco, a new job, learning from him this habit, this Additionally, I’m working with absolutely everything is digital and a new bar exam, and new places ethic of love, this deep affection Heather Sky Hilary on a multi- we feel more and more disengaged to hike, run, swim, and cycle. As media project for release in for people that is his gift. It was from reality, it was so refreshing to always, if you fi nd yourself passing Q4 – which I’ll be sure to send know that TMS has its fi nger on the through the Bay Area, please drop what drove his politics and his to TMSers for a sneak peek.” pulse of exactly what our culture me a line. I cannot wait to see writing and his music and his Ted Lord writes that there are needs.” Moreover, Sarah writes what the rest of the year brings– conversations - this tenderness “no major changes here in Maine. that “life as both a business owner and to hear about the happenings for the world. The world needs It’s been a strange “winter” this and a mother to an almost two- of s94 again this time next year. that tenderness, and it is still year in New England. Just enough year old continues to be borderline here. snow to ski every weekend but absurd in its balancing act, but

21 as often as possible to play under of our 4 years in Chicago was helps me stay more connected to Spring the redwoods. It’s a pretty good seeing Nick Kroll on stage making the school and I’m excited about ’95 setup.” She had a blast meeting up 50,000 laugh their asses off. Jesse the initiatives we’re planning, with everyone to see Nick’s show. was supposed to be there too, but including our next board meeting Jessica Powers “I haven’t laughed that hard in a he blew it. This summer, we’re in April which will take place in [email protected] while and being able to catch up moving to NYC and excited to Vershire.” ello, loves. It was amazing to afterward (once we could shake reconnect with TMSers there. (To Nellie Carter is, I believe, still Hsee so many of us at our 20th off Nick’s groupies) was such a heck with Jesse). Super psyched around DC. “This summer I’ll be Reunion. There is big love in our treat. Hope to see more of you about the 21 year reunion in June.” starting residency in Psychiatry.” circle. soon and please come and stay Jesse Klein, congrats on Lucky us – everyone bring your John McCrow is still living with us if you’re in the Bay Area. kiddo #2. Jesse has been in most tantalizing issues to Nellie for in San Diego, with tentative plans Gwyn Welles and Rachel Bobruff Chicago for over 10 years. “I have practice at our next reunion. She’s to move to outer space. Seriously, can attest to the comfortable guest a brand new, 5 week old baby girl totally game. he just applied to the NASA accommodations here!” and a not-so-new nearly 5-year-old. Luke Deming says “no real Astronaut Candidate program. He I’m a clinical child psychologist – updates for me; I am well with few says, “I’m still doing the science my specialty is treating kids who complaints (except the typical ones thing. I got to travel to Australia act out (ah, irony). I’ve really about adulthood). I am sad that I and Germany last year where I enjoyed reconnecting with Paul missed the reunion(s), but thrilled presented some of my work on and his family over the past couple y’all are making the effort to stay prostate cancer in South African of years. I’m fatter and balder.” in touch.” He also hallucinated men at a conference in Cairns. I Hannah Ries is keeping seeing me at a wedding on a boat. also fi nished up the paper I was Cleveland cool. “Ada, 4 1/2 and Brynn Kusic says, “I cannot writing for the last 2 years, with Carlo, 22 months, keep me more tell you how wonderful it was to be my Australian collaborators, which than busy. I’m full time momming with everyone again last August. is in a journal called The Prostate. it at the moment. Ada will be in It opened my heart and revitalized I miss all my TMS peeps!” May Kindergarten in the fall so that the deepest and truest parts of the force be with you, John. will give me more time for my my being. I am still running the Meadow Linn moved to LA! ceramics, which I hope to turn into Pocahontas County Opera House, Nick Kroll has been touring an income-generating venture at which has continued to grow both the “Oh, Hello Show” around the Anna Wolbach some point!” as a performance venue and as a country this year and caught up Jennifer Fritz is in community center. I just fi nished with TMS folks in all the cities on Rachel Bobruff is also living Washington, DC where she’s also planning our 16th performance the tour. Alice Lee and Christina the good life in sunny California. a full time mom. “After my son series and am grateful to be a (Capone) Nagler in Boston. Emily She loved seeing everyone at was born last summer, I slowly steward of such a phenomenal (Bockian) Landsburg and Jen Nick’s show. wound down my children’s community organization in rural (Harding) Fritz in Washington, Omayra Ortega, in Phoenix, clothing line business, Bambeeno, WV. The Opera House was just DC. Emilie (Jospe) Gruhl, says, “I haven’t been up to much and am focusing on being with my recognized as one of the 9 best Anna (Ryan) Wolbach, Matt of anything for almost a year. I got 3 kids- Charlotte, Huntting, and places in WV to see live and local Cuthbertson, Rachel Bobroff, sick of academia and returned to Sammy (7,4,18 mos). Life is good music and we also just received and Sam Singer in San Francisco. the lost art of being funemployed. and busy! I saw Nick and Emily special recognition from the Hopefully a few more folks like I Netfl ix and knitted for most of (Bockian) Landsburg after Nick’s governor’s offi ce in celebration Paul Hubbard and Jesse Klein that time and eventually got bit show and it was great to catch up of the 50th anniversary of the and others in Chicago. “Catching by the travel bug. I visited Italy for a bit. Hope everyone is doing National Endowment for the Arts. up after the shows with all these and Turkey last November with well!” All in all, I’m just trying to keep up people has been a true highlight of my PARENTS, which was an with myself and fi nd balance in the the tour.” experience in and of itself. But all art of living.” aggravation aside, it was nice to Gwyn Jones says, spend an uninterrupted month with “I’m looking forward to my folks, especially now that they another summer of gardening are older (and don’t have as much and exploring with my dear energy to argue with me as they children, Silas (6) and Eliza (4). used to). I am gainfully employed I’m blessed to have begun working now as a Health Analyst and in K-12 schools since relocating to despite the 8am start time, I really Nicks groupies: Emily, and Jen my hometown in PA, so this will enjoy what I’m doing. I love being be my second summer “off”. I was Nick in San Francisco with Matt, part of a team and my co-workers Amy Shopkorn is still in overjoyed to see those who made it Emilie, Rachel, Anna are generally smart, good people Washington, DC. “All is good to the reunion, and to fi nally return Anna (Ryan) Wolbach who aren’t full of shi* or egoist. I here. I ran the Marine Corps to TMS for the fi rst time since our and family “have been living in am super extra special stupid dumb Marathon in the fall followed by semester. I’m in awe of the beauty California for seven years now excited to see you all again at the an amazing vacation in California and majesty of the campus and the and fi nding it a mighty fi ne place 21st reunion in Wingdale!” with Jen. We also are now fostering inspiring energy that TMS brings to be. While my kids (Ella-9 and Paul Hubbard is in Chicago, a new dog - a cute old guy named to the world. I hope to stay in Kaeden-7) are in school, I teach working for Unilever (marketing). Barney - bringing our total to 3 better touch with TMS and all of art at a preschool and then an “I hang with Jesse Klein as much beagle mix dogs in the house. my lovely classmates in the years after school Expressive Arts class as possible, but kiddo #2 just It’s chaos, but awesome. I’ve to come.” from my home. I run for the hills arrived for him and he was kinda been really enjoying my time on Gwyn Welles and husband lame even before that. Highlight the TMS Alumni Committee. It Ben welcomed their son Gideon

22 Welles Gray into the world on using my dishwasher, and enjoying be a book.” 10-13-15. “Gideon is named after the pace of Brooklyn. I’m still Spring Kristian Gratton my ancestor Gideon Welles who working for myself and also ’96 is celebrating a decade in was Secretary of the Navy under writing. I’m doing my fi rst reading Birmingham, Alabama. “No one Lincoln during the Civil War, tomorrow. I love going to Josh’s Ned Friend is more surprised by this than me.” so he’s got big shoes to fi ll. We monthly farm gatherings as often as [email protected] He misses New England every day moved to the burbs last spring possible. Sun-warmed blueberries. reat to see so many signed up but has found life in the south to be (South Orange, NJ), so we’ve been I loved seeing so many of you at Gfor our 20 year Reunion Aug quite comfortable, and is pleasantly adjusting to major life changes in the reunion! It was beautiful and 5-7. You should join us, too! Good surprised at how progressive his the past year, but so far so good. you all inspire me. food, friends, conversation, and re- city has become over that time. I’ve been lucky enough to have 6 Josh Viertel is “living on my “It’s been exciting to be a part of laxation. Children and signifi cant months maternity leave -- and have homestead in a little town called a youthful movement in the city others welcome, and our trusted enjoyed spending so much time Wingdale, in the Harlem Valley, that now has a great music scene, with Gideon, but am excited and north of NYC. Life is good. Every faculty will have childcare on hand craft breweries and world class ready to return to work at YouTube month or so I host people for work throughout the weekend. Would restaurants.” He recently moved soon.” weekends up here. When I’m lucky, love to hear more about the stories with his partner Skye, daughter B Chatfi eld says that “after TMS folks join in. Sometimes I get below and all the stories that don’t Olive (3), and son Finley (Finn, to see Rob Debanne, Ben Pomeroy, a long time of not much change, 2), from the suburbs to a smaller Sam Janis, Jessica Powers, Gwyn get sent in. To whet your appetite in everything changed! We moved village just outside of downtown to Wells, Nick Kroll, B Chatfi eld, the meantime… neighborhoods (still in Brooklyn, Noah Riley and others. I’m working I caught Rebecca Sanborn be closer to the action. His children but now in Clinton Hill), my to build a Mountain School for grown Stone in “a rare 5 minutes alone at are just as lively and inquisitive husband started a new job, and ups here on a 200+ acre farm that sits the computer with no one tugging as he is, leading to daily dance on November 25, Jane Hayden between a nice trout river and the on me.” The tugging was thanks parties, building fairy houses in Howard joined our family! She Appalachian Trail. I’m hosting a to her two little ones - Anna (5) the yard, and spending plenty of likes to hang out with Gideon 21st year reunion this spring for our and Eliza (3), who are keeping time exploring the local scene. He Welles Gray.” class. Come visit.” her “busy, inspired, and somewhat had just gotten back from a Alice Lee is still in Cambridge crazy.” They live in Bethel, VT - backcountry expedition outside of and sees Christina (Capone) Nagler about 45 min SE of TMS - with a Jackson Hole with some buddies and had a lot of fun seeing Nick big garden and a bunch of chickens. from his Steamboat days. “Skied when he was in town at the beginning She started a small consulting some of the biggest lines of my of February. “I’m very much looking fi rm last year, called Community life—epic.” He is also still with forward to the June reunion.” Workshop, which also allows her his ER group practicing emergency Christina (Capone) Nagler to work at home. They’re hoping to medicine in a small community in Boston says, “Nick’s show was hospital just west of Birmingham. amazing (of course). I have the same create change in the world, starting Jessica Silverman (Biskind) job in fi nancial services marketing. locally with projects like creative Gwyn and Gideon Welles Gray just wanted to “send a warm Rob and Max Debbane My husband and I are happily in placemaking, resilience planning, B and Jane Hayden Howard the same apartment in Boston. I or a town-wide pop-up university. hello and much love to our fellow love seeing Alice Lee as often as She also has plenty of space if S’96’ers, from Novato CA, where Ben Pomeroy will chair schedules align. I do some mentoring anyone is traveling from afar and we just landed.” his last meeting with the Alumni work for a startup accelerator called needs a place to crash before or Lydia Pace had her second Committee in April. “I will roll off MassChallenge.” after Reunion! child in October, a boy, Anders, after 5 years of rewarding and fun Tasha Segool rounds it out in Marina Michahelles is going and his sister Celia turned 3 in work along-side other Mountain New England, and just got tenure into her 10th season farming her April. “They are both doing great Schoolers. I encourage any of you at the University of Hartford where own farm, Shoving Leopard Farm, and I feel incredibly lucky to have to throw your name into the hat for she trains school psychologists and and her third season growing them, Erik, and a job I love!” the next cohort in spring ‘17. New undergrads in counseling and a few exclusively fl owers and garlic. In Electa Behrens has two boys for me this year is Swell Season, a other things. August she completed her 4-year with her partner Robin: Wolfe And we all heard about Emily weekly live radio show dedicated training in the Feldenkrais method, (3), and Raven, born July 14, (Bockian) Landsburg running into to New Yorkers who surf and which has nothing to do with 2015. When she wrote in she was B Chatfi eld in a dirty bathroom at our urban waterways. Find it on farming but everything to do with on maternity leave and “soaking SoundCloud. Hope to see folks at a gas station on the Merritt Parkway. up the baby time.” She works at It’s life…we are beautiful physical therapy. That meant her Josh’s farm in June.” Norwegian Theatre Academy in and mundane, no news and big monthly visits with Morgen Peck Sam Janis is “still Fredrikstad, Norway, a progressive news, happy news and sad news, or in Chinatown are sadly over. “The plugging away at building sometimes so busy or removed to last time I stayed with Morgen, conservatory for the performing oyster restoration curriculum for write for the year. We all hold each however, she was actually IN artists of the future. “Loving life.” NYC public schools. Still based other in our hearts. I wish you all China, riding around the country Peter Sheridan and his in Brooklyn but traveling a lot well and look forward to knowing on a BMW bike she won off the partner Joanna had their fi rst child for the mountains (especially this how lives continue to unfold. founder of bitcoin in a Monopoly early last year, a little redheaded winter, if you can call it that). Matt Cuthbertson says “My game. She claimed that peppermint boy named Bodhi Kai Sheridan Highlight of our year was defi nitely kids are rad. The youngest just schnapps gave her the edge she who’s starting to walk and talk. His the TMS reunion and catching up turned one and is turning into a real needed in that game. She will remodeling company has had a full with you lovely people, and yes, little person. Sort of mind boggling. be publishing some pretty great calendar scheduled and recently let’s make that happen every year Gemma is sassy as hell and super stories on the people she meets completed some beautiful custom s95!” fun.” He also had fun seeing through her bitcoin reporting work, projects. His Burning Man car, The I (Jessica Powers) recently everyone at Nick’s show! See you at though she does not yet know Dusty Rhino, was in the Warriors moved to Brooklyn, at last, and I Josh’s farm this summer! through which journal or if it will Parade, San Francisco Pride, love it. I’m nesting, decorating, and the Simpson’s Burning Man

23 episode. “As we throw larger and serving on the board of the non- with bachelorhood. Justin Beeber larger parties it is always shocking Spring profi t Adirondack Council. I was there to help celebrate, and to see how this impractical art ’97 love learning about more local Ralph says he has “never been piece is evolving.” conservation issues and am happier.” Sara Wasserman and Also in San Francisco, Beth Sigman Somerset amazed by how many parallels Ralph reconnected with s97 as new David Jacoby left his job of [email protected] there are with conservation issues class fundraising agents, and they 13+ years in corporate wellness hanks to all who sent in notes! in the tropics.” Another parallel in “hope those conversations turn into to start a business, Hostfully. It TCongratulations to those who George’s life: her colleague who an excuse for everybody to spend allows hosts in alternative lodging have new babies, new engage- works next to her at the American more time together.” Ralph sends thanks to Georgina Cullman and (e.g. Airbnb or VRBO) to create ments and marriages, new jobs… Museum of Natural History is also Sarah O’Keefe Greig who “kept beautiful guidebooks for their and to those who are chugging a TMS graduate, Mali’o Kodis s09 guests, including important home Gordon Christopher the candle burning all these years along with no major changes (ah, information and favorite local continues to live in Lubbock, for our class!” hidden spots, which guests value the “ebbs and fl ows” of life). Unbe- Texas, teaching at Texas Tech. “I Reif Larsen resides on the th more than Yelp, TripAdvisor, lievably, our 20 reunion is coming am up for promotion and tenure shores of the Firth of Forth in etc. After he and his wife, Kim, up in just over a year, tentatively next year, so I am getting close to Scotland. He is currently the writer- traveled the world for a year and scheduled for August 4-6, 2017. that goal post. My wife and I are in-residence at the University of stayed in 37 people’s homes, they Please save the date for a trip to doing well, and my kids are great!” St. Andrews. Reif suggests that became hosts themselves in SF Vershire, and plan to bring your Ian Cheney and his wife, if anyone fi nds themselves in Caledonia, drop a line and he “will with over 80 guests (including my families! There is something for Amanda, are living in western serve you up a wee dram.” family), which gave him insight everyone at the reunion. Massachusetts, “a stone’s throw Sara Wasserman has big into how different alternative Alex Lloyd lives in New from where Maya Machin throws news: “I’ll be moving back to lodging can be. The company is York, “painstakingly seeding pots!” He reports that he is busy Massachusetts this summer to a team of four working full time Google’s cloud”. He emailed from “making fi lms, teaching a class begin a tenure-track position in since last fall. “I fi gured we’re in Laos, where he “saw a bunch of at Yale, and spending time with the neuroscience department at San Francisco and everyone is wallowing pigs and goats at a our son, Kepler, who was born in Wellesley College! Also, I’ve doing a start-up here, so why not!?” watering hole under a cloud of December. Kepler is learning lots launched an exciting outreach If anyone hosts in their place, email butterfl ies.” Alex will be at Bard from his Mountain School cousins, program that is opening research him at [email protected] to for much of this summer and like Molly Venter’s son, Otis, and labs on high school campuses make a guidebook. welcomes visitors. my itinerant Scottish godson, Holt in partnership with local college In related news, we hosted Anna Goralnick Hopkins Larsen. I still get into trouble from or university labs (www.swirlss. Dave and his family and had a sort writes that her son, Hudson, “is time to time with future Oregon org).” Way to go, Sara! of mini-reunion with Walker Hall doing great, getting big, and talking Governor Curt Ellis, and plan Sarah O’Keefe Greig writes, and Chuck McNamee. Walker is up a storm!” She says, “I’m really on cheering in Japanese for the “At a recent dinner to celebrate working as a master carpenter in grateful that I have the opportunity indefatigable Thomas Whitney at Alexis Boehmler’s birthday with Seattle. Chuck is still at Amazon to be a full-time mom. I cherish our the Boston Marathon this spring.” Cassie Marlantes Rahm and in Seattle, which has been a great time together, and I love that we get Jen Debane is doing great, George, the discussion ranged city for his family. His son just to celebrate all of his milestones still living in San Francisco, and just from environmental law policies to started a new pre-school where he together. I’m excited to hear what graduated from a patternmaking new research on ways to help our helps care for a pig and collect eggs the rest of our s97ers have been up and design program. She is dying coral reef systems. I love my every morning (sound familiar?). to! Sending love and hugs!” “currently looking for a job in the TMS friends! We’ve all gathered They love seeing him so excited Writing in while on vacation fashion industry and contemplating our TMS mini-mes together for about the animals as he learns what in Cape Town, South Africa, some side projects”. play dates, and they’re all gearing it means to be a good helper. Catherine Gowl reports that Jon Snow lives in Virginia up for their semester in Vermont in As for me, I’ve been splitting she made the trip to “visit some and teaches international relations/ 12 years!” my time between designing the wonderful artists and for a two political science at Roanoke Savala (nėe Hester) Nolan future of Microsoft Outlook, week adventure and vacation.” College. He will be getting married Trepczynski recently moved from actively building community An adventure it was, indeed: “On in Rhode Island this summer. Michigan to California with her through my daughter’s public my fi rst full day, in the midst Justin Beeber’s son, William, husband, John, and their baby, school PTA including weekend of blustering winds at the end will be two years old in April. Gemma. She says, “My goals class-wide father/child camping of Cape Point, my wonderful Justin writes, “We are endlessly for the spring are to sunbathe trips, agitating for better school partner proposed. So now we entertained by his energy and with sunblock, keep up with my funding through a state-wide fi nd ourselves engaged and on a enthusiasm. Tapped 20 trees this spirited baby girl, and run my wealth tax, and relaxing through two week engagement-moon.” February and made enough syrup Vitamix until it gives out. I’m meditation and playing guitar. Congratulations, Catherine! for the family to enjoy all year. working at my beloved alma mater, Hope to see you at reunion. In addition to this “delightful Hope to share this sweet tradition UC Berkeley School of Law, as development,” she mentioned that with s97 and our families next executive director of the Thelton she is still living in New York City, year!” E. Henderson Center for Social acting and puppeteering, and she Molly Venter and her Justice. Things are good! I’m “frequently visits Pittsburgh where husband welcomed baby Otis happy to catch up with anyone [her] now-fi ancé lives”. Pariser on September 10, 2015. whose travels to the Bay Area.” Georgina Cullman loves “With any luck,” she says, “he’ll Shira Entis lives in New getting together with local be playing percussion for our band York City and has been traveling TMS friends in New York City. before his fi rst birthday.” to India—scouting fabric, closing She writes, “A cool thing I’ve Ralph Acosta got married in deals, and feasting on local been involved with recently is November after a long relationship cuisine—as her tote bag business,

24 Fleabags, expands. She has been ever much good). This year, I got We are fi nishing our contract in hand-dyeing fabrics and leathers Spring ’98 to see Ben Smith, Irene Janis, July, and then moving back to the for her bags using indigo, onion Jessica Berenbeim (and fi nally Upper Valley, at least for the time skins, and logwood. She’s planning meet her beautiful son), and Chris being. We love the benefi ts that to visit Savala in California this Dan Chiorean Van Dyke (who is newly engaged! international teaching has to offer spring. [email protected] Congrats Chris!)” -- great travel, a worldly student Siobhan Boylan writes, adeline Stewart writes, Dan Chiorean is happily body, and interesting colleagues. “I’m working in East Oakland, M“Sending you a hello from living in New Orleans with his We are just back from a long- California, teaching third grade sunny Santa Monica, CA, where fi ancée and his 2 adopted boxers. weekend in Sri Lanka where we “We are planning on getting and trying to get back into running this week, mid-February, has been spent three nights in Kandy’s hill married next year in February, country, surrounded by lush forests after breaking my ankle at a Zumba in the 80s. I love it here. In the past class last year.” Beware of the and starting to pick out locations. and the longest river in the country. year I’ve spent some time becom- dangers of Zumba! Other than that, I’ve just been The travel continues to be amazing Also running is Thomas ing a stronger swimmer (one of busy with work. I continue to -- 15 countries in two years -- we Whitney, who has completed my personal goals) and have got- practice antitrust class action are very fortunate.” numerous marathons. “I’m ten connected with a great group of litigation in the pharmaceutical Antonia (Thompson) and working at the U.S. Consulate in women through my church. It’s a space (plaintiff side), and fi nd it her husband Thomas recently Fukuoka, Japan,” Thomas writes. wonderful reminder of the impor- incredibly interesting, challenging, welcomed a “It’s slightly off the beaten track, tance of community! This is my and rewarding at the same time, delicious (her but it keeps me busy and working but I’m enjoying this wonderful 6th year working for TMS in the description… very hard. I’m actually going to taste test island which has hot spring water realm of alumni fundraising—such coming out of its hills, out of start teaching part time at Tulane pending) baby a good pairing of passion and mis- its wherever. The little ones are Law School, likely sometime in girl named Leo in preschool and kindergarten, sion.” 2017, focusing on the intersection to the world! struggling through the sink-or- Vanessa Gengler says, of antitrust law and intellectual Leonora swim approach to tri-lingualism, “Motherhood has pretty much property law. Finally, I am getting Rose Holden while Carolina is struggling with rocked my world in Vermont the the best birthday present this Weisman a stay-at-home-mom culture that past 5 years! I left my job at Circus year: Tomas Baez will be in was born in feels like an episode of Mad Men. Smirkus (yes, I worked for a circus New Orleans for work during my London on January 21, 2016. They Vicente is at Andover searching for for almost 6 years!) and started my birthday, and I’m very excited to are doing great and adjusting well a passion, and he applied for TMS own biz, Aligned for Life. I teach see him!” to familyhood. for next year.” natural movement, alignment, Colin Kippen is also a new Matt Fisken moved to PA, as corrective exercise and self-care to parent, writing “Kirsten and I his wife, Nicole, is beginning a PhD individuals & groups who want to Spring ’99 had our fi rst child on Christmas program at Penn State. “Raising my reduce pain and live better in their Eve. Here’s son Milo is still my full-time job,” bodies. It’s rad!” Caleb Masland her stats: Matt writes, “while I continue to Melina Packer is still happy [email protected] Eliza Verne as ever in the SF Bay Area, mid- do freelance work measuring and t continues to amaze me how Kippen born way through her second year of mitigating electromagnetic fi elds different but productive our lives 12/24/15 PhD-ing. She sees Lydia and I for folks who wish to minimize have become. The most common at 12:53p, Alexa every few months, which is 7lbs 7oz, their exposure. I also volunteer word shared in response for update working on riparian buffers and lovely, and hopes to see fellow Bay 20.5”. In requests was “busy,” which a lot of have started a new community Area dwellers Kelsey, Chris and other news: garden plot.” Thea this year too. “Am I missing people paired with “happy.” Work I received I, Beth Sigman Somerset, anyone?” on, busy bees. Our class continues my MFA am enjoying my work as alumni Will Shapiro is living in NYC to do Good and do well. in May and coordinator for TMS, collaborating (in the village) “where my wife and I’m still waiting for everyone will have my with many wonderful graduates. I occasionally get to run into Thea to fl ock to the Blue Ridge fi rst solo show at a local gallery Outside of this, I’m still assistant Johnson, who just moved back Mountains for a visit. Boone, NC coming this July. I will also have coaching college running on here (though only temporarily). continues to be a wonderful place work in the Portland 2016 Biennial a season-to-season basis; our I’m currently the head of research to live and raise my two kids (now of Contemporary Art, which women’s cross country team for analytics at Spotify, where nearing 7 and 3). I continue to runs from this July through mid- at Keene State competed at the I started working in June, and coach about 75 adult runners, and September.” NCAA D3 National Championship I’ve been teaching architecture at I was fortunate enough to train and Chester Areson has been last fall, which was very exciting! Cooper Union on the side.” stay fi t to win 4 marathons in 2015. enjoying being a parent for the last Mostly, though, when I’m not After many years in California, It looks like 2016 will be a year year. His son is named “Peter and communicating with TMS alumni, Thea Johnson is back in NYC, of running shorter races for me, he’s been a blast. He’s been good I’m working through high-level doing public criminal defense and I’ll next venture out to race a about letting us carry him around negotiations with my strong-willed work again and really loving it. marathon in Houston in January on hiking and camping trips. I may She is heading back to academia daughters, ages fi ve and one. 2017. have taken him skiing once...” in January 2017, when she will Tom Eberhardt writes, Chester is fi nishing up his family start as an associate professor at “My wife Amy and I are midway medicine residency in Denver, the University of Maine School of through our second year in where his wife Katie is working on Law in Portland. “I’ll have to try Dubai, where I am a middle her OB/GYN residency. Chester to remember from my Mountain school counselor and Amy is a also writes, “I keep in touch with School days how to snow-shoe and high school English teacher at an Bash (Reeve) and am hoping to cross-country ski (not that I was American International School.

25 see Betsy (Nesbitt) if not for her snow available for adventuring. squares) in utero and joined the wedding, then for a visit soon Maggie Turner “Just Spring ’00 outer world on Jan. 19.” thereafter. returned from a week in Marfa, Caroline Kerr and her Not to be outdone on the kids Texas which was jaw-droppingly front, Magda (Denes) Miller had inspiring. The light! So incredible. Lauren Rauch wife, Darcy, welcomed William a second baby in October, Georgia, First trip to the desert and I fell in [email protected] Lawrence Learned Kerr on July who joined big sister Cassidy (7). love. Continuing to adore my job o much news this year! Life is 3. They moved to Coral Gables, Magda is moving from Columbia, at Calypso - I source and develop Sin full swing and there are lots FL, in August, and are loving beautiful fabrics and yarns for of new additions to our TMS fam- parenthood and exploring a totally the brand with an amazing group ily—let’s get right to it! new world in FL. They also love of creative beings. [I am] loving In December, Linzee visitors! Greenpoint and rooting for a NY- Amory Feigenbaum and Eric TMS gathering. I occasionally lay eyes on Nick Zamiska, Tess Feigemnaum welcomed Alice Wheelright, Tony DiCicco and Forbes Feigenbaum to the world! Sebastian. Tess most recently, “She is a gem and we can’t wait fl eetingly on a subway car -- a to introduce Alice to all our TMS tease!” pals.” More from New England: Jessica Loeffl er writes, “Life is good in Vermont. Time is fi lled with winter hikes, dog walks, Magda with Cassidy and Georgia cooking, lesson planning and grading. Unfortunately and sadly, MO to Baltimore in June, where with the lack of snow I haven’t Caroline’s son, William she’ll complete her fi nal year of even been snowshoeing or skiing Lawrence Learned Kerr residency in anesthesiology and once! The silver lining is that I’m her husband Daniel will start his hoping that I can start the garden David Vitale-Wolff and his residency in pathology. earlier. I’m hoping to start some wife welcomed their son, Aviv But enough about babies. seeds in the next few weeks.” León, to the world last March, and Sutton Kiplinger is “still Tracy Krueger writes that, David loves being a dad. “Lots “It was a very mild winter here living in Boston and spending my of other stuff too, but that’s the in Maine. I found pussy willows days at The Food Project, working biggest deal right now.” already at the end of my driveway with a brilliant group of teenagers on the last day of February. My on farming and food systems Linzee and Eric’s daughter, It has been “an amazing, busy, family and I are doing well. I change. Looking forward to some Alice Forbes Feigenbaum fun, and exhausting whirlwind of am still working for the Maine hiking in the Smokies in April and a year” for Barb Rosen and her Department of Environmental in Washington State in August (and husband, Russ. They welcomed Protection and have been serving taking recommendations if anyone Rachel Kunreuthher Ryan Isaac Nelson Berg (“Izzy” for on my town’s planning board.” has them), and to getting married and her husband Sean “made a short) on March 23rd, 2015. “He is in October. And I feel lucky that Emily Osborne “just started person! We adore him and/or a very sweet and curious little guy, working on a new Netfl ix series I’ve gotten to see Beth Mitchell have developed a lovely case of with curly red hair and an early that profi les various designers in a handful of times in the past year, Stockholm Syndrome. Everything interest in tasting new foods and their work environments. Very despite living on opposite coasts!” cool and interesting -- lots of Also in Boston, Lara Vogel is feels very busy, nothing ever seems the great outdoors.” Izzy’s already shooting around the globe and I a resident in emergency medicine. to get done, and it’s all kind of met Scarlet Kim in London, and get to meet and understand some “I work a lot and spend all extra awesome.” Julia Marsh and her husband, really cool artists. Other than that, possible time outside having Rachel’s son is already making Bruce Wallace (f93), when they I’m getting married in the early fall moved to lovely Concord, MA TMS connections in his generation! visited Seattle in January. Barb and to a fabulous chef and couldn’t be with the husband and two kids. Eliza Ridgeway, typing one Russ are excited to introduce Izzy [The kids] are getting impossibly happier!” handed around a baby, “contributed to more Mountain School friends Jaime (Huling) Delaye bigger and more fascinating daily.” a daughter to the growing S’00 (and babies) in the future! started a new job as a San Francisco Stay busy, stay happy, stay baby cohort, and unbenownst deputy city attorney, and reported well my friends! that she recently had a mini-reunion to all of us, crossed paths with Billy Parish, Beth Mitchell, with Rachel Kunreuther Ryan’s and Eden Trenor at Billy’s place offspring when both were still in Oakland. Said Jaime, “Billy in utero—only one of us (Rae) makes a mean salmon!” knew she was Diana Rodin reported pregnant! Ada recently cross-country skiing up a Ruth Mager- mountain with hardly any snow on Ridgeway it. “Who knew snow was optional.” (pictured) Barb’s son, Isaac (“Izzy) She’s planning a trip to Iceland Nelson Berg soon, where I am guessing they got to absorb still have mountains with actual some TMS air (and fudgy oat

26 In December, Scarlet Kim and her husband plan to take moved to London from The a “sabbatical” from their jobs Josephine Ferorelli s00 Hague where she was working to live in South America next for the International Criminal year, so if anyone knows of an By Hannah Soros s16 Court. Her husband, Andrew, had NP job down there, please let her relocated there for a new job so know! osephine Ferorelli she went over to join him. She’s Matt Frutig is “happy, Jis a climate change now working as a Legal Offi cer healthy, and newly engaged,” activist and a founder at Privacy International, an NGO and all is well despite a painful of the organization which focuses on human rights showing by the Georgetown Conceivable Future. issues at the intersection of privacy Hoyas this season! She has always been and technology. Despite living an It was a big year for Dave horrifi ed by the effects climate change has on our environment ocean away, Scarlet has kept in Eisenstadter, who wed his and on people’s lives and started off her career in activism as a good touch with her TMS friends. girlfriend of more than fi ve years, writer and editor for the climate change section of the Occupy In addition to Barb and her family, Kitty Antonelli, at the Farm and Wall Street website. Through these experiences, Josephine Pendry Haines visited Scarlet Wilderness summer camp. “It became interested in women’s reproductive rights, especially in The Netherlands last year, and was the perfect environment in underprivileged communities, which led her to co found, Scarlet caught up with Julia and to celebrate, dance and light along with Meghan Kallman, Conceivable Future. Bruce while home for the holidays. things on fi re! Mountain School She also met Linzee and Eric’s new principles were in practice, as Conceivable Future is an organization dedicated to raising baby “over Google Hangout just dish crews were assembled awareness about the impact climate change can have on a last week!” and all of the art and activities woman’s reproductive rights. It encourages people to act against Julia Marsh was “very lucky were put together by those who climate change by providing them with a specifi c injustice to to celebrate the wedding of Jeff attended.” Dave continues to organize around and to strive to change. Josephine noticed Markowitz and his beautiful and write for the Daily Hampshire that people in less privileged communities often experience brilliant bride Michele Tsang in Gazette in Northampton, Mass., environmental problems as an immediate threat. Chemical and NYC in January with Andrew and was recently promoted to carcinogen waste dumping in underprivileged areas leads to Marks. Proud to say that Marks web editor. He is very open to greater risks of disease and cancer among residents. Limited P. and I were the last two standing ideas or experience with making access to health care has a great effect on a person’s ability to with the happy couple in the wee journalism work online, so choose to have children. Josephine has been organizing around hours after the reception.” Julia and reach out (chorusjig@gmail. these issues, trying to reach out to communities and to educate Bruce are still living in Brooklyn com)! Dave is still calling contra the population on these injustices. where they’re paying tribute to dances regularly and has been TMS by volunteering at a local the vice president and volunteer The Mountain School, Josephine believes, helped to shape community garden and serving on coordinator for the New England her activism. She had always been aware of climate change, the board of the neighborhood food Folk Festival Association for but the Mountain School really gave her the ability to see its co-op. the past two years. He also widespread effects and see herself as member of a more global Aarav Sundaresh is holding got to write about Josephine community. She believes it gave her the courage and hope to strong in Rhode Island, teaching Ferrorelli’s mother, who has strive to make a change. and photographing. “My kid, been leading a joint-seminar Dhruva, started kindergarten this initiative through Amherst year, and my biggest update is that College with college students I changed my name last spring and inmates. “It was fascinating to Aarav. My students made to be at the culminating session the shift sweetly and swiftly to involving student presentations Mr. Sundaresh, a daily reminder from both inside and outside of their adaptability and fi erce students. Jo also joined Kitty and compassion.” me at a few local contra dances Emily Lowenberg is while she was living in Amherst.” still living in Boston with her husband and daughter (just entering the wonderfully willful and creative 2-year-old stage), and enjoying her job as a nurse practitioner at a community health center. She recently completed Dave Eisenstadter’s wedding to a mini-fellowship in physical Kitty Antonelli Portraits therapy, and is trying to move more Multimedia-Sharpie on glass, transferred to paper, watercolor towards non-narcotic treatment As for Josephine, she and her Carson Levine options for chronic pain. She man, Chris, are moving back to

27 Chicago in April. to work as in-house counsel at Zoë Cullen and her husband, the international management The Right Spice: James, are moving from San consultancy, Oliver Wyman. So Claire Cheney s01 Francisco back East, where she far it’s a great change! Thanks for By Eva Petersen s16 will take a faculty position at HBS. all the updates and much love, as “I am horrifi ed to see how outdated always!! laire Cheney is a self-described my contact information is for loved C“plant geek.” During the last fi ve ones all along the Eastern seaboard Spring ’01 years Cheney has visited farms in over (I’ve been away for 10 years!). I ten countries, gathering the best spices hope this serves as an SOS!” for Curio Spice Company, a business Becca Link is in her last few Micah Resnick she started in 2015. By running months of emergency medicine [email protected] her business as a Public Benefi t residency in New Orleans. In July, abies are all the RAGE! Spots Corporation, Claire exemplifi es the she’ll drive from New Orleans to Bare fi lling up for Mountain Mountain School ideal of focusing on northern Washington State, where School Class of 2032. the common good. her new job begins in August. On the east coast, Lauren “Would love to stop and see folks Plusch and Ryan welcomed their Her interest in spices really took off while she was attending college at on the way. My dog Flo and I are son, Cooper Sargent Plusch, on Oberlin, where she studied environmental science and creative writing, very excited to move to mountains 12/26. (below) her senior thesis drawing a connection between conservation ethics and beach!! Any and all are and food. A series of poems about plants sparked an interest in saffron, welcome to visit!” which a few years later led to a stint on a saffron farm in Greece. Alex Schoenfeld has taken a new job with an early stage ed-tech Curio Spice Company is a Public Benefi t Corporation, which Cheney company called Copia Class and described as a business that acts like a nonprofi t in a for-profi t is thoroughly enjoying spending framework. Patagonia is a well-known example of a PBC. For Cheney, his time with his two-year-old becoming a PBC was the right thing to do. “I wanted to give back to the son, Bryson, and husband, Ryan. farmers where I source my spices,” she said. Alex and Ryan recently moved to Narberth, PA (outside Philly) so At the Mountain School, Cheney learned the importance of playing Ryan can join the faculty at Penn Out west, Natalie Teear and one’s part in the community. Once she slept in and forgot to harvest the this fall. Win welcomed their daughter, lettuce, jeopardizing that day’s salad. That small lesson on accountability Chelsea Brennan DesAutels Leila Mei Teear, on 12/27. (below) resonated with her years later. “All that stuff is multiplied by how your writes: “One year ago today, I was business is run,” explained Cheney. Cheney also cited the Mountain at home on maternity leave with our School’s emphasis on environmental and circumstantial learning as daughter, June. A few months after a major infl uence. “I still have that eye for the land that the teachers that, I was diagnosed with a rare helped cultivate,” Cheney said. cancer related to my pregnancy. I underwent intense, but successful, After the Mountain School, Cheney visited dozens of farms in other chemotherapy (and along the way, countries. Those experiences inspired some of her unique spice blends I got to see friends like Laurén and shaped her as a person too. “It’s really empowering to know you Rauch, who even helped me shop can be your own boss,” Cheney said. “All that time spent traveling by for a wig). And now my family is myself cultivated my independence.” embracing fresh starts--including Sasha Harris-Lovett and Felix leaving my lawyer job to get an Partridge welcomed their son, Right now, Curio Spices can be bought at over twenty New England MFA in poetry this fall. I feel Ezra Lewis Partridge, on 12/31, at retailers as well as online at www.curiospice.com. Cheney is considering immensely grateful for the love 12:31. (below) expanding her business to include the growing of some spices. For now, and support we’ve received over she is happy to have a business that captures all her interests. “I’m doing the last year, much of it from you what I love,” she gushed, “and everything smells great!” all. Thank you.” As a side note, Chelsea ROCKED the wigs, and was inspirationally strong through Thyra Heder continues her Island, and continuing to raise the whole ordeal. blossoming career as a master a happy, healthy, confi dent, and As for me, Laurén Rauch, children’s book author. Stay tuned independent daughter. my fi ancé, Eric, and I are busy for the movie version of Fraidyzoo, planning our Vermont wedding at Ben Grant is now married to as well as her sister’s, Sian Heder Okemo Mountain this September. a lovely 2nd grade teacher, Sarah f93 feature fi lm debut, Tallulah. We’re excited to put on ski boots Curtis. They live in New York City, And I, Micah Resnick, am in our wedding venue for years where Ben continues his work in fi nishing residency, joining a small to come! In other big news, I left tech. pediatrics practice on Roosevelt the law fi rm world last summer

28 Fresh and Local: Phoebe Halsey s02

By Livia Kunins- Berkowitz

s a student at the AMountain School, Phoebe Halsey was inspired by the fresh food all around her. Her Ben and Sara Grant’s Wedding favorite food memory R-L: Nick, Ida, Sue and Jack Kruse, Ben and Sarah, David, Nancy and from her time here as a Rob Grant, and Kevin and Kristi Mattingly student is waking up extra early to help Marilyn urban farm CSA with my husband, Phoebe with nephew Oliver make bagels. Spring ’02 and am soaking up my new daughter, Matilda.” Her Mountain School experience, among others, prompted Therese Claxton Fleisher Colin Smith is currently Phoebe to delve into the culinary world as a chef. She spent [email protected] completing the fi nal year of four and a half years cooking at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, ust another year of being apart, his PhD in child psychology at California, one of the restaurants that pioneered the local JLE SIGH. Next year is going to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt and organic food movements. As stated on the Chez Panisse be awesome—because it will be Lake City, and in August he will website, “Chez Panisse [is] convinced that the best-tasting our 15 year reunion! Please all stop be headed back to Seattle to start food is organically and locally grown and harvested in ways what you’re doing AT THIS VERY a career in private practice. He is that are ecologically sound by people who are taking care of MOMENT and put it on your cal- still doing improv comedy in his the land for future generations.” endar (just circle the entire summer free time, and hopes to see all of just in case so you don’t make any you next year at the reunion! After working in all the stations in the Chez Panisse Café, competing plans). Can’t wait to see Alison (Neubauer) Miller Halsey left the restaurant and returned to the Mountain School you all! I can hardly wait! This is writes that she had a baby named kitchen to fi ll in as the weekend chef in the fall of 2015. what we have been up to… Owen who she is “freaking Students and faculty alike raved about the meals she prepared, Lindsay Young fi nished up a obsessed with.” I can confi rm, he is and it was a particular treat for the Halsey Leckerling family master’s degree in environmental freaking adorable. to have Phoebe in residence with them in Underwood House! science and hopes to begin a career Diana Davis spent the summer in water management. Golden in Europe, doing math for three Phoebe is currently cooking for a tech company called continues to be a great place to live weeks and then traveling with her Thumbtack in San Francisco and is encouraging their chefs to in Colorado, and she has enjoyed girlfriend for three weeks. Her take advantage of the local produce available in California. She discovering the trails in the area. postdoc at Northwestern ends noted that cooking in the Bay Area, because of its temperate Also in Colorado, Paige this year, so she has applied for climate, makes locally grown ingredients incredibly accessible. (Rossetti) Henchen reports that “lots and lots of jobs”, and I have Ultimately, Phoebe hopes to get more experience menu writing she and her husband have moved to good news: she will be a visiting and aspires to learn more about bread baking, pastry, and Denver so if anyone is in the area professor at Williams College next fermentation, all while incorporating fresh ingredients and please look them up. year! She adds “I wrote 1/4 of a motivating those around her to eat locally. Vijay Viswanathan is working book! I wrote an undergraduate text on a MSBA in accounting and called ‘Lines in positive genus: An trying to get outside as much introduction to fl at surfaces,’ which as possible! He’s also “been will appear as a section in the book volunteering with a great non- Dynamics Done With Your Bare profi t called Paradox Sports, check Hands, published later this year them out online.” He asks anyone by the European Mathematical Desmond visiting Colorado to please get in Society.” standing touch—he would love to catch up. Victoria (McGeoch) Goulart Woodblock print Hailey (Mackrow) Sammen is expecting a baby boy in May! Thea McRea writes “I spent the past year Also, in March she and her working in evaluation, and starting husband are moving back to Little this fall I’ll be wrapping up my Compton, RI. master’s with a thesis on the Freddy Deknatel is doing social determinants of educational well, still living in Brooklyn and outcomes. I’m still running an is now the senior editor of World

29 Politics Review, an online global - I will be in Vershire come hell or food and its implements.” He just Ryan (had a courthouse one earlier) affairs journal. He is engaged to his high water!” accepted an assistant fi eld director and went on a honeymoon to girlfriend Emily McGoldrick and Daniel Greenberg left Boston position at Open Sky Wilderness Kenya. I live in the Jamaica Plain are getting married in New York in after a very hard breakup and is Therapy in Durango, CO and may neighborhood of Boston with Ryan late June. fi nishing his contract on the book be moving to Vancouver, BC at the and my daughter Charlotte and a Also in NYC, Caroline “(we fi nally published!), and end of the year. He sends his love million animals. I work as a project Biggers reports that she “started bought a small sailboat with a to all. manager at a community health online dating again. High hopes for broken engine, sailed from Tampa Meredith Denning lives in center where coincidentally Emily true love and/or some free drinks!” to the Keys, to the Bahamas, up Washington, DC and is writing Wheelwright Lowenberg s00 is She also says that she and Michael the Pamlico, and anchored back in her dissertation and moonlighting a nurse practitioner. Small world! Bogino came to my (Therese’s) Annapolis. Back at work now until as the assistant to the director of I have gotten to see Caroline, wedding last summer, which was June 1, when I sail for Maine.” doctoral studies and as event staff Michael, and Alison in the past awesome. Over in Cleveland, Matt at the Canadian Embassy. Her year but would love to see any and Over on the West Coast, Amy Sinclair writes that “on 12/24/15, husband just got his green card and all of you if you ever fi nd yourself Strieter is still in Eugene, OR, I welcomed a beautiful son into moved to the States, too. She’ll be in Boston. working on her MFA in poetry the world. His name is Luke and in Seattle in late March and Beijing at the University of Oregon. he’s absolutely a wonderful gift. in late May – “anyone for catching She hopes to fi nish this summer, I’m so excited to start this next up over a drink?” Spring ’03 depending on thesis work. She adventure in life. (Image attached) Also in DC, Daphne Kiplinger writes “I sit too much. I’d also I’m also still in Cleveland and is one lucky duck. She writes Cordy Elkins like Jack and Alden to know that have recently co-founded the that she “just got back from an [email protected] Wordsworth and Emerson are on Rainbow Babies and Children’s awesome trip to Brazil to celebrate s it seriously already 2016? my reading list for my qualifying Foundation Associate Board, an the beautiful wedding of TMS IWhere is the time going – we are exams. If anyone’s passing through up and coming organization with classmate Becca Groves and her all defi nitely still closer to 21 than Oregon this summer or next year, the goal of raising both funds and husband Vinícius Ludovico! You 30, right? Well, since we cannot I’d love a visit! IT’S NOT WEIRD. awareness for children’s health never know where those TMS stay that young indefi nitely, it sure Last summer I got to see Colin issues in partnership with Rainbow friendships may take you 14 years is nice to hear all of the great things Smith while I was visiting Seattle. Babies and Children’s Hospital in later... Other than that, not too everyone is up to instead! He’s a doctor--who signed off on Cleveland.” much is new – still working at Coogan Brennan is still in that?--but he’s still him and it was Mary Lewine reports “that Landon School in communications Charlottesville, VA, and spent the so lovely to catch up. That’s my while Freddy and I continue to and all that.” last months of his twenties sewing the fi nal seams for his tailoring evidence.” think about the environment Speaking of Rebecca (Groves) and alteration shop before handing Sophie Eisner got her MFA whenever we watch whales explode Ludovico, she reports “I’m doing it off to partners here in town. He from Cranbrook Academy of Art we will have fewer reasons to think well. I’m living in Cambridge, gets the amazing opportunity to last spring and now lives in Detroit. about the environment in 2016. Go MA and teaching 2nd grade in see Moira Brace and her righteous She has her own sculpture studio Mets.” a sheltered English immersion crew every so often. They are doing and metal shop there and loves it. Jake Lassow is living in classroom. My students are from amazing work at their homestead David Greenhouse writes Greenville, SC where he is various countries and are all in Dillwyn (in nearby Buckingham that “after a long stint at IBM, pursuing a master’s in education. English language learners. Also, I County). Coogan writes, “People I decided to look for something He writes that “I recently quit my just got back from celebrating my passing through should holler at either one of us to get both!” slightly more dynamic while still position as a pastry chef in order to wedding in Brazil. My husband Miles Turner is living in keeping a techie focus. For the past student teach in a freshman English is from Brazil and that is where Teton Valley, Idaho this winter year, I’ve been working at ad tech classroom. Come this time next we met so we united the two taking a break from work and company AppNexus, where I’m on year I hope to have a classroom families and various friends and enjoying lots of great backcountry a team managed by none other than of my own. Restaurant work was had an amazing wedding in Brazil. skiing (kind of like cross country Ben Grant s01. My next project is great for a number of years but I am Daphne Kiplinger made the trip skiing in the woods in Vermont a renovation of the kitchen in our ready to have summer vacations with her husband Dave and it was except more up in the mountains row house. Unfortunately for us, and to travel as much as possible so great to have her there!” and on bigger skis). He will go the late Victorians built millions with my partner. This summer Emily Abrons writes that back to work later in the spring leading sailing courses in British of these houses with no insulation we will be in London for about a she is in Los Angeles again, after Columbia and hiking in Wyoming whatsoever and they get pretty cold month. Anyone in the U.K. please getting an MFA in fi ction at Brown, with NOLS (National Outdoor in winter - so reducing our carbon get in contact!” and is currently tutoring for work Leadership School). Life is great! footprint by keeping the heat in Jamie Lincoln and his wife and writing in her free time. She’s In addition, he is planning to will also be a priority. This year has Megan bought their fi rst home living “in a somewhat ramshackle, climb Mt. Rainier in the summer been a happy one for my travel bug, in Swarthmore, PA. Visitors big craftsman-style house built in in memory of Eitan Green. If as we’ve had the chance to enjoy welcome! 1905, which is fun for now, but any s03 friends would like to join, superb hiking and delicious food in Robin Wolthausen spent the dreaming of New England (and let him know because you are all New Zealand, Romania, and South winter in Telluride skiing and hoping to live there soon!)” invited. Gideon (Grody-Patinkin) Korea. I miss you guys and I can’t learning more than “I knew was I, Therese (Claxton) Fleisher, Irving has continued touring wait for our 15th reunion next year possible about the history of wine, had a ‘real’ wedding to my husband

30 various shows through peoples’ a Consumer Insights assistant for amazing group. Steven also spent fi nd her gardening whenever she homes near and far. This past Penguin Random House. In my several days vacationing in LA gets the chance! August Nate “Hubcap” Sloan free time, I curate exhibitions for a and Gideon brought their two-man staying with Sophia Lear; and he As for me, my boyfriend community arts organization called show, The Gideon and Hubcap is lucky to see Emma Haberman Andrew and I live in South Boston. ARTs East New York.” Show to the Edinburgh Fringe regularly; and just had coffee with I am still working downtown and Fellow Brooklynite Ezra Festival and had a ball. They will Emi Neithercut. If you are in New teaching as many Yoga Sculpt Hagerty says he’s escaping the city return to the UK this summer for York, let him or Emma know! classes as I can fi t in around my as much as possible to spend time a home show tour through islands Emma Haberman got married “day job.” I am running the Boston outdoors. “Looking forward to and small towns and have begun in September to her husband Caleb Marathon this spring to support sugaring season in VT, fl y fi shing developing a home show for kids. this summer, and continuing to on a farm in Hudson, NY, which the Human Rights Campaign Gideon has also started planning learn new dishes to cook.” was a blast. She is still living in Foundation, an organization I am his horse tour where he will travel Further up the eastern on horseback across America Brooklyn and working at The New also on the national board for. seaboard, Mary French fi nds playing in homes for 18 months School, and thinking of TMS and Looking forward to checking the herself back in Boston, after more beginning in 2020. This has been a Spring ’03 often! marathon off my lifetime bucket than four years in England, where long awaited dream and if anyone Talia Cooper has also been list while also supporting a great she’ll continue her work as a knows any horse-folk drop him living in Brooklyn, New York for cause! If anyone is ever around book conservator. Currently, she’s a line. itstruemynameisgideon@ the past two years working at a the Boston area, or passing through working on a collection of materials gmail.com Jewish youth feminist organization. please let me know! Love to from a WWII prisoner of war Thomas McCosker and his camp in Singapore. “Throughout She has also been very involved everyone, wife are still living in Oxford, it all, the prisoners maintained a with the organization Jews for UK where they have been since cheerfulness and optimism despite 2013. The timber framing we all Racial and Economic Justice starvation, punishment, and learned in ’03 continues to serve (JFREJ). Talia’s partner, Andrew, Spring ’04 separation from their loved ones, him well as he is currently working is in graduate school in New York, which I have found inspirational on a master’s course in sustainable and when he graduates this winter, Zak Stone and deeply moving.” building performance and design they will move back to the Bay [email protected] Joining Mary in Boston at Oxford Brookes University. Area, California. Talia continues f there’s any lesson from The are Ben Mandelkern, Casey Thomas is learning all about low to sing and write music. Some of Mountain School that sticks with Freedman, and Jena Gordon. energy building techniques and I Ben moved back to the USA last her favorite things about New York me to this day, it’s the importance ways to reduce embodied carbon year from India and took a job are: the Brooklyn Public Libraries, of effective and clear communica- in both new and old buildings. This working for Yo-Yo Ma’s nonprofi t, year Thomas and his wife fi nally the farmers market at Grand Army tion, with the fi rst rule being, “Be Silk Road Project. Casey writes got an allotment after 2 years of Plaza, Prospect Park, the botanic Concise.” Concisely is exactly that she is “still a high school waiting in a nearby community gardens, people watching, all the how I’d describe our semester’s Spanish teacher in Reading, garden where they are planning to free events, the activist community, response to this year’s call for up- living in Cambridge and hoping grow all sorts of delicious veggies. the art community, and all the dates: that someone from TMS S’04 Aleks Stoller is living in New people there. She will certainly In New York City, we have will visit!” And fi nally Jenna says Orleans, LA for the academic miss NY a lot, but is excited to the recently transplanted Jamie she’s fi nishing up her fi rst year of a counseling psychology doctoral year. He is currently a master’s move back to her home. Phinney, who started grad school at Columbia for international program at Boston College, with candidate at Tulane University in Elizabeth Gould (Ries) got affairs, and had the privilege of a research focus on trauma and the department of microbiology married this past year on Cape running into Joelle Kellem on the PTSD. “My student ID card says and immunology. Aleks is Cod! She now lives in Penland, street. Joelle’s pursuing her love I will graduate in 2021. Hopefully focusing his research on vaccine North Carolina. She is a nurse of working with children as a full- one day I will be done with school development against bacteria that on a respiratory ICU stepdown time nanny, household manager, and can get a grown up job!” cause persistent infections, and is at Johnson City Medical Center and personal assistant for a family Further north we fi nd Corinne working on new novel antibiotic and could not be more excited in Manhattan. “I feel beyond lucky Almquist, who says she’s “relieved therapies. If anyone is in town, let about her new career. Being a to have found such a meaningful, to be back in Vermont, fi nishing up her midwifery degree,” and Jay him know and you can meet up for nurse is incredibly challenging, fun, and colorful job,” she writes. Another Columbian is John Cox-Chapman, who’s getting chicory coffee and beignets. emotionally and physically Szymanski, who writes that he an MBA at Dartmouth’s business Steven McDonald is now draining, yet the most rewarding is “looking into the workings of school. through the toughest bit of his thing she has ever done. Elizabeth the nervous system of the pond New Hampshire native and emergency medicine residency has learned and grown so much creature Hydra vulgaris. We are apple farmer Emma Loosigian in New York City. This year he already and fi nally feels like she is using new tools to make its neurons writes that “2015 was a great year got to take a leadership organized doing what she is meant to! fl uoresce when they send signals to for apples. We are planting peach wellness retreat to help residents Amanda Rook is halfway each other. Since the Hydra is so trees this spring, and Mike and I refl ect on the diffi culties of the through training to become a basic, this will shed light on what are expecting our fi rst child this summer. A lot to look forward to!” year. The setting (a Buddhist physical therapist and still works the fi rst nervous systems were doing and help tell the story of how Caroline Rex-Waller also monastery on the Hudson River) as a massage therapist. She is we got here.” fi nds herself in New Hampshire, and the activities (drinking tea and now engaged and happily living Across the river in Brooklyn, where she’s teaching French and sharing stories) and the weather in Oklahoma City and gets to see we have the inimitable Zemen English in the White Mountains. (negative 1 Fahrenheit) reminded her family often. She is working on Kidane, who blesses us with her And in Maine we have Ben him of Mt. School and our renovating her house and you can fi rst ever update: “I’m working as Woodworth, who got married last

31 June. He and his wife Sara live in time there were Grizzlies.” Bangor, where she teaches high Last but not least, I’m still in Answers in Nature: school while he practices law in the Los Angeles, working as a writer healthcare space. and editor. My piece “Living and Mai Ann Healy s04 Down south, Ruthie Schwab Dying on Airbnb” was featured in writes “No real updates here. Still the New York Times and NPR, and By Anna Saviano s16 doing fi nance and strategy for I recently took a job as executive Walmart US Food, working on editor of a new online magazine ai Ann Healy, fresh supply chain improvements. called MEL. I’m enjoying working Ma former Still in Arkansas. Trying to survive a few blocks from the beach in Tolbodian, works for BioFiltro, an international company that all the Trump love out here. Would Venice, and I’d love to see all of designs and installs onsite patented wastewater fi ltration systems love some Mountain School your familiar faces. that remove up to 99% of contaminants from wastewater in a visitors!” Until next year! Somewhat nearby in North natural, four-hour process. The system restores water to irrigation Carolina, Liz Huessy Porter is grade quality for reutilization and, overtime, converts the waste living with her husband Louis. Liz Spring ’05 from the wastewater into castings, a nutritious fertilizer rich in is putting her Masters in Library microbes. Clients such as wineries, food processors, dairies, Science degree to use as a librarian Niki Stelling Hertzberg and sanitary waste facilities are subsequently able to make at Carrboro Elementary School. [email protected] sustainability goals profi table. Only one update came from t is hard to believe that almost a Mai Ann worked in Latin America for six years after college, the midwest: Lizzie LaCroix is year has passed since our 10 year fi rst at a large multinational corporation and then as a consultant working on her MBA at University I reunion. In this time, several de- at Endeavor. She met the founders of BioFiltro in Santiago, of Michigan and re-acclimatizing to winter after years in California. gree programs were started or com- Chile, where the company is headquartered, a year before Speaking of: Mai Ann Healy pleted, engagements and marriages joining their team in California. She absolutely loves her job lives in Ventura, California these occurred, and just in case any of and, due to her fl uency in Spanish, serves as a bridge between days, where she’s working for a you were doubting that we are the Chilean, U.S., and New Zealand offi ces. company that helps wineries, food adults, the fi rst s05 baby was born. BioFiltro currently has 130 facilities installed worldwide processors and other industrial Hopefully this new year will bring that provide decentralized closed loop solutions. The system clients revitalize and re-utilize many unoffi cial TMS reunions. emulates earth’s natural process of biofi ltration and is housed their wastewater. Mark Davenport is teaching within an open top structure that is fi lled, from top to bottom, Ben Hartman writes from in Salt Lake City, still getting with wood shavings, river cobble, geotextiles, and drainage San Francisco, where he’s living “with my wonderful girlfriend outside a great deal, and, best of basins. The top layer of woodshavings is inoculated with Kelsey, and our debatably all, getting married this June! bacteria and worms, tiny soldiers who work 24/7 at breaking wonderful cat, Boris. I just took on Rebecca Sigel is living in LA, down and digesting waste. An automated irrigation system a new role as the Produce Buyer overseeing the LA Philharmonic’s disperses wastewater evenly throughout the bed, which then at Good Eggs, a grocery delivery Youth Orchestra LA (YOLA) percolates down by the force of gravity. Wastewater treatment start-up, working directly with Bay program. Her students were typically demands a lot of energy due to aeration, the process Area farms to source fruits and recently on stage with Coldplay, of adding air into water to allow biodegradation of pollutants, veggies grown using ecologically Beyonce and Bruno Mars for the but BioFiltro’s natural system enable clients to save up to 95% and socially responsible practices.” Superbowl halftime show (they of their wastewater energy bill as the burrowing worms provide Elizabeth Cerny-Chipman is working on her PhD at Oregon were the 40 students on stage natural aeration and take the process of wastewater treatment State and recently got engaged. “I with violins/violas/cellos and back to the simplicity of nature. ran into Skylor Powell the other yellow/blue jackets). She is now Even though this technology has been around for twenty-one day at a brunch spot in Portland. prepping to leave her job at the LA years and has processed more than twenty-seven billion gallons, Turns out she lives only about Philharmonic to begin a program no one could believe it when it was fi rst introduced to the U.S. a mile from my fi ance, which is in Public Policy at UC Berkeley in market three years ago! The idea that complex wastewater crazy.” Liz hopes to fi nd a job the fall. A window into the process: technologies, which typically require 30 to 90 days of treatment working on sustainable ocean http://www.nfl.com/videos/ time, a lot of energy and chemicals, could be replaced with a policy, possibly in DC, after nfl-videos/0ap3000000632171/ simple replication of Mother Earth was too good to be true. fi nishing her program this summer. Sarah Gibson and Jane Young-L-A-musicians-get-the- Early U.S. adopters of BioFiltro’s technology include prominent Ridgeway both recently departed Super-Bowl-chance-of-a-lifetime leaders and pioneers in sustainable practices who seek to reuse from the Continental 48: Jane to and regenerate natural resources. Hawaii, where she’s teaching, and Mai Ann notes that the Mountain School solidifi ed her love Sarah to Sitka, Alaska last summer, for nature and determination to pursue a career in socially and where she had a fellowship to environmentally conscious work. Ironically, Mai Ann researched work on audio documentaries. In the viability of composting toilets for the Mountain School her free time she tried to “to eat during her semester and today she’s working with composting at least half a fi let of salmon per technology! Through science site studies, Mai Ann discovered day. The communal meals, place- based work and group hiking that a lot of answers to global problems can be found in nature misadventures brought back great Rebecca’s students at the itself. At BioFiltro, that’s exactly what she and the company TMS memories—except for this Super Bowl seek to demonstrate.

32 Leo Eisenstein is in his fi rst Contemporary Craft. In her spare born on October 23rd 2015. She year of medical school at Harvard time, she is exploring the state parks writes - we’re living in Edinburgh, of Texas. On a recent camping and just learned how lungs Scotland, loving life. Our days are trip, she fell asleep to armadillos full of milk, naps, yoga, dance, function. rooting for worms around her rainy walks, veg bags, and a bit of Emily May is working tent, woke up surrounded by deer, haggis now and then. on pollinator conservation on and encountered several six foot Alex Johnson is in San farmland, and is currently based alligators while hiking. Francisco and still working on in Vermont but will be moving to Abby Larner has been his PhD at Stanford. “I try to New Haven this summer. enjoying the sun and sounds in stay balanced by taking long Abby Mays got married and Rachel, Joshua and Lilette Austin, TX since she moved there motorcycle rides and maintaining now goes by Abby Farnell, thus last June. She is currently teaching my expansive collection of User Interface Design to aspiring simplifying the Abby/Emily/ Evan Pulvers is living in the houseplants.” “designerds” at a 3 month coding Katie Morrison is still May/Mays/Reed/Reid issue our California Bay Area, working as bootcamp. In her free time she has working for the same sustainability semester had. She is moving to San a family medicine resident. Next taken up olympic weightlifting consultancy in Amman, Jordan. In Francisco in May and would love year she will spend a month in rural and runs her own ultimate frisbee her free time she tutors, dances, to connect with any TMSers in or Peru providing medical aid. She league. She can’t wait to get back sings in a local choir, and plays around the Bay Area. sees Megan Shutzer and Allegra to TMS this June! ultimate frisbee. She’s starting to Hallie Coffi n-Gould is in Thoreson occasionally and reports Clara Rubin-Crump is still think about making a move back Pittsburgh getting her MBA at that Allegra is writing a “badass working on her PhD in Emergency to the States, and is aiming to make Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School thesis” for English and Megan is and Disaster Management at the it back for the reunion in June. University of Rhode Island and of Business. doing the documentary circuit and Gaea Campe loves living volunteering as a fi refi ghter and Hannah Broadly (formerly global democracy consulting. in Portland, Oregon where she EMT in her spare time. Clara was teaches preschool. Roebuck) is in the third year of her Willy Stein is still working also engaged to her fi ance Paul Sophie Robinson now lives Ph.D. at UMass Amherst studying on urban planning and real estate in December. They are looking in Brooklyn, where she is a climate invasive forest insects. She added a projects for the City of New York. forward to a wedding this fall in change documentary fi lmmaker. number of phylogenetic projects to He lives in a charming apartment Maine! She’s looking forward Her latest fi lm explores how her research program this year and on a tree-lined street in Brooklyn. to introducing him to folks at the climate change impacts national is loving it. She and Abby Reed He sees some but not enough reunion in June. security and global stability. When are aiming to meet up ASAP, but so Mountain School folks. He misses Ben Parks is in his third year not working, she is playing with of graduate school for geology at far have had confl icting schedules. outdoor activities. her two cats, doing yoga, playing Brown doing research in Argentina, After two years teaching at an Jared Rubinstein is still living soccer, and cooking local food! and getting hitched in early international school in Singapore, in Minnesota and going to grad summer! Colleen McCullough After a very hot summer in Abby Reed moved back to the school for horticulture. is fi nishing up law school and New Orleans, Laura Dismore is States and is now teaching English Jessica Chapman is fi nishing moving to Philadelphia to work enjoying the New England winter. at the Stoneleigh-Burnham School up her second year living and for a judge starting in September. She’s also enjoying performing in Western MA. working in South East Asia. “I am She can’t wait to camp on Garden in her school’s Parody, a musical Sharayah Gilbert and her currently working in Malaysia, Hill this June with as many of us comedy show making fun of fi ancé, Stephan, recently bought a where I have spent the last year as possible! law school (it involves costumes Marietta Glass is still house in Old Town Alexandria, in running a school for refugee and shenanigans, so it’s kind of living in Philadelphia working at the Washington, DC area, and are children and youth. This semester reminiscent of a Saturday night Hamilton Lane, a private equity looking forward to their wedding we have 120 students enrolled from fi rm, where she started working at TMS...but with law students). in July. Sharayah is still working at 6 different countries. As the global after graduating from Colgate. In Dismore will be working in Boston the Department of State, currently refugee crisis continues, we hope August, she began a two year part- at the Massachusetts Attorney managing foreign assistance our organization can provide best time program to earn her masters of General’s Offi ce this summer and projects in Burma, Bangladesh, practices and sustainable models Finance. In more exciting events, would love to see anyone passing and Laos. for others wanting to provide she married her college sweetheart, through! Maura Mathieu is in her third education to urban refugees.” Matt, this past June in NYC. She’ll Nate Glasser is currently be sad to miss reunion and wish all year working at the Mountain in Cambridge, getting a masters the best to fellow s06ers. School. She teaches English Spring ’06 in public policy at Harvard in Anna Provitola is in her alongside Jack and Alden and fourth year of pursuing her PhD in between his third and fourth years is the main dorm parent for Dan Cohen French and Comparative Literature of medical school. Every so often, Tobold. This year, she has enjoyed [email protected] at Columbia University, which he sees Elsie, Laura Dismore, and spending much more time in the t’s hard to believe it is already means that when she is not staring Kat, which is great. woods exploring with her intrepid Ibeen ten years since we were on at a book or a computer screen, For the past 2 years Kat puppy, Zora. campus in Spring ’06. So much has she is galavanting around New Conway has been living in changed since then but our group Rachel Carlin celebrated the York City, traveling to destinations Cambridge and working for seems to have stuck to its Mountain near and far, devising strategies for a company that organizes birth of her baby girl, Lilette Mary School roots. queer pedagogy, and preening her international travel opportunities Carlin in September, and will begin Leah French is still living numerous house plants. for middle/high school students her residency training in Neurology in Space City, working as an Connie Tancredi Brice had and their teachers. Through work educator at the Houston Center for a baby, named Robby. He was she’s had the chance to visit Italy,

33 Barcelona and Madrid, and on City, CA studying Ayurveda, the most excited for liver transplant. to a ton of interesting podcasts: her own she’s been lucky enough ancient science of healing from She hopes to stay in NYC on Millennial is one of her favorites to to explore Paris, Portugal, and the India. “I am learning to understand Columbia’s hospitalist service. date. Cheers everyone! Andalusia region of Spain. Kat body and mind on a deeper level Listening to The Life of Pablo, Aaron Freedman quit his also highly recommends watching and realigning them with the practicing yoga, and sending love! sustainable food job in December Sophie’s documentary. natural rhythms of life. Nevada Emily Ausubel has been and is looking for work in Ben Hellerstein is living in City is a beautiful setting for this living in Kampala, Uganda for the software. He spends nearly all the Porter Square neighborhood of study - I have been enjoying the past year through an HIV/AIDS his time with his band, Baeja Vu, Cambridge/Somerville, just a few green Yuba River and living in a and maternal and child health which is a powerful motorboat in blocks from where he and Katie little cottage in the forest.” organization, providing health the turbulent sea of being 25 years Schaffer once stayed with Connie Ali Meyers Ohki writes: services and building health systems old. during a college visit to Boston. “One of my dear projects lately has all around Uganda. The year has Judy Amsalem is currently He’s working for an environmental been organizing an improvisational been eye-opening, challenging, fi nishing up her fi rst year at Yale, advocacy organization and dance space for trans folks, and incredibly rewarding both where she is pursuing a joint MBA launching a new campaign to women, and queers. I am working professionally and personally as and Masters of Environmental repower Massachusetts with 100% as a gardening assistant for a Emily has adjusted to living and Management. She has been getting clean energy. His life improved sustainable landscaping company working in a new country. She back to her Mountain School roots immeasurably when he bought a and loving being outside all day. has also greatly enjoyed having by rediscovering a love of footie bike last summer, and since then Other than that, being a homebody the opportunity to explore several pajamas and testing the boundaries he’s experimented with bicycle and deepening queer familial other African countries during her of what social situations they can be commuting and has done a week- relationships all day everyday. time here and continues to marvel worn in. She has also learned from long solo bike trip along the Maine Hope to see everyone at the at the diverse beauty she has seen. the Mountain School Instagram coast. reunion!” Emily has no plans set in stone yet that students now wear protective Rebecca Maurer has moved Conor Myhrvold is still at post-fellowship, but hopes to be in gear while playing broomball on to Cleveland, Ohio. Laugh and Uber, closing in on two years this the Boston area for at least a little the pond. This is, in her opinion, a make 30 Rock references all you summer. He moved from data time starting in August and will VERY wise development. want, but it’s a great town. In fact, science to a core infrastructure hopefully see some TMS friends Joe Schottenfeld is heading Rebecca is thinking of buying team in mid-2015. He now while there! to Central Asia again for another a home in the city. If she does, runs Uber Engineering’s public Lauren Bryant has been short research trip, but he’ll be Rebecca is going to be really presence as a program manager, working her tail off taking a slew back in New Haven permanently excited about having a garden to which includes Open Source of science courses and getting for law school beginning in the fall. call her own. efforts, Engineering Blog, and ready to apply to physical therapy It would be great to see people! Nick Singer is in his second other in-person and online social programs in the fall. She moved Max Shafer is still brewing year at the graduate fi lm program happenings (tech talks and events, to L.A. in August, but has been away in the Tetons. As he writes at Columbia. He’s enjoying his Twitter, conferences etc.) carrying out the Mountain School this note, he sits in Chicago at the time there and fi nds himself TAing Dan Cohen is still living in spirit by taking public transit every Siebel Institute of Technology, the undergraduates. Matt Mandelkern San Francisco and continues to day and seeking out local green oldest brewing school in the United is living in Somerville studying snowboard in Tahoe regularly and spaces. After over a year of work, States. Max is excited to further his the philosophy of language. Allie recently returned from an amazing she fi nally published her fi rst education in brewing, and is happy Stroud is enjoying living in San trip to four countries in Southern children’s book, Earl the Elephant to be back in the city he grew up in Francisco and all the rain El Niño Africa and Japan. Saves Christmas, this December. for the longest period of time since is bringing. Dan would like to pass the It’s available on Kindle and she he graduated from high school. Steve Beauchamp is living torch of class agent. Please let is currently shopping around for a Jen Wenz is (fi nally!) outside of Baltimore, working at Marilyn know if you would like publisher, with every expectation graduating from Harvard Divinity T. Rowe Price, and pursuing an the job. We’ll announce it at the that fame and fortune will at last be this spring, and jumping into MBA. He is enjoying Baltimore’s reunion, and if you are not there, hers by the end of 2016. the beautiful waters of total live music and growing restaurant we may just pick you for the Matthew Bock is currently uncertainty. Current half-laid scene. Laura Tate is living agent job! stranded at Charlotte International plans and dreams (as of February) in Jackson, MS and is looking Airport. He is moving to North include: working kitchen staff forward to visiting with fellow s06 Carolina to do brand planning for at Indralaya, a retreat center alumni in June! Spring ’07 Mullen, an ad agency. Please let on Orcas Island, this summer; Lauren Wiant writes: “I am him know if you’re rolling through turning her thesis on bread baking, engaged to the man of my dreams; the south! healing, and climate change into a Corina Chase we’re getting married this coming Katherine Corwin is an book; apprenticing with a baker; New Year’s Eve. We have a kitten [email protected] admissions counselor at Riverdale trying her hand at teaching and and a beautiful apartment in an orina Chase is designing and Country School in the Bronx. She mentoring; and practicing and old building in Lakewood, just Cbuilding costumes for theaters just become a mom to Charlie, a 5 leading more meditation and yin a few minutes from downtown. in Providence and Boston. She’s year-old dog she adopted from the yoga. She’s beyond grateful for the I’m training to be a commercial headed to graduate school in the shelter. You can fi nd them in the learning and growth over these last dog run by the East River—rain or real estate broker, specializing in fall, for a costume design MFA. four years at HDS, and is ready for shine! retail, at a company called Colliers Joe Harmon is still teachin’ a new adventure! Mollie Bedick is on a zigzag International. So far I really like away in CT, still going to Josh Mikaela Saccoccio moved to path (for sure) through retail to pay it—it’s hard work, and stressful, Ritter shows, still pickin’ on the Boston on February 1st to start a the bills and thinking about what’s but I’ve grown to love being guitar (he’s in a faculty band). new job at a Boys and Girls Club. next… Meanwhile, rock climbing pushed to test my limits everyday.” Shauna Linn has three She lives in Brighton now, in an more and more, practicing thai Pauline Abrons is in Nevada rotations left in PA school and is old building with lots of plants. yoga bodywork, and listening She’s hoping to delve into the arts

34 and theatre scene here (and to visit Ali Andrews is still a happy from there to Utah and Costa Rica yoga class Monday nights, he and Irene’s restaurant)! She’s recently pineapple in the middle of the big and back again. She’s writing this a friend do biweekly haircuts on become interested in slam poetry. Irene Li is still in Boston blue, working on sea level rise note from a plane en route to Bali, Fresh Cut Fridays. with her food truck and restaurant adaptation for the State of Hawaii where she’ll be for the next month Rebecca Hadad is still and family. She’s about to adopt and also writing for the website of and a half. She has spent the past spending her days studying law, a dog and just launched a line an amazing polynesian voyaging year consulting for startups in playing with her dog, and dreaming of bottled sauces with Mei Mei canoe, Hōkūlea, sailing around mindfulness and is now launching a of Pam & Marilyn’s cooking. Pantry. Come visit; she’ll feed you the world collecting stories of company—By Design—to support She is working and staying in dumplings. She still watches Star environmental stewardship (she small businesses in building their Somerville all summer, so let her Trek: Enterprise. will be sailing up the East Coast team. She would love to reconnect know if anyone is traveling to town Casey Andersen is this spring and summer so look with TMSers soon (somewhere in (or near town) for a mini reunion! transplanting herself from NYC to Portland, ME. She has been out for her!). She brings all of your the world). Will Stone has settled into life reveling in the magic of how adventurous spirits with her in Griffi n Hale does not sleep in the Southwest where, for the last whatever life adventure she is on, her free time exploring the many nearly as much as he did at TMS. year, he’s been reporting for the there is always a way that someone red dirt and blue ocean nooks and On a good day he will tell you he NPR station in Phoenix, Arizona. or some memory from S’07 crannies of this beautiful place. is a rocket scientist or aerospace He covers natural resources, enriches it and ignites it further. Will Wickham is engineer; on other days he will government, and anything else that LOVE YOU ALL! kaleidoscoping | babies | money | tell you that he has a dirty job and comes his way. On the weekends, Clay Contee is working on a fi re signs | Black liberation | love plays with urine. He is currently he’s taking advantage of the great post graduate degree in physics at | Ok working at Bigelow Aerospace outdoor opportunities, including Illinois Tech in Chicago. He gets to see Isabel Gregerson a lot more Caroline Dickens is back and running the water reclamation most recently, a three day hike now that they live in the same city, in Boston after spending some lab and is transforming pee into through the bottom of the Grand which is good. He wishes the best time last year in Antalya, Turkey water for future astronauts. He Canyon. for all his friends from TMS and helping a family friend open a has recently gotten into triathlons Hannah Bowling is living on welcomes visits! cocktail lounge. Turkey was all- and completed his fi rst sprint tri, the UWS in NYC and thrilled to be Isabel Gregersen moved to around exhilarating and exhausting marathon, and century this past making life moves. After over three Chicago last fall with her partner, and she’s glad to be back home. year. He also makes time for kite years in residential real estate, she’s started graduate school in social Now she is working in the less- fl ying, slack lining, mountain moving on to new adventures (the work, and is slowly catching up to hectic e-commerce and tech world biking, skiing, kayaking, rock exact nature of which are still to be all of the big changes in her life! at Wayfair. climbing, ice climbing, and determined...), is newly engaged She loves her new neighborhood, Claire Lafave moved to San trampoline. He will take his second to her college sweetheart (he took her new puppy, and the new Francisco and is teaching third trapeze class this Sunday. He lives her duck hunting, how could she friends and ideas that come with graders! She gets to see Chloe in Las Vegas, Nevada, but tends to say no) and is the proud godmother going back to school. Isabel gets Zelkha once in awhile, which is avoid the neon lights and opts to of Rachel Carlin’s (S’05) beautiful to see Clay Contee every few lovely. spend his time in the beautiful state baby girl. weeks too, sometimes for dancing, Chloe Zelkha is still reading parks. He thinks of TMS often and sometimes for studying, depending Mary Oliver a lot! She’s living anyone is welcome to visit for a on their mood...let her know if you in Berkeley, two blocks from her Vegas or non-Vegas adventure. ever come through Chicago, or if work at a Jewish urban farm where In August of 2015 Danny Smith you have any friends who live there she runs their semester program traded New England for California who you think she should meet! and teaches the justice curriculum. and moved out to San Francisco Lily Bo Shapiro experienced It’s a job where she gets to say to start a doctoral program in Art life-expanding joy this summer “everyone belongs here,” like History at Stanford. It’s been great when she ran into Mere Susie used to say to us, which to start to explore out there but he’s Allenick in Israel and went hiking is pretty special. She still loves still a little unsure about what to through the rainforest in Hawaii singing LOUD! make of a winter without snow. with Ali Andrews. This winter Maggie Williams is living in Faisal Kirdar is enjoying she perfected the layers of pants Denver where she likes to bike to his second year teaching high and socks to freezing temperatures work on the Cherry Creek trail, go school chemistry in Mississippi. ratio as well as the art of grating skiing on weekends, and to make Highlights include coaching fresh ginger to brew inner warmth. paintings whenever possible. football and running the chess Meredith Allenick (Mere!) is Clare Vance is still living in club. He misses y’all (yes, he says Self Portrait still living in New York and is now New York and working on docs y’all now). Ink Watercolor working at Twitter, where she is and TV shows. She misses you all Ki Rieffel is living in Ithaca, Emma Glazer super passionate and excited about and savors the times when she gets NY where he recently started work her job. She doesn’t see any of her to see you guys. as an engineer at Cornell. Most old TMS friends hardly enough, Erin Jones has turned nomadic days are spent in a goofy looking but is going to change that! Lots of and escaped New York for the cleanroom suit fabricating love to S’07... Can’t believe we’re winter. She spent the past two microchips for high temperature approaching 10 years. months based in LA, hopping applications. Besides instructing a

35 biking, and skiing; there are so Maddie Loughridge has anti-gentrifi cation organizing, yoga Spring ’08 many adventure possibilities! True spent the year getting her Masters teacher training, oral history, and to her Mountain School roots, she’s in Education and certifi cation as working on a creative nonfi ction Micha Thompson also gotten involved in several a Reading Specialist at Harvard writing project about the housing [email protected] small farms in the Aspen area, Graduate School of Education. crisis in NYC. livia Auld jumped across the and spends a lot of time growing, She is hoping to fi nd a teaching Emma Thomas is living Opond and is getting her MSc cooking, and thinking about food. position somewhere in the Boston in Providence, RI, where she at The University of Edinburgh in Jocie Fifi eld moved from area or maybe out west! teaches 5th grade at an awesome Environment, Culture, and Society. Boston to NYC in September to Isaac Maze-Rothstein little N-8 school dedicated to She loves Edinburgh so far, al- start her Master of Public Health recently joined a solar company empowering kids to be agents of though the sun sets around 3pm… degree at Columbia. She’s studying called Solstice Initiative focused social justice. TMS inspires her Lara Bernstein lives in contraceptive and abortion access on making solar accessible to low teaching all the time. She’s been Brooklyn and works for a tech and is working as a data analyst and middle income Americans. He doing some pottery, practicing a lot start-up. She enjoyed running into in the department. She lives in lives in Somerville Massachusetts, of yoga, going on bike adventures, Liz Moore at her last job when a sunny, plant-fi lled Harlem and spends his spare time cooking and playing music with friends she was working at Fordham Law apartment with fellow TMS alum and dancing. He is happy to whenever she can. School. Thinking of you all and and old friend, Mali’o Kodis s’09; be staying in touch with Sal Micha Thompson has been would be glad to meet up with come visit! Greenberger, Ben Chute and loving her fi rst year of medical those of you in NYC! Brian Huser teaches high other Mountain School students. school at Weill Cornell in New Trevor Brown currently school math in Oakland, with Zoe Pehrson is in Denver York City. This past summer she lives in Madison, Wisconsin and two recent TMS grads among his teaching third grade but planning took a family vacation to what is works in special education. He is current and former students! He to move farther east to Ann Arbor, essentially the Italian counterpart enjoying his time in the Midwest plans to start working towards a Michigan this summer. She is to Mountain School called and spends a lot of his time biking PhD in fi lm and media studies this skiing as much as she can! She is Spanocchia in Tuscany– check it around the state. He is excited to do fall. considering taking a trip east this out! Ironman Wisconsin this September Linus Ignatius splits his time summer and would love to meet Camilla Vogt lives in and fi nish with a smile! He hopes between Berlin and New York. up minus the one big mistake made Washington, DC. She has been Vermont has good sugaring He is beginning his professional with Ben, Paul and Bryan! working for U.S. Congressman weather as he still consumes career as an actor (currently acting Elizabeth Pikaart has had a Jared Polis on healthcare,

massive amounts of maple syrup. in an Off-Broadway show called crazy few years moving around agriculture, and foreign policy 3 Paul Clements is living Johnny), while developing fi lm and the country working as a modern for the past two years. She often in Tulsa, OK after accepting a theater projects on the side. This day carnie in the festival world. mentions TMS in meetings with position at an architecture fi rm. past year he produced large-scale She just fi nished up her second Colorado farmers. Outside of the He is hoping to become a licensed art/installation/party events in year working at the Sundance Film offi ce, she makes time for fruits architect within the next couple of Berlin involving dozens of artists Festival and is now back home in and veggies as a summer volunteer years. and thousands of attendees— New York City. In April she will for the DC-based Produce Plus Sara Davenport is halfway before deciding the party life start her dream job working as program. through veterinary school and wasn’t for him. He is now working the Front of House Manager with Hannah Walchak is studying dreams of working in a practice survival jobs as he continues to Intellitix, the leading provider of wildlife friendly agricultural specializing in ornery goats and old grow his passion projects and a technology-driven solutions for management at Yale School of dogs. She and her fi ancé, Charlie, humble attitude. festivals and live events. Keep Forestry and hoping to spend the hope to visit Vershire and TMS in Elise Javetski is currently your eyes peeled she might be summer somewhere hot and sunny June while in Vermont for Mark living in Somerville, MA teaching coming soon to a festival near you! and far away doing the same. She Davenport’s s’05 wedding! high school math and special Jackson Saul is living in is enjoying being back in New Tyler Eldridge has been living education in Lawrence, MA. She Brooklyn and still working for England! between Japan and the Philippines fi nished her Teach for America Restless Books. for the last year, fi nancing solar commitment last year, as well Alexander Schults is living in power systems. In December as her masters program at BU, Chicago working as an assistant in and January, he went trekking in and is continuing to teach at her an animal hospital. He likes the city Uganda with Nick Bailey to see placement school, Lawrence High. but misses mountains and forests. mountain gorillas, and also stayed She’s looking forward to s08’s 10- He is continuously striving to fi nd with Nick for a week at his home year reunion, which will be here ways to be of service to others. in Togo. before we know it! If you’re in Arya Samuelson lives in Carey Favaloro spent another the Boston area she would love to Brooklyn, NY, has spent the last year living in Colorado, leading reconnect and catch up. three years working at Neighbors hikes and snowshoe tours as a Eliot Knudsen is moving to Together, a community-based Antlers Negative Space naturalist with the Aspen Center New York City in April. He also organization combating and Charcoal Thea McRea for Environmental Studies. She proposed to his girlfriend of 2 reforming homelessness. These has loved exploring the mountains years, Michelle Leeds, on February days, she is especially invested in around Aspen by hiking, mountain twelth. and excited about herbal medicine,

36 his job at Shelburne Farms and back in NYC. She’s enjoyed seeing from Middlebury in 2014 and Spring ’09 partnered with Bread and Butter Mountain Schoolers here and spent the year after that living in Farm (also in Shelburne) to start there, and she sends all her love to New Hampshire working with all his own raw milk micro-dairy. He Spring ’09! sorts of kids in the great outdoors. Isabelle Rivers McCue should be milking between 4-6 Charlotte Greene moved to She’s now living in New York [email protected] cows of his own by mid-May. As Greenpoint. Every morning, her City and working at a school for fter graduating in May with always, anyone is invited to come room is briefl y graced by spastic students with autism. She works Aa Bachelors in English, visit him in Burlington or at the fl ashes of light as the sun rises in with a group of six amazing high Corinne Keer has returned to the farm. perfect perpendicular alignment schoolers whom she loves! Other Bay Area where she regularly en- Evan Mullen remains with the BQE and a big blue than that, she spends her days joys avocados, foosball league, and Parisian, having decided to make storage building. Work is good, playing rugby and researching the use of France’s Bernie-Sanders- inspiration comes and goes, and best breakfast sandwich in the city. her new job as a content strategist approved educational system to you are always welcome on her Isabelle Rivers-McCue for Study.com. She hopes this year get a master’s degree in public couch. is now living in Chicago where brings lots of growth, community, health and come out—he kids you Eric Coffi n-Gould is she does visual merchandising and good health. The Mountain not—in the black. Nevertheless, living in Oakland, working at a for her local Patagonia store and School is still very present in her he’ll be throwing in the towel on public relations company in San remotely reads college admissions thoughts, and all of you are contin- ceiling moldings, unrefrigerated Francisco, and loving the beautiful applications for small liberal arts ued sources of inspiration (exhibit milk, and Vespas and moving back places to hike in the Bay Area. schools. She spends as much time A: the recent Googlechat about so- into glorifi ed dorm rooms come Phoebe Papademetriou as she can walking through Lincoln cial privilege and resource genera- August, when he (fi nally) begins decided last July to take her work Park along Lake Michigan (in medical school in New York. abroad after working as head head-to-toe Patagonia, of course) tion!). Cheers to another good year. After graduating from Yale baker and back of house manager to get some fresh air in the middle If anyone visits the Bay, her couch in May, Jesse Schreck spent six at Levain Bakery in New York of a big city. She sends love out is your couch! months working as a Production City for a little over a year. She to the TMS community and her Scott Milliman is happily Assistant for a new Hulu series worked at a B&B in France for a fellow Spring ‘09ers and implores living back home in Seattle. He called “The Path.” He learned that little bit, and afterwards traveled you to visit her in Chicago! is working at a child care center a “martini,” in industry-speak, is around Europe until arriving back for the Boys and Girls Club while the last shot of the day (because: home in time for Thanksgiving. Spring ’10 he plans a Pacifi c Crest Trail hike “the next shot is in the glass!”), that After spending the holidays with for the summer of 2016! Let him New York State requires a permit friends and family, Phoebe decided Rachel Black know if he’ll be in your neck of the for a baby to act at night (as, let’s be to take a big leap and move out to [email protected] woods! honest, it should), and that TV/fi lm the west coast. She moved to San

37 drija Navarro graduated Cora Went graduated from production is a pretty fascinating Francisco, CA mid-January and UNC-Chapel Hill in May, and site for analysis. So, on March has been working as a baker at Afrom Princeton University in she’s taking a year off before 10, Jesse zipped his L.L. Bean Arizmendi Bakery. It is a worker- June 2015 with a BSE in Chemical starting grad school. For now, duffel—the same one he brought owned cooperative which has its and Biological Engineering. She she’s living in Durham, NC and to Vershire seven (!) years ago— ups and downs since everyone is moved to Cambridge, MA, where working two jobs: she is a nanny and fl ew it across the country, to “the boss.” Just last week she had she works as a Research Associ- for a family of four, and she works sunny Los Angeles, with the hopes a “small world” moment while she ate in the Hahn Lab in the Cancer at a restaurant that serves South of becoming a Real-Life Writer. rang someone up while wearing her Program at The Broad Institute. In American food. Next year, she’ll Wish him luck! He misses you all classic ‘wicked good’ t-shirt who her free time she still enjoys sail- be moving back to California to immensely. turned out to be a former TMSer ing. She both volunteers for the start a physics PhD program at Meredith Sopher is fi nishing as well. She is also interning for a Caltech. She plans to research new up her fi rst year of a MA in French local food and beverage PR group Learn to Sail Classes at the MIT types of solar cells based on two- Translation and Interpretation. At as well as doing work for a new Sailing Pavilion and is a Volunteer dimensional materials. this stage of development, all of food+tech app which launched Assistant Coach for the MIT Rac- For Abby Emerson, the fi rst this creature’s original thoughts March 8th. ing Team. year after college was a lovely are slowly being replaced by Bayley Mullan just got back Becky Hamilton is currently and warm one in New Haven, economics and fi nance terms (this from a trip to Seattle, where she living in Boston and teaching a CT. She made a t-shirt quilt (s09 semester’s focus). Meredith is was fortunate enough to go on class of rambunctious 8-year-old T-shirt featured), lived with pets also working part-time in project a double date with Max Birger! children with special needs. She is for the fi rst time since she was 15, management at a translation She also had a great time visiting constantly exhausted, but she loves and volunteered with the Amistad company. Her typical diet consists Lily Adler and Emily Auran in her job. In her free time, she enjoys Catholic Worker House. During of fro-yo, large batches of stir- NYC last October. Bayley moved rock climbing, and wants to start the day, she was working for a fry, and pocket clementines. Her to Los Angeles in January after doing trapeze! female-professors advocacy group natural habitat is the MIIS library, completing an intensive, yearlong Chelsea Davidson works at at Yale. Since then, she has been although this rare creature may program in sustainable agriculture. the Humane Society of Chittenden (back!) to VT to study Hebrew at also be spotted running before Since relocating to L.A., she has County and frequently fi nds that Middlebury, and currently she’s dawn while muttering to herself in been super busy going to juice the mop skills gained from her living in Jerusalem and studying French. bars, eating too much Mexican time at TMS have given her a at the Pardes Institute, a co-Ed Emily Auran is loving her food, and doing a lot of yoga. competitive edge. When she is not yeshiva (school for studying fi rst year of medical school at She is looking forward to the next medicating or playing with dogs classical Jewish texts). Send her Columbia! She’s working in a Mountain School Beach Picnic in and cats, she can be found in the your address if you would like a pediatric orthopedic surgery lab Santa Monica! studio at UVM either practicing, postcard. on the side and is so happy to be Sarah Minahan graduated coaching, or struggling with new Henry Cammack has left choreography. for Overland Summers, leading for Mushrooms and Reconnecting copious amounts of chocolate, After graduating from backpacking trips for high with Our Food.” Here’s the Washington University in St. Louis schoolers throughout the Alaskan bread, and coffee they consumed. link: https://www.youtube.com/ last May, David Parker moved wilderness. After this, she began With a refreshed perspective, watch?v=IFyilPoY3y0 to Chicago to begin working for a teaching residency program with Hailey has dropped her Spanish Phoebe Kranefuss is Deloitte Consulting. He’s patiently the Hillbrook School in Los Gatos, minor (which was disappointingly fi nishing up her English major at awaiting the day that he has a client CA, where she teaches 5th and 6th useless in Spain) to make time for Bowdoin, and capping off senior who’s a maple sugarer. grade science classes. She is living more fulfi lling things like teaching spring with some super interesting Now in his last semester at in the Bay Area and would love yoga three times a week and intern- classes, a good deal of slacking off, UVM, Isaac Sacca fi lls his time to reconnect with past Mountain and one last hurrah on the lacrosse ing at her school’s garden. with community planning/design Schoolers who are also in the area. fi eld. Next year, she’ll be teaching Annabel Buckfi re can’t and making sculptures, and of Let her know if you’d like to catch fi rst grade in Oakland, California. believe it’s senior year already and course plenty of days spent at the up with good food or some time Will anyone else be in the area?! 5 years have passed since our time mountain or backyard terrain park. spent outside! She’d love to connect with some at TMS. She has loved living in Kate Hamilton graduated Rachel Black is completing San Francisco Bay Area TMSers Chicago and is looking forward to from Middlebury in February in her fi nal semester at Brown and next year! spending another 2 quarters there, their famous ski-down ceremony, will be moving to Somerville, MA Wesley Hertz is currently the fi nishing her Master’s degree. In and is now living in DC working and doing data analysis for large program development director for her free time, she has been taking on media strategy for the Hillary public school districts next year. Brown Market Shares Program, cooking classes and watching Clinton campaign. Luckily she doesn’t start work an on-campus food distribution Netfl ix. Kyra Morris loved seeing so until September and can roam the program that sources produce from David Andersen is currently much of s’10 at the reunion in June! southern hemisphere with Rosii local farms in Rhode Island and studying abroad in Valparaiso, She is spending this year at the Floreak in the summer months! Massachusetts. He’ll be working Chile, his third semester abroad! University of Cambridge doing an Rebecca Celli is currently in NYC this summer as a Software He is triple majoring in Spanish, MPhil in English Literature. She has working in documentary fi lm Engineer for Flatiron Health, Latin American studies, and been thinking about TMS a lot this distribution. She was excited to a startup that builds oncology Environmental Studies and term because one of her courses is bond over TMS with her younger software, and was a teaching minoring in Public Health. He titled “Literature Post-Pastoral: or, brother Andrew who was in assistant for intro computer science recently fractured his foot and had Investigating the Anthropocene.” Vershire in the fall. She is sad to not at Brown last fall. to get surgery in Argentina to get Reading Nan Shepherd’s The be spending much time outdoors Caleb Fujimori has once screws, but all is better now. Living Mountain and Robert but is looking forward to attending again mostly been climbing and Marissa Perez is in her second Macfarlane’s The Wild Places has TMS events in NYC this spring! kayaking. He’s been working to last semester at Middlebury and made her curious to explore the Rosii Floreak doesn’t have on designing and prototyping a trying to make good art. She is wilder landscape of Britain. She is a plan for next year and is feeling directional listening device and is also making a whole set of dishes currently planning trips to Mount pretty okay about it. She knows for also looking for a job. He hopes to in the pottery studio and trying to Snowdon in Wales and to the sure she’ll be spending part of the see everyone at the 5-year reunion fi nd many ways to eat butter. This Cairngorms in Scotland. summer gallivanting around South this summer! summer, she will be working at Lex Corwin graduated America with Rachel. Anna Smith has been Farm and Wilderness summer from Lewis and Clark College in After a brief stint way way continuing her work with bees, camp in Plymouth, VT. Come visit! Portland, Oregon in May. After upstate, Shizue Roche Adachi studying viruses and reactions to Christiano Boria is fi nishing graduation he embarked on a has become a temporary transplant pesticides. She hopes to have a up his fi nal semester at Brown 7 week trip that included visits to Hudson, NY. She can be found huge garden next year after she before graduating with a BA in to Cuba, Thailand, Cambodia, toting around gnome-loving graduates, and misses all of the Economics. Upon graduation Vietnam, Croatia, and Scotland. Waldorf children while doing the members of TMS Spring 2011! he will be backpacking around In September Lex moved to post-grad work of Figuring It Out. Southeast Asia before he begins Southern California to work She plans to move to Montana or Spring ’12 working in investment banking in in acquisitions for a real estate Wyoming come June (because, New York. development fi rm. Lucky enough, why not?) and would love to have Walker Cammack plans Susanna Billings his roommate, Matt, happens to friends in this foreign land besides on continuing his wild foods [email protected] go to school an hour away. He is her long-anticipated puppy and her business--Walker’s Goods From elson Mugabo is still trying looking forward to his next TMS partner. So holler! The Woods--after graduating from to fi gure out the college thing. reunion. N Connecticut College this spring. Megan Butterfi eld graduated Recently, he attended the North- He will be providing restaurants from Ithaca College in May with Spring ’11 western University Conference on and farmers’ markets in the Lake a degree in Television-Radio. She Human Rights where he met good Champlain area with local wild spent two months roadtripping Zara Corzine folks and learned about corporate foods that he forages himself. around the country and enjoying [email protected] His business model focuses on social responsibility in different life in Los Angeles. After much ast summer, Hailey Kennedy educating the local community on contexts. He has since been think- consideration and the setting in and Olivia Kivel reunited in ethical foraging practices, as well ing about how to channel his pas- of post-grad realities, she moved L Spain and walked 550 miles from as working with land conservation sions into positive actions. Nelson back to Keene, NH and accepted a San Sebastian to Santiago on el groups to help protect both public is excited for his courses this term; job with the Center for Population and private land. Walker will also Health, Strategy, and Practice at Camino de Santiago. Although he is looking to inject more liveli- help his brother Henry start his Cheshire Medical Center. back at their respective schools on ness into his academics and fi nd his raw milk dairy in Shelburne, VT. Maddy Scheer graduated opposite ends of the U.S., they con- spaces on campus. All in all, he is He also did a TED Talk last year on from Colby College in May tinue to reminisce on the trying to also stretch his comfort the art of foraging, titled “Foraging and spent the summer working adventures, friends they made, and and put himself in vulnerable situ-

38 to Amsterdam before the end of her Mountain School roots—last management. Outside of work, he ations. April. summer she helped establish has enjoyed time with friends and Nathan Lobel spent the Penelope Ganske is studying the Brandeis Rooftop Garden, is nearing his 100th skydive and fall semester studying social abroad in Athens, Greece this and looks forward to leading will soon tackle wingsuit fl ying. movements in Buenos Aires, semester and enjoying traveling volunteers in the garden during Ana Maria Trivino has been Argentina, where he ran into around Europe! its second season. She is also glad hiking a lot and is still working Susanna Billings by chance This year, Khatiti Harper that she is no longer the only TMS toward becoming a sustainable while she was on a weekend trip added music as a second major Brandeisian, as she is joined now engineer. from Santiago, Chile. He’s back and believes that this entitles her by Zoe Zelkha f12. Abby Bowling’s life is at Yale now, trying to learn how to sing Disney songs in public Sarah Gross has been interesting and fi lled with dogs, to convince people that it’s worth because if anyone questions her spending her days learning how friends, and camping. doing something about climate she can just say “chill, I’m a music to drive on the unforgiving streets Charlotte Edelstein is change. He can’t decide whether major.” Currently, she is studying of New York City while taking the spending the semester studying four years seems like a really long abroad in Paris where she has come semester off from Yale. She will abroad in Ecuador. So far she or a really short time since we to the ultimate conclusion that be a counselor at Seeds of Peace has spent time in a homestay in were all sitting together at morning gummy bears in Europe taste better again this summer and is incredibly Quito and traveled to the Intag meeting in Vershire. than those in the US (specifi cally excited to be starting a garden and Cloud Forest, where she learned Zoe Huber-Weiss has nothing the pineapple ones). She is looking gardening program there. She will about sustainable farming and a new to report, except that she fi nds forward to seeing fellow TMS be driving up to Maine in May to powerful anti-mining movement. it odd being in the spring semester alumni on this side of the globe, build and plant it and would love She’s working hard to improve her of her junior year and not being at and to all of the adventures the some company, so let her know if Spanish, and is excited for the rest the Mountain School with the rest semester holds! you want to help out! Recently, she of the semester. of s12. She likes this state of affairs Colby Lewis is thoroughly was wearing her Mountain School While studying abroad at the decidedly less than she did the last enjoying the latter half of her sweatshirt and someone shouted, University of Seville, Lizzy Marks time she had a junior spring. junior year at Lawrence University. “go Mountain School!” and ran has forgotten what winter is, and Kelly Tellez is still spending This year she is interning for the away. She is still trying to decipher now believes 50ºF to be “freezing.” a lot of time in the biology lab. A Offi ce of the Historian at the State this interaction. Her Spanish is coming along, but highlight of her winter study was Department while she is at school, Over the summer Jasper the locals have an uncanny talent running in the rain to fi nd her TMS and will continue her internship Barbash-Taylor worked for author for identifying her as a foreigner roommate Mila Rostain at the in person this summer (pending and agro biodiversity expert David before she opens her mouth (it Williams College Museum of Art! security clearance). She is also Buchanan on his organic farm and must be the shoes, Spanish women She has gotten involved in student spending her free time focusing cider apple orchard/conservation wear very nice shoes?!). She would activism on campus—specifi cally on her music and performing at site in Pownal, Maine. This not recommend maple syrup as a pushing to increase transparency different venues around campus. spring, he is living with his pops host family gift–it will sit in the between students and trustees. Life in the Wisconsin tundra is in Cambridge, MA. Through cabinet, neglected. She loves and Maya Delany is currently similar in many ways to TMS, but courses at Harvard University, misses you all! writing from Brisbane, Australia without the friendly sheep and hip- he has been rediscovering his Max Sopher is struggling to where she is studying at the checking cows she misses so very passion for environmental science realize that for the past month he’s University of Queensland for a much. And without Marilyn and that fi rst began at the Mountain been living in Rome, where he semester! She is excited to take Pam’s cooking. She would kill School. He recently discovered feels perpetually awe-stricken and classes on global population for some of that turkey potpie and quora—essentially a combination usually underdressed. issues, indigenous history, those biscuits right now. Love to of Reddit, Yahoo Answers and Jonathan Adler has had a contemporary Australian issues, all! Wikipedia—and is now still trying busy past year—over the summer, and America through fi lm. Isaac Schultz is still playing to fi gure out whether it would be he spent six weeks doing research Since last spring’s update, Maya bassoon at Rice University in better to grab the hunting knife or as part of the history major through spent a summer in NYC with Texas. He is busy as always with the baseball bat when battling a Yale at UCL in London, England. Amnesty International, became concerts, chamber music, and nun who may or may not be a bear He then fl ew back across the a student activist coordinator to orchestra rehearsals. Last summer in disguise. Atlantic and the North American work with AI chapters around he hiked another month on the Noah Mostow has been continent to work for two months Western Massachusetts, and put Appalachian Trail, completing 800 working his butt off studying as an intern at the Sitka Local Foods her school efforts into clubs such total miles. He’s going out again mechanical engineering here in Network in Sitka, Alaska - a city as the Undocumented Immigrant this summer: get in touch with him Burlington. He has been having a of 9,000 on Baranof Island in the Alliance, Asian American Students if you want to join! He misses all of great time snowboarding, hiking, SE section of the states—growing in Action, and the Multicultural you greatly and would love for you and hanging out with friends. He is lots of greens, helping to run the Campus Life Committee. to get in touch. the Vice-chair of ASME (American bi-weekly farmers’ markets, and Anya Katz just returned Nina Sayles is fi nishing her Society of Mechanical Engineers) biking through torrential Pacifi c from doing research on HIV junior year at Brandeis where at UVM, and is also a tour guide northwest rain storms. He had a in Amsterdam and is taking she continues to study health: and leader for the Outing Club. great semester back in New Haven the semester off from Oberlin. science, society, and policy, and Besides that, he has been hanging in the fall, and is now in northern During her semester off, she is music. She fi nished another long out with friends just doing some Israel for the semester as part of working with an organization but successful fencing season in shenanigans. an Arabic and Hebrew language called LEIMAY to produce a which her team won a share of the During the fall 2015 semester, program. He wishes all of his dance and visual art performance conference title, and she continues James Rau was in a cooperative fellow s12 friends well on their called Borders in Brooklyn, doing to gain more leadership within the program working at Mack wide-ranging adventures! freelance photography for the Brandeis Mountain Club. Living Truck’s manufacturing facility, Grace Stonecipher is Dutch magazine, Hello Gorgeous, in the Metro Boston area hasn’t where he gained further insight spending a lot of time at the and fi guring out how to get back stopped her from being true to into engineering and project rock climbing gym, training

39 for competition season and a urban design and eating Danish obviously trying to get back to her and Michael in the upcoming spring break trip to climb in cinnamon rolls (not to be confused dish crew roots. She can’t think of academic year, but—with two days Nevada. She’s hoping to spend the with danishes). He is back at anything particularly interesting left to sign the lease—got cold feet summer in Alaska, maybe doing Brown, where he now just eats about her life right now, so she’ll and thought better of it. Needless to some senior thesis research, but danishes. just end by saying she misses you say they are no longer friends. This mostly hanging out with bears. Hannah Celli is living in guys tons! was ghost-written by Andrew. August Rosenthal is a Berlin for the semester. She is Beth Minahan spent the fall Noah Henry Goodman does philosophy and political science learning German, babysitting, and working on the facilities team at a a primal scream when he gets the major at Middlebury College. eating really great Turkish food. camp, then went to Boston to intern chance. The rest of the time, he sits He is writing a joint thesis on Erin Van Gessel is studying at Jobs with Justice and food-run and reads and fi dgets. Or rides a prison reform and the morality abroad this semester at the at a restaurant/music venue. She bicycle. of punishment. To cheer himself University of Cape Town. It has passed the food-running torch up from that depressing topic, he been a change of pace for her on to fellow s12 alum Katy Lee Spring ’13 is still doing improv and started from Middlebury, VT, but she is in January in order to go back to dipping his toes into stand-up. enjoying studying the politics of school at Oberlin. They overlapped Joanna Lynch is back at South Africa and exploring the for two days, which was a blast. Ethan Savel Carleton where she has declared a country by fork and foot…so lots Katy Lee is taking a semester [email protected] sociology and anthropology major. of eating and (when there’s enough off from Barnard to travel around ram Kyer will be returning to It’s Andrew Gong’s energy) hiking. She misses the the country with Lowry Bass and BVershire this summer to work sophomore year at Washington TMS crew, though, and is looking eventually settle in Yaak, Montana on the farm crew. University in St. Louis. He is forward to the fi rst big reunion! for a few months. Lately, people (out of the blue having a great time playing Susanna Billings spent the Lowry Bass is taking this and unrelated to each other) keep ultimate frisbee, exploring St. fall semester in Santiago, Chile semester off from Middlebury giving Fiona Harbert quotes from Louis, and studying marketing studying Latin American political College. She is heading to “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver. and computer science. Andrew systems and felt lucky to be able Tennessee where she will meet What is it with this poem? Has it will be in Seattle this summer, and to explore South America, where Katy Lee to travel around the followed anyone else? hopes to get the chance to visit the she randomly ran into Nathan south for an independent study, After a wonderful and exciting Mountain School soon. Lobel on a trip to Buenos Aires. which she is really looking forward gap year (traveling in Bolivia Lauren Volpert can’t believe This spring, she is continuing her to. with Where There Be Dragons that the Spring ‘12ers are rising studies abroad in Paris, France Kelan Nee is taking the and expeditioning around seniors in college! She is so and hoping for a similar ratio of semester off from Colorado New England with the Kroka excited for our fi ve-year reunion time spent ‘studying’ to time spent College, building boats, and Expeditions Vermont Semester), and wants to throw away her ‘abroad’ (traveling). hoping to travel around the USA. Hazel Edwards has settled into phone in anticipation. Lauren will Recently, Charlotte May Mario Sacca is living in her fi rst year at Smith College. be working in NYC this summer joined the ranks of the other six Vermont, working with his hands: She’s studying environmental doing science research, so please s12 alumni at Brown University. welding, building, woodworking, science and education. In her let her know if you want to hang She transferred from Haverford and generally learning life skills— free time, she contra dances, out! College outside of Philadelphia it’s sweet, you should try it. rock climbs, and goes for bike In his junior year, Cooper to Brown via a semester studying Dan Schreck is thinking about rides on the Northampton rail Vincent is conducting research at abroad at the University of getting a used car. How does that trail. She’s looking forward Gonzaga University on magnetic Edinburgh in Scotland. So far she work? Let him know. And another to spending another summer resonance contrast agents! has had lunch with Jane Jacoby, process he doesn’t understand? working as a counselor at Mass Jane Jacoby is doing research drinks with David Elitzer, a Settlers of Catan. He loses a lot. Audubon’s Drumlin Farm Camp! on fi sheries management and dinner run-in with Hayley Flug, Help him out. The tutelage of Mila Yvonne Mickens is enjoying her perfecting the art of the raspberry breakfast with Noah Henry, and Rostain has proven questionable. second semester of sophomore smoothie. street passes with Dan Schreck Mila Rostain is still happily year at Allegheny College!! Her David Elitzer was in and Nelson Mugabo. She’s at Yale, where she spends 80% weekdays are spent in biology Copenhagen in the fall studying offi cially concentrating in history of her time dreaming of Morano labs and psychology lectures. and continues to miss Marilyn’s Gelato and 20% playing games. She is currently the secretary cooking at every university she has Here she is with her least favorite of her school’s Association of attended. Mountain School parasite from Caribbean Students and a member Hayley Flug is back for the Valentine’s Day. of Orchesis, which is her school’s spring of her junior year after an dance company. While her internship semester abroad in Paris, weekdays are hectic, she loves where she worked at a human rights to spend her weekends amongst NGO and an elementary school for friends having movie nights or just immigrant children. Hayley cannot dancing around her dorm room. wait for the s12 fi ve-year reunion, Marie Vaine is at Warren even though there’s an ever-present Wilson College studying mini reunion at Brown!!! environmental studies and outdoor Zelda Wengrod is adjusting leadership. She’s working at a killer to life back in the States and at recycling program that is moving Oberlin after going abroad to her entire campus toward zero study English at Trinity College Kenny Shapiro has been landfi ll waste! She’s also on the Dublin (which was amazing!) at Bowdoin living with Michael Warren Wilson road cycling team David suning himself last semester. She also just started Butler f11. He briefl y had plans and is gearing up for her fi rst race. working in the dining hall— to live with Andrew Cawley f11

40 She will be doing three triathlons at Mills College working toward in an independent study: she’s ing center, reads from her Robert this summer and working as a Lake spending an entire semester a degree in anthropology. She’s Frost collection at Poetry Reading Host. reading the diaries of this random loving Oakland and hanging out Group, and is currently knitting Ella Caplin is studying guy who lived in Rhode Island with her sister, Rachel f07. Still marine science abroad in from 1920-1986 and was a recluse working at the art museum on a sweater with Mountain School Townsville, Australia, right by the and a hoarder and a bit of a stalker campus, she and coworkers are yarn. Great Barrier Reef. (he never let anyone into his house photographing and cataloguing Ellis Fredella is loving life Eliza Thomas is writing from until after he died, when he left the museum’s entire collection up in the northern reaches of the Auckland, New Zealand, where it and all of its contents to one of (over 10,000 pieces). She’ll be (unusually warm) Green Mountain she’s studying abroad with SEA spending the summer in southern the women he was obsessed with). state at UVM. Studies toward a BS Semester. She is setting out for a Italy working on an archaeological That woman has now also passed in civil engineering are going well. month at sea, heading down the away but Lauren tracked down excavation of a 3rd Century He’s on the ultimate frisbee team east coast of New Zealand doing her daughter, who still has several winery. She also misses the Morris here, Vermont Chill. Lots of fun oceanography and marine biology boxes of this man’s stuff. As she’s mug more than anyone from our research. She loves her time there writing this, she should be studying semester. times being had up here! so far. Being abroad has reminded for an accounting exam. Why is Madeline Frank is currently Stef Hernandez is currently her of what an important piece of she in accounting????? Her dad a sophomore anthropology major in the midst of her exciting fi rst her life TMS has been—it helped requires it. She’s already looking and English minor at Kenyon year at Williams. She has been her develop the sense of adventure forward to the fi ve year reunion College and has had a great year rock climbing, sunrise hiking, and and curiosity for the world that so far! She is planning to study and hopes the weather where you making endless coffee runs with has led her to New Zealand this abroad in Paris next spring and are is less psycho than where she her friends. semester. She hopes everyone is is: nine degrees when she woke up is still running cross country and Eliza Klein is having a phe- doing well—big hugs! yesterday, mid-fi fties today. track! Missing all her TMS loves nomenal year in Williamstown, Gabe Weisbuch spends Kipling Haviland-Hack every day! his time trying to make people is currently at Cornell studying Ethan Savel is still at MA. She is going on frequent sun- feel good about themselves and environmental science with Wesleyan, trying to fi gure it rise hikes, working on a fossil fuel expressing himself creatively. He a minor in environmental out, like everyone. He spent divestment campaign, playing lots shares a room with a fi sh named engineering (try saying that ten last summer doing public health of frisbee and bananagrams, and Kenny, whom he loves dearly, has times). He’s loving the major but research in Cape Town, South (obviously) feeling the Bern. endowed with his ideal personality, still fi guring out his life. He is still Africa for three months and now and considers far superior to any in a fraternity, Delta Upsilon, and spends most days yearning to get other being. is now the house manager which back there. He spends most of Sequoia Scavullo is living it has been fun. He recently joined his time napping and watching in Boston now. She is now in a a project team called Cornell television, like he used to do at fi ve year dual degree program University Sustainable Design, TMS as well. Sending his love with Tufts and the School of the and is leading a team of people to to his whole spring ‘13 family all Museum of Fine Arts. This is much design a new green parking lot on across the globe. better for her because she has so campus. Its aim is to test out new much more time for her art. It’s technology like Solar Road Tiles, Spring ’14 amazing how not doing something hopefully, using a million dollar Eliza Klein and Ruby Edlin drop she loved so much can really make grant. He somehow was able to get Julia Pike Violet Cole off at her fi rst day of her not feel like herself. She also a job working for the Appalachian [email protected] college at Vassar. made her fi rst website for her Mountain Club at 3 Mile Island aird Acheson is happily set- paintings http://cargocollective. on Lake Winnipesaukee. It’s a com/SequoiaRoseScavullo and beautiful 44-acre island with a Btling into his second semester Elyse Lindahl is enjoying would love to know what people family camp. Jack and Sue talked at Brown University. Lowlight: her fi rst year at Scripps College in think. Thinking of you all often. about it a lot at TMS because they dislocating his shoulder while sled- Southern California, playing ulti- Forever forever forever in her were managers there for a long ding on a dining hall tray. High- mate frisbee and eating avocados. heart. time. It’s similar to TMS in a lot of light: taking the same tray down a She hopes to major in economics This year, Kalaina Thorne ways, (Marilyn also cooked there) much much bigger slope the next with a minor in Italian language. has been busy with fi guring out which is a big reason he loved it so week. Elyse can’t wait to return to Ver- her major and sleeping through much. He was also able to work Violet Cole is enjoying hav- mont for the summer to teach wa- classes. This summer she hopes with Gabe Weisbuch and Julia ing the same initials as Vassar terskiing at Camp Billings and visit that she can do some ecology Carpenter while there, as well research somewhere through an as many other Mountain School College. At Vassar, she spends her TMS! REU program. She’s dropped the alums. time aimlessly checking her mail- Ariana McGinn is a fresh- acapella group but has tentatively Alex Bynum is still at box, doing crossword puzzles, and man at Penn, and she’s having a started a band with some friends:). Carleton college where he plans wearing the exact same sneakers as great time. She writes for a sketch She also has joined the Equestrian on declaring a geology major the elderly men at the gym. Though comedy troupe, and is a part of the Club while staying in her dance come springtime. Much to the she likes New York, Violet misses divestment club. group. displeasure of his parents, Alex has California for its warmth, avoca- Katie Morse-Gagné is liv- Lauren Black loves having started playing ice hockey again dos, and Olivia Burke-Tomaeno. ing two fl oors above Anna Blaus- the s13 contingent at Brown after a many year hiatus. He sends Sophie Frank is happy to be tein and going on outing club trips growing with Lily Meyersohn, warm thoughts to friends spread far Charlotte Haslett, and Sam and wide! back on the east coast for her fi rst whenever possible. She loves Mayer all joining this year! Most Sophie Draznin-Nagy is year at Haverford College. She Bowdoin so far, and living in a of her life right now is absorbed takes real maple syrup to the din- quint reminds her of Derby (but

41 Feminist Coalition at Watertown can never compare). She still miss- ing Notre Dame but missing foot- ton and is raising money for a med- High School, commuting to New es s’14 a ton, loved seeing a lot of ball! Settled in and working intra- ical clinic for the homeless. Lastly, York, listening to First Aid Kit, you over winter break and living murals and playing in intramural she is looking forward to enrolling and making hummus with Aida on Grant and Andy’s fl oors for a sports, spring break in Florida and in the class of 2020 at Middlebury! Muratoglu. week, and can’t wait for spontane- volunteering this summer. Izzy Kotlowitz is really Carmen Ribadeneira has ous summer reunions. missing Derby dorm, Pine Top, and spent the majority of her fall baking everyone at TMS... However she is vegan goodies and spending time excited to be in the spring musical in Connecticut. She can often be at her school and working as a found spending time with friends counselor at a camp this summer. or freaking out about the new She sends her love to Spring ’15 Michael Pollan Netfl ix series. and all of the Mountain School Jacob Kiely-Song has spent faculty. his year in a state of perpetual Livi Bokor can be found motion. He whiles away the time Rachel Scharf f13, Eliza Klein, reading Jhumpa Lahiri, playing writing poems, boxing, thinking Rena Simkowitz, Sarah New- and Stef Hernandez at with her dogs, or running along about irony in detention for his poor berger, and Clare Steinman on Williams College. the Hudson River with Sara. She attendance, and hiking around New is editor-in-chief of her school’s a bike trip in Ireland Hampshire by himself. He also has newspaper and a peer mentor for Clare Steinman is loving started drinking far too much Coca eighth graders. Livi is currently Cola because it is free at Za, the Sarah Newberger really en- freshman year at Brown Univer- making a dress out of bobby pins restaurant he seems to fi nd himself joyed her fi rst semester at Brown, sity. She spends her time trying to for her school’s annual fashion working at most nights. Hopefully which consisted of many Monday play ultimate frisbee, writing opin- show and is looking forward to a this addiction, along with Breaking pho dates with Clare Steinman. ions for the Brown Daily Herald, summer of friends and travel. Bad and driving too fast, will prove Sarah heard a rumor that Baird and enjoying weekly pho dates Beyond Garden Hill, Emma beatable. Cob would like the TMS Acheson goes here too, but she’s with Sarah Newberger where Seevak continues to adventure community at large to know that still not sure. Sarah’s also been they complain about being at the through the woods (a high point he carved his initials into a bench was Half Dome), drink Earl Gray having a good time interning at only Ivy that doesn’t compost. in Conard BEFORE Sue got up to tea, and talk with TMS friends. Year Up this semester and wants College has driven her to question instruct us not to do such a thing. She’s spent senior year running, When Aida Muratoglu isn’t s14 to visit Providence ASAP!!! her beliefs, and she is now unsure editing the school newspaper, teaching herself guitar or making Julia Pike is thoroughly en- if GMOs are a good thing. and enjoying one last cotton-clad brunch with Mountain Schoolers, joying her freshman year at Am- Leo Stevenson just left a per- California winter. She’s dripping Aida is leading her school’s herst College, where she spends fectly good carpentry job in NC with excitement for the sugaring Environmental Action Club, her time playing Ultimate Frisbee, (with Matthew Sevilla) and drove reunion! serving as editor-in-chief of the singing in an a cappella group, and north to start school at Middlebury Oceanna Schnirman is living literary magazine, or nannying for rock climbing at a local gym. Julia, with one Ruby Edlin. Leo is en- in Andover, MA and is starting the two adorable babies. She is looking fi rst community garden in Andover like most Mountain Schoolers, is joying the fresh new challenges of forward to taking a gap year, in over 20 years. She hopes all of involved with her school’s divest- having to remember which day of during which she plans on living in Spring ’15 is doing well and cannot Turkey, farming, and backpacking. ment club, and, like some others, the week it is and being surrounded wait for the reunion! Ruby Mayer lives at the mourns the lack of s14ers at her by other humans all the time. Lindsay Cartmell is looking Paint Bar, where she works for school. forward to this year’s lacrosse eccentric patrons who want to Rayna Solbeck is currently season and hearing back from all explore their artistic sides. Once at Oberlin in OH (and loving it of her colleges, and is looking into in awhile she will see mountain despite the cornfi elds and distinct gap year opportunities. friends, but she mostly just lack of anything close to a moun- Francesca Farris is enjoying drives around in her Honda CRV, the end of her senior year with her tain). She’s working as a managing listening to Late Registration. She weekly tuna melts… You will most mechanic and new member trainer goes on occasional runs and leads a likely fi nd her at Warren Wilson streetball league for non-committed in the bike cooperative and student s14 at Ariana birthday dinner College next year, but she is still yet somehow competitive athletes union bike share at her school, deciding. in Newton. as well as living in a dining and The fall was tricky for Ben Shani Berkowitz is fi nishing housing cooperative. Every time Spring ’15 Gross, because of the college up her second semester of senior she does the pot sink she thinks process, but he has found that a year at Gann Academy, babysitting of Mountain School and chan- Amir Mamdani deep appreciation for shirt pockets for her three little cousins, and nels master Jack Kruse, King of amir.mamdani16@trinityschoolnyc. and rereading Harry Potter has spending time with friends and helped him get through it all. Ben Pot-Sinking-in-Record-Time. She org family. She is looking forward to also helped bring composting to sends love to all and would like to inslow Ferris has just interning at an architectural fi rm Dalton, which has lessened its in the spring before she graduates. add that if any alums want to come wrapped up her last season W regular trash load signifi cantly! She still does not know where she visit her in the middle-of-nowhere on the Concord Academy ski team. Also, meat has mostly disappeared will be attending college but knows Ohio, she would be so delighted Her team took second place over- from his diet. that next year will be full of fun and buy them vegan pancakes and all so that was very exciting. She Zoe Grodsky is spending the and new experiences. tea. is also doing an independent study end of her senior year rehearsing Robby Lamont has been Josie Souza is currently: lov- this semester on healthcare in Bos- for Fiddler on the Roof, running the

42 spending time reading and learning lifestyle of near-absolute academic various events, including being Hundred Years of Solitude (and to cook. He is captain of the math indifference. He can often be found selected to play in the Inter-School highly recommends it), and has also team and is doing ultimate frisbee learning outside of the classroom Music Association’s Honors Jazz developed interests in biking, quiz for the fi rst time this year. He is though— chess, harmonica, and Band. While he is having fun in the bowl, and swamp exploration. He enjoying senior year, especially his photography are his interests of play and in the band, he still misses is looking forward to backpacking engineering class. He also just got late, and he still loves making everyone from s15, and cannot and traveling to India this summer. his learner’s permit and has started videos. After graduation in late wait to see them soon! Queen Esme Valencia learning how to drive at the tender June, Liam is planning on working As president of the Women’s Zodrow-MacDonald (the fi rst of age of 18. in New York. Issues Club, Sara Santiago has her name) has spent the past year Yaritza Amado has been Over the summer, Losel been organizing the club’s annual fi guring out her schooling and playing squash, missing Mountain Yauch wrote and directed a short dinner whose theme is Women destroying all who stand before her. School, and listening to J. Cole (as fi lm which she is now editing. She in Criminal Justice. After the She is currently attending Portland per usual). She is looking forward is excited to say it will be done bittersweet end to her high school Community College, where she is to working in the summer and soon! For the remainder of high volleyball career, Sara decided to known for being brilliant, regal, attending college in the fall. school Losel hopes to focus on audition for her fi rst high school and attractive. She also really Anna Cooksey is enjoying music and the visual arts. She is musical. Since the conclusion of the misses her loyal subjects (aka the end of her senior year at Myers currently trying to teach herself the show she has spent her afternoons friends) at The Mountain School. Park High in Charlotte. She is banjo, and has also just signed up running, cooking, and painting looking forward to seeing all to volunteer at the Wild Bird Fund, with friends. Sara is excited about of her friends and the faculty at a wildlife rehabilitation center in travelling and enjoying her friends’ Reunions the sugaring reunion. In her free New York. She is very excited to company during the coming time, Anna has been playing with start and can’t wait to see everyone months. a bluegrass band and watching at the sugaring reunion. Amir Mamdani has greatly 2016 movies. Jamie Pitman has been enjoyed receiving updates from Will Kolling has found missing TMS and all of the all of his classmates as class 5-10-15 years himself swept up in local live people tremendously, but has been agent of the s15 semester. He has theater. Rent, Hamlet, American enjoying her time at home on the also been soaking up the fi nal Fall ’00, ’05, ’10 Idiot and more. He remains closely coast. She led her school’s tennis semester of his 13 years at Trinity Spring ’01, ’06, ’11 connected to TMS and is lucky team to its best year in school School. In his spare time, Amir has enough to have this amazing history this fall and is planning been travelling to Boston to see June 10-12 shared experience with his younger to start Christmas tree farming in Mountain School friends and as sister Elizabeth, who is a current western NC this spring. She’s been usual, obsessively following any *************** student. working hard in preparation for her and all sports. 20 year Christina Duval is for the gap year in Patagonia and can’t Anna Barnes is looking most part just shuffl ing through wait to take a weekend off to see forward to senior spring when Fall ’95, Spring ’96 the year. She spends a lot of time everyone at the reunion. she will be bird watching with with her cats because she has no Overall, Remi Godinez has her ornithology class, running August 5-7 time to go out. In her free time, had a happy start to her senior year. her *hopefully not broken* legs *************** she’s organizing the poetry festival She dislocated her ankle this fall around the track, and staying up 25 years + over and working. The highlight of her but was able to compete bars at two past her bedtime. Fall ’84-Spring ’91 year was going to Abu Dhabi. Her gymnastics meets this season! She For the fi rst time in his life, favorite activity is sleeping. will be learning to tap dance this Theo Elliman goes to school for August 12-14 For those wondering, Liam May for her senior project and is the entire school day and eats lunch *************** Hefta has still not built the guitar looking forward to graduating high in the cafeteria. He manages the he has promised he would, but school and whatever may come girls basketball team, but still does continues to play music and enjoy beyond! not know what a foul is or how a nice cup of tea on occasion; he Ginger Adams is enjoying to work the scoreboard. Although 2017 tentative has also picked up the wonderful her last semester at Trinity school he is missing some art credits, he sport of volleyball, and is straight and is looking forward to her gap hopes to graduate. He is the head 5-10-15 year up terrible. semester before beginning college of his high school magazine, but Fall ’01, ’06, ’11 Sam Huston is enjoying life at Middlebury. in his free time enjoys Monday in the wild mountain ranges of the Ray Moss-Cousin has been crossword puzzles and his brother’s June 9-11 Pacifi c Northwest. He is currently working and doing “the regular cooking. *************** spending as much time as he can school thing.” She is looking Donald Welsh has had a safely climbing rocks, buildings, forward to going to an out-of-state busy year of cross country, school, 20 year and other large objects. school in the fall and continuing college applications, retreat, and Fall ’96, Spring ’97 Gary Friedle recently moved to dance and step in the meantime learning about the universe. The to Palm Springs, California from but also working on getting her highlight has been helicopter August 4-6 New York City because his parents doctoral degree. She can’t wait to skiing in Canada. Donald looks *************** bought a hotel. When he isn’t see everyone! forward to a crammed summer of 25 years & over playing football or rugby, he is Henry Pearson has had a traveling and spending time with Fall ’84, Spring ’92 helping his parents run their hotel lot to do besides yearning for the friends. or going hiking with friends in the days where he was a student at the These days, James August 11-13 mountains. Mountain School. He has taken the Wedgwood spends most of his free Liam Zeya is living lead in his school play, The Music time running, playing piano, and peacefully in McLean, Virginia, Man. He has spent an equal amount making mischief with his friends. happily adjusting to his temporary of time playing the saxophone for He just fi nished re-reading One

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Rob Benson and Delphinium, sidekicks since 2004 at TMS

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