MountainNews from the School SPRINGSPRING 20182008 PEARLS PEARLS AND AND SEAWEED SEAWEED NUMBER NUMBER 35 57 Let the daily tide leave some deposit on these pages, as it leaves L et the daily tide leave some deposit on these sand and shells on thepages, shore...This as it leaves may sand be and a shells calendar on the of Full Circle shore...This may be a calendar of the ebbs and Doris Emerson Conardthe ebbs and flows offlows the of soul; the soul;and and on onthese these sheets sheets asas a abeach, the waves may cast up pearls and seaweed. beach, the waves may cast up pearls and seaweed. The Van West Family Returns to Vershire -Henry David Thoreau –Henry David Thoreau By Alden Smith, Director

— Jenny Pettitfew yearsVan West ago,, f84my friend Jack Kruse visited experience there: building community around something I love. Doris Conard in the nursing home in Haver- Today, that’s what I do in music, performance, and advocacy. Auch of hill, what New I had Hampshire. understood Jack about wasn’t education—and sure how I was farM Doris’blessed Alzheimer’s with a great had one—gently progressed, dismantled and he brought on arrival in I never completely recovered from leaving the Mountain School. alongVershire. with I himdoubt a brochurethat was the from intent the oforiginal the founders, Mountain but it was That could sound depressing—and it has been at times—but it’s School,replaced printed with something in the 1970s. that Hemade gave a lot it tomore Doris sense and to me. The the searching that unlocked the meaning of my time there. That watchedcurriculum her had read roots it—slowly, in the landscape, page by and page. one When classroom she subject has been the lasting gift. shed light on another. There was a fluidity to all the forms of work finished, she looked up at Jack, smiled, and said, “What a and play. Heady intellectual discussions were broken up by (or wonderfulconcurrent idea!”with) barn cleaning, wood stacking, food harvesting, and long “Yes,” itchy Jackafternoons said. “Andin the ithayfields. was your Whileidea, the Doris. adults were —Jeff Van West, f84 Youdefinitely wrote thisin charge, brochure. we greeted You built our teachersthis school.” by their first names. We worked Two together. decades We before relied David on one and another. Nancy Grant con- he older we get, the more we see things come full circle. This vinced Milton Academy to purchase the Mountain School Tisn’t déjà vu so much as returning to the same point from a new andWhile turn the it intoacademics the country’s were rigorous, first semester they could program, halt for Mac a day perspective. It’s the same valley but from the higher switchback on andof reloadingDoris Conard wood bought so we thedidn’t farm run from George Winsor the trail, or the other side of the out (true story). No one was getting looking glass. and established it as a four-year boarding school. David McDonald’s coffee at midnight to log andtwo Nancy more recentlyhours writing reminded a ten-page us of their predecessors’ Full circle meant returning to extraordinaryoutline of a partnershipdense, 75-page at Doris’history memorial service at the TMS library, where I had theassignment. Mountain That School. was “Younot the never life weheard Mac’s name history class with Bernie in withoutwere living. Doris’, We or Doris’had chores name beforewithout Mac’s,” said 1984, and listening to Alden Nancy.breakfast “They and were were a physicallygreat team.” worn David and Nancy were tell us parents of Fall ’17 how speakingout at night. to a Welarge worked group hard, including played Doris’ family, former difficult the return from TMS students,hard, and townspeople, slept hard. Much and of Mountain what we School teachers can be. I think Sue saw me nod ate had been grown on the farm before knowingly: Yes, it is. and students. we came. Much of what we harvested Mac and his three sons were a little bashful about and processed would be eaten by future and teachers worked together toThe arrange loss flowers,when departingset ta- a asking us to host the service. They respectfully suggested students. Baxter, Jeff, Charlesblecloths, and Jenny rehearse Van West music,transformative organize place parking, is real. move It doesn’t chairs, matter that such an event might disrupt the semester. In fact we and greet visitors. Thethat Conard no one sons died. created No fortunes the bulletin were lost. wereFast honored forward 33to do years so—what and it’s better December place 2017. to remember We’re picking Those are perspectives that come with later circles. Besides, grief and arranged photographs. The service included two of Dorisup our than oldest the son school after she his andsemester Mac createdat the Mountain together? School. We We is non-linear. It’s like a gas expanding to fill the existing space. As Mac’s favorite hymns, moments of silence, and a time for settledwere able on theto empathize. dining hall We as had the not right been venue, with him a twelve- in that place, at someone who has walked both sides of this experience, it seems those present to stand and talk about their memories of sidedthat time, building with thatthose they people—that and their belonged students to had him designed and his class. acknowledgement without temperance is useful. There’s a hollow However, we knew what it meant to have Jack Kruse as a teacher Doris.ring to, Nat “It Conardwill be okay.” talked It aboutis not okay:his mother Friends as are a visionarydeparting, the and built together in 1971. Mac told me before the memo- and mentor. He had been ours as well. educator,door is closing, an unconventional the golden age gardener,is over. However, and a “super-it is true to offer rial service that he and Doris originally envisioned this mom”that, “ Youbefore will there be okay. ever Yes, was this such sucks. a term. You’re Andy right, but I promise structure as a way to unite the central campus and as a I told him it took me about 25 years to figure out the takeaway Wasserman,you will be okay.” a neighbor And then, of the thought Mountain but not School, spoken, spoke “... in of time, place for students and teachers to meet, prepare meals, from the experience, but for him it would probably be much themuch Conard better homethan okay.” as a place that always welcomed her andfaster. hold I pursueddances andthe experiencesother events. I had there; I threw myself at and her children. Others in the room spoke of Doris’ organic Wefarming, prepared became for a the contra service dance in fiddler,just the hikedcollabora- the Pacific One of the gifts of TMS is that everyone arrives without a history. tiveNorthwest, way that and Mac lived and in DorisVermont. ran I their even school.married Studentsa classmate. But Our children’sSee Rememberingnew peers see Doris, page 6. it wasn’t until my 40s that I discovered the Holy Grail of my own them as they are right now. As continued on page 7-Van West 1 1 Letter from the DIRECTOR

Time and Place

By Alden Smith

At the Mountain School, you are free after 9:00 p.m. No one can send on guns. And yet, study after study links social media with teenage you a late-night snapchat or text you at 2:00 a.m. You are allowed to loneliness, sleeplessness, depression, and poor body image. Phones sleep and read and talk and really do anything other than wait by a connect our students to a world that is vast and complex, awesome small, glowing rectangle. and terrifying. The pace of change will only increase; we’re not going back to 1983. -Clio Rose, s18 Graduates sometimes ask me why the Mountain School doesn’t ban lio’s journal entry, written shortly after spring break, reveals the phones altogether, as some camps do. If Clio feels free at night without Cfreedom she finds in Conard House, where she has no access Internet in the dorm, wouldn’t unplugging everywhere on campus to the Internet. There, she is free from social debt: texts to answer, ensure a more complete freedom? streaks to keep, status updates to like. She is accessible only through the one old-fashioned phone she shares with her dormmates. One answer: Making the phone choice for students robs them of agency. If we want them to choose wisely in the future, then they need Daytime is different. Anyone can open a laptop and check Instagram to practice these skills—together and thoughtfully—amid competing on central campus, where WiFi pulses through the buildings. Also, temptations. Social media platforms do not want students to think after the four-week ban on handheld devices expires, students can carefully about their clicks any more than other large industries want have their phones back—no questions asked. The notifications and them to consider their sources of food, energy, or news. In an economy groupchats, texts and tweets, streaks and posts keep ringing and that makes choices for them—sometimes unethically, without their racking up through the semester. It’s not as easy for students to sign consent—critical thinking gives students their best shot at freedom. off as some adults imagine. Those who give up social media must pay social consequences. Hats off to this generation of kids, truly; I found So choosing whether or not to take back your phone has become an adolescence complicated enough without having to bounce between important, if messy, part of our week-four curriculum. The semester the virtual and the actual. tends to be split, and debates can be intense. School meetings—good for creating norms around phone use (never during meals, say, or on I grew up in the era of the house phone. If my best friend George Garden Hill)—become tense when those who decide not to take back happened to answer when I called, we’d pick a time and place and their phone try to shame their peers into making the same decision: arrange to meet up. Freedom was riding bikes in the park, fishing in your choice to take your phone back, the reasoning goes, will ruin the creek, playing kick-the-can in the yard. It was almost anything my Mountain School experience. All this messy conversation and outdoors—outside the confines of house or school, away from adults. decision making opens our best pathway, murky as it may be, into the Cell phones were still a decade or two away, so wherever we decided future of artificial intelligence:consciousness and choice. to go, we were unreachable. For those who don’t buy it, who still dream of the phone-free Mountain Something changed in 1984, the year we became teenagers. I called School: solo is right around the corner. For three days and nights, Clio George one day and heard a recording of his mom’s voice inviting will be streamside in the forest. No small, glowing rectangles allowed. me to leave a message. Pretty cool, I thought: my friend now owed me a call back. Pretty soon every family in the neighborhood had an answering machine. (AT&T reorganized in 1984 and drove down the The Mountain School and Instagram price). These were the first raindrops of an approaching storm. As we entered college and adulthood, answering machines gave way to or one week in April, five student volunteers took over the school’s voicemail and email, smartphones and social media. Now teenagers FInstagram account. Each day one of them posted photos and videos. are reachable instantly and everywhere. George and I look back and The admissions office designed this short campaign to give accepted realize how free we were. students and their families a window into daily life here during the crit- ical week when they were making their decision. From the comments, Do our uses of technology suggest a crisis or an opportunity? Phones we could see that some graduates enjoyed this campaign, and others did in hand, teenagers are both isolated and connected, both distracted not. What do you think about the Mountain School’s use of Instagram, and knowledgeable, both anxious and inspired. Without social media, and this campaign in particular? Write your responses to emily.boren@ a group of kids could not have organized hundreds of thousands mountainschool.org and [email protected]. marching in the streets—an impressive feat, no matter your view 2 FACULTY NOTES: Hip, Woke, Dumbing Down, Bougie By Jack Kruse

New Protocols At the sugaring reunion this spring, our one-year graduates noticed research (“We got boocoo organic-rich sediment strands”). I have some changes, some of which we’ve gotten so used to they’re hard a builder friend in town who uses his childhood Maine accent to for us to see. We have chefs not cooks, sous-chefs not cooks’ crew, talk to loggers and sawyers, and I notice that when I say “Vershire bar mops not rags, and for mopping we’ve switched from Murphy’s Fire Department” I say it the way Chief Ward says it, not the way, Oil Soap—which smelled great but left a film—to a commercial say, my mom would. This kind of code-switching seems natural degreaser. Also, the student collecting eggs no longer washes and responsive, but I wonder. Dialing up seems okay—I dress it them; the potting shed chore covers that now. And Thomas’s Tea up when I’m talking to the new dean at the Lincoln School. But Tray now features a toast bar, with sourdough bread, butter, honey, dumbing down is risky, even when it’s aimed at fourth-graders: and two commercial-grade toasters. Open daily, 7:45-8:15 a.m. “And where does the maple tree get its yummy breakfast?” If it’s and 7:30-9:30 p.m. just for cuteness, though (spendy, supposably, use-your-spidey- senses), it’s hideous. Yeah, I’m Hip, I’m Woke Parents go hip sometimes, often in the car driving their kids home School Meeting Language from a basketball practice, best if there are a couple of friends in I’ve noticed this semester that things spiral out of control, which the back seat. “I’m down with that!” the parents say, or Totally is weird, since a spiral is so organized and so predictable, headed awesome!,” normally an expression that’s gone by—or one that upwards usually. Same with the vortex (of hysteria or confusion): missed the school district entirely: “Damn, that’s a dub!” Or same predictability, but headed down. Circling the drain, is they don’t quite get it right: “Your defense was swoll tonight!” also down, but too late to worry about. And we’re going down Don’t mock these people; let them enjoy the afterglow of self- a lot of rabbit holes. And I’ve noticed that we’re leaning in to congratulation as they tell themselves, “Yeah, I’m hip.” And no hard conversations, while still navigating and unpacking issues. need to point out that hip itself is passé. Even the hipsters, who The barb not-Mountain-Schooly (like, say, Manchego tapas or bathe in self-conscious irony, are now catching Ls—as obsolete, interactive smart boards) has given way to bougie. deprecated. We can no longer vibe with them. Yeah, I’m hip.

That much is easy, but here’s what I’m wondering: is it the same Notes : sort of thing for being woke—as in socially aware, perceiving • A dub, for W suggests a win, something good systemic injustice? You might admire your boss for being woke, • L suggests a loss, something bad. but once you think that you are, you’re probably not. And how • Swoll, from swollen, is being muscular, probably from much longer before woke itself becomes ironic (The Woke-a-Dot working out. Café)—or a slur (Don’t get all woke on me, okay?). • Boocoo, from the French beaucoup, meaning lots, many. • Bougie from bourgeois, suggests upscale, elite. Lie or Lay?...Imply or Infer? • Obsolete and deprecated both mean dated, no longer cool. Just let people use these words interchangeably, I say. You won’t • Woke has a fifty-year history of indicating awareness to social sound prissy if you want to keep them distinct, but we’re not going systems of black oppression—and of being co-opted to suggest to win on either of these. Let it go. For years I coached my essay other kinds of awareness. It had a powerful resurgence in 2013 writers to avoid the agreement error in “Everyone left their books as a hashtag on social media (#StayWoke) to flag accounts of in the library,” (without the grotesque his-or-her), and now, it racial injustice. seems that the most exacting editors will prefer their as the gender- neutral singular. The woke ones, anyway.

Dumbing down, Cuteness Please send your thoughts about new protocols, staying woke, When my sister is talking with her patients, she drops her g’s, patronizing code-switchers, or rabbit holes to Jack.Kruse@ as in “I’m thinkin’ you’re not gettin’ much sleep.” It makes her mountainschool.org accessible, keeps the conversation democratic, the same way Kevin Mattingly goes all Southern Indiana when he is citing erudite

Mission Statement

The Mountain School cultivates a diverse and interdependent community of scholars who learn to know a place and take care of it. Through collaborative learning and shared work, students emerge from their semester prepared to reach beyond the self and focus on the common good.

3 Greetings from the Admissions Desk By Emily Boren, Director of Admissions

ne of the most interesting aspects of working in admissions is the constant back-and-forth of power. In the recruiting season, we’re Ovisiting schools nationwide to meet prospective students and convince them to apply. After applications are in, we are then in the position of power, deciding whether or not to admit them. After they’re accepted, again the power shifts back to the applicant as they decide whether or not to join us in Vershire. This balance of decision-making and control is part of the fun, and the challenge: it’s a long, unraveling story for each applicant from their first contact with us until they step foot on campus. Two hundred thirty unique stories this year and that’s just the number of bold individuals who decided to apply in the first place. There were hundreds more in our orbit: they contacted us, found a brochure, heard a story from an alum or a classmate in school. Two hundred thirty is plenty, and enough that we had to turn away some very deserving students, my least favorite part of this work.

We couldn’t possibly find all these applicants on our own. This fall we had help from lots of alums, includingMaya Egan s17, Rebecca Maurer s06, Sofia Dawson f10, Kasey Zatarain s17, Chuck McNamee s96, Shahbaz Soofi f08 and even our former Admissions Director, Colleen Wearn, who gave a presentation in Seattle. A special thanks goes to Matt Sinclair s02 who gave four presentations at schools all over Cleveland, where he lives. Many of the Fall ’16 and Spring ’17 alums, seniors at their home schools, talked to sophomores in the hallways, on their sports teams and in their clubs, encouraging them to apply. We had almost two dozen alums reach out with letters of recommendation for applicants. It’s clear that the future success of our school depends on the contributions of our alumni community; I am deeply grateful for that support. If you’re interested in giving a presentation next fall in your area, let us know! We’re always looking for alumni volunteers to help, and we’ll set you up with a powerpoint presentation, videos, brochures, and more. Contact [email protected] to get involved.

Here are some numbers from our applicant pool this year. We continue to strive for higher numbers of students of color, public • 230 total applicants for 90 spots (slightly more than school students, and boys. Interestingly, our applicant pool this last year) year looks similar, in numbers, to last year’s. The differences come • 72% girls, 27% boys, 1% self-identified or gender through in their personalities, interests and backgrounds, leading to non-conforming (slightly more boys than last year) semesters that feel entirely different from one another. • 26% of the overall applicant pool from New York City area schools (same as last year) As I write this, we’re in that moment when the balance of power has • 63% from the east coast (same as last year) shifted back to the applicants: we’re eagerly waiting to hear on their • 28% students of color (same as last year) decision to enroll. I am excited to think about the many friendships • 38% seeking financial aid (down from 44% last year) that will form, the work that will be done and the challenges that will • 15% first generation to college (same as last year) be faced by the Fall ’18 and Spring ’19 semesters.

Are we done yet? By Sam Kelman, sugarmaker his year has been a record breaking season for us. As of April wood as well, so when the sap does stop flowing, we still will have T9th, we have made 290 gallons from 950 taps! Similar to the a few things to do around here…. last few seasons, we have been starting to see warmer temperatures in February and a deep freeze in the middle of March that create almost two separate sugaring seasons. However, this year has been different in that our buckets have been out producing our taps on our vacuum lines. I think the main reason is that this year we have had many nights in a row in the 20’s that would warm up to 36 to 40 degrees instead of one freezing night with three or four days of above freezing temps which had been the trend in the last few seasons. These fluctuations create the perfect condition to get the sap flowing: and the buckets would start running as soon as the sun hit them while it took longer for the sap to thaw out in the vacuum lines.

As I sit here and write this, the season is not yet over. We’ve burned through all of our wood for this season and almost all of next year’s

4 Farm Report By Liana Horster, Farm Manager

hough the calendar says it is, spring isn’t here. At least, that’s seminar track on orcharding, for example. Tthe feeling, given the four new inches of snow we just received on April sixth. Twin lambs born yesterday—one black, one white, My personal specialization this semester seems to be both female—are one of the first evidences in contradiction to the spreadsheet-building and information transference, as I plan seemingly endless winter. Still, much work is under way. In the for an upcoming sabbatical this summer into the fall of 2018. greenhouse, it’s the sowing of seeds and the hours of transplanting It’s a useful exercise and a behemoth of a task to get all the peppers, eggplants, tomatoes, herbs and companion flowers. In the pieces of our crop production systems organized in a coherent strategic planning process, we completed a working version of our and digestible form. This compilation will ultimately pass into five-year plan for the farm and dining program earlier this semester. the very capable hands of Marisa Hebb, who will manage the farm in my stead. In this new era of collaboration on educational goals between the farm and kitchen, we continue to place a high value on teaching Crop production plans for this spring include tweaks like about production, and concurrently are delving much further into the increasing cauliflower quantities, and reductions in the amount of consumption side of the curriculum. The strategic plan highlights bitter greens, as well as improvements in management practices food systems education as essentially tied to the mission of the for those crops that underperformed last year. Greenhouse school, emphasizing that this is a lens through which we have both a tomatoes will be grown in the heated poly house for the first tremendous opportunity and a real responsibility to examine major time this year. Celeriac will go into biodegradable plastic mulch contemporary issues such as inequality and environmental justice. this year to help with moisture retention. I am abandoning my Food touches everything. The fact that the food system we all live in lofty ideals of using landscape fabric to grow onions in favor of is mostly invisible by design is one of the most compelling reasons the same tried-and-true biodegradable film. My hopes are high why it is worthy of study, and we hope to create a for-credit course this spring that we will see the fruition of many of our longer- on the subject. term projects initiated in recent years: expansive growth of the vigorous hardy kiwi vines planted last season, a burgeoning In the meantime, students are getting more exposure to key questions asparagus crop in its first year of harvest, and this might just be through dining manager Alison Baker’s weekly food discussions in the first season bearing fruit for our young pear trees. Wednesday school meetings, with topics ranging from exploring our relationships with people working in food service, to how we should deal with a shortage in our supply of local, organic milk at the school. This semester, we also piloted a new debate in farm seminar about meat consumption, where students were assigned to argue in Lila Singer favor of one of the following four positions, including statements in the about health implications, environmental impacts and ethics: let greenhouse the market decide; no meat at all; less meat but better quality; or laboratory-grown meat.

Over the next five years we are also planning a redesign ofour vegetable storage infrastructure and our wash/pack facility, as well as giving some concerted attention to our grazing management strategy and livestock production re-evaluation. I am particularly looking forward to a mapping project identifying the strengths in our local food shed and forming partnerships with other local producers, along with a comprehensive land use plan as guiding criterion for our home farm production. Dahlia Lyss and Daniel Kim This semester features more specialization on the farm in some in the sheep barn ways, for example we are trying out a new, tracked work program, in which students can choose a track in work period for a series of weeks of skill-building. Modeled after wood crew, students have been offered tracks in food production, such as livestock management, annual crop production, perennial crop production, and orchard management; facilities, such as timber framing for our new sugar house; or food preparation, such as bread baking, or planning and preparing a Mountain School meal. In addition, we are continuing our farm seminar tracks program, which means a student could spend both a weekly work period track, as well as a farm Photos by Cooper Welsh s18

5 Reason #579 Why I love Vermont By Kareen Obydol-Alexandre

t goes without saying that the French love cheese. France has cheese with honey or pesto. I365+ types of cheeses, so you might think no French national Merci beaucoup chefs Alison, could survive outside of the continent. But you’d be wrong. It Emily, Kelley and Matt. depends on where you live. There are few places around the world where a French person can live happily and Vermont is one My dream is to prepare a of them —in large part because it has similar cheese culture. It is humongous raclette —a French indeed true that I think about cheese all the time. I will eat it at word that literally means scraped, any time of the day, with or without crackers, or bread. Just say but that is often used to describe cheese and I’ll be there. a cheese fest— for everybody at school, at once, with baguettes I have had some of the best mac’n’cheeses, raclettes, and fondues, and berets on top of our heads. right here in Vershire, thanks to our talented chefs and a couple of Sadly, I don’t think they make grills big enough for 70 people. connoisseur friends. Because of Brickford, Cabot and Vermont I’ll start with my classes and my dorm for now. Creamery, my days here have been filled with burrata on Italian night, Gouda with fenugreek seeds for snacks, feta cheese, queso In the meantime, I am definitely adding to my “ways to discover fresco, cheddar and ricotta. I unapologetically love goat cheese, and love Vermont” a list of tours of cheese farms, http://www. so I melt when our chefs present us with combinations of goat vtcheese.com/vermont-cheese-trail-map/. The Latest from Alumni Relations By Annie Janeway, Director of Alumni Relations

s we head into the warmer months when campus will be abuzz DC, a marsh walk in Kailua, Hawaii, an arts studio tour in Awith alumni returning to Vershire, we want to encourage your Chicago, and the Walk for Hunger in Boston. continued involvement and build upon the impressive activity that occurred during winter and spring 2018. In June, we will welcome back graduates celebrating their 5th, 10th, and 15th reunions during the weekend of June 8-10. On the flip Whether gathering sap in the sugar bush or joining the VerShare side, we will be bidding farewell this month to faculty member snowshoe-a-thon, high school and college-age alumni actively Maura Mathieu s05 as she spreads her wings away from helped the Mountain School this March. Over the spring break, Vermont and campus to welcomed new adventures in life and alumni met on an ad hoc basis with various students at their col- education. Thank you, Maura, for five years of inspired -teach leges as the students sought out connections and advice for their ing, guidance, dorm parenting, and connections with students and future schooling. alumni.

With the Alumni Committee’s spring meeting occurring in Wash- Continuing on with more new adventures, fifty guests will be on ington, D.C. in May, newly selected Committee members Lee campus July 27-29 taking part in the inaugural Summer Session. Fearnside s91 and Michael Glassman f03 have eagerly jumped This program is attracting alumni from each of the school’s four in to their volunteer roles. decades. On an equally broad spectrum, ten alumni and faculty presenters plan to delve into topics dealing with design thinking, We’re thankful for the Garden Hill Fund (GHF) alumni funders herbal remedies and wild plant identification, carbon pricing and and the eleven applications submitted by graduates for the spring greenhouse gas reductions, decision making, community building, round. Jack’s Humanities class evaluated the grant requests in and food justice, among other important issues. There will also be April, and the results of their input and deliberations appears on a full slate of activities for children. The weekend is shaping up the list of GHF recipients at mountainschoolalumni.org. Several to be an ideal opportunity to bring alumni together in a family- former GHF recipients, including Shahbaz Soofi f08, Uriel Her- friendly atmosphere to share their work, passions, interests, and nandez f07, Jess Brooks s88, Kristen Case s93, Jenny Van West values in an alumni-to-alumni forum. Interested new registrants f84, and Sophie Osorio f16 have recently been or plan to be on should check out mountainschoolalumni.org for the Summer Ses- campus soon. We are delighted to add to their ranks with this latest sion schedule and availability of spaces. commitment by the Alumni Committee and school to help alumni with their impactful projects and causes. Finally, on the weekend of August 3-5, we will host a big bash for the combined 20th and 25th reunions. If you attended the Mountain Early in May, the Alumni Committee held a series of Mountain School in Fall ’92, ’97 or Spring ’93 or ’98, this is your special School Where You Live events including an alumni reception in weekend, and we hope to see you, your Mountain School friends,

6 and your family. On the December day of my TMS departure, I thought I had the As always, we welcome alumni visitors to campus, plans for nuances of the coming months roughed out. I could see everyone mini-reunions, inquiries about Mountain School merchandise, and growing more emotional throughout the last weeks. I knew I offers to host local events. Last but not least and certainly before would cry, even though I couldn’t say what would finally break the summer begins, be sure to make your gift to the Annual Fund the dam. I would miss the weird jokes about the Soviets and the for this fiscal year. Demonstrate your support for the Mountain inside references (“C’mon, John!”) during dorm meeting. I was School and your semester’s fundraising effort by donating online ready—well, not “ready,” more “braced”—for the sorrow in at mountainschool.org or by sending a check by June 30. Thank leaving behind my closest friends in the world for an unknown you to all our amazing alumni. time.

I did not expect the return to normal school life to be so different. I thought “Hey, I was happy there before, so (with a few bumps) continued from page 1-Van West I should be again.” For a few weeks, or a month, or two, that was true. But all the while I was examining my life in the back of my parents, we see our teen every day—but we also see the pre-teen, mind, wondering if I was doing what I wanted to do. The answer and the eight-year-old, and the toddler. Our children tow behind turned out to be: no. them the tail of their entire history, with all its high and low moments. Siblings see this tail. Friends and classmates see it. I had discovered a wish to move on. Until that point, I had no issue with taking my time in life: finish high school, go to college, Then our children arrive in Vermont unencumbered. They become become an engineer, all at a comfortable pace. Now, suddenly, I a different person, partly because others responded to them in new wanted to just get on with it. I could do the math, I’d already lived ways, and partly because they have an opportunity to redefine away from home, I felt confident—and I was being held back. I’m themselves without the yoke of their history. a math nerd trapped in a liberal-arts school, waiting out his term of childhood until he can go forth and seek his fortune. Listen, I And there’s the opportunity coming back around: When our teens have a plan, I want to go do it. Why, I’ll bet … come back to us changed, we have a moment to let the tiles of the relationship restack. Maybe it’s a major reshuffling; perhaps it’s I captured my father in conversation right on the stairs to the just a small adjustment. Either way, it’s a chance to see them as basement. I had to. My dad knows well how to deal with me, they are right now, and a chance for them to be seen. Together we and eventually convinced me that, given the options before me, make a place in the family for their emergent adulthood. finishing out the high school path was my best choice at this point. But that doesn’t soothe my grain of impatience. It’s only as parent that I realize how we carry a tail in our children’s eyes. However, where they were smaller in the past, we were I’m not sure if my restlessness is a product of TMS or merely bigger. We could fix problems and protect them. We knew the revealed by it. Either way, the dissatisfaction has been both secrets to magic things like making food or driving all the way to difficult and valuable. Now I have the blessing of knowing “I can,” Grandma’s house in Maryland. We had definitive answers. Now I and the curse of wanting to. At least the curse is only temporary. recognize the disquieting prospect of my teen seeing me as I really But until I’m off at college, piloting myself where I want to, I just am. Seeing my foibles and failings. Knowing there was no magic, have to be—argh—patient. and that we parents were largely making it up as we went along.

Yet there’s the rest of the gift, right? Being able to say, “Yeah, there’s no right answer to the question you’re asking now. I can’t tell you what to do—but I have 30-odd more years of faking it until things work out, so maybe together we can come up with a Continued from page 2: plan.”

Forever parent and progeny, but with just a dash more of being peers. Full circle, but from a new perspective. The Deal with Phones and WiFi on Campus

• Dorm parents collect all phones on the first night

— Charles Van West, f17 • High-speed WiFi fills the academic buildings

heard one of the faculty say that education should be a • There is no WiFi access in the dorms I destabilizing influence. Its purpose isn’t clarity; its purpose is making the mysteries of the world so strange and numerous that • After a month, students may have their phone back you must examine them, to make you peek around the marble pillars of grad school to see the old man on the other side. The • There is still no reliable cell signal idea stuck.

7 Welcome to Spring 2018

A good semester for: A bad semester for:

• The Bay: 10 students come from San Francisco, Oak- • New technology: In a record-breaking sugaring sea- land, and surrounding towns son, old-fashioned sap buckets easily outperformed the • BruceWorks: In his last semester of a fifteen-year vacuum tube system. career, Bruce Durkee is finishing strong with several • Tobold House: Wasps that wintered behind the win- building projects: a history room podium, sap collec- dows emerged into the common room during April. tion platforms, and an outhouse for the sugarbush. • Gender parity: 8 of the first 10 lambs born were girls, • Carrots: A 2017 bumper crop, still crispy and sweet, reflecting a similar imbalance among the students (only stored not in our root cellar but in humidity-controlled 15 boys this semester) refrigeration at the nearby Horster farm • Winter sports: Early thaw in February and heavy • Alumni syrup:After making over 220 gallons in each snow in March smothered hopes of playing broomball of the last two semesters, we shattered the record again on Derby Pond with 320 gallons during a two-month long season • High fructose corn syrup producers: In a survey • Strafford Organic Creamery: When calving season leading up to their solos, s18 students voted over- reduced milk availability, students opted to reduce milk whelmingly to stop buying jam with HFCS. consumption rather than switch suppliers

Student Artwork

Eye Studies by various artists

Camille Murray LiXing Watermulder Pine cones in four moods, ink and watercolor Paper birch curling in four moods, ink and watercolor

William Bugg Poppyseed pod in four moods, ink and watercolor

8 TMS Bookshelf and CD

Dark Lanterns Happiness to Burn

By Aaron Solomon f91 Jenny Van West f84

he 2015 winner of the Maine Songwriters Association acha de la Ville, a Tcontest has a new full-length album out, Happiness To Swoman masquerading Burn, featuring all original material, written by Jenny Van West. as a man, is struggling to make ends meet as a confidential agent of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu. Sacha is put to work investigating the Comté de Sangre, a notorious assassin who has arrived in Paris. She is at her best when the fighting is thick and the goals are simple, but this new assignment looks to be anything but simple. Struggling to best both her own inner demons and a clever and ruthless killer, Sacha must rely on old friends and new allies to uncover and stop a dangerous plot. Scheming and fighting her way across Paris will push Sacha to her limits, both physically and mentally, and force her to contemplate what price she is willing to pay for victory.

O! Rentless Death Rectify: By Lee Fearnside s91 the Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction Relentless Death: “O! Celebrity, Loss and Lara Bazelon s91 Mourning” is an artist’s book created by siblings Andrew n Rectify, former innocence proj- and Lee Fearnside. This book Iect director and journalist mourns celebrities who died Lara Bazelon takes stock of in 2016: David Bowie, Prince, the massive damage inflicted by Carrie Fisher, Gwen Ifill, Alan wrongful convictions. Despite a Rickman and 11 more. We record 375 exonerations in the last made relief print portraits and three years, Bazelon argues that the criminal justice system has paired them with personal narratives by 23 writers from around not done enough to rectify the devastation left in their wake--the the country, including poet laureates, journalists, community suffering experienced by not only the exoneree, but their fami- organizers, professors and activists. lies, the crime victims who mistakenly identified them as perpe- trators, the jurors who convicted them, and the prosecutors who realized too late that they helped convict an innocent person. The celebrities that we’ve picked are not all pop culture, and not all high culture, and not all political figures. In their own The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction, way, all of them were change-makers. This book is a tribute takes the reader on a journey with exonerees, crime victims, to the power of people to make change. Can we celebrate our and family members as they search for a way forward in the connection to these celebrities and their lives to inspire us to be aftermath of a wrongful conviction. Once bitter adversaries, change-makers ourselves? What power is unlocked when we they become allies. Their relationships--fraught, emotional, and grieve together? powerful--help them heal and reform a broken system.

9 Reflection on Coming Back by Kesi Jackson f16

arly on in my semester, I would wake up in the mornings remember the smell of the potting shed, the sounds of a dish crew, Eand look out of my window to find that the horizon was or the feeling of walking up to Underwood. I thought that because completely foreign, and I would feel out of place. I couldn’t remember these details, the whole experience somehow These were shapes that didn’t exist in Florida and, as such, meant less to me; and so a large part of being back for me was to were alien. reconnect with this space and to figure out how we, as alumni, fit There was never any break from the reminder that this place into it. was not what I was used to those first few weeks. Whether it was At the reunion, we all got the chance to see what had stayed the my window in the upstairs double in Underwood, the window next same and what had changed. This was particularly meaningful for to the piano in the dining hall, or the window in the compost bath- me because it helped to solidify that TMS would still be TMS even room in the academic building; the landscape never changed. I if there is WiFI in the dining hall. There would still be a place for was constantly surrounded by an unrecognizable horizon and be- us even if we still weren’t students there, and we could still feel cause of that, I felt haunted by this sense of not belonging. connected to this space despite the amount of time that had passed. When I returned for reunion, I discovered that what was once What I have truly found in leaving and going back, in that feel- alien had become familiar. The picturesque mountains, which ing of ease and sense of familiarity, is that a place can become were once something that made me feel displaced, now brought your home. A home isn’t always something that you are raised me a sense of comfort. with, but something that can be given to you and something that After being away for over a year, I couldn’t picture the moun- can be found. tains, as so much of my time at the Mountain School had begun Despite how deeply I wish this wasn’t true, I can’t always be to feel less real. There was so much distance and time between at the Mountain School. To have the opportunity to go back to then and now. I’ve since realized that the power of the Mountain TMS was wondrous, and I am so incredibly grateful that I got the School is in the details. chance to return to such a special place. It was overwhelming to be back because every step I took felt I know that I have found my home at the Mountain School. like a memory, as every part of the Mountain School is so entirely Even though I can’t always be there, I am absolutely certain that it filled with laughter, love, homesickness, sadness, exhaustion, and will hold a perennial place in my heart. excitement. I couldn’t take a walk up to enjoy the view from Gar- den Hill or sit in Underwood’s common room without breaking down and crying. During a lot of moments at the reunion, in order not to get swept away by the fervor of being back, I had to just close my eyes, breathe, and be in the moment. For me, to be back and to be present meant reconciling how much I had missed TMS. I had to accept how important the Moun- tain School and my semester had become to me after I had left. I remember feeling worried in the weeks leading up to reunion because the idea of being there now seemed foreign. I couldn’t

f16 and s17 this March at their one-year sugaring reunion

10 Spring 2018 Photo Gallery

11 Alumni Notes Compiled by Marilyn Covey

from Vershire! (see photo) She’ll be and Hank (the luckiest carnival goldfish sing out if you’re in the area; it would Spring ’85 there for Fall 2018, a mere 33 (!) years around). be great to reconnect. after us. David (12) and I have been From James Cooper: We From Michelle Baker: My two Susan Fitzgibbions Timpano holding down the fort at home while (Marion, Sadie (14), and James (12) boys are now both in high school— [email protected] she’s away at school. We live in the moved down to northern VA about 8 Samson (16) is driving and Moses (14) t’s amazing what a good incentive Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston years ago from MA with all our too is biking. I’m playing as much hockey Iwill do to garner a solid collection of and have been going up to Three Mile many animals. While I never thought as I can and in lieu of being picked up class notes! When I told our class that Island camp on Lake Winnipesaukee I’d live below the Mason Dixon line, by one of the professional women’s this was Marilyn’s last newsletter and for the third week of August for years. teams, I’m still working as a phychia- asked if we could make it a good one Often, we cross paths with David and trist and phychoanalyst in Brookline. for her sake, the emails came flying in. Nancy on the dock. Lots of love to you Everyone replied to the same thread, all! so we were catching up in real time! It was so fun. We love you Marilyn! From Lisa Pim: All is well in Cleveland. Would love to connect with anyone in the area or just passing through. I’m busy working for WMF architects as Business Development Christopher Janeway lives in Director and consulting with the US Burlington VT where he regularly Green Building Council. I’m living in waves to Zoe Richards who lives in the Lakewood (suburb of Cleveland) with same neighborhood. Christopher is a my husband Harvey, and 2 kids Alex- psychotherapist in private practice, spe- ander (13) and Jana (11). From Pete Weiss: The Weiss fam- we’ve found a great area here, which cializing in work with trans and gender From Nina Close: I was last ily (Karen, Lucy (13), Lizzy (10), and is central to work. Sadie and I visited non-conforming youth and adults. He in touch with our TMS class at the our 3 pups: Jack, Stella, and Ruby, pic- TMS last summer, which was great fun. and his partner have two grown chil- 25th reunion. My family and I are still tured below) continue to thrive in the Some parts I didn’t recognize and some dren (a daughter at Colby College and living in London. Apart from that, mountains of Salt Lake City. We all were the same as always. Still traveling a son who is a senior in high school). plenty has changed. My oldest, Nik visited TMS a few years ago and look a lot and able to take kids with me on Several years ago, while working at (19) is off on gap year travels to South forward to getting our girls out there in occasion to see the country which is the Middlebury College Counseling America with his girlfriend. (Anyone a few years. So proud of the tradition awesome. Center, Christopher had fun connecting have any tips or contacts for them?) and lasting success of the program and From Ann King: I’m currently on with Karen Guttentag. He has also en- Asya (17) is in her next-to-last year of all it has to offer! a 3-week trip through Colorado and joyed being in touch with Nina Klose secondary school; Sonia (11) just fin- Utah - looking for good snow wherever and suspects that he and Nina are the ished primary school and started sec- I can find it. I have an empty nest, a oldest TMS graduates. ondary. I’m still working part time in supportive loving partner, and love it. financial services, and spending my free Kyle is a freshman at Colorado Col- Spring ’86 time gardening at our allotment next to lege studying biology. Brayden is a Hampstead Heath. I’ve gotten divorced sophomore at CU Boulder studying Ashley Mattoon and have a new partner now, Andy, who mechanical engineering. Ruby (10) and [email protected] is an artist and psychotherapist. I’ve Tigger (1) are my spoiled yellow labs. t was a record low year for notes, as I attended plenty of TMS events in Lon- From Mindy Scott: Greg and I I’m still working as an independent col- Ionly heard from one of you. If you’re don, including MSWYL and Garden are soon to become empty nesters. lege counselor in Minneapolis helping like me, you may have been thinking Hill days. This fall, David and Nancy Sam will be going somewhere in the kids get into college. (Karen - I do want that little has changed, so there is not were in London for a visit with a dozen fall - not decided yet. Phil is a junior to visit Middlebury!!!!) much interesting news to share. That or so TMS folks from different years. at Saint Lawrence University. He spent From Karen Guttentag: I’m still wasn’t the case for Abby Solomon I love staying in touch (even though I the fall semester in France and we were in Middlebury Vermont, working at and her husband, Jason Teuscher, who haven’t proven very good at it thus far) fortunate to spend Thanksgiving with Middlebury College, raising a spirited welcomed a new addition to their fam- and would love to hear from and meet him on the Normandy beaches. I’m 8-year-old girl and a dog who seems to ily in 2017. Rebecca Evelyn Teuscher up with any of you who may be coming still deputy commissioner at New York be a mixed breed of half black lab, half was born on August 3. She joined her through London. State office of Parks, Recreation and monkey. He and I are currently engaged 5-year-old brother, Jasper, who appar- From Kate LaPine: Hi everyone! Historic Preservation. Transforming, in a battle to get him to stop unlocking ently already has plans to go to the Last week, as I was driving my daugh- restoring and preserving these amazing and opening our sliding glass doors Mountain School someday. ter Clare back to Loomis at the end of places. Still in Bethlehem, NY with our when he’s home alone. We are in Rube My year was pretty uneventful. spring break, she opened a big envelope rescue pets, Stella (dog), Chance (cat) Goldberg territory. Classmates, please One major highlight was a family back-

12 packing trip in the Kings Canyon Wil- you feel seen for the first time? ….the River Freeski team, I get to ski with to 7 employees located in the historic derness Area of the Sierra Nevadas in legacy of this wonderful place contin- their third grade school group every district in what was once a rail station August. Mary Louisa (13) and Andrew ues to inspire and create so many cool week, and we are all wishing that win- master’s house but is now a drafty old (9) are finally old enough to carry some citizens. (If only we could transplant ter would hang on and deliver a little law firm. We let our lawyers bring their significant weight which makes things this experience to Parkland, Florida.)” more snow!” dogs in and find many excuses to cel- a lot easier for their parents. Another Laura Shear is “still living in the Elizabeth Redwine and her hus- ebrate as well as represent clients from fun thing about this year was that a Bay Area, with my husband, Robert band Jonathan “have been going back Shanghai to Detroit, to Maryland to new teaching colleague and office mate and our two children Owen (13) and to our Peace Corps and my Mountain Afghanistan. So managing this new joined me at school, and within 10 Nell (10). For the past three years, I’ve School roots and doing lots of politi- venture while raising the kids, still four minutes of meeting, we discovered we been working as a freelance writer and cal and community organizing in our of them but one in college, and caring had the Mountain School in common. communications consultant. I opine on neighborhood and congressional dis- for my parents as they bravely navigate It has been great getting to know Max parenting, our hectic digital lives, the trict and have been since the election. sickness and age - that has been pretty Olivier, but learning that he went to the generational divide and more. I enjoy We started a group called Essex Rising consuming. I still play music and find Mountain School in F03 certainly made thinking about and discussing these and have been working with another time for hobbies to stay sane - my lat- me feel old! trends with everyone I meet. I should local group called NJ11 for Change est project involves over 30 Barbies and Vannesa Houghtlin spent a day also say that I’m a new (ish) dog owner to try and flip our local Congressional some spray paint. Stay tuned for the fi- with her daughter Sylvie f18 visiting to a rescue mutt named Tilly who sleeps District Democrat. Happily after lots nal piece but am deciding whether or the Mountain School in April. next to me as I type and gets me out of work, the Republican Congress- not to get off FB for good so will have I hope that all of you are doing walking in the Berkeley Hills at least man who had voted almost completely to decide other ways to share the art. well, and I’ll hear from more of you once a day. She’s my first dog ever and with Trump announced his retirement a I’m going on about myself because few next year. I’m smitten. Those of you who are par- few weeks ago, so that was cause for else wrote in EXCEPT Becca Braun ents can relate to the juggle of kid activ- much celebration. We continue to work in the 11th hour, but what a joy to hear ities, volunteering, and endless driving in our town and county on immigrant from this beautiful soul! She writes: that makes up my non-working hours. rights, environmental issues, and con- It’s been an eventful year, includ- Our particular mix these days, is bas- versations about issues of racial justice ing a new cancer diagnosis (eyeball ketball, fishing, volleyball, aerial and and living in a diverse community. I’m cancer!) along with a big move from dance. With the kids old enough to stay teaching as a lecturer in the Seton Hall Alaska back to Boston to reunite with home alone, Robert and I have been University English Department full my daughter for her last years of high trying to get out and about more. Last time and our four kids are now 14 (Na- school. It’s so good to be together, but Saturday night we went to a disco roller thaniel), 12 (Cal), and 10 (Lila) and 10 it was hard to give up my job, our com- skating rink in a church in SF. We had (Jed). We also have a lab/husky mix munity, the mountains, and everything Rebecca and Jasper Solomon Teuscher a blast, and, thankfully, escaped injury. named Sally Ride. My big boys still Alaska has given me since graduating I’ve been lucky enough to see Zanthe, remember fondly running around in the college. I blog a bit: alaskamamaruns. Spring ’87 Heather, and Elizabeth within the past rain and hearing coyotes at night at the blogspot.com. Meantime, after 30 years year and Geoffrey within the past three reunion a few summers ago. Thanks I finally have a recruit at TMS this se- Jeanne Hargett years. Here’s a photo of my son, far and have a good night! I’d love to see mester - a dear family friend from Alas- [email protected] right, with Liz’s kids and a cousin last everyone at TMS again soon!” ka, and she’s loving it. I hope you all nne Barthel writes; “The past summer after the boys raided the Mar- I, Jeanne Philbin Hargett have are well and please visit if you’re in the Ayear has seemed like a wild ride. tha’s Vineyard candy shop.” spent the last winter trying to figure Boston area - we have space and love My mother Joan Barthel, died in Janu- out a winter vegetable harvest Virginia company. ary at age 85. She’d always said she style. So far I’ve burned an entire crop I got to stay with Liz Steinfield and wanted to keep working until she keeled of beets between November and Janu- her awesome family when I went for over at her typewriter—or MacBook in ary, by letting them get too hot. I also an eye checkup in CA! And saw Billy recent years—and she came close, pub- stepped into the role of Girl Scout Joel in concert with Emily Sweet and lishing her last book in 2014. (She was Troop leader for my daughter’s 6th hubby David in September! And I am also a huge fan of TMS.) I was also re- grade troop. It’s a lot of work and a lot getting pep talks from Lisa Barelli! cently named Editorial Director at Hay of fun. Hope everyone is well…. Becca and friends, you all come House. Matt and I are still living in Up- visit me (Sharon) too, the guest room per Manhattan with lots of guitars and Spring ’88 is well appointed, the house messy, and books. Fond greetings to all!” food plentiful. Gilly Barnes “had the distinct Lisa Healy “moved to Vermont in Sharon Kim Peterson Julia Brasfield so nobly became pleasure of dropping my niece off at the August and couldn’t be happier! I am [email protected] our class fundraising agent to ask us to Mountain School this past January- a running my marketing and social media reetings from Fairfax, Virginia contribute to TMS to sustain the diver- full thirty years after I attended. Now business here in the Mad River Valley, Gon the first day of Spring (yet it sity and uniqueness that is Mountain I get passionate emails about Robert and my husband is teaching the crimi- is snowing on the daffodils, Thanks School. She did an ask in November, Frost, and see her taking flight- intel- nal justice track at Randolph Technical Obama). and I am now amplifying her ask to re- lectually, physically- in ways that we Career Center. I love listening to my Chap my husband of 22 years, mind us to contribute any sum to this all probably still remember. Remember TMS roommate Zanthe Taylor in her and I, are coming up on the one-year worthy and special place. all the poetry, and community and wil- Z to A podcast (check it out!). Our 9 anniversary of opening our own busi- Ava Moskin writes, “I am sorely derness? And those teachers who made year-old twin boys are loving the Mad ness (aptly on April Fools). We are up frustrated with doctoring and now

13 working one day a week as a provider anonymity of it. No one at Clinical and work trip she made here to DC.” Chicago? New York? Nashville?” of Suboxone to help treat opioid addic- Support Options knows me as, “Farmer Mike Romano agreed it “was in- Eric Morrissey closes out this tion. It’s really really challenging and I Amanda” as they do in Brattleboro. deed a great surprise to bump into year’s roundup, writing, “I have less don’t feel good at it, which is especially Also, working to help folks dealing Molly, Ben and family in a cross-coun- hair than Yoshi, and more concerns hard as I (we!) approach 50. Keeping with mental health issues is inspiring. try ski hut near Truckee last winter. I about automation than Mike. That be- me young: parenting both Sam, age It also makes me appreciate our farm can’t say why, but it really was a perfect ing said, my three-year-old son, Bren- 14, and Elliot, age 10 months! What more.” Her husband, in addition to way to bump into an old TMS friend -- dan, has plenty of hair and fears nothing a whirlwind. I now live with both my farming, will have a collection of his sweaty, a little chilled, and refreshed but certain types of shadows, so there is sons and my incredibly patient and poems, titled Pioneer Species, pub- from skiing; hot chocolate nearby; and hope for the future. Since this summer loving husband David Oppenheimer lished by Green Mountain Press this all of us wrangling kids and rental ski is not only the perfect time to celebrate f87 in Oakland where I treasure every coming April. equipment... We still live in San Fran- Spring ’89’s 30th anniversary, but also moment that I get to see Jed Parsons Kazuyoshi Yamada, in addition cisco, which is wonderful and weird. the only time we can actually celebrate sweet face. That man does not age. His to letting us all know that while he is It’s 60 degrees in February, and some- it, it should and must be done. So ev- daughter Emmie and my Sam are bud- still short, points out that he has a lot times I worry I’m one of the frogs in the eryone get ready and start clearing out dies who listen to music and draw to- less hair than he used to. He continues pot of slowly boiling water as Google your schedule.” gether, which is delightful and yet a bit his dispatch as follows: “I am finally busses are replaced with self-driving freaky. Jed’s daughter. My son. 30 years opening a restaurant … We are slated Uber cars and delivery robots start wan- later and the genes are still friends. Ok, to open in June, but right now the res- dering the sidewalks. We have a busy, Spring ’90 I’ll stop waxing weird... taurant has no stove, no oven, no seats, messy, home, two awesome kids (9 & We will be back in Portland, no tables and no windows. Heck, we 11), and we try to spend as much time Ilyssa Sena ME from 6/18-7/7 and have lots of might not even put them in. Who needs outdoors as a family as we can. Sadly, [email protected] room for visitors — Maine is beautiful ‘em, amiright???? … we will be cook- we had to put down our dog this month eth Schneider Schori, his wife, in the summer! Come see us. ing some unholy mash-up of Indian -- our longtime excuse for a good hike.” Sand 4-year old daughter, are in Liza Barelli Miller writes, “It’s flavors and American cooking, livin’ Alexis Ford Audette, taking her Westchester County (just north of almost time for my annual birthday that #vadapaolife in the #chi with that cue from Yoshi’s update template (not NYC) these days. He made a career dinner with Elisabeth Neely, who #champagneflow … basically, if you included herein) writes, “Gender: Fe- change last year and is working as a has a fine family—including young took the restaurant Mission Chinese male; Age: 46; Marital Status: Married; computer programmer, and enjoys Jed, the toddler—in Portland, Oregon. food and turned it into a space ship and Dependents: Two children; Employ- the work and problem solving. He’s This beloved city where I’ve lived for filled it with champagne and crashed it ment: New position – still designing still adjusting to the four seasons af- 22 years now is getting too big for its into Bangalore, without exploding or textiles, but now wallpaper too; Passion ter decades on the West Coast, but is britches, and I’m craving a more rural killing anyone, and then threw a party project – Started Indivisible group in surprised at how quickly they change. existence in the coming years. I have a and invited all the people, that’s kinda Hell’s Kitchen- we’re registering vot- I am still living in New Jersey with new obsession with making syrup from our sweet spot.” ers in New Jersey swing districts; Hair: my husband and three daughters Blythe the native Big leaf Maple in the Pacific Molly Rauch has “transitioned Still have it, but more gray than brown; (13), Daphne (10) and Quinn (5). Ev- Northwest. We spent a month on a out of protest-every-weekend mode (so Relevant commentary: Re mix tapes – eryone is great, and I am trying to main- syrup project at my school and ended 2017!) and into a deeper, darker stage in the last 24 hours I’ve read about how tain a brave face with a newly minted up making a whopping 3 1/2 cups! My of Trumpian dystopia, one in which Trevor Noah and Lin-Manuel Miranda teenage daughter. We have also been whole family got to see Katy Kehoe in Hamilton lyrics enter my brain now made them. We were in good compa- enduring more snow than I can recall Boston at Christmas-time, where we only in fragmented wisps, and success ny; Plans: To see you this summer! [to occurred in Vershire circa 1990, but I laughed lots while using a make-your- is defined not by how clever and biting celebrate 30 years of Spring ’89]” am sure my memories are skewed. I own-cannoli kit. my home-made sign for the rally was, Roger Levine shares his thrilling am also enjoying a career change and but instead by how many push-ups I news: “Beatrice Marilla “Rilla” was am now the Director of Marketing at a manage to sneak in while on confer- born two weeks and twenty hours ago mid-size law firm in Somerset County, Spring ’89 ence calls from my home office in the as I write. She joined her three-year old New Jersey. Hope that all are well and attic (hint: not many). Thankfully, my brother, Lee. I still teach all kinds of that I have an opportunity to catch up Eric Morrissey family fulfills the difficult job of keep- history at a small college called soon! [email protected] ing me rooted to reality: Our three kids Sewanee, or the University of the manda Ellis writes, “Ross, our (14, 11 and 9) are funny and thriving, South, or officially, Sewanee: The Uni- Athree children, and I moved 1.5 and everyone enjoyed the karaoke ma- versity of the South. Sewanee lies an miles away from the farm in July of chine we rented for my birthday. Song hour and a half south east of Nashville 2015. We are enjoying a bit more pri- highlights: Styx’s “Come Sail Away”, on a beautiful mountain plateau, and vacy away from the hubbub of living ACDC’s “Shook Me All Night Long”, has over 10,000 acres of woods and ra- on our farm campus, though we run and Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing”.” vines for students to explore and study. the operations pretty much the same. I She also “had a wonderful chance en- It has even resurrected a working farm. received a master’s degree in Clinical counter with Mike Romano and his Sound familiar? While the commute is Mental Health Counseling, and now kids at the cross-country ski mecca long, I am now really enjoying living in work 4 days/week in Greenfield, MA of Royal Gorge near Truckee, CA last Nashville, which, you might have read as a therapist at a community mental March” and “a lovely late-night visit or heard, is kind of up and coming. We health center. I appreciate the contrast with Alyssa Whitehead-Bust during a arrived here just in time to take advan- to my work on the farm, especially the tage. Reunions sound great: Vermont?

14 exhibition that’s going to Reagan Na- including cycling, aerial silks and, best Justin Blumenstiel wrote that Spring ’91 tional Airport, the Pentagon, Walter of all, indoor rock climbing with my things are “not much different from last Reed Medical Center, Artist Archives regular belay partner Tom Guiney. year, other than that my kids are getting Regan Brooks of Cleveland, and a host of other venues It feels just like Toboldering, but now older! I am living in Lawrence, KS [email protected] in the next year. It’s been a wild ride so with ropes!” where I still continue to teach genetics pring ’91ers, you may be getting far, but really fulfilling. My brother and Stephanie (Perrotti) Kohn is and study evolutionary biology at the Sold-ish but you’re totally still doing I collaborated on a book about celeb- “still working in healthcare marketing, University of Kansas. I am enjoying life things. Way to go! This year you have rities who died in 2016, and tried our specifically focused on care transitions in a college town with my wife Lena written books, sent kids off to boarding hand at crowdfunding to print it. My in the Medicare world.” She is also and two children, Stella (11) and John school, brought new life into your fami- son’s adult two front teeth are growing “starting to explore secondary schools Oscar (8). I am happy to now watch lies, and welcomed new hips into your in and its completely changing his face, around Boston for my older son, which movies such as Monty Python’s Holy bodies. Impressive. Thanks to all who which is freaking me out a little. Life is is a walk down memory lane in terms Grail with my kids, but I also realize wrote in with news and extra thanks to good here in Luckey, Ohio!” of TMS friends... I get particularly this means they are about half-way those who responded to our prompt. Sidenote #2: I am very excited to emotional over Milton due to TMS between the ages of 0 and 18. Yikes!” We’ll begin with you. have just backed Lee and her brother ties—so much so, that my husband is Lara Bazelon’s book, Rectify: on Kickstarter so I’ll soon have a copy threatening to remove me from the pro- the Power of Restorative Justice Af- This season’s prompt: “If of their book, O! Relentless Death: Ce- cess b/c I am biased. We did have to say ter Wrongful Conviction, will be pub- I could choose to have any lebrities, Loss and Mourning. People, goodbye to our dear Labradoodle, Lola, lished in October. Lara reports that she superpower, it would be...” those Fearnsides have skills! You can this winter. She was 15 years old, so is happy to be “doing great work with (and should) look up and admire their we can’t say she didn’t live a long, full my students at the USF School of Law Tom Guiney chose “...the power book on the Internet. life, but her absence is still a tremen- Criminal Justice Clinic representing to make (and delete when necessary) And Claire (McNamee) dous void. She was with me through my clients who have nowhere else to turn. copies of myself because... imagine Poole graciously chose “..the power late twenties, all of my thirties and then My students’ energy and commitment the possibilities! We would have some to keep all children healthy and safe, nearly half of my forties! inspires me and manages, to some de- great parties at home, “alone”. We’d because far too many children have Stephanie also issues this impor- gree, to mitigate my perpetual outrage. have one of us work while the others pain, hardships and life-altering tant reminder: “Now that we don’t have Just got back from a trip to Yosemite pursued hobbies and had fun. We/I struggles” Claire, we suspect you, of the set reunions every 5 years, I worry with my kids. It was cold, but beautiful, could throw unlimited manpower at a all of us, may be closest to attaining we will lose the rhythm. Let’s make it and now they are old enough to hike problem...” this power. Thank you for the work you happen for 2021! (or sooner)”. Yes! and name all the trees and wildlife.” Sidenote #1: Wait! Does anyone already do to help children in need. Ben Robbins beautifully em- Josh Davis sent in news for remember when this sort-of/actually A few of you also wrote in without ployed the third-person to report on the himself plus Tara Kini: “Went to a happened in 1991? Tom made a lot of choosing a superpower. Here’s what addition of a fourth person to his fam- wild mariachi concert in San Francis- copies of his self-portrait as he prepped you had to say: ily: “Paying no heed to overpopulation co last night with Dave Wolman. Liz his yearbook page. Jack found them all Stephania Fregosi won the first- or the ravages of time upon their aging (Rumsey) taught our 8-year-old how to in a recycling bin and rescued them. to-write in award. Actually, she was bodies, Ben Robbins and his wife land a plane at SFO a few weeks ago. And the next day, Jack’s classroom (in- the only person who wrote in before Alissa are expecting a second kid We told two teenagers we know about cluding the clock hands and the center the deadline! Stephania is “pleased to (a boy) in early April. Big sister-to- TMS and are thrilled that they both of the rotating fan) were adorned with report that so far being 44 is proving to be, Adelaide (7) has declared herself attended this year.” Tom Guiney replicas. Please write in be well worth the wait. My daughter is “100% not excited” for the arrival of And Alex Grossman also wrote with any corrections or additions to this proving to be delightful, challenging, her brother—a not unreasonable posi- in for two: “Dave (Park) and I are memory. and engaging all at once. I’ve been in tion, but one we are hoping will change good, living in Lyme, NH and working Tom (possibly one of many) also a relationship with the same person once he’s out of mom’s belly.” in nearby Vermont medical practices. tells us that “I’m still in Oakland; we for almost 25 years. I haven’t moved Antony Bugg-Levine sent in We’re adjusting to the fact that our Bay Area TMSers have great get- or changed jobs recently either. And this sweet report from his babymoon: oldest (now 15) headed off to Phillips togethers; I’ve reconnected with my while I find much of... national politics “My wife, Ahadi, and I welcomed our Exeter this fall and is already wrap- friend Meredith (Howard) Ashby dis-everything, solace remains in hav- daughter into our lives last summer. Is ping up her first year. Our younger after 26 years of neglect, we’re both ing true community where I am. I am there any sound better than a baby’s daughter seems to really enjoy the ex- burners and rock climbers; my kids always feeling the need to do more, to laughter?” tra attention and taking over all things are 3 and 6, hella cute. I have a good give more, or to change something, so that her sister left behind! We love garden. We’ve had a lot of rain lately my yarn business hosted a successful hearing from other TMS alums, so we instead of mega drought, so it’s doing Kickstarter for local wool. I’m doing hope you reach out if you’re passing well. Ummm, I work? That’s it. See my best to plan for tomorrow, while through New Hampshire or Vermont.” you all around.” living for today. Peace and hope for all Sending you all love. Keep on be- Lee Fearnside chose “the power to of you and maybe I’ll get to see some of ing super. have chicken coops clean themselves, you this summer.” because now that spring is spring, that Meredith (Howard) Ashby claims s*** is starting to stink.” Lee also re- “no big news here, well, unless you ports that “Two colleagues and I started count hip re-replacement surgery this a project bringing artists and veterans past October. It went swimmingly, and I together, and have created a traveling am now back to my usual shenanigans,

15 nonetheless, shoveling buckets of snow Spring ’92 to melt over a wood stove coupled with teams of two-man dish crews reminded Jenny Janke Streams Christina of “how much fun you can [email protected] have when you work together as a enny Janke Streams here, report- group to make something run smoothly, Jing from Nashville, where I am even when you are exhausted after a director of community development for long day”. Her normal life hums along Vanderbilt University Medical Center. in Greenville, SC and she invites every- One year in and I love the job, people, one to visit and sends everyone a big and mission. Coming up in July, I’ll hug. Hugs back at ya, Christina! be taking my family to the first TMS Katie Dropick is a creative direc- Summer Session (my first visit in 20+ tor in NYC, currently working on a years). I am hoping to sell at least one social-impact advertising project for of our three boys on the semester school Unicef to promote breastfeeding in experience and would love to see some Nigeria with TV commercials that will of you there! Here are updates from five run there. Now that sounds like an ad more of our classmates and I hope to campaign of which to be proud! Well Regan Brooks s91 hear from more of you folks next year! done, Katie. Catherine Steindler is deep in Drew Wheelan has found his bet- By Andres Santana s18 baby bliss. She sent this sweet picture ter half and is living in RI, with his of her daughter, Eleanor Erda Steindler. beautiful wife of 10 months, Born July 30, Eleanor is a “delight.” Christy. Drew now runs his family’s egan Brooks attended Cornell where she graduated with Catherine shares that at 6 months, upholstery business and makes uphol- Ra B.A. in Government and later went on to the University Eleanor’s great interests are “suck- stered furniture and handbags. Christy of Vermont to earn her M.S. in Ecology. She and her husband ing on finger and toes (hers) and hair and her sister own a bed and breakfast and two kids now live in Anchorage, Alaska. Brooks is a class (mine), sitting up, belly kisses, new on Block Island, so Drew spends sum- agent, a volunteer organizer of Mountain School Where You people, and food (especially spinach, of mers there to do a bit of ferry com- Live events in Anchorage and avid supporter of the Mountain all things!).” Adorable! muting. In addition to these myriad School and its current students’ academic pursuits. jobs, Drew reports they are kept busy renovating their house next to the up- Brooks also is directly involved with high school students holstery shop. They look forward to through an awesome program which she and three others starting their compound in the village founded in 2014, called Story Works Alaska. The program of Peace Dale! Congratulations Drew! allows high schoolers to share their stories and bridge the gap between academics and their lives as adolescents. She encourages educators or others who want to support youth voices in their communities to visit storyworksak.org for the curriculum and, best of all, recorded stories.

Brooks discovered the importance of connection at the Mountain School, and Story Works Alaska gives the students Anne Allison reports that it’s been an opportunity to show others their ability to create something a sad year in Charlottesville. Her work beautiful and connect over their stories. The Mountain School teaching students at the community helped Regan find hope, pursue the intersection between life college, seeks common ground through and academics, and “believe in the magic of a program.” discussion of differences with a goal of Brooks is spreading this magic with her passion for Story creating positive change through edu- Works Alaska, which she hopes will inspire other (alumni) cation, civic engagement, and civility. teachers to encourage students to share their stories. Keep up the good work, Anne! My former roommate, Christina Hallenbeck Rogers, shares that her lat- Spring ’93 est adventure, a backcountry ski touring trip in the Canadian Rockies near Banff Peter Bailey National Park, was “by far the most [email protected] adventurous and physically challeng- ur 25th Reunion is almost here! ing trip I have ever done.” She cred- O its her TMS roots with preparing her The thought of walking up on Gar- for the challenges of a lodge without den Hill in August certainly helps shrug indoor plumbing or running water. I off these last blows of winter! Vermont don’t remember TMS being so spartan, cooking, roves in the woods, dorm life,

16 harsh Boraxo soap…get ready every- to strive to meet the challenge of Jim in updates. Looking forward to being 3-yr. old daughter, Abby, knows every one! Leonard’s timeless admonition: “seek back at TMS in August. word of the Hamilton soundtrack. My Thrilled to report we have a healthy personal fulfillment and drive so- stepdaughter Cecilia Giaimo f16 is turnout for the event so far. If you’re in cial progress through the global capital making us proud as a freshman at close contact with someone who hasn’t markets.” Marc is also spending a lot Smith, steeping her brain in organic responded below, please reach out and of time at his Vermont getaway, taking Spring ’94 chemistry and club hockey. I occasion- encourage them to attend! in “natural beauty, crushing rural pov- ally see Suzannah Holsenbeck f99 Perhaps the most delightful update erty, and gravity sports.” Brian Frutig around town and can’t wait to hang out came from Jesse Robinson who de- Speaking of Jim Leonard – con- [email protected] with her more regularly. Aldrich Pilates scribed randomly running into Marga- tact has been made! I braved the dusty ello TMSers and Spring ’94ers! continues to thrive, and I’m starting to ret Angell at a dance party. Thinking New Mexico wilds and connected with HThe notes are short and sweet this introduce meditation programming about those two tearing it up at a Maine Jim and Story recently (well, via the year, but they are punctuated by a class- solely so I can introduce more san- rager is just awesome. Jesse loves life internet…) and they are going to try to mate fighting some serious stuff (stage ity into the Mom-business-owner-jug- in Maine, doting on her 1-year old son make an appearance at the reunion! I IV brain cancer), without losing any of gling-act. Last summer, I was blessed Ezra, spending time in her garden, and also tracked down Peter Morningstar, his verve for life; a classmate balancing to have spent the last three days of my working as an educational consultant. and after some minor badgering, I think motherhood and a business while find- father’s life by his bedside. It’s surreal Margaret and her family moved to Cape we’ll see him in August too! ing time to savor the little things after raising a young ball of energy while Elizabeth, Maine recently. Her daugh- Sadly, we’ll miss a few of our class- the passing of a parent; a classmate my parents decline—a front-row seat ters Ella and Kate are digging deep mate who can’t make it the reunion. bravely engaging the political process to the cycle-of-life show. Equal parts into Maine life – skiing, snowshoeing, Rob Pizem will be returning from a in the name of community, and feeling humbling and inspiring. Sending good skating, etc. Clearly Kate takes after trip overseas and won’t be able to join. embraced by his community in the pro- vibes to fellow TMS-ers.” her mother – she asked for an axe for This year, Rob celebrates 16 years as a cess – including TMSers near and far; Jared Liu dropped a line to say: “I her 8th birthday. Margaret works for high school teacher. He reminds us that and a classmate negotiating the ebbs hope you’re all avoiding this year’s flu 2Revolutions, an educational design “time is certainly flying by.” Pizem is and flows of life while continuing to season, which seems to be pretty preva- lab, working with schools and districts the sage. Sean Westmoreland moved assist clients all over New England. I lent. This past year, I ran for mayor in who want to create a new approach to back to Massachusetts to care for his have no doubt the quiet classmates are Wallingford, CT, the town where I grew student learning. mother who was diagnosed with Al- engaged in similar endeavors. In short, up. Neighbors and friends had been Also on the East Coast is Kate zheimer’s. They spend time walking in we continue to be the love and feel the asking me to do it for years, and the Berg, who continues to do amazing the local woods and marshes and plant- love. current political climate was the nudge work in medical research in cardiac ing apple trees. Ari Blum will miss the All Andrew Gray sent was “Wan- I needed. I came closer than anyone in arrest and sepsis, and sees patients at reunion retrieving his sons from camp na know what’s happening with my 25 years to unseating the incumbent, Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston. We in the mountains of California. Ari brain?” and “Feel free to share and help but I ultimately fell short. But talk all remember how she loves to sing, and lives in San Francisco and continues to me keep the word out” with the fol- about friends helping from all over, no surprise, she’s a member of a local surf as much as he can. lowing link https://www.caringbridge. though...Andrew Gray reached out chorus. Kate is coming to the reunion Questionable for the reunion is org/visit/fourinchmass. I’ll elaborate to offer his help with my social media with her husband and toddler. Marlee Leveille who isn’t sure she can for him. In January and February, reach, which was definitely a key piece Quick notes came in from Vanessa make it. Marlee lives in VT with her Andrew was “feeling lethargic and… in coming as close as we did. Many Bennett (Kroll), James Wilkerson, wife and three sons – two teenagers and quiet [which for those of us who know thanks to him and to so many other dear and Tyler Katz who will also be at the a 9-month old. Her days alternate be- and remember him was] obviously not friends who helped!” reunion! You’ll have to attend to hear tween “negotiating the complexities of himself.” He had a bunch of tests in John Nesbitt pinged “I hope more about what they’re up to. Also the teenage psyche and reveling in the February, which “revealed a large tu- you are well. It’s been a few rounds attending will be Shereen Mohiud- daily discoveries of a baby.” Marlee mor in [his] brain.” The details are all since I submitted a note, so here’s din who is living in Boston with her just celebrated her ten-year anniversary included in the CaringBridge link, but the update. After two moves in 18 partner Beth and their 3 kids (ages 7, working with the Student Conservation it reports that after receiving steroids months (long story, a bit tumultuous, 6, and 6 months). Shereen works as a Association (SCA) and currently man- to reduce the swelling, myriad CT and but all good in the end), we have settled geriatrician at a community health cen- ages their admissions program. She MRI scans, a tumor resection, a biopsy in a home and community we love in ter for a program that helps low income remembers TMS fondly sharing that of the tumor, discovery of a malignant, the Upper Valley. We are in Grantham, older adults continue to live at home. TMS “opened my eyes to new ways stage IV glioblastoma, and pending NH in a community called Eastman Katrina Monzon is excited for the of being in the world and in commu- chemo and radiation, Andrew is being with XC ski trails right out our back reunion and is looking for a ride from nity that keep me grounded all of these well-taken care of, he is back to his nor- door and a small lake nearby where we NYC if anyone is coming that way. years later.” So true. mal talkative and planning self, and is spend a lot of time in the summer. I Katrina continues to impart wisdom to And big news out of Brooklyn - fighting with a grace and ferocity that continue to maintain my psychotherapy the minds of her 4-year old students. Morgan Robinson was married in surprises precisely none of us. Andrew, practice in Concord, MA three days a Oftentimes overwhelmed by antici- October! He married Kate Robinson thank you for sharing and fighting. We week while I build another practice pation for the reunion, Marc Elia con- and changed his name to hers. He also are all thinking of you. closer to home in Hanover, NH. I’m tinues to wreak havoc upon the placid recently started a new company called Sarah Aldrich writes, “After over hoping to be full-time in Hanover with- community of Greenwich, CT. His 3 Little Human Media that will focus on a decade of dancing about the New in the year. We are two minutes off of kids are at my house way too much eat- storytelling about environmental Haven-area non-committedly, I finally I-89, so if you’re passing through come ing everything in sight. Marc wanted issues. bought a sweet house in Hamden, CT., and say hello.” to assure everyone that he continues Thanks again to everyone who sent (a few miles north of New Haven). My As for me, Brian Frutig, “it has

17 been a fun year of family celebrations, cidents) and Luke will begin his quest a beach with a bonfire surrounded by are up to.” outdoor adventures, and professional for a job where he won’t get hurt...and friends on Mission Bay in San Diego. A few weeks ago, making my way challenges. The celebrations have feels fulfilled and all that stuff we look Another highlight this year is that I home from the Park Slope Food Coop, been constant: my sister Heather s98 for in gainful employment. But he can taught a 2-day workshop at UCSD, I ran into the great Matt Cuthbertson and her husband Andy started off the speak for himself if he wants...except which was a lot of fun. The workshop and his karate-practicing nephew on year getting married in Cleveland, OH, he’s rather busy moving north at this focused on data analysis of transcrip- the street. Matt was in town from San then Heather and Andy welcomed their moment.” tomics, which is the study of all the Francisco visiting family. Matt writes, daughter Eleanor to the world, which Chills!!!! Christina Capone Na- messenger RNA that is made by a cell “I’m still plugging away at being a was followed by my brother Matthew gler writes, “Though life feels really in response to some stimulus or even public defender with no end in sight. s00 marrying his wife Kelly near Hali- busy, I don’t have too many specifics to just regular growth. I live in a small stu- Gemma is now 5 going on 15 and fax, Nova Scotia. On the home front, share. My daughter, Hanna, turns one in dio apartment now, but at least I have a Everett is an almost 3-year old goof we continue to love living near Boulder, April. I still see Alice as often as I can, gas stove so I can finally use my cast ball. We picked up my wife at the air- CO. Having the Front Range on our but it’s not often enough!” iron pan and am getting into cooking port last night and as he is getting into doorstep and quick access to the rest of Down in Philadelphia, Emily more and more. Life is good! I am very the car, he yells “to the rescue!”” the Rockies has made trail running and Bockian Landsburg was not in Phila- much looking forward to seeing every- Josh Viertel is, “still working on biking a regular activity. I completed delphia at the time of this writing. In- one in June. I can’t wait!” building a sort of Mountain School for my first 50-mile trail run and my wife stead, Bockian was in Los Angeles, Allison Cohen says, “No big news. Grownups in Wingdale, NY. We’ve got Sarah qualified for the Ironman World where she was about to join Nick Kroll I’m still a Dean at a local college, living 250 beautiful acres between the Ap- Championship for the second time. I for lunch before she and Michael head- in Seattle. All is well!” palachian Trail and a trout river. Hay enjoyed the 50-miler enough that I’m ed to the Oscars. Nick says, “I hope she Omayra Ortega writes “I moved fields, barns, an old farmhouse and tackling it again in 2018; this time remembers me!” Bockian was at the to LA last August to work at Pomona ponds. We are turning it into a food (now that I know he lives there) I hope Oscars to root on of her friend, College (where I went for undergrad). and farming retreat and education cen- to visit with Timbah Bell f01 who lives Rachel Morrison, who was nominated My past mentor called me just when I ter, where people can learn to live in in Leadville and teaches at the High for cinematography. was plotting my return to academia, to connection to land. I got to bounce to Mountain Institute (a semester program invite me to teach at Pomona. I’m really Balkan brass music with Jess Powers, similar to TMS). On the professional glad that I am able to give back to the Ben Pomeroy, Sam Janis, Rob front, I continue to enjoy being a solo math department that I graduated from Debbane, Brynn Kusic, Gwyn estate planning attorney. In particular, by filling in for a professor who fell ill Welles, Nick Kroll, Nellie Carter and I relish the opportunity it gives me to suddenly. Half of the department were more. And we are hosting a Spring ’95 build long-term trusting relationships my profs and the other half are equally 23rd reunion this spring at our farm.” with clients and the flexibility it pro- awesome. Knowing that this position Let’s see each other in June for vides to volunteer with abused and ne- was just for one year, I applied for jobs, our 23rd reunion! A little recap of our glected children and teach civil rights and I will be starting a tenure-track po- last big weekend gathering at Josh’s to middle school and high school stu- sition at Sonoma State University in the farm is basically that it was awesome. dents. As always, if you find yourself Noah Riley writes, “I’m surviv- fall. I’m excited to live in northern Cali- Amazing food, cute kids with glasses, anywhere near Denver/Boulder, please ing another tough LA winter but look- fornia. This will be the closest (physi- swimming in natural bodies of water, let me know. I’d love to catch up. ing forward to spring, designing and cally) that I’ve been to my parents since a crackling bonfire. Luke set off- mu building homes, including one for our I was 14. My heart is still in Phoenix, nicipal strength fireworks at night and growing family. Juliette is due with our but I’m ready for new adventures. If sent the cows running to the hills. In first child this July! When I can make any of you like wine, you are welcome the dark country evening, with iPhone Spring ’95 my way across town, Nick and I get to- to visit. I’ll be your DD since I only flashlights and microbrews in hand, gether for a hike or a drink - depending drink whiskey ;)” we rounded up and herded back every Jessica Powers on time of day.” Jess Taverna writes, “Life in Utah last one of those cows. As Alice men- [email protected] Meadow Linn moved to Sacra- is very good these days. I experienced tioned – let’s do it again in June! Bring mento in September! the pinnacle of my crossfit career last shoes strong enough to wade through n a surprise move, this year Alice Also in California, Anna Ryan May as part of a team that finished 8th cow you-know-what. I am so sad that ILee wrote on behalf of herself and Wolbach, didn’t have much of an up- at the Crossfit Games South Regional. I can’t make the whole weekend, but I Luke Deming. Our “biggest update is date as she was consumed by a school I then quit competitive crossfit (go out will try to come one night. that we like each other...a lot. We like auction. hot!), started road biking, got back into Also, as Josh mentioned, this year each other so much that we’re mov- Rachel Bobruff in San Francisco climbing, took up mountain biking, and was our second year of a bunch of us ing in together tomorrow, the day your writes, “I’m planning a huge surprise then took a short breather from all of dancing to tubas and bagpipes in a class notes are due. Rather than share trip for my 40th. I am taking 20+ that to have ankle surgery in Nov. But gargantuan circle underneath swinging our entire love story in the pages of friends for a weekend in the redwood recovery was quick, and I’ve been back chandeliers. A bunch of us were there Pearls and Seaweed, everyone should forest, but they won’t find that out till cycling, climbing, and skiing. Rick and hopping up and down and we also got come to Wingdale, New York on June we arrive. We’re going to create our I celebrated a year in our dream home at a few good meals and conversation in 22 to get the scoop. Can’t wait to see own mini festival among the trees!!! 7,000 ft in the mountains outside SLC, there (Sam makes really good scram- lots of people. Until that time, I’m go- It’s the best way I could imagine ring- relishing feeling like we’re hours away bled eggs en masse), plus someone ing to keep hearing how people hurt ing in the next decade!” from the city even though our com- whose name may or may not rhyme themselves at work (as I continue my John McCrow writes, “I cel- mutes are still only 20 mins. I can’t wait with Shen put dishwashing soap in job at the Department of Industrial Ac- ebrated my 40th birthday this year on to read about what all the other S95ers the dishwasher, and there was another

18 Luke-like scramble to rein in the suds. affordable work live spaces such as our Nellie Carter and baby had us all apartment. It turns out lobbyists actu- over for brunch and says, “It was won- ally hang out in the lobby of the legisla- derful to see Jess Powers [ha!] and a tive chambers. Who knew?” bunch of other Balkan Festival Cel- Sam Janis says, “Quit job, fell in Nick Kroll s95 ebrants in January in Brooklyn! Life love, left NYC, wanting to buy a farm continues to unwind in beautiful tortu- in British Columbia, get Canadian citi- By Dessa Gerger s18 ous lengths.” zenships...also this.” [see photo] Speaking of me, life is good in Brooklyn. I love my neighbors. My ith FX network’s The League, consulting and coaching business has WComedy Central’s Kroll me talking to interesting people doing Show, and guest appearances on interesting things in the world. For the shows like Parks and Recreation first time, I took the entire month of and films like Sausage Party, Nick August off and went to Bali. I’m hop- Kroll has successfully established himself in the comedy arena. ing to see more of the world this year Working as a comedian, writer, and producer, he is now in his (Croatia? Marrakech? Brazil?) and I’m second season of producing his Netflix comedy,Big Mouth. The also training to run the Brooklyn Half- animated show chronicles Kroll’s own adolescent experiences Marathon which I’m feeling excited Paul Hubbard writes, “After a of going through puberty with his childhood best friend (John and nervous about. I’m stretching a lot. fantastic year in NYC, Betsy, Reed and Mulaney) and covers a range of topics from consent to family Gwyn Welles also got her dance I have moved our little family to Burl- drama. In March of this year, he and John were interviewed by on, and reports “I’m still working at ington, Vermont. I’ve taken a market- Terry Gross for NPR’s Fresh Air. Their appearances this March YouTube and living in South Orange, ing job at Seventh Generation, while also included co-hosting the Independent Spirit Awards. NJ with my husband Ben and our two Betsy hunts for a non-profit gig. We’re little boys, Gideon (2 1/2) and Tobias thrilled to be in the Green Mountains Embracing both an independent and a community spirit, Kroll (1). It’s been an exhausting, but re- and have a spare bedroom for TMSers credits the Mountain School for “encouraging me to be a warding time. We occasionally leave to come play outside.” weirdo and to be more confident about expressing my artistic our parenting bubble and enjoy hav- Also roughing it, Digger Gardner nature, as well as to look at myself in a more thoughtful and ing adult conversations. Loved seeing wrote while “in the thick of sugaring multidimensional way.” He appreciates the work ethic that a bunch of S95ers at the recent Balkan season right now. We only have 65 taps he learned while there; having to bury an ego for the greater Fest in NYC!” but that’s still sometimes 80 gallons of good of the community, and disregard differences that could sap in a boil. Small operation for com- potentially get in the way of the common goal. As he pointed mercial but big operation for a life with out, “Another great aspect of the Mountain School is micro and not much room to spare. It’s like being macro speaking. There are these issues you’re dealing with at in a big cloud of maple steam, which is the school, on the farm, and the community, [..] everything you enjoyable for a moment but disorient- say affects the community, everything I do as an individual ing if it’s nonstop.” affects others and the community at large.” He also carries with Jennifer Harding Fritz says, “still him from his time here, the love of nature and appreciation for happy in DC and busy with my three total disconnection; he uses mountain time for creative thinking kids. Charlotte is in 4th grade and or zoning out and enjoying being completely present. Hunting is in kindergarten and Sammy B Chatfield writes, “Life is good is in nursery. We are heading up to Ver- When asked if he could name a favorite thing about the in Brooklyn, designing playgrounds mont in a few weeks and I always think Mountain School, Kroll said he didn’t think he could limit it to for NYC Parks, seeing friends, spend- of the TMS crew when there!” one experience. Among the standouts were the coffee houses, ing time with Jane who is now 2. Daily Philippe Lanier writes, “Nothing Solo, a lip-sync to a James Brown song, and the friendships. normalcy feels like amazing success.” ground-shaking. I am a slave to my Recently, he had dinner with Sam Singer and Omayra Ortega, Ben Pomeroy writes, “this summer family. We have built this past year a two semestermates. I returned to an old job as a canoe guide fire station library and affordable hous- with Keewaydin Camp. I took a group ing for the city. A squash club, a few For current and future students, Kroll advises; “When you’re of men down a river in northern Ontario luxury apartment buildings. I am work- at the Mountain School, you want to try to appreciate this very and learned from my campers that if ing on two technology products with specific place in your life. Try not to look forward to what is you are stubborn enough you can con- our tech company. No life, no adven- happening next year; it is truly a once in a lifetime experience. tinue do that back-breaking stuff into ture but lots accomplished.” I would say try to appreciate the time that you’re there and try your 70s. Work wise, my podcast Swell Tasha Segool says that she’s doing to take the mindfulness of the place as you go forward, which Season Surf radio continues to grow in well and life is good! means both taking risks and appreciating what it’s like to be part its audience and range of guests. In pol- Lindsay Jackson says hi! She is of a community.” itics, my girlfriend and I joined fellow sad that she’s going to sit out our next loft dwellers and neighbors to rally in summer reunion at Josh’s. Albany for a renewal and strengthening Gwyn Jones says, “Not much go- of the NYC Loft Law which protects ing on with me. Just another year older

19 summer reunion at Josh’s. and anything to do with construction are welcome to visit SF and stay with Gwyn Jones says, “Not much go- vehicles. The Dusty Rhino, his Burning them! Spring ’97 ing on with me. Just another year older Man art car, will go to its 10th burn this Karalyn Parzych had her first and wiser ;) The kiddos keep me busy.” year even as he steps further into being child, a boy they named Morgan, on Beth Sigman Somerset Amy Shopkorn reports, “It’s been a father, letting the next generation of Thanksgiving (11 days early). They are [email protected] a fun TMS year for me, attending the Dusty Rhino members take charge. still living near Stowe, VT, where she t’s always great to hear what our Alumni Committee meeting in Vershire Dina Hasiotis McEvoy has two teaches science at a nearby public school Iclassmates are up to. It would be this past fall. I’m also going to be step- girls, Zoe, 8, and Samantha, 4, in New while her husband works in mountain even better to see you in Vershire this ping into the Alumni Committee Chair Orleans. She switched jobs about two operations at the ski resort. “We’re summer at the new Summer Session role later this spring, a role that was years ago, which requires less time on enjoying our new life with a baby - lack weekend July 27-29 (details at moun- pioneered by Ben Pomeroy. S95 is airplanes and more time at home for of sleep and everything!” tainschoolalumni.org). A few days with definitely representing!” dinner and bedtime. She’s now working Vinita Goswami and her husband, awesome people, great activities for all Someone who shall remain name- for the school district in New Orleans, Lou, welcomed Bodhin’s new brother, ages, and delicious food, all in a won- less so as not to develop the reputation overseeing school quality in the city. Bair, in December in Boston’s South derful place… While you think on that, for being too soft or woowoo sent me “It includes everyday reminders of how End. “I adore being a ‘mommy of boys’ here’s the latest from S97: this quote by Parker Palmer as we re- fortunate we all were for our time in and am having a blast kicking new Anna Goralnik Hopkins writes, flected on our past year. “There isa Vershire.” She plans to make the trip up fallen snow or jumping in puddles with “I’m newly single, enjoying life with hard truth to be told: before spring be- for the summer session with her family my 2 year old as we wait for the lon- Hudson, my 3.5-year-old ray of light. comes beautiful, it is plug ugly, noth- and hopes to see you there! ger, warmer days at the playground to I miss you all, and I’m eager to hear ing but mud and muck. I have walked Brooke Brewer and her partner, return.” Their other baby “Alps & Me- about your adventures.” in the early spring through fields that Brian, moved from Maine to the ters” (www.alpsandmeters.com) is go- Catherine Gowl moved to Pitts- will suck your boots off, a world so wet Basque Country in northern Spain last ing great and they’re loving their start burgh in May (come visit!). She writes, and woeful it makes you yearn for the March with their almost 3 year old, up life adventure. “Greg and I got married on July 2, return of ice. But in that muddy mess, Otis. They plan to stay for the next few Jessica Biskind Silverman sent an 2017 with S97ers George, Cassie, the conditions for rebirth are being cre- years while they start a wooden boat auto-response that she’s on maternity Katherine, Izzy, Alexis, and Reif in at- ated.” building school. They’d love to see leave. That›s all I know :) tendance. I was so happy to attend our Here’s to knowing each other for anyone traveling their way! As for me, Ned Friend, I’m still in 20-year reunion, and to introduce Greg another year of muddy muck and re- Marina Michahelles wrote from Seattle with my wife, Sara, working at to the physical space of the Mountain birth. Happy Spring to us all. Happy Paris on her very belated honeymoon. Microsoft doing technical strategy for School.” 40th to many of us. Until next time. She was traveling through Europe on Office. My two daughters aged 6 and Curt Ellis and his wife, Caitlin, a Eurail pass, “pretending to be just 8 are at our local Spanish-immersion welcomed a daughter into the world in a few years out of TMS,” and almost public school, and we’re hosting January, named Birch Irene Boyle. “We Spring ’96 saw Electa Behrens in Oslo. “But she one of the school›s visiting teachers have had a great three years out west, is keeping up with young family life, from Spain for 5 months. Last year I but we are moving back to New York Ned Friend and I was trying not to fall flat on my became an informal spokesperson for City in time for our son Oliver to start [email protected] face on the slippery Oslo streets.” the Washington tax justice campaign kindergarten this fall. I’m still busy and abies, start-ups, and world travels, Morgen Peck farm-sat for her (www. against our most regressive local tax happy in my work at FoodCorps, and I Boh my! shovingleopardfarm.org) while “build- system in the country. I helped spur am looking forward to more opportuni- Laurel Anderson Thayer sent in ing a fleet of vans that are actually tiny public opinion through local news ties to see the NYC TMS crew!” her first ever update! She’s been living houses, funded by her bitcoin exploits.” outlets such as the Seattle Times and Georgina Cullman started a new in the Bay Area since graduating from David Jacoby’s startup, Hostfully, our NPR station as well as the job as an ecologist at New York City’s college. She’s an immigration attorney, has had over 6,000 vacation rentals in Christian Science Monitor. That helped Department of Parks & Recreation in “a field that has become significantly over 80 countries provide Hostfully achieve our first major victory of pass- September 2017. “I love learning more more challenging and heartbreak- guidebooks to their guests. After two ing a Seattle income tax on high earn- about this great city’s wildlife and get- ing since the new administration took years in business, they just merged with ers to more equitably fund our city and ting to spend some of my days out of over.” She’s married with three kids, Orbirental “so we went from being two pave the way for statewide change. I the office trekking around in the city’s aged four, seven, and eighteen, the old- very very small startups to being one was inspired by the great social work of beautiful woods, wetlands, and grass- est of which joined their family a few very small startup!” His wife, Kim, is so many other TMSers! lands. Every time we pass a park with years ago. She brought her wife and working full time and getting her mas- the Parks’ logo of the their two youngest kids to our 20th re- ters in health and informatics. “It makes London Plane Tree leaf in a circle, Ha- union, where “it was amazing to see the evenings easy: ‘what do you want to zel shouts, ‘Look, NYC Parks! That’s Mountain School through their eyes. I do?’, ‘work’, ‘yeah, ok, me too’.” That where you work!’” George also men- felt so much love and gratitude for the said, working from home lets them tioned she recently spent a weekend Mountain School all over again.” join school trips and sneak out for a with Catherine, who was visiting with Peter Sheridan’s San Francisco lunchtime walks in the park. Their son, her husband Greg from Pittsburgh. It general contracting business is growing Max (6) was lucky to get placed at the even snowed that weekend, and they and completing projects across the city nearest school by San Francisco’s lot- tromped around in the snow à la TMS. (www.sfhearth.com). His son Bodhi is tery system, and their daughter, Olivia Katherine Messer, her husband Tom, now 3 and in pre-school and loving it (5), will go there next year. All TMSers and Alexis Boehmler, joined in.

20 “Biggest news here in Lubbock, Lloyd, Alexis, Catherine, Christy and my son, Leo, to Garden Hill. Hope Texas, is the birth of my second daugh- Parker, George, Izzy, the long-lost to see many of you this summer! ter (third child overall) back in June,” Jessie Herrick, Jon Snow, Molly, Emily Nelson Renn is living in writes Gordon Christopher. Her name and Reif Larsen. Life in southern New Flagstaff, AZ with her husband and two is Nancy Beatrice Christopher. Gordon Hampshire is good, and I’m still enjoy- dogs, and now in her 10th year of work- also mentioned he was hoping to see ing working for such a special organi- ing for the nonprofit, the Grand Canyon Molly Venter at a concert in late Feb- zation as the Mountain School and with Wolf Recovery Project. She has been ruary. such incredible alumni. the Executive Director since 2014. Last summer, Izzy Lowell started She also continues to translocate dis- her own practice for transgender pa- placed prairie dogs from urban areas to tients, and things are taking off. Check Spring ’98 help restore colonies in Petrified Forest Madeline, Zoë and Ian at the “Balls of it out at queermed.com. Dan Chiorean National Park in the summer months. Steel” games in Newport, Co. Mayo, Sarah O’Keefe Greig now has [email protected] Kit Maloney is recently engaged, Ireland a family of five: she and her husband elina Packer is living the running her company O’actually, about welcomed Lachlan O’Keefe Greig on Mdream in Berkeley, California, the importance of celebrating women’s April 13, 2017. “Finally had to sneak completing her PhD and determinedly sexual pleasure, and would love to con- a Scottish name in there for my in- resisting fascism with lots of love and nect with TMS’s who have published laws…. His two older sisters love play- learning. non-fiction books. ing with him and squeezing him too The past year has been eventful. I, Susan Dawson sent a nice note to hard. Life is crazy but great! Cassie Dan Chiorean, have been through my Marilyn wishing her well on her retire- Marlantes Rahm and Justin Beeber first year of marriage, am finally plan- ment, and how she is often reminded by have hosted great gatherings for NYC- ning a delayed honeymoon to France, her parents of their membership to the Zoë visits the ruins of a humble ers, and it’s been fun to catch up with and still working hard as an attorney “EDIS Club” (short for the “Every Day cottage in Glenhest, birthplace of her everyone.” litigating against big pharma. My wife is Saturday Club”.) (Yes, I’m loving it!) great-grandmother. The news from Siobhan Boylan and I continue building our happy little Susan lives in San Francisco. is that she didn’t move to Qatar! She life here in New Orleans, though we After 7 years of working for the writes, “At the last minute, a job opened are trying to get away to the mountains Mountain School as director of alumni Spring ’99 up in the Sierra foothills at an Expedi- more often, as I don’t particularly en- development, Madeline Stewart has Caleb Masland tionary Learning school where a good joy the flat land and very hot climate left to pursue new opportunities. She’s [email protected] friend of mine works, so I decided to - we just got back from a skiing trip calling it a sabbatical of sorts while mily (Osborne) Farrar is still put down roots and go back to basics! in Breckenridge, CO, which was gor- she takes some time to consider the Enavigating the nonstop energy and I’m teaching a K/1 loop up here and geous. I continue to volunteer my time options and find her path forward. In craziness of NYC, still working in pro- loving it! We are outside a lot, have an to nonprofits, serve on the Michigan August 2017, she traveled to Ireland, duction at RadicalMedia - overseeing Adventure Teacher and a beautiful gar- Alumni Association down here, and try Northern Ireland, and Scotland with a ton of compelling projects across all den, and I know I will be able to stick to recruit high school kids to apply to her husband Ian and daughter Zoë different platforms: film, Netflix, HBO, around for many years to come. I did go TMS. (now 8) for a family reunion and va- television. She is still trying to create to China last year to work with a group Greetings from the bay! Alexa cation. What a blast! Her Irish family some sort of peace there - constant trips of teachers and students on the writer’s Engelman loves San Francisco life, members hosted an event much like the to upstate NY, endless scouring of real workshop framework and am looking “enjoying the summery February Farm Olympics—a great icebreaker for estate ads for a cabin out of town, and forward to going back again this year. weather (hurrah for climate change!) the reunion. In a “Cowpokes vs. Lep- hibernating in her Brooklyn apartment I’ve been taking Mandarin classes in and attempting to keep up with the rechauns” showdown, events included from the New York cold. She writes, the hopes that I’ll be able to talk to digital natives inhabiting the city. I’m Tug O’War, Volleyball, Egg & Spoon “Only new addition to my life is a little more people this time around. If any- hanging on at EPA, hoping for regime relays, and “Throwing the Wellie” — boy who arrived this October: Osborne one wants a place to crash when tour- change sooner than later. Happy news is that is, a rubber boot toss. Madeline Lee Farrar. We call him Ozzy and he ing Northern California Gold Country, that my partner Keith and I are getting visited the tumbledown stone cottage has completely taken my heart. Makes they’re welcome to look me up; we’ve hitched this July in Big Sur, otherwise in Mayo where her grandmother was everything in life worth it (as I’m sure got a guest room and two friendly dogs. I’d be in Vershire to celebrate our 20th raised (now a little more than a cellar- every parent says). So, for now, I am My best to everyone out East!” TMS reunion. Hope everyone is well hole), cheered on Ham Solo at the pig spending as much time with our new “We are finishing up our time and eat some fudgy oat squares for me!” races through the Main Street of New- little family unit. And plotting our es- in Fukuoka, Japan,” writes Thomas Thea Johnson is in Portland, Maine, port, and stumbled through cemeteries cape from NYC!” Whitney. “I’ll be going back to school teaching at the University of Maine looking for traces of her husband’s an- Lara Vogel just had twins in in the fall to attend a mid-career mas- School of Law. “Despite owning a pair cestors in Aberdeenshire. She’s still liv- August-giving her two boys, Oscar ter’s in Public Policy program at of snowshoes, I have yet to put them ing in Santa Monica, CA, and you can (5 years) and Charlie (5 months), and Princeton. Are we really ‘mid-career’ on in the year I’ve lived here. Did I follow her walking adventures on Insta two girls, Eliza (3 years) and Viviane already? We are looking forward to the learn nothing at the Mountain School! @itswalkable . “Love to all, and I plan (5 months). She has a year plus of resi- time in the States and hope that TMSers Among the many benefits of living in to see you at the reunion this August!” dency in emergency medicine left at living in the area will let me know.” Portland is that I’m in the same neck of Mass General, then she plans to hang I, Beth Sigman Somerset, enjoyed the woods as TMS and it will be easy to out in the Boston area for a few years as seeing classmates and their families get to the reunion this summer! I’m ex- a community ER doctor. Her husband at our 20th reunion last summer: Alex cited to introduce my husband, Geoff, is working from home running a startup

21 software company that surveys the Bot- January and went back to teaching 5th go guys!!!! Big LOVE. love adventuring with their two-year- tom Two Billion and traveling to exotic grade full time.” Betsy Nesbitt writes: “I love living old, William, and they are expecting places. She now lives in Concord, MA, Colin Kippen is still balancing in Burlington (6+ years now). Wonder- twins in March (!!!). “We’re moving which she says is a gorgeous corner part-time teaching at Oregon College ful to be close to the mountains and from FL to Hanover, NH in September of the world where all are welcome to of Art and Craft and Portland Com- have trails in the city for running, bik- and looking forward to being closer visit! munity College with his studio practice ing, and skiing. In 2017, I transitioned to family, including cousin Rosi Kerr Jamie (Huling) Delaye had a baby and watching his two year old daughter, from being a strategy consultant with s92, and friends. We hope TMS friends boy, his name is Calder West Huling Eliza, grow. Deloitte to become an entrepreneur and will catch us in FL or back up in NH/ and “I think he is pretty cute (pic at- Antonia Thompson ran into started a business! Pretty major change, VT.” tached).” Other than that, not much is Maggie Turner in New York, (pic. be- but a refreshing one (thank you to my Living it up in Seattle with her boy- different. Still living in SF, working low)which was the perfect inspiration husband and family for being so sup- friend and dog, Becca Link is skiing for SF, taking pics in front of the GG to get her notes in: “Life in London portive). In year two, Flyway Wellness as many days as possible, in as many bridge, etc. :) goes on - we are happily settled into a is pivoting from offering on-site yoga places as possible while working as new home and our daughter Leonora classes to developing a methodology an ER doctor on the night shift. Luck- turned two in January. (pic. below) She and tool to measure patient outcomes ily, she only works 12 shifts a month, is very excited to start nursery in Sep- and impact from yoga. We are working which leaves lots of time for friends to tember, but most of all, she is thrilled with behavioral health centers, includ- come visit! She is also “plugging away to welcome a new baby sister in May! ing opioid treatment clinics, to offer at remembering who I was before med I continue to work for ITB implement- yoga to patients and then use our meth- school and residency, and reclaiming ing strategic brand and talent partner- odology to learn about patients based that identity!” ships and influencer activations. This on their yoga experience. With this Aarav Sundaresh is holding June will mark seven years since I patient information, we can then help strong in Providence, continuing to Margot (Hill) Kirby had a baby first moved to London and much has clinics customize care, improve treat- teach art, but now at a small, mastery- boy in April. His name is Axel James happened since then! Husband, home, ment, and improve operations. Would based high school in the district. Kirby, pictured below. daughter and another on the way!” be great to connect with anyone work- After a fabulous year with Floating ing in behavioral health, patient out- Doctors in Panama, Emily Lowenberg comes, or yoga/wellness.” is “snuggling” back into the comfort of As for me (Caleb Masland), I am home in Boston. “I’ve returned with piling onto my plate in the running in- a new love of Reggaeton music and a dustry. I still have my private coaching personal resolution to be more appre- business going strong, but just started ciative of the health care system here a new venture with a local couple in (despite its many flaws!).” Boone, NC to open a specialty running Dave Eisenstadter and his wife store. This gives me the opportunity to Kitty have had a great time with their work directly with the local community son Sebastian this year. “He turned 1 in addition to the remote/online work on January 17 and is speedily walking Anthony DiCicco write us the fol- I’ve been doing with runners all over around, learning new games, and figur- lowing update: “As distance and time the world. My kiddos are now eight and ing out a few words. At work I spent separates us, I find myself reminded of four and amazing little people. And my the year moving up the ranks at the the ties that bind us. Through the notes wife was just awarded tenure and is local arts weekly, the Valley Advocate, and messages after my father’s passing making a name for herself in the world and now I’m in charge of it, as well as last summer and Alexis Taylor surpris- of teaching excellence. a handful of magazines. It is a good ing me by showing up at the service, I place to be - we get to have a progres- was reminded of the gratitude I have for Spring ’00 sive slant and I recently got to start a all of you and the role you’ve played podcast.” in my life. And in January I became an Lauren Rauch Linzee Amory Feigenbaum uncle for the first time.” Maggie Turner writes: “All is well [email protected] writes: “Alice is two and we are loving Jessica Loeffler writes, “Our son in NY - still happy living in Greenpoint, ighteen years come and gone…our Maine. If you like snow, trees, ocean & Rafferty Henry was born on June 2. His Brooklyn. Have a wonderful new room- Efriendship is off to college! And on sand, please come visit!” name means prosperity, abundance and ie - my beau of three years. Switched that note, here is where 2018 finds us. Writing in from Williamsburg, flood tide, which was fitting because jobs recently to a thriving small brand Winning most committed to TMS Brooklyn where she continues to live when we came home from the hospital, called LoveShackFancy. Thrilled to be updates, Mallory Michaeles wrote in with her wife Lina, Challie Stillman a torrential rain storm had flooded our in the thick of the big decisions being a day after giving birth to her second began a part-time MBA program at road and washed it out. Gulleys 6 feet made daily. I am sourcing fabric and child! “Jonathan and I were surprised NYU Stern this fall and will finish up deep took several days to repair, so we yarn, and looking for all of the pretty with a boy, Emerson Lincoln Mi- in 2020. In November, her company, couldn’t go home right away. He is hap- things! Celebrating my twin nephews chaeles, who was born on February 21, Resource Furniture, launched a year- py, smiley and full of love. It’s amazing fifth birthday with family this weekend 2018. He checked in at 8 lbs., 1 oz. He long exhibit at the National Building to see each new milestone- the latest and headed to Hawaii in April - life is joins his older sister, Amelia, who will Museum in Washington, DC called being clapping and clicking his tongue. good. Think often of TMS and plan to be two in May.” “Making Room: Housing for a Chang- I was able to be home with him until return for our next reunion. Let’s ALL Caroline Kerr and her wife Darcy ing America.” “It examines how cur-

22 rent housing stock is not keeping pace getting married this fall! Congratula- and he misses us all. with our changing demographics and tions Mike and Elana! Phoebe Halsey writes that “lots explores design solutions for under- Ken Nakamura is still in China has happened since I last updated, represented housing types (roommates, after five and a half years. He misses namely, my boyfriend Andrew and I multigenerational, and aging-in-place). being a student though - albeit it an old had a son, Shepard, in November. I’m We built a three-bedroom, two-bath one - and will be going back to Los taking a break from cooking to hang out home inside the exhibit with moving Angeles for business school this sum- with him while Andrew chips away at walls and our transformable furniture mer at USC. his medical residency. We’re hanging to bring the concept to life - it’s worth a Jared Martin is working every out in Berkeley with lots of free time visit for anyone in the DC area!” summer in the beautiful Prince should any of you be passing through!” Tony DeLisi got married in William Sound, Valdez Alaska and Alison (Neubauer) Miller is still December (yay!) and is busy working hopes to make it his permanent home in the DC area with her husband and through 2018. this year, with the potential purchase son and “not much has changed. I am Marie Alatorre, and we moved to mid- As for me, Laurén Rauch, my of a cabin outside town so he can start still at Capital One working on rebuild- dle Tennessee to be near a queer land husband Eric and I welcomed our enjoying the world record snowfalls in ing our data infrastructure and learning project out here that is going through daughter Rylan Sophia Feldman (TMS winter (15” in one hour last month!). a lot in the process. Owen is 2 and al- a racial justice transformation. I am s2033) on November 19, just four days He notes, “I really can’t deal with traf- ready has a love for farm animals (es- currently a trainer for potential foster before Thanksgiving, pictured below. fic or concrete on this large a scale any- pecially their noises), so I hope to take parents, and we plan to begin fostering Turns out that all the stereotypes are more. Give me mountains and glaciers him to TMS soon!” teens in the next year.” pretty much true. It is incredible to and whales!!! So anyone who’s ever Haley (Mackrow) Sammen re- Robin Wolthausen recently vol- watch her discover the world, and our dreamed of Alaska, or misses that feel- ports that after finishing her Masters unteered with some Navajo shepherds love for her somehow deepens on a dai- ing of being swallowed by the immen- degree and staying home with her in Northern Arizona and is looking to ly basis. Also, we’re exhausted. I can’t sity of wilderness should come up and second child, she’s finally returning to quit his job in the fall and get more into wait for little Rylan to meet all of you go kayaking with me in the summer or work as an evaluator. She and her hus- shepherding and local wool production. and the ever-growing next generation skiing in winter.” Will do Jota-Rod! band are still running their tiny urban He had two alpacas pass this winter: up on Garden Hill. Just the thought of And I continue to raise my family, farm CSA, and really enjoying their one to the inevitability of old age and it warms my heart. Lana (3yo) and Eli (6 mo) in New York 6-year old son and 2-year old daughter, the other to a local mountain lion and Until next year…thank you and City with my incredible partner, April, pictured below. They’ve been having her cubs, but the others are doing well! much love as always! where I work for Mount Sinai as a gen- a lot of good conversations with their He is busy with research for an ancestry eral pediatrician. Stay woke! son about equity, politics, environment, trip he is taking with his family to kindness, leadership and listening, and Europe this fall. Snow finally came in Spring ’02 it’s such an amazing experience to see SW CO and he is grateful. He hopes all him becoming aware. is well with everyone! “ Y’all are al- Therese Claxton ways welcome and have a place by our [email protected] fire where the desert meets the moun- t was wonderful to see anyone that tains.” Imade it this past summer to the re- David Greenhouse reports, “my union! wife, Emily, and I decided we’re not Diana Davis writes, “last May too old for another adventure, so we I put my belongings in storage and said goodbye to London and moved to set off in my Honda Fit. First I took Berlin. I am enjoying living in an apart- a month-long road trip around much ment after many years in Victorian cot- of the eastern half of the U.S., doing tages, and learning many funny Spring ’01 whatever I liked all day and sleeping Meredith Denning’s doctoral de- German words (Best one so far: Re- in my car, which was a delightful free- fense is scheduled for March 26 and formhaus = health food store). Emily Micah Resnick dom. I did math research for the rest of she’ll be throwing herself a gradua- loves being able to walk to work. Wil- [email protected] the summer at several conferences and tion party on May 19, feel free to get bur (11 months old, pictured below) hyra Heder has been celebrating programs, and in August picked up my in touch if you’re near DC! She and is scooting around in his TMS onesie, Tthe publication of her amazing stuff and started a new job as a visiting her husband, Yohann, don’t know laughing at everything and nothing at picture book, Alfie (the turtle that dis- assistant professor in the math depart- where they’ll be going now that their all, and eating our cooking. I’ve had appeared), while starting new projects ment at Swarthmore. So far I haven’t Washington chapter is ending, but the a wonderful time being a full-time for both kids and adults. Adventurous seen any Mountain School sweatshirts short list includes Toronto, Geneva and as always, she drove across country last around campus. :( I am living with a Anncey, France. summer and is now back in Brooklyn, wonderful roommate who is also a pro- Lily (Brown) Palmieri was so sad working away in her studio. fessor, and enjoying my new life here.” to miss the reunion, but couldn’t imag- Elana Snow continues her work in Vijay Viswanathan reports that ine traveling so soon with her (at the education, currently working as an In- there is no big news, he currently works time) 1-month old, Phoebe who joined structional Designer at an Edtech Com- for a multi-family office, Crestone Cap- her family, pictured. pany/Higher Ed Publisher in ital, and is studying for the CPA exam, Toby Kramer reported that they Boston. But more importantly, she is “got married to the illustrious Lisa

23 dad for the last few months, although UK, see some Eastern European vine- looking forward to getting back to work yards, and teach his Dad how to sail on in springtime when Wilbur starts Kita a jaunt up the East Coast to Maine. It (nursery). Come and visit Berlin any- was great seeing everyone at reunion! time! Sophie Eisner writes, “I’m living Sydney Glassman s03 Daphne Kiplinger writes that she in Detroit still and being an artist. In a started a new job last fall as the Cre- couple of weeks I’m going to give a lec- By Clio Rose s18 ative Services Manager at the KIPP ture at the Hite Art Institute in DC network of public charter schools, Louisville, KY. I have been doing which she is loving so far. She and her more stuff like that (visiting artist talks husband Dave are expecting their first and critiques) over the last year and I’m little one next month. finding I really enjoy talking with stu- Rebecca Jensen just graduated dents about their work. My big recent from a 6-month Full-Stack Web De- adventure was going to Mongolia this velopment Immersive Program at Gal- fall with my mom. I loved sleeping in vanize in Seattle, where she learned yurts and seeing how much of life is pring of 2003 was an eventful time for the Mountain School: React.js, Node.js, among many other outside there.” Slambs were born, mountains of snow fell, and the cow barn web things. She is happy to be a De- I, Therese (Claxton) Fleisher am was raised. However, the experience that set Sydney Glassman signer turned Developer, as she really still living in the Jamaica Plain neigh- on her life-long scientific mission was foraging for mushrooms. enjoyed the complete process of creat- borhood of Boston. I started a new job Here she was exposed to a whole new facet of biology: fungi. ing a project. She’s currently leading a at Boston Children’s Hospital’s Global With the vast woods of Vermont providing stark contrast to her women’s code-a-thon team to create a Health Program where I manage big-city upbringing, Glassman was able to connect with the web app that makes creating quick pro- Liberia’s Pediatric Residency training natural sciences. After her semester, she tried to preserve this totype cards for board games fast and program among other duties. I recently connection by taking AP Biology. easy. She’s also on the hunt for a job in traveled there and will be going back the Seattle area, and would appreciate soon. I’m enjoying the travails of par- Continuing her education, she attended the University of Penn- any connections her fellow alums can enthood with my husband Ryan, 3-year sylvania as both an undergraduate and a graduate student, with provide! old Charlotte, and 1-year old Nolan. It a major in Biology and a Masters in Environmental Studies. Amy Strieter is working and writ- was so fun to see everyone at the re- Later, she worked at the EPA, dedicating herself to environ- ing in Eugene, OR., and thinking about union. We have a guest room that has mental conservation. However, she consistently found herself that summer session at TMS. “Love to TMS written all over it if you are ever drawn to the comparatively unexplored field of fungal biology. all.” in the area! Despite the 5-10 million variations of fungi, scientists are fairly Alex Kuc writes “Sorry that I unaware as to the many complexities surrounding this organ- missed the reunion last summer but Spring ’03 ism. This did not discourage Glassman, on the contrary, it only it was the same weekend as my med drove her harder to achieve one of her ultimate goals: to help school graduation so that’s an okay Cordy Elkins fungal knowledge reach the level of that of plants or animals. excuse, I guess. This year I started my [email protected] residency in Emergency Medicine at Just a few updates made it my way In 2016, she received her PhD in fungal ecology from UC Drexel in Philadelphia. My wife and this year – let us commit to doing Berkeley and in 2018 she achieved her ultimate goal – start- I live in South Philly and are loving better next year – heck, we have a ing her own lab as an Assistant Professor at UC Riverside. On it here - would love to host any TMS reunion this summer, who is going? her path to professorship, she has made numerous discoveries alumni who happen to pass through!” Sydney Glassman has completed regarding the fungal kingdom, one of the most notable being Rebecca (Groves) Ludovico her PhD and follow up work and has in relation to forest fires. While it may seem that microscopic writes that she is still teaching 2nd achieved her dream position as a tenure fungi may be insignificant in a larger ecosystem, Glassman’s grade in an English immersion class- track faculty member at UC Riverside. experiments show that fire-resistant fungi can protect trees and room in Cambridge. “It was really fun She will be the Assistant Professor in help regenerate forests. to catch up with everyone at the reunion the Department of Microbiology and in June. My husband, Vinicius, really Plant Pathology. She is also purchasing While not every student may shape their life around something enjoyed his first taste of the Mountain her first home in Riverside – Congratu- they discovered at the Mountain School, Dr. Glassman still ad- School! I also got the chance to meet lations! vises students to find and pursue their passions, regardless of up with Phoebe in August, which was Bryce Goodman has moved back their current level of exploration. lovely. We figured the last time we had to San Francisco with his wife and their seen each other was probably the 5-year two dogs. His wife has started a very reunion! Hope you’re all doing well”. cool non-profit called Wayfinder Proj- Dan Greenberg moved to the ect that teaches younger generations Belmont Hills area outside Philly. He about leading lives of purpose – very is trying to find time to get out and see like our time together at the Mountain Alex Kuc and Jamie Lincoln who are School. also there. Dan is planning to take the As for me, Cordy Elkins I am still summer off to cycle tour around the living in Boston and working in Digital

24 Marketing. I have upped my fitness in- struction schedule to include Equinox, LUCAS TECUMSEH KLAPPER RILEY which is broadening the class formats, 1987-2017 and the amount I am teaching. My volunteer work with the Human Rights earest 16-year-old selves, it’s bittersweet—sweet mostly, so very sweet—to hear where all the Campaign continues to be challenging Dwind-borne dandelion seeds of our lives, from a decade ago, have gone, landed, and taken root. and rewarding as we see progressive I’m farming in Sudbury, Mass. and writing this wearily after a long day of harvesting. As I’m sure you organizations around the country work can easily imagine, I’m reminded by my work of the intensity of TMS. That is to say, there’s forever that together in new innovative ways to wellspring of memory to be tapped, as one taps sugar maples. stand up to the way of conservatism in The memory syrup is, perhaps, boiled down in a 40:1-ratio from all sorts of memories: raw, stark, our government. I hope everyone will challenging—even harsh memories—and softer recollections, some maybe colored retrospectively be in touch if you are ever swinging by sentiment but all of them still real, and fresh, and good. Consider, if you’re sharing my sappy through Boston! Missing everyone and inclinations, tasting Mark’s ‘sugar tea’ for the first time, just getting out of the pouring rain into those Garden Hill sunsets. the sugar shack (or should I say the cabane à sucre, per Ruthie’s lovely sign-painting, or whatever someone who speaks French says is the right name) and having a mug of that hot, sweet, sugary water, Spring ’04 hopefully without too many dead squirrels in it. (Does anyone else remember that joke Mark told?) Ten years is a long time—for change, for adventures, for exploring and starting to decide what Zak Stone maturity even means, maybe enough time to understand why Mark had that plaintive, anguished look [email protected] come over his face when he said, “Never say, ‘I can’t wait.’” I’m glad that however much time has ires! Drought! Mudslides! Floods! passed, we all have so much more time, not to wait passively, but to await graciously and with a calm F sense of purpose and dignity the fruits, sour and sweet, of what’s yet to come in our lives. It’s been a spooky year since I last As ever, best wishes to all of you on that journey. wrote this newsletter, and I often wish --Lucas Riley I could be 16-years-old again with you June 2014 all: breathing fresh air, overeating and spending shockingly few hours per day t’s with great sadness that our class mourns the loss of Lucas Riley, whose quiet intelligence and looking at screens. These days you’ll Igentle spirit will not be forgotten. Rereading this letter—emailed to our class as we prepared to head still find me in L.A. where I pass my back to Vershire for our 10-year reunion, resurfaced via Alden and Mary French, and lightly condensed days cuddling with my cat Jerome, ex- for this newsletter—it’s impossible to not be struck by the beauty of the message and impossible to not ploring the creative possibilities of the be devastated by the unexpected loss of the witty, poetic messenger, who reminded us just four short Instant Pot (6-minute beets, anyone?), years ago “We all have so much time.” and looking at screens all the time. As To many in our cohort, 16-year-old Lucas was an enigma—often found reading in the Conard boiler- always, I’m inspired by the great en- room (his favorite study-spot), exploring the outdoors on his own, or calmly, diligently attacking farm ergy you all bring to the world, and I chores. To our classmates from Lucas’s hometown of Cambridge, like Sylvia Ryerson and Mary, he would love a visit. was a lifelong friend. “When he came to the Mountain School, it was such a joy to see him in his I recently had the pleasure of host- element,” Mary told me. “It felt like he really settled into himself in a way that I hadn’t seen before.” ing Ben Mandelkern, who is now com- The four months in Vershire deeply impacted how he conceptualized his relationship to food, munications director for the Silkroad farming and education. Lucas returned to TMS for sugaring and found himself farming once more Ensemble and was in town for a concert in his final years, “relishing the dirt under his fingernails, the inherent value in growing food, and the of his boss Yo-Yo Ma (!!!), with whom days of far-ranging discussions both deep and frivolous with his excellent fellow crew-members,” he’s often traveling the world. Thanks as his family wrote in his obituary. A letter he sent a professor one year before his passing, shared to Instagram, Ruthie Schwab and I with us by Sylvia via his parents, feels particularly TMS-inspired, as Sylvia pointed out: “What are realized we were both in Japan at the the functions and values in our lives of solitude, calm, quiet, and tranquil reflection,” he wondered. same time and got to hang out in Tokyo, “What are the roles of these dynamics in learning; why are these such rare commodities in so many where her life was forever changed by a ostensibly educational environments; and is it reasonable to predict or expect self-motivated, self- perfect piece of Wagyu beef. directed learning in their absence?” Dan Glazer writes, “Emma and I At a memorial service mid-March, a standing-room-only crowd gathered to celebrate his life are expecting a baby this spring! Due with a Quaker Meeting, including our classmates Mary, Sylvia and Emma Loosigian and faculty Pat date is April 6th. Also we are moving to Barnes and Sue Kruse. Loved ones shared stories of his lifelong curiosity for the natural world; a Pittsburgh this summer for me to start friend explained how he converted her to vegetarianism; and, as Mary tells it, “His dad reminisced my fellowship in Pediatric Rheumatol- about how they used to reference the encyclopedia together when Lucas was little. But as the years ogy at Children’s Hospital of went on, the encyclopedia became unnecessary because Lucas had memorized its information and Pittsburgh.” could recall it at will.” Also on the move is Joelle We hope to carry memories of Lucas with us the way he carried information in that encyclopedic Kellem, who left behind Colorado for brain of his, to tap the wellspring of memories we co-created in our youth “as one taps sugar the Hudson Valley, 90 miles north of maples,” to drink from that “memory syrup,” and continue to share Lucas’s spirit with the world. I New York City. “I run my own one- like to believe it’s already happening: Emma tells us, via Sue Kruse, that Lucas’s parents donated his woman pet care service here, so my coats and outerwear to TMS. “All the students this semester are wearing his jackets,” says Emma, days are mostly spent petting adorable “and wondering, who is the infamous Lucas Riley?” cats and walking in the woods with

25 pups.” to attend this fall. “By the time this eral festivals in California this summer. heading home to Washington, D.C. Emma Loosigian’s days are “filled newsletter is printed, I will have de- She’s also kept up the visits to the rock- Jared Rubinstein is about to de- with puddle jumping, snow scoop- cided where I’m going! But I’m not climbing gym, where she sometimes fend his master’s thesis in Applied ing, toy truck driving, piano playing/ sure yet. In the meantime, I’m here in meets up with Evan Pulvers. Evan is Plant Sciences from the University of pounding, reading, snuggling, naps, Brooklyn, working on radio projects finishing her residency and is likely tak- Minnesota and then is likely moving and snacks. Life is amazing when you against mass incarceration and immi- ing a job with Indian health on the Hopi to Boston this summer. He’s currently are 1.5 years old. I feel so grateful to be grant detention. One of my highlights Nation. Rebecca Sigel is finishing up waiting to hear back from some jobs. home with Woods every day. The Apple of 2017 was getting to spend seven her second/last year in an MPP program Tim Wall is living in Vermont Annie orchard and gardens are thriving glorious weeks in Sitka, Alaska, do- at Berkeley while living with Evan. again, specifically in Charlotte. His as I continue to navigate operating a ing a fellowship with Sarah Gibson. Hannah Broadley continues to wife, Danielle is in medical school at farm with my parents. We are really We swam in the arctic waters, watched have a blast working on her PhD at UVM and they are starting a small farm hoping to visit TMS for the summer salmon jumping upstream, and talked UMass Amherst studying the popula- with their two dogs, chickens, ducks session this year and would love to see to Grizzly bears.” tion dynamics of invasive forest in- and cats. He reports “life is good.” many classmates there.” Caroline Rex-Waller got married sects. She is currently examining the Rachel Zelinsky is living in Casey Freedman is living in Cam- in September and moved to Portland winter moth, an invasive species intro- Providence, and invites us all to visit. bridge and studying to be a Spanish- with her sweetheart, John and pup, Ad- duced to eastern Massachusetts, which She teaches elementary-aged English language medical interpreter. “Hop- elaide. “Life is wonderful, full of job- causes widespread defoliation. That language learners, has two crazy one- ing to find a job in a local hospital or hunting, skiing, hiking, swing dancing, said, she’s happy to talk about pretty year-old dogs, and is getting married healthcare center this summer. If all of and making new friends.” much any outbreaking insect. When this summer. that fails, I may be teaching Spanish Jane Ridgeway is teaching high- not in the lab or out conducting field- Leo Eisenstein is in his third year again in the fall! I spent three weeks school English in the Bay Area “and work, you can find her hiking or road of med school. Recently he and Greg in New Zealand earlier this year with enthusiastically attempting to send my biking. If you’re ever in the Pioneer Chase saw Will Stein, who showed off my best friend from high school which students to TMS! I have some writing Valley, she invites you by. all the new British-isms he’s been learn- I HIGHLY recommend if any of you out in an anthology called Cover Stories Richard Smith is excited about the ing while living in London. For exam- haven’t been yet! from Volt Books, and next summer I’ll prospect of going to TMS Summer Ses- ple, he called them “two good blokes.” Ezra Hagerty is loving his new, be in Florida living in Jack Kerouac’s sion this July as is Lizzie Ellis who is To that, Leo says simply “wow!” Will oceanside life in Marblehead, Mass. old house (communing with the ghosts doing well in DC. greatly enjoys exploring the London’s “Grace and I got married last summer of the Beat generation, presumably.)” Maura Mathieu is grateful for wilder parks, which often remind him in Vermont and did a road trip through Also in the Bay is Ben Hartman, all the ways the past five years in Ver- of Vermont, pond swimming included. France this fall. The cheese! The bread! who is still “living in San Francisco shire have helped her grow. As of June He welcomes visitors! The wine! I’ve been dabbling in the fer- with my wonderful girlfriend and our 2018, she will be heading off to new Rachel Carlin (formerly Bowling) mented food game, cranking out large angelic dog. I’ve been working for the adventures, with the eventual goal of is completing the second year of her batches of kombucha, kimchi, sauer- past couple years as the Produce & Flo- completely redesigning the American neurology residency and plans to pur- kraut and more. If you are in Massachu- ral Category Manager at Good Eggs, education system. She says to give her sue a fellowship in stroke. Her 2-year- setts and need some kombucha mother, helping to connect small- and mid-sized a call if you would like to join her on old is a smart, strong happy girl and she get in touch!” Yes, please. local and regional farms with the larger this quest. is blessed to have a supportive husband. Mary French traveled to Switzer- Bay Area online grocery market.” Tim Fasano lives in Brooklyn be- She is very frustrated that she has not land this year and hiked in the Alps for Mai Ann Healy remains in Da- tween the scenic East River and the less been able to make the journey back to the first time. “Growing up in New Eng- vis, CA, where she’s “still working in scenic Gowanus Canal with his lovely Vershire. land, I was surrounded by mountains water” and Corinne Almquist is “still bride-to-be Caitlin (wedding in Vail, Abby Reed is living in Cape Town, and thought I had a fairly good mental working as a midwife at a small hospi- Colorado in September). South Africa, teaching high school image of what the Alps would be like, tal in Astoria, Oregon.” Tran Vu is a multimedia artist English at the American International but absolutely nothing had prepared based in Dorchester. She also works as School. She is anxiously watching the me for the breathtaking beauty of the the Program Director for AIR (Associa- countdown for “Day Zero,” currently peaks in the Berner Oberland. I spent Spring ’05 tion of Independents in Radio) where set for June, when Cape Town becomes the entire trip gazing in open-mouthed she advocates for freelance producers the first major city whose taps run com- wonder at the Swiss countryside, feel- Niki Stellings Hertzberg and public media stations. pletely dry, mostly due to drought and ing both incredibly small and humbled, [email protected] This winter, Fiona Brown started changing climate conditions. She finds yet also filled with a quiet serenity.” rin Sargent is still happily work- ski patrolling at Buttermilk Mountain in it a sobering experience to assimilate John Szymanski is finishing his Eing as a physical therapist in Aspen Colorado. She recently helped into a community that’s restricted to 13 biology dissertation at Columbia, Wellesley, MA, where she became clin- reduce a dislocated patella. She is still gallons of water per person per day. Ab- “writing on the neuromuscular activa- ic director for her small office earlier instructing for NOLS, and excited to go by’s doing her utmost to conserve every tion patterns in the cnidarian polyp Hy- this year. She got engaged in June on to northern India with them to work a drop while also enjoying such a beauti- dra vulgaris as illuminated by fluores- Block Island and plans to get married rafting course this spring. ful city with its mountains, oceans, and cent indicators. I’m aiming for my next in Wine Country, CA next year. She Sharayah Heidenhain (formerly vineyards. project to have more immediate human misses TMS and hopes to see everyone Gilbert) is still at the U.S. Department Hallie Coffin-Gould is living in relevance—one thing I am considering soon. of State now working on foreign assis- Pittsburgh, PA with her fiancée and is forming an initiative for carbon-off- Allegra Thompson’s musical ad- tance programs in the Caucasus region. their two dogs. Having finished her set distribution of mineral water.” ventures continue with a second CD She has just returned from a work trip MBA, she is excited to be starting Sylvia Ryerson is considering released with her family trio Thomp- to Tbilisi in the Republic of Georgia her second rotation as part of Thermo which American Studies PhD program sonia, who will be appearing at sev- and spent some time in Munich before Fisher Scientific’s Leadership Develop-

26 ment Program. So far she’s learned a (Speaking of great things: back in Au- from apartment building renovations. rently teaches in Portland, Oregon. lot about allergy testing and Allegheny gust, Kat, Diz, Elsie, and Ben H. cel- Lauren White (Wiant) is enjoy- Last fall, Abby Larner started the County. ebrated Diz surviving the bar exam by ing married life and continues to grow evening MBA program at the Univer- Maddy Glennon reports that she attending a Beyoncé light show at the her career as a commercial real estate sity of Washington. She’s really excited loves occasionally running into me at Boston Museum of Science, and it was agent in the Cleveland market. She and to be a Husky, but she’s also still enjoy- ancient art exhibitions in New York AMAZING. Kat wants all of you to her husband, Matt, bought a house in ing bringing great design tools to the (I’m glad to hear that as I also like run- know that she is “available for Beyoncé Shaker Heights in June of 2017. They public at Adobe. In her free time, she ning into her). She is still working on laser shows AT ANY TIME.”) are enjoying getting settled and looking has been exploring new hobbies; most her PhD in art history and archaeology. forward to meeting more of their neigh- recently she took a calligraphy class. In more exciting news, she is getting bors when the weather warms back up! And lastly, Alex Johnson writes: “I married in September to a fellow ar- Earlier this month, they took a trip to am beginning to see the light at the end chaeologist named Andrew. Maui, Hawaii, and had a blast doing of the tunnel that is my PhD, but still I got married last May in NYC, things like zip-lining, whale watching not sure what I’ll do with myself when where I am still living with my hus- and horseback riding. Aloha! I’m growup.” …Same, Alex! Same. band. I hope to hold a dinner party soon On that note, thanks everyone for for all the other s05 TMSers nearby. writing in – stay in touch, and hopefully we’ll all be together again soon! Maggie Slivova is currently in Western Massachusetts and going to be Spring ’07 moving to the Boston area this summer- Spring ’06 -still in the process of figuring out the Chloe Zelkha job situation. [email protected] Laura Dismore Down in Rhode Island, Clara Rebecca Maurer still lives in riffin Hale has made some big [email protected] Decerbo is finishing her dissertation Cleveland. This spring she is opening Gmoves this past year. He proposed i friends! Happy Spring! Work- at the University of Rhode Island and her own solo law practice focused on to Allison Schaiberger, while skiing, mid Hing east to west this time: Sophie will be defending in June. She and her student loan law and representing ten- crash, in Tahoe. He literally fell for her. Robinson is moving back to her farm husband Paul are renovating the home ants in housing disputes. She is also He moved back to Colorado and is now on the Seacoast of New Hampshire in Providence that they bought last adding a second raised bed to her back- working on the Dream Chaser Space- this spring and is going to start a center summer. In her non-dissertation time, yard garden. craft for Sierra Nevada Corporation. It’s based on community, healing, justice Clara is working on an ambulance and Checking in from the West Coast, pretty much a mini space shuttle that and sustainability. If you are interest- volunteering at the fire department: “It Conor Myhrvold is about to hit four will fly cargo to the international space ed in farming at this type of center or is an interesting combination going years living in San Francisco and work- station. He has been reminded how ac- want to be involved in other ways, get from writing my methodology chapter ing in the engineering department at tive Colorado is as he tries to keep up in touch! or formatting footnotes to working drug Uber. For the last two breeding seasons with run club. He enjoys mountain bik- The Boston contingent is still going overdoses and car accidents, and then he has been a volunteer elephant seal ing, backcountry skiing, kayaking, rock strong! Ben Hellerstein is still living returning to dissertation work, but the tour guide down at Ano Nuevo State climbing, and good old adventuring with in Brookline (just outside Boston) and combination seems to suit me!” Clara Park near Santa Cruz, and can be found friends. He has also been working on working as the state director for an en- and Paul recently returned from a two- checking out these cacophonic com- his side hustle, Full Body Sound a small vironmental nonprofit, which is leading week trip to Istanbul, Thailand, and muters in the winter months when the company he started. He has a prototype the charge for Massachusetts to switch Cambodia, where they had a wonderful new pups are out and about. that allows users to be electrically stimu- to 100% renewable energy. He’s also time visiting religious monuments (the Dan Cohen is also living in San lated and feel music that a few TMS taking a ceramics class and was recent- Hagia Sofia, Blue Mosque, and Angkor Francisco. Last year he moved from friends got to demo at the reunion. Grif- ly elected to a minor position in Brook- Wat), eating delicious food, and relax- Google to Dropbox and has enjoyed fin had an amazing time at the reunion, line town government. ing on the beach. If anyone is in the biking to work over most of the last and sends his love to everyone. He can’t Elizabeth Lurie is also still living Providence area, let them know and year. believe it has been 10 years, but here we in Boston, and recently got a promo- stop by for a visit! Ali Meyers-Ohki writes from the are. We are doing it. tion! Leah Hamilton French moved Blase A. Provitola lives with their Bay Area: I am currently gathering Joe Harmon is moving in June, but back to Cambridge last summer, and is wonderful chosen family in Brooklyn twigs, skills, string, and bits of glitter in he doesn’t know where yet! Send sug- looking for fellow adventurers as she and is teaching political philosophy an effort to weave a nest spanning two gestions/bribes to jwharmon12@alumni. explores the food, art, history, and na- and working to finish their dissertation coasts to hold me and all my relation- hamilton.edu. ture around town. And Colleen on contemporary lesbian and queer lit- ships - partners, family of origin, cho- Ali Andrews moved from Hawaii to McCullough also recently moved to erature. They also volunteer as an HIV sen family, friendlies and beyond! It is California for graduate school in a pro- Boston for a job and would love to con- test counselor and are currently plotting a lifelong project that feels ever more gram in the engineering school at Stan- nect with other TMS folks in the area. to pursue a similar career as a possible useful as the apocalypse and life as we ford, called Design Impact where she is Kat Conway, who hosted several de- escape from academia. They welcome know it begin to bleed into one another focusing on community-based renew- lightful get-togethers of the whole Bos- any and all hello’s from other NYC- with alarming speed. able energy and making quirky things ton crew (including past residents Elsie based TMS folks! Up the coast, Gaea Campe con- and enjoying the semi seasons. Kenyon, Laura Dismore, and Matt Elsie Kenyon is also living in New tinues to love working in early child- Claire LaFave is at the Yale School Mandelkern, with guest appearances York and still working in AI. Lately hood education. She’s in the process of of Forestry & Environmental Studies, by Abby Larner), recently bought a she’s been enjoying riding the ferry becoming co-owner and co-director of learning how to use business as a tool for house! Great things are happening. to the office and salvaging mailboxes Giving Tree Preschool, where she cur- food system reform. She’s in a class with

27 Judy this semester!! patients with stroke, seizures, encepha- ting married! and whatever else comes his way. As Casey Andersen is thankful for re- litis, and other acute neurologic issues. Rebecca Hadad is still doing law he writes this class note, he is preparing connecting with so many of you at the She feels challenged and humbled by things but now in NYC. Come visit her to host former-TMS-roommate Matt reunion, for pen-palling with Griffin her colleagues, patients, and families. on the Upper West Side for baked treats Bock. They plan to drink an excessive and Ruth, and for spontaneous run-ins Max Shafer continues to make and TMS memories any time! amount of maple syrup and reminisce with Maggie in Maine. She’s starting to beer, but for a new brewery located in Judy Amsalem will be graduating about their younger years. get into yoga (shout out to Mollie). She Jackson Hole. It is called Roadhouse from Yale in May with her MBA and Clay Contee was in Chicago for sends much love to everyone. Brewing and he is really digging it! Masters of Environmental Manage- the last 2.5 years working on a Master’s Danny Smith is still happy living What he digs most is that the brewery ment. She will be moving out to San degree at a tech school and kind of mis- in San Francisco and writing a disser- is big on sustainability - and we are Francisco to work for Apple in July and erable. He is taking a brief hiatus from tation about architectural history. Al- carbon neutral! Super neat. As always, is excited to explore the nine (nine!!!) studies WWOOFing in Brazil before though a lot of his days are spent in the Max would love to buy anyone a beer if National Parks in California. Hopefully starting a physics PhD program at the library, he is thoroughly enjoying using they find themselves in Jackson. with some long-lost TMS friends!! But University of Pennsylvania in July. He the Bay Area’s 365-day growing season Caroline Dickens started work- seriously, if you live in the Bay area, feels life slipping away but is less wor- to keep a minuscule plot of herbs on the ing for a digital advertising company or really anywhere on the West Coast, ried about it then he used to be. <3 back stairs of his apartment. named Criteo last July. She still lives in please reach out to Judy. She will be in Erin Jones spent the year journey- Mollie Bedick is hanging out in Boston and spends many winter week- dire need of friends. ing from NYC to Bali to Costa Rica Acadia this weekend - hiking and eat- ends skiing at Sugarbush Mountain in Ada DeFriez is living in LA, to LA to Eden to Israel to Montreal ing tons of food (@the Acacia House Vermont (one hour west of TMS!). working for a film producer/financier to Ibiza to Hawaii to Tulum, and now Inn). Soon to be moving to Pittsburgh Aaron Freedman is getting mar- although the goal is to be writing and home to New York. For the first time in for grad school! ried in August and potentially quitting acting in her own projects. Call her if months, she doesn’t have a ticket out. Lauren Bryant is surviving and his software job, moving to Seattle and you’re ever in LA or if you have any For now, it’s grounded her. occasionally thriving in her first year of becoming a full-time musician after ideas of what else she should do! Her Mikaela Saccoccio is on week her physical therapy doctorate. She and that, but only time will tell. dad Nick is doing well and says hi! three of a new job at The Humane her boyfriend just moved to the Castro Jen Wenz has been living in the Pi- Lily Bo Shapiro loves you, loves League. It’s been so great so far. (The in San Francisco and love life there. oneer Valley in western MA since June, you, loves you. Humane League is an animal welfare They recently hosted Irene, who got to and is loving the beautiful mix of Jew- Emily Ausubel is finishing up organization that works to end ani- witness a neighborhood nude protest, ish, Buddhist, and activist community her first year of a Master in Public mal suffering on factory farms.) She’s and would love to have more TMS buds that has appeared in her life. She’s cur- Policy program at the Harvard Ken- vegan now, mostly! She signed up for over! The past few months, Lauren fell rently exploring non-hierarchical and nedy School. Funnily enough, she is a rock climbing gym membership. See- into a rabbit hole researching jail health anti-oppressive forms of organizational also joined there by fellow s07 Grace ing the crew at the TMS reunion was and is trying to start a monthly PT class development, especially in spiritual- Ogilby, and they reminisce about the one of the highlights of 2017. at the San Bruno Jail, which has proven activist community -- reach out if that’s Mountain School often. Emily also re- Maggie Williams is living in Den- to be more difficult than trying to get something you want to talk about! Oth- cently enjoyed a delightful brunch at ver where she works at an advertising Boris back into his pig pen... and yet, erwise, she can be found cooking up a Irene Li’s and has been bumping into agency and spends most of her free she persists… (vegetarian) storm in her kitchen. Let Mikaela Saccoccio around Cambridge time hanging out with her dog Charlie. Irene Li is growing a lot of suc- her know if you’re coming through and as well. Emily had a blast at last year’s In the last year, Hannah Bowling culents and is pretty excited to marry she’d be excited to feed you and go on 10-year reunion and wishes there were married her college sweetheart (Marc her partner Chris Ward, an erstwhile a hike! a reunion every year. McKee attended! Rachel Carlin s05 drum-and-bass DJ and wine nerd. She’s Meredith Allenick wishes she had Chloe Zelkha landed on her feet was matron of honor!), moved from still plugging away at Mei Mei, hoping something profound to say but she’s after a wild year of crises and good NYC to middle-of-nowhere Pennsyl- to improve the restaurant industry one just so happy to have the TMS com- luck. She can’t take any credit but feels vania for grad school, and adopted a scallion pancake sandwich at a time. munity in her life whether near or far !! really grateful to be back to the busi- golden retriever named Murphy. She’s really paying attention to labor Katherine Corwin is still living in ness of banal living. She gets to marry issues and would love to tell you why Chelsea and is currently working for a someone great in June. She’s singing avocado toast is so expensive and you Parisian data tech firm called Dataiku. communally a lot. should always tip 20%. Visit any time! She went to Paris for training for two Gracie Ogilby is in her first year at Will Wickham is still in Atlanta, weeks and on a weekend trip to Lon- the Harvard Kennedy School pursuing working in an HIV clinic, getting a don, she ended up seeing Faisal who a Masters in Public Policy and still try- Master’s of Social Work, and scheming was there visiting family! ing to channel her inner Barbara Boxer. for collective liberation. Get in touch or Isabel Gregersen is still living Joe Schottenfeld is midway go visit -- it’ll be fun, just ask Irene Li. and working in Chicago. She is a full- through—and loving—his second year Faisal Kirdar wishes he made it to fledged, albeit stressed, social worker of law school. New Haven is not the the 10-year reunion but is grateful for and is trying to figure out what’s next same without his sister, Mila Rostain his recent run-ins with Matt, Casey, in her social work career. Isabel stays s12, who finally shipped off to New and Katherine. He looks forward to a positive by cuddling her dog, cooking York last fall. few months of traveling this summer- and eating with a neighborhood coop- Will Stone says it’s been almost before starting medical school. erative house, and staying social and three years since he moved to the Shauna Linn joined the Neurology active throughout the dreary Chicago Southwest. He continues to report for ICU as a physician assistant at NYPH/ winter. Her mind is often caught up in the NPR station in Phoenix, Arizona Columbia. She is learning to care for fantasies of June, when she will be get- where he covers health care, energy

28 Mass., to living and working at the old- turned from a seven-month fellowship spends as much time as possible play- Spring ’08 est peace and reconciliation center in with a social enterprise accelerator in ing in the mountains in all different Northern Ireland, Corrymeela. It’s been Guatemala. In September, she will be- forms: mountain biking, hiking, rock Madeline Loughridge a year of learning and curiosity and gin her Master of Public Policy at the climbing, ski mountaineering, etc. Let [email protected] community, which all reminds her of University of Oxford. She is looking her know if you’re ever in Aspen, and en Kramer has been living in TMS. She’s excited for where the road forward to spending her summer ex- she would love to meet up. BLos Angeles the last three plus will take her next. ploring the hiking trails and breweries Elise Javetski moved to South years working in film and television. Mariel Cohn is embarking on an- of Colorado before moving to the UK. Boston. She left teaching and is pursu- After getting an MFA from USC’s other Bachelor’s degree, this time in Sara Berdahl (formerly Dav- ing new avenues in the fitness world as Peter Stark Producing Program, he took nursing at Drexel in Philadelphia. Ulti- enport) married Charles Berdahl on a Personal Trainer for a boutique gym a job assisting the executive producer mately headed towards nurse-midwife- a beautiful sunny July afternoon in in Beacon Hill. If you’re in the area of Stranger Things. He is looking for- ry, Mariel is taking the long way around Maine. She will be graduating from come by and get a workout in! ward to his next trip to Vermont when and hoping to work as a floor nurse in veterinary school in May and moving Alexander Schultz is living in he’ll be attending his 5-year college an emergency department and labor and to Washington, DC to start a rotating Prescott, Arizona with his handsome reunion (hopefully with more TMS’ers delivery for a few years before going internship. She is excited to explore cat, Bo. He just started a new job with there as well!). for a master’s. Other than that, Mariel Rock Creek Park with her dog, Moxie, Child and Family Support Services Brian Huser is finishing up his spends a lot of time hanging with Ana and hopes to meet up with any alumni working with young adults with be- second year at the University of Cali- Montgomery and Sara Tera, taking in the area! havioral and mental health struggles. fornia, Santa Barbara, continuing to care of a baby, traveling, and reading. Zoe Pehrson is living in Ann He’s excited to have the opportunity to work towards a PhD in film and media Ty Eldridge moved to Brazil last Arbor, MI teaching fourth grade. She’s take everything he has been given on studies. October, after 5 years of living in Asia. loving another year in the classroom. his own journey to recovery and give Maddie Loughridge will be get- He is running a solar power finance and She isn’t totally used to living in the it back to others with similar struggles. ting married to Asa Welty in June. She development company based in Sao Midwest, but with a recent winter He is also in school for massage ther- will be moving back to Boston after 2 Paulo, and would love to hear from storm, she enjoyed many days of xc- apy and loving it. He is both intrigued years of teaching 1st grade in Utah. any TMS alumni who find themselves skiing, thinking fondly of times spent and thrilled about how work and school Jack Saul left New York City in in Brazil. skiing the outer loop. This summer she compliment each other as different August and is in his first year in the Linus Ignatius is living in NYC, is moving back to the West Coast. She’s ways to approach healing. When not Masters of Fine Arts Creative Writing working as an actor and running a small really hoping to make it to the reunion at work or school, he’s outside rock Program at the University of Alabama. production company called The Elliott this summer! climbing, hiking, biking, running and He was lucky enough to show up in Collective. Micha Thompson is finishing up all things moving through nature. time to do some volunteering for the Trevor Brown is still working for her third year of medical school, now Eliot Knudsen and his wife, Mi- Doug Jones campaign in the fall. a program called Mansfield Hall and trying to narrow down her career path chelle, are expecting their first child Arya Samuelson is writing her helping college students with learning to either OB-GYN or Pediatrics. This in July! He began a new job in Janu- way towards an MFA at Mills College, and social differences pursue indepen- year she’s also a co-director of the ary with Databricks. He loves living in where she is working on a novel and a dence and a college degree. In his spare Weill Cornell Women’s Community New York City. memoir. Currently living in Oakland, time he spends a lot of time biking and Health Clinic providing primary gy- she is also crafting herbal medicines running around Madison, Wisconsin necologic care to uninsured patients in Spring ’09 for activists, learning about earth-based and is competing in Ironman Wisconsin New York City. Jewish rituals, and studying Generative this fall! Isaac Maze-Rothstein is in Bos- Isabelle Rivers McCue Somatics. Merritt Logan started a PhD ton working with a solar data company. [email protected] Jocie Fifield finished her Masters chemistry program last fall at Colorado He’s learning how to cook (vegan, cin- eredith Sopher recently moved degree in public health at Columbia last State University, which meant mov- namon, blueberry muffins are a favor- Mto the Bay Area to live with her May. She immediately moved to Bos- ing back to Colorado from the Boston ite), the very basics of Excel (I see you boyfriend and is working as a freelance ton to start working at Ariadne Labs, a area. He is in a group that specializes vlookup) and generally trying to keep French translator and interpreter. Busi- health system innovation organization in environmental analytical chemistry. out of trouble. He’s fired up to see ev- ness has been a little slow so far, so within Harvard. She is working on pri- Some of his main projects currently are: eryone at the reunion. she’s also working at a yoga studio a mary health care improvement in low understanding and trying to develop Carey Favaloro has been calling few hours per week. She’s also running, and middle-income countries, and so treatment for citrus greening disease, Aspen, Colorado home for four years improving her cooking skills, and day- far, work has brought her to Ghana and identifying and understanding what now. In the summer season, she teaches dreaming about next summer’s planned South Africa with additional exciting molecules are released by the water biology with a summer enrichment trip to Europe. She had a chance TMS destinations in the pipeline. She’s been flowback in fracking wells, and devel- program, leads nature hikes, tutors encounter over Christmas when she sewing and hiking a lot and is constant- oping a new method of extracting or- students, and travels. Last winter she met her boyfriend’s cousin Margaret ly considering getting a puppy. ganic matter from water and soil. He is joined the Aspen Mountain Ski Patrol, Ringler s11! She says it was so nice to Emma Thomas left her beloved still trying to ski and has found time to and she is currently enjoying her sec- meet another Mountain Schooler. teaching job in Rhode Island for a year go backcountry skiing in Rocky Moun- ond winter of medical work (on-moun- Cora Went is (and will be for the of adventure and exploration. The year tain National Park or surrounding areas tain injuries), snow safety work (miti- next three years) at Caltech getting her has taken her from deep learning and at least one day every weekend. gating avalanche risk in the resort), and, PhD in physics. She is researching new community living in California (where Camilla Vogt lives in Boulder, of course, skiing! “After a dry start to materials, specifically the two-dimen- she hung out with Brian Huser and ran Colorado, where she is working in the season, we are finally getting some sional transition metal dichalcogenides, into Arya Samuelson!) to an immer- growth-stage venture selection for the snow out here which makes everything for ultrathin and efficient solar cells. sive yoga teacher training in Western Unreasonable Group. She recently re- more exciting.” When not working, she When she is not in the lab, she is often

29 hiking, running, cooking, or gardening! opening of his father’s first restaurant in Jesse Schreck is still camped out New Haven, to which every Mountain in Los Angeles, where he’s writing a Schooler is invited. Ty Eldridge s08 play, reading historical nonfiction, and relying on Google Maps to direct him By Eliza Schiff s18 around his own neighborhood. Having experienced a new — or, really, first- n the snowy time — connection with Jewish prac- Ispring of 2008, tice, he is now a lay leader at his tem- Ty Eldridge ple, and anticipates making a golden arrived at the return to Vermont this summer, to study Mountain School from a high intensity high school hoping for Hebrew at Middlebury. If you’ll be in a break from the status quo. What he found among the sugar the area, come say hi! Just be warned Devyn Powell lives in DC with her maples and white pines of Vershire far exceeded those modest that Jesse’s vocabulary will be limited partner Zak, some lovely human room- hopes. In his own words, the Mountain School allowed Ty to to numbers and concrete nouns. mates, and a very bashful dog named find a balance that has stayed with him in the years since. Henry Edelstein is enjoying the Olive. She’s been there for almost two After graduating from Georgetown University’s School of great outdoors in Colorado, where he and a half years. When did that happen? Foreign Service with a major in Science, Technology and is in his second year teaching 7th grade Devyn also recently started working International Affairs (STIA) and a focus in economics and math in Denver Public Schools. at 350.org, an organization she learned energy, Ty began a successful career financing and developing Isabelle Rivers-McCue is in the about for the first time from a guy solar energy across the world. He has worked on projects in 12 process of finishing up her M.Ed. at named Bill McKibben, when he came different countries, most notably in Japan, the Philippines, and Harvard this spring, after which she and talked to a group of high school in rural communities throughout Africa. Presently, Ty lives in plans to move back to Chicago where students in Vershire, Vermont in 2009. Sao Paulo, Brazil, working alongside a Brazilian solar company her boyfriend and dog are currently Thinking about climate change all the that conducts large scale transitions to solar energy. holding down the fort. The future is time nowadays is even more depress- Ty shared that he’s always had an interest in food, energy, quite open at the moment, but she’s ing than usual, so if you’re ever in the and water. Growing up in a small farming community in hoping to reenter the working world in DC area, she’d love your support in Connecticut, Ty understood not to take those resources for college admissions or college counsel- the form of chocolate or wine -- or just granted. However, that mentality was only further reinforced at ing, with a special focus on access and good company. Come visit! the Mountain School, where he learned to really know a place. equity. She sends her love out to the Evan Mullen is in his second It is no surprise to anyone who has experienced life at TMS that S09 family! year of medical school in New York awareness of the environment is central to every activity. Post Mali’o Kodis is living in New City, where on the rare occasions he Mountain School, Ty found himself thinking about how it may Orleans, a city that she has always ad- isn’t holed up in a library or hospital be possible to cultivate a community so that it is capable of mired. She’s living with Leland White- somewhere he still pals around with supporting itself, and in many ways, it was this line of thought house s09 and his brother Jackson f13 Addis Goldman, Lily Adler, Del- that initiated his career. and is enjoying wearing glitter on her phine Starr, and Max Birger. He Ty says that as a student at the Mountain School, he developed face quite often. After a romp around can’t decide what kind of doctor he a personal understanding of sustainability, particularly how the the country in a red pickup truck with wants to be and not so secretly, wants consumption of water, food, and energy related to a community. Leland all summer (have you seen @ to move back to Paris. He loves hear- Since then, he has focused his professional life on ensuring livelaughloveroadkill on Instagram yet, ing what over folks are up to these days. accessibility of such resources to communities around the beloved Spring ‘09ers?), it was time to Leland Whitehouse left New York world. get down to business and start earning in the spring on 2017 in a cloud of dust, This social and ecological responsibility that is so characteristic money again. Between waitressing and and spent the better part of four months of Ty’s work is in large part a product of his time at the Mountain babysitting, Mali’o is also getting in- last summer camping, hiking, fishing, School. When asked if he could single out a particularly great volved in coastal resilience and Gulf of singing dive bar karaoke and living out memory from his semester, he said there was no single answer Mexico conservation work in her spare of a Toyota Tacoma with Mali’o Kodis. to such a question. However, of the many examples he recalls, time. Mali’o will be starting a masters The trip started a hop, skip and a jump he still thinks about dorm meetings in Conard and the annual in natural resource management this from TMS in Chelsea, VT and ended in winter festival, both of which led him to begin thinking about fall, location TBD. Until then, y’all are Portland, OR. The Grand Conclusion: community and his role and involvement with it. invited to come romp the Bayou with this is a fabulously beautiful country. Curious about what kind of advice Ty would offer current her and the Whitehouse boys! Emily Auran is finishing up her Mountain School students, I found his response very much Eric Coffin-Gould is enjoying 3rd year of med school at Columbia aligned with the values implicit in his professional life and transitions, having left his job doing — by the time this is published, she’ll the Mountain School mission. He signaled the importance of PR for tech startups in California, for have (hopefully) survived Step 1 of her considering the common good, loving and appreciating the small a 6,000-mile cross-country trip, with a board exams! She’s planning on apply- community, but always keeping an awareness of this complex visit to the Grand Canyon (pic. right) ing into OB/GYN residency… She’d world. His parting advice when we spoke: “Be intentional with and a return to New England. He is now like to think that this career choice has your relationships. Step back and think about the ways in which living in the Boston area, freelancing, at least something to do with birthing you can contribute to your community. Reflect, while you’re and exploring opportunities in the non- lambs at TMS! She sends everyone her there, on your role in it all.” profit sector. He’s also honing his cook- love. ing skills and eagerly preparing for the 30 placement school. Charlotte also joined is working on his Sanskrit to prepare Spring ’10 the advisory board for Groceryships for his next trip. Spring ’11 and StreetSquash, non-profit organiza- Zoe Reich-Aviles is happily settled Rafi Bildner tions benefiting the community she cur- in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Zara Corzine [email protected] rently works in. she is attempting to “make it” as a mod- [email protected] achel Black is living in Somer- Rosii Floreak is currently living ern dancer, while simultaneously not am Yules loves living in San Fran- Rville, MA and working at a non- in Washington, DC and working for going too broke. Here’s to the dreams Scisco these days! He lives in an profit, Education Resource Strategies, ideas42, where she is applying lessons and the impossibles! If any TMSers are apartment with three of his best friends which provides strategy consulting ser- from behavioral economics and psy- visiting the Bay, you have a couch to from college, a short downhill walk vices to public school districts across chology to increase use of family plan- crash on. Come say hi! from his job in the financial district. the country. In the last year, this work ning in Senegal and Uganda. She re- Shizue Roche Adachi and her He’s still recovering from the heart- has taken her from El Paso, TX to cently bought some pretty sweet roller partner continue to live and farm in breaking Patriots Super Bowl loss, but Avoyelles Parish, LA to Hartford, CT. skates and can be found rolling around Southwest Wisconsin. They just bought is hopeful for another great season next Last March she adopted a Chihuahua DC’s most beautiful parking lots. a house, setting some deeper roots than year. mix dog named Clementine! She loves Becky Hamilton is still living in expected at the ripe ol’ age of 25, but it Christian Boria is working in napping with her on the couch and tak- Boston and teaching first grade at a spe- feels like as good a place as any to sink New York at a hedge fund focused ing her on hikes in the woods. cial ed school. When she is not being teeth and lay anchor. Peek Pine Knob on technology investments. When Rafi Bildner writes from New York beat up by small children, she is fin- Organic Farm is online and maybe you he’s not in the city working, he’s City, where he is home and contemplat- ishing up her last semester of graduate want to buy a friend some of their de- off skiing with friends and family. ing his future after spending much of school and attempting to have a social liciously cozy, farm-raised wool bed- Anna Smith recently hiked Ver- the last year guiding cycling and hiking life. She can’t wait until the weather ding (sorry, couldn’t help but throw in mont’s Long Trail and is a yoga teacher. trips around the world for an adventure gets warm enough for the trapeze rig a plug!). Caleb Fujimori moved to Palo travel company. His work brought him to reopen! Nora Thompson is living and Alto, CA last year and is working to- to Sweden, Denmark, Croatia and all Jimmy LaBelle did what he never working in New York as an arts admin- wards a masters in Computer Science around the US. Before that, he was run- expected to do and moved to New York istrator and dance-maker. She works as at Santa Clara University. ning political campaigns in Anchorage, City last fall. He will be anchored here a Project Manager for Stephen Petronio Sasha Grodsky lives in Alaska. The next few months will see for at least 5 years, though, as he just Dance Company, assists performance Washington DC in a group house with him reporting and producing a podcast began a PhD in political science at artist Eiko Otake with outreach and four friends and one grumpy cat. She’s that chronicles folks running for local Columbia. You can catch him cycling grant-writing, and is the choreographer working in communications for a small office for the first time, and guiding the Hudson River Greenway in an East for a new musical about a woman with progressive economic advocacy group. a few more outdoor trips around the Corinth Sugarhouse t-shirt. early-onset Alzheimer’s disease called Sasha is so excited to have reconnected world. He sends his love to S10 and ev- Jacob Merson is currently work- If Sand Were Stone. She is also in the with Margaret Ringler since moving eryone in Vershire! ing on a PhD at RPI in Troy, NY. He is process of creating her first solo, eve- to DC! Megan Butterfield is based in studying fiber networks and a couple of ning-length dance work. Annabel Buckfire graduated from Keene, New Hampshire, and is work- biological processes using a multiscale Anika Wasserman will be farming her master’s program last March and ing in population health on several code. in Glover, VT this growing season with spent five months traveling through grant funded projects in the areas of Kemi Mugo worked for two years Bread and Puppet. Southeast Asia and Europe before substance use disorders and medica- as the Mountain School’s graduate resi- Madison Scheer is living in San starting work at a startup in New York tion assisted treatment. She became a dent, and is now pursuing a master’s Francisco and teaching earth science called Enigma. She’s loving her job and trained recovery coach in January and degree with New York University’s and chemistry at the SF Waldorf High being back in the city. is working towards a certification to be Food Studies graduate program. This School. She has enjoyed two years with Hailey Kennedy is currently learn- a Peer Recovery Support Worker. semester, she is researching labor in- the school and is moving to Austin, TX ing everything there is to know about Megan is exploring some new job op- equalities in animal agriculture while in the summer. She’ll be taking time to banana slugs, as she is interning as portunities and hopes to be in a new working part time at NYU’s Center for apply to graduate school for ecology an environmental educator on a farm part of the country by the fall! Multicultural Education and Programs programs during her time in Austin and and wilderness preserve in California, Rebecca Celli is living in Brook- and taking dance classes across is excited to explore this new city. where she lives on site with the slugs, lyn, working in documentary distribu- Manhattan and Brooklyn. Isaac Sacca spends most of his baby lambs, and frequently sees moun- tion at Cargo Film and Releasing. On Adrija Navarro began a PhD time climbing tall trees with a chain- tain lions! She’d love to have visitors if the side, she has been exhibiting exper- program this year at Harvard Univer- saw. When he’s not doing that, you can anyone is in the Bay Area! imental and trans-media film and she sity Medical School in Biological and usually find him working on his trucks, Zara Corzine lives in Brooklyn spent much of last weekend immersed Biomedical Sciences. She aims to study welding, replacing parts, and cursing. and works at an art gallery specializing in a VR headset...Needless to say, she cancer research. In her spare time she in Austrian and German expressionism. very much misses being in nature, but continues to enjoy sailing, skiing, and She’d love to see any TMS classmates- is very happy to live with a beautiful music! -let her know either if you’re living in standing house plant. Sam Powell is working for a start- the area or passing through! Charlotte Denoyer is a literacy up that focuses on connecting African specialist at the Harlem Link Charter software developers with tech compa- School teaching reading to 3rd-5th grade nies. He lives in Brooklyn, and spends students. She graduated from Teach For much time journeying down a spiritual America, but continues to work for her path. He recently traveled to India and 31 consists of 400 buckets and a 2x7 Spring ’12 arch. It’s the best time of the year! Zoe Huber-Weiss has moved Susanna Billings to New York City. There are fewer [email protected] large fall fruits than she expected. Elly Day f10 itting in her East Village apartment, Following graduation from SMila Rostain continues to contem- Mount Holyoke College, Maya By Alex Culver-Witt f17 plate the eternal question, “how does Delany moved to New York City one class note.” Before, she worried without a job, in hopes of working Recently, Elly has joined the about where to find the best dumplings, in the film industry. She now simul- team at Robin, a start-up com- but now she’s consumed by existential taneously works as a coordinator for pany based out of Boston, Mas- dread about class notes. Send help. a film production company, Walter sachusetts. Robin works with offices of all kinds to help them Still an undergrad? Still an under- Pictures, and manages a co-working manage scheduling and office design needs; at such a small grad. Dan Schreck will continue to space for filmmakers, 330 Walter, in startup, Elly has a chance not only to have responsibilities on undergrad all the way to 2019. He had midtown Manhattan. Maya is living the sales team, but also to actively help build how the business a late birthday in high school, so now in East Village and loves that there moves forward. he’ll get his kicks being 23 in sopho- is so much to do in the area, leading more science classes. Hey kids! He’s to tons of visitors. Last December, After graduating from Tufts University in 2016, Elly put lots of well-adjusted though. He will be in she was fortunate to see Charlotte thought into whether they would apply for the graduate resident Providence this summer and wants to Edelstein and currently has plans job at the Mountain School. Although this was a difficult deci- see your faces! Text him and he will in the works to see Kelly Tellez and sion, they resolved to continue on an alternative professional bring you freshly made Rhode Khatiti Harper! path while still holding close the lessons and values learned Island…. he’s not sure (are there any Since graduating from during the Fall 2010 semester. Being in such a dynamic startup special culinary items produced here?) Kenyon College, Khatiti Harper environment feels like a new challenge every day, and there are but will try to figure it out. has returned to New York, where lots of opportunities to offer new ideas and new strategies, so Noah Henry Goodman can read she spends most of her time sam- that it never feels old or stuck. your astral chart better than anyone you pling the latest vegan cuisine. She know and he encourages you to not take may have relocated from her home The genuine connections that Elly made while at the Moun- his word on that but to put him to the in the music building at Kenyon, tain School are what they miss most. The strong sense of com- test (donations for readings are encour- however, she has still been spending munity was inspiring for Elly, and has impacted quite a few aged). Having taken one gap year, sat most of her time studying music and of their values. In order to truly become immersed in a place’s out a semester with a concussion, and singing whenever and wherever she culture, Elly believes that it is important to remain in that place taking one additional semester off this can (NYC sidewalks not excluded). for an extended amount of time. Being surrounded by peers who past fall in which he was occasionally Though she wasn’t able to make it were completely invested in the Mountain School community idle and also occasioned a long drive back to TMS for the reunion, she inspired Elly to later work directly in community organizing from New York to Seattle, he is looking looks forward to hanging out with outside of work. forward to hopefully getting on with the other TMSers who are also in the graduating-from-college-thing by next city! When asked to reflect on a specific person at the Mountain spring. In the meantime, he reminds Nathan Lobel graduated from School who has impacted them, Elly noted the spontaneity you to keep an eye out for the release of Yale last spring, hoofed it up to and originality of Jack Kruse’s English classes and how they a studio album and maybe a couple of Vershire for the reunion, and then prompted them to think differently. Elly said “Jack was a great accompanying videos. in July migrated south to Prospect countering force to the rigidity of traditional schooling and how Nelson Mugabo is finishing up Heights in Brooklyn. He started a we’re brought up to believe certain limitations and structures school, with another semester to go. new job at the (deceptively named) must be the only way, that patterns always exist. Through Jack’s He’s trying to focus on people, learning Center on Sustainable Investment teaching, I learned to be more comfortable with the world’s ran- new tricks and hopefully figuring out at Columbia Law School, where he domness and unpredictability.” post-college plans. enjoys working to help countries Kelan Nee is graduating from and communities hold corporations Elly offered that another important aspect of the Mountain Colorado College in May with a degree accountable for their environmental School was the community feeling of support that held us up as in Creative Writing. and climate impacts. He thinks that we figured things out. Their parting words of advice to me and Kenny Shapiro graduated from Brooklyn is lovely and his apartment other Mountain School students: “Figure out what you believe Bowdoin this past December. He stayed is right around the corner from a gro- in, and fight for it.” Indeed, as Ralph Waldo Emerson (or Jack) in Maine and is currently working as a cery store, so, I mean, could things would say, it has to come from within. studio assistant for a sculptor. get any better?? There’s a healthy Mario Sacca is living in the up- TMS community in the city, and Na- stairs apartment of his shop making than has also been dating Annie Nel- things whenever possible. He is cur- son f13, who slept in the same bed rently taking two months off from in the Derby triple the semester after working for Timberhomes in Vershire him. At the reunion, he also learned to make maple syrup. His operation that they both wrote extremely inane 32 messages in their desk at the end of the ated from Brown and is now work- focusing on drawing and working at ing at Mount Abraham Union High semester. In that vein, remember that ing at a headhunting firm, Heidrick & MOTO, a cafe / waffle shop / motor- School in Bristol, Vermont, while tak- it’s okay to be sad/stressed sometimes Struggles, in New York doing CEO and cycle shop. She plans on getting her ing classes at UVM in the evenings. - love to all! Board of Directors work. She’s loving MSW in the next year or two, but until She is very busy and very stressed, but August Rosenthal graduated from it so far and can’t wait to run into other then she will continue to hike in the loves spending time with her students. Middlebury College in May and is TMSers on the streets of Manhattan. Catskills and pour lattes at MOTO. By May, she will be licensed to teach now back in Brooklyn. He is currently Ana Maria Trivino is currently Hannah Celli is currently in social studies and Spanish in Vermont, working for the Manhattan district At- living in NYC working for an engineer- Berlin. She lives in a small, well-lit stu- and will have a Masters in the Art of torney’s Office as a paralegal. He- re ing consulting firm. She is enjoying dio, full of colored light, candles and Teaching. She ran into Noah Mostow a cently investigated a bizarre homicide spending time with friends and family! paintings of people eating. She is very few weeks ago outside of City Market that involved lust, greed, matching Sarah Gross finished college and happy. Most recently she made a pop in Burlington; they both screamed. Ear- shirts, eels, casinos, and bus drivers— spent half of January running around up restaurant of Korean-American food lier this year she presented to a hand- so if you run into him, it’s a pretty good Thailand with Jane Jacoby. She’s also where she and friends cooked over 500 ful of sophomores about the Mountain story. Otherwise, he is working for an- on a trivia team with Nathan Lobel. fried dumplings. School, and two of them applied! other year and then probably applying She loved seeing so many people at the David Elitzer is living in London. Beth Minahan is working in New to law school. reunion in June! Go visit him! Noah Mostow gave Da- Hampshire doing experimental and Kelly Tellez is finally back in Jane Jacoby spent the fall with vid’s accommodations five stars on outdoor education with a whole bunch Brooklyn working as an HPV educator/ AmeriCorps building trails in Colorado Yelp and Google Reviews, so contact of kids. She’s still sad that she couldn’t promoter. She’s busy doing wellbeing, and on disaster relief in Texas. After an him with any inquiries. come to the reunion and misses every- abortion and immigration support in amazing trip with Sarah Gross across Noah Mostow is moving west. one a lot. NYC so please hit her up. Thailand, she spent some time home in Currently he is in Ohio packing up his Joanna Lynch moved to St. Paul, Lauren Volpert lives in NYC and NYC honing her pub trivia game. She’s life and then he is going to drive until Minnesota where she is working at a works at a Hospital for Special Surgery shortly off to Texas and then Montana he reaches Denver, see what’s there,see community health nonprofit. doing clinical research. She loves living to work on progressive political cam- if he likes it, see if he can find a job. If Charlotte Edelstein is living in downtown, far enough from the paren- paigns. If anyone is in either place, not, he will keep driving west until he Philadelphia, working in homeless- tal inquisition but not too far that she please reach out so she’s not friendless! finds a place he loves. His life is in the ness prevention and affordable housing can’t stop by for dinner on a weekly ba- Having finally escaped the East air right now, but he can feel it will be policy. sis. She is hoping her 9th grade brother Coast, Grace Stonecipher is having a grounded soon. After graduating from Brown in will apply to TMS next spring! blast living in Bozeman, Montana. She After graduating last May, May 2017, Hayley Flug spent the sum- Katy Lee was just accepted for can usually be found climbing, on the Susanna Billings escaped the new DC mer with her family in Jackson Hole, Columbia Nursing School to become ski slopes, or most often, trying not to landscape, moving as far west as pos- Wyoming. She remains stunned by a pediatric nurse practitioner. The slip on ice as she walks to her job at the sible. She’s now living in the San Fran- the total solar eclipse, and is decidedly program starts in June. In other news, Center for Large Landscape Conserva- cisco Bay Area, working for Tesla and traveling to see the next one in 2024. Lowry Bass just moved into her apart- tion. enjoying warmer winters. She is currently living with her older ment for a few months. Zelda Wengrod graduated Ober- Nina Sayles graduated from sister in San Francisco, working as a Lowry Bass is in New York right lin with her potentially useless English Brandeis in May and chose to stay in research assistant at a non-profit devot- now, finishing her last class at Bronx degree woooooo. After the cold she the Boston area, living in Allston. Nina ed to incarceration policy reform. She Community College to transfer back to decided to move back to LA and is liv- is a retail assistant at Siena Farms, a sends her love to her fellow Mountain finish out her Middlebury degree. She ing at home (classic post-grad) with her specialty vegetable farm in Sudbury, Schoolers and looks forward to seeing loves it so far and is getting to hang sisters, her mom and her nephew who is MA that sells produce at the Boston everyone at the next reunion! out with lots of Mountain School folks, one!!! She’s now working in TV devel- Public Market, and a Program Assis- Abby Bowling is working three which has been great. opment at Annapurna Pictures, which tant for Harvard’s Mindich Program in jobs to make money for graduate Erin Van Gessel spent last sum- she loves. She misses all of you!!! engaged Scholarship. She is preparing school while training to volunteer for mer working in Washington, DC. It Come to LA please. to apply to Master’s programs in pub- the Domestic Abuse, Sexual Abuse was HUGE, but she loved it. She then A day after finishing his undergrad- lic health and urban planning. For fun, and Suicide hotlines. Her service dog, returned to Middlebury for one last se- uate degree on December 20th, 2017, Nina continues to fence competitively Fletcher, is still the sunshine of her day. mester. In that time, she hiked in the Jonathan Adler packed up his apart- and plays timpani in Harvard’s Dudley She misses all of her Conard girls and Green Mountains and ADKs as much ment, loaded his car with boxes, bikes, House Orchestra. hopes that everyone is doing amazing as possible, wrote her political science and keyboards, and drove south. Now Max Sopher is living in Cam- things with their lives. thesis, and put on the 2018 Women’s back in Durham, North Carolina, he bridge with his BFF Jasper Barbash- Penelope Ganske is living in Leadership Symposium that included spends his days reading, cycling, re- Taylor, working at an architecture Cleveland working at Key Bank in their a keynote with Charlotte May’s won- learning old piano pieces, watching The firm, and always scheming. They have Finance Department. Her new puppy derful mom! After graduating in Febru- Sopranos, and working in coffee shops a pet crab and their main social activ- seems to take up all of her time and she ary, she left for a month-long backpack- on various research projects, old and ity is going to Whole Foods. Jasper is wouldn’t have it any other way! ing trip in Southeast Asia. The end of new. He hopes to find himself back in continuing to study through Harvard Colby Lewis is currently living that trip marked the beginning of a new the Middle East for the 2018-19 aca- University, and is working as a re- in Ann Arbor, MI while she pursues chapter - moving to NYC and starting demic year. search assistant in the design team at a Master of Science in Information at work at Spencer Stuart, an executive Anya Katz graduated from Sidewalk Labs, an urban innovation the University of Michigan. She loves search firm, on the board practice. Oberlin in December and has since lab in Manhattan. learning different coding languages and Charlotte May has finally gradu- moved to Hudson, NY, where she is Lizzy Marks is student teach- how to use data science to increase in- 33 formation accessibility, particularly in she’s hoping to find a job related to that everyone at the reunion this summer! libraries. She wishes there were more field. But in the meantime, she’s been Last fall, Lauren Black took a Spring ’14 sheep in Ann Arbor. trying to enjoy her last semester of col- semester off from college and spent a Andrew Gong graduated last De- lege and living in the Philly area (go few months in Central America trying Julia Pike cember, and so far in 2018 he has been Eagles! :). She can’t believe it’s been to become fluent in Spanish. So,- in [email protected] working on building a façade for Wash- 5 years since we had our closing cer- stead of graduating this spring, she’ll be proponent of alternative junior ington University’s Thurtene Carnival. emony at TMS. graduating next December, and is feel- Aspring semesters, Anna Blaustein He has continued to work at the univer- Alex Bynum is finishing up his ing very happy that she doesn’t have to is taking time off from Bowdoin. She sity IT center to pay the bills, and just senior comprehensive project in Geol- figure her life out quite yet! After she finally sent Gideon Irving s03 a deco- came back from Taiwan, where he spent ogy while waiting (and praying) for graduates, she might be trying to go rated album cover and had a blast see- the Lunar New Year. He’s also pursuing the spring thaw. Lately he’s taken to into radio journalism? ing TMSers while on a road trip around post-graduation opportunities, and will sleeping in and eating pizza bagels in Richard Otis is currently finishing New England. She’s been reading a hopefully be starting work (preferably preparation for a hockey game against his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at lot, shadowing a doctor, drawing, and in Seattle but also maybe Washington the cross-town rivals. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. This learning to code. In March, she’ll head D.C.) in August. Marie Vaine is working on her March he is going to Qatar, South Afri- off on her next adventure, solo travel Cooper Vincent is currently work- last year at Lyndon State College as a ca, Lesotho, and Sweden for a fun-filled through Europe. ing on his Masters degree in chemistry Mountain Recreation Management- trip to end his undergraduate career. After spending junior fall study- from Western Washington University Adventure Leadership major. Her fall Anna Hitchcock has been working ing in Spain, Olivia Burke-Tomaeno and is living and working in Belling- semester was outdoor leadership train- on her studio art capstone in woodcarv- is taking spring semester off of school ham, WA. ing through 5-10 day backpacking and ing and plans to work as a deckhand on to travel and continue her quest for Isaac Schultz is still playing bas- canoeing trips all over New England. a tall ship this summer. Spanish fluency. Thanks to a connec- soon in Houston, now getting his Mas- She spends her spare time teaching Ethan Savel is preparing to gradu- tion through Maura, she is currently ters degree. Aside from that, nothing yoga, skiing, mountain biking, and ate from Wesleyan University in the volunteering for an education nonprofit has changed but he’s marginally better rock and ice climbing in Vermont and spring and has no plans for post-grad in Nicaragua where she is working with at yoyo and running now. New Hampshire. This summer she will (if anyone has ideas, let him know). He the psychology team to prevent and James Rau is transitioning from be studying to take her rock climbing spends most of his days hanging with deal with issues of domestic violence completing a graduate degree and start- Single Pitch Instructor exam and guid- his housemates, Hannah Wilton and in nearby communities, and facing her ing his full time employment in Penn- ing mountain bike tours and clinics on Djuna Schamus, relaxing, and trying fear of large bugs. sylvania. In June he will be riding the Kingdom Trails in East Burke, Ver- to enjoy the lasts bit of college. Unfor- Violet Cole is happier than ever in Great Continental Divide trail solo mont. tunately, he will not be able to attend her third year at Vassar College. She from Canada to Mexico. This adventure Allison Tucker is graduating in a the five-year reunion, but misses every- does the daily crossword obsessively, will certainly bring back memories of month - at the end of Carleton’s Winter one so much and sends all of his love to still sleeps with a stuffed animal, and the time spent at TMS, and put all that trimester, assuming she passes her the- his semester buds. gets butterflies whenever someone he learned to practice. Cheers to 2018! sis and other classes like Intro to Rock Zoe Borenstein is enjoying her starts talking about sociological theo- Climbing. She will not be taking class- last semester of college, working on ry. To survive the cold winter months es from April-June but will be in Min- disability activism, teaching yoga, and of the East Coast, Violet has taken to nesota doing odd jobs and teaching her- pondering future plans. She intends to listening to Mozart’s “Requiem” at Spring ’13 self how to make bread....if anyone is travel and study meditation upon grad- full volume and checking SnapChat to in the Midwest, please join. She cannot uating in the spring. She sends her love view glimpses into the lives of fellow Ethan Savel come to the five-year reunion because to TMS community. S14ers. [email protected] it is the same weekend as Carleton’s Gabe Weisbuch cares about peo- Ruby Edlin spent her fourth se- abi Bembry is now in her final graduation sadly. She has no tangible ple, work, books, art, and music. He’s mester at Middlebury last fall continu- Gsemester at Oberlin College. This plans post-graduation and is scrambling excited to move to New York City after ing her Gender, Sexuality & Feminist past summer, she interned at an envi- at the seams. graduation. Studies/Political Science double major, ronmental justice non-profit in Philly Life is going well for Kipling Hazel Edwards is a junior at volunteering for a county organization and did lots of farming! She is currently Haviland-Hack as he is only a few Smith College and is currently study- that supports survivors of sexual and writing her capstone about food insecu- months away from graduation. He is a ing abroad in Panama. She is looking domestic violence, and singing with rity in Philadelphia and New Jersey. senior at Cornell University studying forward to working at a farm and na- her all-femme a cappella group. In the Gabi is planning to move to San Fran- Environmental Science and Engineer- ture camp (again) this summer, and she spring, she studied abroad in Stock- cisco after graduation. In the meantime, ing. He is still looking for jobs, mainly can’t wait to see your beautiful faces at holm, Sweden, and thanks to a trusty she is enjoying reviewing Glossier in the Boston area, in the realm of en- reunion!! Google Doc created by Julia Pike, products, drinking vats of kombucha, vironmental consulting and renewable Hannah Wilton is finishing up found all of the best spots in the city. and eating grapefruits. Gabi is looking energy companies. He hopes that he her senior year at Wesleyan Univer- She thinks about feminism a lot. forward to attending our 5-year reunion gets to see a lot of you at the 5-year re- sity majoring in American Studies and Sophie Frank is spending the year in June! union and that everyone is doing well! Environmental Studies. She has been studying in Paris where she works at a Kalaina Thorne is excited to be Madeline Frank is doing wonder- spending most of her time this semester bilingual preschool, struggles her way graduating Bryn Mawr with a Biology fully and will graduate from Kenyon working on various projects in the print through the French subjunctive, and major, but is nervous about finding a College in May! She is looking to pur- shop, organizing Wesleyan’s Local Co- eats a lot of bread. job for next year. Most of her summers sue public health and can’t WAIT to see Op program, and enjoying the last few Ariana McGinn is a junior at the were spent doing ecology research, so months of college with friends! University of Pennsylvania, majoring

34 in English and minoring in Political Science. She just returned from a se- Rewilding mester abroad in Stockholm (where she was roommates with Julia Pike), and is By Liam Rossier s14 currently planning on doing something important with her life (although she hen I left Vermont, I had mountains on has no idea what that might be yet!). Wmy mind. I dreamed of wilderness so vast Julia Pike is back at Amherst that you could chase mule deer, elk, and ante- College this spring after a semester lope all day without encountering another spent in Stockholm, Sweden and trav- human. Having just graduated from high school eled around with Olivia Burke- I was ready for a change. I wanted to pursue a Tomaeno. She also got the opportunity career in wildlife biology. I wanted to partici- to walk the last 200 km of the Camino pate in work more meaningful than a petty controversy over coyotes and white-tailed deer. in Spain, which was a fantastic experi- And so I headed for Montana, where I continued my academics in terrestrial wildlife biology. ence. At Amherst, Julia spends her time Missoula fit me well. Nestled between the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness and Flathead National For- playing Ultimate Frisbee and working est, I had endless opportunity for hunting, fishing, and exploration. I was living at the center of a hub at The Common literary magazine, a for wildlife research, and so had a plethora of jobs to choose from. publication focused on place-based With support from several of the University of Montana’s students and faculty, I chased my curi- writing, which she encourages all TMS osity across the west, state by state. I counted ducks in the bountiful prairie-pothole region of North writers to submit to! Dakota. I trapped snowshoe hares in the grizzly country of northwest Montana. I tracked moose in Liam Rossier is enjoying his jour- the snowy mountains of eastern Washington. ney toward a wildlife biology degree at Of all the species I pursued for research or game, moose stood out. I grew to love their grotesque the University of Montana. He has been posture and charismatic nature. When I learned of the failing health of Vermont’s moose population, lucky to work with a number of species as well as the state’s new attempts at discovering the explanations for it, I was determined to help in across the western US. He has recently any small way that I could. started helping on the Vermont moose This led me to return home as an intern on the Vermont Moose Study in the spring of 2017. My study and is overjoyed to be coming job was to track cow moose that had been previously collared in order to determine whether they had back as an environmental technician a calf or not. I started in the middle of May, near the height of calving season. for the state Fish and Wildlife Agency On the first morning I tracked a cow into a mixed hardwood stand of beech, maple, and birch, this summer. He hopes to see you all those deciduous pillars of the northeastern forest. The damp bed of leaves made stalking much qui- soon. eter than the steep, rocky, western slopes I had grown accustomed to. Water music filled the morning Michaela Wang is taking time air: the slurp-slop of my rubber boots plunging into a muddy streambed; the drip-drop of last night’s off from school, and has been work- rain off the new green beech buds. ing on olive and dairy farms through The rolling, open hardwoods allowed me to look for moose at a distance; they were nothing like WWOOF. She’s about to start a goat the dense, sometimes sheer, coniferous forests in Washington. Every now and then, as my VHF sig- milking internship in Washington. She nal grew louder, I would step up onto an old rotting stump – a reminder of the sometimes exploitive, misses s14 and sends her love to all. sometimes symbiotic relationship that humans and forests have shared here for thousands of years. When my signal began to pop, I paused, knowing that I was very close. The flick of a dark brown, Spring ’15 mule-like ear caught my attention. The cow lay bedded in a patch-cut thicket of briars and saplings, chewing her cud peacefully. No calf yet. Amir Mamdani I spent most of that internship wishing I didn’t have to leave at the end of the month. And I real- [email protected] ized that a big part of what I missed was the human history that’s etched into the landscape here. ida Muratoglu is settling into her Back east, history seems entwined in every old maple. You can see it. Rusty barbed wire tells a tale Afirst semester at Bowdoin College of cattle, stonewalls a tale of sheep. Cut a tree and study the rings and you might just see when the after a year of working and adventur- land was settled; you might see when it was abandoned and went back to nature, too. ing. She leads an outdoor education The wild West is just that, and unique for it. But there’s something unique, too, about the rewild- club with Anna Blaustein s14 and tries ing of the Northeast. Old mill damns, now broken, let native brook trout swim at will. Forest succes- to spend a lot of time outside. This sum- sion has reclaimed thousands of acres of previously mer she will be working for an organi- cleared land, reconnecting wildlife corridors and re- zation in Philadelphia that builds and turning the landscape to forest. The near return of the operates urban farms and community catamount is a sure sign of wildness. gardens in West Philly’s Haddington In the East we’ve torn our vast wilderness apart. area. She misses everyone and living in But it’s growing back, proving the strength of nature. Tobold dearly, and will house anyone And we get to watch it. And help it. I see, now, how on her air mattress if they want to come meaningful this work can be. up to Maine! (see Emma Seevak and Zoe Grodsky for rave reviews of said First printed in Northern Woodlands Magazine- air mattress and company) -northernwoodlands.org Amir Mamdani is settling into his first year at Harvard, after a gap year

35 of working, and traveling with fellow declared an Earth Science major with getting rained on. Struggles include ex- woodworking and design. alum Zoe Grodsky. He is taking class- a minor in Energy Studies. Highlights istential perma-crises, budgeting, and Oceanna Schnirman is in her sec- es on Ancient Egypt and the History of of his year include attempting to pick econ. Cob finds the Phenotype of the ond year at McGill University studying American Race Relations, and plans to up the guitar and joining a lunar petrol- West to be majestic but the culture to be animal health and disease. She has been major in Government, with a focus on ogy research team. He looks forward borderline “too chill”. Next year Cob working in residence, tutoring calculus, the Middle East. When he isn’t learn- to studying abroad in Perth, Australia plans to move back east to New York working with her professor, and is start- ing about King Tut, Amir writes for the next fall. and pursue the more aural-tactile pas- ing a Roots & Shoots: McGill Chapter. Sports Section of The Harvard Crim- Esmé Zodrow-Macdonald is get- sions of writing tunes and line-cooking She’s really involved and always busy, son, covering the women’s basketball ting that sweet education at Portland at boujee restaurants. Cob misses S15 but loving every minute of it! team. He has also enjoyed spending State University, where she’s majoring dearly and sends his love, hoping ev- Ray Moss-Cousin has been busy time with Cambridge dwellers Emma in History and English, and minoring in eryone is out chasing the joy. in her sophomore year at UMass of Seevak and Remi Godinez. Anthropology and Medieval Studies. Jamie Pitman is somehow still Boston. When she is not busy being the Anna Barnes is enjoying sopho- When she’s not studying or working in school, and working towards her supervisor at TJ Maxx, she is orienting more spring, having just declared her in the history department, she likes to dreams of farming by growing local first year students. Every Sunday night, majors in Environmental Studies & listen to podcasts and daydream about mushrooms. She is also enjoying living she is doing something she is most pas- Government and Legal Studies. She is space adventures. on the coast of North Carolina, where sionate about, ROLLER SKATING and patiently awaiting the moment when Francesca Farris is a sophomore she encourages everyone to come visit. DANCING (which is what she known both of her legs are uninjured at the at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, Liam Hefta is in his second year at for at TMS). Ray is just trying to get same time so she can run, and Anna is NC. She just declared her major in Cul- Oberlin College and is doing fine and her bachelor of science degree for biol- also spending a lot of time having lei- tural Anthropology. She works 15 hours well. When not struggling with study- ogy in 2020 and start medical school, surely breakfasts with friends. a week on the College Farm with pig- ing for an upcoming Japanese language but also having fun and living life to the This year, Ben Gross is eating gies, cows, sheep, two dogs, and chick- test, throwing together a makeshift din- fullest! wholesomely as part of a food coop ens. She is still scarred for life by the ner, or playing guitar, he is likely be- Remi Godinez is in the midst of with Tara Sharma f14 and some other TMS chicken flock. This summer she ing thrown all over the Aikido and Jiu- trying to be a (quasi) Humanities ma- folks, old friends and new. Biking has plans to stay and work on the College Jitsu mats by his seniors, and hopefully jor at MIT. When she’s not spending opened up a slew of new neighbor- Farm. She is considering shaving her learning a thing or two in the process. twelve hours on her computer science hoods and possibilities for Ben, includ- head. She just perfected the cartwheel He may also be studying away in Kyoto problem sets, she’s teaching freshmen ing trips to Three Sisters Ice Cream and is working on her headstand. Also at Doshisha University next year, but the wonders of Physics E&M and 3D up Hope Street. Ben has also enjoyed working on growing her collection of will still be contactable by Facebook printing tiny chains as part of a research implementing some of his solo skills preserving various animal ears. Contact and email should the necessity arise. project. She’s gotten back into gymnas- earlier this year on BOLT, a sophomore her if you have any intel on this, please. Lindsay Cartmell is looking for- tics and is looking forward to taking pre-orientation program, and he looks Gary Friedle (the younger TMS ward to a third summer on Lake Winni- part in a national gymnastics meet in forward to leading a BOLT trip this fall. alum) is in his second year at UC Santa pesaukee, where she recently accepted April. Ben Weiss is in his second year Barbara majoring in Economics. He the crew boss position at AMC Three Robinson Lamont has declared of college at Yale pursuing a degree plans to study abroad in England for Mile Island camp. She’s currently remi- a Material Physics major and plans to in Mechanical Engineering. Outside all of next year, but as of now, does not niscing about good ’ol morning dips to declare his Engineering major later this of the classroom, he participates in specifically know where. wake up, beanies & weenies for lunch, month. He has also joined Oberlin’s ul- Y-Pop Up (student run restaurant), Ginger Adams is enjoying her sec- and sunset kayaks to top off work-days. timate Frisbee team and is looking for- Danceworks (where he engages with ond year at Middlebury. She’s studying She hopes to host TMS visitors again ward to playing this spring. He misses his passion for dance which started at Sociology and Spanish while trying to this summer! Next January she will be his lifelong brothers in Miles and hopes TMS!), and works with the Yale Refu- convince herself she still might switch headed to Patagonia, Chile for a semes- everyone is doing well. gee Project. majors to her new life passion, Com- ter abroad with Round River Conser- Sam Huston is going to college Christina Duval is in her second puter Science! She enjoys working in vation Studies, which she is also very in Walla Walla, WA. He spends much year at Georgetown and so far, doing the ceramics studio and hosting a radio excited for. She would greatly appreci- of his time skiing at the abandoned ski pretty great. She is studying psychol- show. ate any Santiago/Patagonia must sees area down the road. When not skiing, ogy and having occasional minor freak- Izzy Kotlowitz is in her second & dos. he goes for runs out into the wheat outs about grad school, working with year at Kenyon College. She is poten- Livi Bokor, studying philosophy fields because it is beautiful, makes him refugee rights, costume designing for tially majoring in Sociology and Wom- and literature, is loving school. At the happy and he likes to look at the clouds. plays about post-apocalyptic Simpsons, en’s and Gender Studies. She is playing same time, though, she feels a desire A few weeks back he spotted the rare and educating about sexual assault. She ultimate Frisbee, leading for the Out- to reset, to devote some time to parts and awe-inspiring Kelvin-Heimholtz is terrible at reaching out to people but doors club, and performing in a comedy of herself that aren’t given much space wave formation. He HIGHLY encour- loves it when people contact her, like musical theater dance group. For fun, in college. So she’s taking next semes- ages you to look that up. He misses real beloved roommate Fran, who sent her she takes runs through the cornfields ter off! She’s planning to live in Paris syrup and broomball. quite an interesting calendar. If anyone and eats an immense amount of cheese. for three months and attend cooking Sara Santiago is happy she has wants to visit DC, she has open space She really misses everyone from TMS school. been able to get to know Vermont and a sleeping bag and would love to and sends lots of love. Losel Yauch is finishing up her first even better while at Middlebury Col- see you! Also, her elephant costume is Jacob Kiely-Song – Cob is living year at Oberlin college. She is studying lege. She recently declared an Arabic hanging by her door. out West, enjoying his second semes- art and music tech. She has been work- and Religion joint major, which she Donald Welsh is enjoying his ter at Lewis and Clark. Daily activities ing to finish building an electric bass is very excited about. When she’s not second year at Notre Dame and has include writing music, hooping, and from scratch and hopes to continue with studying, she’s working at the Center

36 for Community Engagement, making ly a student at USC. He is pursuing nat- finding time to work as a lab assistant she can be found either chilling in her vegan ice cream for one of the college ural joyous self-expression everyday. in the Yale School of Medicine’s Al- sorority house or in a dance studio for dining halls, hosting one of her three He is looking forward to his art being zheimer’s Disease Research lab where “Anything Goes” rehearsals. She trea- radio shows, or scrambling to find time featured as part of the spring show in he runs the biobank and performs MRI sures any and all TMS interactions in- to pleasure read. LA called ArtRX about the connection and PET scans. Although these are all cluding (but not limited to) a summer- Shani Berkowitz is a student at between art and healing. He is publish- things he did not expect to do in col- sleepover-turned-Downtown-Abbey the College of Charleston. She is cur- ing his next book this spring called “i lege, Darrell is so grateful to be able to marathon with Molly Burnett and an rently studying to be a Math major and rub my belly”. Check out his new You- explore these possibilities and has met epic New Years shindig hosted by the Sociology minor. Outside of the class- Tube channel, Adam Jonah. such amazing people. lovely Zack Herman. room, Shani is the Academic Chair of Andrew Javens has been finessin Edwin Magaña is at UC Santa Farid Sousou is enjoying being at her sorority, Zeta Tau Alpha. And in the at Brown, straight zerrooooo bunk man. Cruz, recently changed his major to Georgetown. He spends his free time upcoming months, she will be traveling His one and only love, Sylvia (his saxo- Environmental Studies. He’s had some running on the club team and playing to Germany and Israel for both educa- phone), has lead to only the most but- struggles, but is excited to continue to soccer with his friends. tional and recreational purposes. tery jazz. He’s started a funk band with grow in every way with his time in col- Gemma Sack is thoroughly enjoy- Sophia Durka is currently a his friend Gabe, but makes sure to see lege. ing her first year at Brown. She has es- sophomore at the University of Penn- Gemma, Wassa, and Mark to get his Eleanor Kharasch recently took a pecially enjoyed meeting fantastic new sylvania, and she has just declared her daily dose of TMS. Much love to all, course in alpaca husbandry in Ecuador, people, getting to take classes that re- major in Urban Studies. Her favorite hope to see you soon. learning ally interest her, and doing new activi- activity is to work at the Sankofa Com- Anna Saviano is finishing her final extensively ties, like playing Frisbee and tutoring munity Farm at Bartram’s Garden in semester of high school in Singapore. In about man- refugee youth in Providence. She also West Philly. Her courses cause her the past year she has been quite busy— agement, loves going to school with so many some stress, but she enjoys doing work facilitating a conflict resolution -con care, surgi- TMS folk (Mark Bodner f15, Wassa for her creative writing class most. So- ference in Thailand, wrapping up the cal proce- Bagayoko, and Andrew Javens). She phia hopes to start publishing her own requirements for IB, and continuously dures, and loves having Spanish class with Wassa short stories, and is looking forward to sweating in the heat of Singapore. She the fiber -in every day and taking care of Andrew the free time summer has to offer. She also wanted it to be known that bubble dustry. She (as Maura requested). Most important- misses nature dearly and is planning to tea is her primary subsistence and she is currently ly, the highlight of her fall was being rejuvenate herself with some farming misses and loves all of you. majoring in quasi-adopted by Jamie Lombardi’s and hiking this summer. Carson Levine is a freshman at animal science and minoring in chemis- family. She still drinks tea, sings Indigo Zoe Grodsky is enjoying her sec- Dartmouth College. She is living a try at the University of Vermont, and is Girls songs, and is late to everything. ond year at Middlebury College, where quaint upper valley life where’s she’s also working part-time at a horse stable. She is forever grateful for TMS, and she is majoring in Sociology and minor- studying computer science, art, and Elisha Mattoon is a resident as- thinks about her fellow s16ers always. ing in Spanish and Education Studies. human centered design, whatever that sistant at VTC. He is graduating in the Isabel Cushing is starting spring When Zoe is not doing lengthy read- means. The best Carson thing has got- spring with his associates degree in me- semester at Williams College after a ings about urban sociology or inclusive ten from college thus far is learning chanical engineering and will be con- wonderfully absurd winter study class education, she can be found working at how to talk to people and convince tinuing to get his bachelor’s in renew- devoted to writing on typewriters and a preschool in town, planning an Envi- them of the liberal agenda. able energy technology by 2020. a lot of fun in the snow. She is reading ronmental Justice Symposium, acting Charlotte Konner is currently en- Elizabeth Kolling is happy to be a lot and playing Frisbee and trying to in Beyond the Vagina Monologues, or rolled at Vassar college and loving it. in a city big enough to suit her people get enough sleep! The weather is get- hosting a weekly radio show. She is She recently adopted an English mas- watching desires. She’s enjoying a ting warmer here and she is excited for planning to be in Boston this summer tiff puppy who naps a lot. And she still course in Computer Science (#break- spring! She misses you all. with lots of room to host visitors. can’t identify trees. ingboundaries), piano lessons, and fra- Jacob Hunter is currently a stu- Darrell Pona has finally gotten ternity parties at Kappa Delta Rho, Nu dent at Vassar College. He has joined Spring ’16 into college and being there is actually Alpha Chapter. Elizabeth is ever grate- the Frisbee team, environmental clubs, surreal. Not only does the university’s ful for her classmates’ support follow- and is active in debates on campus re- Wassa Bagayoko campus and community of amazing in- ing the wildfires earlier in the year and garding the Israel-Palestine conflict. He [email protected] tellectual thinkers surprise him, but he loves them all so much. Her summer enjoys going on trips into the surround- bbott LaPrade is enjoying his time has also been involved in groups that plans include beach-bumming, working ing scenic Hudson Valley area and ex- Aback in Vermont at Middlebury. he did not expect going into college. in accounting, learning to make dump- ploring the college campus. When not in class he rows crew, plays He is currently on the Men’s A compe- lings, and journaling about all her feels. James Lombardi has been enjoy- hockey, and enjoys hanging out with tition team for Yale Taekwondo. He is Emma Glazer is a freshman at ing his stay in the south. He has done the other freshmen from TMS (Pat- also blessed to be a choreographer for Bryn Mawr College right now, outside his best to explore Nashville, as well rick, Annabella, Emma, Beverly, and Sabrosura, Yale’s Premier Latin Dance of class she involved in (and co-pres- as a few neighboring states, including Dan). In February he enjoyed moving Team, and is incredibly happy he made ident of) an a cappella group. while Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana (all his brother into Jamie Lombardi’s old this very different move in his life. He home in VT over winter break she states which he never expected to visit bed at the Mountain School and wit- is the peer liaison of Despierta Boricua, taught little kids to ski! Sending love in his life). He is incredibly jealous of nessing the start of a new semester. He the Puerto Rican affinity and commu- to TMS. his sister who has recently started at- misses you all and would love to hear nity engagement group on campus, and Eva Petersen is a first year at the tending TMS. As a result of this, he has from each and everyone of you. is on the advocacy team for the Yale University of Virginia (#wahoowa had you all on his mind quite often. He Adam Jonah Satovsky is current- Undergraduate Prison Project, all while #goodtimesgohoos). On a typical day has started playing lacrosse at Vander-

37 bilt, has joined a fraternity, and gener- immensely. spare time he’s been working on draw- get to be near TMS for the next four ally does not have his life together (but Madeline Miller has been LIV- ing and journaling everyday, often re- years, YAY!!!” he’s doing his best and that’s ok). He ING at her college of mount Holyoke flecting on his time at TMS. Over the summer, Patrick Doheny often thinks he would trade it all to be in western MASS!! She had a wonder- Wassa Bagayoko is a freshman “worked at a local state forest, learning back in Vershire with his people. ful first season of field hockey play- at Brown University studying Inter- the art of cleaning toilets and wasting Jolaun Hunter is enjoying her sec- ing for her school, her team ended up national Relations and Environmental time (but I got to drive some dump ond semester at Spelman College! 4th in their conference! She is taking Studies with a focus on the environ- trucks, which was very exciting). I also Josephine Bourne spent this past a bunch of super interesting environ- ment and inequality. On campus, Wassa (finally) got to visit Montana in August, semester in Costa Rica, learning Span- mental courses and trying to keep her is a member of the fencing team, the and it was just as incredible as I had ish and eating a ton of gallo pinto. She rooted to TMS values day to day! She Black Student Union, The League of imagined. After that, I was introduced sends her love to all her s16 buds from just received news she will be interning Black Women, The African Students to the magnificence that is In-N-Out afar. for her state representative Lori Ehrlich Association, and The Rhode Island Burger while in California, and in the Julia Gourary is in her first year as the Massachusetts State House for Student Climate Coalition. When she is process may have lost my loyalty to at Yale University, where she puts on the beginning months of summer be- not fighting toxic liquefaction facilities, Shake Shack. I recently started to play plays for and helps teach acting work- fore she heads back to work for her lo- Wassa is working with a new group on the guitar, so maybe with some prac- shops to kids, had a piece published in cal parks and recreation summer camp campus to influence gun control legis- tice, I can become the next Willie the Yale Lit, recently joined a sorority, with kindergarten and first graders!! lation in Rhode Island. She loves seeing Nelson…” and has developed a coffee addiction. She THOROUGHLY enjoyed spending her fellow TMSers in three out of her Erick Miron has not been able She isn’t sure yet what she wants to ma- time with her s16 loves for NYE. Ring- four classes and misses the rest of her to find the relaxation that is often- ad jor in, but is thinking either English or ing in 2018 with a BANG! She still Spring semester dearly. vertised for Senior Spring. Life as a Art History. She is also a part of Yale’s loves to lip-sync and continues to im- Head of House and Boarding Council biggest class in history, Psychology and personate Brittney Spears on the daily. Spring ’17 member have made the rigorous Senior the Good Life! She can hardly believe Before starting school in Maine year workload appear to be just another it’s been two years since our semester next fall, Micah Wilson has been on a Eleanor Pike chore on the laundry list. An upcoming began, and she misses TMS dearly. gap year. So far, he’s split his time be- [email protected] Senior Coffeehouse in March, and The- Kai Victor is enjoying Cornell, tween his home in Cambridge, where yla Pinger writes, “Hi everyone! ater Company production in May, have where he spends his time birding, doing he worked on a farm and canvassed for ZThis year has been incredibly also kept Erick busy and have caused taxidermy, studying bird eyelash evolu- city council candidates, and New Zea- busy but lots of fun! I have been serv- him to return to the sleeping habits he tion, and running into his TMS family. land, where he hiked portions of the Te ing as my school’s Student Body Presi- practiced at The Mountain School (sor- He’s super psyched to be working in Araroa trail and WWoofed on family dent and have been planning all sorts of ry Kareen!) Despite the busy life, Erick Australia this summer studying Red- farms. He’s spending his spring explor- fun events for our student body as well has still been able to enjoy CA. He val- backed Fairywrens. ing Seattle where he’ll work on local as helping develop an app for every- ues the time that he’s been able to spend Keerti Gopal is loving her first politics and urban farm projects. thing Branson related! Recently I have with friends and housemates this year year at Northwestern University, where Phoebe Murray has been enjoying been playing a lot of soccer (our team and hopes to continue to strengthen it is cold but not as cold as Vermont. her first year at Vassar College, despite has made it to the MCAL finals and as the bonds that have made his Concord She does some clubs and takes some the dining hall’s lack of real maple of right now we are semifinals bound Academy experience so special. classes and cannot decide on a major syrup. When she’s not studying, she in NCS #fingersCrossedWeWin!) and Maya Egan has been settling back so she would appreciate any and all spends her time on the farm, learning am so excited because the lacrosse sea- in to life in Freeport and thoroughly recommendations!! She misses TMS a to knit, and playing Quidditch (which is son is right around the corner! I have enjoyed her last season with the Nor- lot and hopes to take a class next year definitely a real sport, she swears). She been spending a lot of time planning dic team capped off by a trip up to called the ethnobiology of maple syrup. loves seeing some of her fellow s16 my school’s Student Health Day, which The County for states in Fort Kent. Livia Kunins-Berkowitz is really friends on campus and hopes to see all happens in March, where we bring in Her work on a local farm this year has enjoying her gap year and not having of your lovely faces again soon. a variety of health educators to educate helped her keep her TMS nostalgia at homework. In the fall, Livia back- Rebecca McCartney is grateful our student body on the effects of drugs bay. She misses everyone dearly but packed through Peru, Argentina, and for Carleton College’s Arboretum cross and alcohol as well as to talk about can’t wait to be reunited at sugaring. Chile working on farms and in a hos- country ski trails and spaces with good mindfulness, mental illnesses, and how Chloe Savage is in the midst of tel. Luckily, her time at TMS prepared natural lighting. She’s almost success- to cope with stress. Every few weeks I writing her chapel, which she will give her for crazy farm tasks like harvesting fully banned cotton from her wardrobe sit down and spend time with my Best on March 6th! She is also looking for- grapes in the driest desert on earth. The so she can stay warm through the six- Buddy Sara and we talk about what’s ward to a student-directed play that she highlights of her gap year thus far have month winter, though she gladly dons new in our lives while decorating cook- is participating in, even though Chloe been bathing in an Amazonian waterfall her TMS crewneck and shorts when ies, making Valentines, ornaments, or has never done any kind of theater at and getting to explore Buenos Aires. In the temperature breaks 20. Please reach any other “crafty” kind of activity. I CA, so it should be interesting. She is the Spring, Livia is heading to Seattle out if you want to join her on part the have also been having a ton of fun run- also hoping for a successful lacrosse to live with Micah Wilson, with Sara northern half of the AT this summer. ning one of our fundraising clubs at season after a sub-par, and mostly un- Jacobsen’s family. She is not totally She’s also working on a lot of music to campus where we put on a bunch of fun successful, field hockey season. sure what she will be doing there but is release so stay tuned. She is happy. events and organize things like Valen- Ellie Pike misses filling the -Mid hoping to visit the cities of the Pacific Ryan O’Connor is attending Uni- tines Day grams (my personal favorite town boiler. She’s had a busy senior Northwest, hike in national parks, tutor versity Wisconsin Milwaukee where holiday)! This past fall I was also in- year so far: playing soccer, competing local public school students, and sell he’s been fighting over studying graph- credibly blessed to hear that I got into in speech tournaments, and performing cheese. She misses all the s16 family ic design or art education. In his limited Dartmouth College, which means I will in two school plays. Calculus is threat-

38 ening to crush her spirit (help, Sue is looking forward to helping her ten- few spare moments he has, he enjoys friends whenever she can and cannot Kruse!) but she’s persisting. nis team make State and finishing with befriending kids from other semester wait for the sugaring reunion. This Ellie’s spent a lot of time planning ac- another strong season! She has relished away schools, finding the best food in spring, she is looking forward to the be- tivities for her peer group of ten fresh- her last year in Oklahoma and is always Boston, and exploring local trails. ginning of the tennis season and having man, and has really enjoyed getting to ready to take visitors four wheeling on Jeremy Ornstein has so much more free time to finally get around to know them. She’s loved meeting up the oil fields! physics homework to do. It overwhelms reading the books, watching the mov- with other Mountain Schoolers in New After an incredible nature-filled him. Also, he feels intermittently cyni- ies, and doing all of the activities she York, and beyond, and can’t wait to see summer and a focused first semester, cal, depressed, destroyed, and silenced has been planning to do since school everyone in March! Tim Kim is enjoying the ease of second by the world—and powerful, angry, started. Maddie Hikida is trying to tie up semester by applying his TMS skills at connected, and uplifted by the work After working at a summer camp the loose ends of her high school ex- Our City Forest (an urban forestry pro- and intentions of incredible people he just a few minutes ways from Vershire, perience while spending as much time gram), hucking discs on the Ultimate interacts with. Doing that sort of small Heidi Birch returned to Brookline to with Coco, her cat, as she can. She Frisbee team, and taking every opportu- “p” political work in his school—trying start off her senior year. She has been attended the Student Diversity Lead- nity to enjoy nature--camping, hiking, to create dialogues with administra- hard at work on the ceramics wheel, ership Conference in December and and bouldering. Tim is currently wait- tion—feels good and is just as hard. spending most of her energy on her art met up with Kareen, Maura, Callie ing for college decisions by watching He’s also been playing his violin, so ask while subconsciously IDing trees on Bouton s17 and Camilla Ledezma Wes Anderson movies, which makes to hear a song. He’ll sing it and play it. her walk home from school. She was f17. Maddie finished stage managing him dream about taking a gap year. Ben Stewart writes, “I’ve been fin- overwhelmed with joy to recently learn an original musical about New York in Abigail Lyss’ senior year has sig- ishing up my senior year at Milton, and that her grandmother has not only met, November with Clio Rose s18 as her nificantly improved since the -begin moving into the relaxation of but befriended Tom Wessels, who has assistant stage manager and is currently ning of second semester. After a slew senior spring. In a few months I’m do- officially stated that her piece -of for working on the set design for Twelfth of college applications, Abigail finally ing a Senior Project with a friend where ested land is quite healthy. Night. She is also beginning her role had time to get her wisdom teeth re- we go outside to make blogs and pod- In the past year Anna Koppelman as stage manager for Dance Theater moved and start reading for fun again. casts about the outdoors. I’ve been do- has taken a conscious effort to fall less, Workshop, which will open in May. For Although life in the city is treating her ing a lot of skiing with my friends on talk to people more, and laugh loudly. her senior initiative project, Maddie well, Abigail is reliving her Mountain the weekends, often going up to Ver- Just like always, her life isn’t dramatic, is excited to create a college-friendly School glory days through her sister mont and New Hampshire. Obviously but she knows how to make it sound cookbook, which she will sell to raise Dahlia s18. I’m very excited to head back up for that way. If you haven’t spoken with funds for Cookies for Kids’ Cancer. Maggie Sharp is glad that she is the Sugaring Reunion, too! I’m also her in a while, her sagas are endless. If Ari Chadda found most of his a second semester senior and can relax going to a lot of concerts in the next you are looking for her, you’ll probably time split between running, where he more now. Maggie was the manager of few months. I’m seeing Galantis (EDM find her still trying to get Sarah Kay’s broke two school indoor track records, the boys’ varsity hockey team with my group) in early May, going to the “Bos- attention, speaking to her TMS friends and being Editor-in-Chief of his school friends. Also, she is excited for the la- ton Calling” music festival with Will on the phone, or lying down in an hour newspaper. He plans on running an crosse season coming up! Krulak to see a number of artists, and long meditation class. Solo “changed ultra-marathon this April and will be After a summer of being a volun- I think Will and I are also planning on her” and she is very excited to tell returning to Vermont in May for his se- teer camp counselor and spending time going to a few more Phish concerts this people about her four days alone in the nior project, writing for a local newspa- in the beautiful outdoors of the Pacific summer! For a summer job this year, woods when she starts Pitzer College in per: The Valley Reporter. He regrets not Northwest, Ava Fleisher is happily tak- I’ll probably be working on a local the fall. spending more time with Connor and ing an English elective which has some farm, though I’m not 100% certain on Rosalee Bayer has been making Will with their relative proximity and Kruse-curated short stories as supple- this yet. memes. sends his love to the TMS community. mental reading, and is in the same calc Addison Bent has temporarily set George Drumheller and Emily Eliza Brower is currently work- class as Luke Fredrickson. (She still aside his formidable high school tennis Langston are doing well. ing with the Youth Tutoring Program misses Math with Kathy, though.) She career in order to pursue his true pas- Mackenzie Whitehead-Bust has for low-income families. She has over- picked up bouldering during the sum- sion: ultimate frisbee. been on a yearlong mission to popu- run her parents Uber Eats account on mer, and now frequents her local climb- Simone Lipkind is still recovering larize the word “jump” as a substitu- various Thai food places. Her original ing gym with friends after school. She from the pain of the Super Bowl loss. tion for the word cool. Some things in play, “A Train Derailed,” was chosen enjoys getting together with the F16- Some might say it is worth mentioning her life this year have been especially for ACT Theaters young playwrights S17 Seattle squad, especially when that she later learned most of this pain jump, such as publishing a chapbook festival, and she is very excited to other TMS alums come to visit, and was caused by appendicitis, not the of original poetry called “I’ll Tell You work with the talented team of actors highly encourages everyone to come to Patriots’ defense. However, it does feel What I’ve Told Myself” (hmu for a and directors they have provided. She Seattle. She can often be found in her like a weight has been lifted off of her copy!), learning to skateboard, being has given everyone around her a lot school’s art studio, listening to Cold- now that she’s removed an unnecessary a captain of her cross country team, of Mountain School merchandise, and play, drinking coffee, and mapping out organ and finished college applications. and racking up a bunch of absences to gets asked to identify trees daily. the various commutes to her Mountain After spending her summer work- take advantage of the ski season. Some Noa Schumann has enjoyed tak- School friends’ schools next year. ing in North End (in Central Park, not other things have been less jump, such ing trips to see her Mountain School Cort Breuer spent his summer and Vershire), and just barely saving the as enduring a whole year away from friends throughout the school year! far too much of senior year sitting in a Spence field hockey team from an un- Vershire, Vermont. She recently began an internship at a lab trying to genetically modify mice fortunate and premature demise, Sarah local elementary school learning about to fight cancer but enjoyed the daily Gamzon’s senior year has been busy. curriculum and education policy. She commute on the Boston ferry. In the She loves seeing Mountain School

39 More s18 Artwork Alumni Weekends Summer 2018

There’s fun offerings for every- one on campus alongside new and old friends and current and former faculty. Let us know of Self portrait in pencil Lilia Tse your plans, register today at mountainschoolalumni.org.

f02, 07, 12 and s03, 08, 13 Celebrating the 5, 10, 15 year reunions Come for the weekend or day Friday, June 8 to Sunday, June 10

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Wayne Jakob Schwartz 9/30/1965-4/1/2018

e mourn the loss of Wayne Schwartz, who died suddenly on April 1 at his home in Enfield, WNew Hampshire. Wayne worked at the Mountain School from 1993 to 2003 with his brother Rick Rogers and Dave Stephens as part of the facilities team. “The boys,” as they were known in the kitchen on coffee- breaks, attended to their work with a lightheartedness we loved. Wayne took great care of the school—as a carpenter, painter, and handyman—always with his sidekick Sadie, a huge Rottwei- ler with the gentleness of Wayne.

Wayne was a jokester, always smiling, ready for a laugh. He loved to hunt and fish with his partner Lisa, and children Cody and Alana. His fish tales were as tall as all fish stories, and his hunting stories kept us in stitches.

He also had an unusual love of wordplay and conversational humor, which he shared easily—loving the way language makes us take a second look at life. He had the mind of a poet. Wayne, Cody and Alana at her wedding in 2016 We’ll all miss Wayne and we’ll always hold him dear to our hearts.

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