Viewers, Some of Whom Were Family from Across the Globe Who Otherwise Would Not Have Been Able to See Their Loved Ones Graduate

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EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS Editor-in-Chief Sacha Zimmerman 2 REFLECTIONS FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL Art Director 4 ON CAMPUS Meghan Leavitt The School announces the 2020 Newmyer Award Senior Writers honorees; the robotics team tackles 3D-printed masks; Natalie Champ we ask Director of Health Services Jasmin Whitfield five THIS YEAR, Kristen Page questions; local sports maven Chad Ricardo hosts the Alumni Editors School’s Athletic Celebration; and much more. Emma O’Leary 16 THE ARCHIVIST Anna Wyeth 04 EVERYTHING Thomas Sidwell knew how to handle a plague—or three. Contributing Writers Loren Hardenbergh 36 ALUMNI ACTION Caleb Morris New grads ascend to alumni status; Founder’s Day brings CHANGED. Contributing Photographers out alumni for the Let Your Life Speak series. Kelley Lynch Susie Shaffer ’69 40 FRESH INK And when it did, the power of the collective Freed Photography Brett Dakin ’94; Laurence Aurbach ’81; generosity of the Sidwell Friends community Digital Producers Anthony Silard ’85; Ellen Hopman ’70. became even more apparent. Anthony La Fleur 43 CLASS NOTES Sarah Randall Annual Fund donors provided teachers with the ability Spoiler alert: Everyone is sheltering in place. LEADERSHIP to quickly adapt and connect with students over new 18 83 WORDS WITH FRIENDS technologies. You ensured that every student had the Head of School “A Social-Distancing Puzzle” resources to continue learning on new digital platforms. Bryan K. Garman Chief Communications Officer 84 LAST LOOK You enabled the School to quickly respond to families Hellen Hom-Diamond “Lose Yourself” who faced unprecedented financial hardship. CONNECT WITH SIDWELL FRIENDS FEATURES When you make an Annual Fund gift, you @sidwellfriends 18 GOING THE DISTANCE @sidwellfriends strengthen our community. Your generosity matters The coronavirus closed the Sidwell Friends campus— @sidwellfriends to everyone, every day. Especially today. but not its classrooms.

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Daniel Goldman ’94 on surviving COVID-19, prosecuting On the Cover the Genovese crime family, defending the truth, and impeaching the president. NON-DISCRIMINATION AND TITLE IX Yona ’32 Nondiscrimination Statement: Sidwell Friends School prohibits discrimination and harassment against any member of the School (Photo by 32 TOGETHER / APART community on the basis of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, sex, Kelley Lynch) personal appearance, genetic information, economic background, political affiliation, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered As the coronavirus continues to alter the fabric of our daily veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Director of Equity, Justice, and Community Natalie Randolph ’98 has been designated to handle inquiries regarding discrimination and Title IX concerns, policies, and procedures. lives, Vidisha Patel ’81 reminds us to practice self-care, Her contact information is: 28 appreciate the pause, and listen to the virtues of silence. Office Mail: 3825 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington DC 20016 Email: [email protected] | Phone: (202) 537-8182 For assistance related to Title IX or other civil rights laws, please contact the U.S.Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at [email protected] or 800-421-3481; TDD 800-877-8339. SUMMER 2020 | SIDWELL FRIENDS MAGAZINE 1 REFLECTIONS FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL REFLECTIONS FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL

Much has fallen apart this year. We are enduring a remarkable community and its expression through Meeting for Worship public health and humanitarian crisis. Fundamental assump- transcended space, revealing that our connection to tradi- tions about education are being challenged. Our nation’s hor- tion could continue to serve us in the digital world. Alumni rific history of murdering people of color reared itself again, of color stepped forward, challenging the School to diversify reminding us that racism remains our most persistent and the curriculum, address persistent inequities, and consider pernicious scourge, one that, if we are to make good on the equity issues that might be aggravated during the COVID-19 promise of equality and the reality of shared humanity, we crisis. In a moment of unity and beauty, more than 1,100 stu- must unequivocally commit to eradicating. No one can be dents, parents, alumni, faculty, and staff lined Wisconsin and fully human as long as members of our society are dehuman- Massachusetts Avenues, stretching three miles down to R ized. Our country and School must do better. We must act, as Street, all proclaiming, “Black Lives Matter.” our Diversity Statement charges us, to affirm We have been and will “the centrality of diver- continue to be tested. And sity and inclusion in all through it all, our com- aspects of academic and “We have been and munity has demonstrated campus life.” strength and resilience, an will continue to be unyielding faith in the rel- We have indeed been evance of our mission, and tested, but our commu- a need to protect it. No one nity has begun to imag- tested. And through cares more about the mis- ine alternative futures. sion of their School than Faculty and staff imple- it all, our community members of this commu- mented an emergency nity, and I am grateful for Distance Learning Plan, has demonstrated your engagement. The fact one that forced them to that all of our constituen- transfer and translate cies care so deeply speaks years of human experi- strength and resilience, directly to the lively intel- ence into a digital for- lectual and ethical conver- mat. Parents of young an unyielding faith sations that animate our children had to redraw classrooms and furnish the the home/school/work in the relevance of critical and caring culture triad, exhausting them- that ensure we remain in a selves as they tried to perpetual state of renewal, cover all the angles. Stu- our mission.” that even as things fall dents valiantly contin- apart, we are all imagining ued to learn but mourned how we might put things Falling into Grace the loss of vibrant social back together. If together connections in a relatively lonely and anxiety-producing we give ourselves wide berth to experience the grief, relief, In troubling times, we learn to heal, to grieve, to change. environment. Members of the Class of 2020 provided extraor- misery, and joy that define this moment; if together we lis- dinary examples of leadership, inspiring us at every turn, ten to the lessons of this moment and use them to care about BY BRYAN GARMAN even as they experienced the disappointment of disruption. the School and one another; then together we can assure that Trustees remained inspiring stewards of the School, making Sidwell Friends will come together in exciting new ways that bold decisions about our future and how we must build endur- serve our students and deepen our mission. uring a recent meeting with the Parents Asso- Author and Buddhist Pema Chodron notes that Buddhism ing financial strength. Faculty and staff created opportunities ciation Quaker Life Committee, I was moved shares many tenets with Friends and is especially helpful in for students, parents, and alumni to assemble, reflect, and Thank you for caring. Thank you for holding in the Light by the depth and sincerity of the conversation. finding the Light in the darkest, most fragmented moments. write about the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and those who have been affected by COVID-19, the heroic essen- Friends and non-Friends alike spoke earnestly “Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of Ahmaud Arberry. tial workers who have served them, and all victims of racism about how they might learn more about the healing,” she writes. “We think that the point is to pass the and police brutality. DQuaker tradition, how it might help address the world’s cur- test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things Even as much of what we took for granted came unwound, rent crises, and how we could explore its connection to other don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. we united around the significance of the School and its tra- religions. One parent, a Zen Buddhist, was especially inter- Then they come together and fall apart again. It’s just like that. ditions. Students and alumni embraced a tradition of service, ested in examining parallels, something I have been explor- The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to making personal protective equipment for first responders ing for several years. happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.” and giving generously to support financial aid. The power of

2 SIDWELL FRIENDS MAGAZINE | SUMMER 2020 SUMMER 2020 | SIDWELL FRIENDS MAGAZINE 3 The Class of 2020 sat for a photograph last fall—before COVID-19, OFF before masks, and before social distancing. It’s what a group of Upper School seniors should look like: healthy, lighthearted, arm-in-arm, smiles unhidden. And though the second half of the year upended ON CAMPUS expected traditions, it did not break their spirits. Born between 9/11 and the Iraq War, resilence is in their DNA. And after graduating from Sidwell Friends, service, justice, and wisdom are in their hearts.

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The graduation ceremony was virtual, but there was still plenty of pomp. On June 7, after a digital version of the traditional Meeting for Worship, Head of School Bryan Garman and Principal Mamadou Guèye addressed over 500 viewers, some of whom were family from across the globe who otherwise would not have been able to see their loved ones graduate. Below is just a snapshot from Garman’s speech.

“I want to thank you for the extraordinary the pain and suffering that systemic racism has patience and resilience you have demonstrated inflicted on generations, and act to heal its trauma throughout the year. I can’t imagine any other and eliminate its grip on our consciousness and class navigating these challenges as well as you politics. Reevaluate assumptions and daily habits have. Maybe you were able to do so, as one of your so that we might heal the planet. It’s not fair that parents suggested, because you were born in the you have inherited these problems. Nor is it fair difficult days that followed September 11. You that your senior year fell apart. It just isn’t. But grew up learning how to respond to challenge. you have been given tremendous talent. You have You found ways to grow closer to one another earned a remarkable education. And you have and become one of the most impressive classes developed a strong ethical framework. If you that I have seen anywhere, under any conditions. continue to listen with your head and your heart, Your extraordinary leadership and kindness will if you continue to lead with love and courage, leave an enduring legacy. Living in upheaval is you will arrive at the required outcomes. I can’t uncomfortable, disorienting, even painful. But wait to see what’s next, to see how you will let turmoil opens opportunity. It can break down tired your lives speak. I look forward to the time that structures, enable us to form new relationships, we can be together to celebrate in person. Until and empower us to create new possibilities. then, I congratulate all of you and wish you the Together, we can embrace the discomfort and very best.” work to build a better society. Practice that deep listening to discern what you have learned from To see videos of 2020 closing celebrations, including a special the pandemic and how you might use these choral performance, go to: sidwell.edu/2020-celebrations. lessons to heal our public health crisis. Reflect on

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CULTURE CLUB IN MEMORIAM Head Space Love Prevails: Wellness goes digital. Remembering It’s a pretty safe assumption that many, if not most, Sidwell Friends clubs have paused—unless that assumption is Kieran Shafritz about the Meditation and Mindfulness club. “I wasn’t sure de Zoysa ’26 we could continue,” says Hunter Colson ’21, the founder A special, virtual Meeting for and co-head of the club. “But I talked about it with Chilamo Worship eliminates borders. Taylor ’20, and we decided we’d just have the meetings via Google Meet.” Even though they’re being held online, the weekly meetings have mostly remained the same. Over 200 people from across the After a greeting, either Taylor or Colson will play a guided globe gathered virtually on April 21 for meditation on one of their phones; sometimes Upper School a special all-community Meeting for psychologist Kasaan Holmes leads a live meditation. The Worship dedicated to remembering group has also added biweekly yoga sessions, led by Upper Kieran Shafritz de Zoysa ’26, who School teacher Shaakira Raheem and Associate Director was killed at the age of 11 in the April Courtesy Chilamo Taylor Chilamo Courtesy of Auxiliary Programs Whitney Ennis, to their offerings Photography Freed 21, 2019, Easter Sunday bombings “Most people don’t feel like they’re in their normal state Chilamo Taylor ’20 Elsa Newmyer ’72, Bryan Garman, and Virginia Newmyer P’72, ’74, ’76; GP’06, ’09 at last year’s Newmyer Awards Dinner. in Sri Lanka. Though separated of mind,” Taylor, the co-head of the club, says. “All of us by physical distance, members of are in different headspaces now; the shift to mostly doing level-headed throughout the distance learning,” says Taylor. AT YOUR SERVICE the Sidwell Friends community sat everything at home or on a screen has caused people to “It’s served almost as a binding agent for me so that I don’t together in silence, in remembrance, get a little more stressed out. Now is the perfect time to get go completely crazy not seeing people and not really getting and in holding Kieran’s family in the into either practicing meditation or just taking a second to out of the house.” Colson agrees: “It’s just helpful in all The 2020 Newmyer Award Honorees Light. Many attendees spoke of how be more mindful about how you’re feeling.” It’s also a way aspects of our new situation. I’d say it’s very important Somtimes volunteer work begins at home. they still feel Kieran’s absence in their to stay in touch with others. “It’s really helped me to stay to my life now.” lives, but that absence has made clear April is National Volunteer Month, daughter, Elsa Newmyer ’72, created that the love and affection they feel for and as in many Aprils past, Sidwell the Newmyer Young Alumni Service him are still present: Kieran’s humor, Friends had been gearing up to honor Award to recognize a new generation intelligence, and caring spirit continue some of the School’s most dedicated for their exceptional volunteer service. to have an impact. The overwhelming volunteers at the annual Newmyer Though the awards dinner has been sense of the Meeting was that once the AT YOUR SERVICE Awards Dinner. While the event has postponed, the School is still excited shock of loss has abated, what’s left is been postponed, the School and the to announce the recipients as we await love—a love that continues to inspire, Hungry to Help Newmyers could not wait to welcome the opportunity to celebrate in person. unite, and make our community realize Why stop cutting vegetables now? the newest members of what Head just how lucky we are to still have of School Bryan Garman calls the Kieran as a member of the Sidwell “I’d rather be at school,” Georgina ’30 says. “I’d rather stay “Sidwell Friends Hall of Fame.” 2020 Newmyer Friends family. Gifts in memory of at home,” says Camilla ’32. Camilla and Georgina are sisters. Kieran can be made at It shows. One thing the girls do agree on is keeping up the Award Recipients It all started in 1975. Ten couples who sidwell.edu/Kieran. spirit of service they’ve learned at Sidwell Friends. Their were friends of Ginger and Jimmie regular project is making sandwiches for the School’s Newmyer ’37 celebrated their 25th Elida Bessalel GP’14,’17 longtime partner, Martha’s Table. “Every other Saturday, we wedding anniversary with a very May Liang P’17,’20 make about 35 sandwiches,” Georgina says. “We also give special gift to the School: a tribute Ali Mohamadi ’94, P’23,’26

Sandra Missmar Sandra crackers with cheese and chips, and Oreos that are in little recognizing the couple’s years of bags.” The girls sometimes wonder about the people they are Margarita Prieto P’14,’16,’20 Camilla ’32 and Georgina ’30 extraordinary volunteerism and a helping and clearly take pride in their work. “If I met a person new award to honor those who have J. Lawrence Robinson ’60 who gets the sandwiches,” Georgina says, “I would say, ‘How made the greatest contributions are you feeling? Are the sandwiches good?’” Camilla adds to the Sidwell Friends School. The 2020 Newmyer Young STAY FRIENDS that it “feels good when we’re helping: We want to make more, School has honored more than 250 Alumni Service Award because it’s fun.” And for any adult who thinks that small Stay in touch with all things Sidwell Friends! Follow us people for their spirit of volunteerism Recipient hands can’t do big things, Georgina also has a response: on social media to get the latest On Campus stories. and service to the Sidwell Friends “Well, if you come to my house and you see what I can do, @sidwellfriends community. And more than 40 years you might believe in me.” Sanam Aghdaey ’10 later, in 2018, Ginger and Jimmie’s Zoysa Dhulsini de Courtesy Kieran Shafritz de Zoysa ’26

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CULTURE CLUB AT YOUR SERVICE All the Masks The Nurse Will See You Now Are Fit to Print 5 When the robotics season ended I ask: “Which of these things do QUESTIONS prematurely, students found an you think you can reasonably do? even better hobby. It doesn’t work unless you buy in.”

“It’s going to get a little bit noisy,” 2. Why did you decide to create Luke Primis ’20 says. Noisy, yes, but a newsletter? for a good cause. The near-constant We had so much focus on student rumble is coming from Primis’s health. Then we realized there was a for JASMIN basement, where he has been running key piece missing: employee health. Of two 3D printers almost continuously course we see employees for first aid WHITFIELD for the past few weeks and will for the or emergency matters, but we felt like foreseeable future. The printers crank Primis Luke Courtesy under these circumstances they could collaborating with communications. out face shields, vital components of Luke Primis ’20 also benefit from our information. I hope those through lines, those the masks that Primis and his friends That’s where In Tune Tuesdays came relationships, continue on a regular are making to protect health care Originally, the students intended With another printer donated for the from. It’s a weekly newsletter with basis and not just when there’s an workers during the COVID-19 outbreak. to use the printers for something project, the trio now has four printers health tips and advice on how to keep issue. You have impact on every area Primis, Kamran Rowhani ’21, and else: producing parts for NASA’s up and running. It takes about three safe and stay healthy during this time. of the School when it comes to the Ian Palk ’20 teamed up to print, international MATE ROV Competition. hours to produce one face shield; Some staff found their days didn’t end health and well-being of community JASMIN WHITFIELD is the School’s construct, and distribute the masks (MATE stands for “marine advanced other components print much more at 4:00 pm anymore; the eight-hour members. How can we continue director of Health Services and the to local hospitals. technology education” and ROV is quickly. Once everything is ready to day ended up being almost 12 hours or collaborating from all those different “remotely operated vehicle.”) But go, assembly only takes about 20 healthcare coordinator for the Upper longer. When you’re at home, you don’t parts of the School to create the when Sidwell Friends closed, “we had minutes. But Primis, Rowhani, and School and Middle School. She has realize how much time you’re spending best experience we possibly can? to kind of evacuate the robotics lab,” Palk are quick to emphasize that you been a registered nurse for 20 years, in front of the screen, and you don’t Primis said. “At that point, we weren’t don’t have to own a 3D printer to make has a master’s in public health, and even have the ergonomic pieces you 5. Is there a favorite piece of advice sure whether we were going to be able a contribution to the cause: They still had in your office. you give to help people take care of has worked at Sidwell Friends for 13 to go to the competition, so the plan need the raw materials. “People who themselves? years. In all that time, she has never was to bring everything back to my have no access to 3D printers but see 3. What have you learned about Figure out whatever it is that protects house and work on it there.” Indeed, the merit in this have reached out,” had to confront a global pandemic— the rest of your health staff during your emotional and physical well- the competition—originally slated for Primis said. The group particularly until now. COVID-19? being. Find it, embrace it. Then May and June—was canceled in the needs elastic to attach the mask to the I’m lucky to have two nurses and an commit: This hour is mine to do this, wake of the virus, leaving the team with wearer’s face and foam tape to make 1. How do you keep students healthy athletic trainer. It’s the best of both because it brings me joy, brings me a bunch of equipment they no longer the mask more comfortable. during distance learning? worlds when it comes to physical and peace, clears my mind. Whatever it is. had use for. Or so they thought. First, we say: “How long are you physiological health. They have been Like the old phrase: “You have to put “Having the robotics season canceled spending on streams? That’s too long; so resourceful in developing health the oxygen mask on first, otherwise you can’t sit for four hours. You need

Bahman Rowhani Bahman “This was all of us being bored and was heartbreaking because I’ve and safety protocols. Everyone in the you’re no good to everybody else.” wondering what we could be doing been the captain of the team for two to take more frequent breaks.” It’s community has different outcomes I never thought I could meditate. in this empty time,” Palk said, “which years, and this year was going to be about what students can do. They’re and different environments. We pull In Meeting for Worship, my mind is is a scarce resource at Sidwell.” So, the culmination of my experience at going to be adults; they have to figure from all those experiences to develop wandering. I’m quiet, my eyes are the students looked into government Sidwell,” Primis said. “But this is even this out. We ask: “Are there things that our end product. My team is absolutely closed, but my brain is—I just can’t specifications, found resources for more fulfilling because placing high you can print out, so you don’t have to brilliant. They’re honest, resilient, and turn it off. Recently, I realized our makers, and started up production. at a robotics competition—that’s only stare at the screen the whole time? Are thoughtful. meetings at School always start with Then Rowhani began connecting with for us. It doesn’t really benefit anyone you eating? What time are you getting a moment of self-reflection. And being the health care community: “I reached else if you go to a robotics competition up?” Students are spending time on a 4. Have you learned anything at home, my brain was like, “You need out to a lot of doctors,” he said. He came and do well.” The group has so far small screen, too, looking at Instagram, valuable that you will take back to that.” I’m noticing now I can close my away with contacts at area hospitals like given more than 200 masks to area Snapchat, or whatever. That’s campus with you? eyes and take those few minutes. I Suburban, Sibley, and Adventist. “This hospitals. “This is such a gratifying additional screen time. I tell them: “Try Health has a symbiotic relationship actually feel my breath. And I don’t is something I can do that helps the feeling,” said Primis, “to use my skills to start the day as if you were going with learning. Now, with everything hear anything. I don’t see anything. community, especially the community I and knowledge to give back to our to School. Take a shower, brush your being guided by health, I’m having Just for a sub-minute, two minutes,

Bahman Rowhani Bahman want to have a career in.” community.” teeth, put on some clothes. It doesn’t conversations with the administrative five minutes. Something switched on Kamran Rowhani ’21 have to be the best clothes.” At the end, team, I’m in operations meetings, I’m for me. So find whatever that is for you.

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AT YOUR SERVICE Fond Farewells The masks serve another In Stitches purpose: For Sophia With nearly a century of service to Sidwell Friends among them, and her fellow stitchers, Empowerment and community through sewing. the masks fill a need for the School says goodbye to some of its longest-serving Friends. Sophia ’25 has been sewing facial masks. It all started with community. “I’m in daily contact with almost a piece of fabric stashed in a drawer. Actually, it started long ONE FOR THE BOOKS COUNT ON HER before that. “I found this raspberry fabric that my mom and all of the people who dad bought when my mom was pregnant,” Sophia says. are involved,” Sophia Mary Milroy You see, after viewing the ultrasound, Sophie’s dad had said. “It’s nice to have Dan Entwisle 37 Years of Service nicknamed her “Raspberry,” due to her size at the time. “I something to reach out 28 Years of Service put the fabric in my sewing drawer after my dad passed to.” And that doesn’t Whether confronting Kurtz in his jungle “Who would have thought the funniest, most away in 2012.” But when she saw an article about making mean just sewing—her lair, chasing a white whale with Ahab, or entertaining Back-to-School Night Cheryl Ellis homemade masks to help stop the spread of COVID-19, team depends on people witnessing the love between Janie and Tea presentations would be from my son’s math Sophia ’25 she thought, “Why not use this fabric now?” That led to a who can cut fabric, Cake, students in Dan Entwisle’s English classes teacher,” Eve Conant P’22 says about her first developed an abiding respect for the power of language and stories. mask-making bonanza—not just for Sophia, but for a group procure supplies, and deliver masks. Forming the team and encounter with Mary Milroy. “I wanted to join the class.” In her His World Novella class “breathed new life into my love of reading for of people that includes other Sidwell Friends students, keeping her sewing machine humming has given Sophia a 37 years at Sidwell Friends, Milroy cultivated an excitement for reading’s sake,” Madeleine Wonneberger ’18 says. It wasn’t always mathematics in countless Middle School students—and, apparently, family members, and neighbors. (Sophia is quick to confirm sense of agency. “Normally going on a break from school is a easy—Moby-Dick, after all, was on one syllabus—but as Carolyn their parents as well. Students entering her class with math anxieties that everyone involved respects social distancing.) So far, time to relax, but when a disease like COVID-19 is spreading Peyser ’11 notes, “Mr. Entwisle always encouraged us to think deeply found those dispelled, motivated by Milroy’s confidence that they they’ve donated masks to Central Union Mission, MedStar through the world, it’s hard to relax when you feel powerless,” and to be honest with the class and ourselves.” were smart, capable STEM scholars. “She fostered a warm and Hospitals, and Joseph’s House—Sophia can whip up a mask she says. “An hour of sewing can produce three masks that caring environment and made math so much less intimidating,” in 15 minutes. protect three people from getting sick. It is empowering.” During his 28-year tenure at Sidwell Friends, Entwisle fostered the Anne Pearson ’04 says. sort of trusting relationships with young adults that empowered them to be honest, vulnerable, and courageous with their words. Milroy’s quick, dry sense of humor, warmth, and kindness also made “I remember the special bond he had with the class,” David her an ideal advisor for students in their awkward pre-teen years. Newman ’14 says. “He understood his role in our lives as a mentor “We would hang around her room before and after school, and we during an emotionally fragile time for many.” And just as Entwisle could see how many students flocked to her classroom,” Milroy’s encouraged his students to cherish great works of literature, he daughters, Bethany (Milroy) Titman ’04 and Alexa Milroy ’07 say. who cared for her father. “In March, my dad passed away in also encouraged them discover their own potential as writers and “She spent so much time creating a welcoming environment, with Georgetown Hospital,” Gabi says. “I had been spending a lot thinkers. “He helped me believe that I had something to say that posters of M.C. Escher and the Beatles, digits of pi, and brain teasers.” of time in the hospital with him, and I was really impressed was worth refining and worth reading,” Hallie Trauger ’06 says. with the health care workers. It was amazing how these “He listened to my writing, met me where I was, and helped me In expressing gratitude to Mary for “instilling in me a love of math accept myself and grow.” people are so dedicated to their jobs—and that was before that burns strong to this day,” Alejandro Alderman ’11 echoes the the coronavirus had gotten to the point where we’re in sentiments that so many students shared upon learning of Milroy’s “He encouraged and enabled me to pursue my passions, reassured retirement: “I have to thank her for doing the same for hundreds quarantine.” That’s when she realized, “now they’re probably me when I’ve failed, and pushed me to do better,” Charlotte Rose upon hundreds of students who have grown up or will soon grow up working twice as hard.” LaMotte ’20 says. “I would not be where I am without Mr. Entwisle.” to be mathematicians, scientists, and engineers, in no small part thanks to her teaching and devotion.” Gabi, along with a team of friends, is providing the unscented, organic soaps and notes to any organization that can use them. She has already donated 30 bags to MedStar in Chevy Chase, 10 to Gerlein Orthodontics, and GET THE GREEN LIGHT environmental leadership have left their marks on both campuses. Yet most

Martha Salazar Banda Martha Salazar 20 bags to The Brooks, a short-term family-housing facility. students, parents, and volunteers found Her next donation is slated for the Sasha Bruce House, a Steve Sawyer Gabi ’25 his eagerness to share his time and youth homeless shelter. Making soap has given Gabi some 39 Years of Service expertise most remarkable. Known for peace in what, for her, is an especially difficult time. “Before If you’ve attended an event at Sidwell Friends over the past his bright smile and patient, friendly AT YOUR SERVICE quarantine, my life was very complicated and very busy,” 39 years—a school concert, Next-to-New Sale, graduation, or approach, Sawyer was always ready to she says. “Now we’re getting a lot of family time, which is Reunion—you likely saw plant manager Steve Sawyer in action. help—whether you were a 7th grade student Soap and Hope really nice, and we have a lot of time to think and process Or rather, you enjoyed the fruits of his leadership without seeing writing a report on the LEED-certified Middle School everything that’s going on.” all the crises averted and hours dedicated to the smallest details. building, an Upper School student rebuilding a car as a senior Inspiration courtesy her favorite customer. “As former head of the Parents Association, I had numerous project, or one of the players on his girls’ soccer team. Gabi ’25 has a goal. A big one. She wants her organization, Making soap, Gabi says, also reminds her of a special bond occasions to appreciate how complex, challenging, and diverse Soaps For a Purpose, to deliver 5,000 bags of soap (that’s with her father. “I’ve always liked starting small businesses,” Steve’s job is,” says Sudi Press P’96, ’98, ’02. “There is so much “Steve Sawyer found the time to meet with me, tell me more 15,000 individual soaps!) to essential workers and those she says. “He would always be my first customer. When that might not go according to plan that Steve has to adjust to or about the campus buildings, and discuss my designs with me,” accommodate.” in need. Each bag contains three handmade soaps and a I do entrepreneurial things or things to help others, I feel Nikhil Chaudhuri ’15 says. Sawyer helped with Chaudhuri’s junior- year architectural project to reimagine Wannan Gym. handwritten note, which she calls “a daily dose of happiness,” especially connected to him.” Even the shape of the soaps is In addition to tackling flooded orchestra pits, fussy HVAC for all those who need both clean hands and a pick-me-up. meaningful. “The soaps are heart-shaped,” she says. “People systems, and annual campus rejuvenations, Sawyer guided But Kit Troyer ’90 perhaps says it best: “What a wonderful The idea was born by watching the health care providers will be washing their hands with love.” the School’s green transformation. His spirit of service and human being.”

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GOOD SPORTS THE AWARDS ON TOP OF Chilamo Taylor ’20

THE UNSUNG HERO AWARD recognizes a senior male and female athlete THEIR GAME for contributions that might Arjun Thillairajah ’20 Sidwell Friends honors its senior athletes at the otherwise go unrecognized. The recipients of the award—by virtue year-end Athletic Celebration. of their presence, participation, Elena Michael ’20 Nina McCormack ’20 dedication, and enthusiasm—have significantly enriched the Sidwell Friends Athletic Department. In May, the Sidwell Friends Athletic Colby College in the fall, was a rare season co-championship.” McCormack in 2018 and 2019 and an All-ISL pick This year’s Tyler Christian Rusch Department held its annual Athletic three-sport starter in soccer, wrestling, will continue her athletic career by in lacrosse in 2019. The girls’ soccer ’04 Award recipients were Claire THE DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT Celebration. This year was a little and lacrosse. McClean was a leader in playing lacrosse at Harvard University. team won the ISL Championship Wolstencroft ’20 and Chilamo AWARD honors senior student- different: It was held virtually as a lacrosse in addition to playing rugby in 2018 and 2019 and the DCSAA Taylor ’20. Coach Logan West ’01 athletes who have earned YouTube Premiere. David P. Pearson ’52 outside of Sidwell Friends; she also This year, the Wannan Award went to Championship in 2018. They were also said Wolstencroft, who’s headed to significant accolades at the league Director of Athletics Keith Levinthal racked up numerous personal bests in Arjun Thillairajah ’20, a three-time DCSAA finalists in 2017 and 2019. In Dartmouth College, was “a selfless level and beyond and who have kicked off the event, and then special the weight room and kept stats for the All-State in cross-country, two-time lacrosse, Michael finished with a career team player who always goes above admirably represented their teams guest Chad Ricardo of NBC Sports football team. McClean will continue individual Mid-Atlantic Conference total of 152 points—123 goals and 29 and beyond.” This year, she played and Sidwell Friends in competition. hosted the celebration. Ricardo her athletic career at Bowdoin College. (MAC) cross-country champion, four- assists—and she was a member of the through an injury to help the team pens The Ricardo Report and is a time All-MAC in cross-country, two- 2018 AA ISL co-championship team. win its first ISL AA Division Banner in THE WANNAN AND FINE AWARDS DC metro area high school sports Distinguished Award recipient Nina time All-MET honorable mention, two- 18 years. Head Coach John Simon acknowledge a senior male expert. “Hosting the Sidwell Athletic McCormack ’20 was All–Independent time first-team All-DC Run Washington Before moving to the final award of the spoke about Taylor: “Chilamo is and female athlete who, by Celebration was truly an honor,” says School League (ISL) in 2017, 2018, and magazine, four-time team cross- celebration, Levinthal took a moment an outstanding role model for the consensus of the Athletic Ricardo. “I’m a big fan of their student- 2019, and All-Metropolitan (MET) in country MAC champion as a captain, to highlight and recognize student- younger students in our community,” Department, deserve recognition athletes—they are a pleasure to 2018 and 2019. “She was a wonderful and a 2019 District of Columbia athletes who exemplify the culture of Simon said. “He leads by example and for their talent, leadership, cover and the Sidwell community teammate who was consistently trying State Athletics Association (DCSAA) leadership on and off the field. “It is dedicates a lot of his personal time to dedication, sportsmanship, broad is truly special.” to help the underclassmen get better,” boys’ track and field team champion. important that we recognize the volunteering to coach youth in our participation, and involvement Coach Samantha Ziegler said. “Nina Thillairajah will continue his athletic values that are most important community.” Taylor was a member in all aspects of School life. elevated our program as she helped career at Case Western Reserve. to us—selflessness, teamwork, of the 2019 DCSAA champion lead the team to a 2018 ISL A regular- positivity, work ethic, and other boys’ track THE TYLER CHRISTIAN RUSCH ’04 Elena Michael ’20, a captain in qualities that build a healthy and AWARD commends a senior male both soccer and lacrosse, took home successful culture,” Levinthal and female athlete who have the Fine Award. She is headed to Colby said. “I enjoy recognizing significantly enriched Sidwell College. Michael was All-ISL in soccer students who often go Friends Athletics through unnoticed but are a big reason and field team. Taylor motivational leadership, steadfast why we are successful. Our will continue his athletic participation, dedication to culture is the key to our success, career at Franklin & teamwork, enthusiasm, and so we will honor those that Marshall College. all-out effort. This award is Chad Ricardo maintain and build it.” named in memory of former “Being able to play student Tyler Rusch ’04. Sidwell Friends Athletics celebrated a role in their big 26 career award winners and the 15 night,” says Ricardo, If you missed the live ceremony, you can student-athletes continuing their “especially given watch the Athletic Celebration video at: athletic careers in college next fall. the circumstances sidwell.edu/2020-athletic-awards. Elliot Woodwell ’20 and Sadie of the times, is McClean ’20 were this year’s something I Unsung Hero Award recipients. will remember Woodwell, who is heading to forever.” Photos by Susie Shaffer ’69

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“A Trying Year” As a student wrote in the February 1919 issue of During the 1918 influenza epidemic, Sidwell Friends closed the The Quarterly, “‘Fresh Air School, students gave back to the community, and “patrons and and Efficiency’—This is pupils” overtaxed the School’s sole phone line. At least Thomas our new school motto, and we are getting more Sidwell knew that a “cheerful frame of mind is conducive to health.” of each by spending our recesses outdoors instead BY LOREN HARDENBERGH of in the stuffy school room. Promptly at 11:15 One legacy that does endure from the School’s we assemble in the study The current COVID-19 pandemic is undoubt - earliest days is its commitment to the wider hall and march out into edly the most significant public health crisis community. The students of a hundred years the yard—girls as well of our lifetimes. But a century ago, Thomas ago were eager to let their lives speak and as boys—to have fifteen Sidwell also had to usher the School through Thomas Sidwell writing at his desk. raised funds for the Washington Baby Camp minutes of exercise.” an epidemic: the “Spanish flu.” Hospital, Red Cross, and Friendship House, Meanwhile, this note from Thomas Sidwell to The 1918–1919 academic year was not a nor - a local social-service agency. Throughout parents from February 1, 1919, is a reminder mal one at Sidwell Friends. Along with other 1918 and 1919, Sidwell Friends students held of just how exhausting things had become for schools across Washington, Sidwell Friends dances, athletic events, and bazaars to raise SICK LEAVE - the administration that year: closed for a month. Playgrounds, libraries, money for these local organizations. The stu movie theaters, and other businesses around dents today, in turn, have responded to the 1894 - Life has grown so complicated and so the city were also ordered to shut down. As one COVID-19 pandemic by employing 3D print During a scarlet fever outbreak in 1894, difficult that we must ask that the Friends student lamented in the December 1918 issue ers to create face shields for health care work- Thomas Sidwell closed the School for a few days school telephone have a more restricted of The Quarterly: “The first weeks of school ers, sewing masks for local homeless shelters, while he and five colleagues washed student use. … Our buildings are large and the mere have certainly been difficult ones for both and holding virtual concerts to raise funds for walking back and forth to find persons or to desks with bichloride of mercury and then faculty and students. The ‘flu’ succeeded in community-outreach agencies. carry messages consumes an incalculable burned 140 pounds of sulphur throughout the upsetting all plans and everyone has had to be As administrators anticipate returning to amount of time. ... Our people are wearied buildings. For the unfortunate students who had ‘double quick’ to keep up in his work.” With - campus under social-distancing restrictions, with the war, the recent crowded condition come down with scarlet fever, Sidwell burned out the benefit of Zoom, iPad apps, and all the getting students to spend more time outdoors of the city, and the great amount of illness their books and everything left in their desks. other technologies that enabled the School to is one strategy under consideration. In the there has been this winter. Will the patrons implement a distance-learning plan in a mat- winter of 1919, outside activity also played a and pupils of the Friends School spare us ter of days, this earlier generation of students 1907 role in the School’s health and wellness efforts. further weariness by planning ahead and had no choice but to put in extra time to make A brief closure due to two students contracting so not taxing the telephone to its limit? up for the missing hours of instruction. diphtheria made the news in 1907, perhaps because one of the Sidwell Friends students who The 1918–1919 academic year eventually had been quarantined was Archie Roosevelt, the came to an end, and the Sidwell Friends com - third son of sitting President Teddy Roosevelt. munity managed to sustain no deaths from In an announcement to parents about closing the influenza outbreak that took the lives of nearly 3,000 DC residents. Thomas Sidwell the school for fumigation, Thomas Sidwell ended the year with a final note to parents: advised, “Meanwhile it will all be well to “The Friends School at the conclusion of its remember that a cheerful frame of mind is thirty-sixth year, wishes to thank its patrons conducive to health, and that the greatest for their cooperation during a trying year and safeguard against contagious disease is a especially during the period of influenza. With strong, vigorous body, kept so through regular this cooperation, it has been possible to com - exercise, abundant sleep and proper food.” plete this year’s work in a creditable way.” Our founder’s message echoes today, as we thank Courtyard, 1910s. our community and look ahead together to Students stretching in the courtyard, 1920s. what promises to be a historic 138th year.

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The coronavirus closed the Sidwell Friends campus—but not its classrooms.

few months ago, masks were for surgeons, “Zoom” was a noise a toy car made, the unemployment rate was less than 4 percent, “social distancing” was strictly a teenage phenomenon, and schools were very much held in person. At first, the coronavirus GOING THE came in like a whisper. With word of a Wuhan out- Abreak, the Sidwell Friends School canceled a minimester trip to China. But then news of the coronavirus got louder. The virus’s tendrils crept across the United States, and the School canceled all minimesters and travel in total. Finally, the coronavirus hit the East Coast, and suddenly travel precautions expanded to include journeys from home to campus, and new safety precau- tions restricted movement just about everywhere else because DISTANCE gathering in groups put the entire community at risk. In a mat- BY KRISTEN PAGE ter of weeks, the whisper had turned into a siren.

“There was enough time for me to meet with all the faculty and get them what they needed,” says Darby Thompson, the director of Upper School technology and the computer science program. “What’s cool is we started at a place of emergency, and we made some really good decisions early.” For example, the School stud- ied plans in nations like Singapore and Japan, which had experi- ence with previous pandemics, such as SARS and H1N1. Director of Health Services Jasmin Whitfield provided her expertise and guidance, playing a vital part in monitoring the public health cri- sis in the region (see “The Nurse Will See You Now” on page 11). As a result, the School was one of the first independent schools to close its campuses in the region.

Naturally, moving to the Distance Learning Plan required teachers and students to be flexible, to get used to new means of instruction, and to learn to use new technologies. Together with Holly Kinnamont, the Middle School academic technology coordinator, and Jenni Voorhees, the Lower School technology director and academic dean, and a team of IT professionals led by Chief Information Officer Dan McCarriar, the technologists trained teachers, administrators, and staff in every division in the particular intricacies of taking their days, their careers, and their responsibilities 100 percent online.

That meant dashing to recreate classrooms at home. All of the teachers, of course, made sure they had what they needed to implement the Distance Learning Plan. They grabbed comput- ers, textbooks, and lesson plans. But a few teachers needed some specialty items: Lower School music teacher Matthew Sten- srud, for one, made sure to get drums, maracas, a few posters, and anything else he could use to turn part of his home into an impromptu music classroom. For physics teacher Chris Ritacco, it was laboratory equipment. Just before the School switched to

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the Distance Learning Plan, says Ritacco, “I remember scram- any teachers were already ahead of the game. The Middle There are other ways Stensrud is keeping things the same— But a more basic obstacle the School had to overcome when bling, trying to figure out how we were going to approximate a School language department, for instance, has been using even when it’s accidental. “There was one time I knocked the it moved to the Distance Learning Plan was equity. “I think classroom from home.” Ritacco, along with Julie Langenbrun- M a digital system for several years piano behind me, so all the books I had on top all came crash- the number one thing that has been on my plate the last cou- ner, another physics teacher, decided to take advantage of their now that easily moves between the ing down in the middle of the video,” he says. “And I was like, ple of years has been about student devices,” says Thompson. labs while they still could. “Julie and I went in after the kids went classrooms and students’ homes. ‘Well, okay. Let’s just keep going.’ I think it gave the kids a little Right now, Upper School students have to have a device, but home and just started recording ourselves doing a bunch of “We used to have a free-stand- bit of a reminder of what the classroom is like—things like that there are no restrictions on what that device is. “We’ve got- labs,” says Ritacco. “And we took a bunch of equipment home. ing language lab,” says Spanish happened in the classroom all the time. If we make these pristine ten everything from the fanciest top-of-the-line Mac, to the It wasn’t panic; it was just, ‘Let’s do as much as we can while teacher Nan Pickens. “There videos that show everything is perfect, I’m not sure that’s what’s fanciest top-of-the-line gaming PC, to something that’s 10 we can do it in the building, and we’ll figure out the rest later.’” was a lot of thought about how best for the kids’ learning and growth.” When real life intrudes on years old and barely turns on, to things that don’t have much Now, says Langenbrunner, “Chris has a whole physics lab in his to replace it, and the School the videos, it adds a certain authenticity. battery,” Thompson says. “We’ve got Chromebooks, we’ve basement.” was committed to finding us a got iPads. We have every device imaginable, and it’s a strug- replacement.” Ultimately, the The Distance Learning Plan has also given parents and others gle for me to support them.” She knew the School ensured The teachers weren’t the only ones taking home analog items. School went with a product called who are home with students a sneak peek into what goes on in that every kid had access to internet—but not what were they “We realized we wanted to send home a lot of physical mate- the Digital Learning Lab, or “DiLL.” the music classroom. “In music, parents are going to see the per- connecting to it with. That’s why Thompson was so relieved rials—not only iPads,” says 1st grade teacher Jane Legg. “We formance—the winter concert or something,” Stensrud says. when the administration decided to implement a School-pur- remembered that the Fox Den had these great bags with the Sid- DiLL allows language teachers not only to provide instruc- “When you see the finished product in a concert, parents think chased laptop program for Upper School students, supplying well logo on them, so they seemed ideal.” Ideal for packing up tion, but to chat live (either in a group, with partners, or with a perhaps that’s most of what happens in music, that we’re stand- each with a MacBook Air to ensure an equal platform and sup- educational materials for the prekindergartners and 1st graders. teacher) and note students’ answers to prerecorded questions. ing there tall and singing.” And while that’s a part of learning port capability from IT staff. The program starts in September They packed books—some chosen by students, others chosen by The students and teachers were used to the software, and that music, it’s only a small part. “It’s mostly exploring and creating (see “What Happens in the Fall?” on page 23). When students teachers for some shared reading time via Zoom—writing sup- continuity has provided some unexpected benefits. “It’s nice to in a more raw way,” he says. “I’m sure the parents see more of don’t have the same devices, it is harder to troubleshoot, harder plies, art and Spanish activities, handwriting and sketch books, be able to do something that the kids were already familiar with, that now.” and a new box of watercolors for each student. In the end, the because they’ve had to learn so much in such a short time,” bags were a way for teachers to send a little bit of Sidwell Friends Pickens says. “It’s refreshing to be able to go back to old habits Parents can also help create a community home with the students. “It was great to focus on a positive side and have it work for us.” of music at home. Family members can be to Distance Learning—what might be fun about it, as opposed an active participant in the kids’ learning, to what we would all be missing,” Legg said. “Filling a bag and Another old habit that’s thriving is using audio and video in whether it’s by joining their child for a dance “ They’ll watch the lesson thinking about what would be useful was a very tangible project nearly the same way they would in a classroom. “We’re doing all break or playing a music-based game with at a time when everything seemed very uncertain.” the Google Suite things but pumping ours up with a lot of video them. It gives cooped-up kids an opportu- and then later in the day content,” Pickens says. “It’s critical to continue to hear what we nity to get their wiggles out. “We’re going “Letting teachers play to their strengths, that’s what we needed call ‘authentic resources,’ which means real people speaking real to be singing, and we’re going to be making to get through,” says Thompson. “I’m really excited because language.” That means Pickens can play a conversation between patterns on our body, and then we’re going they say, ‘Ooh, I want to go we’ve gotten to a place where we’re getting the hang of it. Our two people in Spain and then ask the students to answer ques- to be moving around and dancing,” Sten- teachers have got a system and things are working. The teachers tions about it. The most important continuity, says Pickens, is srud says. “The kids are constantly engaging back and do that again.’” are actually inspired at this point.” speaking the language. “I create these chats for the whole sec- their bodies. And I’ve heard from some par- tion, and I can see them chatting in Spanish with one another,” ents that the kids will watch the video three or —MATTHEW STENSRUD Pickens says. “They’re craving that kind of informal communi- four times because it’s a fun 10-minute thing. cation. It’s just so nice to hear their voices.” They’ll watch the lesson and then later in the day they say, ‘Ooh, I want to go back and do Continuity has been vital to Stensrud, too. His students are that again.’” among the youngest, for whom routine can be paramount. to streamline security protocols, and harder to ensure every- “When they told us about the Distance Learning Plan, the wheels ot every subject translates so easily to digital platforms. one has a similar experience. That’s why getting all teachers in my brain started turning,” Stensrud says. “How can this best Part of the joy and wonder of studying, say, science is expe- and staff fluent in the same software programs was so critical. benefit the students and what kind of consistency I can bring to N riential. Whether it’s a pungent smell, changes in color, an Thompson was also particularly worried about younger stu- the students?” Stensrud created a template for his digital lessons. old-school volcanic reaction, or an outright explosion, science dents who do not typically rely on computers. “I was thinking Each 10-minute video starts with a song, then kicks into a dance is meant to be hands-on. And teaching and learning science about handwriting,” says Thompson. Whether it was writing out break, and ends with an activity the students complete at home. from a safe distance presents a new set of challenges. There’s math problems or a paragraph, some students just aren’t fluid The song and the activity vary according to the grade level; he also room to be wrong in the classroom, says chemistry teacher Tom typists yet. “I was thinking, How can I get equipment into my introduced some synchronous learning, including meeting with Donley. At home, well, not so much. “You’re not going to be teachers’ hands as fast as possible that will let them use docu- the 70-member 4th grade chorus. “When I make video lessons, asking students to take out certain types of chemicals,” he says. ment cameras, and iPads, and handwriting stuff at home?” says I try to teach them as if the kids were there,” he says. “That’s Let alone mix them up. All the teachers agree that there are still Thompson. “And how can I make sure that every single person going to create that kind of consistency that students will appre- irreplaceable classroom experiences—like the team spirit they has a way to get work back from the students and then give them ciate. That’s probably what they’re yearning for right now, when feel in their classrooms. feedback? I was really concerned about student equity.” Chris Ritacco everything is so upside down.”

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“ One of the coolest things about what has WHAT WILL THE FALL BRING? meeting with MacIsaac online happened in the last couple months, is that this spring asked her about Given the uncertainty of the pandemic, the School’s plans for the fall her favorite animal (dogs), have become a puzzle to solve. The public health agencies and local teachers have discovered new techniques how much training she had governments of the District, Maryland, and Virginia each have their to have (lots), and if there own sets of guidelines, the science of COVID-19 transmission is still and tools they want to take back to the were similarities between a work in progress, and a vaccine is still outstanding. So how does being an animal doctor and the School plan for the fall? a people doctor (more than in-person classroom.” you’d think). As the discus- In June, faculty task forces from each division drafted plans that sion unfolded, Bidi-Olagunju accounted for variables like age and developmental needs. (These —DARBY THOMPSON noticed that the online conversa- plans are expected to be approved by the Board of Trustees in tions were moving more smoothly than Equity was top of mind for the teachers, too. Even when preparing says, “but also giving kids these avenues to be explorative back they had in person during previous years. In person, the students late July.) Each group relied on specific priorities: protecting the bags for the Lower Schoolers to take home, “we wanted to make at home and still using their imaginations.” often talk at the same time or over each other. But, Bidi-Ola- community’s health and well-being; allowing students to engage in sure all children had the same access to all the same supplies,” gunju says, the online platform means “they actually have to meaningful learning; offering students authentic interactions with Legg says. “We try not to set any assignments that use materials Some of the tools and techniques the foreign-language depart- take turns and share their ideas one at a time.” What’s more, peers and teachers; and enabling flexibility to allow for possible we’re not sure everyone has.” The teachers at every division had ment has developed will continue after students and teachers getting MacIsaac on board was easier, too. It can be a daunting disruptions. Led by the division principals and Assistant Head of to remember that each student lives in a different environment return to campus, too. “We’ll take with us some of the things task to find community experts willing to come to the School School for Academic Affairs Min Kim, the task forces researched and may not have access to the same materials. It’s a reminder we’ve learned,” says Pickens. “Sometimes it’s like, ‘Oh, my and meet with students—leaving work, scheduling convenient effective practices used by international and independent schools that flexibility is vital for distance learning. “It’s about respect- gosh! Why wasn’t I always doing this?’” Donley had a similar times, and transportation issues often made it difficult for an around the world, as well as guidance issued by the National ing what other people have.” Ritacco agrees. “One time, we said epiphany. Distance learning has shifted how he thinks about expert to show up. Now, it’s different. “We have more access to Association of Independent Schools and other organizations. everyone had to have a spoon,” he says. “We were fairly confi- long-held processes. “I feel very fortunate that I work with people,” Bidi-Olagunju says. “No one said they weren’t able to Final plans are still in the works, but here are a few considerations: dent that we could rely on the kids to find a spoon somewhere.” some very creative and very energetic people, and getting dif- meet with us.” The physics teachers also created a new assignment that asked ferent perspectives on what might work and what might not HEALTH the students to build a musical instrument out of anything they work is great,” he says. “This is a very creative time right now, “One of the coolest things about what has happened in the last could get their hands on in order to demonstrate how sound- not just for chemistry, but for all teaching and learning.” couple months,” says Thompson, “is that a number of teach- • Physical distance among students and teachers at all times. waves work. “They got really creative with it,” says Langenbrun- ers have discovered new techniques and tools that they want to • Requirements for protective gear, face coverings, gloves, etc. ner. “One made an instrument out of a plastic ruler; they pushed In fact, some teachers have found that the Distance Learn- take back to the in-person classroom.” A lot of the teachers now • Enhanced cleaning routines and rigorous disinfecting procedures. it down on the edge of the table with the end hanging off and just ing Plan has made some things easier—like special guests. At accept and return homework digitally. “Many used to accept • Daily temperature checks and enhanced contact tracing. thwacked it. They changed the frequency based on how much of the beginning of the year in 2nd grade, students start with a homework digitally, but then they would write up, print it, write

it was hanging off.” passion project. “They begin to think about themselves and it, and hand it back,” Thompson says. “What they’ve discovered EDUCATION who they are as a person, and what is it they love to get up in is they can annotate student work online and immediately send hile nothing can replace in-person teaching, per- the morning to do,” Joyce Bidi-Olagunju, a 2nd grade teacher, it back to the student and give them instant feedback. We can do • Hybrid approach that includes in-person and distance learning. haps the greatest upside of the Distance Learning Plan says. Once the students have identified that passion, the- stu quizzes where kids find out not only what their score is, but they • Weekly schedules with rotating days on campus. W has been the innovations that have come out of ask- dents tackle independent research projects. This is where the get explanations of where they went wrong and why.” Thomp- • Smaller classes and cohorts. ing teachers to reconceive their practices. Upheaval has led to experts come in, like veterinarian Dr. Amy MacIsaac. Students son has even learned a few things herself. “Students need to • Adjusted classrooms, desks, and community spaces. new and better ways of doing things. Watching the students have technology training even when this isn’t happening,” she • Redirected hallway traffic with one-way lanes. complete their assigned activities from afar, for example, has says. “Student technology support is something I’ve learned • Modified athletics program focused on building skill and strength. raised some possibilities in Stensrud’s mind for when he and his that I will absolutely be embracing more in future years. The students are together again. “I recently did an activity where I coolest parts are what we can do with kids asynchronously.” For found patterns in my house and in my yard,” he says. “I took example, Thompson says, using technology can make home- TECHNOLOGY some bowls from my kitchen and made them into music pat- work more interesting and even fun, it can create videos with • New learning management system to improve access to materials. terns; then I went outside and found pieces of bark and made quizzes embedded in them, and it can design discussion boards • Laptops for all Upper School students to streamline platforms, patterns. Then I asked the kids to see what they could find.” so students can collaborate more. “If we can get that down really simplify IT support, and ensure equity. (Lower School and Middle The idea was to get the children to explore their own homes for well,” she says, “we’ll be set for anything.” School students already have School-provided devices.) makeshift instruments. “Some of them used little pebbles, and some of them used nail-polish containers, and some of them Clearly the Distance Learning Plan presents new challenges for • Switch to Zoom for Education for uniformity. used different markers,” Stensrud says. “It was a fun way for students, parents, and teachers alike, but as the endeavor con- • iPads for teachers so they can annotate student work and offer the kids to realize that you can make music out of anything.” He tinues—and as teachers look toward the beginning of the next handwritten notes. says that when everyone returns to School, he plans on using academic year—many see a chance to improve not only online • Expanded Wi-Fi for more use of outdoor spaces. some of the activities that went really well in distance learning teaching techniques, but what happens in the real-life class- and incorporate them into his curriculum. “It’s exciting if we, room. As Bidi-Olagunju puts it: “Sometimes out of the chaos, as teachers, can be teaching the content and curriculum,” he great ideas are born.” To learn more, go to: sidwell.edu/fall2020.

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“I’m doing this because I’m the parent my alma mater, show their long- of two black children,” said Amanda standing commitment to justice, Derryck Castel ’91 (parent of Olivia civil rights, and equality for all, is ’21 and Alexander ’24) at the Sidwell important. We’re out here showing Friends peaceful protest on June 8. solidarity.” The event was also a “I worry about them and their future chance for young people to get and safety. Also it’s important for involved safely, and many parents us to be out here as a community to brought their Lower School students show them that we have to put actions along. “Equality and justice are behind our words.” After the murder incredibly important to our family and of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and always have been,” said Aman Sidhu Ahmaud Arberry at the hands of (parent of Noor ’28 and Ajuni ’28). police in May, that’s exactly what the “As a South Asian family and Sikh by School aimed to do: put action to its religion, we have faced hate crimes words. Sidwell Friends strives to teach and discrimination in this country, equality and to eliminate racism; this and it’s only a fraction of the took expression in the in the form of experience of the African American a silent protest—or not so silent given community. So, it’s incredibly the boisterous honking of support by important to stand with our black passing cars—on a weather-perfect brothers and sisters and make it very June evening. Sidwell Friends families clear that black lives matter. We’re and community members carried here to fight for equality. For Sidwell signs, kept six feet apart, and created to stand up and send that message a human chain to promote awareness loud and clear is a reflection of why we of systemic racism and the work of chose Sidwell for our children.” And of the Black Lives Matter movement. course, students themselves took to It was supposed to extend from the the streets. “I’m doing this because Wisconsin Avenue campus to the I think it’s very important to spread Naval Observatory on Massachusetts awareness of injustice and systematic Avenue. It ended up reaching all the oppression,” said Spencer Tyson ’21. way to R Street and Massachusetts. Others said it was important to be there to amplify the voices of black “Coming from Southeast Washington people, or because it was simply the where this happens all the time, right thing to do, or because equal I’ve been a victim of police brutality rights shouldn’t be preconditioned on myself,” said Eric Singletary ’93 race. All agreed that their presence (parent of Aaron ’23). “So to have signaled one vital concept for my community, which is Sidwell, certain: Black lives matter. Kelley Lynch Kelley

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HISTORY RHYMES I AM In 1969, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, Richard Nixon was sworn in as president, the national meeting of Students for a Democratic I AM HEARTBROKEN because I AM STRONG because to be a Society was overrun by fringe activists known as black and indigenous people black woman in America today is the Weathermen, the Stonewall riots in New York have been assimilated into a a tug of war. If the other side loses, City sparked the gay-rights movement, Vietnam was “society that will shoot us dead for they go home, alive, breathing. If I in full swing, and a farm in upstate New York hosted nothing. The rectification for theft lose, I don’t get to go home. I die. the most famous rock concert in history. Also in is restitution; the rectification for I have no other choice than to 1969: the establishment of the Black Student slavery is liberation. Murder is not be strong. Union at Sidwell Friends. A half a century later, in rectifiable. 2020, climate change is re-sculpting the face of the BLACK —KARABELO BOWSKY ’23 planet, a global pandemic is threatening humanity’s —LIAN CRAIG ’21 health and well-being, Americans are facing one of LIVES the most polarized political moments in modern history, and epic international protests demanding because I can’t count I AM ANGRY racial equality and an end to police brutality are MATTER. I AM ANGRY because nothing how many times I’ve watched hitting the streets. Also in Sarah Randall Sarah changes. blood spill from a lifeless body 2020, the Sidwell Friends when their blackness was seen —ISAAC PICKRUM ’21 Black Student Union is as a threat, and because a life of publishing a new magazine: necessary activism isn’t the life I 1969. would have chosen.

How have black artists We check in with some The first issue is an extension begun to break the hip- former SFS students and I AM STRONG (empowered) hop and R&B mold? BSU members. because I have a voice. I AM STRONG because I recognize of the 2020 Black Student the privileges I have and can use Union performance, And the Beat Goes On…, with a I AM HEARTBROKEN because them to fight for those who cannot. focus on exploring racial stereotypes in music and I still see racism and white music’s influence within the Civil Rights movement. The magazine also takes a deep dive into the arts supremacy in my communities. I AM HEARTBROKEN because I can’t remember or don’t know writ large, with interviews with alumni artists like Lory Ivey Alexander ’97, Ericka Blount Danois ’90, I AM MOTIVATED because I believe the names of every man, woman, and Cheryl Derricotte ’83, all of whose work explores in our generation. and child who has lost their life black life and American identity. 1969

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ct. While for proposed a Harlem r Proje wrote much of this country still does not Senio orus and h g in the c ow. The also sun e BSU sh ed in th ell arts d perform e Sidw an uality of th t I nt and q able, bu conte inly valu as certa nt way in rogram w porta p e most im that th y art believe enced m well influ d hich Sid g arts an w y makin e was b e total practic art of th ractice p an ative p ther than cre e, ra s or emic packag eekend acad oes on w at one d activity th . e mework ith som after ho ck in w Renaissance class, e che r because tten! W to hea r forgo mbers I AM HEARTBROKEN t neve SU me . understand that, at the very least, bu d B m one, s an sroo G tudent the clas er SFS s eyond form rneys b heir jou about t no human being should be denied justice isn’t being served. I was 8 hosted DMV go-gos, and taken trips to Six Flags,” says Fatukasi. “The year of their basic human rights. when Trayvon Martin was killed. “ Now I am 16, and the only change 1982 stood out to me the most, as students created I AM MOTIVATED because, is the media coverage. It should The Earthquaker, a magazine made to uplift black students’ voices in the Upper School.” With 1969 , in adversity, the resilience of not take eight years for people to she hopes to reignite that spirit and reach an even the oppressed inspires and get that racism exists—I’ve known broader audience. offers hope. since I was a kid. —MOLINA DEW-BRUNIS ’23 —ADEOLUWA FATUKASI ’21 To see the full issue of 1969, go to sidwell.edu/student-publications. Sarah Randall Sarah

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When Daniel Goldman ’94 sat down with Head of School Bryan Garman, they had almost too much to discuss. The MSNBC legal analyst, father of five, and Sidwell Friends lifer has been busy. After a decade as a prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, Goldman explained the intricacies of Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election to an audience hungry for details during a slew HONEST of television appearances— which led to a chance meeting, which led to an investigation, which culminated in the BROKER impeachment of President Donald Daniel Goldman ’94 on surviving COVID-19, Trump. Oh, and he successfully battled the coronavirus. prosecuting the Genovese crime family, defending the truth, and impeaching the president.

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DG: MSNBC grade. The way the School, the teachers, I had an amazing 10 years there. One impeachment. The Intelligence Com- going on. But if you distort the facts, spin the parents, the kids, the administration highlight is a case I did with another mittee, generally speaking, is not the them, or deny the truth, then you can’t rallied around our family is something Sidwell alum, Mark Lanpher ’96, who’s impeachment committee; that’s the Judi- have an intellectually honest debate about I’ll never forget. a fabulous lawyer. We were at the U.S. ciary Committee. But events intervened. what to do or whether it rises to the level of attorney’s office together, and Mark impeachment. That’s the biggest danger BG: So you leave Sidwell Friends, go to had a mob case; he’d charged someone BG: And you became the Democrats’ chief we face with this president. When you’re Yale, then onto Stanford Law School. with the murder of the captain of the counsel in the impeachment process. shooting the messenger, claiming every- Springfield, Massachusetts, branch of It must have been remarkably eye- thing is fake because it’s contrary to your DG: Through Sidwell Friends and the edu- the Genovese crime family. And this guy opening. own interests, or you’re undermining vital cation I received, when I got to Yale, decided to cooperate, which was unusual institutions so you can continue your very it was relatively easy for me. In many for the mafia generally and in particular DG: It was. Congress is a very different personal pursuits, then we really run into respects, Sidwell was more difficult aca- with the Genovese crime family. So Mark animal than the Department of Justice. problems. We’re not having the same, demically than Yale. But I felt lucky to be is debriefing this defendant, and he tells When the Ukraine investigation began, I honest debates we’ve had for centuries. at Yale, where the people were so smart Mark, “There was another murder that instinctively fell back on that prosecuto- and had so many varied interests. The we did.” Mark obviously follows up. The rial muscle memory that I had developed BG: Your brother, Bill Goldman ’97, was experience of being at a university like guy says, “Yeah, we murdered this guy; and the lessons I learned at the Southern an accomplished historian and professor Daniel Goldman ’94 on The Rachel Maddow Show in 2018 that was incredibly valuable. we buried him in the backyard of a house District of New York. That’s what I tried before he tragically died in an airplane outside Springfield.” So the FBI goes to to bring to Congress when we got word of accident. I was moved by his words about BRYAN GARMAN: You shared on Morning Joe I’d heard that in Connecticut, they were At first, I pursued journalism. After col- this backyard and finds the bones of the the whistleblower complaint. Everything the need for active citizenship at this that you contracted COVID-19. I was doing drive-through testing. So the next lege, I worked for NBC Olympics as a person the witness admitted to killing. It happened quickly—but that was some- moment. Was that on your mind during struck by your experience with the health morning I drove to Connecticut, which is researcher. Although it was amazing, I was crazy. Then Mark brought charges what intentional. The faster you move as the impeachment hearings? care system. How are you? a little over an hour away. I sat in a park- couldn’t take the law out of me, which against a number of other people, and as part of an investigation, the better off you ing lot and got my nose swabbed. That’s my family of lawyers had instilled. The the case went to trial, I joined it. So Mark are in getting to the truth. The witnesses DG: Every day. Before he passed away, my DANIEL GOLDMAN: I’m back to normal now, really what I had to do to get a test; it big piece of advice I always give is: Do not and I tried the boss of New York’s Geno- have less time to react, to coordinate. The brother and I had many conversations thankfully. It’s a serious virus, but I was was incredibly frustrating, particularly go to law school because it’s a default. Do vese crime family. He and two associates subjects of the investigation have less about Trump and the risks our country lucky it didn’t affect my lungs. That’s when there was so much misinforma- not go because you can’t figure out what were charged with the murders. We ended time and ability to interfere. The result faces with his ascension. When I got the where the real danger kicks in. It affects tion coming from the federal govern- to do after college. The most unhappy up convicting them on all the charges, was a frantic pace that led to multiple opportunity to go to DC, I thought a lot people differently, and it never became ment about the availability of testing. lawyers are those who didn’t make an including both murders. They went to depositions day after day. Then we quickly about what my brother had written and much worse than a very extended, debil- There are still insufficient tests, and affirmative decision to go to law school. jail for life. The postscript is that one of moved into public hearings. We went from talked about: The time is now to partici- itating flu for me. we’re still not testing enough. It makes I chose to go; I wanted to do public- the guys from Springfield we convicted start to finish in three months. Now part pate in democracy, to become active citi- you wonder how we’re going to get out interest and civil-rights law. ended up killing Whitey Bulger in jail. of that speed was because the president zens, and to make sure this great country Initially, I felt like, “I have these symp- of this nationwide lockdown. It’s hard to refused to provide any documents, so we continues to be based on the institutions toms, I tested negative for the flu, I envision where we go from here. I clerked for District Court Judge Charles BG: Next, you become a legal analyst at a didn’t need extra time to review anything. the Founders created.

should get tested for coronavirus.” Breyer, the younger brother of Supreme very interesting moment—and Adam But the end result was that we were still And we’d heard from our federal gov- BG: Let’s go back. When did you come to Court Justice Stephen Breyer. He strongly Schiff calls you. able to get the facts, we were able to iden- ernment and the president specifically Sidwell Friends? advocated I become a prosecutor, which tify a consistent narrative of the presi- that anyone who wants to get tested can he’d done before he went into private DG: Robert Mueller’s investigation had dent’s shakedown of Ukraine, and we were get tested. Obviously, testing is critical DG: I’m a lifer—prekindergarten through practice. He thought it was a really valu- taken over the news. My particular exper- able to put that together for Congress and to following and defeating this illness. high school. Sidwell is a seminal part of able experience. It wasn’t something I’d tise was valuable because most of the pub- the American public. The time is now to However, it was incredibly difficult to my life. It’s the friendships and bonds really thought about. Then I did a clerk- lic doesn’t understand how criminal pros- get tested. I went public with my pro- you build. What I always think back to— ship on the Appeals Court and found ecutions work. I started doing television BG: Is there a truth outside of partisan- participate in democracy, cess of trying to get tested in real time and I’ve looked for similar qualities in myself really interested in criminal cases. appearances to analyze the latest infor- ship? on Twitter. I spent six hours in an over- schools as I’ve done the process for my So I decided to become a prosecutor. I mation about Mueller. In June 2018, I ran to become active crowded Weill Cornell emergency room, children—is the incredible foundation didn’t go to law school thinking I’d ever into Adam Schiff in the green room at 30 DG: There is. It’s disconcerting, but if we citizens, and to make literally on a hospital bed in the ER of friendship, camaraderie, equanimity be a prosecutor. But I felt the discretion Rockefeller Center because we both were aren’t acknowledging what the truth is, hallway, trying to get a test. It seemed that the Quaker values underpinning the in the criminal-justice system really lies on Brian Williams’s 11th Hour. We talked then we’re not having an honest conver- sure this great country I’d be a natural candidate to get tested. education bring to Sidwell Friends. It’s with the prosecutors, and I’d rather have about Mueller, and I said, “If there’s ever sation, and we can’t get anywhere. The But the doctors said, “We’d love to test not just Meeting for Worship, which is the discretion than to be fighting those an opportunity where you need some help, only way to have a proper policy or politi- continues to be based you, but we don’t have enough tests to always a strong memory for me. (I first who did. please let me know.” A few months later, cal debate is to debate the same set of facts. on the institutions the start testing people who aren’t hospi- loved it in Lower School, then hated it in the Democrats take over the House, and One of the very frustrating things for those talized.” It was remarkable. The doc- Middle School, and grew to really appre- BG: Great advice: not just staying on the I get a call from the Intelligence Com- of us involved in the investigation is that Founders created. tors were frustrated, too; they knew ciate it in Upper School.) It’s the basic train and going to law school if you’re mittee’s general counsel. I ultimately we didn’t put words into any of these wit- the proper way to deal with this was to values that the School instills in the stu- not certain, but also remaining open to joined the committee as the senior advi- nesses’ mouths. We didn’t create the facts. test me, determine whether I had it, and dents that is unique and hard to emu- other opportunities. You ended up as a sor and director of investigations. I went All of these witnesses testified under oath. isolate me. late. When my father died, I was in 8th prosecutor. down there without any intent of doing We were just trying to figure out what was

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We’re living in an unusual time. Around the world and across the country, society as we knew it came to a sharp halt in March. Businesses closed, schools shuttered, stay-at-home orders swept through communities, “social distancing” TOGETHER became 2020’s catchphrase, and masks are now de rigueur. It’s jarring, limiting, and often lonely. That’s why Head of School Bryan Garman wanted to speak with As the coronavirus continues to alter the fabric of our daily lives, Vidisha Patel ’81 on the Lives That Speak podcast. Patel, a psychotherapist Vidisha Patel ’81 reminds us to practice self-care, appreciate the pause, with expertise in children’s and family mental health, runs Peace of Heart, LLC, and listen to the virtues of silence. in Florida. She joined Garman to provide the Sidwell Friends School community with pointers on how to maintain mental wellness during the COVID-19 crisis.

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I was pre-med—but quickly, I discovered VP: We have to have patience with our- VP: A lot of grief. There’s grief around taught me how to take that pause. And the that college isn’t something you go into selves, our children, and our families. events that won’t happen now or people silence. I crave that silence. It’s a won- with a singular purpose. I had the good But we must start with patience for our- they can’t see. Grief is a big thing. There derful way to set goals, focus on what’s fortune of having a friend say, “You cannot selves. When I was at home, raising kids are also the transitions kids are missing— My hope, as life important. I use it in my personal life, with graduate from Williams College without and studying, that was a choice I made. I from elementary school to middle school, opens back up a little, my kids, in my work. It’s part of who I am. taking an art history class.” She opened up could adjust how I did things. But in this middle school to high school, gradua- a whole new world to me of what it meant situation, we’re actually being told that we tions—those are very important. Miss- is that people don’t BG: We now have the Anindya Dehejia ’78 to be educated. I fell in love with art history have to stay home, and there are things ing graduation is a huge loss. I do a lot of fellowship program. Can you share a lit- and decided to shift my major. required of us that are very limiting. I ask counseling to help students recognize that just go running back to tle bit about the program and how it hon- parents to look at where they are, what loss. You need to go through it. You need to what their schedule ors your brother’s legacy? But then another twist. I enjoyed art his- they’re feeling, what shifted in their sur- feel whatever you feel about it: sad, angry, tory but didn’t want to make it a career. roundings. What tools and limitations do whatever it is. Added to this is the anxi- was. My hope is that VP: Anindya was my I went to Wall Street after college and you have? Because how you manage your ety over the question of what life is going only sibling, my worked in finance and international bank- emotions is going to impact how you par- to look like in the summer and fall. Maybe we can all become older brother by two BRYAN GARMAN: You have a long association ing with multinational banks and corpo- ent your children. From an emotional kids were supposed to go to camp. Maybe thoughtful about what and a half years. He with the School. rations. And I went to business school at space, it’s really important parents prac- they had internships. The social isolation was very bright, stu- Columbia University and received an MBA. tice self-care. Children pick up on emo- is big: When kids go to school, they’re not we add back in. dious, extremely VIDISHA PATEL: Yes. We moved to the United tions. You can say what you like, but if just learning academically; they’re learn- curious. He studied States when I was 4 years old and my Still, something was missing. While I was it’s not what you’re feeling, your children ing socially. They have breaks, recess, molecular biology and biochemistry, and brother, Anindya Dehejia ’78, was about 6 good at my work, it wasn’t enough. About will know. sports. It’s very hard to replicate that he did research for the National Institutes or 7. My mother’s family is Jain, and she the time I graduated business school, I met at home. of Health. When he passed away very sud- was concerned about schools with reli- the person I ended up marrying. I started Communicate your struggles to your kids, was transformed back to Sidwell Friends. denly in 2001, my father and I wanted to gious affiliations. She wanted a school thinking about life as a family person, and ask them what they might be strug- BG: Is there an opportunity to improve our Meeting for Worship really helps reinforce do something to honor his memory. And that was going to raise us with the values as a wife and mother. I wanted a career gling with. Kids have fears and anxieties psychic well-being during this time? the feeling that we’re all in this together, Anindya got his values, who he was, from she wanted us to have. They found Sid- where I could have it all—or thought I of their own. This is an opportunity, when and it offers some beautiful insights. The Sidwell. So now we have an internship well Friends, and my mother was very could have it all. I spent a year looking into we’re all together, to have conversations VP: This is a fabulous opportunity. Life has kids’ insights brought tears to my eyes program for rising seniors to get first- comfortable with the Quaker religion and what made me happy, what I enjoy doing, we might not otherwise have. There’s this become too hurried. People are so focused and a smile to my face. They really under- hand knowledge of being in the world and thought it would be a good fit. But there and how I could give back to others. What concept of family meetings where you get on the next goal, the next target, the next stand what it is to be a good human being. working. Anindya got his start through an were some challenges: My parents naively kept coming up was psychology, therapy, together at a specific time. Those are fine. step. All of a sudden, we can’t do that any- And they understood Kieran. Their will- internship; it was instrumental in his life. thought they could land in Washington, listening, and relationships. So when we But what I’m talking about are impromptu more. We’ve been forced to stop. This is an ingness to share, their comfort with the Anindya went back and worked with those show up at the School, and say, “Please moved to Florida 25 years ago, I decided conversations. If you’re anxious and your opportunity to slow down, to be limited technology—it was really beautiful. same researchers for years. Other people admit my children.” My father quickly to get a doctorate in psychology—which child can see that, you can say, “I’m just in what we can do, to reconsider what’s may not find an internship so enjoyable, discovered that’s not how it works. He I did while I raised my two children. Now feeling a little anxious right now, so I important. My hope, as life opens back up BG: How important is the experience of but that’s equally important. It’s good to called Peter Rice, the principal of the I am a licensed mental health therapist. need to take five minutes and sit outside a little, is that people don’t just go running community to helping children process know what you like and what you’re good Lower School at the time, but he couldn’t I work with children, families, and a lot on the porch.” Be honest with where you back to what their schedule was. My hope grief? at. It’s also important to know what you get a meeting. So, my father actually drove of women. are. That helps children to be honest with is that we can all become thoughtful about don’t like and what you’re not good at. out to the summer camp where Peter Rice where they are. what we add back in. VP: I can speak personally in terms of being Anindya used to say, “When you have a spent the summers, just showed up and BG: Working on a doctorate with young in Upper School and going through grief. success, that’s great. But that’s it, it’s done. basically told him, “You must have my children uniquely qualifies you to offer BG: What are you seeing as you treat BG: This spring, you attended a Meeting When my mother passed away, Sidwell But when you fail at something, there’s so children.” So my brother started at Sid- advice to parents during a pandemic. children in this moment? for Worship to honor a student, Kieran did a very kind thing: It had a Meeting for much to be learned. That’s how you grow.” well, and then I came. I was a lifer. Sidwell What do you say to those experiencing Shafritz de Zoysa ’26, who was killed in Worship to bring the community together was family, our home away from home. It the tension between work and parenting? a bombing in Sri Lanka last year. What for my family and my mother. When we BG: And this moment gives us an opportu- laid the foundation for our lives. was it like to come back to Meeting for know there’s a large group of people who nity to do that every day. Doesn’t it? Worship? are all there holding the space for us, it’s BG: Your life has an interesting trajec- very comforting. The nice thing about VP: It really does. It’s a time for reflection. tory. Talk about your career and how you VP: It was one of the most impactful things Meeting for Worship is you don’t have This is a very important time to reflect became a counselor. I’ve done in lockdown. Coming together to speak, but you can. And when others on not only who we are individually, but as a community is really powerful. I speak, you get their wisdom. Meeting for who we are as a community and who we VP: When I was in 9th grade and my brother wasn’t sure what it would be like in a dig- Worship and community in general are are globally.

in 12th grade, our mother passed away. She ital format; I was pleasantly surprised. important so that kids know they’re not was a physician. So I decided I was going to The sense of community was very much alone. Meeting for Worship also honed For the full interview, go to follow in her footsteps and become a doc- there, even though we were all in front of my ability to be thoughtful. I often talk to sidwell.edu/magazine. tor. I went to Williams College with that computers. The conversations, the val- clients about listening and then respond- purpose in mind. It was wonderful there. I ues, the way people talked about Kieran, ing but not reacting. That comes from felt very prepared after my time at Sidwell. who he was, and what was important—I allowing for a pause. Meeting for Worship

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Hello,

I hope this letter finds you all well during these unusual times. For those I do not know, my name is Marika Cutler Meyer ’94, and I am taking the hand-off from my classmate Ali Mohamadi ’94 as the new clerk of the Sidwell Friends Alumni Network Advisory Board (FAN-AB, formerly the Alumni Association Executive Board, or AAEB). In addition to being an alum, I am also the daughter of one (Marika Moore Cutler ’64) and the parent of Grayson ’28 and Colin ’31. I have previously served as the clerk of both the Young Alumni Committee and the DC Regional Alumni Club Committee, and I have also done multiple rotations on the AAEB over the last 20 years. I’m incredibly excited to step into this new leadership role at a time when we are all changing the way we live, work, educate, and communicate. Now more than ever, we are reaching out to Friends to connect and support one another.

I share my sincere thanks to Ali for his outstanding leadership. His work in undertaking the 2018 survey of alumni provided the framework for creating an organization that meets alumni where they are in their careers, personal life, and connection to the School. In addition, Ali put tremendous work into rethinking the Alumni Association, resulting in the community’s new identity, the Friends Alumni Network. You can read more about FAN here: sidwell.edu/alumni.

Meet the newest Over the next three years, the FAN-AB will focus on the various ways alumni members of the connect with current students. There are so many opportunities for Sidwell alumni network. They Friends students to hear from alumni about all aspects of their careers and couldn’t walk across a stage volunteer work. The Let Your Life Speak morning for Upper School students on Founder’s Day, which was held virtually this year, is just one example (see “Linked to receive their diplomas, so Upper In” on page 38). These connections can only deepen our connections to each School Principal Mamadou Guèye other and to the Friends Alumni Network. made surprise visits to students’ homes to Since we have all started spending more time at home and connecting virtually, deliver them. our community has held many online events, like class gatherings and Meetings for Worship on Zoom. I know there are even more casual connections happening all the time, and I hope the Sidwell Friends community will continue to be a source of comfort and inspiration for all of you. Please keep an eye on your email and on the alumni calendar to see more virtual engagement opportunities for alumni throughout the summer, and be sure to check out the new Alumni Digital Resources page (sidwell.edu/alumni/alumni-digital-resources) to learn more about staying connected.

Finally, a warm and sincere welcome to our newest alumni, the Class of 2020. Your spring may not have turned out the way you anticipated, but we are still thrilled to welcome you to our ranks. The alumni community is here to help as you navigate your way through new adventures beyond Sidwell Friends. ALUMNI ACTION In friendship,

Marika Cutler Meyer ’94 Clerk, Friends Alumni Network Advisory Board

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Sanam Aghdaey ’10

Mara Gordon ’04 Lives That Spoke

Alice Goldman This year’s alumni presenters covered Reiter ’00 Zeeshan everything from cutting-edge medicine to Aleem ’04 public policy to modern dance; we thank them all. “I went to Sidwell from kindergarten to 12th grade, so I had a lot of time to Bill Strathmann ’85 Sanam Aghdaey ’10 Sarah Kellogg ’02 really think about Sidwell’s Quaker Software Engineer, The Wing Senior Technical Program Manager, faith, in particular what it means to Corus International serve others and to overcome what Zeeshan Aleem ’04 Political Columnist and Brandye Lee ’96 you believe is unjust,” said Chris Freelance Reporter, Vice Choreographer and Educator Lesley Chen-Young ’14 Sanders ’04, an assistant federal public defender in the Western Jody Avirgan ’98 Laura London ’86 District of Washington. “As I moved Podcast Host and Producer, ESPN’s Associate Director, Arlington through my career, it’s not that I did so 30for30, FiveThirtyEight, WNYC Partnership for Affordable Housing purposefully thinking about Quakerism Ericka Blount-Danois ’90 Emily Madavo ’03 and some of its ideals, but I think those things were probably Producer, Freelance writer Senior Counsel, Uber Health simmering in my mind. You could probably draw a direct line Natasha Bonhomme ’01 Jeffrey Mazique ’70 from what Sidwell was all about to the work that I do now.” Founder, Expecting Health Doctor, Mazique Medical Jody Avirgan ’98 Rachel Wilson “There is a lot of injustice in what is supposed to be our justice Lesley Chen-Young ’14 David Nicholson ’68 Patterson ’02 LinkedIn Talent Insights Consultant, system, and that gives me energy to fight,” said Deborah Writer CWC Executive Director and Head Coach Colson ’87, the principal attorney and founder of Colson Law. Rachel Wilson Patterson ’02 “I know that I am just one person and there’s only so much I Deborah Colson ’87 Diversity and Inclusion Manager, can do—but I feel compelled after witnessing injustice to fight Principal, Colson Law PLLC Duane Morris LLP Linked In it every way I can.” Margot Dankner ’03 Tia Powell ’75 Immigration Policy Analyst Director, Center for Bioethics; “One of the things I took away Shoshanah Trachtenberg Professor Karmah Elmusa ’02 The Founder’s Day Let Your Life Speak series “I had a lot of worry that I didn’t know what I would be when from Sidwell is that we all do of Biomedical Ethics, Albert Einstein Communications Director, Campaign College of Medicine goes digital. I grew up,” said Madeline Holland ’10, who is the co-CEO of better when we take care of for the Fair Sentencing of Youth (CFSY) Talent Beyond Boundaries, which connects refugees with job each other, that we’re part of a Alice Goldman Reiter ’00 Charlotte Fouch Fox ’06 Founder’s Day is a celebration of community. Every year we opportunities worldwide. “I felt a lot of pressure to know what whole collective, that the way a Attorney, Cuti Hecker Wang LLP gather to recognize Thomas Sidwell’s birthday and to delve that route was. Eventually I realized that you can have valuable society is often judged is how Director of Communications, International Women’s Media Katie Rollins ’98 into the values that unite the Sidwell Friends family. This year experiences without knowing what that value will be ahead of it treats the most vulnerable in Foundation Senior Policy Analyst, Chapin Hall, was no different; it just looked that way. time. Letting your life speak is about listening to your life. Your it,” said Karmah Elmusa ’02, the University of Chicago actions will speak; go ahead and listen.” communications director at the Elie Goldman ’12 This Founder’s Day may have been an online gathering, Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of 12th Grade Teacher, Washington Chris Sanders ’04 but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t profound. In the morning, Tia Powell ’75 knows the feeling. “The Youth. “If you see something unjust, you should do something Leadership Academy Assistant Federal Public Defender, Western District of Washington Upper School students met for the traditional Let Your Life plans that I made didn’t turn out to be about it. That was always a guiding principle in my life.” Mara Gordon ’04 Speak sessions, in which alumni return to talk about their good plans,” said Powell, the director Assistant Professor of Family Marcus Shaw ’95 educational paths, their careers, and how the values they of the Montefiore-Einstein Center for One thing was clear on this unusual Founder’s Day: The Medicine, Cooper Medical School, CEO, CO LAB Rowan University learned at Sidwell Friends have informed the choices Bioethics and of the Einstein Cardozo community that defines Sidwell Friends doesn’t depend on Bill Strathmann ’85 they’ve made since graduation. Alumni representing the master’s program in bioethics at the sharing physical space. “It’s not the day we thought we would Jessica Wertheim Green ’07 CEO, Network for Good fields of law, entertainment, medicine, and government, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. have, but at least we’re together on video,” said Head of School Ward 3 Liaison, Executive Office William Warshauer ’82 among others, logged in from homes across the country “So I kept following what I thought was Bryan Garman in a recorded message. “The alumni remind us of Mayor Muriel Bowser, Washington DC President and CEO, TechnoServe to meet with students online. most interesting, and it led me to work that the relationships we form here at Sidwell are so deep and Madeline Holland ’10 Betsy Zeidman ’76 that I still find interesting.” meaningful that they endure for a very long time.” Co-CEO, Talent Beyond Borders Many of the students’ questions revolved around how the Fellow-in-Residence, Beeck Center speakers—each of whom spoke to different groups over three Despite the wide variety of fields, another common theme For a very long time and through winding paths and Quaker Max Hollman ’09 for Social Impact+Innovation, Manager, Drama Programming, HBO Georgetown University sessions—found their career path. Most alumni shared that was the Sidwell Friends experience. Students asked the values and even a pandemic. Social-distancing has nothing on their path from Sidwell Friends to their current offices wasn’t speakers to reflect on how many of those experiences they the School’s alumni, who on this Founder’s Day reminded us Julie Silard Kantor ’87 always a straight one. still carry with them. that being physically apart is not the name as being alone. Founder and CEO, Twomentor LLC

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From connected streets to connected screens, this issue’s recently published alumni-penned books explore the history of the old and the new, introduce us to a real-life superhero, and offer magical herbs.

American Daredevil: Comics, A History of Street Communism, and the Battles Networks: From Grids to of Lev Gleason Sprawl and Beyond By Brett Dakin ’94 By Laurence Aurbach ’81 Chapterhouse, 2020 Pedshed Press, 2020 Meet Lev Gleason, a real-life comics Roadway networks are the basic superhero! Gleason was a titan among frameworks of cities. They endure FRESH INK Golden Age comics publishers who for centuries, influencing the ways fought back against the censorship that cities operate and affecting campaigns and paranoia of the their residents’ quality of life. A History of Street Networks Red Scare. After dropping out of Harvard to fight in France, explores the origins and institutionalization of modern roadway Gleason moved to New York City and eventually made it big with networks, particularly the networks of urban sprawl. The groundbreaking titles like Daredevil and Crime Does Not Pay. book surveys an international history of these powerful yet Brett Dakin ’94, Gleason’s great-nephew, opens up the family unheralded infrastructure systems. It is a story of far-reaching archives—and the files of the FBI—to take the reader on a journey reform, as dreamers, designers, engineers, and business through Gleason’s life and career. American Daredevil reveals interests began to remold urban environments into new and the truth about Gleason’s rapid rise to the top of comics, his radically different patterns. Laurence Aurbach ’81 examines unapologetic progressive activism, and his sudden fall from more than 100 individuals, visions, built projects, and policies, grace. Whether it was Dr. Frederic Wertham, who warned that representing the most important efforts to make and control comic books were a serious cause of juvenile delinquency in roadway patterns. Comprehensive, detailed, and abundantly Seduction of the Innocent, or the House Un-American Activities illustrated, A History of Street Networks is a valuable resource Committee, Gleason was always ready to take on the enemy. for anyone wanting to understand some of the major forces that have shaped, and continue to shape, urban environments.

Screened In: The Art of The Sacred Herbs of Spring: Living Free in the Digital Age Magical, Healing, and Edible By Anthony Silard ’85 Plants to Celebrate Beltaine Inner Leadership Press, 2020 By Ellen Hopman ’70 Have you ever asked yourself why you Destiny Books, 2020 are spending less time interacting Presenting a practical guide to the with people in person and more celebration of Beltaine, Ellen Evert time sitting alone behind a pixilated Hopman ’70 examines the plants, screen? As we furiously type into customs, foods, drinks, and rituals our keypads in search of the Holy Meghan Leavitt Meghan of May Day across many cultures. Grail—an empty inbox—our happiness and well-being dissipate. Discussing the gods and goddesses of spring, Hopman details Through eye-opening studies, interviews with some of the world’s the rituals honoring them as well as traditional poems, most captivating thought leaders, and stories gleaned from prayers, incantations, folk rhymes, and sayings related to his more than 25 years as a leadership trainer and professor, this time of year. In the extensive section on the sacred Anthony Silard ’85 will help you realize what many of us are plants of Beltaine, the author explores more than 90 herbs losing in the digital age—ourselves and our most important and trees, offering spells, rituals, and recipes alongside their relationships—and provide a roadmap to reclaim them. medicinal healing uses. Woven throughout with mystical tales of folk, Faery, and sacred herbs, this guide offers practical and magical ways to connect with nature, the plant kingdom, and the spirits that surround us in the season of spring.

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Friends Alumni Network CLASS NOTES

The Sidwell Friends Alumni Network is At a moment when social media often overwhelms, proseltyzes, an inclusive community guided by Quaker or vanishes before your eyes, Class Notes humbly offers respite. Here, you have a lasting, curated, and quirky window values whose mission is to enhance and foster into the lives of your fellow alumni. Whether you knew them connections with fellow alumni, faculty, and then, follow them now, or never met, you are all Friends. current students. We let our lives speak through friendship, service, and learning opportunities, generating goodwill and support for each other and the School.

The Sidwell Friends Alumni Network is about connection and never has the value of our network been more apparent: for advice, centering, and comfort at a time when we are feeling isolated and challenged in ways we could not have imagined. Connect with us at sidwell.edu/alumni or email us at [email protected].

CALL FOR CLASS REPS! “ My favorite part about being a class Become the primary liaison between your classmates representative is getting and Sidwell Friends! Class representatives play a critical to know my classmates better. volunteer service to the School. They help collect Class It has been very gratifying for Notes, share news, and promote the amazing work and me. My main focus as a class life lessons of their classmates. representative is to try to get my classmates to talk to each other. THE FOLLOWING CLASSES NEED A REPRESENTATIVE: Sometimes, I try to energize my classmates by sending out an email 1951 1969 1990 1998 2012 2017 with a theme—for example, name 1952 1976 1992 1999 2012 2018 four Elvis Presley songs that were 1956 1979 1993 2000 2013 2019 popular in each of our four years of 1957 1984 1995 2008 2014 high school. It’s important to keep 1965 1988 1996 2009 2016 trying to find something that will capture people’s attention.”

–PETER ENMARK ’62 The Class of 1970 makes Interested? Email us at [email protected]. their way to Zartman House for Commencement.

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songwriting: a video of my newest PETER LUYKX: “Much that seemed mean- KEEP IN TOUCH! song, ‘Coronavirus,’ is up on YouTube ingful before this pandemic seems less Go to sidwell.edu/classnotes 1946 1951 1953 (bit.ly/3cPwrLU). I am working on my so now. That’s as it should be. For me, and let us know what you’ve been Want to be a class representative? Want to be a class representative? GLORIA GIRTON next CD; the last one is called The Truth the most penetrating comment came up to. Don’t see your class year? Contact [email protected]. Contact [email protected]. [email protected] About Eighty and can be sampled, down- from Alain de Botton in The New York Contact [email protected] to loaded, or purchased at CDBaby.com/ Times on March 19, writing about The become a class representative. GLORIA GIRTON: CD/pegespinola. I stay in touch with my Plague: ‘[Camus] isn’t trying to panic In Memoriam In Memoriam “My thirst for all things Italian began with my studying Latin in children and grandkids—all in New us, because panic suggests a response Daniel Oppenheim ’46 Charles Booth Jr. ’51 8th grade at Sidwell Friends. In Upper York—by Skype; my greatest pleasure is to a dangerous but short-term condi- February 13, 2020 April 19, 2020 School, Ms. Vandergrift and then Mr. Skype-teaching my younger grandson tion from which we can eventually find Forsyth encouraged me in my enthu- to play guitar. I have a new appreciation safety. But there can never be safety— Rosalie Barringer Wornham ’46 Miriam Rubin Anders ’51 siasm for the language. Ms. Vander- for the beauty of my backyard but miss and that is why, for Camus, we need to 1941 April 12, 2020 January 18, 2020 actually seeing friends (closer than six love our fellow damned humans and grift was especially enthusiastic about Want to be a class representative? ancient Rome and her master builders. I feet) and family, or even just popping work without hope or despair for the Contact [email protected]. was discussing my education at Sidwell into Starbucks!” amelioration of suffering. Life is a hos- Friends with a professor of Latin and pice, never a hospital.’” KATHARINE BEJNAR MARBLE sent in a 1949 1952 Greek, who, when I told her that I had handwritten note: “Is anyone else from studied Latin for six years, including one WARREN OLNEY: “Since I don’t sound as the Class of 1941 alive? We graduated 13! Want to be a class representative? CAROL BLACK when I was at Bryn Mawr, said, ‘Oh you old as I am, KCRW allows me to con- Contact [email protected]. [email protected] 1955 I am now 96 and a half. I live with one of can study Latin in the United States?!’ tinue my podcast, To the Point. I can do my sons in Socorro, New Mexico. I grad- Our academic references do not always NANCY ABOLIN HARDIN it from home and sound like I’m in a CHARLES “CHUCK” WILSON AND HELEN FLETCH WALLER: uated from Mt. Holyoke College in 1945 “April was to have been count for much over here.” [email protected] studio thanks to current technology. My in geology. I started at Sidwell Friends HOBBS WILSON: “Helen and I are still get- spent in Sicily. Instead, here we are hun- favorite recent guest was Laura Steele, School in 1931 in 3rd grade at the Wis- ting around, slowly, but not bad for a kered down (does anyone hunker up?) GEORGE SATTERTHWAITE is surviving the PEGGY SMITH LUTHRINGER: “I am, like a professor at the Queen’s University consin Avenue campus in the old ele- pair of 89-year-olds. We were delighted in our Mercer Island home. At least we pandemic: “I’m very much quarantined many of you, ‘imprisoned’ in my apart- Belfast. We talked about the ethics of mentary school building over the tennis recently to hear from Nick Meyer, who have rhodies and glorious cherry, apple, but can walk the dogs daily. On May 20, ment on the 13th floor of 4000 Massa- online shopping for nonessentials: It courts and parking lot. Mr. and Mrs. Sid- now lives in Florida, and reportedly is and plum blossoms for companions. I I became a grandfather for the 14th time chusetts Ave., very lonely without my creates much-needed jobs but poten- well were still alive. I had four children, in good health himself. We were also have been kept busy at the Pratt Fine and a great-grandfather for the fourth wonderful husband who died three years tially exposes workers to the virus. worked as a geologist for a while but sorry to read in the Frederick, Maryland, Arts Center, the largest and leading art time. I celebrated my 85th birthday vir- ago. Thank god for great TV (like Ozark on How do you choose? It’s the same issue mostly with youth groups, like Scouts newspaper of the passing of Ingolfur school and art-makers’ community in tually. Welcome to the 21st century. Netflix!) and the urge to reach out to old in Northern Ireland as in the United and Civil Air Patrol. I had a pilot’s license Thors. Bill Monroe, if you’re still track- the Pacific Northwest; co-managing our Amazing. Great to stay in touch.” friends, which it seems we are all doing! States—but with a lilting Irish brogue.” for 20-plus years.” (See her note on the ing our classmates, please take note. closing and suspending classes, wres- I still prefer to talk on the phone—land We would love to hear from others.” tling with cash management, planning line, not cell! But not too many people ELAINE FOGEL PARKS: “Although I have bottom right.) In Memoriam [email protected] an online telethon art party, and prepar- share that preference. Let’s keep talking never participated in these newsletters, EDITOR’S NOTE ing for our reopening whenever. I offer Alice Kirkpatrick Kugelman ’53 and maybe our postponed Reunion will current events make me want to reach the following isolation haiku:” March 27, 2020 really happen in October!” out to old friends. Bob and I are still in Katharine Marble also mentioned her favorite In Memoriam teacher, Mrs. Hathaway, and noted that her son Florida and have delayed our return to Thaddeus Bejnar ’67 graduated from Sidwell Ingolfur Thors ’49 Isolation spurs Robert Asher ’53 ELEANOR JUDD QUINN: “Coronavirus has Annapolis until June (if then). We are Friends, too. She says he graduated in 1966, but April 23, 2020 temptation. What next to eat? December 6, 2019 not peaked in the Hartford, Connecticut, staying home and safe and keeping busy our records show 1967. But what’s a year between that is the question. area yet so Ruth Simpson Woodcock and around the house. I do get out to take Friends? Also, a mid-century, female geologist I can no longer meet for lunch every few my three-and-a-half-mile walk about with a pilot’s license… I defer to her. weeks. We are following the Connecticut five times a week. My hobby is oil paint- 1950 1954 stay-at-home rules, which are in effect ing, which keeps me occupied at home. until at least the end of May. We are It would be great if we were able to have TOBY RILEY RICHARD NICKLAS behind other states but keeping in step a Reunion in October. I would finally be [email protected] 1945 [email protected] with New York and New Jersey. I have able to attend one. Everyone please stay Want to be a class representative? been impressed with the magnitude of safe and well, and we will get through PEGGY ROBISON ESPINOLA: “This spring Contact [email protected]. In Memoriam the work done by scientists, healthcare this.” I’ve been pretty much confined to my providers, and government workers. Patricia Dowling Winterer ’50 house, in Sudbury, Massachusetts, What an amazing time. My 23-year-old JUDITH HELLER ZANGWILL: “I was so sorry August 28, 2019 In Memoriam where I’ve lived for over 50 years. I am granddaughter hopes to become a school that we won’t be having our Reunion in recently retired from my psychother- Corinne Edwards Greenwald ’45 psychologist for non-hearing students. May. I hope we can reschedule it. I’m apy practice and am exploring what else May 6, 2020 She is just finishing her first year of doing pretty well during the quarantine. I can do to feel useful. This year, that has graduate school at Gallaudet University, Since my husband died four years ago, I meant home-based political activities: and all her courses are in American Sign have found three very compatible single postcard-writing and phone-banking. Language. I remember our high school women to share my five-bedroom house. I am also still engaged in my avocation, girls’ and boys’ basketball games with They are busy working from home, A note from Katharine Bejnar Marble ’41 Gallaudet.”

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working in ‘essential’ jobs or babysitting times of my legal career. I have watched JOHN COX: In January, John wrote: “Last but that changed in the late 1960s and grandkids whose parents have to work. my clients and their employees having year, we made a trip to Italy with our intensified in the late 1980s. The surgeon So things are quiet since all my volunteer to deal with issues that a few months 1957 church choir. We saw all the sights in general and his boss in the U.S. Depart- activities, theater/concert shows, and ago were beyond their and my wildest Want to be a class representative? Venice, Florence, Assisi, and Rome. ment of Health and Human Services social gatherings are suspended. But I dreams.” Contact [email protected]. The highlight of the trip was singing in have been part of PHS for only two years. walk every day in our subdivision, which the Vatican. Imagine that, an Episcopal Likewise for the head of the CDC. All are is an old development from the 1970s NANCY ABOLIN HARDIN: “During this church choir singing in the Vatican—in beholden to the ‘Denier in Chief.’ My job In Memoriam and looks more like Potomac, Maryland, period of self-isolation, the days have Latin! I was glad to see Venice before it with the U.S. Department of Veterans than modern Mediterranean Revival seemed unexpectedly short, while the Carla Donkin Jenkins ’57 drowns, if not from water then from the Affairs (VA) and the U.S. Department of

Florida. It is peaceful and warm. Hope weeks tend to drag. But as an only child Rowe Patrick Courtesy March 9, 2020 flood of tourists that regularly inundates Defense (DoD) exposes me to about 30 everyone keeps safe and well.” who has spent most of my life living on Mikel Sarah Lambert Rowe ’55 it.” But then in April, we received sad patients a day, face-to-face, two to three my own, I’ve adapted quite content- news from John’s wife, Mary, that John inches from their noses and mouths. The ROBERT BRESLER: “I read Sidwell Friends edly to the extended time spent at home. In Memoriam has had a stroke: “No major damage,” DoD actually has well laid-out proto- magazine with interest and a degree of However, the news about what’s hap- she writes, “but his speech and move- cols for dealing with a pandemic and is W. Paul Hoffman Jr. ’55 1958 poignancy. The School is presented as pening to others less fortunate than I am ment are affected, and he’s probably in already implementing the plan. The VA lively and diverse, which is in welcome is so horrifying that I admit to simply October 26, 2019 CRAIG MORGAN for several months, at least, of rehab.” is dealing with it on the fly, with each contrast to the segregated years before avoiding it at times. What I can’t avoid [email protected] We pray for a quick recovery. institution implementing plans based on Mikel Sarah Lambert Rowe ’55 the Brown decision. I just hope the teach- is the sadness I feel when contemplating locality.” ers today are as vivid and demanding the next few years, since right now it’s November 19, 2019 PEGGY PABST BATTIN is working hard, CINDY COLLINS FOSTER received an honor as ours were. In retrospect, I think the hard to imagine being comfortable doing together with Craig Morgan, to get the this past February at a gathering in Res- JOAN FRIEDMAN SEYMOUR, writing on the decision in 1955 to sell the athletic fields many of the things I most love doing, entire class to enjoy an occasional happy ton, Virginia, to celebrate her life. It class chain email in response to memo- across the street, build the Lower School and instead having to adapt to a very hour on Zoom, and in fact, they have included wonderful testimonials and a ries of the 1960 Democratic Convention, in Bethesda, purchase the Grayson restricted lifestyle long-term.” 1956 hosted two successful meetings so far, beautiful slide show. (See photo below.) notes: “These memories are making me property, and then destroy those beau- at least among those with reasonably very nostalgic—for a time when politics CHARLIE HOLLAND tiful terraced gardens to make way for MIKEL SARAH LAMBERT ROWE passed away up-to-date computers and smartphones. BOB MYERS: On the class chain email, seemed to inspire honesty and sincerity [email protected] a football field was a mistake. It ruined on November 19, 2019, as the result of This effort is not meant to supplant the Bob posted comments on his reading as practiced by governing citizens, most the campus feel of the School. The old a brain hemorrhage. After graduation long-standing class email conversation, of Lincoln’s Boys by Joshua Zeitz. “The of whom upheld normative principles NANCY DESSOFF COLODNY: “My husband, buildings from our time had a particu- from Sidwell Friends, Rowe attended just to supplement it once in awhile. book reminded me of our assignment and values. Where did we go wrong (or Ed, and I contracted the virus when lar charm. I wonder if they couldn’t have Radcliffe College at Harvard University, in Mr. Abell’s 8th grade history class to was I just naive)? And how are we going our son visited us in Naples, Florida, been restored, rather than destroyed.” where she developed her lifelong love ANN MCINTIRE COCKRELL: “Not much research the causes of the Civil War. I to get out of this mess?” This prompted a for what was to have been a wonder- of the theater. She later enrolled at the to tell except I’m very sheltered at the remember three (of several). But Zeitz long debate, but no easy answers. ful weekend of fishing, spring-training TOM SIMONS: “After so much travel in Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in Lon- farm. It is a North Carolina off-and-on- contends that there was really only games, and good food. Instead, he came 2019, this has been a year to stay at home. don, where she met her husband, Jer- again spring. I do a lot of gardening on one cause: slavery.” This prompted a ANNETTE EISENBERG STIEFBOLD: “My hus- down with the virus and we soon con- It’s true for everyone, but it’s been dou- emy Rowe. The couple performed and the good days and writing and reading long discussion by the class on the long band, Ed Bell, and I had the good for- tracted it as well. We feel very fortunate bly true for us: We spent the first three taught in the United States and England, on the rainy ones. My family next door struggle for racial equality and the sad tune to travel to Morocco in early March. to have survived with no lasting symp- months successfully fighting my wife’s and had two sons, Patrick and Timothy. is taking care of all shopping for me so chapter in which our own School was for We visited Casablanca, Marrakesh, toms, but it was a difficult time. I feel lymphoma; as of April 6, Peggy has been Rowe appeared in several productions I won’t get exposed to this virus. My awhile on the wrong side. Essaouira, Fes, and Rabat as well as many these are ‘bonus’ days!” cancer-free. On to the pandemic! A youth with the Royal Shakespeare Company, family in Maryland is fine and so is the small towns and rural areas. Morocco shops for us, so it’s the papers, cooking, including Hamlet with Ben Kingsley, and one in Virginia. The two granddaughters DAVE PRICE, the sole class MD, writes has a history of good relations between MARY ELLEN SPECTOR DRUYAN: “I’m serv- webinars, walking (Boston’s great parks she starred in the BBC series The Mack- who applied to the University of North about COVID-19: “The US Public Health Muslims and Jews, and although few ing as the quality-assurance manager and cemeteries), trying to avoid Trump innons. She and her sons returned to Carolina were both accepted. I can only Service (PHS) Commissioned Corps and Jews remain, we saw several synagogues for Aurora Packing Company, Inc., an on the news, watching the shows and Washington, DC, in 1977. Over the next hope that when it’s time to start the fall the Centers for Disease Control and Pre- undergoing restoration. A highlight of essential business, as are others in food movies we’d missed, and family Zoom two decades, she performed at the Folger semester, they can attend live classes.” vention (CDC) used to be independent, the trip was a camel ride in the desert. production. I’m on-site, though I did sessions on weekends. Like everyone Shakespeare Theatre, Arena Stage, and work remotely for two weeks. I’m also else: pandemic democracy.” many other local and regional theaters. active in a community theater (Theatre She was named Best Actress by Washing- of Western Springs). We’re dark now DAN BERNSTEIN: “I am still practicing tonian magazine in 1983. She also taught of course, but our long-range planning law more as a semi-retirement activ- drama for many years at Georgetown committee is Zooming as is our play- ity than as an occupation. I have several University and Catholic University. In wrights’ group. Ten of us recently wrote small-business clients that have been the late 1990s, Rowe relocated to New monologues related to isolation. The impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. York City, where she spent the rest of her monologues were acted and directed by During the past few weeks, we have life. She continued to teach and appeared TWS members and put on YouTube. Mine mothballed one business, are consider- in countless productions—in New York was called ‘Monica Alone.’ I’m happy to ing bankruptcy or an assignment for the and other cities—and did a variety of send it to anyone interested.” (See photo benefit of creditors for another, and filed commercials, television shows, and at right.) for small-business loans for two oth- films. (See photo above.) Engel Craig Howard Cheryl Doddy Courtesy Stiefbold Eisenberg Annette Courtesy ers. This has been one of the most trying LEFT Mary Ellen Druyan ’56 CENTER Dolly Bowman Tucker ’58, Geoff Huguely ’58, Craig Morgan ’58, and Peggy Latimer ’58 celebrate the life of Cindy Collins Foster ’58 RIGHT Annette Eisenberg Stiefbold ’58 and her husband, Ed Bell, in Morocco

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We greatly enjoyed our trip to Morocco KEEN BERGER reports: “My newest book, I was pleased that a potentially scary expe- still ankle deep in my policy-wonk world and were lucky to return home (wearing Grandmothering: Building Strong Ties KEEP IN TOUCH! rience had turned into a positive one for and fleshing out my next doc project. masks and wiping down all surfaces) on with Every Generation, which launched in Go to sidwell.edu/classnotes and my dog.” For those who like docs, here are some the last flight before the airports were November 2019 just leapt forward in Ama- let us know what you’ve been up to. I’ve produced in various capacities that closed due to the coronavirus.” (See zon sales, I think because it now is on Kin- Stay well, folks, Clark Griffith. are currently on Netflix or Amazon: The photo on previous page.) dle and Audible. Hardback and paperback Cove; Girl Rising; Pandora’s Promise; The are still cheaper from the publisher.” Square; Janis: Little Girl Blue; Meet the STEVE STOVALL: During the lockdown, from. We’ve had virtual dinner dates Patels; Alive Inside; and, one of my favor- Steve has continued to keep the class I’ll be buying that book soon, Keen—unless you with friends and family, we attend vir- ites, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (I prefer want me to review it! 1960 entertained. He has let his myriad ranch tual Catholic Mass and Quaker Meeting the original title: The Radical Mr. Rogers.) JODY HUTCHINSON animals tell their own drama-filled life each Sunday, and I’ve started co-hosting The film I’m most proud of is a six-year MARTIN MYERS is another of our authors. [email protected] stories. And he has been keeping the class a virtual Story Hour every other Satur- labor of love for which I was senior exec- He writes: “One thing that has made our up to date on his preparation for the 2021 day night for people who attend Concord, utive producer and strategic advisor: generation very different is that we actu- JIM RAMEY: Olympics, proposing slogans for his spon- “I’m taking this opportunity

New Hampshire, Quaker Meeting.” The Judge is a captivating story about TheJudgeFilm.com ally experienced the vaccine-preventable to brag about my children, of whom I sors and supplying the class with pho- the Middle East’s first female sharia law diseases. So, one of the benefits of -hav have six, including three stepchildren. A scene from The Judge, a documentary produced by tos of his Hesperus 2021 Olympic Train- Thanks, David, but what are you doing for fun? judge and the chief judge who supported Diana Lady Dougan ’60 ing been ‘hunkered down’ these last few My son Jim Ramey ’87 is a compara- ing Center, where the swimming pool is her despite terrible consequences. From months has meant that I have had lots of STEVE SCHREIBER tive-literature professor and documen- a 10-by-6-foot stone-ringed depression and I are conducting an standing ovations at the Toronto Inter- time to work on my next book for parents tary filmmaker in Mexico City. Sarah that position. But, just as we are con- in the ground, currently dry. Of his daily email debate that is very interesting. national Film Festival, Oscar-qualifying about vaccines. More about this soon.” Ramey ’99 is a writer and singer whose cerned about our children’s and grand- running routine, he advises, “If you keep We’ve been doing this in different for- theatricals, PBS special screenings, and mats for 50 years. You’d think I would first book has just been published: The children’s health and safety, we are also moving, the Grim Reaper can’t find you.” Thanks, Martin, I’ve often wondered if there was national screenings, The Judge invariably learn, but I harbor hope for him. Ladies Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness. concerned about their financial well-be- a benefit to the mumps, measles, and chicken has engaged, surprised, and inspired It’s on Amazon. Buy it. Meg Ramey ’08 is ing. Some of us of us have been transfer- pox! I’m assuming from what you say that there is. men, women, Muslims, and non-Mus- In Memoriam MILLY B. WELSH writes: an education-policy consultant. Caitlin ring some of our wealth to our children Every time I brought a newborn home, I’ve placed lims. Beyond an Emmy nomination last them on the lawn to play in the dirt. They never “In February, I took is a lawyer. Adrienne has a PhD and is a and to our nieces and nephews. Lucinda Collins Foster ’58 fall, I’m most proud of winning another get sick! my young Labrador, psychologist. Michelle is a pediatrician. I Peabody Award. My first was for a Bill Razor, to my vet to have five grandchildren. My second wife Many of the personal issues we are now Moyers special I conceived of and pro- MARISE RIDDELL, a noted artist, is having have her teeth cleaned died seven years ago, and I’ve been mar- facing seem very unimportant, and even duced 40 years ago. So, yes: There is life a one-person show at the Taos Center silly—even though they are issues we

and bring her vacci- Welsh B. Milly Courtesy ried for three years to Francine Weiss after 40!” (See photo on right.) 1959 for the Arts in August and September. nations up to date. I P’01, who is a widow, a Sidwell Friends need to deal with—for example, hair. Milly B. Welsh’s ’59 CLARK GRIFFITH She has some concerns about COVID-19 want my dogs to love dog, Razor parent, and a civil-rights lawyer. It’s Some of the men in our class have little or [email protected] interfering. going to new and wonderful to have a sweet romance in In Memoriam no hair, so getting to a barbershop isn’t potentially frightening places. My vet my 70s. I retired from practicing internal an issue. Some men are letting their hair I’ve seen such a showing of Marise’s art and it’s William Cumming ’60 grow out (and may be looking for their Class rep. CLARK GRIFFITH presents the fol- very good. I’m sure it will be a success. Send pho- always likes my dogs; they walk nicely medicine and endocrinology three years lowing submissions and commentary: tos to all of us. on a leash, cooperate with the exam- ago. My main hobby has been Demo- old bell-bottom trousers and tie-dyed inations, and are friendly. The problem cratic Party politics. I spend a good deal jeans). And, some of the men in our class JOAN ZWEBEN, a psychologist, reports: “I My thanks to TOM KNOX for pointing out is the waiting room at the vet’s office. of time on the Eastern Shore of Maryland 1962 are getting haircuts from their wives. have been living happily in Berkeley since the academic achievements of our class- It’s too small, too open, and generally where I love to sail, bicycle, fish, and PETER ENEMARK Some of the women in our class have 1970 and am now mostly retired. My one mates. Of course, his accomplishments full of dogs totally out of control. Earlier drink wine. My most prized possession [email protected] remaining paid job is for the San Francisco in history are well known, as well. this month, upon entering the office, a is a 2002 Jaguar XK8 convertible. At my roots that are showing and cannot do anything about it. Some women are VA Medical Center, where I teach as part of large shaggy beast lunged at Razor. I’m age, I’m in danger of dying soon from PETER ENEMARK: “For most of us in the wearing hats. Very few of the women in the University of California, San Francisco, Now with all of that academic activity, quick, so I was able to get between The coronavirus, so I am taking a Clorox tab- Class of 1962, our primary concern our class have tried using do-it-yourself clinical faculty. As an addiction psycholo- DAVID WOOLPERT continues to be the rugged Beast and Razor. I snarled at The Beast’s let twice a day.” during the COVID-19 pandemic is stay- hair products. Many of the women in our gist, I continue to be engaged in a variety outdoorsman. He reports: “By still work- owner; I snarl very efficiently. The Beast ing safe and staying well. And we also class have hairdressers who have begged of professional activities. I am revising ing about 16 hours a week, I’m approach- continued to lunge and snarl at all new- FROM THE EDITOR have that same concern for our children them not to touch their hair until hair one of my books and tackling house proj- ing the 24th anniversary of starting my comers, but now it was on the other side The Ladies Handbook for her Mysterious Illness and our grandchildren—especially for salons reopen. And one or two women ects I have put off for years. My son and own investment business. But also in the of the room from us. Appointments were was featured in last issue’s “Fresh Ink”! our children who are frontline health have been able to arrange private ses- his family (my grandchildren are 6 and 8) last two months, I’ve prepared eight holes late, so I picked up a jar of cookies from workers or who provide other COVID- sions with their hairdressers. live in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. We talk for new blueberry bushes, installed a new the countertop. Razor was looking none DIANA LADY DOUGAN: “It’s no secret: I’m 19 essential services. We often have weekly on Skype. My yearly trip got can- attic floor and a new workshop, covered too happy, but, being a Labrador, she was a serial failure at retirement. In 2007, it our families in our thoughts and in our Most of us started getting serious about celed due to COVID-19, and it is unclear half of our 400-foot-long driveway with eager to get a cookie. One cookie turned got worse. Instead of sanely consider- prayers. sheltering in place in March, and we also when I will be able to visit again. I am lucky fresh gravel, and split the logs from the into hundreds. Rather than simply stuff- ing retirement from my foreign-policy started thinking about food—and how to to be surrounded in the San Francisco Bay three trees that blew down last summer. ing her face (I subscribe to the “no free and strategic-IT wonk worlds, I put a Many people are experiencing great eco- get it. Almost all of us live near grocery Area by other family members and friend- I’m still taking lessons by Zoom on the lunch” philosophy), I began to teach her toe back into my long-ago third career nomic hardship due to the current pan- stores that have “old people’s hours”— ships that go back many years.” cello, I’ve finished reading Sacajawea, tricks. By the time we went into an exam in TV and film as a vanguard mem- demic; however, most of us in the Class typically from 7:00 to 8:00 in the morn- and Penny and I learned a lot about Swe- room, she was ready to show off: down, ber of Impact Partners, which became a of ’62 are not. Almost all of us are retired. Thanks, Joan, and I can’t think of a more needed ing—which also are available to people den that the United States could learn touch both hands, and twist and spin. game-changing force in feature docu- Most of us are financially secure, and we or rewarding field of practice. with pre-existing medical conditions mentaries. So, a dozen years later, I’m feel extraordinarily fortunate to be in

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our doggies, so we’ve been quarantin- and spending an hour a week on the PETER RICE: “For over four decades, classes etc. Especially the dogs; I stop and get ing in relative comfort. In fact, the air phone with my longtime partners fig- of Sidwell Friends students have come their owners’ attention. They don’t seem is now clean and beautiful thanks to the uring out ways to keep our wonderful to Echo Hill Outdoor School for outdoor to mind. One even invited me to get out absence of traffic.” (See photos at left.) employees on the job during the Trump- education. They live with us for three and make friends with her terrier puppy. virus Depression. (This is not a politi- days, spending time on our 42-foot, his- High-end pedigrees in this neighbor- ALISON FEISS KRIVISKEY: “Secure in stay- cal statement. In Mandarin, ‘Trumpvi- toric, wooden, lab boats studying the hood. Endearingly, dogs have no clue re: at-home mode, Bruce and I stay quite rus,’ pronounced ‘trim-VOY-reex’ with Chesapeake Bay, walking in a swamp, current events. Keeping up with the real busy with our hobbies; (virtual) volun- a tonal rise on the last syllable, means being challenged, learning about them- news on MSNBC and The Washington Post. teer work; Zoom meetings with family, ‘very, very great invisible organism more selves and each other on our adventure Looking forward to Dems back in DC. Keep friends, and grandchildren; and lots of widespread in U.S. than everywhere else course, going on night hikes, canoeing, the faith!” good books. Bruce loves to work with possibly because of not very, very great swimming, and much more. Schools are his hands and has just finished his sixth rooster.’ The term has gone viral on closed, and this year they cannot come, so ROBERT ZWEBEN: “Sidwell Friends, along model ship, this one a 17th-century ship Chinese social media.) We’re appar- we are taking Echo Hill to them. We have with Georgetown and Episcopal, got of the same type as the Mayflower. The ently healthy and have attractive masks, produced a virtual video visit that their federal monies from the COVID-19 bills. Courtesy Sharon Hinckley Sharon Courtesy Hinckley Sharon Courtesy ships are works of art, but we’re run- which we only wear in grocery stores and teachers will use to create an Echo Hill Really?! Chutzpah to say the least. The LEFT Magnolia Blossom, an original watercolor by Sharon Hinckley RIGHT Sharon Hinckley ’63 at the Chidakash Meditation Hall in Tiruvannamalai, India ning out of places to put them—the next when our kids can see us, so they don’t experience. We are optimistic that they feds have been funding charter schools one will live in his lap! I’m finding the clobber us for taking too many risks. will be back on our campus next year.” and religious schools. Our public schools and to pregnant women. Additionally, them chocolate chip cookies, and show enforced time at home a good oppor- Now more than ever, our chief challenge ehos.org/outdoor-insiders need the money being funneled to some many of us have younger friends or fam- them how to use Zoom to talk to their tunity to dive deeply into the care and is to deal emotionally with the absurd wealthy folks cashing in on federal wel- DIANA WILLIS ROTHMAN: “What will I look ily members who have offered to buy great-grandchildren. Most of us have science of my orchid collection, a nev- gap between our own lucky lives and the fare. Public-school teachers are seri- back on with joy from this time? I’ve groceries for us and to deliver them to us some time, some treasure, and some tal- er-ending learning experience. A pas- disaster that so many others are facing. I ously underpaid. COVID-19 has taught been able to follow the blooming of every as well. ent, and many of us are sharing it with sionate gardener, I take great pleasure know, I know, one should enjoy life, and us a lot about economic inequality. It flower from bud to seed pod. Now, as my other people.” in seeing everyone’s gardens as we take we do, but still, it’s indecent and inhu- has also taught us how this vile admin- We also get take-out food—especially long walks in uncrowded areas of our man under present conditions to feel native columbine goes to seed after more istration and its Republican enablers from our favorite restaurants that we city. We live in Northampton, a college really good.” than two months of bloom, I’m awaiting don’t care about much other than power, hope will stay in business. Sometimes we town in western Massachusetts, an ideal the opening of my hollyhocks—a very corruption, and themselves. Sidwell pick up our dinners from those restau- place to be during a pandemic. Local JEANNE PERKINS HOFFERKAMP: “Hello non-California-native plant. I designed Friends would do well to use these times 1963 farms, independent stores with curbside everyone! Steve and I are doing well, as my back garden to be safe and accessi- as a teaching moment to all its students rants—most of which have set up special pickup tables at the front door, or just MARGO LEE HOFELDT pickup, and a progressive community all of our family members are. Hope- ble to seniors, but I didn’t think I’d be and the citizens who live in and around inside the front door. And sometimes we [email protected] that works together to support the most fully this finds you well also. We went to becoming an old lady quite so soon.” Washington. I wish all my classmates have our dinners brought to us by a vari- vulnerable makes a tough situation eas- Kauai for 10 days the end of January. It’s well. Be safe. Be smart. I don’t like being JOHN LUYKX: “As of the middle of May in ety of different delivery services. SHARON SMULL HINCKLEY: “I spent ier. We hope everyone is well and find- certainly beautiful. If it were not so far, scared and worried about COVID, but another wonderful month in India at the ing opportunities for joy and satisfaction we’d go back again! It’s called the ‘green Northwest DC, all is pretty much locked that’s our plight. May we all realize that This pandemic has prompted many of us beginning of the year. No car. No com- every day.” island’ for a good reason! Three years up/down. As the classmate closest to the major changes need to occur now, and to reexamine what money means to us. puter. No credit card (well, I had one ago, we were in Oahu, which was very School, my wife, Linda, and I keep an eye on not in 10 or 20 years. Too much is at stake Perhaps we have been saving an expen- but never used it). No TV. No radio. No DAVID OGILVY: “After a trip to Los Ange- nice. Quite touching to see the USS Ari- things and each other. A few of the bright for our children and grandchildren.” sive bottle of wine for a special occasion. newspaper. Visiting temples, walking in les, San Luis Obispo, and Carmel in early zona Memorial and the museum next to new restaurants (Silver, Barcelona Wine And suddenly any night now seems spe- the forest, meditating at an ashram, eat- March, we’ve been back in La Jolla and it. Thankfully, we got our trip in before Bar) and some of the old (Cactus Cantina) MARGO LEE HOFELDT: “It’s hard to imag- cial enough to open that bottle of cab- ing incredibly fresh and delicious food, are following the lockdown protocol, this worldwide pandemic hit. I talked to offer carry-out and delivery. Most of us ine I have nothing on my calendar! I ernet sauvignon and watch a movie on and, of course, Sacred Shopping. Heav- perhaps to an extreme. Family mem- Pete Rice, and the pandemic is certainly are lucky enough to have enough of all we only need to dress for a Zoom meeting or Netflix. And we may be inclined to eat enly. That now seems like years rather bers who visit frequently—particularly going to affect his Echo Hill Outdoor need. As a news junkie, I’m afraid it looks Zoom happy hour or to go to the grocery steak or veal scaloppini more often than than months ago. Whoever thought I’d the 10- and 8-year-old grandsons who School spring and summer activities. like defending against this virus will carry store. Masks are not fashionable! I had a macaroni and cheese. be teaching watercolor painting from a ride their bikes over every day, often Looking forward to hearing from other on for a year or more, if we’re lucky (and lot to do every day until everything came computer in my Home Zoom Room? The two or three times a day—are confined classmates!” good!). We keep in touch with Jeanne Per- to a complete halt. Christmas was a very This pandemic has also made us start former dining room (which had become to our front yard. No supermarket vis- kins Hofferman, Robert Zweben, Sharon fun weeklong Caribbean cruise with our thinking about what we can do for oth- the exercise room) is now my Zoom its, unnecessary thanks to the family JOHN BRALOVE: “This past Christmas, Hinckley, and Kent Taylor, and more. You daughter and my husband’s two children ers—for people and organizations that Room. Some people apparently are bored and delivery services. Daily walks around Anna and I took a 10-day cruise on Royal know who you are. Good to have our local and their families (11 total). New Year’s we would like to support during this dif- during this stay-at-home period. I, on the neighborhood, social distancing, etc. Caribbean out of Ft. Lauderdale. I loved cadre, too: Pat Bradley, Sylvia Fubini, Eve was out for dinner with a group of 12, ficult time. We might know a server at the other hand, am busier than ever as I I think we’re no different than every- it; Anna, not so much. Believe it or not, Robert Goldman, and Daniel Beyer—all celebrating with fireworks and bubbles. a restaurant who has been laid off—a attempt to master the fine art of Zoom- one else in the class. Sort of feels like this was the first time we’ve taken a homies are we! Special greeting to team- In January, I worked on the annual fund- server to whom $100 would mean a lot. ing and figuring out how to present what what I imagine retirement-home living cruise on one of these big ships. I’m still mate and best old friend Bud Davis ’62. raiser for the Garden Club and Botanical It’s $100 many of us wouldn’t miss. We I do—live and in person—on a com- is like!” playing tennis (doubles) despite COVID- The least we can do is outlive this thing Garden. Next was the South Beach Wine are donating money to churches, donat- puter screen! Thankfully, I live with a 19. We keep our distance, wear masks, and be together again, live and in person! and Food Festival, which was parties, GEORGE GALLAND: ing masks to EMTs, and donating our hunter-gatherer (husband) who forages “Ellen and I are doing and sanitize afterward. The pandemic More from the pandemic: I do the shop- dinners, and events in tents on the beach. time, which we have a lot of. There are for fruits and vegetables and has been what old people do best, namely, not otherwise has curtailed our activity, as ping for three families. Driving the neigh- Then our Garden Club staged a judged people even older than we are who are keeping us well fed. Our son, Bill, and a much. She is 96 percent retired from her I’m sure it has for everyone else.” borhood, I appreciate the families walk- Standard Flower Show. I came in third glad to have us pick up their mail, bring friend are here, and we still have one of architecture practice. 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competition! Now we stay home. It was not to lose all of the gains in making the until 2021. I’m on FaceTime with my two University, outside of Atlanta, Georgia. difficulty walking, it’s not very differ- a beautiful spring, and we love our view Earth cleaner.” daughters who live in the Bay Area— Three years ago, Judy and I moved to ent from my daily routine. I don’t want KEEP IN TOUCH! of the sky, water, boats, and cruise ships one of whom is struggling to transition Leisure World. It’s an active adult com- to intrude on anyone’s political inclina- Go to sidwell.edu/classnotes and docked just across the way. The days go by GEORGE BERNSTEIN: “New Orleans had her lectures to an online format for her munity of 8,500 set on 600 acres. Res- tions, but ‘insane’ seems a good word; I let us know what you’ve been up to. very quickly, but like everyone else, I miss one of the first concentrations of coro- Berkeley Law students while she and her idences are situated around an 18-hole can’t decide whether to remain glued to seeing friends and going to restaurants, navirus in the country. We’ve been working husband entertain a 4-year-old golf course, with walking paths, large the news or not. My daughter is a senior movies, theater, and the hairdresser, the self-isolating since March, when the and a 1-and-a-half-year-old. Compared open spaces, ponds, and fountains. I very librarian with the District of Columbia basic necessities of life. I’m so grateful state went into lockdown. Our lives have with that, life here is very tranquil.” much miss human contact with my chil- public libraries; fortunately, they are LISA FREEMAN: “Hello from beautiful everyone I know is healthy, and we have been affected by this less than might be dren and grandchildren. I also miss not remaining closed at the present.” Santa Fe, New Mexico. We’re incredi- shelter, food, water, and electricity, the expected. We’re doing what we always MARIKA MOORE CUTLER: “It sounds like being able to watch my home teams, and bly blessed with great weather and seri- real necessities. I look forward to better do: reading newspapers and books and we’re coping with this horrific pandemic there just isn’t any good substitute for RICH FISHER: “Greetings from Seattle— ous hiking trails and mountains within days and my next Class Note being about watching TV. I greatly miss going to reasonably well. I worry most about this. I have indoor hobbies, mainly gene- home of Amazon, Boeing, Microsoft, a mile from my house. I’ve been hiking, everything on my calendar.” Tulane three times a week and the social our children and grandchildren, nieces alogy research and reading, to keep me Starbucks, and, now, ground zero for doing my artwork, gardening, and I just life that gives us, and we both miss the and nephews. To think of those on the occupied, but I admit I’m consumed with the coronavirus. It was first diagnosed got a bike (an e-bike, which does require In Memoriam ordinary going out that one does in one’s brink of graduations that won’t happen news shows. I look forward to the posi- in January at a nursing facility in Kirk- serious pedaling even with the boost!). life—especially going out to dinner. We is indeed sad. I join with others in not tive changes that can emerge from this.” land, across Lake Washington northeast So I’m out a lot, and everyone I know is George Smith Jr. ’63 are very lucky, though: All our children being able to be with family and friends. of Seattle. Public officials acted promptly healthy, thankfully. I’m enrolled in an October 8, 2019 are here, and we can see all but our oldest The brave work of our essential workers, BONNIE EISENBERG: “I hope all of us stay to initiate shelter-in-place policies that MFA (low-residency) program at Sierra grandchildren. We’re also lucky that no nurses, doctors, caregivers, and others healthy and avoid this horrible, alien successfully bent the infection curve. Nevada University outside Reno on the one close to us, even among friends, has gives solace and comfort to many. For virus invasion. I know there are more Business and recreational activities are shores of Lake Tahoe. I’ll graduate with died of the virus. I worry about my oldest the families of patients who are gravely scientific ways of describing COVID-19, gradually opening up. Seattle is fortunate a master’s degree in interdisciplinary 1964 grandchildren: a first-year law student ill or dying, you have our deepest love. but it does feel ironic that our lives have to have excellent medical centers and arts in August—only a 50-year gap from and a college junior. This is exactly the My days are filled with pastoral care for been taken over by such a tiny microbe research facilities that are now national my BFA from the University of Chicago! LOUISE BERRY STRAIT moment when they should be getting on members of Bethesda Friends Meeting. (is that the correct term?), one having leaders in the study and treatment of Finally, May 14 was my sister’s birth- [email protected] with their lives, when summer intern- My daughter, Mia Cutler Meyer ’94, is such a huge impact. My therapy practice COVID-19. Personally, I miss going to day: Carla Freeman ’61 was three years ships and summer jobs build résumés the clerk of the Sidwell Friends Alumni is entirely by video chat. I’m fortunate to the gym, socializing with friends in per- behind us at Sidwell Friends. Sadly, she NANCY BEITER: “Our generation has lived and set them up to move forward in their Network, so she makes sure I’m involved work and maintain this contact at a time son, and taking dance lessons in swing, passed January 2, 2019, from ovarian through so much: hiding under our careers. I suspect this summer will offer by serving on the grandparents’ steer- of uncertainty and fear. I can’t tell you lindy hop, and waltz. These are minor cancer. Thank you for staying in touch. desks, the Bay of Pigs (anybody remem- them nothing but boredom when they ing committee. The School is doing its how many times the words ‘existential inconveniences compared with the many All visitors to New Mexico are welcome ber sandbagging the School?), the civ- want to be doing.” very best in its Quakerly way by reaching anxiety’ have occurred to me, pointing things I’m grateful for: my own health to my house!” il-rights movement, the Vietnam War, out to those in need in meaningful ways, to the stress of dealing with the uncer- and the sacrifices of health care work- the fall of the Berlin Wall, and then MARY BRALOVE: “Greetings from New with technology, computers, food, and tainty of what will happen and when it ers, first responders, grocery workers, JON GROVE: “I’ve been blessed with a 9/11—to say nothing of catastrophic York City, or, as the media call it, the financial assistance. The future is uncer- will happen, as well as the sense of fra- and delivery drivers, who put their lives divergent career. This spans service in weather events and innumerable mass coronavirus epicenter. I’m holed up in tain for the entire community. Love goes gility and fear for our very existence and on the line to care for the sick and keep the military, at the request of the govern- shootings. This, however, is the strang- my Manhattan apartment and happy to a long way, and you can find it at Sidwell that of our loved ones and friends. On a us fed. I’m fortunate, also, that my fam- ment, in the 101st Airborne in Vietnam, est and, for me, the most disruptive. I’m be so. While many residents have fled Friends.” less somber note, I find wearing masks ily members are all well, including my where I was awarded the Bronze Star. a people person, now living alone with to country houses or to the homes of harder than one might think. I have brother, Mark Fisher ’66, and his fam- Subsequently, I enjoyed a lively legal a cat and a puppy. I’ve set a few proj- relatives or friends in rural areas, the NORM ELROD: “Everyone in my family some very well-made masks, sewn by ily in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; my sister practice throughout the state of Texas ects around the house to complete but city is still packed. It is no exaggera- has thus far been spared the coronavi- an expert quilter and seamstress. The Kristine and her husband in Annisquam, and in the federal courts, including the have only done one or two—with end- tion to report that everyone here knows rus. This doesn’t mean I’m without con- patterns are all of cute dogs. (I’m a dog Massachusetts; and my sister Mary Supreme Court. Last August, my wife, less tomorrows, there’s no pressure to of someone—a friend, a colleague, or a cern or sadness regarding my daughter, lover, and currently have a shih tzu/ Ann, in Bethesda, Maryland. Mary Ann Martha, and I moved from our lakeside start today. I’m fortunate to live in a very relative—who is extremely sick from who’s quarantined and cannot be vis- bichon mix.) I find it’s hard to walk, is a former IBM exec who now provides home in central Texas, with an exten- beautiful part of New Hampshire, with the virus or has died from it. That I can ited due to her profound disabilities. It’s talk, and breathe when I wear a mask. I massage and cranial-sacral therapy to sive 26-mile frontage, to a retirement Mt. Monadnock looming in my back- be holed up here of course is due to the for her own protection, but I’m not even join others in gratitude for all the health horses, dogs, and people. We had a Face- community in the foothills of the Hill yard. We have beautiful sunrises and essential workers: the delivery people so able to visit her through the window care workers, grocery clerks, and others Time call and reached Mary Ann at her Country west of San Antonio. Needless sunsets; on a clear night, the stars are I can get groceries, the doormen so I can because she’s blind. I’m also concerned on the front line who are putting them- barn. One of her horses wandered into to say, this move was, in my opinion, to magnificent. It’s nice to be financially get the groceries to my apartment, and for my oldest son and his family, who selves at risk. I’m grateful that so far my the frame and joined the conversation. the only city in Texas that provides year- okay and not short of food. I have many the sanitation workers for carrying away live in Jackson Heights, Queens, about husband, myself, our children, and two Memories of Mister Ed.” round entertainment while affording a trails close by so walks in nice weather what I couldn’t eat. All my information three blocks from Elmhurst Hospital, the granddaughters are well.” quick exit to our preferred venues, South are a good option. Like many of you, comes from Governor Andrew Cuomo’s bull’s-eye of the epicenter of the epicen- GINNY FANO GHATTAS: “I’m living in and Central America. The recent con- I’m horrified by how the president and daily press conferences. He has been ter. Fortunately, I can Zoom with them, DEBBIE JONES FARQUAR: “As children of Wellesley, Massachusetts, and am hap- ditions created by COVID-19 have low- the healthcare system have completely magnificent in his clarity, humaneness, and both he and his wife telecommute. the 1960s, I suppose we’re all used to pily retired after spending most of my ered these expectations. Our quarantine failed us. But let’s not forget the bright and leadership. (Just one caveat here: My other two sons are both feds and also turbulent times, but current conditions career teaching biology to advanced and doesn’t appear as severe or restrictive as side of seeing wonderful improvements Rudy Giuliani was also terrific during telecommute. The children benefit from seem so surreal. As my father was a dip- at-risk students. Like most of us, I’m in other locations; we benefit from our to our environment and also thank those 9/11.) I miss art galleries, museums, online schooling, but I feel badly for my lomat assigned to ‘hardship’ posts, I’m now homebound but find it pretty easy children and grandchildren being within people who work at places like the World and, most of all, the theater. The current oldest grandson, who’d just finished his used to restrictions and haven’t found to fill and sometimes overfill my time.” the state and available via direct contact Resources Institute who are trying hard thinking is that Broadway won’t open first semester at Oxford College of Emory self-isolation a hardship. As I have and remote live communication. Once

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this period of uncertainty is over, we Maybe we’ll have better control in the welcome, although we are under lock- I have from the Sidwell Friends teach- DOUG ROGERS: “In these frightening times, public servants and the medical profes- intend to visit our relatives throughout fall, maybe COVID will come back only to down at the moment.” ers. This isn’t intended to underestimate family, faith, and health help to get me sion, gratitude for the help offered by the country, particularly in Myrtle Beach a limited extent—maybe. Social distanc- the greats, such as Dater, LeSure, Barger, through, and being fortunate enough our friends and neighbors, and gratitude and Mexico.” ing (not home confinement), masks, and GEORGE MCCLELLAND: “Jacquie and I are Katzenbach, Supervia, Rosebrook, Lob- materially to not worry about food and so for signs of greater concern for the mar- testing will become the new normal. And quarantined in Southborough, Massa- ban, and more. It may in fact be simple forth helps significantly. Being isolated ginalized.” HENRY MASUR, the chief of the Criti- I’m optimistic we’ll have effective drugs, chusetts. Since 1995, I’ve worked with an proof that I was paying more attention from our family has been the main incon- cal Care Medicine Department at the though not a panacea. organization that helps those identified to those around me than what was pre- venience so far. On the other hand, lis- BARBARA SEITZ TURNBULL: “Don and I National Institutes of Health (NIH), as ‘most at risk’ at age 5. Being declared sented in front of me on the blackboard. tening to the news is so outrageous now are doing fine, staying home except for writes: “HIV may not have occurred I’ve seen some of you at the NIH: Norm ‘most at risk’ by the state entails home- However, I think not. You all taught me that I turned tonight to a Disney movie trips to the store or to pick up occasional during our high school days, but it cer- Elrod is one of our champion blood lessness, teenage parents, lack of high so very much, and the wit, humor, and on elephants to relax. I agree with George takeout meals. We’re fortunate to be tainly had an impact on our lives. Like donors. I used to run into some of you in school certification, incarceration, and humanity in which you wrapped those McClelland that it must be very difficult retired and financially secure. We went COVID, at the beginning there was panic DC. Hopefully you’re all coping with iso- drugs. The virus exacerbates this in the lessons was loved and appreciated. for a senior in college now. Of course, on a wonderful trip to New Zealand in and fear: We didn’t know how HIV was lation. I know I’ve cleaned every closet neighborhoods and families we serve. Since that warm June afternoon behind being a senior in college in 1968 was also February. We branched out from Auck- transmitted, how to prevent it, how to and drawer. We finally have one grand- Our mission now includes providing Zartman House over 55 years past, I’m frightening, with the Vietnam War drag- land to tour the North Island and then treat it—we have short memories of child, whom my wife babysits during food and home goods as well as educa- certain that I’ve thought of one or more ging on. I am grateful for our healthcare boarded a cruise ship to circumnavigate the fear of having Ryan White in school, the week, but since I interact with other tion. Fortunately, we currently have no of you each and every day. I thank you all.” workers and many other private citizens the South Island. Fortunately, we got sharing bathrooms, or having food serv- people, I’m told by my daughter, Julia one experiencing homelessness, and the in this country who are performing heroic home on March 2, just ahead of the virus ers with HIV. While none of the answers Masur ’08, to keep at least 10 feet away governor has issued a no-eviction notice. RAY MURPHY: “Glad to hear that (so acts, including our classmate Henry problems here. I’ve been doing a lot of came soon enough for those who per- (six is not good enough for her)!” We take a holistic approach, encom- far) everyone is healthy and coping. Masur at NIH, to resist or ameliorate the reading, word puzzles, and needlepoint. ished in the 1980s, including some Sid- passing entire families, and we have We’re the same. My middle son, usu- effects of COVID-19.” There’s more than enough work to do well Friends graduates who we cared RICHARD MAY: “I’ve found that the gift paid professionals to help the children ally a jet-setting techie, is grounded. My around the house, but I’m finding it dif- for at the NIH, many of the answers of connection is helpful during times develop self-worth. We stay with them youngest is practicing law by phone, her LOUISE BERRY STRAIT: “The weekend of ficult to motivate to do it. The time just (although not a vaccine) came relatively like these. Some of us are comfortable until they graduate high school, which husband is teaching biomedical engi- March 7 was always intended to be busy, seems to go by. I’m getting my news quickly. Now in 2020, there’s a lot we connecting via Zoom, some of us prefer can take 12 to 16 years. Last May, 30 of neering by Zoom, all while stuck in the but it was also destined to be a memo- from the newspaper and pretty much don’t know about COVID, but science is email, some only check in by phone or our students graduated, and another house with four children under 8. My rable end of Before. My husband, Glenn, avoiding TV and online news, which can much more sophisticated now. I’m con- in person. The important thing is con- class graduates soon. I’m current devel- oldest is home with her dentist hus- turned 75, which we commemorated be overwhelming. I miss going out to fident we’ll have drugs, vaccines, and nection. Most of us are people-persons oping a way to help them identify what band. Thankfully, their middle child is with a trip to Longwood Gardens in lunch or dinner with friends, especially better diagnostic strategies—although to some degree. There has been a debate further education they may need: trade married and lives in Arlington, so she’s Pennsylvania and a dinner with our son our local Sidwell Friends monthly Rock not soon enough. As Brad Pitt said on in The New Yorker about the difference school or college. Looking back to Sid- doing our grocery shopping—a godsend. Graeson and his girlfriend at a restau- Bottom group. I keep in touch via tele- Saturday Night Live, “soon” is relative: between loneliness and solitude. Solitude well Friends in the 1960s, I remember We do a lot of Zooming. We’ve had happy rant in Bethesda. Additionally, we met phone and email, but it’s not the same. “soon” in the history of humankind? doesn’t have to be lonely, and lonely can how lucky we were. Yes, we had tur- hours with classmates, which is fun. friends at The Music Center at Strath- I also miss visits with family: Don’s “Soon” as in the beginning of summer? exist in an unhappy marriage. Human moil; some of us served in Vietnam even And we’re fortunate to have attended more for a concert featuring Vivaldi. brother in Columbia, Maryland, and my Or “soon” in terms of when dinner is connection is important. Julie and I are though we protested the war. But to have the Shaw Festival in Ontario for many Such delights are now remembered as cousins in Glen Rock, Pennsylvania. We ready? These advances will happen, but hunkering down at home, still working our class populated with divergent per- years, and we have a Zoom group who Last Excursion, Last Restaurant Meal, too are most grateful for all those who not soon enough for those who are ill. remotely at our financial-services busi- sonalities and exceptional people was shares a house there each August that Last Event. Shortly thereafter, the can- risk their lives going to work to sup- ness. She works in our library, and I work a gift. The teachers were so good, they has given us a stimulating group who celations started, including, especially port the rest of us and to keep us safe I’m alternately gratified and distressed in our carriage house, which doubles as a compared well to those I had in college. all love wine. Besides Netflix, Jennifer is regrettably, our Sidwell Friends ’64 and provide things we need. I hope all of that physicians in our critical-care man cave. No hardship there. The horse Perhaps the most lasting lesson, which nearly finished with a jigsaw of a lovely lunch. Who could have predicted that you and your families stay healthy and department have proclaimed me ‘too was removed over a century ago. She’s is central to my life, was the Quaker out- Paris scene, and I’m plugging away at a getting groceries into the house would safe. We’ll get through this, though who old’ to see COVID patients, given that still active in theater, and I’m busy with reach to those less fortunate.” model of Fallingwater that has just been become a pursuit bordering on obses- knows when.” age is such a striking risk factor for mor- multiple nonprofits. In the middle of a waiting for this opportunity since my sion? That simplification and solitude tality. I listen remotely from my desk as pandemic, I’m starting a new nonprofit DUSTY MURDOCK: “Everything is fine here daughter gave it to me eight years ago. could be both a blessing and a burden? LEA JABLONSKY UHRE: “Curt and I moved they examine COVID patients—though to bring theater to a declining but prom- in the hinterlands of northeast Ohio. We The pleasures of COVID-19.” That formerly distant concerns about to San Diego in the fall to be near our we haven’t been overwhelmed com- ising old steel town, Coatesville, Penn- are fortunate to live in a pastoral, syl- the future—like advance directives and two girls and their families. Little did pared with other area hospitals. We’re sylvania. Our daughter lives nearby, with van setting that affords us space and SUSAN GALLIHER PICARD: “As I read about the fate of our three children and five we realize by March we’d be in isolation, confident our staff can avoid COVID but her husband.” solitude, with many more four-legged everyone staying home and healthy, I grandchildren—could take on such sud- responding to a global crisis that has fearful that one community-acquired neighbors than those walking on two. consider all of us blessed. Greg and I are den immediacy? This was brought home produced rules and guidelines that affect case could decimate our capacity to pro- MARILYN MELLOWES: “After 30 years at These days are bewildering. Fortunately, enjoying retirement in Myrtle Beach: he for me when I learned my daughter-in- our everyday lives. Thank goodness for vide care. We have enough personal pro- WGBH/Boston, I retired as a producer there is no sickness in our sphere of on the golf course and me at the beach. law in London had contracted COVID- online groceries! Fortunately, our chil- tective equipment (PPE) for staff, but and writer on documentary films. My family, loved ones, and friends. Some of All of our “grands” are four-legged, as 19. She’s recovering, but the next blow dren and their families are healthy and even the NIH is suddenly doing a daily best-known work remains the Frontline us have composed a list of ‘Good Stuff’ our kids opted not to have kids of their for our serenity was the news that our safe. Their professions enable them to inventory to determine our burn rate for series “From Jesus to Christ: The First that will or may emerge from this pan- own. We do, however, have six grand- son, who lives in DC, has symptoms of work from home, and they are learn- masks and gowns. We compete for PPE Christians,” about the origins of Chris- demic. There aren’t enough inclusions children and two great-grandchildren the virus and is waiting to be tested. But ing to juggle schedules for children and on the open market. It’s a scandal there tianity. Today, I live in an assisted-living on the list, but there are more than one by proxy; my friend of 30 years gra- these worries have been interlaced with work. The grandchildren refer to the isn’t enough PPE for workers in hospi- facility not far from my home in Cam- may expect. Those who know me well are ciously shares her kids and grands with gratitude. Gratitude for me and Glenn’s virus as ‘The Germ’ and are eager to have tals, nursing homes, prisons, social-ser- bridge, Massachusetts. There is plenty familiar with my credo that I’ve learned us, which is wonderful for everyone.” ongoing health, gratitude for our safety it disappear. They miss excursions to the vice agencies, meatpacking plants, etc. of time to read, and visitors are most at least as much from my classmates as and relative prosperity, gratitude for our parks and beaches. We stay in touch by

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FaceTime and Zoom, but we do miss VAN WOOD: “Molly and I are staying close Vermont. I miss my buddies at the coffee missing the volunteer work I was doing Christmas. She’s working with a com- goats, Fred and Ginger, and our 4-year- those hugs. In additional to reading, to home, not much different from the shops I frequent. One is at the Massa- in Alaska with refugees in low-income pany that manufactures unique anti- old Arabian, Sonata. Thank goodness for crossword puzzles, and TCM movies, I status quo ante. The big difference is that chusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, schools. Now retired, we travel most of microbial products and is deep into the FaceTime, which allows us to converse have started assembling a dollhouse for I now do the grocery shopping. Molly where there are lots of interesting artists the summer.” fight against the coronavirus. Here’s with our six grandchildren.” one of the grandchildren. Working on has somewhat limited mobility due to and foreign visitors. Another is in the hoping that my fellow classmates stay home and garden projects also keeps arthritis and COPD. Molly had a mild middle of the Williams College campus. TONY FARRELL reminisces: “Reading safe, healthy, and happy.” KATE WAITS: “My daughter, Marcia us busy. Spending time in the garden is stroke last month but is now home and The big activity I’m missing out on is the about the new Upton Street campus takes Belsky, is a Brooklyn-based come- a great solace for me. Some mornings recovering well. I spend a lot of time on North Adams Fall Foliage Parade Com- me back to when my father spent his last JEFF COHEN and wife, Beth, are shelter- dian. She has recently been featured in a small bunny sits on the lawn nearby my rowing machine watching old Brit- mittee. Each year, we plan and execute days in the Washington Home hospice. ing in place in Boca Raton, Florida: “As two separate short videos on the Com- while I dig. Despite the chaos, I enjoy the coms and listening to or watching music. the parade, raise support, and market I often visited dad with my mother. Art the weather is sunny and warm, we walk edy Central YouTube channel. Google solitude and have found time to write, A recent episode of Mozart in the Jungle the event in the community. Usually, at Buchwald, the renowned columnist, was five miles a day, swim occasionally, and ‘Marcia Belsky YouTube Comedy Cen- stay in touch with friends, and work on prompted to me to watch the video of this point, we’d be working with schools there and overstayed his welcome long I bike over six miles a day. I also visit tral’ and you should see ‘The Dumbest some new archive projects. I’m grateful Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Mahler to come up with a theme for the parade.” enough to write a book about the experi- the refrigerator and/or freezer regularly Things NASA Has Ever Done’ (5:32 long) for those on the front lines. I worry about 8th Symphony in Caracas, Venezuela. ence, Too Soon to Say Goodbye. My father so despite the unusual amount of exer- and ‘What the World Is Like When Your those struggling with everyday exis- Spectacular! I was in tears as my pulse delighted in that story. My last words to cise, I’ve only lost 10 pounds. We await Phone Dies’ (8:20). Enjoy!” tence. Seeing long lines of cars in front reached 140 bpm. Our daughter, Sarah, him were, “Hail to the Redskins,” a silly the opportunity to safely return to Great of food banks is very distressing. I hope has a PhD in Spanish, thanks to a con- 1966 lyric that was my shorthand for more Barrington for the summer. Thinking of FROM THE EDITOR we’ll learn some lessons about leader- versation with Sra. Supervia in or about than 40 years of pure joy and so many Charley’s specials and four-square ball I watched. She’s really, really funny! ship and preparedness.” 1980. She’s also a lawyer and is working CHRIS DEMATATIS sweet, happy memories that we shared. games in front of the gym. Best wishes as guardian ad litem in Durham, North [email protected] When Washington Home’s memorial to all!” ROLLIE FRYE: “Susan’s and my son, Jody DAVID WILSON: “I’m in good health, Carolina, where her husband, Ken, is the bricks were removed, we retrieved dad’s Frye ’12, is teaching English to mid- and I’ve been retired for a while, so my chief of staff at the VA hospital. Their JEFFREY PARKER: “I tried retiring from and it’s now in my sister’s Georgetown CHRIS KNOWLES continues to work on dle-school students in Odate, Japan, on income isn’t affected. All in all, I’m fine. twin sons get their PhDs this year: Sam in my real estate development business garden. I’ll feel nostalgic when returning his latest novel. This one is titled Skip- a fellowship from the Japanese govern- Many of the people living around me geology from MIT and Nat in chemistry but got bored. So, I started a new career to the school’s new campus.” ping Stones: The Oil War of Hypersonics. It ment. He received his master’s in educa- aren’t. I’m in Flushing, about three miles from CalTech. Their younger son, Jacob, and formed JC BioSciences with my son, deals with hypersonic technology and the tion last year after teaching elementary east of the Queens epicenter—Corona, graduates from Case Western Reserve Jameson. We are focused on extend- BOB KRAMER, our ever-energetic class- oil-market crisis that exists between Rus- school for three years in DC.” Elmhurst, and Jackson Heights. Those Univerisity shortly. Our son, Hoyt, has ing the healthy lifespan of people and mate, takes on new responsibilities: sia and Saudi Arabia. How timely, Chris! are relatively poor immigrant commu- been managing the family business for a their pets. Slowing, stopping, and even “Just as Diane and I were settling into MERLE LADD SILVERMAN remembers nities; people live packed together, lack few years with his wife, Jen. His daugh- reversing aging is no longer science fic- retirement here in Annapolis and eager fondly her years at Sidwell Friends, and healthcare coverage, and are largely ter, Lydia, is a studio painter and works tion. It’s a rapidly approaching revolu- to enjoy our grandkids, along came the she invites any of her classmates inter- the essential workers who interact with for the business. His son, Logan, is fin- tion. We are one of more than 100 start- coronavirus pandemic. National atten- 1968 ested in reconnecting to email her at people and ride mass transit. Flushing ishing up at Greenfield Community Col- ups in this field. About two months ago, tion was suddenly focused on elder care [email protected]. is an immigrant community, too, but lege. The business is closed due to the we re-tasked our researchers to COVID- and even on the implicit and, at times ROLLIE FRYE the demographic is much more mid- pandemic, and we’re not sure when we’ll 19. Living to 120 requires surviving the such as this, blatant ageism of our health [email protected] STEVE MELTZER: “If you have to be locked dle-class Asian, so we have a compar- open again.” next few months. Much to my surprise, system and broader society. All of this down, this is a nice place to do it. As for atively low mortality rate. But there are we have found three promising treat- has caused me to launch a new venture, CATHERINE O’NEILL GRACE: “Greetings social distancing, out here in rural Yon- a lot of nursing homes. One small place DOUG YRIART: “Life here in the Berkshires ments to prevent or cure the disease. We Nexus Insights, whose purpose is to from my desk in Sherborn, Massachu- derville, it has been a way of life forever. a few blocks away had something like continues, with some obvious modifi- hope to start testing within a month.” help rethink aging from every angle— setts, where I am working remotely on Madding crowd? We don’t see one. We 26 deaths in two weeks, and they may cations to accommodate social distanc- meaning how we view the role and value the writing and editing I do for Wellesley see 50 shades of green. Peace and cour- have been underreporting. The situa- ing. Zoom has become a major factor in of older adults, the aging process, and Magazine. We were sent home on March age, classmates. Stay safe.” (See photo tion is better, but you can still walk down my life. I’m helping my grandchildren in aging services—including how we serve 13 and have been a virtual staff ever below.) a nearly empty street and not see a full Nashville, ages 9 and 6, with schoolwork older adults and how they serve society. since, with twice-daily Zoom meetings. 1967 We’re very proud of the spring issue, human face—just a masked figure or every day. I have a much better appreci- There is more at nexusinsights.net. I am LAURIE PRICE: “Bryan and I have been two. It’s strangely like being in one of ation of teachers. Who knew there was STEVE BATZELL writing, blogging, speaking, and enjoy- which you can find atmagazine.wellesley. greatly enjoying retirement from teach- those bad science-fiction movies from so much planning? Clarksburg is a tiny [email protected] ing this opportunity to help address edu. I have no plans to retire, although I ing at Cal State. In 2019, we spent a when we were young. I’ve experienced town next to Massachusetts’s smallest the challenges and opportunities of the will be furloughed this summer for about worse: I was in Haiti researching an arti- city, North Adams. I live on a mountain MARY LEE PLUMB-MENTJES checks in from post-COVID-19 era.” six weeks—a first in my career! I plan to cle back in January 2010. That’s when road with neighbors spaced several hun- her newish digs in Austin, Texas: “In spend the enforced downtime working the earthquake struck. You got used to dred yards apart. We wave as we pass May, my husband Conrad and I cele- BOBBY MILLS sends greetings from the on my memoir about my childhood in walking past bodies in the street; at the in vehicles. I miss going to the gym and brated our 40th wedding anniversary. Delaware Shore: “My daughter, Blair, India. I miss you all and am so grate- Port-au-Prince hospital, I saw hundreds swimming, but I make up for it by hiking We met while I was finishing my doctor- was quarantined with us for three weeks, ful that we were able to be together two of bodies stacked up outside the morgue. up and down my very steep mountain. ate at the University of Wisconsin, Mad- so she and I ran four 5K races in my years ago for our 50th. Stay well, stay Still, Haiti’s an impoverished country I do a more than two-mile round trip ison. Subsequently, I worked for the U.S. neighborhood to stay in shape. So fun to safe, stay six feet apart!” with a dysfunctional government, and in 45 minutes. I miss going out to din- Army Corps of Engineers for 30 years (26 run with her and catch up. Lots of face JANNE HEIFETZ: after six days, I’d managed to get back ner and brunch with my best friend. She years of which were spent in Anchorage, time with our beautiful granddaughter, “We have retired from Alaska) managing environmental-reg- the music institute and are sequestered home. Now home is where the catastro- and I also liked to go exploring in south- Bryce Kelly, in Houston—with the hope Meltzer Steve Courtesy ulation projects. Right now, I’m really that we can finally go see her again for on our little farm in Virginia with our phe is.” ern Berkshire County and north into Steve Meltzer’s ’68 “neighborhood” in rural France

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month traveling in Scandinavia, Ger- the casinos closed, the economic conse- that award and the others when the din- of Earth Day staff in April and planned to for a roll of paper towels. This situa- many, Austria, and Holland; it turns out quences have been crippling. With that ner actually occurs. Also, my son, Derek, visit friends beforehand. Sadly, it was a tion is bringing a lot of strangers closer to have been great timing. More recently, comes the pressure to reopen. This is the will be starting in the fall a PhD program virtual reunion.” together. A silver lining.” our yard shows signs of pruning prog- sixth rez I’ve worked on. Especially in at the University of Texas, Austin. His PhD ress (even though California biomass this COVID time, please keep posted on will be in ancient Greek political philoso- HORACE BRADSHAW: “Guys, this is a dis- KAREN KENNEDY SCHULTZ: “Living in Win- can be hard to tame). I’ve been cooking how this disease is ravaging America’s phy. He reads the Great Books in ancient turbing adventure. Rarely have Martha chester, Virginia, in the Shenandoah many new dishes, especially non-meat most overlooked citizens.” Greek. My wonderful wife, Mari, contin- and I been more concerned about others, Valley is not far from DC but seemingly dishes as we make progress toward that ues her marketing and graphic-design especially the young families. Clearly the worlds away. Whenever this situation is goal. We are devoted pet-parents to our CAROL SISCO reports the death of her wife work with local independent schools and confusion is somewhat contrived—why over, the Class of 1971 has an open invi-

15-year-old labradoodle and 15-year- Miller Ann Farner Courtesy and partner of 35 years, Marjorie A. Voith, other nonprofits.” no testing? etc.—but we really are all tation to visit. The Apple Blossom Festi-

old kitty. Even the garage cleaning has David Miller and Larry Turner in November 2019. Carol noted: “Though in this together. My 9-year-old grand- val, canceled for this year, is a must-see begun! Since early 2019, I’ve been on a I miss Marge enormously, I look forward son has remained with us to be home- the first weekend in May! The peace and to getting together with all our class- schooled because Martha is a teacher. reflection learned from 13 years of Quaker (county-level) Sierra Club board, mostly US ambassador to Canada from 1948 to mates at our 50th Reunion in October.” This virus has hit close to home; his meetings at Sidwell Friends instill some working on conserving local green space 1950. He died in a U.S. Embassy plane 1971 other grandad died from complica- peace and equal amounts of activism in and advancing clean-energy initia- crash on March 28, 1950, in the Ottawa CHRIS FORMANT has been named the MARY REYNER tions of COVID. He died in Dallas, alone, me. January 1 of this year marked my tives. I’m also helping with an archive/ suburb of Ramsayville. Little did I real- president and CEO of Avocado Systems, [email protected] because no one was allowed to com- retirement after 40 years of academia museum exhibit devoted to the 2020 ize, I would be staring back at myself the Silicon Valley–based leader in appli- fort him. That’s one of the very difficult and professorship. But I got called back Flagstaff Visioning Project. (I worked on the Ottawa 6 pm and 11 pm Canadian cation pico-segmentation and security FROM THE CLASS REP. aspects of this thing. ‘Social distancing’ for another two-month spring stint in on this city/regional planning project in national news. And it’s true, the cam- technology. Chris and his fiancée, Cindy, means ‘no touching,’ and ‘quarantine’ our School of Pharmacy, which was very 1996 while teaching at Northern Arizona era adds at least 10 pounds! New Year’s Mary Reyner and Brian Steinbach asked the spend their time in their home bases of Class of 1971 at the beginning of April how they means ‘alone.’ That’s depressing. I trust enjoyable and heartwarming even if it University.) I’ve started to put together a resolution: Stay away from the camera website where I hope to post my articles Baltimore, Sedona, and Silicon Valley. were coping with the COVID-19 emergency. Over that it will be a wake-up call for many. was online. Thank goodness for Zoom- (unless you are our dear Chris Tufty). the next month, 27 classmates responded with (and who knows what else) sometime This virus has killed thousands. Our hate ing with students and our children and Also had a fab time over lunch last fall thoughtful and caring comments, song, and this year. , Friends!” RICHARD MURRAY: “I’m ‘retired’ and liv- and disrespect for the environment kill their family in Williamsburg and Atlanta. Salud with Margaret Krull and Nancy Broom- poetry. Their own updates are also included. ing in Philadelphia. I have extended far more each hour. Maybe we will do a Stay safe and connected.” field Aiken. What a soul balm that was! family staying with me so I can help with better job loving.” Three savvy, stronger women you’ll TOM PLUMB: “I live in Honduras full time. childcare while the working parents are JOHN EMORY: “I still go to my office each never meet. I drove home humming the The country has reacted extremely well, busy Zooming around the internet. Our PAT JONES WILL: “We sold our home of 28 day, since I’m designated as essential per- old Girl Scout campfire rondo, ‘Make though it’s almost martial law. You can 1970 granddaughter is now 3 and staying with years in Maryland and moved to Texas sonnel, but over 90 percent of our entire new friends, but keep the old, one is sil- only venture to banks, grocery stores, MARGARET WEAVER KRULL us. Our grandson (on my son’s side) to be closer to our son and his fam- project staff is now teleworking. (No more ver and the other gold.’ I’m still helming or pharmacies once a week. You must [email protected] just turned 5. He was born just as I was ily. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, rush hour traffic! COVID-19 may end up my little company, Greystone Appraisals wear masks and gloves. No one can enter landing in DC for our last Reunion! I’m we aren’t seeing our granddaughter as being a partial solution to global warm- LLC. Last year, I had the pinnacle client or leave your community. If you violate ELLEN HOPMAN: “Another year, another spending my time between Spire Health much as we wanted. The stay-at-home ing.) My sister, Kit Emory ’74, and her of my career. Bound by ethics/privacy, the rules, you spend 24 hours in the soc- book. This April, The Sacred Herbs of and the Asthma and Allergy Foundation rule has allowed us to finish many of husband are in forced unemployment, and I cannot name the client, but I can say cer stadium or, if in a vehicle, lose your Spring (Inner Traditions Bear & Co.) of America. (AAFA). Both are now heav- the home projects we planned. One was my brother, Marc, is idle because every it was a direct descendant of Mr. Louis license and your car gets impounded. came out, and I am currently work- ily focused on how we can help with the scanning all the nondigital pictures I’d country in Europe has closed its borders. Comfort Tiffany. I had the privilege of The municipality sprays the streets with ing on a children’s book about ancient COVID-19 situation. Our AAFA mem- taken over the years—the trip to Natu- Despite the market crash, I’m still expect- holding Mr. Tiffany’s personal gold disinfectant. Police and military guard European seasonal festivals. I still live bers need reliable information about the ral Bridge, the Oklahoma performance, ing to retire at the beginning of next year.” pocket watch in my hands. Never a dull the town lines. The government dis- in an oak forest in New England, where intersection of allergies, asthma, and the Latin Banquet!—and putting them moment in my world.” tributes food: rice, beans, tortilla flour, deer and moose are my neighbors.” (See COVID, and we’re providing it. At Spire on a dedicated server. Prior to confine- PETER RADUE: “Out here in Mount Airy, etc. I play a lot with my 9-year-old son “Fresh Ink,” on page 40.) Health, we’re using Health Tag respi- ment, I was learning to play pickleball, Maryland, horses still get sick and JEFFREY MAZIQUE offer a quote from Albert (who is being educated via Zoom). Oth- ratory physiology sensors to see how doing yoga and Pilates, playing bridge, injured, so I’m working on a limited Camus’s, The Plague: “But what does it erwise, I sit on my porch, listening to ANN FARNER MILLER: “Last Thanksgiving, we can use remote patient monitoring and walking on one of the many trails basis. I try for as little human contact as mean, the plague? It’s life, that’s all.” the birds, doing Facebook and social while we were visiting DC, David Miller to keep uninfected patients away from in the San Antonio and San Marcos area. possible. The dyspeptic in my profes- He then shares: “I rented out my house media, and occasionally watching Ama- P’92 looked up Larry Turner, a former places where they might become infected The spring project is growing vegetables sion say it has turned into their dream in Maryland and took a locum tenens job zon Prime. I stare at a painting project in Upper School history teacher, and they (like clinics and hospitals) and to help in containers—a novel idea for me, as I job—interacting with animals and tell- on the Sault Ste. Marie Reservation at my house, but the brushes never seem to had a good meeting over coffee. They monitor and manage them in their own had three acres for this at our Maryland ing their owners to go away. Reality the very northern tip of Michigan, right move. Maybe today. I’m still working to overlapped at Sidwell Friends in the late homes. I’m enjoying the opportunity to home, and the climate here is so differ- check: One of my associates had COVID- across Lake Superior from Canada. I’m improve the basic needs of Hondurans. 1960s and early 1970s, and both have a help out!” ent. I’m enjoying the enforced time at 19. He was miserable for a week and had the designated COVID hunter—screen- I recently completed a grant request to particular appreciation for the Class of home. Nightly walks around our com- an intractable cough. A client is a nurse ing for the virus on the rez. The gown, the Rotary Foundation for a clean-wa- 1970.” (See photo above.) PALMER FORET: “As I write, I’m on the munity allow us to interact with neigh- at the local nursing home where 66 of the gloves, the mask, the face shield— ter system to serve 5,000 people. How- Zoom for the annual awards dinner of DC bors, many of whom are sitting on their 95 residents tested positive and 24 have again, and again, and again. Plus the ever, all of my projects are in limbo now. LAURENE SHERLOCK: “Well, in the for- Trial Lawyers (TLA-DC), which was to be porches or walk, like we do. It’s a very died. Everybody be well and safe and constant shortage of PPE, shortage of Fortunately, two water projects serving what-it’s-worth department, I was tonight. So, coronavirus has postponed active neighborhood with lots of diverse wash your hands.” testing material. Taking off your clothes a total of 11,000 people were halted at a invited to Ottawa in January to attend our Reunion and the awards dinner. I am people. Since a high density of age 60 or before entering the house; if you dare go point where water was at least flowing. a video presentation and gathering on a past president of TLA-DC and am priv- older people live here, everyone looks CYNTHIA DODGE: “My family is spread out, to the grocery store with scrubs, cus- The wiring of a technical school only got the 70th anniversary of the death of my ileged to be honored this year as TLA-DC out for their neighbors, inquires about so we’ve video-chatted on Hangouts and tomers give you wide berth. Unemploy- as far as the delivery of materials. I was grandfather, Laurence Steinhardt, the Trial Lawyer of the Year. We will celebrate their needs, exchanges a bottle of wine played board games. 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have been a time of caregiving. My smelling the lemon-tree blossoms. In so she’s happy to be off work and in enables volunteers to donate spare com- in the spring, high season for festivals. granddaughter has a heart problem (no this setting, it’s hard to believe the world the saddle. The lockdown has also put puting power to help scientists solve I whine about canceled shows but worry left ventricle), so I spent seven months is in chaos. I’m still the CEO of Make- a crimp in musical endeavors—what the world’s biggest problems in health more about the damage felt by gig and in Massachusetts helping my daughter A-Wish Arizona. I originally planned to would be prime winery-gig season has and sustainability: worldcommunitygrid. hospitality workers. Many musicians

and her wife care for Ida during her first Arts Photographic of Florida Museum retire last October, but here I am. Arizona gone to hell. Good time to better learn org. It is beginning a project in which have turned to virtual shows. The ones two surgeries. She’ll have a third surgery is the founding chapter of Make-A-Wish my recording software and gig virtually. individuals can donate their computer I’ve checked out were spirited and laced in about a year, but she’s doing really and our 40th anniversary was in April. I Speaking of which, perhaps this may be resources to provide the computing with we’ll-get-through-this humor. well. Then my 95-year-old mother fell, decided to stay for all the fabulous anni- calming: bit.ly/3dMyK2g.” power needed to help scientists find a We’ve donated money to support gig- broke a rib, and was hospitalized. I went versary celebrations, and I committed to vaccine or treatment for COVID-19. See: less musicians. At least our Democratic to Nebraska to set up the care she needed October 2020. Now, instead of basking DOUG COLE: “Greetings from the Bay ibm.org/OpenPandemics.” governor acted decisively, implement- Dorothy Davis ’71 curated Griff Davis-Langston Hughes, Let - so she could return to living in her house. ters and Photographs, 1947-1967: A Global Friendship at the in the glory of our most successful event Area. We’re many weeks into our shel- ing shelter-in-place ahead of the virus’s I also helped clean up all those things Florida Museum of Photographic Arts ever (she said confidently), I’m mired ter-in-place life, and a new normal has KENNY MCCAULEY: “It’s fascinating how spread. Unfortunately for New Orle- (such as income taxes) that are part of in the disappointment of telling criti- settled in. I’m teaching drama classes everyone is adapting during this test ans, it came after the supremely unso- daily living. I’m back home now hunker- DOROTHY DAVIS: “I’m on the outskirts cally ill children, whose suitcases were from home. I did a storytelling perfor- of humanity. The Marx Brothers’ films cial-distancing of Mardi Gras. There are ing down and planning to return to vol- of Tampa, Florida, self-isolating at a literally packed, that their wishes have mance, and about 200 kids tuned in. It’s depicted Hollywood learning to use the still yahoos around who think COVID-19 unteering at the local women’s shelter. friend’s condo. Normally, I’d be home on been postponed. We budgeted for 420 like my own little TV show! I’ll be doing motion-picture camera to entertain us, is a liberal hoax. We’re in the middle of Given the increase in domestic violence Roosevelt Island in New York. However, wishes for this fiscal year and will prob- these regularly if any young’uns you and we’ve watched that learning curve Trumplandia and the Fox News bubble. because of stay-at-home orders and the I curated an exhibition of my father’s ably grant 250. There will be 650 chil- know want to tune in: dougsdrama.com. improve ever since. Today, we produce Lafayette is a small purple smudge on lack of volunteers, they need the help. photographs and letters (griffdavis.com) dren who have qualified for wishes and I recently completed a screenplay called television remotely. Colbert, Fallon, and a very red map. Our congressman made So far, my immediate family remains with Langston Hughes, Griff Davis- are waiting, with more qualified each A Thin Place about a successful lawyer Meyers are doing terrific shows from national news for criticizing the man- asymptomatic. Fingers crossed and fre- Langston Hughes, Letters and Photographs, day. I’m so grateful the Payroll Protec- who’s involved in a serious DUI, injur- home. This January marked my 30th year date to close nonessential businesses. quently washed. Please stay healthy.” 1947-1967: A Global Friendship, at the tion Program allows us to keep our staff. ing a 15-year-old girl, and is sentenced living with HIV. I thank Sidwell Friends The administration’s handling of the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts I’m also involved in discussions about to a two-year prison term. Prison opens for giving me the tools I needed: Never pandemic is cruel and unusual, a poorly MICHELE BOND: “Cliff and I are stay- (fmopa.org), and my brother convinced the immediate future for Wish kids. his eyes to the inequities of the crim- stop looking for answers. Think for your- produced reality show gone amok. On a ing obediently at home in DC with our me to stay. Then we were on lockdown. When will we feel comfortable putting inal-justice system. Upon release, he self. I talked to lots of people who took lighter note, we’re both healthy, putting youngest son, who fortunately can I walk every day or so, a bandana on immune-suppressed kids on airplanes? has to rebuild his life—professionally, AZT, which was the only ‘remedy’ in on a few pounds with the gym closed and telework. Our other kids are also tele- my face, a six-foot distance from the This is big: 77 percent of our wishes psychologically, romantically, spiritu- 1990. They told me it helps for 90 days the liquor stores open. Hope everyone working, in New York City, Berlin, and few people I encounter. I’m clearing involve travel. While I’m a bit sad about ally. He’s a talented but out-of-prac- then kills you in six months to two years. stays healthy, and we can make it to a London. I hope we can continue to stay my administrative backlog. I’m close to no celebrations, I’m happy to be helping tice musician, and part of his journey is So, when my doctor offered me AZT, 50th Reunion.” healthy. There’s a lot of WhatsApp in starting to write, taking time to reflect this organization get through a horri- allowing music to become a more deeply I said no and lived to tell the tale. The our daily routine, especially with our on what I want to do going forward. ble time. Frank and I miss our families felt aspect of his life. There’s a lot of government responses to HIV and the JERRY CAVE: “Sheila and I left Maryland 9-month-old granddaughter in London. I’m in touch with family, friends, and and are grateful for Zoom. Frank retired live music and dance in the script, per- coronavirus are similar: Reagan ignored and my Washington Home & Garden mag- Just learned a second grandchild is due colleagues; talk to my daughter every about four years ago and tolerates my formed by Bay Area folks I play with. It HIV for four years. The current presi- azine empire and moved to New Orle- in September, in New York! I am grateful day; catch up on movies and TV; and presence in the house pretty well—I’m takes place in Oakland and would be shot dent ignored COVID during the infec- ans two and a half years ago to chase for DC’s gorgeous spring weather. I’ve am trying to improve my cooking. Kofi clearly invading his space. Looking for- in Oakland venues where I perform. I’ve tion’s most critical months. Some ran- our grandchildren. Everyone said it was been trying lots of new recipes and trying Annan once told me privately that the ward to our 50th Reunion.” begun to shop the script. Some folks in dom thoughts: Remember in 8th grade a mistake. They were wrong. NOLA is to remember what day it is. So grateful to world ‘was not going to return to normal’ Hollywood have expressed interest, so when Mr. LeSure taught us how to buy hilarious. Total fun. Dead opposite of the medical community who are having after 9/11. I agreed. Publicly, he said the GISELLE DONNELLY: “Even if there’s a new fingers crossed. If anybody has con- a car? Find an elderly person who’s no DC. Everyone talks to everyone—and I to face this scary threat head on. Looking opposite. This is happening now. The post-pandemic version of normal ahead, tacts in the world of film or TV, let me longer able to drive, and we’d also find a mean everyone. No one asks you what forward to next year’s Reunion.” world isn’t going to return to normal! let’s hope it doesn’t put the kibosh on our know. And if anyone wants to read it, I’m like-new, routinely serviced car with low you do for a living. They don’t care. If This could have been avoided through 50th; there’s all the more reason to seize happy to get input from smart, cool folks mileage that we could purchase at a great you are fun and funny, you are in. Seri- JO ANN ROSENFELD: “Along with one of my proper preparation after the lessons that coming day. Life hasn’t changed so like you! Check out our blues band’s price. I was once in a position to make ous, not so much. Lots of fun all the time. daughters, I am in the wilds of northern of Ebola. Having been involved in that terribly much for me as I mostly write for Facebook page, ‘Margie Turner and the such a purchase. Thanks, Mr. LeSure! Sadly, the mortality rate for the virus is California. Very little virus here, thank epidemic from New York as it unfolded a living and have been working a lot from OutBack Blues Band.’ I miss playing live Finally, I was sorry to hear of Mrs. Rudz- so bad here because of the high rates of goodness, but we are all sheltering in in Liberia and having seen true U.S. home now for several years. Coronavi- music.” ki’s passing. I had hoped to see her at our obesity, type-2 diabetes, and high blood place. Being a partly retired doctor, I global leadership, I know what should be rus is one of the few bugs my computer 50th Reunion. We were so fortunate to pressure. My family is very lucky. We work three and a half days per week, one happening at the federal level. It didn’t hasn’t got, so far at least. What used to JAMES SLADE: “I’m still studying psy- have such excellent teachers.” are healthy. My business is bad but not day at a tribal health location and the have to get this bad. The pandemic is be antisocial behavior is now responsi- chology at Syracuse University, and I’ve terrible, my grandchildren are here all other in a private office, wearing masks showing the world our systemic failures. ble social distancing. Like everyone, I’ve taken classes at the Central New York STEVE CRAIG: “Sharon and I live in Lafay- the time, and—I can’t resist this one— and other PPE. I am also one of the doc- The White House’s inaction and lack done a whole lot of Zooming these past Golf Academy. At the end of February, I ette, Louisiana, with our two cats in a Donald Trump is still our president.” tors at the hospice where we face the of planning are unconscionable. We’re weeks and even learned how to change went to the North Carolina v. Syracuse funky 1950s ranch house on a beautiful question of how we can let someone die all Americans and dependent on each the background. My health is good, and basketball game at the Carrier Dome. It tree-covered lot. The vibrant live-music DAVID MARKUN: “I walk daily, mostly in alone. Will we get the virus in May, June, other to get through this.” (See photo I have a garden to keep me busy. Age was funny that Tom Brady was a spec- scene with its gumbo of zydeco, Cajun, local (Lexington, Massachusetts) wood- July, or August instead? Why is there a above.) forced me to stop playing competi- tator at the game and he got booed. blues, country, and swamp pop drew lands, where I play dodge-the-hu- shortage of yeast? This is all very com- tive soccer a few years ago, but biking While in Syracuse, I took golf classes us here. Lafayette has a disproportion- mans. People are mostly masked and plicated. The dogs love it though, and I ELIZABETH “BUFFY” RHODES REICH: “I’m is probably a more appropriate activ- with Marty Nowicki. I am an avid mem- ately large restaurant scene. The musi- polite; many are also playing dodge- hope all of you stay well.” typing in our kitchen enjoying the beau- ity anyway. My wife is a biking maniac ber of the World Community Grid, which cians, clubs, dance halls, and restau- the-humans. Sometimes I walk with my tiful 80-degree Arizona weather and who rides several hundred miles a week, rants all depend on tourists, especially

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longtime girlfriend, Ruth. She and I are pastors at our congregation in Pensac- choices. I’m helping my Jewish Commu- any new cases, we had a new one just in MIKE WILLIAMS: “Hello from the United on what it all means. At the same time, socially distanced (for as long as we can ola, I’m coming up with new ways to nity Center call seniors (like me? Yikes!) the neighboring suburb down the road, Kingdom. My wife and I are both fur- as of April 1, I formally changed to an ‘of stand that), which is easier than if we keep people connected while our wor- to make sure they’re okay. We know a fair and we have not heard about its origins loughed and under lockdown with our counsel’ status as part of a transition to lived in the same house. As a retiree who ship and other activities are suspended, number of people who’ve been ill with (whether from a traveler or from a known 21-year-old son. His final year of - uni retirement that should largely be com- almost never dines out and likes work- and I’m checking in on folks who live COVID-19. Although some have been COVID case). So, we worry slightly about versity has become distance learning. I pleted by the end of the year. That means ing out at home and meditating, I’m alone or are dealing with loneliness. quite sick, so far no one has been hos- community transmission. Yet the gov- was already in the process of succession I won’t be full time while I work through not overly impacted by the lockdown. I I’m concerned about the mental health pitalized. The doctors I know describe ernment says they have not found any planning in the run up to retirement, so a couple of ongoing matters. With the do have a big hole in my life where the impact of our society’s isolation, unem- scenes of chaos, although it’s improv- significant community transmission, being furloughed is a bit of a rehearsal. courts suspending all deadlines for the transcontinental bicycle ride used to be. ployment, and sense of loss. Those of us ing slightly. I was in New York City one and New Zealanders have such admira- We’re enjoying the early morning bird- moment, some of this is going to last (See markun.com for last year’s ride from in pastoral care and the mental health evening and shared the 7 pm ritual of tion and trust in our prime minister that song, fresher air, and peculiar calm. longer than expected but with the usual Boston to Seattle). This year, I won’t professions will need to be alert to applauding all the frontline workers. It we tend to believe the declaration. I am We’re lucky enough to have a garden, pressure removed. I’m looking forward ride to San Francisco from July to Octo- those struggling. Even though my hus- was quite moving.” finding it interesting to be homebound. one that needs attention. However, the to continuing gardening, more reading, ber—unless I manage to catch COVID-19 band and I are homebound like everyone While I usually have volunteer jobs or projects are modest as my hip and knee taking care of a lot of delayed household and recover fully, so I can ride without else, it feels like my workload has tri- JULIA CHALLINOR: “My husband, Piet, and coffee/walk dates, fitness classes, and replacements have been postponed. I tasks, and converting old reel-to-reel fear of carrying the virus to the hinter- pled because I have to come up with new I were forced to move back to the United electric-bike group rides, now I’m home actually toyed with building a geode- tapes to CD.” lands. This is unlikely as I’m in favor- plans and communication procedures. I States in 2018 due to taxes in the Neth- and rather relaxed and enjoying the free- sic-dome greenhouse! We’ve been look- able conditions for remaining COVID- also teach an online course for the Uni- erlands (complicated story). We were dom of not having to do anything except ing out for vulnerable neighbors and my BARBARA JASPERSEN: “This COVID-19 free. I attend dance events on Zoom, versity of Dubuque Theological Semi- very sorry to go, but we landed in Santa walk in the neighborhood, shop for food, wife’s elderly parents. Our 3D printer has thing is rather wild, surreal, but I think host my Sjogren’s syndrome support nary. My husband, David, is a T-6 sim- Cruz, California, next to a famous surf and plan for dinner.” been on overtime producing visors for though challenging, there is a whiff of group on Zoom, and sit for a lot of video ulator instructor for Air Force students spot. Moving back has been a real cul- the frontline health workers. The United positive possibilities! And boy, is the calls with a wide set of friends. I spent and has shifted a lot of his instruction ture shock for me. Piet grew up in south- PATRICIA FORMANT AND CHARLES O’NEIL: Kingdom doesn’t seem to be faring well air like diamonds here in San Francisco. a weekend in Fairfield, Connecticut, in to Zoom. We feel all Zoomed out! The ern California and loves the weather and “Who knew we’d keep our friendships in absolute numbers, so we’re reflecting I’ve been writing a little faux blog; here 2018 to visit Meredith Smith Indursky, hardest part has been keeping physical casual lifestyle. It’s a bit of a trek for for 50 years? We’re proud to have class- on what went wrong, whose fault it was, is an entry below. Tongue, somewhat in whom I may have convinced to attend distance from our three grandchildren. me to get to the airport—almost all my mates who care for others and are inno- and how we come out of it. I despair at cheek. Take good care, everyone!” our 50th Reunion. Patricia Formant and On Easter, I went to their house and saw work is overseas—but lately, I’ve obvi- vative, creative souls. Spring has been the lack of international collaboration. Charlie O’Neill hosted me overnight in three solemn little faces as their parents ously been grounded. I can’t remember exceptionally lovely in Atlanta. After Locally, I’m encouraged by the com- “OK, Today” being home for such a long stretch in years in New England, where spring is Northampton, Massachusetts, in 2019 instructed them, ‘Now, you can’t go hug munity projects that have sprung up as Today my hairdo looks like over 25 years. I’m now officially a con- nonexistent by DC standards, I feel lucky and accompanied me for a segment of Grammy—remember how we give vir- the pandemic exposes the inequalities a bunch of parsley. ference-call hater. I’ve been doing a lot to live here. Every walk and bike ride my ride to Seattle.” tual hugs?’ We stayed outside and played in society and impact of austerity mea- Parsley with gray roots. of writing because there’s a scramble to mean a chance to watch flowers and trees at a distance, but it was challenging. It’s sures, and rightly highlights who the key Encroachment. DAVID HARDY: “Last February, on leap frustrating how many people in this part figure out guidelines for caring for kids blossom. The lack of traffic is surreal and workers are. I can’t see life getting back to day, I married poetess Alison Robinson, of Florida (the northwest Panhandle) with cancer in consideration of COVID- thoroughly enjoyable. The small family normal, and I hope it doesn’t; that would That seems to be everywhere, and and we live in Quechee, Vermont, with don’t appear to take the transmissibility 19 and PPE shortages everywhere, which units walking and biking in our neigh- suggest we’ve learned nothing. Hoping to it is not always a bad thing. her 13-year old daughter, Harper, and of the coronavirus seriously. I marvel at is ironic since we’ve been tackling PPE borhoods are refreshing. We hope this come for the 50th Reunion. Stay safe.” Or good. our (huge) black lab puppy, Blackjack. how many people in grocery stores don’t shortages for years in low- and mid- will be a trend for slower lifestyles. Being Coyotes, for example. They look I am actively practicing business and wear masks.” dle-income countries. We’re doing a lot restricted to home, our yard has never MARY REYNER: “Both of my pottery stu- maybe friendly, imploring even entrepreneurial law at Hardy Venture of cooking at home. I’m trying my hand been so well-tended. Trying to keep dios have been closed since mid-March, sometimes, but watch out Law (hardyventurelaw.com), and thanks ELIZABETH SCHEUER: “Happily my fam- at baking bread, but the yeast short- Charlie in check is impossible! Does he so have the two public gardens where I especially if a poodle is your companion. to the internet, I get to live in the Ver- ily and I are safe and sound. My hus- age is problematic. It’s a drag not to see really need to climb tall ladders to wash a volunteer, and the plant nursery where Bumblebees, now that’s mont woods (“The woods are lovely, band and I are sheltering in place in friends and family, but we’re staying in window or trim bushes? Guess who bris- I work twice a week. The days all run good encroachment, even dark and deep…”—Robert Frost) and not-very-upstate New York. Our son touch, and everyone is healthy so far. tles if I mention safety and age? Fingers together; there’s no distinction between if you are a scaredy cat. work with clients nationwide, the best and daughter-in-law are with us, work- Two of our kids and their families live crossed, Georgia is becoming a purple weekdays and weekends. I work in my Other encroachments of everything! I have six wonderful chil- ing remotely; our son is an employment in Oakland, California, and one outside state, in spite of our terrible governor. community garden and home garden, try that we don’t talk about. dren and six even wonderfuller grand- attorney, so he works crazy hours. Our Munich, Germany. Really looking for- Fortunately, John Lewis is still a voice out new recipes for dinner, and am read- I mean, we can’t even children, living in Utah and Arizona. three daughters are scattered along the ward to our 50th Reunion, even more so for us! Charlie began his hospital rota- ing my way through the 29-book The Cat see them. Although now living in Vermont, I remain Amtrak corridor, from Philly to Boston. now that I know Mary Reyner gave out tion right as the crisis began, just after a Who… mystery series. Outings include involved with the Utah-based Encircle Our oldest daughter had our first grand- ceramic pots at the 45th.” back-country skiing trip in Colorado. He walks around the neighborhood and SPENCE PORTER: “I recently dreamed we LGBTQ Youth and Family Resource Cen- child, a baby girl, on March 14 (pi day!), has cared for COVID patients and feels trips to the grocery store, where every- were at our 50th Reunion. It coincided ter and have loved my renewed involve- so we spent two weeks in Cambridge INGRID BEACH: “Here in New Zealand, Emory was well prepared and is holding one is wearing masks and gloves. How- with other Reunions and the Class of ment with Sidwell Friends classmate helping out before coming here. My hus- we are in isolation in our homes for one steady. It’s heartbreaking for patients ever, as I watch the trees leaf out and the 2021’s graduation. Everyone looked the Brad Clark, who has made so much pos- band, who started an anaerobic-diges- more week and then we may have a bit and their families that visitors aren’t perennials poking through the soil, it age they were at their graduation, but we sible for so many LGBTQ youth through tion food-waste recycling business in more freedom. I feel like bragging when I allowed. We’ve been social distancing reminds me that this too shall pass!” could still see each other’s actual ages in a his generous support and service on the retirement, keeps very busy. My activi- point out that today New Zealand reports and wearing masks; our neighborhood different way (something closer to a view Encircle Board. Another reason to be ties have shut down: I’m a docent at the only two new cases of COVID and no new has social-distance music events in the BRIAN STEINBACH: “So far, I have been of our hearts’ lifetimes of desire than to proud of being a Sidwell Friends alum.” Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design deaths—a total of 1,485 confirmed cases cul-de-sac every week. There are very mostly working from home, on some- nametags). It was a carnival, clowning, Museum and a volunteer with a pro- with over 85 percent already recovered. talented musicians here, and Charlie, of what reduced hours, trying to absorb and lampooning atmosphere—genu- JOAN HEDRICH WOOTEN: “As one of the gram that helps people choose health- Unfortunately, after three weeks of our course, is there with his banjo. Hope to all the new COVID-19-related legisla- ine merriment with belly laughs, as if care proxies and think about end-of-life top of the South Island region not having see you all soon!” tion and provide advice to employers

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veils lifted with apocalyptic reference more emphatically the many blessings of points. The best and worst of times.” fellowship that sustain us. There’s some basis for hope that we’re seeing the back 1975 side of the surge. Of many planned activ- ALAN DRUMMER ities that had to be shut down, one was [email protected] 1972 a greatly anticipated discussion on gun violence that Rob Nooter had asked me FROM THE EDITOR JOYCE JACOBSON to lead at his church—one of many rea- Instead of a traditional Class Notes section, and in [email protected] sons to anticipate a return to some sem- lieu of the ability—for now—to get together in person blance of engagement. I attended sev- for a Meeting for Worship during Reunion Weekend, ROW 1 (l to r) Sarah Farmer, Alan Drummer, Martha Whitman, Joy D’Amore ROW 2 Rebecca Westcott, Burr Gray, David the Class of 1975 has opted to pen tributes to their In Memoriam eral Sidwell Friends basketball games Kleeman, Therese Rosenblatt ROW 3 Mark Wagner, |Ann Biester Deane , Bill Whitney, Marguerite Barber-Owens ROW 4 Jimmy this past season, including the girls’ Sidwell Friends ’75 classmates who have passed on. Ritzenberg, Dwight Dickinson, Maggie Cornwell, Kathryn Bostic Also, instead of having a 45th Reunion party in DC Peter Daiger ’72 city championship in March (loss to St. Some had to leave, some came later: Right, Row 4 in this shot adds David Ingram and Neville Waters. For classmates who on May 2, the Class of 1975 held a coast-to-coast December 30, 2019 couldn’t join on May 2, the Class of ’75 missed you and hopes to see all at the Reunion in October, either in DC or online, John’s). Keep your eyes on the incredible Zoom call to see each other and share some laughs depending on developments. Also, classmates who haven’t already joined the class Facebook group, go to career of Kiki Rice ’22. The Rices and the and stories. (See photos on right.) facebook.com/groups/Sidwell75 and join. Cornwells have been friends and neigh- Courtesy Chris Nordlinger Courtesy bors going back over 50 years, and Kiki practices. I can picture Piggy sitting in that we would be friends as soon as we Chris Nordlinger ’74 David Bladen 1973 (a sophomore) has already reached that a window, a bit off to himself (he was a met. We had so much fun over the years, rarified air achieved by Charlie Watkins “Piggy Bladen, a true rebel!” —Kathryn new guy at the time), quite absorbed in making up goofy lyrics to Carpenters APRILLE KNIEP SHERMAN the current Sidwell Friends climate as and few others: all-conference honors Bostic his paperback copy of The Count of Monte songs in 7th grade art class, finding [email protected] I have imagined it through fellow par- in multiple sports. That puts it mildly: Cristo. Always some deep running waters inventive ways to belly-flop at the Dog- ents and students of my daughter’s and REGINA DESSOFF KESSLER Last year, as a freshman, Rice was city- “Piggy made an impression. I met him with Piggy.” —Dwight Dickinson gett pool, cruising during high school bonus daughter’s classes (’16 and ’17!) [email protected] wide soccer player of the year and led during a preseason football camp early in Len’s Chevy Super Sport ragtop with had been turned upside down. Playful, the Quakers to the city title! This year, in high school. I have a strangely clear “I first met David (aka ‘Piggy’) in 2nd the sparkle-green paint job and flames self-effacing, iconoclastic humor was ROBERT SHARPE: “I recently welcomed my she earned the same honor in basket- image of him from that time. A group grade at Fillmore Elementary School on the hood (or the Jeep, or the Riviera), the most respected and default form of second grandson into a world, which is ball, leading us to the city championship of us were upstairs in the library—I in Georgetown. I was only there one playing golf at DC’s fine Hains Point and connection in each Reunion venue. (It tainted by the coronavirus. I keep myself game. Having already played on national think we were just flaked out and soak- year, but he made quite an impression. Rock Creek golf courses… and we also could happen!) On the opposite edge of quarantined, but I still commute to Amateur Athletic Union teams the last ing in some late August air condition- He was smart and a bit wild, and that went to a couple of parties. In the cat- today’s memories: I just drove roundtrip Milwaukee twice weekly as I cover a psy- two summers, she’s compiling one of ing between morning and afternoon never changed. He could be very charm- egory of things I wish I had a picture of to Boston to transport my daughter’s chiatric emergency room. I don’t object the most accomplished athletic careers ing with his sparkling blue eyes. Anyone would be a shot of our ride from Glover stuff back to Maryland. As I passed Balti- as it gets me out of the house, and I feel in School history!” know where his nickname came from?” Park to Hains Point, on Len’s ‘around more early in the morning, I was in thrall I am making a difference (yes, we are —Janis Long town’ motorcycle, me hanging on with of the dream and thinking of our class— exposed to COVID) and love my job, my LESLIE WOLF-CREUTZFELDT: “Life in Man- two golf bags strapped on my back. now almost 50 years since some of us coworkers, and working with a highly hattan has changed dramatically— “I used to compete against David (‘Piggy’) Yeow.” —Dwight Dickinson have seen each other. It occurred to me underserved patient population.” empty streets and social distancing— and his big brother, Andy Bladen ’74, on to think of our current time as the shady and we are trying to imagine what urban the playground in 12-and-under base- “I came to Sidwell Friends in 7th grade, side of the New Age highway coming into life will look like once we resume a more ball and basketball; thus, I was delighted and I remember playing Middle School view. Through that darkening lens, three social existence. I feel grateful to be con- when they enrolled in Sidwell Friends soccer and football with Leonard. He images I’ve seen several times before nected to my Sidwell Friends classmates because I knew they could ball out— always played full-out, and man, he was 1974 when they were focused on sports. Alas, had a particularly visceral impact before who provide an intelligent support net- fast!” —Bill Whitney the sun had fully risen. The first was PAUL MARKUN work during challenging times. We’ve I’m left with a lingering sadness that the dominant building in the direction [email protected] hosted a number of Zoom meetings on ultimately, for multiple reasons, Piggy “My first 100-pound football practice of the city—not a church of old, but a different topics to help make sense of our underachieved. Yet, I hold both brothers had me on defense when Len ran a sweep pyramid-topped CareFirst brick mono- CHRIS NORDLINGER teaches autistic chil- new reality: Professor Mary White spoke as prime examples of ‘cool white guys’ my way; now I thought I was a pretty lith. Minutes later, the second image dren in East Palo Alto, California, and about ‘How to Best Deal with Uncer- who were sneaky smart, could hang with good athlete and certainly better than showed up as Interstate 95 divided into continues to write blogs for Silicon Val- tainty During the Pandemic,’ Dr. Tia diverse groups, and were true to them- any of these private school kids. Well, he two separate, parallel highways: one an ley executives. He sends blessings to Powell ’75 discussed ‘Coping with Stress selves.” —Neville Waters E-ZPass billing expressway; the other the spirits of his teachers Anne Yon- and Anxiety,’ and Yvedt Matory’s hus- the usual free I-95. After dividing, as we dorf, Harvey LeSure, and Carla Gelband band, Professor Randall Kennedy, spoke Leonard B. Doggett III all careened along, many behind masks, for being able to tutor the smarty-pants about ‘Civil Liberties Versus Freedom in “I met Len in Mr. Barger’s 6th grade there was a twin speed-limit sign: 65 for kids at Stanford University. (See photo the Time of COVID-19.’ Fellow ’74 class- class when I started at Sidwell Friends. paying drivers on one side of the divide above left.) mates Susan Mudd, Laurie Kahn, Liza He was funny, a gifted athlete, musical and 55 for non-paying drivers. A few Carter, Rae Nelson, Betsy Karask, Kit (eventually a killer harmonica player), moments later, a third encounter, this EDDIE E. CORNWELL: “Though on sabbati- Emory, Karl Bostic, Andy Lazarus, and adventurous—he even raced motorcy- time a Francis Bacon–like meat slab of cal until July, I still take calls in the hos- other Sidwell Friends alumni joined in. pital. Like DC overall, we’re determined Great to see so many old friends!” cles professionally in the 1980s. He has Dickinson Dwight Courtesy former deer with a suggestion of ant- 1975 of Class Courtesy to see our way through, realizing even a spot in my heart for simply deciding Len Doggett ’75 on his beloved Yamaha at the Daytona 200 lers in the middle lane. Three ubiquitous David Bladen ’75 in 1983

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lowered his head and ran straight into my and a kind and generous friend. I keep class with Mr. Watte and a great partner down his nose at me wryly, as he often chest knocking us both down and knock- a picture of him with me along with my in AP Biology.” —Mark Wagner did when he knew he was going to say ing the wind out of me—and earning my mom and dad on my mantle so I see something mischievous or funny. ‘My instant respect.” —Neville Waters him—suspended in time—every day, “I’ll say here what I said to his parents at contraceptive method has the side effect and it is comforting. I recall so many his memorial service: Charlie was sim- that it shrinks the user’s testicles, and “I remember his great humor and inten- good times: playing ball at Candy Cane; ply the best of us. Kindest, most upbeat, I’m worried that some men may see that sity and, yes, his musical instincts!” Rook card games late into the night with smartest. Such a loss to the world when as a drawback.’ —Kathryn Bostic Eddie Cornwell ’74, Ken Hyatt, and Eric he died so young. I often think of his Henry; teaching me to drive a stick shift big smile—well represented in this pic- Well, I wanted to be encouraging, but I “I met Len in either kindergarten or so we could drive to Florida. I still miss ture. We weren’t close, but the world lost confess I did see it as a potential draw- transition. He was much more aggres- him, but every so often his spirit will let something important when he died.” — back. I advised him (as I crossed my sive on the trike than I was. What was me know that he still has that wonderful Alexa “Sandy” Fraser legs): ‘Do all the other male contracep-

easy for him was dangerous for us reg- smile.” —Neville Waters 1975 of Class Courtesy tives do the same thing?’ ular kids, but I followed anyway. Off the Charles Epps ’75 “I came to Sidwell in 10th grade from wall onto the boards we set up and skid- “I was the new guy to our class. I public school and had a hard time ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘if they are effective.’ ded into the sandbox or some other kids. remember in math class at the end of Charles Epps adjusting. Charlie was always nice to me We got in trouble, but he was my idol the year, Michael papered over the door, and talked to me. I think our lockers were “Charlie Epps inspired me with the

after that. When he left for Prep, I totally celebrating last day of class. Early in the 1975 of Class Courtesy next to each other or close enough, Epps depth of his commitment to serve oth- lost touch, although I heard tales from year, we practiced in the gym for bas- Catherine English ’75 and Fall. We kept in touch over the years, ers. In two volunteer projects, I saw him Dwight and Art maybe. We reconnected ketball season, diving for fumbled balls and he came to one of my art shows. I go above and beyond in surprising ways, after I returned from college, and I spent on the basketball floor with Michael, Catherine English miss him.” —Nicole Fall and it was just so natural and vital to a lot of time at his apartment on Macomb Neville, Eric, Marc, and many others “Cacky! A gifted pianist and beautiful him to do that. I remember his spirited Street doing nothing. At the time, he after a couple losses. (Thanks, Phil.) I “Charlie was brilliant, friendly, fun, smile!” —Kathryn Bostic and talented voice in his solo as Nice- was having serious trouble with his remember hearing Michael talk at the kind, and courageous. While most of my ly-Nicely in Guys and Dolls senior year: hip. Shout out to Teddy Yates ’76, too, December tournament, how he hoped memories from high school have faded, “Sooo pretty and understated.” ‘The people all said sit down, sit down, whose demise was linked with Len’s.” the Maryland basketball coach, Lefty I have a clear vision of Charlie dancing —Neville Waters you’re rockin’ the boat. And the devil will —Mark Wagner Driesell, would notice him. I remem- the ‘tap... tap... tapioca’ in one of our drag you under, by the sharp lapel of your ber Neville and Michael together all the musicals. He always saw the best in peo- “Cacky’s parents and my parents were checkered coat. Sit down, sit down, sit time. And Michael’s laugh—infectious.” ple and life. At the time, we were all too Michael Edgecombe friends: They played tennis together down, sit down, sit down, you’re rockin’

—Jonathan Hays young to appreciate what a remarkable 1975 of Class Courtesy regularly. So I knew Cacky even before the boat!’ In Charlie’s case, I believe he “Michael had a great sense of humor and person he truly was. I can barely write Matthew Hardy ’75 we both wound up at Sidwell Friends actually stabilized every boat he was always dressed to the max. He and Nev- “One of the benefits of living in DC was this as I think of his loss and the unfin- for high school. In elementary school, I ever in and made it faster and truer to its ille, the dynamic duo in our class! That reconnecting with folks after we returned ished work of his life.” —Peter Karasik ‘Well, then, just add to your pitch remember she was always drawing the course.” —Alan Drummer car! BBall 4EVER!” —Kathryn Bostic from college. I started playing basketball something like: Of course, all effective most amazing pictures of horses. These with Mike, Ed, Bill, Charlie, and others on male contraceptives tend to reduce testicle were waaay beyond the typical artistic “Charlie Epps—a brilliant mind Matthew Hardy “My man! One of the closest people to Sunday mornings. I had to prove I wasn’t size and X is no exception to that. You are talent of a 4th grader. Horses, horses, and thoughtful human being.” me until his untimely death. He was a scrub to some, but not Mike. He was a “Matt was a real friend to me and to no worse than the competition on this horses, all the time! In high school, we —Kathryn Bostic certainly a sharp dresser, a fast driver, kind soul. I then started a Tuesday and many others. He saw deeply, and he dimension.’ Matt was very pleased with were not really in the same circles, but Thursday league at the Kenworthy Gym, understood and sympathized with peo- my response. I always knew she was kind and super “Charlie was a fun, strong personal- and Mike was there every time. Neville, ple’s troubles. But he also knew when to smart.” —Bill Whitney ity throughout my high school years. Clay, guys from ’86 and ’90, other years, keep the conversation light, and I loved Matt loved running. He ran the New York We were in many of the same courses parents, friends—all came into the mix. his sense of humor. He was a brilliant City Marathon every year. It was right “I drove Cacky home after school one together, and he usually participated But like I said, Mike was there every time. biologist, but mostly, I think of him as after he ran that marathon that his heart time. We talked during the drive and had to the max. We were also on the ‘It’s We did it for 30-plus years, starting in someone with a great capacity for love gave out. Plaque had collected in his a pleasant conversation. She wrote in Academic’ team together (with Mr. 1981 through 2012 or so. November 30, and understanding. We went camping heart valve, but he never knew it. I miss my yearbook how that was a nice time Brady, I think?). That was a ton of fun. 1995, was Mike’s last game. We had just for a week together in 1975 as our senior him.” —Charles Calomiris and wished we had gotten to know one I remember Charlie in Guys and Dolls, won, and it was next up. No score. Mike project, and it was one of the most fun- another better. While I agreed with her too, Alan. What a character he was!” is at the top of the key on the right. Down filled and easy weeks of my life. Matt “A Marathon of a Life” words, one year was not long enough —Bill Whitney he goes. I run over, turn him over. Try to and I both ended up in New York by the Excerpted from The New York Sun at Sidwell Friends. I truly wish I had the do CPR, but his heart has stopped. I am 1990s. He was working on male contra- November 23, 2007 opportunity to get to know Cacky but “Double 800s! ‘Smart’ is not the right looking in his eyes, holding his hand. He ceptives at Rockefeller University. One By Diana Furchtgott-Roth ’75 also all my other classmates. So many word. I remember in Mrs. Dater’s class, is conscious but knows he is gone, a mix day Matt biked up to see me for lunch wonderful memories.” —Jonathan Hays when we were doing Centigrade/Fahr- of fear and peace for both of us. Or so with a problem. “The death of marathon runner Ryan enheit conversions, I had a solution I believe. He died doing what he loved. Shay in Central Park during the Olym- to: What temperature is equal in both And that I know. I am glad I was there.” ‘Charlie,’ he said, ‘given that you are pic time trials on November 3 disturbed Centigrade and Fahrenheit? I knew the a business school professor, I thought many New Yorkers. But there was news —Mark Wagner Courtesy Class of 1975 of Class Courtesy answer, but he knew how to solve for it. maybe you could help me.’ As he said of the death of another runner the Michael Edgecombe ’75 I remember he was a fighter in our judo this, he tilted his head down and looked next day. It was someone who actually

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finished the marathon—my high school 1970s frat-party scene. I also remember classmate, Matthew Hardy. His story a fun summer night (1978?) with Billy should matter to New Yorkers because he going to a Beach Boys concert at the old lived in New York since 1991, loved New Capital Centre. Like Janis, I heard from York, and embodied the city’s quest for him years later, when he was living in achievement. Florida. The last time we talked, he was clean and sober. He was involved in some Matt and I attended Sidwell Friends gambling or bookmaking business, but School together in Washington, DC, he was also volunteering his contracting where we both graduated in 1975. At that skills through a church group (!) to help time Matt was interested in science, yet renovate rundown houses.” —Dwight equally consumed by art, literature, phi- 1975 of Class Courtesy Dickinson losophy, and music. Matt’s love of run- Kenneth Loos ’75 ning blossomed during his teenage years Nicholas Vanocur Buschi Amanda Eastman Courtesy Corcoran Gregg Alison Courtesy Hyman Robert Courtesy as well: He ran on our high school’s He married Jennifer, who he met in geol- ogy grad school, and they had three kids. LEFT Amanda Eastman Buschi ’77 with her daughter, Sarah, in Florence CENTER Alison Gregg Corcoran ’77 and family; left to right: Alex, Gregg, Margaret, Alison, Tyquan, Ned cross-country team. For Matt, running “The photo of Nick below is with Mark RIGHT Robert Hyman ’77 and his wife, Deb Atwood was not just a physical experience, but Ken and Jennifer both had strong spirits Wagner and Tom Scambos, helping me also a moral and spiritual one. of adventure, and they pursued geol- to ‘fly’ toward the end of my wedding enabling better overall health through company: Fig Leaf Patterns. I love work- ogy adventures all over the world, with (yes, he gave us a very lovely inflat- oral health. (See photo above.) ing with museum collections and seeing Matt went on to Oberlin College, where extended stays in Norway and Egypt. Ken able penguin). We spent time together 1977 how clothing construction has changed died unexpectedly in Egypt, while play- he majored in biology and philosophy. through high school (especially on ADAM STERN ROBERT HYMAN and his wife, Deb Atwood, from the 18th century to the 21th cen- ing softball, in 2000. Gone too soon.” Then, off to the University of Virginia Nick’s front porch on Highland Place) [email protected] celebrated 26 years of marriage on May tury.” to get a doctorate in biology and where —Bill Whitney and then in Philly during and after col- 7: “Over the past year, we have been he started the research that would make lege. Later, Nick spent many years in AMANDA EASTMAN BUSCHI: “In January, busy building our summer residence on DAN BERLER shares a photo of himself, him famous in the world of science. An William Richey Nashville and was an active humor and my daughter, Sarah, and I traveled to Clark’s Point in Bellingham, Washing- Tony Horwitz ’76, and Tony’s son, Bizu, internationally-acclaimed biologist, he politics blogger before he died in 2015. Florence, Italy, to help my sister cel- ton, where Deb grew up and where we when they caught a Martha’s Vineyard “Billy didn’t graduate with us. I can’t authored three books and almost 100 I was in contact with him in those years ebrate her 65th birthday, along with enjoy summers with family and friends. bluefish a few years ago: “Cap’t Dan never remember why he left or when I met him, papers and articles. and was touched to make contact with her son (my nephew) and his wife. We The rest of the year, we live in Glover misses on the blues, and Bizu proved but he was a real character. Billy sent me quite a few members of his very devoted stayed mostly in Florence, but we made Park, Washington, DC.” (See photo more than worthy. Nice fish but better a letter when he was living in Florida, The details of the story are simple. Matt virtual community after his death.” a day trip to Rome and spent one night above.) company!” (See photo on next page.) and I talked to him on the phone. He was died of a heart attack after returning to —Dwight Dickinson in Milan. So glad we made the trip before a wild and crazy guy.” —Janis Long his home on the Upper East Side. It was the coronavirus outbreak! Hoping my BRIAN MUYS: “After 10 years oversee- In late April and early May, the Class of his 11th New York City marathon. He classmates are all well and safe.” (See ing all external communications for 1977 held two successful Zoom calls, “Billy was irrepressible. The first time I completed it in 4:48:21. He walked into photo above.) the American Public University System, each with more than 25 participants. ever ‘inhaled’ was during a car ride with his apartment, asked his beautiful wife, I decided to take at least a brief hia- Bill Hyun presented the latest research Billy and Bobby Newmyer ’74 (both Dianne Hardy, also a biologist, for a glass ALISON GREGG CORCORAN lives in Mil- tus from the workforce and pull up our on COVID-19, drawing on his work at gone now). I think we were headed to a of orange juice, and died while she was ton, Massachusetts. Her “QuaranTeam” roots in Arlington, Virginia. We relo- the University of California, San Fran- party at Susan Widener’s ’74 house on fetching it.” Read more: bit.ly/2TpStNv. includes her husband, several Millenni- cated to our onetime wedding desti- cisco. Adam Stern gave a talk on “Earth Arizona Avenue. He and Piggy made a als, and two dogs. They had to upgrade nation of Asheville, North Carolina. Day, COVID -19, and Our Environmen- surprise visit to UPenn during my soph- the WiFi to handle all the work-from- Siobhan also recently left her job, and tal Future.” The Class of 1977 also held Kenneth Loos omore year, and we explored the mid home requirements. Her oldest son, we subsequently sold our townhouse a mini-BIG 60th birthday soiree. (See “Ken and I were cousins—second cous- Gregg, is a U.S. Army Ranger, currently and quarantined in Rehoboth, Delaware, photo on next page.) ins, I think. Our families might get ’75 Dickinson Dwight Courtesy based in Savannah, Georgia. Her sec- before loading up the U-Haul. While it’s together once every few years, but I did Class of ‘75’s Nicholas Vanocur, Mark Wagner, and Tom Scambos at Dwight Dickinson’s wedding ond son, Alex, works in marketing always bittersweet to leave one’s life- not know him very well, growing up. I for the Boston Bruins. Her daughter, long home behind, we’re excited about came to Sidwell Friends for 7th grade, Margaret, works for The Public Interest this next chapter in our lives, even amid and he came a year or two later, and 1978 “Nick reached out to me out of the blue a Network, and her youngest son, Tyquan, all the continuing uncertainty around then our paths coincided for a good long few years ago. We had a thoughtful con- is taking a gap year. Her husband, Ned, the unexpected COVID crisis. It has been PETER MACDONALD while. We were both on the football team. versation, and I recall his overall sen- is an attorney specializing in innova- great to recently connect virtually with [email protected] Ken was a real team leader, and a force sitivity and introspection.” —Kathryn tive solutions for the delivery of pub- Alex Camacho, James Mead, John Ross, on the o-line. The Sidwell Friends o-line BILL PEYSER: “In May, I completed six Bostic lic- and private-development projects. Fred Sternburg, and others, knowing was awesome, and Ken was one of the years of volunteer work as a member of Alison works as a senior advisor at Denta- that both they and our family are only a major reasons why. Our paths diverged the Sidwell Friends Alumni Association “I remember many bridge games in Quest, a disruptive oral-health com- Zoom call or road trip away.” (See photo again after high school, but I followed Executive Board. I enjoyed working with the Common Room with Nicky, Jimmy, pany with a mission to improve the oral on next page.) him through the years via our family alumni from many different classes, Tom, etc.” —Bill Whitney health of all. She is the past president of connection. College at Dartmouth, and MACKENZIE MARY ANDERSON SHOLTZ: “I’m as we learned about alumni needs and Courtesy David Kleeman David Courtesy the DentaQuest Partnership, a nonprofit then a successful career as a geologist. celebrating 20 years of owning and worked toward aligning the School’s William Richey ’75 (center) organization focused on transform- resources to meet those needs and ing the broken health care system and running my historic clothing-pattern | 68 SIDWELL FRIENDS MAGAZINE | SUMMER 2020 SUMMER 2020 SIDWELL FRIENDS MAGAZINE 69 CLASS NOTES 1978–1980

Some children are facing increased abuse. In California, many public child- 1980 care centers are open to support essen- WILLIAM RICE tial workers, another challenge for keep- [email protected] ing families safe. We have leveraged our strong early childhood and K–12 teach- ANA MARIA ALLEN: Louisa Hollman reports er-education systems in California. The that Ana Maria is doing well, still living last two months have included support- in DC, and sends her regards to every- ing teachers with program changes and

one. She is the proud great-great-aunt supporting instructors, who tend to be Scott Katherine Hutt Courtesy to three nieces and nephews, ages 10, 5, dedicated and overwork themselves. For Lauren Scott, Alex Scott, Katherine Scott ’79, and John Scott me, the journey has been interesting and ’24, during a December 2019 visit to Mardi Gras World, where Courtesy Brian Muys Courtesy Berler Dan Courtesy Wilkinson Kara Courtesy and 2. Yes, that’s right! Her sister, who floats are made for Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans uplifting, although exhausting.” LEFT Brian Muys ’77 and his wife, Siobhan CENTER Dan Berler ’77, Tony Horwitz ’76, and Tony’s son, Bizu RIGHT Front row: Rebecca Howard, Adam Kolker, Karin Wilkinson, Julie Wolf, Katie is 20 years older, has three great grand- Davis Second row: Terri Mitchell, Tricia Crocker, Helen MacIsaac Back Row: Steve Abert, William Lenderking (attended St. Albans), John Scheuer, Roger Pollack children who are Ana Maria’s great- great-nieces and -nephews! She looks CHARLES KUPFER: “This skips the usual the street for our dog. And yet, there’s no improve engagement. I’ve also served of hospitals, it wasn’t the best place for forward to seeing everyone in October at professional/family update since noth- absolute immunity to the weirdness and on the Sidwell Friends Audit Commit- stay-at-home lockdown. Waltham has the Reunion. ing of note has happened there on my tension, to the sense that no one knows tee for over 10 years, and most recently, offered a welcome retreat, with space 1979 end. But I do want to send a message to what’s going to happen next—which is I’ve focused on expanding the Anindya for outdoor exercise. And, with weekly TINA BERLINER: “Brought out an Indian the men of our class. File it under ‘health always true, of course, but now we’re more Want to be a class representative? Dehejia ’78 Capitalize Internship Pro- deliveries of fresh meat and vegeta- cookbook I have had for 35-plus years, care advice.’ Guys, get your PSA levels aware and can’t even look to anyone who Contact [email protected]. gram. We’ve placed several rising seniors bles from a local farm, food security and my 20-year-old son and I have been checked. I’ve learned that it’s import- at least pretends to know. So I deliver gro- as editorial interns at my employer, The isn’t an issue. While some of my con- cooking.” ant and can have a major effect where ceries to those in need through DC Mutual PAUL C. CANFIELD is a Distinguished Pro- Chronicle of Higher Education. Finally, my sulting projects have been pushed out, longevity is concerned. Do it soon or I’ll Aid, do my small part to keep millionaire fessor of Physics at Iowa State Uni- son Jeffrey Peyser ’08 married his col- my firm BTblockbtblock.io ( ) is finding HELEN DAVIS: “I am the director of six pester you at the Reunion in October.” tax cuts out of congressional relief bills, versity and a senior physicist at Ames lege sweetheart, Qihua Fan, on Novem- new opportunities to engage in deploy- online teacher-education programs at say hello to fellow masked pedestrians Laboratory. This year, the American ber 16, 2019. Classmates Krishnan Raja- ing emerging technologies to address UCLA Extension, in California. About WILLIAM RICE: “‘Welcome to my world!’ even as they look stonily ahead, and try to Academy of Arts and Sciences elected gopalan ’78 and Peter Beveridge ’78 various issues. One specific initiative is 3,000 of our teachers are actively work- is my frequent refrain to colleagues and remember that it’s not every day you get Paul as a member in honor of his work attended in addition to several other RUOK (ruok.health), a nonprofit, open- ing with children while completing cre- others unfamiliar with homebound life. to experience the world at a stop. This is a in the discovery and mastery of novel alumni. (See photo on page 81.) source initiative developed to protect dentials and permits. We have found As a writer and independent contractor, fascinating time.” electronic and magnetic materials. (See the health of communities by gather- ways to support teachers, who have had I’m used to my workspace being wher- photo on next page.) DAVID MCCANDLISH reports that he is ing anonymized health data from all to pivot quickly, with two goals: (1) how ever I place my laptop, collaborating PATTI SPADY ROSS: “I am now and have sheltering in place and making masks around the world using crowdsourc- to teach online, and (2) how to manage almost exclusively by electronic device, been for 32 years ‘Patti Ross,’ a resident KATHY HUTT SCOTT: “After 20-some years for the Prince George’s Hospital Center. ing. As COVID is expected to linger with child trauma in the face of COVID-19. The and having all-day access to my kitchen, for the last 20 years of Howard County, in journalism, I switched 11 years ago to (See photo below.) extended impacts on social wellness, older children are worried about family for all that implies—good and ill. Even Maryland, before that of Silver Spring and doing writing/editing/communications we’re working to provide timely infor- and the world; the youngest children are the restrictions imposed by the crisis rest southern Virginia. I’m also known in the for the three major international orga- DAVID GARRITY: “From the COVID onset, mation in a way that protects individ- responding to the absence of attachment more lightly on my family than on so many vast local poetry community (a 10-mile nizations in Washington, DC. In July I’ve been away from New York City, ual privacy. In other news, feel free to and physical touch with teachers and others: We’re healthy, materially secure, radius around my neighborhood) as ‘little 2018, I started a small company provid- having relocated to Waltham, Massa- check out my weekly podcast—views on friends. All children are experiencing real have no small children to educate and pi’—a late-blooming spoken-word artist ing editorial services for companies and chusetts, for the duration. As my apart- the markets, the broader economy, and or hidden trauma from worried adults. entertain, and there’s an open park across who, pre-pandemic, hosted a monthly organizations that operate globally. The ment was located right next to a cluster other developments gvaresearch.com. company grew steadily until the COVID- We all face a difficult road ahead where 19 economic meltdown. Now, I am try- there’s much less room for error, but ing to find ways to continue making with planning and grace, we shall get money in the new virtual era. In my per- through this.” (See photo on page 75.) sonal life, my husband, Kevin, is fur- loughed from his restaurant job because PETER MACDONALD: “Since I began work- of COVID-19. Our daughter, Lauren, will ing remotely to help bring in Skidmore start college at Sarah Lawrence next College’s Class of 2024, my workload fall—but it’s unclear whether the expe- has doubled. Who knew? On the plus rience will be online or in person. Our side, I’m grateful to have my son, Robb, twin sons, Alex and John, will start high home from Pitzer College in California school, with John heading to Sidwell because it means daily chess matches, Friends. I will be happy to reconnect Championship League soccer games on with the School, eventually in person. YouTube, and poker in the evenings. I’ve (See photo on next page.) Zoomed with classmates Tom Akins, Eric Fredell, Carl Mueller, and Elliott Courtesy David Garrity David Courtesy MacDonald Peter Courtesy Energy of Department U.S. Courtesy David McCandlish David Courtesy Thurston, which was nice.”(See photo David McCandlish ’78 making masks LEFT David Garrity ’78 and his 13-year-old son, Will, at the Blue Hills Reservation CENTER Peter MacDonald ’78 and his son, Robb RIGHT Paul Canfield removes a sample from a flux-growth furnace. on next page.) | 70 SIDWELL FRIENDS MAGAZINE | SUMMER 2020 SUMMER 2020 SIDWELL FRIENDS MAGAZINE 71 CLASS NOTES 1980–1982

open mic in a bar (well, really a restau- (mostly adult) children ended up com- her case was mild, and she managed at professional, I’ve had to cancel or sons—one in video-game design in rant that serves beer and wine, but ‘bar’ ing home for a variety of reasons and are home with the help of her lovely hus- take events online, including cancel- Seattle, Washington, and the other in sounds oh so tawdry) for poets and other also working remotely. It has been an band, but it was hard to be far from ing a fully staged charity production I data analytics in Boulder, Colorado— radicals from mostly outside the Belt- unexpected blessing to have them home. her, and the anxiety and unpredictabil- worked my butt off on. Volunteer? I’ve and I have dinner together weekly over way. We tried to have a Jeffersonian lunch I continue my work as a psychotherapist ity of this illness weighed heavily. And not had time; caring for an elderly rel- Zoom. I also had a great time Zooming once, and it ended in a bar brawl (well, supporting college students and other still does. I am working from home. Our ative with some dementia and loss of with Sidwell friends. The pandemic has really people just got mad and left, but children and families. Recently, I was large design projects continue (one is a executive function is like keeping track increased my passion for environmental again ‘brawl’ sounds so much better) and honored to be elected to the Board of permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian’s of an active toddler, one who can’t use and social sustainability and my desire me telling a bigot off who sat at the end Trustees of Williams College. I have also National Museum of American His- an iPad, read, or remember where any- to rethink capitalism. It’s a good time

of the table. (I have a piece titled ‘For the had the opportunity to stay in touch with tory!), but it is challenging to work as Rubinstein Barton Courtesy thing is. I have much greater respect for for Sidwellian critical thinking! Bob

Bigot Who Sat at the End of the Table.’) In classmates and connect with other Sid- a design team when we are all separate. Barton Rubinstein ’81 and his family parents who work from home. Nostal- Thomason’s teaching comes to mind. I May, I completed my last day as an offi- well Friends alumni. Recently, I recon- Thankful to have the work, whatever gia? I was on a fun Zoom call with Tova love that he assigned a research paper cial working girl and joined the ranks of nected with our (then) Upper School the challenges. I echo Tanya Lump- Ferro, Maureen Kline, Birgit Fer- on totalitarianism in U.S. immigration hanging for others to see. Apparently, the retired. As soon as we get back out- principal, Clint Wilkins, who lives in kins’s message about the imperative to ran (from Barcelona!), Jeanne Harris, law for high school English. Plus, we this is the happiest nature has been in side, I’ll be on the golf course regularly. California. While the lockdowns and fear vote in November, with fervent hopes Monica Powell Dolan, Luisa Adelfio read books everyone should be reading decades: reduced pollution and clearer I’ve missed my rounds at the 19th hole. I around the spread of the virus are prom- that the election will be conducted with (and, briefly, Erik Neil), Hadley Boyd, today, like It Can’t Happen Here. Amid skies! I hope to hear from more class- had some of my best shots there.” inent, many silver linings have emerged, the safety of voters in mind.” and Rebekah Eden.” (See photo below.) all the tragedy and challenges, this is mates. I still play poker infrequently including the strength of our commu- an opportunity to build a better sys- with the likes of Will Sollee, Larry Caf- TOBA SPITZER: “I was on sabbatical this nity and friends. I am thinking of all of ELINOR MODY: “We are still in Newton, MANUEL LERDAU wrote in from tem for future generations. Going back ritz, Doug Gansler, Ned Rich, and oth- winter, from mid-December until early our Sidwell Friends family and wishing Massachusetts, all healthy and not too Charlottesville to say that his family is well to Quaker roots, here’s a quote from ers.” (See photo above.) March, and came back to my congrega- everyone good health and safety.” stir crazy. I am still seeing patients in the but driving each other a little bananas. He George Fox: ‘I saw also that there was tion just in time for the Jewish holiday of office, mostly video visits, and work- recommends checking out these writers: an ocean of darkness and death, but an Purim, and then complete shut-down by TANYA LUMPKINS: “We are surviving the ing in the testing tent. From my vantage Amy Siskind (theweeklylist.org), Heather infinite ocean of light and love, which the following Shabbat. I’ve now become COVID-19 change in our lives. My hus- point, this crisis has shown me the best Cox Richardson (heathercoxrichardson. flowed over the ocean of darkness.’” oddly skilled at leading Zoom services and band and I are both still seeing patients, parts of my patients and my colleagues. 1982 substack.com), and Dahlia Lithwick JON SOCOLOW other programs, and I have sadly done he in the hospital and me in the office. There is tremendous camaraderie and TED MORROW-SPITZER (slate.com/author/dahlia-lithwick). For notes that he is faring well a larger number than usual of memorial There are two out of three of my adult a real can-do spirit. I wish my dad were [email protected] virtual outdoor visits, Manuel is also a while holed up in New York’s Washing- gatherings for parents of my members. children living at home currently. At here to discuss things with. Hope every- fan of the nature photographers Tim ton Heights, a neighborhood seemingly (As of yet, no one in my congregation has the present time, they are not working one is healthy and well, and not too far FROM THE CLASS REP. Laman (timlaman.com) and Gerrit Vyn stuck in the 1980s—just like our years directly suffered from COVID.) In my 23rd and are at least making dinner for us all. from loved ones.” (gerritvynphoto.com). together with many fellow classmates in To change things up a bit, I reached out to Kim year as rabbi of my congregation, I feel The oldest, Jordan Marion ’12, is work- Morningside Heights. Bohen, Jenny Bryant, Jon Gould, and Susan Cahn MAUREEN KLINE: “Greetings from Brook- blessed to be able to offer something that ing from his home in Pittsburgh and has BARTON RUBINSTEIN: “Our family is and got their ideas about questions to pose to is so meaningful in a very challenging not been home since Christmas. We have home and safe in Chevy Chase, Mary- our classmates about things they are doing to lyn. Sadly, there continue to be lots of AMY THALER: “I’ve been a puppy raiser time. I feel like I’ve gone from marketing had all our trips for April, May, and June land. A number of our family mem- get through these trying times. Here are the sirens outside. This has been a time of of guide dogs for the blind for over 20 a somewhat obscure and misunderstood canceled as I am sure many of us have. bers in New Jersey had COVID-19 but responses: introspection, slowing down (slightly!), years and am currently raising puppy product to selling toilet paper. On the The family trip in July has not been for- are all now fine. My two sons, Ben (24) and refocusing on essentials: health, No. 16 (Reed) for Guiding Eyes for the SUZANNE TAYLOR: “I’m in Vermont, personal front, I marked the fourth anni- mally canceled yet, and we are crossing and Ari (18), and I like to bike to differ- love, and friendship (as the Little Prince Blind (GEB), which is based in York- where my elderly aunt lives, since her versary of the death of my spouse, Gina, our fingers it gets to happen. The middle ent monuments downtown in the eve- said, ‘It is only with the heart that one town Heights, New York. When the stay- caregivers could no longer come and in March, and I’ve settled back into being child, who graduated from Brown Uni- nings and recently did a tour of murals can see rightly; what is essential is at-home order went into effect, there go. Entertainment? My husband and single, the upside of which is I can be in versity last May, is deciding which med- in DC (with masks on). As co-founders invisible to the eye’). I’ve significantly were 175 dogs in the kennels at GEB at I are getting used to Turner Classic any room of my house that I want when- ical school to attend this fall. However, of the Mother Earth Project and Para- increased the time I spend communi- various stages of training, not includ- Movies (my aunt’s favorite; it’s that ever I want. And I know I’m not the only she is not as excited as she was at the chutes For The Planet (motherearth- cating with family and friends in the ing the puppies at the breeding facil- or CNN), and we were surprised she person sitting home on a Saturday night. beginning of the process due to the high project.org/parachutes), our family has United States and in Italy, where I lived ity. The stay-at-home order meant that loved our idea to watch Star Wars on If you ever want a little spiritual uplift on likelihood she will have classes online distributed thousands of parachutes to for 25 years. Hurray for technology. My GEB had to clear the kennels of 150 dogs, May 4. Support? So many great orga- a Saturday morning, check out my ser- at the beginning of her first year. I pray over 70 countries; recently, we created nizations deserve support (I work for vices at dorsheitzedek.org.” these days, as strange as they are for us a Bat Parachute, which was inspired by one), including Will Warshauer’s, but all, will motivate everyone to vote this a Washington Post article (wapo.st/2Zd- right now we must support those who November.” PqeW) that connected the present pan- demic with the climate emergency. We are jobless (so many in the restaurant MOLLY MONTGOMERY: “Sending my best also left a box of white 12-foot para- industry). In my life, I’m anxious about 1981 what COVID-19 will do to the perfor- wishes to everyone during this strange chutes at the curb for pedestrians to VIDISHA DEHEJIA PATEL and challenging time. My husband and I take and decorate with art, their con- mance/theater/music world. Studies [email protected] are hunkered down in Toronto, with one cerned comments about the envi- show singers are ‘super-spreaders.’ daughter in the city who we can see but ronment, and their next sustainable Plus, we’re accustomed to rehears- VIDISHA DEHEJIA PATEL: “My husband and can’t hug, and another in Hoboken who actions. Over 60 have been distributed, ing backstage in very tight quarters. I are spending these challenging times just today got out of isolation after her and many homes in the town of Som- It’s easy to adjust for an audience— Courtesy Suzanne Taylor Suzanne Courtesy at home, working remotely. Our two own bout with COVID-19. Thankfully, erset, Maryland, now have parachutes much harder backstage. As an event Members of the Class of 1982 on Zoom

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embedded Big Dipper constellations. The LAVINIA MIDDLETON: “My most vivid immersive installation was inspired by memories of the AIDS epidemic include 1983 enslaved black folks who navigated their caring for patients at George Washington 1988 LINDA GAUS way north along the Underground Rail- University Hospital. The HIV-positive LOUISE ANDREWS [email protected] road toward freedom, the legacy of the men with this yet-to-be-fully-eluci- [email protected] plantation-to-prison pipeline, and the dated disease had rare lymphoprolifera- PATRICK HEWES: “I can report that I am oppressed migrant laborers who provide tive disorders that required lengthy hos- PETE ROBBINS: “My wife, Hanna, and I thankful to be engaged in useful work, much of the food we eat. On the subject pitalizations. They were isolated and have led group fishing trips to Mexico and I can report satisfaction in not com- of large textiles, Monumental Cloth: The scared, and they welcomed the com- and the Amazon for over a decade. We’ve muting. The rigorous and thoughtful Flag We Should Know, opened at the H&R pany of an inquisitive medical student. also been to Zambia, Zimbabwe, Costa college-preparatory education at Sid- Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art During my residency in pathology at the Rica, Guatemala, and all over the lower well Friends has provided me some mea- Institute. I created the traveling exhibit National Cancer Institute, I performed 48 chasing the next bite. Now we’re Hanna Robbins Hanna Robbins sure of wisdom and most importantly with the Fabric Workshop and Museum countless autopsies on pediatric patients branching out, leading additional trips Pete Robbins ’88, protected from the sun and hoisting a big training in how to reflect and take time to highlight the little-known dishcloth with AIDS, meticulously studying their to Panama, Alaska, Guyana (Mrs. Dater peacock bass caught on the Rio Negro in the Brazilian state Courtesy Amy Thaler Amy Courtesy to think, in general, and, at this moment, that became the Confederate truce flag tissues for clues, trying to help the infec- would be proud), and other locations for of Amazonas Amy Thaler ’82 is raising Reed, a guide dog for the blind in an era of great change.” and led to the Civil War’s end. One of the tious-disease experts at the NIH prevent both experts and novices alike. If you’d pieces in the exhibit is made at 10 times additional fatalities in this particularly like to see evidence of some of our trav- Washington and the other planning to distributing them to trainers, staff, and the size of the original surrender flag. The vulnerable population. By the time Ebola els, check out halfpastfirstcast.com, and ‘attend’ this fall. We’re almost empty puppy raisers throughout the Eastern exhibit asks: What if this were the symbol became a concern to hospitals in the if you’d like more information about nesters, except for the fact that classes seaboard. The GEB head refers to the sit- of the war that persisted in our memory? I United States, I was in a position to help upcoming trips, feel free to email me at are online. Other than that, we are roast- uation as ‘NY on Paws,’ but this pause 1985 create policies to ensure that patients’ ing and shipping coffee all over the have another exhibit opening at the Wad- [email protected]. We’d love will have lingering effects on the visu- HILARY DAYTON BUSCH sworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hart- risk factors were properly recorded in to have some of the Sidwell Friends fam- United States, since our four cafés are ally impaired community as the pipeline [email protected] ford, Connecticut. It focuses on black hair, the medical record and that provid- ily join us.” (See photo at right.) all closed. Get some at seattlecoffeeworks. for guide dogs is seriously disrupted. The empowerment, and cultural ingenuity.” ers were safeguarded when caring for com! We are also enjoying Beyond Meat wait for a guide dog was already signif- JENNIFER ZEIDMAN BLOCH was named immunocompromised patients. Policies by our classmate Ethan Brown. I’ve been icant; now it’s unclear how much lon- director of corporate communications at ANTHONY SILARD: “When I’m not trying and procedures put in place for Ebola put grateful for our class Meetings for Wor- ger it will be. The disruption has pro- Google, where she supports Google and to keep our two small children enter- us in a good position to address patients ship to help get through this crisis. Con- vided additional training time with Reed, tained (some days better than others), 1989 Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat. “I am feeling who arrived in Houston from places nection matters.” including obedience work, guide-dog grateful to be able to work from home I’ve been writing about the current sit- where SARS and MERS outbreaks were ELIZABETH WYATT bingo games, and daily long walks (rain during the COVID crisis. It was especially uation, particularly its psychological prevalent. Now, during the COVID-19 [email protected] or shine), often around the NIH. Reed meaningful to virtually reconnect with effects and how to counter them. Here’s a pandemic, I’m advising and mentoring stays alert for a Fauci sighting. Nothing so many classmates for our Reunion.” recent article, ‘How to Survive the Quar- providers who are anxious about expo- KATIE CRAIG BOCOCK: “After starting off yet except squirrels, deer, geese, ducks, 1991 antine without Becoming a “Zoombie,”’ sure and attending to trainees. Creating on a team with a boutique brokerage, I dogs, and people who aren’t Fauci. Reed SONYA CLARK: “In the whirlwind that is from my website (anthonysilard.com) and pathways to educate and engage resi- have launched as a solo real estate agent, TIM HANRAHAN is less than impressed, but they’re all 2020, I’m two openings and one art- another in Psychology Today, ‘Unfortu- dents remotely is necessary due to this joining Compass in their Chevy Chase, [email protected] good distraction-training opportunities. ist talk into this not-so-new New Year. nate Allies: The Coronavirus and Loneli- mutable, contagious airborne virus. As Maryland, office, where I often run into There’s a fine line between tiring him out My exhibit, Finding Freedom, opened at ness’ (bit.ly/2WIWe2C). Also, last month I reflect on my time at Sidwell Friends, Allison Marinoff Carle ’90. With real- ASH CORSON: “I’ve just published my and building stamina, but I’ve managed the Phillips Museum of Art in Lancaster, my new book, Screened In: The Art of Living and how Quaker tradition helped prepare tors being deemed essential during the new book, The Caspian Virus, under a pen to avoid the ‘quarantine 15’ and have Pennsylvania, a site along the Under- Free in the Digital Age, was published. All me for academic medicine, I think of the COVID crisis, business has been very name, Vonn Eiger (an homage to my late actually lost weight!” (See photo above.) ground Railroad. The 1,500-square-foot proceeds go to nonprofit education pro- amazing, kind, erudite scholars who busy despite the lockdown!” father’s favorite Swiss peak), as I follow textile canopy is made of thousands of gram.” (See “Fresh Ink” on page 40.) modeled the way.” in the literary footsteps of my brother, CHARLIE KLEE wrote in from the Boston cloth cyanotypes stitched together. Many MARY QUILLIAN HELMS: “I’m the owner of Trevor Corson ’87, and take an evening area, where he practices architecture but individuals, including incarcerated men SANI ELDARWISH: “Quarantine makes me Mr. Henry’s. In short, working to keep my break from my day job aiding Toyota’s is currently homebound with his wife studying horticulture, helped me create feel like the mother of us all, nature, has restaurant afloat by also helping three sustainable-electrification efforts. My and two kids. Their newfound commu- the work. In the patchwork are several put the world into a big time out for not nonessential businesses stay open by let- book is a global-espionage thriller, set nal activity is puzzling out The New York 1987 in my somewhat glamorous industry/ heeding her more gentle warnings. I carry ting their customers pick up purchases at Times crossword and catching Zoey’s great sorrow for those lost and dread for TIP COFFIN my restaurant. NBC Washington had the work-world of inter- Extraordinary Playlist and Better Off Ted on those still at risk, yet I am grateful to be [email protected] story, ‘Capitol Hill Small Businesses Unit national sports-car Hulu. Charlie and I both have daughters spared, and I find unexplored depths in at 1 Location to Weather Pandemic’ (bit. racing and develop- who were sent home early by the pan- the bonds with my family, friends, and JOHN DICKERSON: “My new book, The ly/2WFoy62). So did The Hill: ‘Working ment; it includes a demic during their first year in college. strangers in need. I have newfound appre- Hardest Job in the World: The Presidency, Together to Stay in Business: “This is a fictional yet sober- Charlie still has a teenager at home, but I ciation for my personal sense of liberty, came out in June.” win-win for all of us,” said Mr. Henry’s ing viral-engineer- was starting to enjoy the empty nest! for nature, and for how fortunate I am. I Owner’ (bit.ly/2WJ8OPC). ing undercurrent that EDITOR’S NOTE eerily foreshadows Thanks to everyone for sharing their thoughts. hope we, our leaders, and those who influ- Vonn Eiger Vonn Stay safe. This too shall pass! ence us can learn from this in some endur- Look for The Presidency in next issue’s “Fresh Ink.” PIPO BUI: “Our family of four has been our current pandemic Fabric Workshop and Museum Workshop Fabric ing fashion for the sake of the world and. weathering the pandemic in Seattle, reality. Interwoven The new book from From Monumental Cloth: The Flag We Should Know by Sonya Ash “Vonn Eiger” Clark’ 85 for those who come after us. Peace to all.” with one child ‘at’ the University of as well are tributes to Corson ’91

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Washington DC, Sidwell Friends itself, MOYO MYERS: “I am thrilled to be cele- relationship with war. The book, The JON CHANANIE was a police officer after estate broker for seven years, and he has and dear friends we’ve lost but lovingly brating the graduation of my daughter, United States of War: A Global History of college. He then went to law school and a 7-year-old son. celebrate, like Michael Byrne ’91 and his Mia Ellis ’20, from Sidwell Friends this America’s Endless Conflicts, from Colum- became an assistant district attorney in beloved native New Zealand.” June. Not only has she been an excellent bus to the Islamic State (University of Cal- New York City. He has been married for MIA FELDBAUM lives in East Bay/Berkeley, pandemic buddy, she and her classmates ifornia Press), explains a major reason nine years, has two kids, and still does California, was married in 2009, has two have navigated the immense uncertainty the U.S. government was so poorly pre- karate as often as he can. kids, and has her California Naturalist surrounding the near future with deter- pared for the pandemic.” License. mination and hope, supported by the ALEX PETROVICH: “Since graduating Sid- 1992 well, I attended the University of Penn- MAX MOYER married his wife, Sarah, 18 incredible work and caring of the faculty, Want to be a class representative? staff, and administration.” sylvania, then moved to Los Angeles to years ago. They have four kids and live Contact [email protected]. pursue a career in acting. After a decade in Reston, Virginia. He is a lawyer and 1994 of acting, I moved into the direction of recently started his own firm. EMILY PASTER: “One bright side of this BETSY STOEL filmmaking, where I discovered my love pandemic has been reconnecting with [email protected] of editing film and television, which is ALYSON CAMBRIDGE went to Oberlin Col- so many friends from different times in 1993 what I do now. Along the way, I met my lege, then studied voice at Curtis Insti- my life, but most especially my Sidwell Want to be a class representative? BRETT DAKIN: “You’ve probably heard wife, Katherine St. John, and we have tute of Music. She moved to New York Friends classmates through our funny Contact [email protected]. me talk about my great-uncle over the two daughters, Sierra (6) and Jade (4). City in 2003, but she is on the road six to and poignant virtual Meetings for Wor- years—now you can finally read his My wife is a novelist whose debut book, seven months a year touring for opera, ship. I am grateful that, before the global DAVID VINE: “Since the onset of the pan- story! Lev was a giant among com- The Lion’s Den, will be released June 30, jazz, and Broadway shows. shutdown hit, my family was able to cel- demic, I’ve been inspired by working ic-book publishers in 1940s New York; by Grand Central Publishing.” ebrate two big milestones. First, we took with Mauricio Alexander Tscherny, he made it big with titles like Daredevil CHELSEA CLINTON and her daughter, a life-changing family trip to Israel and Lindsay Davison, Mamadou Guèye, and and Crime Does Not Pay before falling ANDREW EMMETT lives in Chevy Chase, Charlotte, 5, joined us on the call. Jordan over the winter holidays. I will a group of 60-plus people from over 20 victim to two of Cold War America’s Maryland, and is married to Blakey Burr. never forget walking through the Siq to countries to draft a COVID-19 Global defining crusades: (1) a nationwide cam- He enjoys biking, running, guitar, and GAVIN PRATT: After 20 years of living Ericson Ellen Cornelius the ancient city of Petra, the many lay- Solidarity Manifesto. Little more than paign to censor comics, and (2) the para- piano. He completed a half–Ironman across the country for grad school, man- The Class of ’97 gets their Zoom on. ers of history in the Old City of Jerusa- a week after a soft launch, more than noia of the Red Scare. In American Dare- last summer. agement consulting, and tech work in lem, the amazing food in Tel Aviv or 2,000 people from around the world devil, I piece together the truth about his Silicon Valley, Gavin moved back to the library school and became a law librarian floating in the Dead Sea. Also, in Febru- have signed the declaration. In keeping extraordinary life, uncovering his bat- ELLEN CORNELIUS ERICSON has been mar- DC area in North Bethesda, where he at Georgetown Law; now, she’s at Caplin ary, we celebrated the bar mitzvah of my with Quaker ethics, the manifesto states: tles with the likes of Henry Ford, William ried for 10 years and is the mom of two lives in the same neighborhood as his & Drysdale, and she has a 2-year-old son, Jamie, with friends and family from ‘The COVID-19 crisis has revealed the Randolph Hearst, Dr. Fredric Wertham, boys who will be in 2nd grade and pre- brother and parents. He works at the goldendoodle named Leo. all over, including classmate Tracy Pru- urgency of changing global structures and J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. You can kindergarten at Sidwell Friends next family company and has been married SERENA CAMPBELL lives in Abu Dhabi, zan-Roy and her family and my brother, of inequity and violence. We, people buy it now directly from the publisher: year. She is an adjunct law professor, was for 10 years, with three young kids. United Arab Emirates, where she works Timother Paster ’96, and his family. around the world, will seize this his- chapterhouse.ca/americandaredevil.” elected to the Chevy Chase Town Coun- MOLLY LOVE lives in Silver Spring, Mary- in global education. She summited Kili- It was truly an epic night!” (See photo torical moment.’ We invite you to add (See “Fresh Ink,” page 40.) cil in 2020, and she still enjoys running, land and has two children. She ran a manjaro to raise money for schools. Her below.) your name to this effort covidglobal ( - biking, and book club. reproductive-health clinic for teenagers, dog, Bandit, joined the call! solidarity.org) ‘to offer a vision of the and for the last four years she has been VW FOWLKES lives in DC, where he and his world we are building, the world we are DAVID SABEL lives in London with his working at McLean School. Her husband MATT WATKINS has two daughters, Lucia wife have an architecture firm. He has demanding, the world we will achieve.’ partner of 10 years. He graduated from 1997 college with a drama degree, then is head of Lower School at St. Andrew’s. (2.5) and Simone (7 months), and been enjoying seeing classmates every Also inspired by our Quaker education, recently relocated from Petworth in DC, weekend on the Zoom Meeting for Wor- I have a new book coming out in Octo- ELLEN CORNELIUS ERICSON became a chef in Paris. He got an MBA ZACK SCHOLZ attended college at Califor- to Silver Spring, Maryland. ship. (See photo below.) ber that tells the story of America’s long [email protected] at Cambridge University, worked at the National Theatre for almost eight years, nia College of Arts, then was briefly back The Class of 1997 had an epic Zoom call. Class rep. and recently he started his own produc- in DC before moving back to California For those class members who are on the Ellen Cornelius Ericson took notes! (See photos tion company. in 2004 with his wife of 13 years. He is a front lines of the crisis, we are thinking on the next page.) practicing artist and teacher, and he has of you with love and gratitude. CHRIS JEFFRIES lived in South Africa after two daughters. ERIC EDELSON lives in Mill Valley, Cali- college. He went to George Washington fornia, near San Francisco, and is about University for law school and has been BOBBY LUTZKE lives in Berkeley, Califor- to celebrate 10 years of marriage. He has a lawyer in Baltimore since 2005. He is nia. He got married in 2003, works as a two daughters, runs trails, takes family 1999 married and enjoys biking, cooking, and lawyer at Covington & Burling, and has bike rides, and has been manufacturing being a dad. two daughters. Want to be a class representative? tile in California at Fireclay Tile for 11 Contact [email protected]. years. COLIN MONTGOMERY transferred from ABBY DOS SANTOS lives in Cleveland Colgate to NYU. He has been married for Park, DC. At the five-year Reunion, KATIE PLUMB: “Having moved from DC to BEN TRACHTENBERG lives in Columbia, 12 years; he met his wife after graduate she was doing international develop- California in 2012 to pursue my master’s Missouri, where he teaches law at the ment; at the 10-year Reunion, she was in social work, I currently am a primary

Courtesy VW Fowlkes VW Courtesy Kosterman Matt school at Yale. He has worked at Sothe- University of Missouri. His wife is a law- by’s Auction House, then was a real in law school and became a lawyer; at therapist at an Intensive Outpatient Pro- LEFT VW Fowlkes, Porter Montgomery, Justin Gray, and Nathaniel Carroll, all Class of ’92, get in last runs before mountains closed yer, and he has a daughter and a son. due to the pandemic. RIGHT Emily Paster ’92 celebrated her son Jamie’s bar mitzvah in Oak Park, Illinois. the 15-year Reunion, she had been to gram/Partial Hospitalization Program

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and treatment learning. Once we are all traveling again, LYDIA KRUPSKY TOPPSTON: “I am surviv- center, and I am please reach out if you’re on the island.” ing quarantine life in Chicago with my building a pri- [email protected] husband, Aaron, and our adorable and Courtesy Katie Plumb Katie Plumb Courtesy vate practice busy 19-month-old, Cleo. Life right now on the side. I’ve involves a lot of long walks, playing with been counting Play-Doh, and singing endless rendi- my blessings 2000 tions of ‘The Wheels on the Bus.’ Daily Contact for Katie Plumb ’99 in lately. I have chats with Rachel Pinson, Annie Weiss- case any California residents are been so fortu- Want to be a class representative? man, and Michelle Katzow, mostly interested in her group. nate as a ther- Contact [email protected]. regarding food and cooking, are helping apist, both to be in a profession that me get through this tough time!” (See remains in demand during this pan- SARA MADAVO JEAN-JACQUES and husband, photo below.) demic and to have the technology to Michael Jean-Jacques, welcomed Noah make the transitions to telehealth pos- Ari Jean-Jacques on February 20, 2020. QUINN MAHONEY-NAIR: Quinn Mahoney

sible. It’s difficult to work all day with (See photo below.) and Devika Nair were married on July Associates Documentary Clegg Dan Christian Holmes Jade Courtesy people struggling with the same thing 6, 2019, at the Meadowlark Botani- LEFT Elizabeth Mahoney, Devin Mahoney ’98, Brenna Mahoney ’01, Bob Rudd, Fabia Mahoney, Quinn Mahoney-Nair ’01, Devika Mahoney-Nair, John Mahoney, David Donahue, and Maia Mahoney you are, but I wouldn’t change my job cal Gardens in Vienna, Virginia. Devika Donahue ’01 In front: Duncan Mahoney, Georgina Rudd, and Shaela Mahoney CENTER Brenna Mahoney ’01 and family: husband Bob Rudd, daughters Georgina (4.5 yrs) and June (6 months) RIGHT Jade Holmes Christian ’02 with her husband, Wil, and new son, Clay for anything. As a licensed clinical social also grew up in Maryland and attended worker, I work primarily with trauma the Connelly School of the Holy Child. 2001 to develop an ed-tech platform. Check ROBERT GOTTFRIED and Kim Kramer wel- and grief, both of which are being expe- For the celebration, they combined ele- out prismnetwork.org! Last May, we wel- comed their second child, Owen Thomas rienced on a collective level these days. I ELIZA ORLINS ments of Indian and Quaker traditions, 2002 comed our son, Clay, to the crew. I’ve Kramer Gottfried, on April 30. Mom and am so grateful for my job and clients— [email protected] with guests singing and performing at a CAMILO ACOSTA enjoyed working on great shows like baby are both happy and healthy, and not just for the income, but in showing Sangeet the night before and a ceremony OLIVIA MA: [email protected] Shameless and Snowfall and am looking Calvin is already proving himself the up and forcing a positive attitude for “I live in Oakland, California, that included a period of silence guided forward to directing my first feature film, wonderful big brother everyone knew he them, I’ve found myself believing my with my husband, Sean, and our three by Quinn’s father and former Sidwell CAMILO ACOSTA: “After nine years of scheduled to shoot this fall. We are loving would be. words and showing up for myself better, children, Aurora (6), Christina, (4), and Friends faculty member John Mahoney. building and running my company (Pay the West Coast and have enjoyed being too. I’m currently running a virtual cop- Miles (6 months). We live five minutes Maia Mahoney Donahue and Brenna By Group), we were acquired by our larg- active in the LA alumni group (shout out ing-skills and processing group (‘Part- away from my brother, Rohan Ma ’02, Mahoney joined as bridesmaids, Devin In Memoriam est competitor in May. Instead of going to Marta Ferro ’89). Stay tuned!” (See nering Through a Pandemic’) for Cali- and have been regularly video-call- Mahoney ’98 as a reader, and parents, to work with my acquirer, however, I was photo above.) Elliot Quick ’03 fornia residents on Thursdays as well.” ing during shelter-in-place with other John and Fabia, walked Quinn down the lured away by one of my investors to work February 19, 2020 (See photo below.) members of the Class of 2001, including aisle. (See photo on next page.) Perrin Doniger, Jake Jeppson, Braden at Facebook. I’ve never worked at a big RACHEL WILSON PATTERSON: “At the begin- company before, but I’m finding many ning of the year, I transitioned from the CHRISTINE BRAUNOHLER HANSON: “My Kay, Jeremy Oldfield, Ethan Ris, Matt BRENNA MAHONEY: “I am pleased to of the skills I developed as an entrepre- nonprofit world to the private sector. I family and I have relocated to Nantucket Pearson, and Juan Pieczanski. Despite announce the birth our second daugh- neur apply well at this surprisingly start- currently serve as the diversity and inclu- Island, Massachusetts, where I am the being spread across the country, our ter! My husband and I live in San Fran- 2004 Sidwell Friends bond remains strong! up-y company! I’m always recruiting so sion manager for Duane Morris LLP. My head of a preK–5th grade private school cisco and have an older daughter, Geor- CAT DAWSON I just hit 12 years of working at Google, if you have any inclination to work on big husband and I recently celebrated our called Nantucket Lighthouse School. gina. She is thrilled to be a big sister! We [email protected] problems—from policy work with global fourth wedding anniversary. We, along We are all settling into island life well. focused on elevating and supporting the are thrilled to live four blocks from the creation of high-quality and trustworthy NGOs to Instagram to working in AR/ with our American bulldog, Ali, live in My three sons are enjoying the start to Pacific Ocean!” (See photo on next page.) JULIA ROWNY: “I was supposed to grad- news. Sending best wishes from Califor- VR—drop me a line!” Maryland and are enjoying our second another barefoot season. They are bik- uate from Harvard Graduate School of nia.” (See photo below.) year in our house. While we are working ing, fishing, and doing a little distance Education in person, but I guess grad- NICK BLAEMIRE: “I’m writing a rom-com for from home during the COVID-19 crisis, uating online in my bathrobe is kind of Universal Pictures, writing a new musi- we are keeping ourselves busy by reading, like graduating in a cap and gown, right? cal that is supposed to go off-Broadway streaming movies, watching TV, exercis- Also, I’ll be deciding within the next this winter (though who knows), writing ing, and staying in touch with family and week whether my wedding is canceled. a film with Sidwell Friends alum David friends.” Fun times. This summer, I’ll be mov- Gerson ’04, and I shot a Netflix series ing to New Jersey to become the Math called Dash and Lily that will premiere this Department chair at Blair Academy, winter. My wife, Ana, our dog, Leo, and I which should be exciting!” are hunkering down in a house we just 2003 bought outside of Hudson, New York.” NAABIA OFOSU-AMAAH DAVID HENRY GERSON: “My wife, Liv Col- liander; our dog, Groovy; and I are grate- JADE HOLMES CHRISTIAN: “Hi, Friends! In [email protected] ful to be healthy, safe, and sound in our 2017, I got married (Alex Bradshaw ’03 house in Echo Park, Los Angeles. I’m was a bridesmaid), and the next week we KATIE MATHEWS

Courtesy Sara Jean-Jacques Sara Courtesy Brancato Samantha Toppston Lydia Courtesy staying inside, isolated from the world, packed up and moved west to Los Ange- [email protected] finishing postproduction on a documen- LEFT Noah Ari Jean-Jacques, the new son of Sara Jean-Jacques ’00 CENTER Olivia Ma ’01; her husband, Sean Kelly; their daughters, Aurora and Christina; and their son, Miles les! My husband, Wil, was recruited to RIGHT Lydia Toppston ’01 with her husband, Aaron, and daughter, Cleo tary I have been making over the past the University of Southern California

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that a global pandemic would be the per- fect time to buy a house in Alexandria, 2008 Virginia, built in 1895. They are currently DELANEY KEMPNER learning more about antique plumbing [email protected] and Victorian brickwork than they ever imagined! JEFFERY PEYSER married Qihua Fan on November 16, 2019, in Raleigh, North Carolina. (See photo below.) 2010 Bixby JUSTIN MANN is the co-founder and COO Miles Zhang ’17 on the last day of School in 2017 of Fysical, a venture-backed mobile KAI ZHENG intelligence business founded in 2014. [email protected] CASEY DORFMAN: “I recently climbed a He is happy to announce Fysical was mountain with Miles Zhang; it was one CAMYLLE FLEMING: “Hello from Lagos, acquired by Gimbal in August 2019! Jus- of the most thrilling adventures I have Nigeria! Life has been a swirl since grad- tin has since relocated from San Fran- had since Sidwell Friends. I recently also

Courtesy Dino Adelfio Dino Courtesy Photography Rox Eve Van Stephanie Courtesy uation. I stuck around DC doing policy cisco to Los Angeles to work for Gimbal had to explain to my new friends in col- and communications freelance work LEFT Dino Adelfio ’04 and his son, Teo, on an afternoon run in Redwood Regional Park CENTER Liz Paisner ’07, Rachel Tayler ’07, a non-Sidwellian friend, Emily Zickler ’07, and Liz Kleinrock ’05 at the as its VP of sales. If you’re in Los Ange- lege what AAL was and how somehow it Long Branch Saloon and Farms RIGHT Stephanie Van ’07 attended the 32nd Annual Gallifrey One Doctor Who Convention for a bit, then miraculously landed in les, send him a note. actually functioned.” (See photo above.) Lagos about a year ago with my fiancé. year called The Story Won’t Die about Syr- LIZ PAISNER: “To my parents’ relief, I Friends community and hope everyone EDWARD ERNST: “After spending two years Here, I’m completing coursework on ian artists in exile. My father, who grew finally got married last July (to Scott is staying safe and healthy!” (See photo in Kentucky working for the Breeders’ plant-based medicine, in line with Afri- up a refugee, passed away in December, Fritz )! Rachel Tayler, Emily Zickler, below.) Cup, I will be returning to New York City can, Chinese, and Ayurvedic wellness so it has been a difficult journey to say and Liz Kleinrock ’05 helped. With any this fall to begin law school at Fordham.” traditions. I’ve been dreaming about 2018 the least, but having this time of rela- luck (and coronavirus-induced pass/fail JED BERGMAN: “My wife, Jill, and I live really diving into this passion of mine Want to be a class representative? tive global quiet is somewhat comfort- grading), by the time this is published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and wel- for years, so I’m currently living a sur- Contact [email protected]. comed our son, Hayden Jude Bergman, ing. Yet, surreal given how many have I’ll also have graduated from law school! real reality. When I’m not obsessing over died of this disease, especially within the I’m happily social distancing in the Bay into our family on December 4, 2019. tropical flora, I’m taking in as much ANA MUNDACA: “I recently got a Nintendo Sidwell Friends community. That said, Area; my email address hasn’t changed Hayden is almost 5 months old and is 2009 mango and sunlight as humanly possi- Switch and have logged over 100 hours I’ve grown increasingly grateful for our since sophomore year, so say hi if you’re such a bundle of joy! His canine big sis- MARIELLE “ELLE” YOUNG ble.” (See photo below.) in Animal Crossing during quarantine, community, which has helped hold these in the area!” (See photo above.) ter, Nellie, can’t get enough of him, as [email protected] so you could say I am really living it up. losses in the Light and helped me to find well!” (See photo on next page.) I often play with Bea Shakow, Zachary my own Light. Thanks all.” STEPHANIE VAN: “The last thing I did COLIN HARRIS is practicing law at Mor- Wu, and Lia Johnson. They all have bet- before the quarantine was go to a Doctor SARAELLEN STRONGMAN finished her two- gan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in the firm’s ter islands than me despite getting the JASMINE WAHI is the new Holly Block Who convention in Los Angeles and then year collegiate postdoctoral fellowship 2017 DC office, litigating environmental mass game after I did.” and this fall will start as an assistant pro- Social Justice Curator at the Bronx to a pain conference at the National Har- tort and financial-services cases. He and Want to be a class representative? fessor in the Department of Afroameri- Museum. Jasmine’s organization, Proj- bor, where I presented some research. his wife, Calynn, inexplicably decided Contact [email protected]. ect for Empty Space, one of the leading After my fellowship, I plan to start a pain can and African Studies at the University New Jersey arts nonprofits, just moved practice at a rehab hospital just south of of Michigan. into a new and larger space, and she is LA. I hope everyone is hanging in there excited to get back to work making a dif- and staying safe and sane as much as ference for Newark and the surrounding possible.” (See photo above.) northern New Jersey area soon. GEORGE MARSHALL: “Charlotte Grace DINO ADELFIO: “I’m very glad that these Marshall was born on February 25, 2020, parks in Oakland, California, have stayed at 8:11 am, weighing an impressive 10 open during stay-in-place, so Teo (5 pounds, 3 ounces! She and her brother, months) and I can go for a jog in the red- George William Marshall III (aka ‘Trey’), woods.” (See photo on page above.) are both in good health and are starting to really enjoy one another. While her brother prefers ‘bask-uh-ball,’ saying ‘no’ repeatedly, and sprinting around 2007 the house, Charlotte is fond of keeping it simple by just sleeping and eating. My ALEX AKMAN wife and I are extremely blessed to have Sa’eed Husaini Husaini Sa’eed [email protected] these two beautiful kiddos in our lives. Jill Bergman ’78 Bill Peyser Courtesy Ella Bess Marshall Marshall Ella Bess We are praying for the rest of the Sidwell LEFT Jed Bergman ’07 holds Hayden Bergman (future Class of 2038). CENTER Front row: Cindy Meyer Truitt ’73, Pam Meyer ’76, Carolyn Peyser ’11, Bill Peyser ’78, Jeffrey Peyser ’08, Qihua Fan, George Marshall ’07 has two children, Charlotte and Trey. Trish Peyser Perlmutter ’81, Peter Beveridge ’78, Krishnan Rajagopalan ’78 Back Row: Kenneth Peterson ’08, Garrett Carswell ’08, Bruce Peyser ’75, Todd Deckelbaum ’75, Denny Minami ’74 RIGHT Camylle Fleming ’10 beams in front of a retired greenhouse at the Botanical Garden on the University of Lagos campus.

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16 Vibe 20 21 21 22 Whether it is staying connected to classmates, 17 Skinner or Dumbledore finding new books to read, or registering to 20 “Stitches” singer Mendes 23 23 24 8 25 26 21 Shakespearean McKellen 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 attend your next virtual alumni event, we hope 22 Turnover order this new page will support your continued 23 School orgs. 33 32 34 33 34 35 connection with fellow alumni and the life 25 This blows! 27 Song with the lyric 36 37 37 38 39 of the School. “Annie are you okay?” 33 Connection 40 41 42 Visit the new Alumni Digital Resources webpage at: 34 Ate 35 Greek word for “I,” appropriately 43 44 45 46 sidwell.edu/alumni/alumni-digital-resources. 36 Joan Cusack, relative to John 37 Susan of “L.A. Law” 51 47 8 48 54 38 Benjamin 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 40 Adam’s companion

41 Anthem contraction 58 59 60 42 Reacts to a pun

43 In a mostly determined manner 61 5 62 64 63 Virtual Gatherings 47 Prefix for “freeze” 48 Heads for a pub? 64 5 65 67 66 49 “Attack on Titan” genre 52 “Selma” director DuVernay Puzzle by Aimee Lucido 54 Totally lost 58 Absolutely necessary 8 Shark cousin 38 Fancy neckwear 61 “Into The Unknown” singer 9 Home base? 39 One of two annual extremes 62 Plot makeup 10 Chiang Kai-shek’s capital 41 Commonly, uncommonly 63 Area with moorings 11 Kentucky’s Arena 42 Supermodel Carangi 64 Line of dresses? 12 Like some arguments 44 Early Dakota Fanning film 65 Checkups 13 Jodie Foster’s alma mater 45 “And here’s 66 Dolly and Methuselina, for two 18 Travelling, like an author made earlier...” 19 Meditation objective 46 Shade of red 24 Court org. 49 Home to Iowa State DOWN 26 Assistance 50 Disputed longest river in the world 1 Highlands girl 27 Fill in, as a crossword 51 “The Lovebirds” actress Rae 2 Eyebrow shape 28 Internet presence? 53 TiVo ancestors 3 Island band The Men 29 Dijon darling 55 Clumsy boat 4 Lollygagger 30 Himalayan land 56 Gutter locale Classes from 1950 and beyond have been getting together virtually. 5 One of two Spice Girls 31 Torment 57 Stout and pale 6 Like one who’s asking for trouble 32 They may be drawn 59 Granola morsel If you’d like to host a class gathering or Meeting for Worship 7 “ and the 33 Garden parties? 60 Magazine no. email [email protected]. Lost City of Gold” 37 Opposition

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Emi Marshall ’22 and Nia Brown ’22 at the School’s silent protest

Lose Yourself Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson’s latest exhibition, Tunnel of Fog, at the Tate Modern in London provided inspiration for students’ artwork in one of Aaron Brophy’s art classes at the Middle School. Eliasson uses color theory and light to question people’s perceptions and experiences of the world around them. Like Eliasson, Elizabeth Hare ’24 used an almost monochromatic color scape to create something with depth and nuance. “I found it harder to create contrast with a limited color palette,” Hare says. “But it forced me to be more creative, as it let me focus on the shades of yellow and on creating a setting in my own style.” Hare also appreciates Eliasson’s use of light as a medium in and of itself; he will bathe a gallery in light, for example, to radically alter the museumgoers’ perspective. Hare achieved this effect— a cloaked light—with pastels, using light as a shroud rather than as illumination. “As an aspiring artist, looking at the creative process and works of others is very inspiring,” Hare says. “Eliasson makes art an immersive experience, and he thinks outside of the box.”

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PERFORM SUPPORT LEARN Two days before campus closed, a virtual showing of The first day of the Distance Learning Plan was cause A peek into distance learning in action with a very Newsies was a smash, earning lots of digital applause. for a show of solidarity. photogenic kindergartener, Frederick.

CREATE LOVE ACT The Parents Association curated an online student Students across all three divisions came together for A Black Lives Matter banner hung on Zartman House. art show with work created during distance learning. Teacher Appreciation Week with creativity. “We are standing together for equality.”

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