Adirondack-Florida School the star of the popular eight season television show, Everglades School for Girls Dexter. Read more at www.booksandbooks. com/event/jeff-lindsay-dexter-dead-gables 1938 1961 Katherine “Kaki” Swenson Kahan, a noted women and children’s rights activist, was named to New York City’s newly created Commission on Gender Equity, established by Mayor Bill De Blasio to achieve economic mobility and social inclusion for all New Yorkers, particularly women and girls. The new Commission replaces former Mayor Bloomberg’s New York City Commission on Women’s Issues, on which Ms. Kahan served for all three of Mayor Bloomberg’s terms. The Commission is made up of a diverse group of leaders spanning public and private industries, nonprofit organizations and academia. “I am looking forward to serving and learning,” Ms. Harry Anderson Kahan reports. “It’s a great adventure at this point See Nathaniel Johansson ’14 Timothy Greenfield-Sanders in my life and I look forward to doing my best to contribute to this historic effort.” American Masters: The Women’s List premieres 1941 Friday, September 25, 9-10 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings) Hear from 15 women who created and 1963 defined contemporary American culture in the newest David Anderson writes, “I am retired but still chapter of filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ keep active in working on environmental issues; in “List” series (The Boomer List, The Black List, The particular Global Warming. I am a board member Latino List, The Out List). This film features interviews of the Connecticut League of Conservation Voters with Madeleine Albright, Gloria Allred, Laurie where we use our influence on the Connecticut Anderson, Sara Blakely, Margaret Cho, Edie Falco, Legislature relative to environmental issues. I also Betsey Johnson, Alicia Keys, Aimee Mullins, Nancy serve on the Board of the non-profit Reforest the Pelosi, Rosie Perez, Shonda Rhimes, Wendy Williams, Tropics which is a unique controlled reforestation and Nia Wordlaw. project in Costa Rica. We plant special trees for most effective carbon sequestration for emitters in the USA. We have a very effective program for schools. (www.reforestthetropics.org) Otherwise, I keep Nat Harrison is a chef at Quail Creek Plantation busy with my nine children, eighteen grandchildren in Central Florida. www.quailcreekplantation.com and four great grandchildren.” Judith Walker McGuirt writes, “These are my 1971 grandgirls Morgan McGuirt, 8, and Miranda McGuirt, Ransom School 3, at Brenau University in Gainesville,Ga. I spent a long weekend with them to attend Morgan’s dance recital Mark Harrison reports that he and his brothers on May 30. Wonderful visit and great performance — Nat ’70, Patrick ’73 and Peter ’74 — split off by Morgan! Wish they could both be RE students - 1958 from their family ranch business, Adams Ranch, a few years ago and established four cattle ranches Everglades Girls! Enjoy! Edward Carter (great nephew of Alice Ruth known as 4H Ranch Inc. on more than 11,000 acres Ransom) has retired from Bangkok University and in St. Lucie and Osceola counties in Central Florida. has settled in a primitive village in Isaan, Thailand Mark runs the cattle operation. The 4H Ranch, 1970 near the Cambodian border in the North-Eastern whose name refers to the four brothers, also includes corner of the country. He lives in a large Lanna-style income-producing commercial properties. Mark has Gail Beckham is a new grandmother. Her son, home with pool and a guest house for friends. (Aunt two others businesses. He is “trailboss” and owner of Otto, and daughter-in-law, Mariana, welcomed Amelia Ruth’s 1896 LV trunk supports the silver tea service Florida Ranch Adventures, which offers tours — with Beckham to their family on 7.11.15. she used to serve the boys on the shore of Clear Pond or without a barbecue — on a 12-passenger custom when AFS was in residence.) vehicle (known as The Armadillo) of private ranches and public wildlife areas in Florida’s Treasure Coast. Sarah Morgan Nihms writes “I am retired Mark also is president and owner of ADEVCO Inc., a from practicing equine law. I am living with and 1970 real estate and property management company. working for my significant other, Cecil Seaman, who has a business where we bio-mechanically measure Jeffry Freundlich, also known as New York and evaluate thoroughbred race horses. We recently Times bestselling author Jeff Lindsay, was in town 1974 measured American Pharoah, the horse that won the for a reading from his new book, Dexter is Dead, at Triple Crown. We live in Lexington, Ky. My brother Books & Books, Coral Gables. Jeffry is the author of Wes White is a candidate for State Attorney for and I still own our family house in Coconut Grove, seven bestselling books about Miami-based serial the 4th Judicial Circuit of Florida comprising Clay, FL so I make it down there on occasion. We also killer, Dexter Morgan. His fictional character, who Duval, and Nassau counties. www.WesWhite.com still own a family farm here in Versailles, KY where not only commits the crimes, but solves them, was March - September 2015 • Class Notes • Ransom Everglades School | 1 I used to run a thoroughred breeding and racing Paul Donner moved from Cisco to DTV America business, but have also retired from that. I have five Corp where he is Vice President, Architecture and retired horses left who spend their days grazing on Product Development. He is based out of Sunrise, the lush bluegrass of Kentucky! I just saw Denny FL but still lives in New Mexico with his wife Lauren Gibbs ’68 briefly as she was driving south from and son, Wyatt, who is entering eighth grade at Cincinnati where her sister lives.” Sandia Prep, in Albuquerque. Paul is a Boy Scout adult leader, and stays in touch every so often with 1975 classmate Chris Marsh. Catherine Young writes, “I started a new job as VP Internal Audit for Globalfoundries in Santa Clara, CA. My daughter Katie Buhai graduated from Torrey Pines High School and will be attending the Paul Zuccarini writes, “My son Parker and I Honors College at the University of Alabama in have moved back to my childhood island of Key the fall. She plans to study elementary education Biscayne. We snorkel, build sand castles, race go and administration.” karts, and catch iguanas.” 1980 1981 Jaymie Meyer writes, “In December of 2014, I was hired by Ornish Healthways as a Stress Management Specialist. Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease is an integrated lifestyle modification program employing four equally weighted elements: nutrition, exercise, stress management, and group support, now 100% covered by Medicare. Additionally, I work privately delivering Yoga Therapy and New Life Story coaching and deliver two group programs through my business: Resilience for Life ® Stress Reduction and HeartMath’s Resilience Advantage.” www.resilienceforlife.com Ransom Everglades School Bill Shandor (faculty from 1985 to 1999) Andy Ansin reports, “I was named President of writes, “In keeping with our family’s urban bedouin IUSA, the international organization that maintains 1976 lifestyle we have moved again this past year though free-dive spearfishing records. The organization was fortunately this was a local move in St. Augustine founded in 1950; founding members included Jacques Marilyn Glassberg, professor of medicine, surgery, of just a mile or two. In the decade or so since we Cousteau. Travels included Boston and Bermuda with and pediatrics was profiled by University of Miami were married and started a family we have lived the family this summer. Tatsiana and I had our first Health system for her work investigating hard-to- in the following places; Agadir, Morocco / Miami son last year and celebrated our marriage in May. treat lung disease. Read more at www.med.miami. Shores, Florida / Marrakech, Morocco / Indialantic, Many RE friends joined us at the celebration. Recently edu/news/i-work-in-a-field-of-unknown.-its- Florida / Rabat, Morocco / Sedona, Arizona / I’ve made RE connections through business and intriguing-because-there-are-no-cures Malibu, California / Vero Beach, Florida / and now started two new hobbies - raising a son and planting a St. Augustine, Florida. Fortunately my wife is a fruit tree garden.” master mover, skillful packer and a kindred spirit as far as adventure goes. Every time we leave a place Alice Greenfield writes, “I have recently been we seem to land somewhere interesting and find given the new title of Assistant Clinical Professor Lisa Landy writes, “Alex Glaskowsky Leavell, fun things to see and do. Not sure if we can keep of Psychiatric Social Work at Columbia New York Tammy Ho and I, and all of our collective families, the moving streak alive as the kids are now eight, Presbyterian Hospital. This is a not a promotion but spent June 14 - 21 together on the Outer Banks of six, and four but we are looking forward to whatever a new title and I am one of two clinical social workers North Carolina watching wild horses, surfing and comes. For now the three kids are settled in school at NY Presbyterian Hospital who have the title. trying beginner hang gliding. We try to get together and I am coaching swimming in the small town of Columbia University’s Department of Psychiatry once a year somewhere new and once a year rotating St. Augustine which has been a wonderful host for and New York Presbyterian Hospital work together between our houses.” the past year. I have been surfing, doing yoga and in training psychiatry fellows, psychology interns/ am biking quite a bit around town. We are a mile externs and social work interns.