Tiff Wood
tiff.wood@milliman.com
Alden Stevens
ahs472@optonline.net
News from James Brooke: “All is well over here in Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2020, we managed to duck COVID and enjoy a couple of family vacations to Egypt and Turkey. My son, George (4.5), is now at the French School Anne de Kiev – happily non-verbal in five languages. To compensate, I am expanding my Ukraine Business News (ubn.news/), already published in English, Ukrainian, Russian, French, and German, and we are adding Italian, Polish, and Spanish editions. Looking ahead, I will be back in New England for Memorial Day through June 10, working to get my house in Lenox, Mass., in shape. If any formmates plan to be coming through the Berkshires, stop by and let’s catch up over lunch.”
Dorien Nunez
omniresearch@aol.com
Carl Lovejoy writes: “Cari and I welcomed our fourth grandchild, Emerson Rose Lovejoy, on January 31. I was named the executive director of Mountain Valley Treatment Center in April 2020.”
Alison Zetterquist
zettera.az@gmail.com
A note from Valerie Webster: “Looking forward to our granddaughter meeting her cousins at our 14th Minton family reunion at the Elkhorn Ranch – a wonderful tradition since 1959. Continuing to enjoy serving as a priest at All Saints in Big Sky, Mont., and as ecumenical and interreligious officer for the Episcopal Diocese of Montana. I was also awarded the Montana Food Bank Network’s 2021 Hunger Hope Advocacy Award.”
James C-P. Tung
jcptung@gmail.com
Royce Barondes writes: “I am a professor of law at the University of Missouri, where I have taught firearms law, regulation of medical marijuana businesses, contracts, and other business law classes. I was the initial plaintiff to bring a claim alleging the university’s rules included state statutory firearms civil rights violations. That claim, now pursued by Missouri’s Attorney General, was unanimously upheld by the Missouri Court of Appeals in February.”
Nora Tracy Phillips
noratphil@aol.com
Jon Sweet
Jsweet1000@gmail.com
Jon Sweet shared with Angus Beavers a photo of his son, Owen ’21, skating on the Lower School Pond’s black ice. The photo prompted Angus’s memory of an almost-annual special surprise school holiday: “At Chapel in the morning, if there had been a few days of freeze before snow, the Rector would declare a black ice holiday. We’d have no classes and be expected to spend the day out on the lakes. It usually happened during the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas break. The ice would be super clean and hard black.”
Bryan Bell announces the publication of a new book he has co-edited, All-Inclusive Engagement in Architecture: Towards the Future of Social Change. According to Bryan, the book “shows that socially engaged architecture is both a theoretical construct and a professional practice navigating the global politics of poverty, charity, health, technology, neoliberal urbanism, and the discipline’s exclusionary basis. Through essays and case studies in the book, architectural thought leaders demonstrate the architect’s role as a revolutionary social agent.”
D.J. Mitchell writes: “I was asked last week what I miss most. My answer: I want to hug someone! School seems to have finally returned to normal after a season of snow days and quarantines. This is good news for my routine-craving, autistic, six-year-old, Sammy, as well as my 16-year-old, Ethan, who hides in his room when he’s at home. Meanwhile, my ministry to people struggling with addiction is also returning to some sense of rhythm. It’s warm enough now (most days) to meet with people on our porch, and we expect to resume group meetings in a couple of weeks – masked and socially distant, of course. The bigger news, though, is that fundraising for the first year has been a success. I’m now officially employed by Virginia Mennonite Missions, our local missions board. This is a huge financial relief, and also offers support and wisdom from people who have been in ministry much longer than I have.”
Anne Bartol Butterfield shares: “Times are bittersweet at chez Butterfield. Really enjoying our net-zero super-solar home in the woods near Prouts Neck, Maine, where we have moved permanently. We have many SPS alums around as friends – key among them Phil ’69 and Skiddy Von Stade ’80 and their families. Just as things are looking up with the completion of COVID vaccinations, back in Boulder, Colo., our friends wrestle with the horror and death of yet another mass shooting. Thankfully, John Tweedy checked in okay – social media can be handy at making distant friends seem to be right here. Stay safe, everyone.”
Joan Mackay-Smith Dalton shares: “Since the pandemic began, I have been living, quite happily and extremely fortunately in Dartmouth, Mass. I have found some engaging and meaningful volunteer opportunities that have kept me just busy enough and feeling like I am making a contribution to the community. I am working at our local community farm (under the auspices of the Dartmouth YMCA), helping to plant, grow, and harvest fresh produce that is donated to regional food pantries and mobile markets. In partnership with the Greater Boston Food Bank, we have also just begun to serve as a hub for food distribution to our neighbors in need – sad that food is so needed, but glad that we are able to provide assistance. I also volunteer as a tutor and help with the cooking club at Our Sisters School, a tuition-free middle school for low-income girls, in nearby New Bedford. The students, their families, faculty, and staff have done an amazing job following COVID protocols, enabling in-person school for almost all learners. It has been so rewarding to be even a tiny part of the wonderful work being done to educate this small but mighty cohort of girls/young women preparing to be tomorrow’s leaders. In other news, I got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine stuck in my arm today.”
Katie Thayer McCammond writes: “The pandemic has given me lots of time to work on my Chicago house. The second-floor bathroom is finally completed, as is the basement, and I’m rushing to list it in May. For a break, I drove to New Hampshire to spend my birthday with my bestie, Linda Richards. We had great fun walking her property, doing a jigsaw puzzle, and zooming with Mar Bodine ’76. I purchased my mother’s home and property in Maine last year and will be moving home to my beloved New England this summer. Hard to believe I have been in the Chicago area for nearly 30 years. This move has been a long time coming, and though it’s stressful, I am very excited.”
D.J. Mitchell ’78, providing assistance to community members struggling with addiction.
Owen Sweet ’21, son of Jon Sweet ’78, enjoying the ice on Lower School Pond.
Katie Thayer McCammond ’78 (l.), and Linda Richards ’78 celebrating Katie’s birthday in Meredith, N.H.
Just prior to publication, we learned the sad news that beloved form director, former trustee, and devoted SPS volunteer Sarah Bankson Newton, who wrote these notes, died suddenly on May 2, 2021. A full tribute will appear in the next issue of Alumni Horae.
Our second daughter, Lindsay, and her boyfriend successfully navigated a very complicated couples match on March 19 and are moving to Ann Arbor for six years for their medical residencies. As neither of them has stepped foot in the state of Michigan yet, if you have Ann Arbor resources to share, please send them my way!
Tom Hatch has a new book out, The Education We Need for a Future We Can’t Predict. It draws on 30 years of work learning from school reform efforts in the U.S., and in higher- and lower-performing education systems around the world. It also describes the work of a number of organizations that are creating powerful educational experiences inside and outside schools. Another SPS alum, Emily McCann ’90, leads one of those organizations, Citizen Schools. The efforts of Alan Khazei to create 500,000 (or more) service jobs also figures into Tom’s discussion of some of the ways to expand the power of the education workforce.”