1980s
’80 Griffin FryAtlanta, Georgia
griffin.fry@comcast.net
Anne B. Friscia is living in Santa Cruz, California, and is employed as a merchandising manager for Orion Telescopes and Binoculars. She is learning a lot about astronomy and optics on the job, which she says is “fun.” Anne tells us she is regularly in touch with Katherine “Kit” Freeman Greener, Cynthia Lewis Stier ’82, and Janet L. Chaffin and is happy to be a tour guide for any alumni traveling through the area. Timothy Herron tells us he is doing well in Sandusky, Ohio, and enjoys organic gardening and cool Lake Erie breezes. Tim writes, “We’re planning our first trip to Rome this October. Benissimo!” Robert A. Weiss, Orinda, California, writes, “Our son, Evan A. Weiss ’11, is living and working in New York City for an advertising firm specializing in social networking. Being a California boy, he’s on the wrong coast, but he enjoys it.”
’81 Clarence R. “Bud” Grebey III
Stamford, Connecticut
budgrebey@hotmail.com
’82 Myles Alderman Jr.
West Hartford, Connecticut
myles.alderman@alderman.com
Grace Keefe Huebscher, Chevy Chase, Maryland, writes, “Favorite Kenyon Memory: So many, too many to just pick one; one of my most cherished times in life. What I’m Up To: Started a new company, Beech Street Capital, in the middle of the credit crisis in 2009, which is growing faster than ever imagined, thanks to an incredible one-hundred-strong team of professionals. My husband, Charles, is a three-year survivor of colon cancer, and we cherish our time with our children, Erin (fifteen) and Brian (sixteen), the latter a film major who should want to go to Kenyon and doesn’t, and Erin, a math and likely biz wiz [who] likes the idea of Kenyon. Go figure! All the best to my fellow classmates.” Catherine Kemmerer Karp, Pepperell, Massachusetts, reports that she has been selected to be an ART21 Educator for the 2012-13 academic year. It’s a year-long program designed to “develop greater knowledge of, and expanded perspectives on, contemporary art, artists, and ideas, and to use this knowledge to support innovative teaching and learning in the classroom.” Catherine tells us that she will be attending a seven-day summer institute in New York City to kick off the year. John T. Mackessy and Linda Day Mackessy ’83, Bexley, Ohio, are the proud parents of Kenyon sophomore Benjamin D. Mackessy. John and Linda write, “Having a child at Kenyon gives us a great excuse to visit often!”
’83 Reid W. Click
Washington, D.C.
rclick@gwu.edu
Gregg O. Courtad
Canton, Ohio
courtago@mountunion.edu
David F. Stone
Birmingham, Michigan
dstone1@us.ibm.com
Gregg O. Courtad writes, “Since 2004, I have been living at least a part of the year in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which gives me that urban fix I so crave during the rest of the year in Canton, Ohio. Any classmates traveling to the Southern Cone should definitely look me up!” Beth A. Crawford has been appointed by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick as an associate justice of the Hampshire Probate and Family Court. Beth and her husband, Robert W. Dickerman ’82, live in Haydenville, Massachusetts. Edward B. Flint, Germantown Hills, Illinois, writes, “I just finished my twentieth year teaching at Bradley University. Our older daughter, Sarah, just completed her freshman year at Yale and is home for the summer with an engineering internship at Caterpillar. Our younger daughter, Anne (thirteen), just completed seventh grade and is developing into almost as much of a punster as her father. My wife, Jeanette, continues her financial planning business with an office in the Peoria area.” Elizabeth H. Grund, Charleston, South Carolina, has left her position at Vitetta Law Group, and now works as a certified dream therapist. Betsy tells us that she and her husband, Guy J. Vitetta ’81, are managing their businesses, their teenage daughters, Lisa (sixteen) and Maddie (fourteen), and “not much else.” Stephen D. Hays, South Salem, New York, reports that good things are afoot at 120dB Films, as they have had three films at the Sundance Film Festival this year. One of the films was Liberal Arts, which was filmed almost entirely on the Kenyon College campus. The film was directed by Josh Radnor ’96, who also starred in the film alongside Allison Janney ’82. Steve tells us that the company also just closed on a new $100 million film fund and they are gearing up for larger productions. 120dB Films also shot two pet projects in Africa (Capetown and Gabon) last summer, so keep an eye out for those. Steve would love to hear from any indie film lovers. Linda Day Mackessy and John T. Mackessy ’82 are proud parents of Kenyon sophomore Benjamin D. Mackessy. Linda and John write, “Having a child at Kenyon gives us a great excuse to visit often!” Andrew Welsh-Huggins reports that he and Everard B. Corcoran ’82, Rocky River, Ohio, were two members of a six person relay team, the Oldster Roadsters, that competed in the first Relay Around Columbus, a 110 mile relay that traversed trails and parkways throughout Columbus in an overnight race. Their team, all of them over age fifty, finished seventh out of eighty-five teams. Andrew tells us that he and Everard were roommates in Old Kenyon and then Watson Hall, and also cross country and track teammates. Andrew lives with his wife, Pamela J. Welsh-Huggins, in Columbus, Ohio.
’84 Beverly Sutley
Tyrone, Pennsylvania
bxb35@psu.edu
’85 Laura A. Plummer
Bloomington, Indiana
lplummer@indiana.edu
Harvey M. Stephens
Springfield, Illinois
hmstephens@bhslaw.com
Susan Berger
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
sberger@pepcleve.org
Mark T. Kuiper and his wife, Stephanie, were recently hand-selected to manage a pilot education program in Newark, New Jersey. The program, a grant-funded federal apprenticeship, is the first of its kind in the United States. Once the program receives national apprenticeship designation from the United States Department of Labor, the education model designed by Mark and Stephanie will serve as the national template for future apprenticeship programs. The Kuipers reside in Milltown, New Jersey.
’86 Margaret S. Callesen
Avon Lake, Ohio
mcallesen@calfee.com
Frank S. Crane IV
Staten Island, New York
fcrane@statenislandacademy.org
John Keady
Oakland, California
jbkeads@gmail.com
’87 Stephen McCoy
Riverdale, New York
steve.eac@gmail.com
Jessica Greenstein, Highland, New York, tells us she has been busy recruiting high school students to go abroad on AFS (www.afsusa.org). Jessica says, “If you know anyone interested in sending their kid abroad, or in hosting an international student, send them my way.” You can reach Jessica by email at jgreenstein@afs.org, or greensteinjen@gmail.com. Fawn C. Lewis, her husband, Michael Clark, and their daughter, Allie (four), are doing well in Pensacola, Florida. Allan L. Maca Jr., New York City, is excited to have been hired as an on-camera archaeologist for season two of the PBS prime-time series, Time Team America. Mary Hundt McLoughlin, Malvern, Pennsylvania, writes, “By the time this is printed I will have had a joyous time seeing old friends in Gambier, a very special place where I was blessed to meet some very special people.”
’88 Patricia Rossman Skrha
Cleveland, Ohio
pskrha@bw.edu
Jennifer F. “Wendy” Davis, Seattle, Washington, and her husband, Daniel Welsh, announce the birth of their twins, Graeme and Iris Welsh, on January 27, 2012. Timothey C. Denko, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, reports that he just celebrated twenty-two years of sobriety. Jennifer L. Gray reports that she and her family are living in the beautiful small mountain town of McCall, Idaho. Jennifer and her husband, James Griffith, and their daughters, Abigail (ten) and Emma (twelve), have recently returned from a three-year stint in Guatemala, where Alice worked in medical epidemiology. Alice tells us that their young daughters quickly surpassed their parents’ Spanish skills. Seth L. Harris, New Albany, Ohio, reports that for the last several years he has been traveling the globe, designing and installing murals for companies like Abercrombie and Fitch. Those opportunities have allowed him to work with Marc E.H. Royce in Milan, Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Paris. Seth writes, “During one trip last summer, I traveled around the world; starting in Columbus, then to Dusseldorf, Singapore, Tokyo, then back to Columbus. I’ve also been managing the growth of my clothing company, Badcock Apparel.” Timothy P.O. Holmes, San Leandro, California, writes, “Since my last update, Zocalo Coffee House has gotten to 4.5 stars on Yelp, won second best Bay Area coffeehouse, and is just shy of ten years old. Recently Congresswoman Barbara Lee held an open house there. I am very honored to be a volunteer campaign manager for the winning mayoral candidate in my city, against all of the establishment. Otherwise, I’m just getting older, wiser, and more tired.” Paul B. Singer, Washington, D.C., has been named politics editor at USA Today, where he has joined the team that is running the paper’s coverage of the 2012 presidential campaign. Paul writes, “Not as much fun as editing the Collegian, but better graphics.”
’89 Andrea L. Bucey-Tikkanen
Hudson, Ohio
abucey@41nb.com
Joan O’Hanlon Curry
Ossining, New York
gijoan9@aol.com
Elizabeth Englander Howie is still living in Aspen, Colorado, with her husband, Keith, and three girls, Charlotte (ten), Jamie (thirteen), and Emma (fourteen). Liz writes, “We are building a house in Costa Rica, and plan to spend the summers surfing and winters skiing and snowboarding. Life is good! Visitors welcome.”