2013 MacDuffie Alumni Magazine (Chinese)

8/13/2019 2013 MacDuffie Alumni Magazine (Chinese)

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The MacDuffie Schoolmagazine for alumni and friendsAlumni News

Faculty Feature

Facilities Improvements

Student Spotlight

Commencement 2013

Traditions

Athletics UpdateVolume 5 Issue 1 Fall 2013


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The MacDuffie School is a rigorous college preparatory schoolwhose mission is to foster in all students the intellectual habitsof mind, high ethical standards and respect for diversityrequired for becoming effective individuals in their personaland work lives and moral and responsible participants in theworld beyond.

MISSION

Advisory Board

Wayne Brewer

Managing Director

Craig Brewer

Director

Dal Swain

Director

Steven Griffin

Head of School

Thomas Addicks

Assistant Head of School

Carole Bielizna

Business Manager

David Denno

History and English Teacher

Timothy Duff

Headmaster, Pioneer Valley Christian

School, Springfield MA

Danielle Williams

Class of 1994

Leslie Pitt Chehade

Class of 1987

Gina Placek

Past Parent

Nina Metz

Current Parent and Past Co-President of

Parents Association

The MacDuffie School

Magazine for alumni and friendsFall 2013

Steven Griffin, Head of School

Diana Lyman 66, Dean of Boarding Life and

Alumni Relations

Valerie Fontaine, Administrative Assistant, Deans Offices

EDITOR

Linda Keating 65, Editor

former Director of Admissions

PHOTOGRAPHY

Gabriel Cooney

Beth Reynolds

Chi Huang 14

Linda Keating 65

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Or e-mail: [email protected]

The MacDuffie School is a coeducational college

preparatory school for grades 6 12.

Contact Alex Seymour, Director of Day Admissions,

at [email protected] for more information.


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Greetings from the Head of School

Last years magazine focused on introducing alumni to the new MacDuffie campus in

Granby. There have been myriad changes to the physical plant this year, including new

roofs, two new ramps for accessibility, a new chemistry lab, and renovated and enlarged

spaces for art, music, dance and theatre. All told, we have spent $1.725 million on

capital improvements to the property since we moved here in July, 2011.

What are the results of these changes? You might say that the more things change, the

more they stay the same. We have expanded opportunities for our students, and they

still receive the same excellent educational experience, within a caring community, for

which MacDuffie is renowned.

We have also instituted the Heads CIRCLE awards. We use the acronym CIRCLE to

capture and communicate the values that we seek to instill in our students: Community,

Integrity, Respect, Creativity, Leadership, and Excellence. The awards recognize Junior

students who exemplify these values, and their names are engraved on plaques that

hang outside my office.

This year, when we climbed Mount Holyoke as a community and returned to MacDuffieto engage in the tradition of Candlelight, our student leaders focused on the theme of

Difference. We are a School that embraces diversity and respects differences. At the

end of the ceremony, when we are standing in a single circle, each holding a lit candle,

we form one indivisible unit, with tighter bonds because of our differences.

I hope that you still feel as much a part of the MacDuffie circle today as ever. It is my

true hope that this Alumni Magazine will help in a small way to rekindle the flame of the

great memories, friends and education you received at The MacDuffie School.

Sincerely,

Steven Griffin

The new school is beautiful. I was there in October and toured all over. If you are in the area, make a point of

going there. It is a new home for MacDuffie, but the values are the same as always. Carole Rund Robinson 58

Cover, L to R: Seniors Magdalene Taylor, Naomi Phelps, Kimberly Jones, Jessica Schwartz and Kitty Carbon.


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Kay Simpson 76, Vice President of the Springfield Museums, was the recipient of the 2013 MacDuffie Distinguished

Alumni Award. Kay holds a B.A. from Smith College and an M. Ed. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

During more than 25 years with the Springfield Museums, Kay has served as Director of Museum Education and

Institutional Advancement, supervised the Museums adult, school, and family programs, overseen the Development Office

and spearheaded innovative exhibitions. We were proud to present Kay with the Distinguished Alumni Award and have her

as guest speaker at an all school assembly last spring.

Marta Maleck 06 skyped in to a May assembly to speak to the MacDuffie community and to receive

the 2013 Young Alumni Award. Marta works for AmeriCorp in New Orleans helping to rebuild housing

and infrastructure after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Starting out in prestigious NYC fashion

houses after graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, Marta changed course to pursue a life

of service.

Her message to students is not to be afraid to change their path along the way. Doing well personally

and in the community merits consideration as much as being successful professionally.

Torrey Joyner 07returned as the guest

speaker for a Friday morning assembly

last March. A star on the basketball court

and a respected and well-liked citizen both

in and out of the classroom at MacDuffie,

Torrey graduated from Emmanuel Collegeand planned to pursue a Masters degree at

Columbia University.

A serious illness struck Torrey in 2012, and he was hospitalized for

several months. Hes made great strides on his road to recovery,

and we were honored to have him visit MacDuffie and to share his

experience with the community.

Torrey first asked three questions, urging us to look deep inside

ourselves for answers. Who do you think you are? Who are you?

Who do you want to be? He challenged and encouraged us to set

personal goals.

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Alumni News2013 Alumni Awards

Torrey Joyner 07

Inspiring Assembly Speaker

2012 Alumni Cheer on Mustangs

Torrey posed a fourth question. What are you doing to get there?

He shared that he wants to be a school superintendent, and talked

of the character and drive hell need to be successful. What is your

handicap? he asked. Still in a wheelchair, Torrey asked what people

thought his handicap is. To Torrey his wheelchair is not a barrier

preventing him from what he wants to achieve, and therefore is not ahandicap to meeting his goals. He asked students to look deep into

themselves to discover what prevents them from meeting their goals.

Torrey later followed up with advisee groups to reflect on his five

questions as an important component in our Advising Programs Path

to Excellence.

Many thanks to Torrey and our best wishes for a full and speedy

recovery as well as success in achieving his personal goals. Come

back soon!

Among the fans cheering on the MacDuffie Mustangs at an October

Varsity Soccer match at Watkinson School this season were

Vitor Campos 12 and Robin Chen 12. Vitor is from Brazil and is

currently a sophomore at the University of Hartford, and Robin hails

from China and is attending Trinity College nearby. Their former

classmates enthusiastic support spurred the Mustangs on to a

10 0 victory over Watkinson and meant a great deal not only to the

team, but also to coach, Meirion George. Go Mustangs!


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At the end of last school year, Jan Hill retired after 27 years teaching

English to untold numbers of MacDuffie students, almost all of themnow alumni, and certainly all of them enriched by the experience.

Throughout her years at MacDuffie as teacher, advisor, Middle School

Head, and Academic Dean Jan has always been a leader in developing

multicultural, multidisciplinary and innovative curriculum to prepare our

students to participate as informed members of the world community.

In recent years, with the growth of MacDuffies international population,

particularly from East Asian countries, Jan recognized that studying

Asian literature would help both American and international students

develop an appreciation and respect for each others cultures. So, she

decided to study the literature and the cultures that produce it far more

extensively to learn how to integrate it into MacDuffie curriculum. She

asked questions, researched, attended both the Indiana University

program on Teaching East Asia Literature in the High School and

the Korean Academy for Educators in Los Angeles, participated in

programs at the East Rock Institute affiliated with Yale University,

joined the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia, and read a

great deal of Asian literature. She brought all that she learned directly

back to MacDuffie to inform and enrich World Literature curriculum,

to share with teachers of other classes, and to make courses more

relevant to the international and American students in our classrooms.

Quite an undertaking.

Jan imagines that world literature is like a confectioners shop. What

a great image, and how like Jan to find the key that opens the door so

our students can enter and sample the sweets! And open their minds

and hearts to new perspectives, to cultural understanding to the

world.

Im glad I caught that last train remarked a senior student on the last

day of Jans Honors World Literature class. We are glad, too, that so

many MacDuffie students had the opportunity of having Jan Hill for

their English teacher. We will all miss her and wish her well.

Starting in a new environment can be exciting

and invigorating, says Jenn Blackburn about

her first year teaching English at MacDuffie, her

first private school experience, too. Shes taughtat a number of public schools, most recently at

Granby High School, and is originally from

Long Island.

Jenns father was also an English teacher, and she remembers that

every evening he shared a story about his day teaching. It was clear to

her that he was happy in his work. He loved books and discussing them.

Shes glad she decided to become an English teacher, too, and loves

discussing books and writing with her students just as her father did.

After attending Skidmore College for two years Jenn transferred

to SUNY Binghamton, but says she really missed the small school

community at Skidmore. As a student, she says, its special to be ableto talk with and get to know teachers. Having taught classes with up to

thirty students in public schools, Jenn really enjoys the small size of he

English classes here, and is already getting to know her students well.

Jenn is also the Volunteer Coordinator and is overwhelmed by how

much students want to get involved at MacDuffie in community

service organizations, clubs and other school activities. She also loves

the technology available to students and faculty here. It is so easy to

communicate with students via google e-mail!

Jenn couldnt wait for Candlelight and Mountain Day, and now that

shes participated in both, were sure shes had a proper MacDuffie

welcome to our community.

Peter Shelburne teaches Math at MacDuffie,

coaches our championship Math Team, is the

parent of three MacDuffie students, and is also a

playwright!

Recently, Peter wrote Red State of Marriage,

which was performed last May in Northampton

and Greenfield.

He spent most of the summer of 2012 writing and then editing the play

in the fall, and said that as a mathematician he was interested in the

structure of the play. It is written for just two actors playing multiple

roles, with lightning-quick shifts of character, voice and costume. In the

first act, one actor plays a single character while the other actor plays

all of the others, and then in the second act, the actors switch.

Keeping his creative ideas flowing, Peter penned another original play,

Stealing the Packard, performed in the summer of 2013 in upstate

New York. Stealing the Packard will also have a staged reading in

Somerville, MA next summer.

Faculty Feature

Jan Hill Jenn Blackburn

Peter Shelburne


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Commencement 2013

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MacDuffie celebrated the achievements of its one hundred twenty third graduating

class on Sunday, June 16, 2013. Though only the second year MacDuffie has held the

ceremony at Abbey Chapel on the campus of Mount Holyoke College, the site blends

beautifully with our long-standing commencement tradition.

In honoring the diverse group of fifty four graduating seniors, Steve Griffin, Head of

School, commented that the Class of 2013 is well and truly on the path to excellence.

This is an accomplished group, with a diverse set of interests the fact that they share

one thing first and foremost a MacDuffie education, is an honor for our institution.

Some are returning home to complete their studies; some will travel the world. Some

will study in select colleges across the country.

Graduating classmates chose Nikai Fondon and Shangzhe Dai, Student Body Vice

President and President, to speak, and fellow seniors Eva Snyder and Joseph Lupa

shared vocal performances. The Faculty Speaker Joan OBrien, History Department Chair

and Guest Speaker Martin Miller, CEO and General Manager of New England Public

Radio, addressed the audience of assembled students, families and guests as well.

Congratulations to the class of 2013!


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Traditions

Athletics Update

Diversity Day Mountain Day and Candlelight

Congratulations to the 2012/2013 MacDuffie

Boys Varsity Soccer and Basketball Teams!

The Mustangs created MacDuffie soccer history by finishing the season as NewEngland Class D Finalists, Western New England Class D Runners-up and winners

of the Western New England Class D Excellence and Sportsmanship Award! This

was the second year running that the team has made it through to the post season,

and theyre off to a another strong start this fall.

The MacDuffie Basketball teams talent out classed their opponents in NEPSAC

Class D and had the opportunity to play up to Class AA last year. This affords the

Mustangs the chance to play more competitive Class AA teams and to attend some

popular tournaments throughout New England as well. An exciting move up for the

Mustangs!

Best of luck to all of our Mustang teams in their 2013/2014 season!

Mountain Day and Candlelight continue to be time-honored occasions towelcome new students, faculty and staff into the MacDuffie fold, and as each

new year begins in the fall, they are etched anew in our collective memory.

Music, dance, origami, world languages, guest speakers and international

culinary delights. Diversity Day not only celebrates our differences, but

encourages us to share them with each other, so once again, our sense of

belonging in the MacDuffie community is reinforced each spring.

A day without classes, fabulous. Sharing it together, priceless!


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New Science, Arts, and Athletic Facilities

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MacDuffie students, faculty and coaches are wasting no time this fall taking advantage of our brand new Chemistry Lab, Arts Wing

(spacious Dance, Music and Art Studios), expanded Little Theater, and outdoor Tennis and Basketball courts. New and enhanced

classroom, arts and athletic facilities are vital to support the enriched educational and extracurricular programs that MacDuffietakes pride in providing to students.

Shop School Store!

Mens silk club neckties and womens large square silk scarves in maroon and white with the MacDuffie logo are available through School

Store for $50 each, both of very fine quality. Holiday 3" ornaments, maroon with our logo in white, are $10.

Inventory also includes fleece scarves, flannel pajama pants, T and sweatshirts, pencils, lanyards, mugsthe list goes on! All feature the

MacDuffie logo proudly and most have a choice of maroon or white background. Great for children, grandchildren and alums!

The Parents Association operates the store a volunteer activity, and sells at School events throughout the year. To purchase an item, or for

information, e-mail [email protected] . Proceeds benefit Parents Association fundraising.


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Maddie is a six year senior from Stafford Springs,

CT. Her sister, Mimi, is also at MacDuffie in 8th

grade.

Maddie plays soccer, loves Ms. Tomkiels AP

English class, wants to pursue nursing in collegeand hopes to spend at least a semester studying abroad.

She has already been recruited to play soccer and been accepted

by Converse College in Nor th Carolina, but she still plans to apply to

colleges closer to home.

She was named Female Youth Soccer Referee of the year in 2012 by

the Northeast District of the CT Junior Soccer Association and refs for

soccer associations and tournaments in Enfield, Stafford Springs and

Tolland, CT and in Burlington, VT.

After 5 years as a day student, Maddie moved on campus to be a part

of the boarding program for her senior year. Shes enjoying it so much

she wishes shed done it sooner. Thanks to living on campus shes

become closer friends with international boarding students and has

encouraged other day students to make new friends and participate

more in boarding life, too. Not only has Maddie enriched her own

MacDuffie experience, but she has also taken a leadership role in

expanding the experience of her fellow MacDuffie students.

Kitty is the youngest of five siblings, all living in

the U.S., and she came to MacDuffie last year from

Dominica, a small island in the Caribbean. She

knew her high school there would not provide theopportunities she needed to attend a competitive

U.S. university.

She expected MacDuffie to be bigger and to find it more difficult to

make friends, especially starting in her junior year. She was pleasantly

surprised, however, when on the first day of school a large group

of students were all in my room introducing themselves, asking

questions and wanting to get to know me. She felt welcome at

MacDuffie from that first moment on.

Kitty has excelled academically and embraced the life of the MacDuffie

community participating in volleyball and crew, working on tech for

dance concerts and plays, and volunteering for our Annual Run for

Hope. Kitty led a workshop on Caribbean music for Diversity Daylast year, using the skills she developed studying both classical and

Caribbean flute music in Dominica, and this year shes thinking about

a workshop in Caribbean cooking. She is looking forward to taking

on more leadership roles this year, perhaps at the Run for Hope and

managing the basketball team.

Tulane, Stanford and Lafayette are schools Kitty is considering

applying to, and she is thinking about a double major because she has

such varied interests biochemistry, history, international relations,

literature, traveling and volunteering among them. Most important to

her is not being isolated, but connecting to the world and making it a

better place.

CIRCLE Awards were made to rising seniors at Academic Convocation

in June for the very first time last year. Students earn these awards

by exemplifying MacDuffies core values of Community, Integrity,

Respect, Creativity and Excellence.

The 2013 CIRCLE recipients are: Community, Marianne Magnier;

Integrity, Jiaching Liu; Respect, Yuguang Lin; Creativity, Chi Huang and

Excellence, Caleb Shelburne.

Each year student award winners names will be added to

commemorative plaques hung in the main hallway at MacDuffie.

Congratulations to our student 2013 CIRCLE winners!

Honored at a banquet sponsored by MassMutual in May, MacDuffies

Math Team celebrated being the first place team in the Western

Massachusetts Mathematics League for 2012/2013. The team received

a trophy and plaque with the names of previous winning schools, but

Deerfield Academy is the only other school to have achieved first place

since 2001. A real accomplishment for MacDuffie!

We had an experienced team with great kids, and everything went our

way. We just had an amazing year, said Peter Shelburne, Math Team

advisor. Congratulations to team members Ling (Kelly) He, Fan (Helen)

Zhou, Xinyi (Dela) Lin, Jiachang (Harry) Liu, Kehan (Thomas) Chen

and Bingyan (James) Ren and alternate Shangzhe (Jason) Dai.

Daniil, whose family is originally from Korea, came

to MacDuffie from his home in Moscow, Russia in

tenth grade. As a senior hes taken on a leadership

role as boarding prefect. He enjoys par ticipating in

Cross Country and Ultimate Frisbee, and is enjoyingAP Physics, but says its a really hard class.

While it was Daniils mothers decision for him to leave Russia to

come to the United States for high school, he goes with the flow,

so he kept an open mind about what to expect. It was easy for him

to adapt to MacDuffie, but he thinks that sometimes students arrive

full of expectations that make it harder for them to adjust to a new

environment.

Daniil will visit NYU with his mother over Thanksgiving break, and hes

thinking of exploring agriculture and IT security in college.

A really good experience is Daniils description of MacDuffies

boarding program. He enjoys being part of it and feels well prepared

for his next challenge exploring the college experience.

Students in the Spotlight

Madison (Maddie) Jung 14

Kitwanie (Kitty) Carbon 14

CIRCLE Awards

Math Team Has Winning Season!

Daniil Kim 14


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Nancy Bowman Blomquist

Hi Classmates: The family has expanded from

3 children (I lost one son) to 5 grandchildren to

5 great grandchildren, and they are! Im doing

okay as I live through the aging process as

we all do. Im 85 now. I have some very fond

memories of my 8 years at The MacDuffie

School for Girls yes, through the war years.

I graduated from UMass Amherst in 1949. I

married a senior co-student, Donald Blomquist

in 1949, and my graduation gift to him was

Christina Louise now 63 and a Nana! It is

quite an adjustment when your kids become

grandparents! My address is The Willows

Health Center, 101 Barry Rd #204, Worcester,

MA if you would like to reconnect.

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Priscilla Perkins Wilson

I am living in a cozy little house in VT my

husband and I built as a vacation home. I have

three children and eight grandchildren. Prior

to VT, we lived in Knoxville, TN where George

was head of the science department at Webb

School, and I taught in the Oak Ridge schools.

For several years I was a graduate teaching

assistant at the University of TN. We were

pleased to have a visit there from Joanne

Albrecht 46who was touring as the Mother

Abbess with the Sound of Music. Genealogy

and gardening are favorite pastimes. I find

George is probably a distant cousin ofAnn

Lansing 46.

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Jennifer Mead Hatcher

I am living in Denver Colorado, a 3 minute

walk from my youngest son Patrick, wife

Pamela and 2 grandchildren, Wells, 8, and

Barrett, 5. Two years ago I left Washington

DC where my oldest son Christopher lives

with wife Jennifer and daughters, Caroline

and Courtney, both in their teens. I am very

lucky to be able to work painting in my studio

in downtown Denver. I work in oils within

abstraction yet always with a suggestion of

nature. Have a yellow Labrador who keeps me

walking. Wish I lived closer to MacDuffie.

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Cynthia Crane Story

Still waiting for the Irving Picard/Madoff

Claw-Back ax to fall, but mercifully they keep

postponing the trial. I still kayak on the Bay,

but no more getting tan and now wear an

SPF suit. Husband, girls and grandsons all

well. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/

CynthiaCabaretCrane keeps me in touch with

all so say hello! [email protected]

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Barbara Lennon Fleming

I was so lucky to be a recipient of such a

great education for three years at MacDuffie.

I treasure those years, maybe more as I

grow older. Dave and I celebrated our 50th

anniversary this past August and traveled

to Maine for some time in Ogunquit at the

Beachmere. Just loved it there! Ate out,

relaxed, read some books, walked the

Marginal Way many times and visited friends.

Were both retired, Dave from banking and

I from teaching. Enjoyed those productive

years, but boy, its nice to retire, too! We were

blessed with four boys, seven grandchildren,

two great daughters-in-law. Were busy doing

charity work, gardening, exercising daily and

traveling to see children and grandchildren.

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Carolyn Bjorn Stringham

Married Chuck Stringham on 9/28/11 in Ocean

Park, Maine and currently living in Salem,

Oregon, where Chuck is an ER doctor. Chuck

took me to my senior prom at MacDuffie,

and we were engaged to be married in 1960.

Fifty one years later, the wedding took place.

Between us we have 2 daughters, 7 sons, 6

daughters/sons-in-law, and 12 grandchildren

(counting steps) and another on the way... Life

is a constant surprise!

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Carole Rund Robinson

All is well in our family. In December Dave

and I celebrate our 55th wedding anniversary.

Where has the time gone? Our children all

live within two hours of us. Son Jonathan

and wife Wendy are in Vermont, busy with his

historical archiving and her travel agency; her

three children, Shaun, Jessica and Danny,

are all grown. Daughter Leanne, who went

to MacD, just finished a masters in special

education, works in Amherst schools and

lives in Belchertown with husband Michael

and daughters Bridgette (12) and Morgan (3).

Daughter Debby lives in Amherst and works

in sales at Hazen Paper in Holyoke. Jenny,

Debs twin, lives in NH with husband Dave and

children Savannah (16) and Shea (6).

Were finishing up our Greenleaves project,

independent living for seniors. I keep busy

with volunteer work, and our home overflows

all the time with family and friends. I would

love to hear from you. FYI The new school

is beautiful. I was there in October and toured

all over. If you are in the area, make a point

of going there. It is a new home for MacDuffie

BUT the values are the same as always.

[email protected]

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Lonsdale Lonnie Torrey Snyder

In May of 2013 I graduated from Phillips

Theological Seminary with a Masters of

Divinity Degree (MDiv).

Carla Rueckert McCarty

Teaching, counseling, channeling and doing

research for L/L Research on paranormal

subjects, especially ET channeling. Living in

Anchorage, KY with husband Jim McCarty

and three cats who are much beloved. Most

recent publications: Collected Poetry.

Helen Cochran Dicke

Living in Hartland, VT with husband, Eric.

Teaching yoga; traveling most recently to

Europe where we did some hiking.

Ann Partlow

Living in New York, NY, in green stock

ventures and consultant to others in the same

area. Traveled recently to Eastern Europe to

follow interest in native folk dancing.

Elizabeth Helsinger

Professor and writer living in Chicago with

husband, Howard.

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Mary Mallis Greendale

Still in Holliston and very active in the

community, now producing two television

shows on local access. Professionally I do

some freelance writing and also grant writing

for farmers and agricultural organizations in

state. My grand-kids all live nearby except

one who just started at UMass Amherst at

the Stockbridge School of Agriculture. I think

he caught my passion for ag. The others are

14, 13, two are 12, and one 7. I see them

often and enjoy having them as a big part of

my life. I am happy, content and really just

enjoying life. Hope all is well with my former

classmates. Any word from Jane Thomee

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Susan Aylward Brown

Recently, Simone Bergeron McCarthy 61

and I met at the Tivoli Day Pancake Breakfast;

she recognized me first! Simone was with

husband, Terry, and we shared quite a few

memories. She and her husband winter in

Florida, summer on Marthas Vineyard where

Simone grew up and have nine grandchildren.

Last spring I studied for and passed the

ServSafe Examination, required by our

churchs certified kitchen for preparing and

servng food to the public. The study skills that

were finely honed in Howard Hall were called

forth from the depths of memory! In winter

the church hosts a weekly Community Supper

open to all on Marthas Vineyard at no cost

as part of our outreach ministry. Usually a

homebody, Ive recently cruised with friends

in Maine lobster was delicious, visited

grandsons in Connecticut, went to a reunion

in Baltimore, MD, heading to Ft. Lauderdale

in November, and then plan to be back to

the Florida Keys for my regular three months

starting in January. Best to all.

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Stephanie Murray OShaughnessy

I would love to be in contact with old

classmates again. Im a full-time potter with 10

others at The Pottery in Galena, IL. Please go

to our website http://www.twentydirtyhands.

com for photos and information about our

work and Art Shows. I also teach occasional

pottery workshops at Adamah Clay Studios

in Adamah, WI, have two daughters and

am a grandmother of five AWESOME

grandchildren! [email protected]

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Sandra Volanakis Hanson

I have retired and been living in Sun City

Hilton Head, South Carolina for 5 years.

My son Peter, his wife and my beautiful

granddaughter, Alexa, now 22 months were

just here visiting from Colorado. Life is good!

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Andrea Pickett Brode

Dr. Andrea Brode is now Director of Student

Success and Career Development at

Beacon College in Leesburg, Florida. www.

beaconcollege.edu.

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Nancy Nan Lewis

Since 1966 Ive lived from Cape Cod to

Jacksonville Beach, Florida. My career

began in marketing and PR in NYC, first in

home furnishings/interior design, then in the

entertainment industry, where I enjoyed many

years working with celebrities and touring

Broadway shows. After leaving Manhattan,

I started Nancy Lewis Public Relations, now

Entertainment Works, was PR Director of

Reggae Ambassadors Worldwide (RAW),

an international non profit, and rejoined the

corporate world in Florida.

My heart adventures (3 heart attacks and

24 cardiac surgeries since 2008) prompted

early retirement, but not giving up. I reopenedEntertainment Works in 2012, and recently

expanded to include an office in Belgium.

Single since 1989, I have one daughter,

Alexandra Lewis, 44 and happily married, now

in her second career as a registered dietician.Lexy had a mild heart attack in 2007 (age

38) and left a stressful job to get a second

bachelors degree and masters in Nutrition.

She is lovely, and I am very proud of her (see

photo). I would love to connect with my two

best friends at MacDuffie, Shari (Shelby)

Horn Burnett 66and Janice Randall 69

(904) 249-2523 [email protected]

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Hannah Gutfarb Mazer

Mike and I are still in DC; Annie lives in

Boston and Bob, in San Francisco.

Heres a picture of my family: l-r Annie,

Hannah, Mike and Bob.

Daughter of Nancy Nan Lewis

Hannah Gutfarb Mazer


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Ruth Sanderson

Ive illustrated over 80 books during my

career as a childrens book illustrator and

have an upcoming solo exhibition of fairy

tale paintings from The Twelve Dancing

Princesses, Cinderella, and others at the

Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA

from Nov. 23, 2013 - Feb. 23, 2014 (opening on

Dec. 7th, 4-6pm). My newest book is Golden

Dreams, the Art of Ruth Sanderson. Visit my

website www.ruthsanderson.com for more

information.

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Leslie Bozigian Curtin

Im the Director of Nursing Services at

Southpointe Rehabilitation and Care Center in

Fall River MA, and love keeping in touch with

classmates on Facebook.

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Joan Barnes Flynn

My creative writing workshop Dune Hollow

Writers is having an E-book published in

October by the Provincetown Public Press,

titled Shadow & Light: An Anthology of

Poetry and Prose by the Women of Dune

Hollow Writers. It will be available on

Amazon, iBook and KoBo. We are very

excited and hope everybody will check it out!

[email protected]

Valerie Hird

Ive been an adjunct professor of art at Saint

Michaels College in Colchester, VT for 13

years. As a fine artist Im represented by the

Nohra Haime Gallery in NYC and the NH

Gallery in Cartagena, Colombia, as well as at

the Lucky Street Gallery in Key West, Florida.

Ill be teaching at the Art Students League,

NYC next summer and giving a lecture about

my travels with nomadic tribes for the Key

West Library next February 24th. My next

exhibition, The Maiden Voyages Project is at

the Center For Book Arts in NYC October 4

December 13. Visit my website at valeriehird.com for more information.

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Midge Kruger Kra

I never write these blurbs, but nearly forty

years later its probably time to catch up. I

graduated from Penn in 77, got married two

weeks later and had three children in five

years. They are all grown and live in Israel.

Abby, 35, is married with four children; Yoni,

32 is married with two sons; Daniel, 30, is a

swinging single. David hopes to retire next

year, and were planning a move to Jerusalem

where weve already found an apartment.

With three children and 6 grandchildren there,

where else would we go? Id love to talk to old

friends. Im on Facebook as Midge Kruger Kra.

[email protected].

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Clara Hayden Pinkham

Still living in Rochester, MI with husband,

Lawrie (Belmont Hill School, class of 79).

Working for a local veterinarian, and at a

weaving/knitting store (retail and teaching).

Kids are great! Oldest daughter Sara, married

to Chris Jones, living in Grand Prairie, TX

with the most perfect grandchild ever, Ezra

Graham (age 2), who will be joined by another

in March. I love being Granny! Son Nick lives

in Rochester, MI, and is a web/video game

designer working in the automotive industry

and involved with volunteers reclaiming

abandoned Detroit parks for inner city families

and kids. Daughter Lydia (in the Coast Guard,

stationed in St. Petersburg, FL) is married to

Austin Clary (also in Coast Guard, stationed

in Seattle, WA). I look forward to seeing whatmy classmates are up to! Dont get back to

Western MA very often, and miss seeing old

friends. Photo: (L to R) Nick, me, Ezra, Chris,

Sara & Lawrie

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Tabi Freedman

I live in NYC and VT, and recently formed

my own IT Consulting firm after spending 13

years on Wall Street. Still have Weimaraners,

currently Remy (Remington Steele) who has

done a few photo shoots and likes to open

the refrigerator by himself. Im still skiing, and

teaching skiing in Southern Vermont, but have

crossed over to Telemark Skiing, and have

just become a member of the United States

Telemark Ski Team, Eastern Region.

80

Susanna Betzel

Just had my sixth historical novel published,

The Executioners Heir: A Novel of

Eighteenth-Century France which is the true

story of a pair of tragic, converging lives in

prerevolutionary France. http://www.amazon.

com/dp/B00EXPZQBG

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Laura Bray Parent

I enjoy living in central New York near my

mother. Im employed at Upstate Cerebral

and use my college degree dealing with

autistic and handicapped children. I also work

in daycare teaching preschool children in

preparation for Kindergarten. I miss my fatherfrom time to time as do my brothers and sister

83

Tracie Gardner

I graduated from Mount Holyoke as an

English Major where I took a class from

James Baldwin, was directed in a play by

Suzan Lori Parks, and Maya Angelou was my

commencement speaker! I lost a childhood

friend to HIV/AIDS in 1985 which became the

catalyst for more than 20 years work as an

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87

Tracy Rau

Graduated from UMASS Boston in 1994 and

Suffolk University Law School in 1999 and

married Christopher DErrico the same year.

We moved to Las Vegas in 2000 and have lived

here ever since, but reckon Ill always think of

Boston as home. I was a partner at a large

litigation firm for almost 10 years, and in May of

2012, with a dear friend, I opened my own firm,

Karris Rau, LLPC, which involves all aspects of

litigation with a focus on domestic relations law.

I appreciate the freedom that comes with my

own practice but am still working on perfecting

the administrative tasks. Still married, no kids.

I stay in touch with some of my MacD friends

on facebook and had the pleasure of visiting

with Sarah Wilkins Bagley 87and Liz

Goodnow 87during an east coast trip in

June, and with Leslie Chehade Pitt 87in

September. [email protected]

Caris Katie Thornton Drury

After years of commuting back and forth,

we have decided to move to Bermuda on a

full time basis. My son Will star ted college at

Mitchell College in New London, CT, and my

daughter started year 11 at Bermuda HighSchool for Girls. Its been an adjustment,

but were settling in. Would love to host

an alumnae gathering or help recruit new

students! 45 Lollys Well Rd Smith FL06

Bermuda 441.533.7390

88

Kelli Barry

I wanted to share that I was selected as a

Commission in the Status of Women, Unsung

Heroine of 2012. The award was presented at

the State House in Boston on May 16, 2012.

Unsung Heroines are women who dont make

the news, but they make the difference. They

are the women who use their time, talent and

enthusiasm to enrich the lives of others and

make a difference in their neighborhoods,

cities and towns. My nomination was for my

work in Massachusetts with the American

Cancer Society where I serve as the StateVice President for Development. I also want

to say that it has been wonderful connecting

with old MacDuffie friends on Facebook, and

I look forward to coming out to see the new

campus soon.

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Amy Royal

I was recently featured as the cover story in

Lioness Magazine, a national magazine for

female entrepreneurs. Still heading up Royal LLP

a boutique, management-side labor and

employment law firm in Northampton, MA, rep-

resenting businesses throughout the Northeast.

[email protected], www.royalllp.com

95

Kerrie McKinstry-Jett

Im currently teaching at Westfield State

University & Manchester Community College

and tutoring. My wonderful guy, Christopher

Jett, and I got married at the Log Cabin in

Holyoke August 4, 2013. The day was beautiful

and everyone had a great time. Elena

(Hovagimian) Shannon 95was one of my

bridesmaids. Chris and I are living in our condo

in Agawam with our cat, Merrill, and we could

not be happier. Well, OK, Id be happier if these

stacks of labs would grade themselves.

advocate on health access and social justice

issues. Work at a great public interest law

and advocacy organization for which I happily

dont need a law degree! Got married, gotdivorced. Had 2 fantastic boys, Caleb and

Elijah now age 17 and 12. I am in touch with

MANY MacDuffie alums: it is the best thing

about Facebook. Picture is my original crew

at MacDuffie: me, Lisa Casey Joyner, Dawn

Marshall Williams, Donna Grandisonand

Debbie Duncan all 83alums.

Ann Jim

In June I became a Certified Government

Accountant (CGA) for Merrimac, MA. where

Ive been the towns accountant and ITcoordinator since 2007. In September I spent

two weeks traveling in Hong Kong, Malaysia

and Singapore. Last spring my son, Thomas

Wing Ho Mitchell, graduated from St. Johns

Preparatory in Danvers, MA, and he started at

Georgetown University in September.

86

Judy McComb

2012 was a tremendous year of growth for

me I lost a job I loved when the company

closed, I started over in a new industry,lost my brother, my relationship of 15 years

disintegrated, and my wonderful greyhound

died from cancer. I really didnt think I could

go on, but I picked myself up, dusted myself

off, and found more inner strength than I knew

I had. Reconnecting with old friends from

MacDuffie on Facebook has been a wonderful

blessing, and there are many little things to

celebrate every day.

Tracie Gardner

Kerrie McKinstry-Jett


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Amity Murray Spiegel

Currently living in Fort Greene Brooklyn with

husband Mike (just celebrating our eighth

anniversary) and son Cole (3) who keeps me

busy and active! I work as an esthetician at

Soho Sanctuary which I love, as well as doing

some mom blogging at New York Family.com.

Latest blog took me to New York Fashion Week!

I would love to hear from anyone from class of

1995 and hope we can see each other soon!http://www.newyorkfamily.com/glam-mom-hair/

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Tasha Thompson Hillery

Im currently living in West Chester, PA with

my husband Tony, son TJ (5) and daughter

Samantha (2).

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Tadd Lyman

Tadd is a Captain in the 82nd Airbornestationed at Ft. Bragg, NC. He will begin

his second deployment to Afghanistan in

December, and on November 2nd Tadd

celebrated his marriage to his wife Lauren in a

ceremony in the Cadet Chapel at West Point.

University) and Ho Wing (Maggie) Wang

07(back to work in Hong Kong), Sai Ka

(Kathy) Lam 05and Sze Hau (Shelly)

Tso 05(currently working in Hong Kong).

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Amanda Keating

6 years (what?!) out of MacDuffie, and Im

currently living in New York City with two close

friends and a cat named Maggie. Ive been

focusing on my playwriting career and have

produced a couple of my plays in Manhattan

(Roast in photo) and Brooklyn. I also work

for an ar ts non-profit, Fractured Atlas, helping

artists with the logistical burdens of producing

their work. The major defining feature of my

new-found urban pseudo-adulthood? How

much time (and money) I spend on finding

(and probably not cooking) food. Cheers!

Hope my fellow alums are all well.

Benjamin Rosen

Im currently living in Los Angeles, and after

working successfully for a talent management

company here, Im leaving to shoot an original

short film and web series pilot. With four close

friends Ive also just started a sketch comedy

group called Love Ronny releasing new

online material weekly.

Heather Wilson

Hello everyone! I cant believe its been

over five years since I graduated from

MacDuffie. Now I have a degree in HospitalityManagement: Theme Park Management

from the University of Central Florida and am

living in Orlando, working as a Team Leader

at Universal Orlando. On a trip to California

in May with my family, my fianc Michael

proposed to me in Disneyland! Were planning

a January 2015 wedding at Walt Disney World.

From time to time I see alumni who travel to

Orlando on vacation. Hope everyone is doing

well and staying safe.

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Nina Lassonnier

Some great news! I will be graduating from

college in May 2014 and already have a joblined up to work as an engineer at Cummins Inc

in Columbus, Indiana. [email protected]

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Brian Magnier

Im a junior at Cornell, studying Ecology and

Evolutionary Biology and doing lab work

for a post doc researching thermoregulatory

adaptations of Red Squirrels. I hope to do

some of my own research soon, and to

go to Alaska for six weeks this summer.

Last summer I was an intern working at theSouthwestern Research Station in Portal, AZ.

In my spare time, two friends, also there from

Cornell, and I took video of all kinds of wildlife

for a possible nature documentary were

putting together this year. After AZ, I took a

course on Marine Invertebrates at Shoals

Marine Laboratory in Maine, an island run by

Cornell and UNH.

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Che (Frank) Kuo

My hobby in oil painting still remains, as I

paint to relax every summer in Taiwan. Here

is a piece I did this summer; hope you like it.

I still talk to some Ames Hill friends, Jung-Il

(Jack) Lee 07(formerly of Castle House

and currently attending NYU), Yuen Ling

(Elaine) Ng 06(currently working for

Goldman Sachs in Utah), Ho Yip (Sunny)

Wang 08(Senior year in Penn State

Amanda Keating

Che (Frank) Kuo

Heather Wilson


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Pamela Pinckney DeFore McArthur 55

of Spartansburg, South Carolina on July 31, 2013

Ann Colton Nussbaum 59

of Essex, Connecticut on December 20, 2012

Patricia OKoon Ernenwein 61

of Newburgh, New York on August 12, 2013

Alison Brunell 62

of Brooklyn, New York on July 24, 2013

Gay Walsh Matteson 63

of East Longmeadow, Massachusetts on June 5, 2013

Skyler Anderson-Coughlin 15

of Springfield, MA on November 10, 2013

Two years ago, after my mothers funeral, I found out that Dr. Sheets had passed away

around Halloween, 2010. I found out because I finally decided to search him out via

the Internet, with a desire to contact him and finally let him know what an important

teacher and mentor he had been to me during my years at MacDuffie in the mid-1980s.

Unfortunately I was too late.

For me, he was a non-traditional teacher of Spanish and U.S. History, who encouraged

students go out on extensive limbs in the tree canopy of ideas that exists in anydiscipline, and yeshe taught rigorous courses. There are times when I am reminded

of cer tain ah-ha moments I had in his classes at MacDuffie. Perhaps the strongest

of these occurred when the issues of slavery and civil rights came up in U.S. History.

Among other things, he had gone south during college in the 1960s and participated

in peaceful aspects of the civil rights movement. But what had the most impact on

me was that he presented some basic ideas of cross-cultural misunderstanding and

miscommunication, including what is now understood to be psychological phenomena

like bullying, oppression and post-traumatic stress disorder, which played roles in the

centuries of this difficult theme in our history. This hit me like a ton of bricks. It made

so much sense to me then (and now), but I am continually surprised by how this is not

realized or understood by some folks, even today.

Beyond the sphere of teaching, I felt a trusting, supportive bondand friendshipwith

Dr. Sheets. When hearing of his passing, I also found an article in The New York Times

that was written for him by a high school student of his before he came to MacDuffie, Dr.

Mark Dow. His words were so deep that I practically lost my balance; and it was clear

that Dr. Sheets had been a mentor to him, as well. I could not believe how similar were

some of the memories we both had of Dr. Sheets as an inspiring high school teacher,

but in different places. For example, Sheets loved to imitate in the air the gesture he

imagined an abstract expressionist painter was making on a canvas. He would enact

it to inhabit it, an actors grimace on his face as he stilled himself for precision of the

brushstroke, hand raised, standing on his tip-toes. (You can see the rest at: http://

opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/span-a-remembrance/)

I was very saddened to hear of his passing, and I hope that he is at peace.

Maria Aliberti Lubertazzi, Ph.D. 88

To see the complete text of this Memoriam to Dr. Sheets, please visit the MacDuffie

Alumni Facebook page.

In Memoriam: Dr. Harold F. Sheets

In Memoriam..

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Speaker SeriesPig Latin, Ubbi-Dubbi, & the Cats Elbow: Secret

Languages as a Window on the Human Mind

John McCarthy, Professor, UMass Amherst

Thursday, November 21, 7:00 p.m.

On Studying Film

Robin Blaetz, Professor, Mount Holyoke College

Tuesday, December 10, 7:00 p.m.

The Future of Healthcare & the Evolving Roles

of Nurse Practitioners & Physicians Assistants

Robert Russell, Tufts University School of Medicine

Tuesday, January 21, 7:00 p.m.

Please join us for student performances, athletics and other special events!

Save the date! Reunion 2014 Saturday, April 26

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Spring Musical PlayTBA

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Performances at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 2

Admissions & Alumni Reception at 2:00 p.m.

Matinee Performance at 3:00 p.m.

Contact us to reserve complimentary matinee tickets.

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International Student FestivalAlumni Reunion

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Spring Music ConcertContact us or visit our website for details.

Watch for details coming soon on our website, Facebook page and in the mail.

Nominations are open for 2014 Distinguished Alumni and Young Alumni Awards.Please contact Valerie Fontaine ([email protected]) or Dina Lyman ([email protected]) with names of alums you would like to nominate.

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