In Tandem

Dear Alumni, There has been a change here in Alumni Affairs. After nine years of dedication and hard work, Jessica Lindstrom has left Tandem to work independently as a college counselor and as a free-lance writer for the Knowledge Foundation. I am fortunate enough to be trusted with the task of filling some very big shoes. As a Tandem alumna, I hope to be able to continue the strong work that Jessica has done for the alumni body.       First, what the alumni council set out to do in June of 1995 has been done (please see Up on the Hill). We hope that you share our feeling that Tandem alums have been in greater contact with their school in the last year, not just during fund-raising season. While I will help organize the scholarship telethon in the Spring, my sole focus is keeping in touch with alumni and communicating our concerns to Tandem.       I look forward to an exciting and busy year. There are still many alums who are missing from the school database. Updating the database is a never ending project. Reunion planning for June will begin soon. Meanwhile I'm around, collecting class news, writing for the next newsletter, scouting for alumni events, and eagerly waiting to hear from you all. Sincerely, Adrienne Johnstone-Taylor Alumni Affairs Coordinator

NEWSBRIEFS The first annual alumni reunion held this past June 8-9, was a success! Attendees from across the country and across the years found their way back up the hill for lunch, music, drama, and fun with other Tandem graduates. See the complete story. We've got pictures!! Recently, the Charlottesville press caught several Tandem alums hard at work. The June 27-July 3 issue of the Charlottesville - Albemarle Observer featured an article on the growth of the after hours music scene on the downtown mall. Bill Maisannes '87 and Mark Hineline '88 talked with the Observer about their group The High Plains Drifters: "A recent Thursday finds them on the Mall picking out Old Time Bluegrass, trading mandolin for guitar and passing the banjo between songs." The two have been practicing together for over a year and are "ready to seek gigs in local coffee shops and bars...." Alumni Council member Heather Burns '84 is on a mission to seek out and develop local writing talent, according to a recent article in the C'ville Weekly (August 20-26). She and three other local writers have created the Charlottesville Writing Center. Beginning with seven weeks of night classes at the Village School, the group hopes to gauge local interest in such a group and to find a permanent home for the Center. Tandem steers onto the information superhighway! I'm sure many of us remember that Tandem lagged a little in providing the latest in technology for student and faculty use. Although a couple of computers at Tandem remain a Window-less environment where WordPerfect 5.1 is the program of choice, the front office, Development Office and, yes, the Tandem Computer Lab are equipped with Macintosh computers that run the latest wordprocessing software. No more dot matrix for this place; Tandem even has laser jet printers! Travel down to the Chemics room where students and faculty can access the World Wide Web. Here students research and explore hundreds of educational and informational sites. The next time you are cruising on the information superhighway, check out the at Tandem Web Site at http://monticello.avenue.gen.va.us/Ed/Tandem/. Tandem Alum Jamie Sullivan '96 designed the web pages for his senior project. The site is currently maintained by Physics instructor and computer lab guru Lisa Beazell. At the Tandem site you can visit the Lounge, check the current Academic Calender, and view student art. You can also check out links to the home pages of three Tandem graduates, Tabb Sullivan '93, Jamie Sullivan (yes, they are brothers), and Julia (Jenny) Hayden '90 [web address updated, 2/98]. In the future, we hope to add pages especially for alumni, possibly including the bi-annual newsletter on the site. This is an awesome task to undertake. Any alumni who feel confident in their ability to use this Internet thing should contact Alumni Affairs to volunteer their brave souls.[done] It was just another ordinary April day at Tandem until Michael Kelley '74 stopped by. His jazz band, The Hot House Quartet, was in Charlottesville and treated current students, faculty, and several alumni to a private concert. Students danced the sunny afternoon away on the back lawn. From the October 3-9 Charlottesville-Albemarle Observer: "Ya gotta love 'em. The co-ed middle school soccer team at Tandem Friends School on Route 20 South sports a goalie in a tie-dyed shirt and blue bandana headpiece. Then, after a home field victory last week, the whole team danced the Macarena at midfield to the beat of a big boom box. Boogie on, gang!"

ALUMNI NOTES Class representatives are listed under each class year. Please contact your rep with any class news. **Please note: Notes received after Sept. 25th do not appear in this newsletter. Sorry, but we have to draw the line somewhere. Notes received after the cut-off will appear in the next edition. Online form to submit class notes.

Fred Gore '82 and Rob Wilson '81 lunching in the Lounge at the Reunion,June 1996

73 Sue Herndon 2422 Jefferson Park Avenue Charlottesville, VA 22903 Sue Herndon says she's "not really doing anything different" and promises to have some class notes to post by Spring. 74 Debbie Evans 2407 Turk Street San Francisco, CA 94118 Brian Shaw has just celebrated his 10th anniversary! He has three children: Douglas and Owan, three year old identical twins and Madeline, six. This summer he saw Paul Larner, his wife Rosita and their three kids on Cape Cod. He writes, "I think the Friends/Quaker move is a very good one." Debbie Evans writes that she is settled in San Francisco and loves living in the Bay Area. She's taking a year long break from her successful career in "health care sales and consulting" to "ponder the next 20 years." She reports she is "very happy" and has found her soulmate. Debbie enjoyed speaking with Pete Spaar, Mark Watson, Pat Kavanaugh, and Michael Kelly last Spring. She welcomes calls and visits from any classmates when in the San Francisco area. She also welcomes a volunteer to become a second class representative! Sheree Greenwood's t-shirt business has gone full time. Sheree writes that her twelve-year-old son is already as tall as she is. 75 Carolyn Nuckols Nicholson P.O. Box 293 Gordonsville, VA 22942 Laura Worrall Tennyson Rt. 1 Box 435B Scottsville, VA 24590 From out in Colorado, Pamela Cross Guthrie writes that she's joining a family practice group and that she remembers her classmates "warmly." Patricia (Smith) Gordon has recently moved and writes that she's sorry she missed the reunion in June. Peter Haviland writes that he is still working at GTE, currently as an Advisory Systems Engineer. His daughter is six and a half and has just started first grade. He is currently going through a divorce and wants his classmates to know he's "alive and well in Florida." 76 Diana Shaw 10 Cudlipp Street Rowayton, CT 06853 Diana Shaw recently moved and is anticiapting the release of her latest cookbook, The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook, early Spring 1997. She is quite occupied working on her next book and chasing her one-and-a-half year-old son around the house. She spoke to Mira Velimirovic, whom she reports is living in Los Angeles with her new baby girl. 77 Carl Schwab 399 Key West Drive Charlottesville, VA 22911 78 Gayla Mills 2904 Springhill Avenue Richmond, VA 23225 Nada Velimirovic is studying for her Master's of Divinity at the Starr King School in Berkely, California. She hopes to find a position as a Unitarian Universalist Minister. Gayla Mills reports a recent career change. She is now doing public relations work for an institute that studies child psychiatry at MCV in Richmond, VA. She is "really happy" with the new job and still has time "for house construction projects, walking the dogs, etc." Naomi Sato just moved for the sixth time in ten years. This time the switch was to Yorktown, VA, where she plans to stay put for awhile. She was expecting her third child in September and continues to work part-time as a family doctor. 79 Colston Wood 4 Tennis Road Charlottesville, VA 22901 80 Todd Shelton 1859-B Wayside Place Charlottesville, VA 22903 Tom Leoboldt is finishing his Information Technology degree at Rochester Institute of Technology and "hanging out" with his wife and two daughters, Lindsay, twelve, and Brittany, ten. Tom and family drove all the way to Charlottesville for reunion this past June! 81 Thomas Bowles Box 289 Kents Store, VA 23084 Though skimpy on the notes, the class of 1981 was heavily represented at the reunion in June. Check out the photograph below for a glimpse of Rob Wilson, Liz Hespenheide, Thomas Bowles, Coleman Kitchin and Bill Blodgett. 82 Corrine Kennedy Welch P.O. Box 6114 Charlottesville, VA 22906-6114 William Andrews (Drew) Bedford is living in Park City, Utah with his wife, Jill, and their eleven-month-old daughter, Carter. He is the creative director for the "world's leading climbing and mountaineering equipment manufacturer," Black Diamond Equipment. He calls it his "dream job." Corrine Kennedy Welch reports that she has started a cottage industry called Corrine's Creations. The job enables her to stay home with her beautiful three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Taylor. After living in Atlanta, Georgia and Charlotte, North Carolina, Corrine and her husband of eight years, Michael, are back in Charlottesville. Unfortunately, Corrine's mother passed away in November 1995 due to ovarian cancer. 83 Margaret McNett 1721 Fantasia Circle Herndon, VA 22070 Catherine Bidwell has "finally" moved back to Colorado where she hopes to teach snowboarding this winter. She would love to hear from everyone and find out how they are doing, so send in those class notes! She writes, "I miss my best friend Suzannah, and hope her store is a great success." 84 Tara Kabir 2508 Plateau Road Charlottesville, VA 22903 Daphne Latham is working on writing country rhythm and blues. Susan Wright's mother tells us that Susan is practicing law in Richmond. Corrections? Additions? Use our online form, which also has the regular old mailing address.

85 Katharine Donnelly 33 Winslow St., 1st floor Somerville, MA 02144 Jennifer Arave is living in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is a "struggling, but working, stage director." She just moved into a new apartment and still can't decide about graduate school. Andrew "Drex" Weaver recently graduated from Berklee College of Music. Class rep Kate Donnelly just moved to Boston. 86 Sharon Bouton Stone 958 SE Pine St. Roseburg, OR 97470 Matilda Herrero is going to be an art teacher. She's currently working on her M.A.T. at Rhode Island School of Design. Eleanor Bedford showed up at the reunion, which fortunately occured during a trip back from Africa. Having spent two years in Africa, she is currently a consultant for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Rwanda, Burundi, and Zaire. 87 Heather Miller Poosson 19 Copeley Hill Apt. B15 Charlottesville, VA 22903 88 Daniel Kaufman 220 South St. #3 Charlottesville, VA 22902 Dan Kaufman is all over the globe as he heads off to language school in preparation for a move to Costa Rica. Scott Mandell and his wife Kim are now the proud parents of Kira Avery Perzel Mandell, born August 3, 9lbs 2oz. Woah! Big baby, way to go Kim! Lydia Murdoch is off to study urban decay in Liverpool, England as part of a fellowship connected with her Ph.D. She recently became engaged to Andy from Richmond. Chad Witthers married Beth Andrus this summer. He is working on top secret product development at Procter and Gamble and won't say what he's doing. 89 Penelope Ward 1701 Bruce Avenue Charlottesville, VA 22903 Jason Ivey recently became an associate with Mass Mutual in Charlottesville, "the blue chip company in the financial services industry." He is still living "in the sticks of Free Union" with his girlfriend Tracy. Penny Ward is working in Charlottesville at the Old Dominion Day School with toddlers, two-year-olds, and four-year-olds. She received her M.Ed. in May 1996. 90 Mara Gibson 910 Lancaster Street #A Durham, NC 27701 Julia (Jenny) Hayden's World Wide Web home page is a real treat. Check out her resume and lots of good, juicy, biographical information. There is a link to her page from the Tandem Web page [actually go here for the new address, updated 2/98] 91 Damia Ruth address unknown!! Please call if you know where she moved!! Your class is without a representative. Damia Ruth is teaching pre-schoolers at Westminster Child Care Center. You can visit Darshan Sergi hard at work in the store he owns and operates on Charlottesville's Downtown Mall. Miles of Smiles, a shop dedicated to humerous gifts, books, and greeting cards, is located in the new York Place. Sarah Cole graduated from William and Mary with a degree in linguistics. She writes that she has just been promoted to "grower" at Cook's Greenhouse and Garden Center in Seaford, Virginia. Sarah ran into Alex Allen in Richmond. Alex is working two jobs to put herself through computer graphics classes. Taslim Sidi works at the Emmet Street branch of Central Fidelity Bank in Charlottesville. Ashley Cox is graduating from the University of Montana in December. 92 Aretha Williams 217 Cricket Avenue Ardmore, PA 19003 Bekah Saxon received her B.A. with a concentration in Educational Policy from Brown in May. She is now enrolled in UVa's Curry School of Education post-graduate Master's of Teaching program and working towards dual elementary/special education licensure. Adrienne Johnstone-Taylor (hello!) is enjoying her new job at Tandem. Now she's seen faculty meetings from the other side! She just moved out of city limits and is having a difficult time adjusting to all the darkness and quiet. She'll (finally) have her Master's of Teaching and K-8 licensure in May 1998. Corey Lloyd is in her third year at Montessori School of Charlottesville ("love it") and going on three and a half years as Manager of the Costume Shop for Live Arts's theater productions ("love it/hate it"). Aretha Williams graduated from Haverford College with honors and a B.A. in Political Science. She attended La Universidad de Barcelona and travelled to France, the Czech Republic, Italy, and Amsterdam. She writes, "I currently work for four attorneys in the area of post conviction and will soon be employed abroad." Caitlin McLeod is finishing school in New Orleans. She spent her spring semester in Martinique and worked at a film festival in France this summer. 93 Elizabeth Bain P.O. Box 769 Emory, VA 24327-0769 Willow Troy is beginning her last year at Hampsire. She has her work cut out for her this year as she prepares her own gallery show for her paintings, the culmination of four years of work. Sian Richards spent much of the summer in Charlottesville and is now back in Richmond. 94 Rania Sutton-Elbers Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA 19019 Carrie Hale is spending a year in Africa. Toni Bergamini is preparing to leave for London where he will live for nine months while he attends a culinary institute. 95 Lindsay Ashmun P.O. Box 645 Orange, VA 22960 In the summer of '95, Deya Ramsden travelled throughout Europe. She took the '95-'96 school year off to recuperate and make money. She's now at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. Ben Edson, also at Warren Wilson, is in the same dorm, on the same floor, a few doors down! Stop by Higher Grounds on the Downtown Mall where Lindsay Ashmun will serve you up a mean cup of joe.