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Julie Willis Spitz
23 Waushakelm Ave
Ashland, MA 01721
Local alum
Andrew Murray
has been in the news lately with his plans to turn his
family's farmland into mountain bike trails
(See Newsbriefs).
Sue Herndon's
daughter Ashley recently graduated from Rutgers University.
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Alison Hormel Webb
writes: "I've just started a job with the Virginia Insitute
of Autism as operations director...I recorded and co-produced a CD of jazz vocal
music with my brother Jimmy '79. All proceeds of the sale will go to the VIA so
check it out!" The CD can be found under local artists at Plan 9, under Alison
Hormel.
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Jon Martin
writes: "Both Ellen, my wife, and I are Assistant Professors in the
geology department at University of Florida. Those jobs along with our two kids
Peter, 5, and Eric, 2, manage to keep us plenty busy."
Patricia Gordon is
working for the University of Virginia's office of Information, Technology, and
Communication.
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Brennan Devine
just started his own business here in Charlottesville.
Hunter Smith Croson
has a nine year-old son. She lives in Charlottesville and works at
Powerplay teaching exercise classes part time.
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Mira Velimirovic
5902 Manola Way
Los Angeles, CA 90068
Carl Schwab
399 Key West Drive
Chalottesville, VA 22911
In honor of the closing of their 20th anniversary year, class rep
Mira Velimirovic
has submitted the following information on more than two-thirds of
her class members. Great job, Mira!!
Hawkins Dale
and his wife Susan live in
Los Angeles with their fabulous daughter Fiona, while Hawkins rides the bucking
bronco of information technology as a computer poobah.
Chuck Epstein
and his
wife Melia Bunsussen live with their genius son Jeremy in Dallas, where Melia
supports them as a theatrical director in a manner to which Chuck hopes to
become comfortably accustomed.
Drayton Fair
lives in Rhode Island and is about
to host the biggest Commitment Service of the Season with his sweetheart, Ron.
Drayton also works in Boston as an architect, reviving style and taste in
edifices throughout New England, where they can sorely use some.
Bill Harbaugh
writes that he is, "in the process of getting a divorce." He is "pretty happy
about the whole business, swears to do right by his kids no matter what, and
they seem OK so far, but he thinks he'll get Annie a puppy anyway. He's
starting his third year teaching economics at the University of Oregon, and the
ponytail he cut off for the job market has mostly grown back except for on top.
His students say he's a good teacher, but they're really young and [their
opinions] don't...count for tenure. He still likes to climb up mountains and
then ski down them, though it's not as intellectually satisfying as it used to
be. Any alumni passing through Eugene with a cold six-pack should stop by and
they'll be welcome to the spare bedroom."
Elizabeth Hormel
lives an ongoing
insane life with her three sons Tristan, Nile, and Graham, while working as a
chef and caterer at the incredibly cool Louie's Restaurant in Bethesda.
Mary Reed Johnson,
who says she's always been lazy and it's only gotten worse, lives,
paints, and sails, in Berkeley with her husband Peter and their beautiful
daughter Fae. She's started a successful business painting animal portraits;
she's also a trained Emergency Medical Technician, so you know who to call if
you're in trouble in the Bay Area.
Jan Niederschuh,
having tried a number of
careers, is happiest in the blue-collar world right now. He works in a tobacco
factory, reads the Bible and William Burroughs, listens to the Velvet
Underground (still), Frank Sinatra (recently) and Brazilian music. He also has
a teaching certificate (the influence of LeBlanc) and may yet end up teaching,
too.
Carl Schwab
refuses to budge; he lives in Charlottesville with his wife
Tammy and their four amazingly blond children, Emily, Maggie, Jay and Abby.
Carl works, when he has to, with his sister, Cathy, in the family real estate
business.
Deb Sours
lives in a turn-of-the-century schoolhouse which she's
remodelling, does landscape design, and works at a Montessori school; she also
travels regularly to the Bahamas.
Mary Stewart-Silver
just got her BA at UVa
and may continue with graduate work. She is deeply interested in education,
home-schooling, and living outside the consumer mainstream, interests which just
might stem from Luke, Maya, Ezra, Alia, and Isaac, the five incredible kids she
has with her husband, Josh.
Cathy Summers
lives in Fairfax, where she also
rides the waves of information technology. Besides being a computer jock, she's
also a player in the world of competitive volleyball.
Susan Wallner
lives in
Pennsylvania with her husband Mark and their son Owen, who knows the difference
between classic Winnie the Pooh and Disney Pooh. Susan also works as a
documentary filmmaker and is the series producer for a weekly arts program on
Mid-Atlantic public television.
Mira Velimirovic
lives in L.A., weighing its
similarities to Sodom and Gomorrah. When she's done with that - it doesn't take
long - she hangs out with her longtime sweetheart, Max, her musical daughter
Milena, and makes annoying long distance phone calls to fellow 77s.
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Robert Jones
is living in Raleigh. He has a three year-old daughter and a
newborn infant, Charlotte Healy Jones, born July 23, 1997. He works full time
for the National Guard and was just sent to Croatia for 9 months as part of the
Bosnia peacekeeping mission.
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Elizabeth Causey Burgess
has two daughters and is currently in business for
herself.
Jennifer Chisholm-Hoibraten,
who married a Norwegian nuclear physicist
in the mid-80s, has immigrated to Norway where she is busy with numerous horses,
other animals, and her two daughters, Charlotte, age 6 and Sarah, age 3.
Jennifer and her husband, Steinar, spent a year here in Charlottesville when
Steinar was post-doc at UVa in 1991 and 1992. Her old friend and teacher, Inger
Kretsinger, has seen and visited her on numerous occasions, most recently in
July, and can report that her Norwegian is impeccable. Jennifer's only
disappointment is that her married name contains two vowels not found in the
English alphabet. Steinar visited Charlottesville Sept. 19-21 while on a highly
secret nuclear mission, at least according to Inger.
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Phelps Kelley
151 Dalkieth Glen
Arnold, MD 21012
Tanya Hammers Toten
has three sons and has been married for twelve years. She
is starting a computer business in Stuart, Florida.
Phelps Kelley
has left
Colorado and moved to Annapolis, MD to pursue his lifelong dream of a career in
radio broadcasting. He is attending classes at a broadcast Institute in
Maryland and reports "no job as of yet, but I'll keep working at it."
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Ross Moyer's
Scenes From the Movies for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello was
premiered this past spring at the Oregon Festival of American Music. He also
received a grant for composition from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and was
a finalist in the New England Reed Trio's international chamber music
competition.
Alex Draper
is reportedly performing in an off-Broadway show at
this time. [He also volunteers for a highly laudable theater group of children.]
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Fred Gore
reports that his business - manufacturing sawmills - is doing really
well. He and wife Ninon '81 were present at Reunion '97, though Fred did not
participate in the mean game of soccer which took place on the lower field.
Elizabeth Alling Sewall
has been appointed as a Consultant at Browning
Associates, Inc of New Jersey. Elizabeth graduated from Yale in 1986 and
received her Ed.M. from Harvard in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy.
She will operate from her home in Massachusetts, consulting on development,
management, marketing, and trusteeship.
Michael Dolan
is "living under a mango
tree" in St. Thomas.
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Margaret McNett
1721 Fantasia Circle
Herndon, VA 22070
We spied
Nathan Abse's
name listed as a contributing researcher in a June 8
Washington Post article entitled, "R[epublican] N[ational] C[ommittee] Cutoff of
Group's Bank Loan Payment Left Hong Kong Guarantor With Debt." Nathan is
currently receiving his mail in NYC although he still lives in D.C. An apparent
dispute with his mail carrier is to blame.
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Susan Wright
works in Richmond as a public defender representing juveniles. She
ran into
Jennifer Arave '85
and reports that
Dieter Klippstein
is writing and living in Seattle.
James Blevins
surfaced from the missing list while surfing
the web. "James is applying his skills in the film business where he is allowed
to work with more high-end computer equipment than you can shake a stick at."
He is living in North Hollywood, working for Cinesite. His name has been listed
in the Visual Effects credit on films such as: Flipper, Space Jam, Batman and
Robin, Air Force One, and the upcoming Titanic . He has appeared in a couple of
feature films and is directing the L.A. premier of an Irish play entitled Bold
Girls.
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Katharine Donnelly
33 Winslow Street, 1st floor
Somerville, MA 02144
Jennifer Arave
recently supported her dog during rigorous obedience training and
is working in Minneapolis as a freelance director.
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Sharon Bouton Stone
958 SE Pine Street
Roseburg, OR 97470
Bill Covert
1612 Woodland St
Nashville, TN 37206
Bill Covert's
sister, Laura '87, reports that Bill is settled in Nashville. At
the time of her letter, his wife was expecting a child.
Courtney Steele
recently moved to Harrisburg, PA from Richmond. She is engaged to be married
this October and would love to hear from past classmates and Tandemites. She
writes that she hopes: "[Tandem] will still be around for my children one day."
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Heather Miller Poosson
19 Copeley Hill, Apt. B15
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Laura Covert
is the administrative coordinator for the Wintergreen Nature
Foundation, a non-profit organization that teaches about heritage of the Blue
Ridge.
Geoff Cunningham
was very sorry he couldn't make it to his 10th reunion.
He's living in Los Angeles, trying to tap into independent film with a couple of
screenplays.
Todd Ely
was featured in the past Spring's Barhopper series by Charlottesville's Offstage
Theatre. He performed in one of the series' shorts "Catch of the Day" along
with other local talent Adriana Anderson, Clinton Johnson, and Laurel Knaup.
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Bill Carey
is working for a record company in Nashville after finishing two
years at Berkeley.
Jason McLeod
is one of the three members of One Drop, one of
Charlottesville's newest bands.
Gopal Khare
is living in the D.C. area and
visits the Charlottesville area frequently. He visited Tandem for the first
time in ten years late in August and would love to be back in touch with other
late 80s Tandemites.
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Penelope Ward
1701 Bruce Avenue
Charlottesville, VA 22903
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Mara Gibson
111 Highgate Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14214
Mara Gibson
was married in May to a sculptor named Brett Reif. She writes: "We
are very happy together with our three large dogs." She is a Ph.D. student in
music composition at SUNY Buffalo and is still teaching piano lessons.
Julia Hayden
(formerly known as "Jenny") works in management for Ernst and Young in
Northern Virginia. She has recently begun a 3 month assignment in Boston.
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Derek Toro
(Conti) stopped by Tandem in August for a visit. He is living in
Charlottesville and taking classes at PVCC.
Brooke Plotnick
is a teacher's
assistant at an all-girls school in Philadelphia.
Darshan Sergi
is hard at work
on a children's book. The story is planned as the first in a series that will,
in the future, be developed as a series of shorts for children's television.
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Corey Lloyd
406 Hedge Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Dolly Joseph
graduated from the University of Virginia with a major in studio
art. Her work was displayed on the Downtown Mall in early May
(see Newsbriefs).
Adrienne Johnstone-Taylor
and
Marina MacNamara
ran into each other at the First
Annual Charlottesville-Albemarle Vegetarian Festival. Marina worked in
Washington D.C. this summer with Advocates for Youth and is ready to head back
to the San Francisco Bay Area to finish her last semester of school.
Caitlin McLeod
is the technical director of the theater department at a small all-girls
private school in New Orleans.
Zee Onuf
graduated from the University of
Chicago in 1996 and is now a grad student in Art History at Columbia. In June
she returned from a year abroad in Munich, Germany as an au pair, which was both
"great" and "terrible."
She's sad to leave Chicago, which she loves, and finds
New York a little daunting. In June,
Tay Stinchfield
gave birth to a 6 pound, 4
ounce baby girl named Hannah. She is living on a small farm near Monticello and
enjoying the trials and joys (but mostly joys) of new motherhood.
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Tabb Sullivan
Both Patrick Huddleston
and
Elizabeth Bain
are finishing their last semester of college.
Willow Troy
writes: "I just graduated [from Hampshire] in May 1997. I
did a gallery show for my thesis which consisted of paintings, drawings, and
prints of various insects in motion. After graduation I packed a car full of
stuff (leaving all of my artwork with my mother) and moved to an apartment in
Chicago. Here I am. If any other Tandem grads are in Chicago, look me up!"
Anna Galloway
writes: "I've just graduated from [Rhode Island School of Design]
and I'm preparing to totally disregard the value of my education and be a
salesgirl in the great city of Boston. Woo Hoo!"
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Jamie Sullivan
Carnegie-Mellon University
SMC 508 P.O. Box 3210
Pittsburgh, PA 15230-3210
Shonin Anacker
11 B Mobile Ln
Charlottesville, VA 29903
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Chapman Woodriff
3722 Fosters Branch Rd
Charlottesville, VA 22911
Talley English
311 Ortman Rd
Greenwood, VA 22943
Dario Gimenez is working in Charlottesville at Eastern Standard. He is hoping
to go to Europe later this year and then on to New York University next year.
Past Faculty & Staff
Inger Kretsinger
406 Key West Drive
Charlottesville, VA 22911
Molly Dempsey
reports that she is doing well and living in Chapel Hill, North
Carolina where both she and husband Bert teach at UNC.
Inger Kretsinger
visited the Alumni Affairs office early this Fall and was a little shocked to find that
Adrienne's desk is in the same corner of the same room where Inger's desk sat
some 15 years ago. Currently, she is, among other commitments, working at PVCC
and volunteering at the Shelter for Help in Emergency. Inger reported new
addresses for
Beth Sutton
and
Laurel Costa.
Joe LeBlanc
is teaching in Washington D.C. and
Chuck Cunningham
can be found teaching at James Madison University.
Mira Velimirovic '77 has succeeded in tracking down
Jane Clark (formerly: Obey).
"Jane is living happily with her honey, Jim, on a lake in New
Hampshire, and is finding amazing ways to combine artwork, computers, and
wellness. Plus, she still hates Republicans." For all those who wonder,
Tom O'Connor,
Joan Barnett,
Nancy Summers,
Pru Huddleston,
Teresa Bryant,
Steve Ganong,
and
Sandy Richardson
are still here lending their talent and enthusiasm
each and every day.
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