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ver, Colo., where I work as a
freelance writer and editor. I
continue to write about music
and I still play music on the side.
My reviews have appeared in
Denver’s Westword, the Boulder
Daily Camera, Relix magazine
and onwebsites, includingwww.
honesttune.com. I often see John
Greene, TimBillings, and Chris
Wirth ’86. I recently wrote a
children’s book, Barry’s Wild
Ride (www.barryswildride.com),
about a whimsical bear who
learns how to surf. I also offer a
custom jigsaw puzzle created by
Chris Wirth’s company, Liberty
Puzzles, in Boulder. It was a blast
to work on Barry’s puzzle with a
fellow Paulie.
1986
Priscilla J. Forney
pjforney@comcast.net
You all were wonderfully re-
sponsive the last time I solicited
you for formnotes, so I’ve not
bothered you this time around.
I will hope to hear lots from
lots of you for the fall issue of
Alumni Horae.
1987
Mona Gibson
monagibson@aol.com
Peggy Chang writes: “I’m com-
pleting a master’s degree in
public humanities, something
I’ve pursued part-time for the
past four years while working
full-time as the director of an
academic peer advising center
at Brown. I took a class this
past spring with Noah Elbot
’09. My sons are six and five.
Please look me up if you’re in
the Providence area.”
Minot Maser writes from
Ecuador: “This morning I sum-
mited Chimborazo, Ecuador’s
highest peak at 20,700’. Earth
science nerds note that this
mountain, because it is almost
on the equator, is actually the
highest mountain on Earth,
when calculating from the
planet’s core. This means for
a few minutes while on top we
were rotating faster than any
other objects on Earth’s sur-
face. Luckily, there were no
mosquitoes up there to splat in
our faces. So I wound down my
law practice, rented my house,
sold the second car, and amnow
in the middle of a five-month
trip to northern South America.
Too bad I took French at SPS as
I’m adrift down here in a sea of
Spanish.”
Alex Paine is in the thick of
parenthood: “No news fromSan
Francisco other than that Maya
(3 ½ ) and Eva (1 ½) Paine keep
their mommy and daddy busy.”
Exciting news from Richard
duPont: “I am currently work-
ing on a large-scale public
sculpture to be installed on
Columbus Circle in the fall in
association with the Museum
of Art and Design and as part
of their big upcoming show
“Out of Hand (Materializing the
Postdigital).” The public piece
will be 15-feet tall and made of
cast aluminum. I will also have a
large sculpture included inside
the museum in the exhibition
(madmuseum.org/exhibition/
out-hand). I will also be show-
ing a new piece at Art Basel
Switzerland (www.artbasel.com)
this June in association with
Carolina Nitsch. I also have
concurrent exhibitions up right
now in New York at two differ-
ent galleries.”
HenryWatts writes: “I played
in the club squash champi-
onships at the Olympic Club
against George Kwon ’03. We’d
never met, so I had no idea he
was an alumnus until we met
for thematch. Great guy. We had
a competitive and fun match.
Somehow, wisdom and experi-
ence barely won out over much
younger stamina and energy.
Somewhere, Coach Ball and
Coach Panarese are smiling!
It was really fun meeting and
talking with a grad from such a
younger generation. He clearly
loved his time at St. Paul’s and
was about to head back to his
10th reunion. Pretty fun, small
world kind of thing.”
Henry also told us about Ray
Letourneau: “After the recent
SPS alumni event here in San
Francisco, a bunch of people
from the Form of ’87 gathered
to celebrate and commemorate
Razor. We each took a couple
minutes to talk about him.
Stories had a nice mix of humor,
respect, and sadness. Common
themes were how nice Ray was
to everyone, and how he helped
many of us, even those who
were not a stereotypical fit to be
befriended by a jock from Con-
cord. He was a great friend to
many of us and friendly to all of
us. And he’s clearly missed. The
group included Alberta Neil-
son, Melanie Shaw MacMil-
lan, John Caperton, Chris
Gallagher Jr., JimBarker, Don
Pillsbury, ErikBurke , andme.”
Got word from Bill Dia-
mond that a bunch of New
Yorkers gathered at his bar that
same night for a similar tribute.
I think it’s really cool that Ray
was remembered across the
country on the same date. And
I find it very comforting that our
class came together over many
mediums (Facebook, e-mail,
phone, in person) in the wake
of this news. We gotta stick
together! RIP, Ray.
1993
Page Sargisson
pagesargisson@gmail.com
James Hathaway writes: “Fin-
ishing a stint in Shanghai before
moving to the U.S. Embassy in
Beijing on a four-year political
tour. Traveled recently to New
York and chuckled at the fact
that a Montana boy would go to
NewYork City for clean air. With
regrets, I was unable to cross
the Pacific for our 20th reunion
but hope to make it up by host-
ing old SPS pals in China should
you guys make it this way.”
Louisa Wharton Walmsley,
FORMNOTES
Charles James (Charlie) Hendrik
Laverge, born May 15 to Kate
and Beck Laverge ’88, arrived
10 days early, ensuring his dad
could go to his 25th reunion.
Stéphane Stoll ’89 ran the April
Paris Marathon in support of
the Weicker Scholarship Fund.
Louisa Wharton Walmsley, born
March 4, 2013, is the daughter of
Ashley and Peter Walmsley ’93.
Thacher (almost 5 months)
and Leland (3), sons of Decker
Rolph ’95.
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