Phillips Academy Class of 1985
	Home | Contacts | Notes | Photos Class Notes Spring 1996 Jonathan Hoyt I'll start with the letter that came the farthest: Alan Himmer wrote from Central Asia to say, "I am a personnel director for British American Tobacco in Uzbekistan and my wife, Melanie (a Brit), is now charge d'affaires at the British Embassy in Tashkent. We live in a small house with a big Kazakh shepherd dog and shall be out here until late 1997. Visitors are welcome." You can reach him by writing to FCO, King Charles Street, British Embassy, Tashkent, London SW1A 2AH, United Kingdom, or if you're really bold, call him at home at 011-737-1253-6263. Last fall, Stephanie Sanchez sent me a fundraising letter in her campaign to become a selectman in her hometown of Greenwicb, Conn. She wrote, "This is a serious bid on my part for a responsible office. . . . Who knows where it will lead? I don't exclude state office, the senate, or even the White House." All right, Stephanie, for being the first in our class to subject herself to the whims of the electorate. (I, for one, sent her a check!) Want to find out the election results? Give her a call in Greenwich. Ayo Heinegg has been doing economic development work in Washington, D.C., after a stint at Cornell as a grad student, but she is now headed for Mexico. She says she'll be living in rural Chiapas state, then moving to Mexico City. Sounds like she'll be roughing it; she said something about "bathing in rivers." Kim Hekimian has been in and out of Armenia for the last few years. She's been a major player in developing public health projects in that war-torn port of the world. When she's not giving her all for the motherland (Kim is Armenian-American), she hangs out in D.C. with her boyfriend, also a well-connected Armenian-American. Kim says Sid Smith is a corporate lawyer in D.C. She's also been in touch with Phil Laughlin, who has a son named Christopher and is expecting another child soon. There are more new children to talk about. Fern Ward Oppenheimer gave birth to a baby boy, Samuel Benjamin, in mid-January. Congratulations! Fern lives in Harare,Zimbabwe. Dr. Elizabeth Ozimek Crowley was expecting a baby girl in early February. Her name will be Claire Crowley. Jason Reeder is living in Portland, Ore., working as consultant in business process and system design and fixing up a big old house in his spare time. Having been sprung loose from the confines of med school, Alyson Yashar (a doctor in New York) has been traveling everywhere -- Japan and France were the last places I heard she'd visited. She sounds busy and content. Amy Zegart is in grad school at Stanford majoring in political science, She's looking for a teaching job. Kara Buckley is also in grad school at Stanford. I read about Megan Carroll Shea in Lawyers Weekly. Her firm, Carroll Associates, located in Boston, specializes in legal services and consulting to arts organizations. It has taken of and she's now a full-fledged boss. There was a great photo of her with one of her clients, a Masai warrior who tours schools. I think Megan has pulled off what the rest of us really want to do: have fun at work. Rumor has it that Dave Chung has started a new job with KKR in San Francisco. Can anyone confirm? I do know Ed Yim started a great job at the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra last October, and is doing very well. Ed also travels to Philly to sharpen his business skills at Wharton on the weekends. Cheryl Nelson recently finished NYU Law School, and is working at the Women's Legal Defense Fund in Washington, D.C., where she lobbies on Capitol Hill. She will move on to a clerkship in September. Cheryl is still as sassy as ever. Laurie Spindler is studying business at the University of Michigan after spending five years at the Bank of Boston. Bill Parsons' musical career continues its upward climb. He's recently put out a full-length CD, called "Unskilled Labor." He's been touring the entire East Coast, from Maine to central Virginia, so I suggest you order his CD and get on his mailing list by writing to P0. Box 21344, Washington, DC, 20009. He's played twice at one of D.C.'s hotter clubs. Pamela Prestyn Paresky wins the prize for the first class notes sent in by e-mail. She writes that she has been shopping her CD of songs she wrote and sang to various music companies. She also is engaged to Hugh Zuker: "He and I met in Los Angeles almost three years ago, and we both moved to Chicago at the same time, about two years ago. ... We're holding off on planning the wedding for now. I want to try to finish my Ph.D. in human development' first." You can reach Pamela at pbpresty@midway.uchicago.edu or at 474 Lakeshore Drive #6001, Chicago, IL 60611. She adds, "has anyone heard from Tony Optican? I saw him a couple of years ago at my gym in L.A., but then we lost touch." I can say the same, having played three months of telephone tag with Tonv last year. Ann Plamondon was most recently in San Francisco, working at Deloitte & Touche, and spending much of her time outdoors. After several years in Indonesia Ing-Nan (Nancy) Shen is now working at Elizabeth Arden in Taipei. "It brings out the Fancy Nancy in me," she says with a laugh. Kiki Thompson wrote that she has been "following the snow, from the Northern Hemisphere to the Southern and back," as a world-class snowboarder. Her latest title: British Columbia Alpine Snowboard Champion. Kiki competed at Stratton, Vt., in March. She writes, "Hello to everyone I have lost contact with, especially Franchot. Life as a nomad sometimes has its drawbacks. Eventually I hope to settle in Sydney, Australia, with my boyfriend, three-time Olympic speed skater Phil Tahmindjis." Future plans? Landscape architecture, she says. As the 1996 presidential campaign starts cooking, I have been here in Washington working on Clinton administration initiatives in educational technology. It promises to be a wild year. Nothing surprises me anymore about this town after seeing the meteoric rise to power of Gingrich and the House Republicans and then (for now) their equally sudden loss of popularity. I was also one of the 800,000 furloughed federal workers who was ordered not to work in January but got paid anywav! Go figure. I hope y'all will write soon. Use that e-mail. It's quick and painless! Thanks to Doro Herrey for helping put all this together. E-mail her at DoroHerrey@aol.com, or phone her: (212) 721-7098. Stuart Magruder e-mailed us with a correction to our last notes. He is at the end of his third year at Sci-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture) and will graduate next January. He has not graduated from UCLA as reported. His wife, Emily Daniell Magruder is going to UCLA for a Ph.D. in English, not an architecture degree.
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