NMH Notes Archive for NMH '93 by Peter Christopher class secretary

May 2000

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*Molly Goggins Talbot* loves her new house in Brooklyn as well as her husband who works in Internet Law with Skadden Arps' Intellectual Property Group. Molly's been coordindating client workshops with high-power Executives who are in town meeting with her company, Anderson Consulting. She also had lots of news of other NMH folks which I'm including:

"*Anne McCasland Pexton* is still living in Australia with her husband, Simon. The just moved from Adelaide to Melbourne and she is going to Law School, taking time off from her Ph.D. Clearly she loves school! She and Simon are planning a ceremony in London this summer for family and friends who weren't there when they got married in March of '98. *Justin Gibbons* '92 is living in Arlington, VA for the time being but may be moving to Uzbekistan with his job at ACTR. *Tom Curley* '92 is teaching at Eaglebrook School right down the road from NMH but will probably be moving out West in the next couple of months. *Jenny Swedlund* '94 is living and working in Boston with an old friend of mine from Cape Cod. I reconnected with Jenny a couple of years back on the Cape and she began hanging out with my friends and I."

My sister *Kathryn Kawecki* (97) graduated from Columbia University and is now at the Glimmerglass Opera Company for the summer in Cooperstown, New York. I saw her perform in a hippy rendition of Midsummer Night's Dream with the King's Crown Theater at Columbia. Lysander forgot to say "How quick bright things come to confusion" but from I heard they still let him graduate. I liked the play. I saw *Jonathan Chick* while I was down there. He is still living in the same renovated industrial building as 5 years ago and has gotten some photography work in several national magazines recently. "I'm livin in the slum with the bad guy bums, Brooklyn is mean yeah Bed Sty's clean, Little Man Big on the next block Over, Bars on the windows I'll blow up that Range Rover." That was all Jonathan said when I commented on how scary it was just to drive through his hood.

*Todd McConchie* has been from one coast to the other. After his internship at San Diego State doing research on bottlenose dolphin migrations, Todd spent some time fixing up bikes in San Diego and then returned to Washington DC to work at the Smithsonian again. His new project? Continuing with documentation of all the species in North America. Good luck Todd. Also some more exciting news from Todd here but I can't print it because it alludes to future events so you'll have to wait til the next issue... If *Celeste Wilhelm* or *Aleika McAllister* is reading this, please email Todd at wpolo97 -- AT -- hotmail.com or stop by the Smithsonian and try to find him.

*Beverly Flores* writes with news from New York: "My nickname 'Buffy' has been extinguished. I've been in NYC for the last several years, finished a degree in industrial design, and am now forming a website and graphic design company at full speed and traveling as much as I possibly can. You can check out the company I am designing for now at www.totemdesign.com. I should have my own site up soon - I'll let you know! *Aaron DiRusso* *Justin Heckman* or *Ajay Kasargod*, please call again sometime or send e-mail, smoke signals, or a telegram with the latest news to 718-624-7047. In other news, I've hung out with *Jude Kiernan* ('91) several times lately - he's kept up with the film making and lives here in New York. I've also been keeping up with *Jacques Posell-Wilson* and *Daniela Pinto* (she's now part of a traveling nurse group all over the country), and my roommate of two years was *Phelan Wibecan* (aka "jeb" - skater guy with flaming orange hair at nmh)! (you wouldn't believe that he's a super computer genius these days!) My brother, *Mike Flores* ('94), is in Stowe, Vermont, working as part of the Youth Core branch. I also have a cousin, *Zachary Miller* ('95) who is probably jumping out of a plane right now as part of his reserves training. *Ellen Forbes* (94) is in upstate New York, working towards her all-time dream of becoming a vet, and may return to Wyoming in the summer."

Evan Moss (evanmoss -- AT -- hotmail.com) is in Guatemala as a peace corps volunteer in appropriate technology, building stoves, constructing latrines, and digging wells in an effort to preserve volcan Ipala and its resources and build a base of eco-tourismo. "poco a poco. if any of the old pals can get down here, be in touch, would love to here from you all....... que la vaya bien, emoss"

*John Abbey* has been promoted inside his firm, William M. Mercer, Inc. and was relocated in the process: "I've done the unthinkable and moved out to the West Coast. Boston to San Francisco is quite the change. I do look forward to find out which NMH alumns live out this way. My email address is john.abbey -- AT -- us.wmmercer.com." Be sure to write John if you are in the Bay area.

*Nina Atluri* graduated in 1999 with a Bachelor's in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech but just loves school: "Now I am at Georgia State University finishing up course work for a Master of Science in Health Administration and this August I will move to California to attend Pepperdine University in Malibu for an MBA and hopefully work part time in the health care industry. I would love to see any NMH people in the area!" Write her at ninaatluri -- AT -- mindspring.com.

Congradulations to *Tom Stearns* and his wife *Heather* (who works at a Waldorf school) who are making fantastic progess on their projects in Walden, Vermont -- a seed company and a pottery company.

*Xantha Bruso* has been travelling between Florida, Alaska, California, and Massachusetts. She now has her pilot's license so if you can catch her in a moment away from her grad school work in Geography at MIT, you might get a flight "on the house", "on the dome" or whatever they can cook up there.

And the last news is from *Alanna Rutherford*: "I don't know if its too late but *Neeri Rao* and I just graduated Columbia University Law School." Too late, Allana? Sounds too early to me; did you guys skip a grade? Congradulations is all I can say!

I've started a new company (americaorganic.com) and incorporated my consulting business (peterchristopher.com) but the truth is most of the time I am just playing with my new toys here on the farm -- the Husqvarna 351 chainsaw and my Kubota are favorites but I also secretly enjoy splitting wood with the maul. Come stop by Vermont for a ride or some "relaxing" chores.