in memoriam

1940–1949 Darthea Park Stalnaker ’40 Barry A. Carson ’45 Randolph K. Byers ’46 Cecil J. North Jr. ’48 Adlai E. Stevenson III ’48

1950–1959 Joan D. Wilson ’50 E. W. Hall Jr. ’53 Darley T. Randall ’54 H. Marshall Schwarz* ’54 Samuel E. Marcellino Jr. ’55 John Noble Jr. ’55 Elliott R. Morss ’56 Duncan B. Neuhauser ’57 Anthony Pantaleoni ’57 David Endicott Gannett ’58 Kate (Day) Beare ‘59

1960–1969 Faith Howland** ’61 Charlotte Forbes Wunderlich ’62

1970–1979 Hendrik M. Ecker ’70 Jesse Abbott ’74 Robert G. Soule ’75 David L. Mercer ’79

1980–1989 Molly F. de Ramel ’88

Faculty and Staff Jean M. McCawley

*TRUSTEE EMERITUS **FORMER TRUSTEE

ALUMNI, FACULTY, AND STAFF WHO PASSED JUNE 26, 2021—DECEMBER 10, 2021. TO NOTIFY US OF A DEATH, PLEASE CONTACT THE DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE AT ALUMNI@MILTON.EDU OR 617-898-2447. 1989 JAMES WILLIAMS writes that a few 1989 classmates recently got together on Zoom. Clockwise from top left, BRIAN TRAW (Zooming from Nanjing, China) JOHN YU, ANIL THOMAS,

LES MARSHALL, and JAMES WILLIAMS.

with her family and too many chickens. She has one daughter about to graduate from Bard College and one who just started at Pitzer College. Amy looks forward to seeing classmates at the upcoming reunion and notes that if anyone is doing college visits with their kids at Wesleyan, she has a room for you on the edge of campus.

BEN JESUP writes that he and his wife are doing well and still living in a mid-century modern house in Hollin Hills in Alexandria, Virginia. Ben is working as assistant solicitor for fish and Wildlife at the Department of the Interior. He also authored a chapter in a recent book, Endangered Species Act: Law, Policy, and Perspectives. His daughter

1990

LAWRENCE SCHWARTZ, LEFT, shares a photo of himself, SUMUL SHAH, and JAMES RAMAGE, (all class of ‘90 Hallowell House members) celebrating James’s 50th birthday in New York.

Sarah graduated from Haverford College in 2020 and is working in the AmeriCorps VISTA program. Ben and Sarah self-published a book, which is available on Amazon, based on Sarah’s senior thesis, titled Memoria. The book is a remembrance of her grandparents and their orchid-collecting hobby. For fun, Ben can be found birding, playing tennis, and biking. He has connected via Zoom with a group of old Robbins House friends a few times over the past year. He hopes to see people in person at his reunion and hopes everyone stays safe.

1983

EMILY BINGHAM writes that COVID-19 has brought her family of five back under her roof in Kentucky for the first time since her first child left for boarding school, 10 years ago. She shares that it was scary, yet heavenly, and involved an immense amount of cooking and cleaning. Emily recounts the grief and horror Louisville felt for the killing of Breonna Taylor this past spring. “We protested and listened and tried to see through old systems and assumptions that paved the way for this tragedy and many like it. A book I had been working on for several years about the 1853 Stephen Foster hit, ‘My Old Kentucky Home,’ was suddenly even more swamped with irony.” Learn more in Emily’s book: My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song.

1995 SCOTT TREMAINE married Sonia Fernandez (second from right) on October 22 in Madrid, Spain. After having lived in Europe for the past 16 years, he is planning a move back to the United States and hopes to be able to join his next reunion. Pictured above with Scott and Sonia are his daughter Lucia (far left) and Sonia’s daughter Lucia (far right).

1986

CHIP TENNILLE writes he and Holly D. Roberts were married in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on June 5, 2021.

1989

LYGEIA RICCIARDI writes that she lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Eric, and two daughters, ages 12 and 16. She has been working at the intersection of technology and health and is currently building an online wellness community focused on women.

TOURÉ shares that he published an oral history of Prince called Nothing Compares 2 U, his seventh book, and a sister podcast called Who Was Prince?

SAM WILLIAMSON writes that he and his wife, Eleanor, have moved to Miami, Florida, where he is the managing partner of the new office that his law firm, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, just started.

1990

MICHAEL CERVIERI writes from southern Rhode Island, where he now lives after spending almost 30 years in New York City. He, his wife, Homa, and their two daughters made the move in March 2020. Michael spends his days designing and developing websites, chasing after his three- and two-year-olds, and tending to his garden. In the if-not-now-when/you’re-havinga-mid-life-crisis department, Michael and Homa just bought 30 acres to start an orchard and retreat. “Why? Because when 50 is staring you in the face, you have to outcrazy it.”

BEN GOODMAN is living in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

1992

ANDREW BERISH writes that he is living in Tampa, Florida, with his wife, Maria, and two kids, ages 11 and 8. He is an associate professor at the University of South Florida in the humanities and cultural studies department. His wife is also an associate professor at the University of South Florida. Andrew writes about jazz and American popular music. His book, Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility and Race in Jazz of the 1930’s and 40’s, was published in 2012. He is currently working on a book about jazz, listening, and emotion. Andrew also writes humor for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. He shares that Tampa is a lovely place with amazing beaches, but with alligators and snakes. “You can’t get everything you want, right?” His professional website can be found at andrewberish.com.

NATE BIHLDORFF shares that he and his wife are still located near Seattle, Washington, with his two ridgeback dogs. He spends much of his free time hiking the Cascades and Olympics or wandering around the San Juan Islands. Nate is the senior vice president of product development & publishing at Nintendo of America. During these challenging times, he spends most of his workday figuring out how to deliver smiles. He looks forward to returning to the East Coast and seeing his family and classmates. Nate welcomes emails from fellow alumni and can be reached at natebihldorff@hotmail.com.

TINA ASPIALA shares that she has spent the pandemic developing an iOS calendar application for people with ADHD called PiCal.

1994

NOAH FREEMAN writes that he is a divorced father of two kids, Ella, 12, who is in fifth grade at Milton, and Julian, 8, who is applying for fourth grade next year. While living in the South End, Noah has joined Google’s AI team, where he runs an R&D group in the Cambridge office. He also is a guest teacher in Milton’s Computer Science Department.

1995

During the lockdown, PAUL COSTELLO took up oil painting outdoors. He attended a workshop on Nantucket and spent much of the summer on Cape Cod with his easel in his car. He is happy to share that he even sold a couple of paintings, one to a passerby and one at a charity auction.

1997

FRANCES TILNEY BURKE writes that after eight military moves over the course of 14 years, her family is back in Washington, D.C., for the fourth time with her four kids in tow (ages 13, 12, 8, and 2). She finished a Ph.D. at The Fletcher School at Tufts University in 2021 and is now writing a book as the George P. Shultz Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. Frances would love to catch up with any classmates in the area.

1998

CAROLINE AIELLO is keeping the groceries stocked at DeLuca’s Market in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood. She and her sister, VICTORIA ’08, plan to carry on the century-old family business and focus on community engagement and sustainability. Caroline welcomes you to stop in and say hello!

▲MIKE DESCOTEAUX shares that he has decided to change careers after two decades in arts leadership. Over a few short years, he acquired the professional licenses, ratings, and experience to work as a flight instructor out of Norwood and Providence. He has since been hired by Cape Air, where he flies passengers all over New England. Mike is currently based

in Rockland, Maine, and resides four days a week with former Milton faculty members Bryan and Marilyn Cheney (parents of IAN CHENEY ’98.) Every night they swap Milton stories over dinner.

PRUDENCE TSANG shares a photo from a Thanksgiving gathering on November 19 (Tsang, back row, fifth from left) by the Hong Kong Alumni Association. A wide range of alumni from 1990 to 2006 attended. “It’s been two years since we’ve had our Thanksgiving dinner, due to COVID-19. Glad to see happy faces on everyone and the turnout was great!” (TOP LEFT)

1999

LILY BROWN and her family relocated to New England from California at the beginning of the pandemic and are living outside Portland, Maine. Cora, 2, is enjoying taking care of her backyard chickens, jumping in leaf piles, and sledding in winter.

SARAH WHITE MACINTYRE recently got together with 1999 classmates at a mutual Georgetown friend’s wedding in Tampa, Florida. Pictured are

SARAH, CHRIS PITINO, and KELLY MENICE (previously Sullivan). (TOP

RIGHT)

In December, JOSE ORTIZ JR. was appointed to lead the economic and workforce development committee to assist Eric Adams in his transition to New York City mayor.

JOANNA OSTREM and BETH PIERSON recently reunited with their families in New York

City. (RIGHT)

2000

MAISY SAMUELSON and her wife, Jen, welcomed their first child, Willa Dwyer Samuelson, on June 3, 2021, in San Francisco. On the same day in

Tel Aviv, NAOMI HAUSMAN SHOIHAT ‘00 and her husband, Boris, also welcomed their first child, Adam Shalev Shoihat. Maisy and Naomi were lab and doubles partners at Milton and have enjoyed supporting each other through pregnancy and parenthood including texting from delivery rooms across the world.

2002

AMELIA ALI sang the national anthem at Fenway Park in September. “Go Milton Class of 2002!”

CLAIRE CHENEY, owner of Curio Spice in Cambridge, Massachusetts, recently learned that Curio Spice made the 2021 Best Shops by Shopkeepers, a publication celebrating “unique, creative, and inspiring independent shops.”

In July, CAROLINE (CURTIS) HAYES ‘02, STEPHANIE (TURCHI) GREELEY ‘01, TERESA CURTIS ‘07, and VICTORIA BENDETSON ‘02 played low gross and net. Teresa and Stephanie were not far behind and both played well. (ABOVE)

2003

COREY BAKER left his San Francisco school librarian position at the end of the 2019–20 school year and spent the next year traveling to figure out where he wanted to live next. The process led him to the Columbus School for Girls in Columbus, Ohio, where he is the new director of library services. It is his first time living in the Midwest and his first time managing so many projects and staff at once. He is excited for the challenge.

FREDDY DEKNATEL and his wife, Emily McGoldrick, welcomed their baby daughter, Shea, on August 1, 2021.

CHRISTINA SARGENT gave birth to her second daughter, Luciana Monroe, on May 21, 2021. Luciana’s big sister Selena, 3, has been very affectionate and loves making “her baby” laugh. After temporarily relocating her family to Nashville for a job with the hospitality company Sonder, Christina has now transferred to a role in Chicago managing 250 apartments.

2004

JOANNA CHOW and husband

Bret Anderson of Brookline welcomed Byron “Hunter” Anderson, on September 14, 2021.

in the Wianno Member Guest in Osterville, MA. Caroline won longest member drive, and Caroline and Victoria teamed up to win MEGAN CAMPOS married Adam Cogbill in northern Vermont with several Milton classmates

2008 in attendance. From left to right are VICTORIA AIELLO, GAIL WATERHOUSE, EMILY RIDER-LONGMAID, the bride, DINEEN BOYLE (bridesmaid), ALYSSA BLAIZE, and KATIE ST. GEORGE (bridesmaid).

2008

In 2021, MADELEINE MURRAY started teaching painting and drawing at an independent art school in Vermont and resumed selling her paintings with great success. In her first in-person show since the pandemic began, she sold 13 original paintings (including Upstairs, pictured here) in 24 hours. To date, she has sold nearly 90 paintings. You can see and commission her artwork at mmurrayart.com.

2005

ELISE LOCKAMY-KASSIM and her husband, Ayodeji, Kassim welcomed their first daughter, Fiona, on October 30, 2021. Their family resides in Atlanta, Georgia. The family’s baby shower featured surprise appearances by Milton alumnae

GLADYS GIRABANTU and JARVON CARSON ‘06.

2007

ALEXANDRA ALVES and her husband, Steven, welcomed August Alexander Polanco in July

2021. (SEE P. 49)

FRANK SMITH recently wrapped filming on the first three episodes of OPEN TO IT, his LGBTQIA+ webseries written, produced by, and starring him. Frank was featured on Netflix’s Tidying Up with Marie Kondo in 2019 and will be back on your screens in 2022—this time alongside Laganja Estranja from RuPaul’s Drag Race. Follow him on Instagram using @ frank.arthur.smith for Frank and #opentoit for the show.

2008

After a tumultuous year transforming Mei Mei Restaurant into a packaged dumpling company and founding Project Restore Us to support food access for working families and immigrants, IRENE LI is switching gears. She recently started a fellowship in the inaugural class of the Visible Hands venture capital accelerator and is working on a tech solution to support restaurant owners and workers as they rebuild the industry. She also joined the board at The Food Project and the steering committee at RAISE, the employer-centric arm of One Fair Wage.

2010

MICHAEL BORYS and RUTH WELD were married on September 18, 2021, in Chocorua, New Hampshire. In attendance were Ruth’s

father STEPHEN WELD ‘65, godfather NED ROGERSON ‘65, and many beloved Milton al-