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L.A. home, invited Nora Tracy
Phillips to come to the Cape to
spend a spectacular July day
with them.
Katie Thayer McCammond
announces: “Just booked my
new show, ‘Wild Card,’ in the Big
Apple at theMetropolitan Room
on January 26, 2013. Working
with the incredibly talented Rick
Jensen and Lina Koutrakos. My
NYC debut!”
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A. Biddle Duke
biddleduke@aol.com
Sam Reid was elected last
spring as president of the SPS
Alumni Association and SPS
Board of Trustee member, the
top vote-getter in a field of five
excellent candidates.
Jamie Purviance reports:
“This year I released my tenth
cookbook, which is as surpris-
ing to me as anyone. What’s
more, that book, ‘Weber’s
Smoke,’ was a New York Times
bestseller earlier this summer.
If any formmates are passing
through northern California,
please stop by and have a taste
of what will be in book No. 11.”
Ben Bidlack reports on his
whereabouts: “Greetings from
Singapore! I decided to accept
an unexpected job opportunity
here for FutureBrand, continu-
ing my career in brand strategy
(and, apparently, my life as a
bachelor!). My role is chief
strategy officer for Southeast
Asia, leading the corporate
brand strategy work and teams
for the region. That involves the
three areas of brand insight in
developing a great brand: the
company itself, their customers,
and the competitor landscape,
which is fierce, growing, and full
of would-be copycats! I arrived
two weeks ago and am still
adjusting – it’s hot and humid
here at the equator. Have al-
ready been to the Philippines
and Malaysia for clients, and
planning personal travel around
the region. Roof ball in Kuala
Lumpur, anyone? Disc golf in
Thailand? Visitors welcome!”
News from Marian and Ar-
thur Imperatore : “Arthur III
just started as a freshman at
Princeton, and our second boy,
Justin, just started as a sopho-
more at Avon Old Farms. Two
down, two to go.”
This, from Geordie Wilson:
“Pilar and I just moved into our
new home in downtown Fred-
erick, Md., a solar/geothermal
house that is supposedly ‘net
zero’ in that it should produce
as much energy as it consumes
over the course of a year. We’ll
see – we do tend to run a lot of
lights and appliances. We’re
about an hour from D.C.; visi-
tors welcome.”
This from Brooke Southall:
“I now have an out-of-home
office after more than two years
of running my business from
the living room of my house-
boat. And Shadow, my Labrador,
is written into the lease and
enjoys office life. The business
is an online publication, RIABiz
.com, for financial advisors.”
Biddle Duke writes: “I have
found the answer. A good mar-
riage, good friends, time to be
creative in life and work, a good
dog, a good bike, andmany good
surfboards and a nearby coast
to use them.”
Sono Aibe has been with
Boston-based Pathfinder Inter-
national for three years as se-
nior advisor for strategic intia-
tives, working out of the San
Francisco Bay Area as their
West Coast rep. Recently she
has been working on interesting
projects that combine repro-
ductive healthcare and fresh-
water conservation around
Lake Victoria and Lake Tangan-
yika, as well as a project in
China addressing young mi-
grant factory workers’ health
and wellness.
Peter Paine’s tidbits: “Our
daughter, Annelies, will be join-
ing Arthur and Marian’s son at
Princeton next fall, where she
will be pulling on an oar among
many other collegiate activities.
Our son, Peter, finished his
Third Form year at SPS. We
think he had a good year, but it
is hard to tell from the studied
silence that greets all parental
efforts to communicate. I have
taken over the U.S. leadership
of a-connect, a ‘new model’
consulting firm headquartered
in Switzerland. Having grown
up in Manhattan, I now find
myself working there for the
first time in my life. Our offices
are Midtown, so I hope to see
more of our NYC formmates. At
home, we have only Isabel, now
a fifth grader, who will keep Els
and me busy in our dotage. I am
not yet ready for an empty nest,
but it seems to be emptying in
a hurry. If any formmates are
passing through Princeton,
please look us up.”
Erika Christakis writes: “I’m
doing a little educational con-
sulting and recently started a
weekly column at TIME.com,
alternating between the latest
alarming public health news
(teen pregnancy, college binge
drinking, school shootings, take
your pick) and kooky pop cul-
ture stories about the Twilight
movies andmy increasing disil-
lusionment with Johnny Depp!
When I’m not writing and wor-
rying about the state of Ameri-
can K-12 schools, I’mwrangling
college students as ‘co-master,’
with my husband, of one of
Harvard’s 12 residential houses.
It’s bizarre to be an authority
figure at one’s alma mater, but
I enjoy it very much. Our
19-year-old, Sebastian, godson
of Elliott Sparkman Walker
and Nick McConnell, just fin-
ished his freshman year at
Harvard and is headed to China
for the summer. Our middle son,
Lysander, is starting his senior
year in the fall, and our young-
est, Lena, is entering high
school. Very grateful for my life
– middle age is better than
advertised, mostly.”
Marybeth Hart Janerich
writes: “Still married to the same
wonderfulman, Dwight Janerich,
and we’ll celebrate 16 years to-
gether this October. Returned to
the University of Utah in Febru-
ary 2011 as the research staff
specialist in the Office of the
Associate V.P. for Research In-
tegrity. I work from home 20
hours/week, which gives me
time to volunteer at the com-
munity garden, work in my own
garden, play with the dogs,
travel, etc. We spent my 49th
b-day cycling and wine-tasting
in Sonoma. I drove fromUtah to
New England this summer to
pick up a new family member,
Pooka, the 18-month-old niece
of my 7-year-old black English
Labrador, Drew. Now we’re a
family of four, and the pooches
Kyle and Blake, sons of Fiona
Sanders ’83.
Nora Tracy Phillips ’78, Els
Collins ’78, and her husband,
Jimmie Greene, met up in the
Cape in July.