As she was

packing up

her dorm room in

June 2001, Amy

Anderson’s idea for

a senior project was

literally handed

down to her when

she received a

mysterious package

from dorm senior

Francesca Stokes

‘01. Inside the

package was an old

clock with a message

and a list of names

on the back. Rumor

had it that the clock

had been stolen in the mid to late 1960’s as a senior prank from

Misener Hall, at the former school site at Nagaminedai. Starting

with Kathy Culpepper in 1968, the clock had been continuously

passed down from senior to to-be senior in the girl’s dormitory.

Amy, who lived in the dorm from ninth to eleventh grade,

was forced to break the 32-year chain of passing the dorm clock

from graduating senior to to-be senior. During the summer before

her senior year, her parents moved to Kobe and there was no

longer a need for her to reside in dorm. Unfortunately, due to the

declining size of the dormitory, there was no senior girl living in

the dorm who could serve as caretaker of the clock. She decided

that it was her duty to contact the previous holders of the clock in

order to decide what should happen to the clock next. According

to Amy, “it was this as well as personal desire to find out more

about this mysterious clock” that inspired her idea for a senior

project.

Her project goal was to research the history of the clock and

try to locate and get in touch with some of the previous

caretakers of the clock. Of the 33 dorm students who were listed

on the back of the clock, Amy successfully found contact

information for 26 people.

Amy wrote to them explaining the situation: “At the end of

the last school year, I was handed a package that contained a

clock and a note. The note provides a brief history of the clock,

and the names of many former caretakers. The clock, as you

know, has been handed down among senior girl dormitory

residents since the late 1960’s. Currently, there are no senior

girls in the dorm, and the chain has been broken. Although there

may be a senior dormitory resident next year, the population of

the dormitory continues to fall. As a result, for my senior project,

I have decided to do further research on the clock and the girl’s

who have “owned” it for the past 35 years.”

She asked everyone about life in the dorm, their lives today,

for information about the clock and most importantly, what did

they think should happen to the clock. In total, Amy heard back

from nine people. The majority of them were in favor of

returning the clock to the school. Amy did so during her senior

project presentation on May 27.

In the message on the back of the clock, Maurine Rickard

‘71 wrote, “I hope that someday I will see this clock again and

see who has owned it at what time in history.” Thanks to Amy

Anderson’s senior project, this wish has now come true for the 33

caretakers of the dorm clock.

(The following information is fromcorrespondence for Amy Anderson’ssenior project and from the alumnidatabase at Canadian Academy. If any ofthis information is incorrect, please sendus an update.)

Kathy Culpepper Harvey ’68, the

original owner of the clock, is an

artist living in Georgia with her

husband and six children.

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Julia Winn Pollock ’70 is ateacher of Japanese, English as aSecond Language and languagearts in Virginia.“We had water fights and I havefond memories of ramen, drinkingcoffee late studying for exams andwriting term papers in French allnight!”

Maurine Rickard Weaver ’71lives in Colorado.

Celia Oyler ’74 is a professor ofeducation at Columbia Universityin New York City. She is classrepresentative for her class.“What an amazing “blast from thepast” your e-mail brings. I livedin the dorm from September 1970to June 1974. We had a big ofuroon the first floor and Sunday,Tuesday, and Thursday were thegirls’ nights. A couple of nights Isnuck in during study hall andsoaked the whole time withcandles and books…great fun! Wehad a dorm council and were atight group – lots of wonderfulsupport for each other as weexplored sex, drugs, rock & roll,feminism, and anti-war politics.”She also writes that they werereally into Japanese culture and“went to temple sales to findbeautiful folk art, visited potteryvillages and attended Noh, Butohand Kabuki.”

Louise Rickard ’75 lives inVermont.

Kathy Sperry ’76 lives in Japan.

Pauline Baldwin Kamitsuna ’76lives in Hiroshima, Japan and isclass representative for her class.

Kristina Rasmussen Hidaka ’77lives in Japan.

Jane Ellis Tucker ’78 lives inNew York.

Debbie Bergh ’81 lives in SanFrancisco and is a marketingconsultant specializing in Japan-US related issues. She is classrepresentative for her class.“The dorm was very chaotic, andwas a fun place to be. I was 12years old, that is 7th grade, when Ifirst went, and I had a ball for thenext six years. Generally I enjoyedthe big family atmosphere, with allof us living away from home, andback then some of us didn’t gohome except for the majorholidays. There was a lot ofmischief, which was always a lotof fun, and it was just great to beable to spend all the time withyour friends. Towards the end ofthe school year, all the dormieswould sneak out one night to goup to the dam, back where thecampus was in Rokko.”

Chika Kotani Keough ’82teaches at NishimachiInternational School in Tokyo.

Yuko Kamimura ’83 is missing.If you know where she is, pleaselet CA know.

Amy Ellis ’84 lives inWashington.

Nami Hirayanagi ’85 is missing.If you know where she is, pleaselet CA know.

Michiko Shindo Katoh ’86 livesin Japan.

Rina Nakamura ’88 is missing. Ifyou know where she is, please letCA know.

Debbie Sanders Krause ’89 is aComputational Linguist workingin Speech Recognition SoftwareDevelopment in Massachusetts.

“I have many fond memories ofCA dorm life. There was a largepercentage of boarding students atthe time and dorm life was thecenter of school life. We practicedour cheers sliding into the splits inthe 3rd floors long, slippery halls.We had jello food fights in theshower area so that our misdeedscould be easily washed away.Planning, organizing, andattempting to sneak into the boysdorm was another illegal activity,I don’t recommend…but it wasdaring, exciting and the pleasurewas surely the detailed plans wemade and rarely executed.” Sheexplains about how the clock wasused for the purpose of sneakingout: “You could not leave before 2A.M. and had to be back before 4A.M. according to the clock. 007images of dark clothing andsurreptitious adventure were whatwe envisioned.”

Sherry Tenorio ’91, the 20th

owner of the clock, graduatedfrom Valparasio University Schoolof Law.“I am in Hawaii right nowstudying for the Hawaii bar exam.I will be clerking for the U.S.District Court of the NorthernMariana Islands starting inAugust.”

Claudia Tenorio Adriano ’93recently got married and lives inCalifornia.

Zania Fleming ’94 possibly liveson the Northern Mariana Island ofTinian. If you know where she is,please let CA know.

Asumi Ishibashi ’95 works forGoldman Sachs in New York.“It was something special to me. Iremember there was an old letterattached to the clock. Is is stillthere?

Emma Ko ’96 is missing. If youknow where she is, please let CAknow.

Hye Sook Yang ’97 studied atSophia University.

Jane Kaon Ko ’98 is missing. Ifyou know where she is, please letCA know.

Chiami Ishibashi ’99 is a studentat Sophia University.

Valerie Cheng ’00 is studyingcomputer science and psychologyat Brandeis University.

Fran Stokes ’01 is a student atMarymount College in California.

Amy Anderson’02 is a student atthe University of Michigan.

Special thanks to Amy Andersonfor sharing her materials for thisarticle.

Jane Reagan Greenberg ’72 is aclinical psychologist inPhiladelphia.

(Continued from page 1) “The best thing about the dormwas the constant companionship.As an adult, a mother and aclinical psychologist, I think thatthe worst thing is missing out onthe years with a family. I told mykids, who went away on summerprograms from ages 10 on for twoweeks to all summer, that the dormwas like being at summer campwith all your friends. And, I toldthem they could not go away toboarding school. My oldest is incollege, which I did allow!”

Faith Maxey Axton ’73 lives inJapan.“I can’t believe that it (the chain)has continued all these years.”

Alice Stubbs Wisler ’79 is afreelance writer, mother, andschool board volunteer living inDurham, North Carolina. Formore information, see her note inthe Alumni Mailbox.

Tricia Palacios ’90 lives inSaipan.

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The Review is published by theDevelopment and Alumni RelationsOffice for alumni, parents, students,faculty and friends of CanadianAcademy. Please send letters or newsitems to the Development andAlumni Relations Office. If you havemoved, or are planning on moving,please let us know your new address.

Dr. David Ottavianno Headmaster

Dr. Charles KiteAssistant Headmaster

Kelsey ClevelandDirector of Development

& Alumni Relations

Eric HabeggerHigh School Principal

Rick BowdenMiddle School Principal

Robert WengerElementary School Principal

CANADIAN ACADEMY4-1 Koyo-cho Naka

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JapanPhone: 81-78-857-0100Fax: 81-78-857-0100

E-mail: alumni@mail.canacad.ac.jpWeb site: http://www.canacad.ac.jp

Class of 2002 .................. 3

2001-2002 Highlights ..... 4

Code breaking ................ 6

Tami Mizushima ............. 7

Class of 1977 reunion ..... 8

Class of 1982 reunion ..... 8

Class of 1972 reunion ..... 9

Upcoming reunions ........ 9

Regional reunions ........... 10

In Memoriam .................. 11

Alumni visits .................. 11

Alumni mailbox .............. 12

F ifty-two seniors finished their careers at Canadian Academy during the 79 th Commencement

Exercises on Sunday, June 2. Commencement celebrates the diversity of the school as

graduates are encouraged to wear outfits representing their native country. Minal

Chotirmal, who joined CA in 1989 and will study at Babson College, gave the invocation. After

the welcome from Headmaster David Ottaviano, Anupam Kumar, who will study at Virginia

Tech, gave a senior address entitled, “Taking a treasure, leaving a legacy.” Senior members of the

choir performed “Passages.” Aarti Jhaveri , who will attend Syracuse University, gave an

additional senior address titled “Remembering to remember, forgetting to forget.” Student Body

President, Nicholas Miyake, presented the class gift of a fountain for the atrium with the hope that

everyone will remember the class of 2002 when they pass the fountain. In the commencement

address, “A little bit of Rokko Island,” faculty member and senior class advisor Steve Powers

spoke about how student kindness is rewarded at Canadian Academy and his hope that the

graduating seniors would remember this kindness and take it with them into the world. During the

presentation of awards, Nichalas Miyake, who will attend Stanford University, was announced as

the 2002 Valedictorian and Kasia Iwakoshi, who joined CA in 1988 and will attend Tufts

University, was announced as the 2002 Salutatorian. Eric Habegger, High School Principal,

presented the graduates before the headmaster and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Ben

Shaman, awarded the diplomas. Nicholas Wohrle, who will attend the University of Notre Dame,

gave the closing benediction. Two seniors shared a special Canadian Academy connection with

their parents: Yuma Kanai joined her father Edward Kanai ’74, as a graduate while Grete

Salomonsen Hynnekleiv ’71, who attended the school, watched her daughter Kari Hynnekleiv

graduate. Arpana Bothra will serve as class representative for the class of 2002. Canadian

Academy wishes the graduates the best of luck and welcomes them as the newest members of the

Canadian Academy Alumni Association.

Augustana (2)Babson CollegeBellevue Community CollegeBond UniversityBoston UniversityBucknell UniversityCalifornia State University LongBeachCity University LondonCollege of WoosterCornell UniversityHaverford CollegeJohnson & Wales

Lehigh University (2)Lewis & Clark CollegeMichigan State University (2)Multimedia University, MalaysiaNew York UniversityNortheastern UniversityOhio State UniversityParsons School of Design, ParisPepperdine UniversityPurdue University (3)Royal Academy of Music, LondonSanta Monica CollegeStanford University

Syracuse UniversityTemple UniversityTufts University (3)UCLAUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversity of Illinois inChampaign-UrbanaUniversity of MichiganUniversity of Notre DameUniversity Southern California (2)Virginia Tech

(from left to right): Front row – Sridani Poernomo, Jaime Chao, Yuka Rabb, Annaluisa Franco*, Jueru Doi, Lisa Kohara*,Akika Shibata*, Jeanna Nichols, Jun Stinson, Kota Noma, Yasushi Matsushita, Jibran Kassamali Second row – KeiThompson, Aarti Jhaveri, Minal Chotirmall, Manuv Gupta, Arpana Bothra, Kayo Osaka , Kasia Iwakoshi , AmyAnderson, Sebastian Groth*, Mio Kobayashi, Kosuke Shima, Alexandre Soudakevitch Third row – Ayako Shinkawa,Nicholas Miyake, Blake Wilson, Jung Kim, Yuma Kanai , Hannah Dimery*, Kari Hynnekleiv*, Akhil Dharwadkar,Shou-Yi Chang, Yuko Narita, Hanako Takahashi, Nataree Laorphanphon, Hsui-Mei Chin, Mia TerashimaBack row – Masayoshi Nagaya, Kyung-Hoon Kim, Tommy Lin, Joe Yenik, Emily Klinger, Nicholas Wohrle, Sahil Doshi ,Anupam Kumar, Indergopal Singh Thakral, Ken Andersen, Aneesh Varma*, Alejandro Villegas (Not pictured: RowenaMoore*, Suyog Potnis) [Awarded Diploma of Distinction International Baccalaureate Diploma*]

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Although Sports Day is a Japanesenational holiday, CA celebrated SportsDay in its own unique way with anemphasis on fun, teamwork and coopera-tion. Students participated in the all-schoolfun relays, Elementary School relays,Middle and High school track meet, and afun run. The day is a great opportunity forstudents from Elementary, Middle andHigh School to interact with each other.

Over 1,000 participants came out and ran orwalked in a tremendous show of communityspirit to raise money for cancer research at“The Terry Fox Run” last fall. The run raised arecord ¥3,410,000 for cancer research whichwas rewarded to three doctors involved incancer research in the Kansai area.

The PTA Food and Fun Fair in April was ajoyous celebration of the school’sdiversity with a parade of nations, foodbooths featuring cuisine from around theworld, and various cultural performances.Our school community includes peoplefrom over 30 different nations. The threelargest nationality groups at the school arestudents from the United States, Japan,and India.

The school’s Latin motto “scientia clavissuccessus,” which means knowledge is the keyto successful service, is still alive and well atCA today. Middle school students sponsorimpoverished students in Thailand; fourthgraders raised ¥90,000 at a choir concert tosend to families of victims of September 11and Afghan refugees; library fines are sent toan orphanage in the Philippines, CA has achapter of Habitat for Humanity and isplanning a house building trip to Thailand,members of the Kansai International SchoolService (KISS) repair wheelchairs to be sent toareas in need and collect spare change forUNICEF, and 38 fifth and sixth graders joined48 Japanese children for the UNICEF ParkProject with the aim of building a children’spark designed by children.

Roger Moore, ambassador to UNICEF andactor famous for his role as James Bond,visited on the last day of school while intown for the World Cup. He spoke tostudent leaders, accepted donations fromstudents for UNICEF, and discussed hiscareer with High School film students.

Award-winning author Jack Gantos entertainedand informed students school-wide with hischaracteristic sense of humor and stories atbreak-neck pace. Whitney Stewart, author ofseveral biographies and novels for youngreaders, spoke to students about biographies.

This year, we had to adjust to devastatingworld events. The terrorism and intruderworry required the school to modify ourbuildings and procedures to provide a saferenvironment. The recession in Japan andAmerica reduced our expected enrollment.As a result of lower enrollment, we had toadjust our programs and services to operatewithin a reduced income.

Nancy Kassebaum Baker, former U.S.Senator from Kansas and wife of UnitedStates Ambassador to Japan Howard H.Baker, Jr., participated in an assembly forMiddle and High School students and ameeting with US History and ModelUnited Nations students.

The first ever Spring Fling Dance andSilent Auction, organized by the Office ofDevelopment and Alumni Relations,raised ¥1,000,000 for the CanadianAcademy Scholarship Fund. This willenable two or three students to receive ascholarship to attend CA. The fundprovides financial aid to qualifiedstudents who otherwise would not be ableto attend CA.

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A new team approach in the MiddleSchool, where each grade became a team,was implemented by the new MiddleSchool principal, Rick Bowden. Studentsexplored topics not taught within theregular school curriculum during thecurriculum days in February. The 3–daytrips in September to Awaji Island andGreen Echo have become a favorite eventfor Middle School students as new studentsto CA are quickly introduced to newcompanions and old friendships arerenewed. Sixth graders went on a ski tripto Yamagata in January.

The Elementary School, under theleadership of Principal Judy Lynn, has hadmany milestones including: a completecurriculum component at each grade levelunder the guidance of conceptual leaders;a fine arts program presented at each gradelevel; implementation of Student LedConferences; and an expanded after schoolclub program.

The High School, under the leadership ofPrincipal Eric Habegger, prepares studentsfor entrance into top colleges anduniversities around the world with a strongacademic program that includes theInternational Baccalaureate diploma orAdvanced Placement classes and diverseextra curricular offerings. For informationabout the class of 2002, please see thearticle on page three.

The CA Falcons won first place in Boys’Volleyball and Boys’ Soccer in the end ofseason Asia Pacific Activities Conference(APAC) championships even though CA is oneof the smallest schools in the conference. TheBoys’ Baseball team also won the season-ending China Cup Tournament.

The Wizard of Oz, which featured over 80students in the cast, crew and pit, was a hugesuccess in April with sold out performances.

CA hosted the first ever Asia Pacific ActivitiesConference Theatre Festival in February. Finearts students also attended the APAC ChoirFestival in Beijing and the APAC OrchestraFestival in Seoul.

For the first time, seven Canadian Academymusicians participated in international honorband and choir in the Hague. In order to payfor their trip, they sponsored a musicalshowcase on Valentine’s Day appropriatelynamed “Romantic Interlude,” that featured awide variety of musical talent – 28 acts in all.The Canadian Academy music groups also hadmany community performances including thejazz band performing at the Kobe Opening ofthe World Cup soccer tournament before amatch between Russia and Tunisia.

Through the extensive work of the facultyand Educational Policy Committee, theschool successfully completed a self-studyinvolving every department and commu-nity of the school. This yearlong processevolves strategic goals and action plansfor the school for the next six years. Aspart of the process, 43 teachers, principals,and administrators participated in aplanning retreat last August. The self-study precedes a visit by the WesternAssociation of Schools and Colleges(WASC) visiting team of educators fromother schools in November 2002.

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A fter receiving the Winter/Spring issue of the AlumniReview, Sherwood Moran ‘35

wrote, “I suppose it is inevitable that Ifound no references further back than1958. I was in the class of 1935 forwhich I was graduation valedictorian,editor of the Saga, and businessmanager of the Red & Grey.

Probably there aren’t many84-year old alums left. ButI hope the enclosedmaterial regarding this onemay be of interest!” Mr.

Moran’s letter included an article hewrote about his four years spent as acode breaker during World War II thatwe thought would be of interest to theCanadian Academy community.

Sherwood R. Moran, the son ofCongregational Church missionaries,was born in 1917 in Tokyo. Aftergraduating from Canadian Academy in1935 and Oberlin College in 1939, heserved four years in World War II as aUS Navy lieutenant, using hisknowledge of Japanese language tohelp break and translate the Japanesenaval coded messages for the US NavalIntelligence Department. His groupreceived the Presidential Unit Citationfor their work.

When war with Japan was declaredin 1941, 24-year old Sherwood Moraninquired about military opportunitiesfor someone with spoken Japaneseability. He was offered a commission asEnsign, USNR, upon successfullycompletion of a Japanese Languagecourse at the Navy Language TrainingSchool at the University of California atBerkeley. A fellow Canadian Academygraduate, Otis Cary ’36, was also inthe course. After completing thetraining in December 1942, Mr. Moranwas given orders to report for activeduty to the office of Captain WilliamGoggins, chief of the IntelligenceCenter in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii inFebruary 1943.

Sherwood Moran describesreporting for active duty:“Moran,” [Captail Goggins] said verysternly, “the first thing I must tell you isthat if you say anything to anyoneabout what you will be doing here inthis office, you will be court-martialedand shot!” He went on very seriously,

“Our work is the most vital secret of thewar in the Pacific, and I warn you noteven to hint to other Naval Intelligenceofficers whom you live with, what goes onin this office.”

Moran remembers thinking,“what wasI – only six weeks an ensign, two weeksaway from my wife and baby, and with noNavy officer training – what was I doingin this scary position?”

After expressing that warning, CaptainGoggins informed the group that they

“would be part of the mostsecret work in the entire wareffort – the breaking andreading of Japanese Navalcode messages.”They all had to sign a document that theywould never discuss this with others, evenwith fellow officers, if they were not in acode-breaking session. Sherwood Morandid not feel released from this promiseuntil well after the war was over andbooks about breaking the Japanese codeswere published in the 1980’s.

Mr. Moran was involved in the tediouswork of recording, unscrambling,translating, and making military sense ofJapanese wireless messages. He describeshis work:“Our daily work consisted of looking oversheets of paper with Arabic numbergroups printed in a vertical column on theleft side. The column on the right sidecontained many Japanese words or letters,which had been previously recovered. Our

job was to figure out what word orletter went into each blank space, andthen to translate the entire message, ifpossible. These sheets were printed byIBM machines from punch cards,located in the so-called “machineroom” in back of us, into which noneof us newcomers were permitted to go.

These sheets represented radiomessages to or from Japanese ships,warplanes, or shore stations all overthe Pacific. Our people had alistening station on the hills abovePearl Harbor, and they copied downthe lists of 5-digit numbers thatconstituted a message. Since thenumbers themselves were sent out inInternational Morse Code, that part ofthe process was difficult. Thesemessages, each made up of a series ofthese 5-digit numbers, were thenbrought down by messenger to ourcode-breaking unit machine room,where they were key-punched ontoIBM cards – message by message –and then printed. It was from theseprintouts that we translators worked.Each printout, by the way, bore inlarge capital letters across the top thelabel “ULTRA.” Not “secret” or“restricted,” just “ULTRA.”

Mr. Moran’s role changed after thewar, when he was sent to Occupied

Japan:

My work was completelychanged – no more codesand ciphers!Instead I served as the languageofficer with one of the several surveygroups that went to various cities andfactory bomb targets to observe theeffectiveness of our bombingtechniques. It was interesting work,and for me, an eye-opener on how thecommon Japanese people werereacting to the surrender. The reactionwas almost totally positive andfriendly.

After the war, Mr. Moran led avaried career in publishing,photoengraving, as an administrativeofficer for a mental health program,and as an SEC-registered investmentadvisor. He and his wife, Frances, metat Oberlin and were married in 1940.They live at the Oakwood RetirementHome in Madison, Wisconsin.

Sherwood Moran ‘35 during his days as acodebreaker of Japanese codes in Pearl Harborduring World War II. He kindly shared his rolein history with us.

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A fter twenty-one years atCanadian Academy, TamiMizushima retired as Assistant to

the Headmaster. She spent her first threeyears at CA as a library aide and as theinterpreter for the Headmaster before shebegan working in the Headmaster’sOffice. She worked with Dr. Stuart Youngfor 14 years and with Dr. David Ottavianofor four years. In her work in theheadmaster’s office, she helped managethe school, bridge different cultures, andhelped many members of the CAcommunity. All of us at CA now feel thegreat void that is left in her absence as hertitle doesn’t begin to describe her role atCA and the way she influenced ourcommunity.

In addition to her work in theheadmaster’s office, Tami Mizushimahelped introduce the Japanese culture tofaculty and students as the coordinator,and later teacher, of tea ceremony classesat CA. In her retirement, she will havemore time to focus on tea ceremony as sheis now in charge of promoting teaceremony among international schoolsand will accompany the Grand Tea Masterof the Urasenke Foundation in Kyoto totea ceremonies and lectures overseasseveral times a year. Although she hasretired from the Headmaster’s Office, atthe request of both the UrasenkeFoundation and CA, she will continue toserve as tea ceremony coordinator andteach high school students tea ceremony.

The best way to understand TamiMizushima’s influence on CA is to hear itin the words of those she worked with andher tea ceremony students:

Dr. David Ottaviano, headmaster from1998 – presentI have found you to be a person who isgifted in understanding the nuances ofcultural differences, which make eachperson unique. You have been the perfectperson to have as the chief culturalliaison/consultant for the school.

While I have only been at CA for fourshort years, I realize your service hasalways been in the best interest of thestudents. I recall the day that there weretears in your eyes while helping with aproblem student and parent. I also recallthe day you helped me be so firm with apublic fire official in order to insure theintegrity of the school. You have had thewisdom and the comportment to exerciseyour role as Assistant to the Headmasterin a superb fashion.

As my Chado-sensei, I have learned agreat deal about myself, and otherstudents. It has been a very interestingand worthwhile experience to learn fromyou about Japanese customs, the art andhistory of Chado.

Dr. Stuart Young, headmaster from1983–1998:Tami, you are one of the world’s beautifulpeople. Not only have you worked at andgiven much to CA for years, but you havewelcomed, aided, listened to, facilitated,supported, laughed or cried with,reassured, advocated for and rescued allof us over and over throughout the years.You will be remembered for the multitudeof little, difficult, big and generous waysyou assisted others during your ownevent-filled days. How many times did oneof us need advice or somethingtranslated? Need help with filling outforms or getting visas renewed or a copyof something? Need a sympathetic ear orshare a cup of tea?

We both have the fondest of memoriesof Japan and CA because of all we sharedduring our years in Kobe. We thank youfor being such an important part of that.You were not always visible at events andoccasions, but your touch and finessingwere critical to their smooth functioning.It will be difficult to imagine a CA withoutyou there in the background making surethings are correct and people arecomfortable, whether it is the firstcommunication from the school as anewly-hired teacher, settling details offield trips, welcoming school visitors, littlereassuring notes and comments, teachingtea ceremony or the myriad of things youdid because of who you are, not what thejob demanded. Every one of usappreciates, and the school will greatlymiss, your grace, expertise, confidentialityand loyalty.

We know that the time we experiencetogether is what we make and have madeof it…and our time together was verygood. We’re not likely to forget the movefrom The Hill to Rokko Island or themonths after the earthquake, drinkingsake during O Hanami or our last teaceremony with you, official occasionswhere you translated or scrambling to getsomething out on time, soothing “ruffledfeathers” and so much more. The hardwork, punctuated with laughter, changes,accomplishments and yes, even green teaon some mornings, are treasuredmemories of a significant part of our life.

Tom Hall, Middle and High SchoolPrincipal from 1987-1994:With Tami’s retirement, CA will be losingnot only a dedicated, loyal andconscientious Headmaster ’s secretary, butthe school will also be losing a longtimefriend, a counselor to faculty, a valuablecommunity liaison, a guardian of CA’s teaceremony class and a master backgammonplayer.

With her open door policy, and in spiteof her very busy schedule, Tami alwayshad time for others. Over the years shehas befriended many, many CA employees.Her advice and suggestions must havebeen most helpful as there was always alineup at her door. Any time I neededadvice as to how I should greet aJapanese dignitary or the proper gift togive for a special occasion or aboutimmigration regulations, I would alwaysturn to Tami for advice and direction.

I count Tami as one of my very bestfriends and I do hope her retirement willbring her as much happiness andcontentment as did her many years ofassociation with CA. Though I have beengone for many years, I do know that CAwill not be the same without Tami and thather absence will be noticed for years tocome.

Kaoru Yamaguchi ’98, former teaceremony studentShe made me feel so ‘at home’ when Ivisited CA during the holidays. She alwayshad this really big smile on her face andeven though she’s so busy (literally,running around all over school), shealways had time for a little chat in heroffice. She’s the kind of person who makesa new student in CA feel welcomed, andfor graduates like myself, she makes usfeel ‘at home’.

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The class of 1977 held its 25th year

reunion in Portland, Oregon, on July 26

and 27. The weekend began with a catered

picnic in a local park. It was great fun

watching people try to recognize their

classmates as they arrived! We stayed in the

park until closing time, talking and looking

at our senior pictures in the yearbook, which

provided for many laughs and comments

about the changes in people. We also wished

more of our classmates had been able to join

us.

On Saturday, most of the group headed

to the Columbia River Gorge to view

waterfalls for a few hours. In the evening,

we all gathered at a Japanese restaurant, in

class reunion tradition, to close out the

weekend. We were joined by classmate Jim

Moore, and Jim and Judy Fiske (CA

faculty). There was already talk of our 30th

reunion, believe it or not! Judy Calcote has

agreed to be the class representative.

Thank you Allen Brady for organizing

the reunion (and writing this article.)

Class members who attended (from left to right): Judy Joyce Calcote, Mariano Dy-Liacco,Dagfinn Hagen, Allen Brady (coordinator), Diane Hodge Wetzel, Noreen Akagi, andYukio Matsuura. Other CA graduates attending were: Jane Hodge Nichols ‘78, Bill Brady‘79, and Patricia Brady Bullman‘76.

The class of 1982 gathered in Honolulu, Hawaii

from July 26-28 for their 20th reunion. Nine

people from the class of 1982 were joined by CA

alumni from the class of 1979,1980, 1981, and

1983; spouses, children, and even parents. During

their time together, the events that included all

family members (kids and parents of alumni) were

the Friday night dinner at a Japanese restaurant, a

luau at Paradise Cove on Saturday, and snorkeling

(and picknicking) at Hanauma Bay on Sunday.

There were also additional dinner (and after-dinner)

gatherings for those that arrived prior to Friday and

stayed after Sunday. Margaret Yamamoto, who

was not able to attend the main reunion, came to

Hawaii for a few days with her husband and got to

see a few people on Thursday before leaving.

Thank you to class representative Johanna

Leonhardt Hirota for organizing the reunion.

Top: Reunion attendees of all ages at the luau.

Bottom: Members of the class of 1982 (from left toright):Back Row—Abi Sekimitsu, Janice WithrowMorrissey, Peter Kuhlman, Neena AroraFront Row—Maya Vaswani Grim, JohannaLeonhardt Hirota, Kumi Morozumi Fisher, EmiBurke Millard, Gigi Samuel

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S eventeen members of the class of 1972 gathered for their 30th reunion at the horse ranch of Al and Ann James (aka Loretta Limoli) in

Morgan Hill, California over the weekend of July 19-22, 2002. They had such a great time that they are not sure if they can wait five

years until the next reunion. Thank you to class representatives Joan Griswold and Ann Parsons Scheleen for organizing the reunion. Joan

Griswold describes the reunion:“We had noble plans, but ended up spending most of our time seated around one table or another

summoning up the old days. I think we all liked the shady table near the pool the best. On Saturday we did get up from the table long enough

to drive over to the Pacific Ocean and stick our toes in the water. My how Ann fed us. Feasts would miraculously appear on a buffet. When

and how she prepared the delicious food still remains a mystery. Saturday evening she presented us with a panoply of Japanese sweet bean

treats. As per custom, we sang the school song as the group photo was taken. Those of you who have not made it to a reunion yet had best

study the lyrics. For those of us that remained on Sunday, Ann, Al and their charming daughter Pamela, astride one of their horses, led us on

a hike up into the hills behind the James’ property. It provided great views of the horse farms, wine country, and fruit farms. And then some

more sitting, and some more eating, and more joking about the old days.”

“This reunion somehow seemed more special than previous ones. For one thing we all got along so well. Wetalked not only about our days in Japan, but about our times now. And we still found much in common. Anddespite our utter deficiency when compared to the class above us, we had some pretty good laughs.”

Front row (L-R): Mike Elder, Bruce Vinson, Alex Carrick, Steve Bruggers, Day LancasterMiddle row: Frank Cary, Paul McWilliams, David Eddy, Barry Boutchard, Andy Katz (an adopted class member from the class of 1971), Akira GamblinBack row: Joan Griswold, Ann Parsons Scheleen, Lucile Rathbone Munson, Lily Ito, Bobbi Karibo Bennett, Charlie the racoon, Ann James

Class of 1972 30th reunion

We invite all visiting and local alumni, past and present faculty and staff,and Board of Trustee members to CA on Saturday, January 11 for theCanadian Academy Alumni Association New Year’s Party. Mark yourcalendars now for this fun occassion! More information will be postedon the web site. For further details, please contact Kelsey Cleveland inthe alumni relations office at alumni@mail.canacad.ac.jp.

Kent Naka '61, Bob Steffey '60 and James Mak '59 are organizing areunion for the classes of 1958-1963 for July 2003 in Hawaii. Moreinformation will be posted in the web site when it becomes available.For more information, please contact Kent (k.naka@worldnet.att.net),Bob (s0043@aol.com) or James (jmak@hawaii.edu).

Class representatives Sangita Biniwale Pradhan and Yuki SugimuraRobinson, with the help of Masami Gray and Jackie Dadlani, areplanning a 20th reunion for 2005. Sangita writes, “The four of us are nowtrying to compile as many e-mails addresses of our fellow classmates of1985 and work towards organizing a 20th year anniversary. We openedup a yahoo group which we want everyone to sign up for. All they haveto do is send in an e-mail to the following address:CA_KobeJapan_classof1985-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.” For moreinformation, please contact Sangita (three_gitas@yahoo.com) or Yuki(sugimura@esag.harvard.edu).

The class of 1993 10th reunion will take place June 27-29, 2003 in SanFrancisco. For more information, please contact class representativeNaomi Halewood (naomihalewood@yahoo.com) or Charles Hill(gu97@yahoo.com).

For the latest reunion information, go towww.canacad.ac.jp/canacad/hs/alumni/reunions.html

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In his role as alumni relations liaison of the CanadianAcademy Board of Trustees, Charles Zenko Ohmori ’70,took time during a business trip/ family vacation to the

United States and Canada to organize regional reunions inSeattle, Vancouver, Salt Lake City and San Francisco. In additionto being a CA graduate and member of the Board of Trustees,Charles’ three children attend the school. At the various reunions,alumni shared stories about their time as students, their life sincethey have left CA and talked about their experiences assimilatinginto the American culture. In fact, it was difficult to break up thelively conversations to talk briefly about CA and its AlumniAssociation, but it was on the agenda. Materials concerning CAwere passed around: PTA newsletter, Alumni Review newsletter,admissions packet, Alumni Association constitution, and theever-popular Red & Grey yearbook. Thank you to all the alumniwho took the time and effort to come meet old and new CAfriends.

Twenty-one alumni and family members gathered for Japanesefood at ShiroNoBo on July 5. Special thanks to Carol Brown ’61and Cathy Braun ‘70 for organizing this Seattle reunion.“Otsukaresama” to Charles Ohmori , who had been awake formore than 24 hours and flew from Punta Arenas on the southerntip of Chile, to Miami, to San Francisco to Seattle in a single dayfor this occasion. Another “otsukaresama” to Susan Brady ’70,who took the West Coast Shinkansen (aka AMTRAK) fromPortland to Seattle (a 3-hour ride) just for this reunion. Themajority of the alumni in attendance were from the classes of the70’s or 60’s. The conversation focused on stories of adventurewhile at CA and personal histories ever since their tearfuldeparture from Japan. Due to the layout of a long table with “horikotatsu,”a hole dug out under the table for our unbendable long“gaijin legs”, conversations were limited to the people close byas mobility was limited. Fellow alumni organizing reunions,please keep this in mind when you are choosing your location!Several people decided that a mini-reunion could not possiblyend without a tea party so Turid Groning ‘70, Frank Cary ‘72and his wife, Carol Brown, Cathy Braun, Susan BradyDorning, and Charles Ohmori enjoyed a “power tea meeting”until late in the evening. During the evening, Cathy Braunexpressed interest in becoming a city representative for Seattleand Susan Dorning graciously accepted to become cityrepresentative for Portland. Susan also expressed interest inbecoming regional representative for the entire Northwest(Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.)

Despite short notice, six alumni gathered together at Okada Sushion a rainy July 30 evening. Alumni in attendance represented theclasses of 1940, 1941 1942 1970, 1981 and 1989. For the nextreunion in Vancouver, we are going to hunt down alumni fromthe ’50s and ’60s to fill in the gap. The following alumniattended (from left to right): Narumi Tei Maniwa ’89, PaulBaldwin ’81, Art Le Patourel ’41, Louise Willis ’40, June LePatourel ’42, and Charles Ohmori. Charles Ohmori sharessome stories from the reunion: “It was amazing how our senioralumni still remembered Japanese even though they haven’t usedit in so long. I take it that their language exposure was anintegral part of their precious CA experiences. Somehow thetopic of dorm life came up. CA was already up on NagamineYama in the 30’s and dorm life was filled with excitement focusedon Study Hours and getting those extra credits to stay out longeron weekends – things don’t change. June Le Patourel, told usabout her experience escaping Japan in two days after she gotthe notice from the authorities prior to the war. She had only twosuitcases to pack all her memories of Japan... she missed Japanso much. But, she told us about her CA class ring which she stilltreasures, and everybody cheered up.” Although they are bothbusy being right in the middle of their careers, both PaulBaldwin and Narumi Maniwa Tei will help as Vancouver Cityco-Reps for the time being, until an alumni steps forward to takethis position.

Instead of choosing a Japanese restaurant, the common choice forCA reunions, they choose French. Fourteen alumni and familygathered in Salt Lake City for a French lunch at L’Avenue onAugust 10. The following alumni attended: Bob Steffey ’60,Akiko Swabb (Elementary School Counselor from 1988-1989),Micah Swabb ’95, Ken Ozaki ’71, Frank Steffey ’64 andCharles Ohmori . Ken and Kelly Ozaki generously paid for theentire group to eat lunch. Bob Steffey agreed to become classrepresentative for the class of 1960 and city representative forSalt Lake City.

Ron Sakaue ’70, Priscilla Jarmain Otani ’70 and CharlesOhmori gathered with their families on August 13 for a SanFrancisco/ class of 1970 reunion at Sanpo, a Japanese restaurant.They had fun remembering the good old times and told somestories which their spouses shouldn’t have heard. Ron Sakauevolunteered to become the city representative for San Francisco.

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Dorothy Swetnam Hare, whoheaded the piano department atCanadian Academy for four yearsfrom 1935-1938, passed away onJune 8, 2002 in Calgary, Canada atthe age of 91. During her time inKobe, she pursued graduatestudies with the famous LeonidKreutzer and appeared in recitalswith him in Tokyo and Kobe. Shereturned to Canada in 1941 andmarried Clayton Hare, a concertviolinist and former conductor ofthe Calgary Symphony Orchestra,in 1943. Hare’s long and distin-guished career saw her perform,teach, accompany, examine andadjucate throughout NorthAmerica and overseas. Hare’sinstruction inspired a legion ofteachers and performers. Accord-ing to her obituary that appearedin the Calgary Herald on June 12,in addition to being one ofCalgary’s most talented anddedicated musicians, Mrs. Hare“was also known for her energetic,eccentric spirit. Hare collectedanything with a leopard print,including slippers, bedspreads andsweaters. She even wore leopard-print tights to her husband’sfuneral last December.”

Mary Harrisson Hassell wrote totell us about the death of herhusband, A. Pierson Hassell Jr.’32, on October 27, 1999. Shewrites, “He was always devoted toCA, and in our almost 60 years ofmarriage I have heard manystories of life at the school. Hissister, Rosalie L. Hassell ‘29, diedin August of the past year aftercelebrating her 90th birthday twoweeks earlier.”

After 10 years of service to thestudents of Canadian Academy,head bus driver Mr. Kazuo Shopassed away on June 9, 2002.

Allyn Miller, father of ElizabethMiller ‘84 and longtime supporterof the international community inKobe, passed away on May 22 inBoston, MA. He first came toKobe over 30 years ago. Inaddition to his teaching at KobeUniversity, Allyn was extremelyactive in community service.Although he no longer hadchildren in the school, hecontinued to support CanadianAcademy. Dr. Miller spoke toCanadian Academy’s film classabout his work as a floral and setdesigner for great directors suchas Cecil B. DeMille and AlfredHitchcock.

Baylor University. She is currentlyback in Japan for two years as aBaptist missionary in Tokushima.During her visit, she had theopportunity to meet with Mrs.Becker, her former dorm parent.(bryna_kennedy@hotmail.com)

Richa Kumar ‘97 visited, andagreed to be class reprensentative,before moving to Boston to start aPh.D. at MIT’s Graduate Programin the History and Social Study ofScience and Technology. Shespent last year working in Indiaafter graduating from GeorgetownUniversity.(kumar_richa@yahoo.co.in)

Leo Matsuzaki ‘99 spoke to Ms.Opalenik’s Theory of Knowledgeclass about ethics and interna-tional relations in May. He isstudying international relations atGeorgetown University.(leomatsuzaki@hotmail.com)

Judy Liersch, who taught secondgrade at Canadian Academy from1959-1961, visited in April. Shehad not been back to Japan for 27years. She now lives in Santa Fe,New Mexico with her husbandAlan Jennings.

Eva Wallden ‘59, moved back toKobe from the Isle of Mann after40 years living in the U.K. Shecame in April to look at photos ofthe Millennium Reunion.(ewallden@kba.att.ne.jp)

If you are planning on visiting theschool, please contact theDevelopment and AlumniRelations Office.

Sung Min Lim ’00 (student at Pace University), Anil Mamtani ‘01 (student atColumbia University), Takayoshi Nakamura ‘01( student at Northeastern),Sarah Kashani ’98 (graduate student in East Asian Studies at Harvard), KaoruYamaguchi ’98 (studying psychology), and Keiko Nisugi ‘98 (dancer with theAalto Ballet Theater in Germany) visited on the first day of school.

Raymond Sisson ‘83, who attendedElementary School from 1971-1975, visited CA with his wifeHilary and 4-year old son, Clayton.He had not been back to Kobe sincehe left in 1975. During his visit, hereunited with his former Japaneseteacher, Ito-sensei, who recognizedhim by name. For the past fouryears, Raymond has lived inSingapore, where he works asSenior Vice President of Marketingfor the GE Capital AviationServices. (ray.sisson@gecas.com)

Ole Jossang ‘69 visited on May 8for the first time since he left aftereigth grade 37 years ago in 1965.Ole is a psychiatrist and a medicaldoctor in Stavanger, Norway. Heand his wife, Torunn HelenBjornevik, have a 27 year old son,Ton Andreas, and a 23 year olddaughter, Ingrid Helen, who is inmedical school. A highlight of hisvisit was looking at yearbooks forhis class picture and photos of thesoccer team, his sister Astrid ‘66and brother Aslak ‘67.(ole.jossang@c2i.net)

Naomi Muraoka ‘95 stopped byafter a meeting at P&G on RokkoIsland. (She could see the schoolfrom the windows during hermeeting.) She works as AssistantMedia Executive at StarcomWorldwide Japan in Tokyo.

Claudia Becker ‘95 was in townbefore heading off to Korea to seesome World Cup games. Shemoved to Seattle in August. If youare in the Seattle area, pleasewelcome her to the neighborhood.(msclaudiabecker@hotmail.com)

Fleur Brault ‘96. See the AlumniMailbox for her news.

Ken dos Remedios ’00 is atBoston University studyingcommunications and PR .(kenchany@bu.edu)

Bryna Kennedy ‘96 made herfirst visit since she left after theGreat Hanshin Earthquake in1995. After leaving CA, Brynagraduated from ASIJ in 1996 and

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again, if we can. I am not sure ifyou know whom to contact, orwhat help you could give. Mostrecently I heard from ArthurMenzies ’34. The organizer of thelast meeting was BillOuterbridge ‘40, and LanierOgburn ‘40 has taken a consistentinterest in things. The point of mywriting is just to assure you thatwe are out there. We haven’t agreat deal in common with thepost-war people — especially withthose of the last decade or two —and I’m sure they have noconception of our past, which isnow well over 65 years ago, ormore. But we are proud to be CAgrads. I was sorry to read of thedeath of Alan Johns. Hisnickname was ‘Fives’ because hewas (then, anyway), five-foot fiveinches tall. When he graduated, Ithink in 1939, I was asked to actas his chaperone to bring him backto Canada, where I installed him,in Montreal. A good man.”(david.woodsworth@mcgill.ca)

Robert W. Smith writes, “ Iappreciate the newsletters. Musthave graduated about 1929. Dr.W. Gordon Smith died. JamesMacDonald Smith lost interest inCanadian Academy and in mid-January Dr. W Clein stated that Ihad only a short time to live,whatever that means. I have to geta new driver’s license in Novem-ber when I am 93. My eyes arefine so I expect to be driving thenow 16 year-old Volvo. I still dothe gardening in spite of the deadbattery in my pacemaker. Cheerio,Bob Smith (Called the “HappyDragon”)

great influence on me, the effectsof which have lasted even untiltoday. During Mr. Johns first yearat CA, I was a sophomore. I didnot enjoy studying and felt it wasa waste of time. On hard subjects,such as biology, I would not studyat all because I knew I could notdo it. Naturally my grade on thefirst test was an F. I remember Mr.Johns sitting two of us down whohad failed the test and telling usthat in two or three days wewould be given another exam andhe would accept nothing lowerthan an A. (He never did say whatthe consequences would be if wedidn’t make an A. I am sure thatwas part of his strategy.) To thisday I can remember that the testwas on plants and all thenomenclature that went alongwith such vegetation. With thefear of the principal in my heart, Iliterally memorized everything Icould about the subject. (At thetime I had no idea that this washow most people get through acourse such as biology.) When theday of testing arrived, I took itwith great fear and trembling. Ican still feel the shock andamazement when Mr. Johnsannounced that both of us hadmade the required grade. What Ilearned on that day has stayedwith me and has helped methroughout the past 49 years. Ifound out that there is no subjecttoo hard and with the proper studyand diligence it can be mastered.Yes, some of us may have to worka little harder than others to meetthe goal, but so what, it’s meetingthe goal that is important. Thankyou Mr. Johns for teaching me alesson that has stayed with me allmy life. ”(Scott_Boyle@compuserve.com)

was traveling on stopped inHawaii. After getting his Ph.D. atPurdue, friends with Hawaii tiesconvinced him to come to Hawaii.In the article he explains how hebecame an expert on Hawaii’seconomy, “(I) got caught up in thisenvironment here. It sort of makesyour life personally a lot richer, tofeel like you’re part of thecommunity and to contribute to thecommunity.” He is currentlyworking on a book titled Tourismand the Economy and helpingorganize a CA reunion for theclasses of 1958-1963 in Hawaii inJuly 2003. (jmak@hawaii.edu)

March 1 to September 12, 2002

Charlie Olds writes, “Dear CA-ites, I am a graduate of the class of1930, when the school was at thefoot of Maya-San. “And here’s tothe school neath Mayasan.” I amnow 89 years of age. I graduatedfrom Oberlin College and secureda Master’s degree from the Schoolof Social Service Administrationof the University of Chicago. Ihave had a career as a socialworker, including being thedirector of two different adoptionagencies. During WWII, I studiedJapanese at Fort Snelling,Minnesota, and I still knowenough of the language to carry ona conversation. I am planning togo to Japan during the middle ofOctober of this year (2002) toattend the wedding of mygrandson in Okayama, the city Ilived in for ten years, commutingto CA. My grandson is teachingEnglish in Okayama and ismarrying a wonderful Japanesegirl. I plan to stop briefly at theschool on Rokko Island. Ifmembers of my class or othersrecognize my name, please writeto me. Charles B. Olds, 9601 NWLeahy Rd., Apt 212, Portland, OR97229.”(charlie@trillium-hollow.org)

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1935David Woodsworth writes, “Iwas interested to get yournewsletter Winter/Spring 2002. Igraduated in 1935, and am nodoubt now one of the oldest extantgrads. One thing that struck me inthe newsletter was that there wasno contact with the ‘pre-war’group. The last time we met, inOttawa in 2000, there were over70 of us, and we want to meet

Prewar

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Bernard Etzin’s daughter,Danielle Etzkin, is compilinginformation about her father’syouth in the hope of eventuallywriting a book about his experi-ences of wartime Japan. He wasborn in 1930 and attended CAfrom 1935-1936. She is lookingfor information about the schoolduring this period (teacher’snames, photos, school reports,names of classmates). Daniellewrites, “My father is still alive andI have spoken to him and told himthat I have made contact with hisold school via the internet. Hisresponse; “Amazing, absolutelyamazing.” However, he had a littledifficulty remembering the exactdates he attended the school, butbelieves it was just for one yearfrom 1935 to 1936.” If you haveany information, please contactDanielle at detzin@hotmail.com.

Robert Scott Boyle writes, “I wassorry to read the notice of thepassing of Principal Alan Johnsin the Winter/Spring 2002 issue ofThe Alumni Review. I was astudent at Canadian Academyduring the years 1952 and 1953and Mr. Johns was the principalduring the year 1953. I have toldthis story to many people, butregrettably was never able toconvey it Mr. Johns. He had a

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Dr. James Mak outside his officeat the University of Hawaii.(Courtesty Honolulu Star Bulletin)

Tove Monsen Brown writes, “Myhusband and I left Western Canadaon a 47 foot sailboat in October1999 and sailed off into thePacific. We are enjoying theexplorations of delightful atollsand coral reefs and the challengesof long distance passages. We arecurrently in New Zealand. I lookforward to hearing from you.”(svsiri@yahoo.com)

During a business trip to Japan,Kent Naka met with alumnidirector, Kelsey Cleveland, onAugust 30 to discuss plans for areunion for the classes of 1958-1963 that will take place inHonolulu, Hawaii in July 2003.During the meeting, he agreed toserve as class representative for hisclass. Kent is the President andCEO of Prout USA Inc., acompany that specializes inhelping Japanese companies obtainUS patents.(k.naka@worldnet.att.net)

An article on James Mak titled“Economist in Paradise” appearedin the Honolulu Star Bulletin onSeptember 1. James has been aneconomics professor at theUniversity of Hawaii since 1970and is the co-author of the book ofCurrent Issues in Hawaii’sEconomy. He is an expert ontourism economics, public financeand Japan’s economy. He is alsoan authority on waterbornecommerce in the United Statesduring the early 19th century.James first became interested inHawaii on his way to college inOhio in 1959 when the boat he

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Davis Hawkins writes, “After a30-year career in internationalbanking and consulting, I retiredMay 1, 2001 in Singapore andmoved to Hawaii after travelingthroughout Asia, Africa and theUnited States. During my career, Iwas able to live in Kobe (1974-1975) and Tokyo (1975-1977, late1980’s) and return to CA a numberof times. Since moving to Hawaii,I have completed two triathlonsand travel regularly to themainland. My wife, Gail, whom Imarried in 1971 while living inHawaii, and I attended a WestCoast CA reunion in the Bay Arealast year. Our 26-year old son,Brian, born in Tokyo, lives inBoston. I would love to hear frommore of my CA friends.”(davishawkins@hotmail.com)

Valerie Morrill Wilder assumedthe role of Boston Ballet Execu-tive Director in September 2002.Most recently, Ms. Wilder hasbeen Executive Director of TheNational Ballet of Canada since1996, and has a 28-year associa-tion with that company. She beganher dance career with TheNational Ballet in 1970, when shejoined the corps de ballet aftertraining at The National BalletSchool and the Royal BalletSchool in London. She retiredfrom the stage in 1978. With herhusband Geoffrey Perry, sheformed Perry and WilderIncorporated, managing thefinancial affairs of more than ahundred performing artists.

edly!) elected after that! As I getinformation from classmates I’llput together an email list and sendoccasional updates directly to youall unless you prefer not. NB thisisn’t only for people whograduated from CA in 1969, butfor anyone who was in that class.As I recall there were a few whoattended CA all 12 years or closeto it—Zaphar Moghbel?”(cunningham@rockford.com)

Deborah Yoshihara writes, “Afew years ago, I contacted JaneBachner King ‘69 and I stayed ather house in Austin, Texas for afew days. She lives there with herhusband and two children. Shehad an address for our fifth gradeteacher, Ms. Tetzlaff and Icorresponded with her also. Ms.Tetzlaff was in San Francisco atthat time. I’m working for theDepartment of Biostatistics andMedical Informatics at theUniversity of Wisconsin, Madisoncampus. I’m a database adminis-trator for the clinical trial workour department does. Myhusband, Tom, and I live withthree cats, no kids.”(yoshi@biostat.wisc.edu)

recently (who will be 77 thisyear), he proudly showed me Red& Grey yearbooks from his yearsat the Oji campus. It seems thatassociations with CA leave lastingimpressions. Of course, for all thereasons only those of us, whohave had the privilege to beassociated with the school, canonly truly understand. My wifeand I will be returning to live inJapan from June next year forthree years, regrettably in Tokyoand not Kobe! Nevertheless, thereare a number of class of ’71alumni in Tokyo, and friends toofrom the Class of ’72. We lookforward to spending many hoursreminiscing those years andrekindling the friendships forgedthirty and more years ago. Wealso hope to visit the Rokko Islandcampus at some point, and lookforward to that.”(philip.kentwell@dfat.gov.au)

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1967Leonard Kishimoto writes,“After many years of absencefrom Kobe, I was absolutelydelighted to find the CA site.Having left CA in 1964 in thesecond month of my sophomoreyear, I have not had the chance to

visit CA or indeed, the new CAfacility. Certainly brings backmany fond memories.... Mr.Koop’s class (63-64) was my firstintroduction to co-ed classes. Ithink back to some of myclassmates and wonder whereeveryone has gone and what theyare up to. I have spent the lasttwenty-five years living andworking in Los Angeles, Califor-nia. As I approach my “senioryears” I am reminded of theexperiences of my childhood andoccasionally long for the “goodole’ days”. I have had success incommunicating with one of myclassmates and hope to expand mycontact with others. With manythanks for the fond memories thatwere revived.”(lkishimoto@oslaw.com)

1969John Cunningham writes,“Greetings, class of 1969! I’veagreed to serve as our classrepresentative, and have beguncompiling information. So, sendwhat you want tocunningham@rockford.com. Isthere any interest in a reunion inthe next year or so? Let me know,including suggestions for time andplace. Just a little about me: I’m apastor in Rockford, IL, about anhour NW of O’Hare airport inChicago—and two Japanesesupermarkets (!)—actually I hadeel for dinner tonight. I’ve beenmarried to Lanet [yes, the spellingis correct] for 29 years. We havetwo daughters, the older onemarried for a year now and theyounger who just graduated fromcollege. (Isn’t it amazing howtime goes by!)? I’ve been able toget back to Japan in 1972, 1981,and 1990. Got to see CA shortlybefore the big move, includingdesks, etc. piled in the “old”auditorium. It also brought backmemories of seeing that hill“lowered” when that gym wasbuilt; I was in the dorm. Anyoneremember the PE cross-countryruns across that hill when it wasstill overlooking the soccer field?One memory I’ll never forget:Jimmy Dulfur’s brilliant speechwhen he ran for student councilpresident. We were in thatauditorium. Remember the glassdoors to the right, overlooking thecity? Jimmy asked everyone toplease stand. Then he askedeveryone to look to the right. Then“thank you. You may be seated.”We weren’t puzzled for long, as heended with “now, isn’t that thebest example of leadership you’veseen at CA?” He was (deserv-

1971Eri Shinoda Kido writes, “OnApril 13, Chie Toyohara, StanHoward, Susan Barberi-Murata, Jimmy Minamoto, LisaReiko Louer (Class of ’72), PaulKeighley (on vacation fromOntario) and friend, and me (EriShinoda) met at Noodle House inAzabu for a little get-together.Many of us had not seen eachother since our 25th Reunion inSeattle, in August 1996. Weenjoyed the noodles, chats,laughter, lots of jokes, and thecompany, of course. Good to beforever 17/18 years old wheneverwe meet!” (shinodaeri@aol.com)

Philip Kentwell writes, “Igraduated from CA in 1971 afterhaving commenced in kindergar-ten and spending the followingyears at CA: 1958-1964; 1968-71.My brother Stephen Kentwellalso attended CA 1958-1964, butreturned to Australia for most ofhis high schooling. My fatherAlister Kentwell and his twosisters (Marilyn and Constance -Connie) attended CA at the formerOji campus, where my grand-mother (Alfhild Kentwell) taught.My great aunt, HarrietteLindstrom (sister of mygrandmother who I mentionedtaught at CA), was also a CAgraduate. When visiting my father

1972David Eddy Jr. writes, “It isdifficult to write about what hashappened since those days as ayoung rube from Hokkaidothrown in to Room 49 with Katz,Gamblin and Tam. They weregreat days and if there was anyway for me to give an equivalentexperience to my three girls, Iwould be a happy father. Lifesince CA has actually been good,making fast friends at F&M;teaching at a prep school inTarrytown, New York somewhatlike CA; going off to law school;meeting my wife on a ski tripwhile watching “Casablanca,”having three kids; and starting myown firm with a friend. Youappreciate these things as they arenot easy to come by nor guaran-teed. My father died in 1988 andten years later, in 1998 my sisterNell died from breast cancer.Friendships formed at CA areamazingly strong and resilient. AtNell’s memorial service held inthe summer of 1999, about six orseven of her classmates came tosay good-bye. Looking forward tothe Class of 72 reunion thissummer and probing existentialquestions beyond the Bridges ofMadison County. “(ATWDE@aol.com)

Jane Reagan Greenberg writes,“I have a son at Boston Universityand a daughter who is a senior inhigh school. My husband Mark(also a psychologist) and I have alarge multidisciplinary outpatientpractice with 3 offices in Mont-gomery County, PA (suburbanPhiladelphia). We would love to

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hear from other CA alumni!”(JanePsi@aol.com)

Ling Lin Ho Burckley visitedCanadian Academy in April withher sixth grade daughter Leannaand first grade son Alec.

1973Harper Brady writes, “I’ve beena Presbyterian pastor since 1987,and at my present church inBaden, Pennsylvania (suburbanPittsburgh) since 1989. Marriedto my college sweetheart foralmost 25 years. Two sons – Joel(21 – junior at University ofPittsburgh and world-class rockclimber) and Daniel (16 – 10th

grade).” (brady@thesafety.net)

Kenneth Masaki writes, “Sincegraduating CA, I left to attendRice University (Houston, Texas)and have lived in that area for thepast 29 yrs. I have been marriedfor over 20 yrs (Cindy) and havetwo children (Allison 15yrs oldand Peter 11 yrs old). I work atAspen Technology (softwarecompany) in their softwaresupport group as a manager. Fromaround 1984 to 2000, I traveled alot for this company doing onsiteinstallation work in many Asiancountries including Japan. Welive in Sugar Land, which is asuburb of Houston.”(kmasao@earthlink.net)

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Jean Frolet, who works as amanagement consultant, lives withhis wife Elizabeth and threechildren (Aurelie 16, Luc 14,Eloise 12) in Dunwoody, Georgia.He looks forward to hearing fromclassmates. (jfrolet@aol.com)

1979Alice Stubbs Wisler writes,“Since the death of my secondchild (my husband David and Ihave four kids), I’ve founded apublishing house in Daniel’smemory (Daniel’s HousePublications: http://www.mindspring.com/~wisler/danielshouse.html) and do a lot ofgrief-related writing including aquarterly newsletter and a monthlye-zine. Some of my writingsappear at this new site: http://www.howtomakeafamily.com. Ialso give writing workshops andspeak at various women’s and

Kasper J. Kombrink writes, “Iam currently employed by OracleNetherlands as a softwaredeveloper. For further informationsee my homepage http://huizen.dds.nl/~kombrink.”(kasper.kombrink@oracle.com)

bereavement events. My book,Slices of Sunlight, may get asequel to it one of these days.”(wisler@mindspring.com)

Department for 2 years. 1990 I gotto know my husband who lived inMunich. I moved to Munich andworked there as a PhysicalTherapist. 1992 we got married.We have 3 wonderful children:Mariano 8 years, Emanuel 6 years,and Mauricia 3 years. We now livein the south of Bavaria, Germanyand are enjoying life. My husbandhas his own architectural office.At the time I am not working.Maybe if our daughter will attendkindergarten I might start workingagain. Thank you for taking thetime to update all the alumni. It’sgreat to stay in contact, and it’s sonice to hear from CA oldies.”(affuerstenberg@compuserve.de)

Karin B. Sinniger writes, “Spent6 years on Wall Street in NewYork learning to be a Mergers andAcquisitions lawyer beforemoving in-house with an oilcompany. I am a corporate lawyerat BP America, Inc. in Chicago.Just got back from a six monthsleave of absence in which Itraveled and dived around theworld: Australia, Grenada, Africaand New Zealand and trying to re-adjust!” (kbsinniger@yahoo.com)

1980Brian Horiuchi writes, “Screen-plays sold to Oliver Stone, etc;feature film in 2002 Berlin FilmFestival; feature films in develop-ment with Warner Brothers,Dimension, Mace Neufeld, etc.Single, no children.”(Dostoyb@aol.com)

Peter Hutchinson writes, “I ammarried to Tracy Laverty. Wewere wed last September. We areregularly involved with our localUnitarian Universalist congrega-tion. I find inspiration from thecontact with people of liberaloutlooks. Tracy is a teacher ofsixth and seventh grade special edstudents. I am a developer in asmall software company selling aproduct to the publishing industry.Tracy and I travel when we canafford it. Our honeymoon wasspent in Europe. I have not beenback to Japan since my family leftin 1978. I still receive thenewsletter from CA. I wassaddened by our loss of Mr.Mihara. He was a wonderfultyping teacher. I suppose we hadsomething special back then, to beable to live there at that time withthose teachers.”(cph@attglobal.net)

George Sato married Heidi J.Holling on June 3, 2002 in Toba,Japan. Congratulations!(geoheidi@juno.com)

1982

Suzanne Hartmann Brunier ‘82 and Nick Hartmann ’89. Suzannewrote that she lives in France with her husband and two children.

1983Danielle Parks writes, “Aftercompleting my Ph.D. in 1999, Ispent a year in Cyprus courtesy ofthe National Endowment for theHumanities, working on thepublication of the results from myexcavations at Kourion. A yearago, I was fortunate enough tosecure a tenure-track position inthe Classics Department at BrockUniversity in St. Catharines,Canada.”(dparks@spartan.ac.brocku.ca)

1984

1985Sangita Biniwale Pradhanwrites, “I’ve been in the US forthe past three years and am nowlooking forward to going back toschool this fall. Over the years,I’ve been in touch with MasamiGray, and most recently withYuki Sugimura and JackieDadlani. In fact, the four of usare now trying to compile as manye-mails addresses of our fellowclassmates of 1985 and worktowards organizing a 20th yearanniversary. We opened up ayahoo group, which we wanteveryone to sign up for. All theyhave to do is send in e-mail to thefollowing address:CA_KobeJapan_classof1985-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. Welook forward to seeing everyone’sname on the list.”(three_gitas@yahoo.com)

Mikako Naito writes, “Thank youfor sending me the latest AlumniReview. It is always good to readabout how the alumni are doing,whether I know them or not. Itwas also good to know about thenew apartment complex on the oldCA site on Nagamidedai. I lived inthe dormitory for a couple of yearsand have special attachment to thearea, and I have often wonderedwhat had happened to the site. Ihave been living on the GoldCoast in Australia for the past 7years, and I am now studyingPsychology. I would love to hearfrom my old schoolmates.”(mikako@qldnet.com.au)

1981

Friederike Freifrau vonFurstenberg writes, “Aftergraduation I started studyingPhysical Therapy in Germany.After finishing I worked inCologne (Germany) in a hospitalin the Neurological Departmentfor 3 years. The next 4 years Iworked in the same hospital in theNeurosurgical Department ofwhich I lead the Physical Therapy

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Hirokazu Fujimoto writes, “Ijoined ITOCHU Corporation in1991 after graduating from SophiaUniversity. ITOCHU is one of thebiggest and active tradingcompany in Japan even ranked intop 10 of Fortune Global 500. Ibelong to Marine & ProjectDepartment where we sellcommercial ships like tankers,bulkers and container carriers. Iam now stationed in Athens,Greece, one of the world’s leadingshipping market, since 1999. I willstay in Athens till the end of 2004when Olympic Games takes placehere then after to return to Tokyoheadquarter.”(fujimoto.itochu@attglobal.net)

Daniel Kern writes, “I’ll keep mynews to the last couple of years :-)I received my Ph.D. in mathemat-ics from the Univ. of Illinois-Chicago in 1999. After 2 years asa visiting professor at SouthernMethodist University in Dallas, Itook a postdoctoral position lastfall at the University of Minne-sota. I always keep a link on mypersonal web page to CA. By theway, my older brother Steve(1983) is living down in Austin,TX with his wife and son.”(dkern@ima.umn.edu)

Lisa Sinniger writes, “I work forthe European Tech Tour Associa-tion, which is an independentorganization that organizes onsitevisits – Tech Tours – to emergingtechnology companies in differentEuropean countries. Our missionis to identify young companieshaving the potential to impact theEuropean technology landscapeand introduce these companies toglobal technology and investmentleaders with the assets necessaryto help these companies go globalquickly.” (lisa@techtour.com)

Atsushi Ohba writes, “ I aminvolved in a new businessventure started in US. Thiscompany makes the upgradekoozie drink insulator and hasalready sold over 6 million in US.I am wondering if anybody in CAAlumni would be interested indistributing this product world-wide.” (ao_racing@hotmail.com)

1986

was among 50 people (the mostexpensive ones) that have beenput off...due to lack of projects.Well, since then I’ve done a bit offreelance work enjoying thesummer and will now start againin October. Concerning my privatelife: 2 years ago I married mybeautiful wife Claudia, we haveno kids (and non will come) but adog and a cat. I still live inDuesseldorf, Germany and wouldbe happy to hear from formerclassmates.” (peter@bypeter.de)

1988Greg Beckwith writes, “Just aquick update – received the latestalum newsletter and thought Ishould send something. My wifeAmy and I just had our secondchild in January – another littlegirl, named Alyssa Lynn. Shejoins big sister Cheyenne Morgan,now five. We are currently livingin Des Moines, Iowa where Amyworks for Emco Enterprises. Sheis administrative assistant to oneof the regional salesmen. I amcurrently working for TMCtransportation – a flatbed truckingcompany – and manage their tireprogram. Before that I spent fiveyears at Farm Bureau Insurance asa video writer/producer. I am inthe market again, and Amy isleaning more towards becoming astay-at-home-Mom....No otherreal news, pretty busy with jobsand kids and all that entails.Would like to hear from any oldclassmates or teachers. Take careall, till next time. Greg Beckwith(aka “Buckwheat”)”(beckwith4j@aol.com)

Robert Murphy writes, “Werecently moved my school andcafe to a much better location. It’sright in front of JR Onga-gawastation here in Kyushu. You can’tmiss it! Although the creativenaming of the school (MurphySchool) and the even morecreative naming of the cafe(Murphy’s Cafe), seems toconfuse some people from time totime (“...wait a minute, why isyour name on that sign again?”),all in all I’d say it’s a fairlysuccessful naming structure. Weteach English and computers here.The cafe has decent coffee, but it’sreally more like an Irish pub thana cafe. (Maybe that’s whyeveryone’s so confused all thetime, eh?) People hang out anddance, or whatever. Come check itout if you’re ever in the area!(You can find the cyber version ofus at, murphyschool.com).”(murphy@murphyschool.com)

1989

Harry Cheng was featured in apersonality profile in the JapanTimes on April 27. Harry is theauthor of Global Directory. Theinside cover of his book GlobalDirectory gives a nutshellintroduction to Harry. It reads,“Graduate of the LSE and OxfordUniversity, co-founder of GlobalProjects, Harry has a passion forcooking, rose wine, photography,and meeting people around theworld.” After CA, Harry studiedsocial psychology at the LondonSchool of Economics andcompleted is master’s degree incomparative social research atOxford. At the age of 24, he co-founded and served as director ofGlobal Projects, registered thecompany in Thailand andAustralia, and moved to Bangkok.Global Projects provides educa-tional and publishing services.While in Thailand, Harryvolunteered with teacher trainingin rural northern Thailand for theChristian Children’s Fund.Princess Srindhorn called him tothe Chitralda Palace to bestow onhim a certificate of appreciation.Harry now lives in Japan where heis senior manager in the commer-cial department of VirginMegastores Japan Ltd.(globalprojects@yahoo.com)

Yoshiyuki Mochizuki Yoshioka,who works at an advertisingcompany in Mexico, welcomesCA alumni to contact him ifthere’s anything they need helpwith in Mexico.(yoshiyuki@prodigy.net.mx)

Haruki Koretsune writes, “Aftergraduating from Fort LewisCollege, Durango Colorado as aTheater major in May 97, I wentto Osaka Game Designer Gakuen(Academy) completing a yearcourse in computer graphicsdesign for games. I also taughtComputer Class at a Japanese

1990

High School for a year and didvarious jobs like software qualitychecker at Dendrite Japan, IBMComputer Parts delivery andfixing service at IBM Japan OsakaPC Parts Center. Even though myEnglish ability is still strong, myJapanese ability is not goodenough to find a decent job inJapan, so I have been taking careof my aging mother at homerecently. I am planning andhoping on doing my own businessfrom some of my different skillsthat I developed so far likepersonal computer fixing, danceinstructor, or Tarot card reader.Any alumni who remembers meand still lives in Japan and isinterested in getting together forchat or business, I can be found ata dance club in Osaka calledUnder Lounge at Shinsaibashi,almost every Saturday nightdancing and even giving instantdance lessons for free to anyoneinterested (becoming fairlyfamous and influential dancerthere but just a regular customer atthis point). Hopefully I get to seeand meet anyone from old or newalumni classes.”(harux@yahoo.com)

Yasmina Thumas writes, “Aftercompleting my high schooleducation in my home country,Belgium, I proceeded to go tocollege in Leuven. I obtained aMasters in Law but decided to godirectly into business. After 3years of diverse marketing andsales functions, I decided to returnto college to perfect my businessskills. Columbia University inNew York became my Alma Materand I graduated in March 2000with a Masters in InternationalBusiness. I have since relocatedto London, U.K. and have joinedL’Oreal, the Health & Beautyconglomerate. I am happily livingin London and anticipating a nextexciting move in the next 1-2years. I have had an excitingcareer so far and life has certainlytreated me well. I look forward togetting back in touch with alumnifrom my year.”(yasmina_thumas@yahoo.com)

1987Peter Braunschweig writes, “Upuntil a year ago I’ve been workingfor satama, a Finnish onlineagency, as a creative director.Unfortunately the dot com crisishas hit Germany pretty hard and I

1992Berkeley Young Gadbaw, who isa middle school science teacher,writes that she is “married, livingin North Carolina after 3 years inSeattle, doing well.”(bgadbaw@chccs.k12.nc.us)

Scott Prebola writes, “Sincegraduating from CA, I attendedBucknell University and joined

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Goldman Sachs in New York in1996. I have held a variety ofpositions with the firm in NewYork, Tokyo and now LosAngeles. I currently work in thePrivate Wealth Management groupwhere I am part of a team thatmanages nearly $6bn in clientassets. Over the last year, I havedone a fair amount of traveling inmy free time – having been toSouth Africa, Tahiti and Ireland.Anyone who would like to contactme can do so viascott.prebola@gs.com orsprebola@sbcglobal.net or via mymailing address – 1820 BeneciaAve. #402, Los Angeles, CA

90025.”

Melody Morton Ninomiyawrites, “We have just moved to St.John’s, Newfoundland (as far eastas you can go in North America.)Scott and I have taken on avoluntary service job with a non-profit Christian organizationcalled Mennonite CentralCommittee – we are working inthe restorative justice fieldpromoting and offering mediationas an alternative to servingfinancial and jail penalties. It’sexciting work actually. I’m takinga break from teaching for a fewyears and I am pregnant with #2,due in January.”(morton_ninomiya@yahoo.com)

Andy Singh writes, “Currently, Iam in graduate school at StanfordUniversity, pursuing a Ph.D. inMaterial Science and Engineering,which shall be complete in a fewmonths.” (singhace@stanford.edu)

garment manufacturing company.After CA, I studied the fashionand textile industry in a businessschool in Paris, and I went on withmy studies to another businessschool specialized in Asia, fromwhich I will graduate this comingDecember. If someone I knowfrom CA comes to France, he orshe can send me an email and I’dbe happy to try and meet. I hopeyou’re all happy with your liveswherever you are!!!!”(fleurbrault@hotmail.com)

Holly Yots writes, “Helloeveryone. I would have graduatedin 1996 and I attended CA from1991-1993. Kelly Zeissner,Genny Borden and I wereinseparable during those threeyears. Anyway, in 1993 I movedback to Pensacola, Florida, USA.After graduating high school, Iwent on to a private school inMobile, Alabama called SpringHill College where I was on asoccer scholarship. After collegegraduation I worked for shortstints in New York with aprofessional soccer team and inDallas, Texas. Now, I have movedback to Japan and would love tohear from anyone that I knewwhile I attended CA. Especiallythose living in Japan. Currently, Iam teaching at the FukuokaSchool of Music Senmongako inFukuoka, Japan. Drop me anemail, I’d love to hear fromsomeone!” (yotsy7@hotmail.com)

The “Kings of San Francisco” held a mini reunion in San Francisco in February 2002, From left to right:Sasha Morozoff ‘92, Simon Attley ‘93, Andrea Giardina ‘92, Lasse Hammarstrom ‘92, Andy Singh ‘93,Mark Tomlinson ‘92, and Nikita Morozoff ‘93.

Asle Bruno writes, “Since Igraduated in 1993 I attended ateachers college for 4 years. Ispecialized in English andPhysical Education. In 1997 I gotmarried to my lovely wife namedHanne (5 years on the 2 ofAugust). In 1998 I started to workas a teacher and worked as ateacher until June 2002. Now Ineeded a break and have joinedsomething we call “the civildefense”. I don’t know what it isin English, but it is aboutprotecting the people in our part ofthe country in case of big fires, bigaccidents, evacuations and so on. Imostly sit in an office located withthe police department in Stavanger— which is a big city (app.120.000 citizens). This is in thesouthwest of Norway. We liveabout 20 kilometers south of thiscity. We just moved into our newhouse. It is exciting!”(fiskepinner@hotmail.com)

Joe Colangelo writes, “I recentlytook a new job at the Mary KayHeadquarters in Dallas, TX.”(joe.colangelo@mkcorp.com)

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Tomoki Taniguchi writes, “Igraduated from CA in ’95. Wentto Vanderbilt University. Gradu-ated in 2000. I worked in a smalldotcom in Nashville for a littleover a year. I moved to Atlanta,GA about 6 months ago and havebeen loving it. I work for acompany called Allure Fusionmedia (http://www.allurefm.com).I would like to hear from people Iknew back at CA, or even otherCA Alumni in the area.”(tomoki@makainet.net)

His performance included anumber of jazz pieces, includinghis own composition. At Bates,Kobori was a dean’s list studentand a member of the varsity crewteam. (From Bates College Officeof College Relations.)

Vijay Chokski, home from NewYork University & KabirSadarangani, home after his firstyear at Rutgers, visited on 5/22.

2001

David Buchanan, who taught atCA from 1978–1982, writes,“Twenty years teaching inWaikato, New Zealand. CurrentlyResource Teacher of Learning &Behaviour at Te AwamutuCollege. Current age 54. Twodaughters – Janeen 21, Kay 18.Often in e-mail contact withformer students and fellow facultymembers from CA. Welcomehearing from more.”(david.j.buchanan@xtra.co.nz)

William and Frances Bray, whowere at CA from 1953-1956, had asmall world experience when theymet dorm parent Holly Becker’sparents at the 73rd Bomb WingReunion in Omaha. William wasMrs. Becker’s father’s chaplain inthe 499th Bomb Group.

Faculty & friends

1993

Fleur-Elodie Brault writes,“Hello everybody from the classof ‘96. I am at CA right now andjust talked to Ms. Fisher, Mr.Ferguson and Ms. Le Lardic,who are all doing just fine andapparently haven’t changed a bit.As for me, I’m actually doing a 3-month internship in Hong Kong asa marketing assistant in a leather

Ae Suh recently graduated fromBabson College and now worksfor Merrill Lynch in Tokyo.(asuh@babson.edu)

Kenneth Kobori graduated fromBates College in May with a B.A.in music. Kobori, music major,performed a saxophone recital aspart of his senior thesis in music.

Many members of the class of2001 came to visit CA duringrecent months. After spending ayear at the Parsons School ofDesign in Paris, FabianMonsalve will study productdesign at Parsons in New YorkCity. Jayesh Sureschandra is inthe Singapore military. TaiUemura finished his first year atthe University of Massachusetts,Boston.

Please send us your importantnews (graduations, weddings,babies, interesting stories etc.)so that we can share it withyour fellow alumni. Photosare highly encouraged. Also,please let us know if you moveso that you can continue toreceive the latest news fromCanadian Academy.