In San Fra Hugh’s father, Phil Groman ’57, attended the event. And classmate John Houghton was also on hand to represent ’57 as they head into their 60th reunion year!<\/p>\n Alex Teece ’06, who has founded a charter school in Hawaii, slated to open\u00a0in September 2018, happened to be in San Francisco for the month and caught up with\u00a0Elizabeth Litwin ’06,\u00a0Meg Litwin ’04, Joe Cavallaro ’03, Ben Minkowsky ’02, and Limmy Lee ’01. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0 Other alumni attending included: Lisa Bodine ’77, Julius Pryor ’73, Yiao-Tee Hsia ’71 and Charles Johnson ’68. The ’80s made a good showing as\u00a0Merry Ross ’82, Jessica Herbold ’81 and\u00a0(prom dates!) Ben Carlson ’81 and Virginia Barrett ’81 reminisced about their experiences in theater.<\/p>\n Bidding farewell to the beautiful city by the bay, Williston headed south to Los Angeles<\/strong> and\u00a0The Viceroy Santa Monica, where host Cliff Selbert ’73 welcomed a group of alumni from the classes of 1947 to 2012 — and even a future wildcat!<\/p>\n Alumni working in the entertainment industry, design, finance, medicine and technology caught up over mimosas, coffee, and brunch. Frances “Bunny” Feurer ’47 compared notes with Carol Boyd ’69, who brought yearbooks and photos from her years at NFSG. Pat Bone\u00a0’65 and her husband Steve also attended. It was good to see\u00a0Brian Studwell ’59 who runs a lawn bowling club (@SantaMonicaLawnBowling on Facebook) and Ben Haller ’61.<\/p>\n Other guests included classmates Michael Hirsch\u00a0and Andrew Wooden, both class of ’73, Cedric Evans ’81, \u00a0Valli Thornton ’82, \u00a0Gary Goldman ’83, and Brooks Fleming ’89.<\/p>\n Sisters Serra ’00 and Belis ’97 Aladag reminisced about being at Williston together, and caught up\u00a0with east coast expat Steve Porter ’97. Michael Bowles ’99 and Sheree Shu ’98 rounded out the crowd from the ’90s.<\/p>\n The decade of the ’00s was well represented with Raffy Cortina ’09, who is working in film and writing a screenplay. Mickey Meyer ’03 and Ceanna Ellner ’04 who also work in the world of entertainment (Hey, it’s LA, after all!) Ellen Messer ’07 won the prize for best effort to attend; she had just flown in from a conference in DC that morning and stopped by on her way home from the airport! The most recent Williston grad, Adrian Mendoza ’12 is finishing his last semester at USC and plans to go into\u00a0the video game industry.<\/p>\n We had a wonderful\u00a0time with\u00a0all of you! And we hope you had a great time reconnecting and making new connections. We\u00a0look forward to seeing even more west coast Willistonians at our next event! In the meantime, keep up with alumni news by liking\u00a0The Williston Northampton Alumni <\/a>Facebook page, joining The Williston Northampton School Alumni LinkedIn<\/a> page and visiting our alumni events home page. Upcoming events are scheduled for NYC (12\/7) and Boston (12\/13), So\u00a0if you happen to be traveling to a city where we are hosting an event, we’d love to see you. Simply\u00a0let us know you are planning to attend by sending a message to RSVP@williston.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunshine, warm weather and enthusiastic alumni welcomed Williston Northampton to the west coast for events on November 10 in San Francisco and November 13 in Los Angeles. Thank you to all who joined us. We hope you enjoyed\u00a0catching up with classmates and friends, networking with alumni and hearing\u00a0from Head of School, Robert W. Hill III, … Continue reading Williston heads West<\/span> ![\"img_0785\"](\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_0785-e1479824457487-225x300.jpg\")
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