{"id":811,"date":"2013-11-06T12:55:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T16:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/?p=811"},"modified":"2013-12-04T11:49:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T15:49:02","slug":"alumni-pub-night-in-west-hartford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2013\/11\/06\/alumni-pub-night-in-west-hartford\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Pub Night in West Hartford"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Andrea<\/a>We had a good turnout for this event at McLadden\u2019s Irish Pub in West Hartford, Conn. on November 5. The room was small and intimate.\u00a0 Marlon Howard \u201963 was the first to arrive. I spent some time talking with him about how the campus had changed and encouraged him to visit.\u00a0 He was surprised how many of his teachers I knew.<\/p>\n

Andrea Nicoli \u201999 was there with her boyfriend. Andrea was a day student ( her older brother is Dan \u201983).\u00a0 She was on my soccer team and also played ice hockey. Tiffany Cutting \u201902 was also there with her boyfriend.<\/p>\n

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\"2013_11_Pilgrim,<\/a>Kelly Opdenaker Babbidge \u201997 and her husband Dan were there. They currently work at Ethel Walker School. Kelly was a big ice hockey player at Williston, but since Ethel Walker doesn\u2019t have ice hockey, she and Dan volunteered to coach squash.\u00a0 They are taking lessons from the Trinity College coach.\u00a0 Kelly still has her Williston smurfs (blue nylon warm-ups), which she says are \u201cso warm and cozy\u201d!<\/p>\n

\"2013_11_Pilgrim,<\/a>I introduced Kelly to Alex Judd \u201902 during the event since Alex is looking to get back into squash.\u00a0 Alex played squash here at Williston. Swanee was his advisor so they got to catch up, too.<\/p>\n

Todd Thomas \u201986 is a hoot!\u00a0 He has a big personality. I invited him to attend the basketball Hall of Fame in January.\u00a0 He said he would try to bring his kids along.\u00a0 Jack Heflin \u201964 has been back to campus for the last four Reunions and has loved it.\u00a0 He said he knew all the older students above him so he has enjoyed coming back to see them again. \"2013_11_Pilgrim,<\/a>David and Rebecca Cavazuti were the only non-alumni present.\u00a0 They are the parents of Emily \u201914 and Jen \u201916.\u00a0 Both girls started in the ninth grade so they had the \u201cJohn Wright experience.\u201d\u00a0 Emily is actually Maddy Dirats\u2019 roommate so they had a chance to chat with Robin Glover \u201982.\u00a0 Amy Beresky \u201997 arrived toward the end of the event as she is working full time and also working on her a masters degree at UMass Amherst.\u00a0 The final participant was Taylor Scyocurka \u201909 who is helping out with her fifth Reunion.<\/p>\n

Overall, a good time was had by all and several alumni approached me as they were leaving to see if we could do another event in Connecticut. Several mentioned that they liked the alumni brochure and all the events listed. The only bummer occurred at the very end when I received a parking ticket (in West Hartford they feed the meters until 10:00 p.m.).\u00a0 Live and learn!<\/p>\n

Next up: A cocktail reception in Portsmouth, New Hampshire hosted by Jamie LaFleur ’94, owner of The Banks Gallery, for alumni, parents, and friends. The event will be held on Dec. 3 from 6-8:00 p.m. at the gallery. The reception is $10 per person and includes hors d’oeuvres and a Williston pint glass.\u00a0 Please register by November 26, by calling Jeff Pilgrim ’81, Director of Alumni Relations, at (413) 529-3301.<\/p>\n

The Banks Gallery, recognized as one of the leading galleries in New England, is dedicated to dealing in the finest American paintings and sculpture of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had a good turnout for this event at McLadden\u2019s Irish Pub in West Hartford, Conn. on November 5. The room was small and intimate.\u00a0 Marlon Howard \u201963 was the first to arrive. I spent some time talking with him about how the campus had changed and encouraged him to visit.\u00a0 He was surprised how … Continue reading Alumni Pub Night in West Hartford<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[185,189,190,188],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news","tag-alumni-event","tag-connecticut","tag-mcladdens-irish-pub","tag-west-hartford"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}