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1969Class Notes Archives----- From June 2007 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Pierre Vittori wrote to tell us that he now lives "one hour from NYC, on the Hudson" and that he "would like to get in touch with anyone from my class." (His email address is available upon request) ● Francis Dumanoir wrote: "Wow! What a time warp. I was on Google when, in a narcissistic moment, I typed my name. I had done this in the past but always used "Frank" as the first name I adopted in Texas. So when I saw the AALFNY entry with my name as "lost" I had to go look. What a flood of memories to see all those names. I left NY in '67 and finished secondary school in Paris at Louis le Grand (I survived the revolution of '68 - quite an episode). I got my Bac in 1970 and then instead of my parents coming to Paris, we went to Houston (my dad worked for Schlumberger. I got a Masters in EE at Rice University and went right to work for Exxon where I stayed 7 1/2 years. I then joined a Geophysical Service company, Cie Generale de Geophysique, with HQ's in Paris. This allowed for trips to Paris to see my parents who had retired. After 17 years there, I pursued opportunities in two other companies before joining a Geophysical Data Processing company that was in turn acquired by TGS-NOPEC. So much for career. I was married from '78 to '81 to Cindy. We divorced and she went on to get a doctorate and moved to Florida. I remarried in '82 to Mariam. We have two daughters, Danielle (18) and Katherine (13). Danielle will be going to Texas A&M in the fall to study Engineering (and French which she speaks pretty fluently). We adopted Katherine in 1998 in Russia. She will be starting High School in the fall. I don't exactly know where this note will end up but I hope to hear from all my classmates I remember so well. It's hard to belive it's been 40 years! The whole Dumanoir family converged on NY in the summer of '97 when my niece (Julie, Sophie (Dumanoir) Hara's daughter) came to start college in Massachussets. We had a great time and made a pilgrimage to the Lycee on 72nd street to show the kids where we went to school. So please let me know what you are up to. This would give me great incentive to come up to NY to visit. I was very sad to hear of Julie Krewer's passing. As all the eulogies noted she was an oustanding individual and someone we all admired. How cruel to lose someone like her. I was in class with her from 6eme on to seconde and always remember her as a role model. J'espere recevoir de vos nouvelles! A bientot, Francis" ● "Gaël Pervilhac - dual French-American citizenship, with a Master Degree in Political Sciences and Finance from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (France) and a Master in International Business and Marketing from Columbia University (New-York), has more than twenty five years of international management positions in major companies and consulting experience..... Consultant since 1992 he is currently based in New York City since July 1998 where he founded EDGE Consulting IntI. and represents a number of French companies in the United States. He works with C.C.A. (Courtois Conseil Associés) a French consulting firm in Paris specialized in consumer goods, the food industry and luxury products with an emphasis in operational management at Corporate level in France and in international. He covered numerous assignments in North America. He also covers independent international projects related to market research, marketing and commercial strategies, strategic planning, business integration, change management and competitive intelligence to develop practical solutions, improve performance and obtain long term business advantage." (http://www.edgemarkets.com/profiles.htm) ----- From December 2006 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Tristan Turenne des Prés wrote: "I have been in music and also played a major part in the video game industry, from its birth in 1986, till now, first with Sega, then with Sony Playstation. I am working on getting out of it now! Too much stress and pressure, for too many years." ● Perrine Rouillon a vaincu son 'writer's block' et nous ecrit: "Ouf ! La machine repart. Coincée à la septième page de mon septième livre (Un dessin sur une page d'écriture) depuis presque deux ans, je commençais à me demander ce que j'allais bien pouvoir faire de mon existence, maintenant que ma vie d'auteur était finie. Travailler ?!? Devant une telle menace je me suis accrochée à ma table vingt quatre heures sur vingt quatre et j'ai pondu La Xénophobie, le Yoyo, la Zézette. Ouf, donc. Sursis." (Click on link below for a review of one of Perrine's books, Le Diable, l'amoureux et la photocopine) ● Alison Estabrook wrote: "I remember my days at the Lycee fondly, and I remember a lot of our classmates: Una Copley (I often wonder where she is), Jacqueline Moreau, Julianna Lloyd (who I have seen in NYC). I was happy to read about Jennifer Schmid, who I remember spending time with right after JFK's assassination, and about Peter Lawrence whose birthday parties were unforgettable. I am a surgeon at St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital in New York. I am married, and have no children. We live in NYC and in Rye, NY. I do a lot of horseback riding and travel a lot for fun." ----- From February 2006 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Avis de Décès: Alicia (de la Serna) Peel (Click on link to the right, for the Milestones/In Memoriam section and further details.) ● Babette (Hall) Bennett wrote: "I have lived in Florida for nine years and have a terrific job that I love. I am in NY fairly frequently visiting familiy and my daughter who is a Senior at West Point I have a son who just started at Annapolis and another son still at home. I lived in Westchester for 20+ yrs before moving to Boca. I owned a Jewelery Manufacturing Company in NY at that time but sold it and moved down here after the blizzard in '96." ● Dany (Blangy) Cameron wrote: "What a great website. It caused me to look through my archives and find some class photos. The year was 1963, classe 5eme, some of my classmates were: Jennifer Schmid, Una Dora Copley, Alex Warren, Jacqueline Moreau, Jean Noel Marescot. My name: Dany Blangy. I attended the Lycee from 1961 through 1967. What a great school and what great times. Found memories: Going to greasy spoons before and after class; my favorite teachers: M. Keiffer and M. Galy. I also remember going to some great parties! Well time marches on and in 1987 I moved from NY to West Palm Beach, Fl. and started a new career in the nonprofit world with the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties. I work in fundraising and am the VP for Donor Services. There are over 700 like organizations. The one in NY is called the New York Community Trust. Well enough of that, I just wanted to say hello. A bientot, Dany." ----- From June 2005 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● WEDDINGS/MARIAGES: Patrick Jacques (Click on link for further details.) ● Denise (Raab) Jacobs wrote: "Bonjour tout le monde! I am so sorry to have missed the festivities in NY this past year. It was a very busy year for my family, work changes and our son applying to college. Hopefully will meet up with you la prochaine fois. I am still "best friends" with Claudie (Frohwirth) Gvertz, Nancy (Roskein) Vines and Sandra (Kremnitzer) Mintz and we would like to report that we have not changed at all! We all live in NY, have 7 kids between us and can still recite long parts of Phedre or Cyrano de Bergerac on request! Bravo on the website and all the efforts you have put into this. I used to be part of the AALF and it has come a long way." ● Jennifer Schmid shared this with us: "I am employed as a technical writer four days a week, and have three-day weekends. Quelle joie! I am still rescuing and placing animals--over 4000 so far. Since I have been living in Georgia for 25 years, I'll say, Y'all take care et a bientot!" ● Peter Laurence gave a lecture for Frontieres en Finance in April, entitled Model-free pricing and hedging of basket options. The invitation to the talk described Peter as "..... Associate Professor of Mathematics at Universita di Roma 1. Peter has taught mathematical finance at the graduate level as an adjunct Professor at NYU, Courant, Columbia University and Universita di Roma 1 and 2. He has Wall Street experience in credit risk as a former Director of Risk Solutions, Standard and Poor's, New York. He has over 40 papers in International refereed Journals in various areas of applied mathematics. His latest area of research in mathematical finance is basket option pricing and closed form solutions for multi-dimensional Black-Scholes equations with smiles." ----- From November 2004 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Remy Ayache writes: "I design, analyze and recommend financial software systems for PC/Client server or Internet applications. My wife Hedy is a vice-president of a major New York bank. My sons are both attending Cornell University. Maurice (21) is studying engineering and hopes to do research in Applied Physics. Gabriel (18) is majoring in Hotel Management and would like to pursue a career in management in the service industry." ● Alexandra Bonfante-Warren writes: "I'm a writer, editor, and translator living in New York. This year, I've had two translations come out, Theo: The Other Van Gogh and a wonderful children's book, I'm Not Jealous!. Both are from the French, and my master's thesis in art history will be on Philippe de Champaigne, so those long-ago seeds seem to have taken root. I'm currently putting together a pair of art books on Palazzo Pitti and the Uffizi. I wish us all peace (and fun) in the coming year. Don't forget to vote!" ● Perrine Rouillon nous ecrit: "Si quelqu'un connait quelqu'un qui connaît quelqu'un qui connaît quelqu'un qui pourrait avoir envie de publier un de mes livres en anglais ça me donnerait déjà un prétexte pour venir à New-York." ----- From Winter 2003-2004 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Anne (Schreiber) Devos is a volunteer at the Chocolate Museum of Bruxelles and has four daughters. ● Patrick Jacques is in private practice in Analytical Psychotherapy. ● Philip Westfall is currently with the Dept of the Air Force; his professional field is managing satellite communications for distance learning. ----- From Winter 2002-2003 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● In Memoriam: Jacques Hirschler ’67, brother of Monica Hirschler '69, informed us that Monica passed away of breast cancer in 1991. She left behind 3 children. ----- From March/April 2002 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Décès: Julie Ann Krewer passed away January 26,2002 of breast cancer. A memorial service was held for Julie on February 12th. (Click on link for classmates' remembrances.) ● Puck Wullenweber writes: « What a wonderful site! I've periodically searched the Internet for info about the Lycee and this time I hit the jackpot. You are doing a great job. I can't believe all the names I still recognize. I left the Lycee after Troisieme as I left NYC, but I still have very fond memories of skating at Wollman, fencing in the ballroom, New Year's Eve dinners at Patrick Jacques’, parties in Glen Cove at the Marescots, going to camp at M. Kasriels and on and on...I now live in upstate New York, not far from Carole Vonderweidt ‘69 who I ran into a few times. Catherine Golebiewski ‘69 also lives up this way. I've worked for 29 years for the Elmira Psychiatric Center as a psychologist. I currently run a forensic psychiatric unit for adolescent girls. It would be great to track down the whereabouts of as many as possible. I'd love to know what that old gang is up to now! » ● Carole (Vonderweidt) Hansen writes “Puck Wullenweber, Evelyne Noel and I were a trio for years. I reconnected with Puck several years back, when, of all things, I saw her on television, competing in the Empire State Games here in Syracuse. I managed to track her down, and we got together. Since then, we've lost contact again. Evelyne, Puck and I were good friends throughout our many years at the Lycée. When we were in Seconde, Evelyne's father got transferred to Israel. But our friendship continued, with letters going back and forth on a regular basis. Around the time we were in Première, Puck's mother died tragically, and Puck left the Lycée to live in New Jersey. The three of us were pretty inseparable during our years of school. We lived in close proximity to each other, so we rode the number 19 bus together morning and afternoon. Evelyne and I were also great phone buddies. As soon as we got home, we would call each other, and talk for hours, until our exasperated parents would make us hang up. I have no idea what we talked about, but having two teen-age daughters, I sometimes feel like I'm seeing my life being repeated. Thank goodness now there is call waiting! Puck and I have drifted apart, despite occasional chance run-ins due to the fact that she also lives in upstate New York. But after 42 years, amazingly enough, the friendship between Evelyne and me continues, despite travels, marriages, and nearly grown children.” ● Steve Goldschmidt lives in Manhattan and works in the Village as a real estate broker at Ashforth Warburg Associates. He has a son, Alex 13 1/2 years old, who lives with his mother in New Jersey. He adds: "It took a little work, but I’ve gotten in touch with and seen a lot of Sandy Kremnitzer (now Mintz), and Peter Laurence (who is living in NYC for a few years on sabbatical from teaching in Rome). Paul Bernstein is married and has an 11 year old son and lives in DC where he is an editor for the Washington Post. His sister, Nina Bernstein ’68, is a reporter for the NY Times and recently was up for a National Book Award for her book on the failure of the foster care system in New York City. Jennifer Schmid is doing well in the woods of Georgia and is, among other things, raising dogs for adoption. Maria Schless (now Baer) specializes in leukemia research at the Roswell Park Cancer Center in Buffalo, NY." ● Remy Ayache wrote in : "You are doing a great job with these lists (Find A Classmate). I see that my class of ‘69 is almost complete. I had the pleasure of having lunch with Peter Laurence ‘69 last month. I can't believe that it has been over 30 years since we last saw each other. It was a lot of fun to reminisce about old times especially after the events of Sept 11. It has been pretty sad. Those events really hit home. I used to work at 3 World Financial Center (American Express tower) for about 12 years until I left last year. Every day I would walk either through the Trade Center or above on street level and take the north bridge. I would see the beautiful Winter Garden. I still can't believe that all of it is gone. The comfort I can take is in the knowledge that good friends like François Dumontet are alive and well, as well as all my buddies at American Express who managed to escape, some with pretty frightening stories. It really would be great for all of the '69 class to get together somewhere! It is tough to arrange since people are scattered all over.” ----- From November/December 2001 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Alphonse Bernard writes: " 'La nostalgie n'est plus ce qu'elle était” some say. Well, to judge from the AALFNY website, nostalgia is certainly alive and well with the Lycée alumni. It brings back wonderful memories. Thanks and congratulations. Its existence was brought to my attention only recently, as we (Jacqueline Moreau '69 and myself, married since 1973), held an impromptu "réunion d'anciens" at our home in Brussels with Patrick Jacques '69 and his wife Agnès, Patrice Falzon '69 and his wife Josette, and Patrice's sister Laurence Falzon '70. As we all had been rather good friends at the Lycée, we never really lost track of each other. But our reunions had been few and far between. The fact that we and Patrice had been wandering around Africa for 20 years had not helped things.Though, amazingly enough, we found ourselves in Cameroon between 1984 and 1988, when we had last seen each other. Keeping up with Patrick was a bit easier, especially after we came back from Africa 3 years ago to settle in Brussels where he also lives. As for Laurence, who lives in Paris, we hadn't seen her for 33 years! Patrice and his family were in Europe on their yearly leave from their current residence in Dakar, Sénégal. So we all got together for a week-end in Brussels. As the Falzons had never actually visited Brussels, we showed them the sites, the Grand'place, Manneken Pis, etc... The weather was beautiful, which is a rare thing in Belgium. But the highlight was "moules et frites" and good Belgian beer! Well, that was good, but not really THE highlight. THAT was spending Sunday afternoon, browsing throughour old dusty and musty Lycée yearbooks. "You remember him? her? the time when? Wonder what happened to him/her?" We all took pictures, videos etc..., and then it was time to part, promising each other that we wouldn't wait 13, 33 or whatever to meet again. At some point,over a few glasses of beer, it had been mentioned that the Lycée's alumni now had a web site. A few days later, I found it. And so another trip down memory lane... From the class of ' 69 email directory and newsletters popped out names still familiar and never-forgotten, but never heard of since we all left the Lycée to pursue our own lives, Florence Amar, André de Nesnera, François Dumontet, Steven Goldschmidt, Denise Raab, Carole Vonderweidt. Other names also, on whom, once in a while, we heard a bit of news, Jean-François Galy, Xavier Brétillion, Rémy Ayache. And many others also. Other classes, other names. I might be biased of course, but as far as I'm concerned, the Class of '69 was certainly a "Grand Cru." So where are you all, and when do we all get together?" ● Peter Laurence writes: "I am a Professor of Mathematics on leave from the University of Rome. For the last two years I have been a Visiting Professor at Columbia and NYU where I have taught mathematical finance. I decided to join S&P as a consultant since they are letting me work on developing some fascinating new models of credit portfolio risk which are challenging both from an analytic and numerical point of view. I lived in Italy for ten years so now I am "mezzo italiano". My wife Magda whom I met while in Rome is from Innsbruck in Austria." ● Alicia (de la Serna) Peel wrote to us soon after the WTC tragedy on Sept 11th: "(Hearing about) the LFNY Alumni Association Website from my sister Isabel and brother Victor was really the only good news this week. Like most of us I keep a wonderful memory of my time at the Lycée and of New York - arrived there from Europe just a few days before JFK was shot, was there for the Beatles arrival, the World Fair and much more exciting times.It has been heartbreaking to see the events of Sept. 11, 2001. The scale of the attack is beyond words and my heart goes to all the victims and most especially their families. I have been a disaster keeping in touch with old friends. Tessie Arpels '67 came to Spain to stay with us a few times after we came back to Spain and my sister Isabel and I went with her and her parents to Greece years ago. I am very happy to hear she has remarried (to Oudi Recanati '67). My very great friend at the Lycée was Isabella di Montezemolo, Alberto´s sister and in spite of writing to each other for a while we lost touch. I never forgot the parties at Alexandre de Bordes. He was a lot of fun and it was great to read about him. Say hi from me if you are in contact with him. What happened to me? Finished the Bac in France, came back to Spain. Went for a bit to University but did not finish Economics as I started working in an art gallery and loved it. Met an English art dealer who lived in Spain and I married him. Worked from then on with him both independently and in Sotheby's. We have a 26-year-old son, also an art dealer, and a 24-year-old daughter who is finishing a Masters degree in Media Business and hopes to go into Film producing. We live between Madrid and London . Pheew! 35 years in short." ● Paul Bernstein is an editor on the Metro staff of The Washington Post, working with reporters who cover education, immigration and religion. He is married to Willow Bodman, a free-lance photographer. They have an 11-year son, Aaron, and live in Fairfax County, Va. Paul was thrilled recently to hear from Steve Goldschmidt '69 and Peter Laurence '69, classmates he had not spoken to in three decades. ----- From July/August 2001 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Jean-Francois Galy operates La Boutique, a fun and nautically- inclined retail store located in Le Méridien Hotel. Anybody visiting Boston is welcome to come and visit and alumni interested in operating a retail gift shop in partnership or otherwise...please drop a line! ----- From February/March 2001 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Charlotte (Coleman) Tyler came back to the US after spending many years abroad, and started her own business manufacturing and marketing high-end ornamental soap. (www.ornamentalsoap.com) After an initial very encouraging response in the market, sales have been growing steadily. Still a one person operation for the moment, she suspects that she'll be needing extra hands to help with production, shipping, marketing, etc. very shortly. |
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