1970s

Stephanie White ’79 recently retired after a 26-year tenure at Xerox in Rochester, New York, and five additional years at QED Technologies. She has just moved to be closer to her grandbabies in Saratoga County, NY. Widowed a few years ago, she is making new memories and looking forward to more trips with besties in retirement! Pictured here in Hawaii with friends: On the far left, Jennifer White Draa ’81, and Stephanie is third from left.

March 2026

Remember January’s mystery of the missing class ring!? We have now united the ring with its happy new owner, Martha Caldwell ’74! Martha writes, “When I saw the lost-and-found ’74 class ring in the January newsletter, I made inquiries. Forty years ago, my own ASL ’74 class ring was “pinched” from my hotel room during a move. After years of online searches and contacting Balfour—all fruitless—I see an ASL ’74 class ring with a blue stone! I contacted the alumni office, and since no owner had claimed it, the ring has now found a grateful home with me. It’s a men’s ring, so it’s on the larger side, but I now don’t mind that arthritic knuckle on my ring finger (NOT!). Thank you to the gentleman who kindly sent the ring to ASL when he found it. An unexpected and happy ending.”

February 2026

Rondi Frey ’73 writes: “Hello fellow alumni from 1973! Happy New Year and wishing you all a wonderful year ahead. We finished 2025 strong with a magnificent adventure to the Galapagos Islands, and news that a new grandson will make his debut in our family in mid-April. We are blessed and grateful. If you are ever in or passing through Trumbull, Connecticut, I would love to reconnect!”

January 2026

Christian Stevens ’75 writes: “Greetings from sunny old London! You read that right: Ten consecutive cloudless days. Freezing, of course, but dry for once! I had occasion to lunch in St. John's Wood and took some time to walk our old stomping grounds, such as Panzers Deli—which, in the early ’70s, was a quaint purveyor of odd foods, known mainly for stocking quite a selection of American goods. Abbey Road is now so crowded you can hardly cross the street without getting run over by influencers! They even have an app so families abroad can watch loved ones via CCTV. In typical British fashion, there is a queue, and everyone is very polite as they wait their turn. The tea room on the high street, where we snuck off to have something sweet (spoiling our lunch and rotting our teeth), didn't keep pace with the millennial-ification of the area... All swanky shops and Chelsea Tractors (Range Rovers)—but didn't we just have some fun back then?”

January 2026

Lawrence Hanley ’79 writes: “After almost 40 years in higher education—20 years as a faculty member at City University of New York, followed by 15 years as a professor at San Francisco State University—I retired into emeritus status last year. My forever-ladyfriend and I have since relocated from the Bay Area to Portland, Oregon, where I'm enjoying my new career as a gentleman farmer, and occasional gigs as a blues and jazz piano player. I get back to London on a semi-regular basis to meet up with friends and co-conspirators.”

January 2026

Lori Miller Trujillo ’76 writes: “Mario and I relocated to a rural northeastern New Mexico village, population 250, five years ago. Cattle-ranching is the name of the game for us here. We have five daughters between us: four are in New Mexico and one in Colorado. Mario will be put on a double-lung transplant list in the next couple of months. We will need to relocate to Phoenix for three to six months for that game-changer. It will probably preempt my attendance at the Class of 1976 reunion in September… but he's worth it!”

January 2026