The Log of the West Wind

2022 News of Friends and Alumni

Congratulations and best wishes to Kirsten Berggren and Jason Knight, who got engaged on Christmas morning! Jason and Kirsten first met at Kabeyun in 1992 and have been a couple since 2018. They plan to marry in Vermont later this year, with a "pre-party mountain bike ride optional but recommended." Jason coordinates Kabeyun's counseling internship program and Kirsten is one of our nurses.

More marriages to celebrate: In 2022, Curtis Edwards and Lindsay Dodge married at camp in August, Alden Hopkins and Katie Tierney married in Vermont, and Duncan Millar and Faith Barbin married in Maine.
 

Doug Fleming is a physician working to develop vaccines for cancer, malaria, and tuberculosis at the German company BioNTech. He lives in Berlin. Doug’s son Teo Fleming lives in Los Angeles, where he works for Amazon Web Services.
 

Pen Hallowell is an ESG (Environmental, social, and corporate governance) Analyst for Berkshire Bank in Boston and is studying for his MBA at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. Pen graduated from Colby College in 2021.
 

Josh Kurlantzick has published a new book. Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World analyzes China's attempt to become a media, information, and influence superpower. Josh is a Senior Fellow for Southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations.
 

In June, 18 members of the extended Latham-Robinson family and friends spent 16 days rafting and hiking in the Grand Canyon. The two-generation group covered 226 miles on the river, putting in at Lee’s Ferry and taking out at Diamond Creek, with many adventures (and a few misadventures) in between! Maria Latham and Paul Rosa took the lead in planning the trip, with lots of help from Bill Robinson and others.

Bob Linscott writes: “This past summer I finished a year-long apprenticeship to be certified in Awake in the Wild, a nature and wilderness-based meditation practice. My passion for all this began with the 'Mountains and Meditation' trips I started running at Kabeyun in the early 90's. Mindfulness has also shifted my career focus. This fall, I transitioned into a city government job focused on utilizing mindfulness as a behavioral health intervention for older adults in Boston, a new initiative for any city as far as we know.”
 

In early October, Colin Lunetta completed the Appalachian Trail. Colin started in Maine and hiked south, covering 2,194 miles in 116 days. He says Maine's Saddleback Mountain and the Bigelow and Mahoosuc ranges were his favorite portions of the trail. Colin lives in Sandy, UT. 

Playwright Greg Pierce has a new production. He wrote the libretto for the opera, The Hours, which had its stage premier at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in November. Greg also wrote the libretto for the 2016 opera Fellow Travelers.
 

Angus Pratt has been working for Fidelity Investments since graduating from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 2020. Angus lives in Cambridge, MA. His brother Conor also works for Fidelity and lives in Manchester, NH. Last fall, Angus took a fantastic trip to the Grand Canyon with his mom Kate, sister Grace, and friend Rory Duncan.

In September, a dozen Kabeyun counselors, campers, and alumni joined Patch Remington on Mt. Moosilauke, where he completed hiking all 48 of New Hampshire's 4,000-footers one week before his 13th birthday. Patch first climbed about a third of the mountains on the list on Kabeyun trips.

Tom Rice writes: “I’m living in Shelburne, Nova Scotia. My wife Jenny and I welcomed Wyatt John Rice into the world on February 21, 2021. Hopefully Wyatt will be a 4th generation camper! For work, I am sailing as a 2nd officer onboard a 700-foot iron ore carrier on the Great Lakes and can attribute my passion for the water to my time sailing at Kabeyun.”

Max Serota graduated from Cornell with a degree in chemical engineering and has joined Chartwell Consulting, based in Boston. Max is having a lot of fun living in Cambridge with their partner.