RE LOG Fall 2017

68 Ransom Everglades LOG FALL 2017 1968 Jeanne Weinkle , Everglades Class of 1968 reunion chair, attended the Everglades Class of 1967 festivities this past April to start the planning for her 50-Year Reunion on April 27-28, 2018. To get involved with the Everglades Class of 1968 Reunion, please contact Jeanne at jeanneweinkle@gmail.com . Jeanne is pictured above with Kathleen Kennedy- Olsen ’68 and Jan Salvesen Morrison ’69 at the Everglades Class of 1967 Dinner. 1972 Tiffany Bell, see Marley Lewis ’01. Sarah Miller Barothy ’72, Juliana Field ’72, Lili Krech Neale ’69 and Mary Beth Norton Durant ’69 met up in Washington, D.C., at the memorial service for environmentalist Joe Browder in November 2016. Ransom Everglades School 1975 Antonio Ardila visited with Head of School Penny Townsend in Bogota, Colombia, in April. During the visit, Mrs. Townsend learned of the many accolades of Club Atlético Nacional S. A., also known as Atlético Nacional – which is owned by Ardila’s family company. Atlético Nacional was founded in March 1947 as Club Atlético Municipal de Medellín by Luis Alberto Villegas López, a former president of the football league of Antioquia, and officially acquired Organización Ardila Lülle in 1996. Atlético Nacional, based in Medellín, has the largest number of fans and won the most championships in Colombia. One of only three teams to have played in every first-division tournament in the country’s history, Atlético Nacional has won 16 league titles, three Copa Colombia and two Superliga Colombiana for a total of 21 domestic titles. It also has the most international titles of any Colombian club, having also won the Copa Merconorte twice, the Copa Interamericana twice, and the Recopa Sudamericana once. In 2016, Atlético Nacional was ranked by IFFHS as the best football club in the world. It is also ranked as the best Colombian club in the 21st century. Jose Tamayo is the founder and director of FUTSOC USA, a youth soccer club based in Weston, Fla., serving players from ages 6 to 23. Now in its 18th year, FUTSOC – a portmanteau of the sport’s two names, futbol and soccer – is routinely ranked among the nation’s most successful clubs as measured by on-field success, player development and college placement of its graduates. Jose, who also juggles a career in international banking, shares duties at the club with his sons Francisco, Carlo and Armando. 1976 Theodore Etzel , a proud member of RE’s Class of 1976, purchased a bottle of Dom Perignon vintage 1976 in honor of his class year at REPA’s auction – Celebrate the 305! James Franklin writes, “In June I marked my 35th anniversary of working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and celebrated by promptly retiring from NOAA on June 30. The last 18 of those 35 years were at the National Hurricane Center, where I started as a hurricane forecaster and concluded my career as chief of forecast operations. Before that I worked at the NOAA Hurricane Research Division on Virginia Key, making nearly 100 aircraft penetrations into the eyes of hurricanes, including Gloria (1985), Andrew (1992), and Mitch (1998), and publishing a number of academic papers, some useful. In June, Sandra Harris Franklin ’78 and I also celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary. Our daughter Rachel will be starting her senior year at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota.” 1977 Carol Greenberg Brooks, see Brad Weiser ’78. Kit Pancoast Nagamura led a Japanese Culture Night at the home of her early childhood – The Kampong – last April 25, helping visitors explore traditional haiku, Japanese flower arrangement and foods and cocktails from Japan. She also shared reflections in a first-person story in the Miami Herald on the four years she lived on The Kampong, the estate her great- grandfather, David Fairchild, bought and planted for horticultural research. She and her parents lived in a tiny efficiency with a sleeping area, galley kitchen and one common space on the expansive land, enjoying its beauty and suffering through its tropical inconveniences. Kit now lives in Japan. Kit is pictured below with Lisa Shaw and Alison Spear during Reunion Weekend 2017 on the Everglades Campus. Read more here: http://hrld.us/2sI7Vb4. Charles Toppino, see Brad Weiser ’78 Warren Weiser, see Brad Weiser ’78 1978 Sandra Harris Franklin, see James Franklin ’76 Janet Lustgarten , the CEO and co-founder of Kx Systems, a data analysis company, was featured earlier this year in a story on the website of the film “Dream, Girl.” The documentary and its website strive to inspire Class Notes