My Prom Date Goes All the Way

Congratulations to my prom date for making a great decision: Annabelle Richardson ’94 is engaged.

Annabelle (Cedar Rapids H.S. ’90-91, Deerfield ’94, Boulder ’94-95, Hamilton ’98, Imaginary Forces ‘current) may best be known as the only person to go from public school “pom-pom and pigtails” cheerleader to turn to sweater/megaphone/socially selective senior “cheerleader”….and a rare Iowa’n at prep school.

In the spirit of this news, please enjoy these photos of this year’s Choate Day Banners in the run up to DA’s “thumping” of Choate 31-6 (word of the month - Nov ’06) AT Choate on Saturday, November 11.

Elements of what appears to be an expanded spirit week included: “Everybody Wear Green” Day and a baffling Deerfield orchestrated re-baptism of Choate with some type of pig nick-naming..curious.

If anyone can shed light on the deal with the Choate pig thing, please email me.

The full wedding announcement is here.

UPDATE 12.10.06: Is a pep rally bonfire supposed to look like a terrorist attack? Weird.

Lowry Brand Extension Continues

Greg Lowry continued the rapid expansion of the Lowry Brand on Saturday, August 5 by marrying Andrea Bleau at the Yacht club on Macinac Island, Michigan. Andrea (UT ’97, UT Law ’01) joins an exploding Lowry youth division that in the last 18 months has touched all Lowry siblings: Suzie (2 babies), Mathew (just engaged), Gus (just married), and Greg (marriage). More on this later.


9 months to the day of a DVD proposal, Lowboy (Eaglebrook ’91, DA ‘ 94, Texas A&M ‘ 98, UT Law ’01, Segal McCambridge ‘current) and Andrea had a backyard style wedding on the tiny island of Macinac.

True to Lowry form, the island was a 273 mile road trip from Detroit, an afternoon jaunt for a family that drove from San Antonio to Massachusetts every September and June from 1985 – 1994 shuttling prep school children. Maybe the reason the Lowrys became so smitten with Macincac island??? On Macinac there are no cars …..or even golf carts allowed (Take that Sichol and the 2001 Ocean Reef Club island nuptials) There are lots of horse carriages. As a result, it is very quiet …and untrafficky ….and smells like horsecrap everywhere. There is also actual horsecrap everywhere, which leads to a lot of walking around with your head down.

We did manage enough “head up” time to notice the following:

This wedding had many unique features - a keg, solo plastic party cups, a bike rack, flip flops on the groom, and a mid-ceremony performance by musical duo Genie (mother of Greg, St. Louis ’60 something) and Matthew (Deerfield ’91, Boulder 7 years, Boulder Law ‘ 02, and Rocky Mountain School ‘current). At DA, Matthew was a Mellow D and was the missing member of Vertical Horizon. He’s still got it…and also a new fiancé, Heather. She is the cousin of Timo Weymouth (DA’91), they met at Timo’s wedding, and they currently live on Campus as faculty at the Colordao Rocky Mountain school, the mountain time zone’s answer to the Chewonki Maine Coast Semester. I was very proud to learn that she is currently reading Prep.













More salaciously, there was some guy there in a Hot Rod shirt. During the dinner speeches, as Greg approached him for the public post-speech hug/cheek kiss he audibly told Greg dead seriously “Kiss me and I’ll break your neck”. Here is the shirt he was wearing. Here he is eyeing someone’s neck. Looks like it was on his mind.

Lots more individual DA News on Sichol, engagements, and other events on the Social Calendar after the jump....Click below.



The aforementioned Adam Sichol (DA’94, Hamilton ’98, Tuck Business ‘ 06, Chicago ‘current) showed great effort driving up 5 hours and ferrying solo as wife Lowey babysat the twins. Sichol has relocated to Evanston, IL and begins a new job in the real estate world on August 14.

Gus Lowry (DA ‘ 93, Texas A&M ’97, UT-San Antonio Med ’02, Anethesia ‘current) got married in June to Jenny from Louisiana. Here is a photo.

Staying in the 01342, here are some events on the upcoming Deerfield Social Calendar:

• The now Annual “Boys of ’94 - NFL Fantasy Football Draft Weekend” – Lake Tahoe, August 12-13
• The second incarnation of the DA Triathlon Team’s Race – August 2006
• DA Class of ’94 reunion – June 2009 (Sadly, the next widespread social event on the calendar)

Full Kodak Gallery of Photos Here.

Exeter Kids Take Shots During the Day

Exeter Kids Also Take Shots During the Day

For the superlative of “Most Convenient Wedding of 2006” - Kevin Gottehrer’s ““negotiated joint venture and strategic alliance” with Heather Oakley in Napa Valley on Derby Day holds the lead by many lengths….


This is the “Exeter Shot” that was announced on the mic – I got excited thinking it meant a drink, not a photograph. But here it is anyways.

Pictured left to right are: Dan Gilabne (Exeter ’94, Brown ’98, HBS ’04?), Eleanor Gilbane (Exeter ’94, Duke ’98), Brendon Reardon (Exeter ’95, Georgetown ’99), Greg O’Shaughnessey (Exeter ’92, Yale ’96, Yale Law ’99?). Heather Oakly Gottehrer, Kevin, Berk Mesta (Exeter ’92, Lehigh ’96), and Ken Nelson (Exeter ‘ 94, Vanderbilt ’98)

My first ever apartment roommate – 2 unsupervised 17 year olds in D.C. - Kevin (Exeter ’94, Brown ’98, BU Law ’01, Parker Poe ‘life) married Heather in a private residence/vineyard.

In honor of my prep school cousins from Exeter, I want to highlight they too proved “worthy of their heritage” with an event focused on day time drinking – with a 2:30 call time to match. When the shout went out for an “Exeter Shot”, I scrambled to join in on some Exonian colored bloody mary mix or cranberry juice concoction (ed note: Exeter’s shares Harvard’s crimson as their color) , and instead disappointedly stumbled upon the traditional alumni magazine photo.

Rappa and I scooped up a place card for table # “Kennebunkport” – and I initially felt like Eli Manning holding
a Chargers jersey …hoping for “Palm Beach” …or even “Greenwich” if there was a any lottery or choice for preppy enclaves.

The way you feel about beads after mardi gras or the dinging of slot machines in the vegas airport on your way home – just nauseous – is pretty much how you feel about wine after 18 hours in Napa. Thankfully, Stoli, Tequila, and other shots that don’t come out of a cork’d bottle splashed across the vineyard and in to Kevin’s tuxedo creases.

As usual, there was a South Beach connection to the night – as both Officer Battle on leave and TRV were marauding the 305 simultaneously – and providing fellow Kennebunkporter Dan Gilbane live updates.

Napa has a neat county curfew of 10 PM, so the wedding ended early (just like at school). We did not have to check in face to face – though I brought a clipboard to the after-party at the Marriot’s Lobby Bar, “Characters”. Somehow, Ken and Caroline Nelson took advantage of my sloppiness and gained entry before I could establish my post at the doorway.

Full Ofoto album (mine) here.