Our Endeavors
This page highlights our classmates’ personal and professional endeavors
(e.g., adventures, businesses, publications, art portfolios, travel, performances, presentations, advocacy work, athletics).
Please email Peter Spalding if you would like your website featured. We will reply with details! peter.s.spalding@gmail.com
Kim Frame Weick
My husband Bruce (PHS ’69) and I began Fairport Crew Club in our back yard on the Ox Bow of the Canal in 1999. The Club was established to provide competitive rowing opportunities to area youth. FCC is a volunteer-run organization and is not associated with the Fairport School District. We have had more than 600 youth join the program. This season we have about seventy rowers.
Jane Alden Stevens
Jane Alden Stevens is a fine art photographer and educator. Inspired by familial, cultural and global history, her creative work has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally. The recipient of numerous teaching awards, she is a Professor Emerita of Fine Arts at the University of Cincinnati.
You can see her work here: Jane Alden Stevens
Jeffrey Evangelos
Jeffrey Evangelos is an American politician, political activist, and dissident who has long fought against injustice and our perpetual wars. He is a member of the Maine House of Representatives, serving 4 terms, as an independent. He serves on the Judiciary Committee, where he has long championed the rights of the innocent, our civil liberties, Native American rights and racial justice, and accountability for unjustified police violence in Maine as well as an advocate for world peace.
Peter Spalding
Peter Spalding started Fern Hill Compost as a manure management company. The engineered facility utilizes Aerated Static Pile method for the thermophilic destruction of parasites, pathogens, and weed seeds in the manure. The result is a high quality organic soil amendment, the sale of which provides a revenue stream for our equine operation.
Randy Roth
Randy Roth, CEO of Vitex, is recognized as an expert in bank management and technology. He has authored articles for national and regional trade publications and has need asked to share his vision with hundreds of bank leaders at numerous state and national banking forums.
Ann Taves
Ann Taves, Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, has been studying unusual experiences that researchers variously characterize as religious mystical, anomalous and/or pathological. Her most resent publication is Revelatory Events: Three Case Studies of the Emergence of New Spiritual Paths (Princeton). You can read about her here.
Jennifer Q Smith
Avant Garb Mascots started in my Berkeley garage, before mascots were even a thing. The 1st mascot was for a teensy cookie company – our second was for Hewlett Packard.
We now design & create magnificent mascots for just about everybody including U Buffalo, the Cavs —- and Hewlett Packard is still a client.
Lydia Cassorla
Lydia Cassorla is a Professor Emerita of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care at the University of California, San Francisco. She specialized in the care of pediatric and adult cardiac surgery patients and participated in the hands-on training of nearly 1000 anesthesia resident physicians. Since early 2020 she has worked as a member of the COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Board of the International Anesthesia Research Society, helping to produce an open-source newsletter on peer-reviewed research publications. The Board curates and summarizes quality COVID-19 related research for the benefit of busy front-line health care providers. Free access to the IARS Covid-19 resources website including the Newsletter can be found here.
Cynthia Scott
My work incorporates salvaged, recycled and otherwise easily obtainable materials to explore sociopolitical issues, often hybridizing the old with the new. I like the idea that art can be made out of anything at hand. Using such “repurposed” materials also appeals to my sense of Earth stewardship in the desire to utilize nearly everything that crosses my path at least twice before getting rid of it. I am a member of The Front, a nonprofit artist-run gallery that “engages and enriches the New Orleans community by providing accessible exposure to exceptional contemporary art.”
Betsy Lee Taylor
With a group of professional artists, Betsy helped form the Earth & Arts Center in her village of Honeoye Falls, NY. As it grew it reorganized as a non-profit offering art classes with a fantastic gallery to help support and enrich it, becoming Mill Art Center & Gallery. Betsy taught drawing and painting, installed exhibits, sold her works and the art of hundreds of artists. After her move from Honeoye Falls, you can now find Betsy involved in everything Hull Artists. You can find her paintings in Gallery Nantasket, The Cohasset Senior Center, Nantasket Sweets, and in Nantasket Beach Resort. See her website HERE. Click to open Betsy Lee Taylor is still an artist.
Craig Bramley
Craig Bramley has been involved with various charitable works in Haiti for 17 years now. Back in 2013, he and his son Cole started a small 501(c)(3) (Northern Haiti Sustainability Initiative, Inc., aka NHSI). Our mission is to finance and help administer the operations of a rural mountain school in Northern Haiti. Craig and some Canadian friends acquired the land and built the school in about 2012. They provide books, uniforms, teacher and other employee wages, school supplies, food, and supplies to maintain the school’s campus, crops and water supply. Craig makes the trip to the school every year