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Alumni Updates and News from Oxford Academy

Class of 1960
Bill Daniel sent greetings to Oxford via Head of School Cocchiola. He has been hunkered down in AL during the pandemic.

Classes of 1963 and 1964
Frank “Scotty” Anderson ’64 was reappointed Chair, Hawaii State Elections Commission. He also met with Tom Bookey ‘63 in Chicago in early March while visiting there and they reminisced about Oxford together. (pictured right)

Class of 1986
Sean Keefe called and said he is still in contact with John Masden ’94 who was a student of Sean’s when he taught at Oxford. John lives in Thousand Oaks, CA and they recently got together.

Class of 1993
Junichi Kawashima visited the campus with his parents and son in October and was impressed by the changes. It was the first time he had come back in over 25 years. Junichi has been in touch with JaeMi Pennington ’95, a member of Oxford’s Board of Trustees.

Class of 2000
Andrew Gooss zoomed in for a call with Head of School, Mr. Cocchiola, and said he was in the city near Manhattan working from home at his job doing graphic design and hanging in there during the pandemic.

Class of 2003
Cary Pew was officially voted onto the Board of Trustees at Oxford Academy and joined his first meeting in June (via Zoom!). Welcome, Cary!

Class of 2006
A new member of the Board of Trustees, Evan Powell, was married on February 29, 2020, in New Orleans, LA to Mallorie Fine. Congratulations!

Class of 2013
Geoffrey Dickey and his wife Kendal welcomed a new baby girl, Scarlett, to the family in May. Big sister Sophia is thrilled and so is Janet Dickey, former Oxford Trustee, and a proud grandma. Congratulations to all!

Alex Dorr graduated three years ago from Hampshire College and two years ago he started his own medicinal mushroom company, mushroom- revival.com. He has been on a mission to share the healing benefits of mushrooms with the masses after it helped him heal from Lyme disease. His company was selected to be part of an accelerator program in Austin. Alex wrote a book Mycoremediation Handbook: A Grassroots Guide to Growing Mushrooms and Cleaning Up Toxic Waste with Fungi. If you want to learn more you can go to https://grow.bio/blogs/grow-bio-blog/giy-maker-spotlight-alex-dorr. (pictured right)

Class of 2015
Andrew Rohleder graduated from Lynchburg College and hopes to move to the DC area when things settle down.

Class of 2018
Our heartfelt condolences to Joe Henry on the recent passing of his mother, Sally Dungan, in April.

Alumni, please contact the Alumni and Development Office with any news you would like to share and we will be happy to oblige! Be sure we have your email address! development@oxfordacademy.net