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98 AN T I OC H CO L L E G E C L A S S O F 19 6 5 5 0 t h A N N I V E R S A R Y B O O K A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z L U T Z certain members of the Guatemalan elite and their friends among the ex- pat community, as“communists”and “Indian sympathizers.”Warned by an American friend that our lives would be in danger if we stayed,we left the country in January of 1981. We moved to Vermont, trauma- tized by the reality of the situation we had left and filled with sorrow for the people and commitments we had to leave behind. Chris worked hard in the next years as publisher and editor of the journal, Mesoamerica , a publication begun in Guatemala that he was able to bring with him to the United States. In 1984 I be- gan what would turn into a seven- year master’s program at Dartmouth College. In 1990 we moved to Boston for several reasons. We were sick of small town life, I wanted to be near other artists in an urban set- ting, and Chris, who doesn’t drive, would have access to public trans- portation and the wonders of the Harvard library system. It was around this time that he decided to found a non-profit called MEF (Maya Educational Foundation) which gives scholarships to young Mayans who would not otherwise have the opportunity to pursue an education. I shared a studio space with another Antioch graduate, Elaine Spatz Rabinowitz, and we both renewed our acquaintance with Antioch alums Jemi Faust and Leslie Gould. During the early ‘90s I, with three others, developed an old factor y bui lding in Cambr idge into artist live/work space. We still happily live there today. Chris continues to research and write history and continues his work with both CIRMA and the MEF. I try to spend as much time as pos- sible in my spacious, north-facing studio when not called upon to help clear up some of the confu- sion caused by the chaos of our former years.When asked recently by a new friend if we “had always been this busy,” I replied, “oh yes, but it is worse now because we have to sort out and clean up all the messes we built all those years ago!” I continue to show my paint- ings, however infrequently, at the Bromfield Gallery in the South End of Boston. Periodically over the last two decades we have spent time living and studying French in both Paris and Villefranche-sur- mer. Our children are now in their forties with children of their own. Sarah, a painter, lives in the West Village in New York with her hus- band and two girls,16 and 14. Ian,his wife, and two boys, 16 and 13, live on an alpaca farm in Weathersfield, Vt.where they care for chickens and 250 alpacas, give or take a few. Chris with Michael and Ethel Weinberg in Paris. Chris in Guatemala.