Martine Bertin-Peterson
2979 Snake Hill Road,
Doylestown, PA 18902.
email:martinebertinpeterson@gmail.com

267-544-5048 (H), 973-222-7957 (C)

Leaving HCHS after my Junior year was a sin for which a number of my classmates never forgave me. Perhaps their resolve has softened after 55 years! I received a BA and MA in French Literature from Binghamton University (then Harpur College and SUNY Binghamton). I taught HS French and Spanish for a couple of years before realizing that it wasn’t for me. I went back to school (University of Buffalo) and got an MBA in Finance.

I met my husband, Karl, in the MBA program and we have one fabulous daughter, Alexandra, who was married in 2018. Alex and her husband have 2 beautiful daughters. Many if you know how wonderful it is to be a grandmother!

I had a great corporate career for 30 years and held a variety of senior management positions for several companies including IBM, Jensen-Jones, Dow Jones and Accenture. I have always loved to travel and was fortunate to travel extensively internationally (and domestically) for work.

In 2003, my husband and I “retired” and established The Peterson-Cody Gallery, a nationally recognized, high-end, fine art gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico which we owned and managed for 8 years. We sold the gallery in 2012 and moved back east to Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

A serial entrepreneur, I also own and manage a boutique travel company, Goût et Voyage, LLC. I accompany small groups (6 max) to Provence, France and Umbria, Italy for gourmet cooking and culture vacations. Several classmates have suggested having an HCHS reunion in Provence...I’m there! (www.goutetvoyage.com). I continue to travel as often as I can.

I volunteer at several non-profit organizations and am currently President of the Alliance Française of Doylestown, PA .

These are some of my fondest Hunter memories:

1. My closest friends: Dody Ober, Marcia Osborne, Marlene Jeenel, Melinda Haas, Elly Greenberg, Heidi Javna, Doris Abrahams and (with a heavy heart) Judy Gruber…and so many more.
2. Dody Ober refused to eat the scalloped fish au gratin we had to prepare in Home Ec. (Who makes 7th grade girls prepare scalloped fish au gratin??? What ever happened to chocolate pudding?) and snuck it into our (shared) locker. It remained there over Christmas break. I will never forget the smell in the locker room and  my shock when I realized it was coming from our locker!
3. I was always in gym class when we had our fire drills and will never forget parading onto Park Avenue in those beautiful blue gym suits.
4. Ice cream sodas and cigarettes at Mayhew’s after school. We were oh so “sophisticated.”
5. Celebrating birthdays with flower corsages.
6. My “senior” English class with Peggy Monkmeyer.
7. Mrs. Wells instructing us on how to use hat pins if anyone “bothered” us on the subway.
8. Loving school and not understanding why my non-HCHS friends hated theirs.

Here’s my contact info:
e-mail: martinebertinpeterson@gmail.com,  267-544-5048 (H), 973-222-7957 (C)