Class Notes

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Fall 2007

HAPPY FALL, Class of 1998! Hope everyone is planning on coming to Midd for our upcoming 10th reunion on June 6–8. Get fired up! • Ron Nobile reports happily that he and Amy welcomed Madely Quincy Nobile on May 22. The Nobile family lives in Red Bank, N.J. Ron wrote in with other Longwell news: “Scotty (Scopes) Nelson and Mike Nally recently became dads, Andy (Phee Phee) McPhee married Julie Bergofsky ’02 on July 14, James Farrell ’99 is still swinging single, and Nick Temple ’99 is a Hollywood rockstar.” • On May 9, Lillian Hethcote was born to Kathryn Gordon Hethcote and husband Kevin. The Hethcote family lives in Seattle where Kathryn works as a third grade teacher in the public schools and Kevin co-owns a design/build business specializing in custom wood and metal designs. • Allison Brachlow and Benjamin Golnik ’00 were married on April 27 in St. Paul, Minn. Ben is the regional political director for the Midwest for Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. Allison is a pediatrician at the Univ. of Minnesota. • Tyler Nottberg writes, “My wife, Leigh, daughter Maggie, and I welcomed our latest addition to the family, Andrew Henry Nottberg, on January 22. We are all doing well in Kansas City, where I’m working with U.S. Engineering Company, a mechanical construction firm that has been in operation since my great-great-grandfather founded it in Cologne, Germany, in 1850 and moved it to the U.S. in 1893.” • On June 2, Shruthi Mahalingaiah and Henning Willers were married at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Cambridge, Mass. The wedding had two parts—the first ceremony was done at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston and was officiated by Prof. Andrea Olsen of the College. The second was a traditional Hindu ceremony conducted by Rev. Ami Balodkar. Shruthi is currently the chief resident in obstetrics and gynecology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She’s planning to specialize in reproductive endocrinology. Her husband is a radiation oncologist at the Boston Univ. Medical Center. They live in Brookline, Mass. • Kimberly Finnigan was recently named an associate at Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna LLP, the largest law firm in the Albany, N.Y., area. She’s working primarily in the firm’s health care and immigration practices. With a J.D. from William & Mary Law School, she also worked for Baker & McKenzie’s securities regulation practice in Madrid, Spain, and interned with the Clinton County (N.Y.) Office of the District Attorney and the New York State Supreme Court. • Although she lives in South Portland, Maine, Erin Cinelli’s work is actually in Italy. She’s the executive director of the Spannocchia Foundation, an organization that supports the idea of sustaining cultural landscapes through its work on a Tuscan agricultural estate. It’s the fund-raising arm of the activities on the Spannocchia property, a working organic farm near Siena, Italy, that offers internships, educational opportunities, and agritourism stays. The property was bought in 1925 by Erin’s great-grandfather and has been in her family ever since. • When sending in their wedding photo, Ian Berger added these details about his marriage to Erin Dempsey. “Erin and I were married on a beautiful summer afternoon in Mead Chapel on July 29, 2006. A wild reception followed at the Waybury Inn. Although our food was great, I am from New York City and couldn’t possibly get married without eating some form of pizza—so Neil and Otto’s made a special delivery later that night. It might have been the first pizza delivery man I ever hugged.” • Have a great fall, everyone. Please write in with more updates!

Class Secretaries
Nate Johnson (nate_johnson@mac.com)
Katie Whittlesey Comstock (katie.comstock@staubach.com)



Summer 2007

Happy Summer, Class of 1998! We hope everyone is getting fired up about our 10th REUNION which is coming up June 6–8, 2008! Get ready to return to our beautiful campus, stay in the dorms, and stay up late into the night at a McCullough dance party. YEAH! Our fifth was an outrageously good time and it was so fun to catch up with everyone. Jennifer Beaumont Wilfrid created a Class of 1998 group on PantherNet and suggests that everyone log onto www.middleburyalumni.org and subscribe to our group. After you log on you should click “online discussions” and then subscribe to the “Class of 1998” group. Her sister uses Princeton’s TigerNet a lot for job searching and networking, and it’s a great tool we should start using! • Davin Wilfrid has left the world of hard-hitting shoeleather newspaper journalism for a cushy gig covering IBM at a tech publication in the Boston area. He writes a weekly newsletter for IT managers and edits a techie magazine full of words and concepts he doesn’t remotely understand. Davin and wife Jennifer recently attended the christening of Colin and Shayla Schneider ’99 O’Neil’s second child, James Thomas O’Neil, before Colin and Shayla made their 451st relocation back to Manhattan from Boston. On summer weekends, Davin can still be found playing baseball with fellow Midd baseball team alum Andy Katz ’00. • John Twiss gives us his flight status from Houston, where he is the transatlantic network-planning analyst at an airline company. John observes, “If my company was a Midd dining experience, I think it would be that Dolce restaurant Jill started; if my company was a performance at Midd, it would be On Tap; if my company was a social house, I’d like to think it was the Mill, but that would probably be inaccurate.” In between working on the airline’s Athens and Mumbai route, playing on a soccer team (with Coert Voerhees ’96 who John reports is very good), and voyaging to random towns in Texas to reunite with Jason Boatright, Jordan Lungstrum Blackburn, and Jenny Arnold for barbecues, John spent April in Nepal helping to build a greenhouse at a Buddhist nunnery. • Juliana Popper Dapice writes, “Surprisingly enough, Alaska is teeming with Middlebury folks. I’m working for the Nature Conservancy and the Alaska state director, Randy Hagenstein ’81, went to Middlebury, as did the producer of the local public radio nightly news show, Annie Feidt ’97. My husband has just returned from Iraq and we are stationed in Alaska, in the process of transitioning out of the Army. Just a bit of Midd news from the North.” • R. Kirby Salerno writes, “I ran into Martha Shay Trail and her youngest daughter while dropping my two-year-son Liam off at a playgroup in Newton, Mass. Didn’t have much time to chat because we got called to the ‘song circle’ to sing ‘The wheels on the bus...’ ” Kirby, wife Heather, and Liam made the suburban leap to Needham in December 2006. • Jessica Riley would like to make people aware of her green kids clean water project London Frog to help raise awareness and find a solution for the world’s water crisis. For more info go to http://thelifeofriley.zaadz.com. • Mike ’00 and Kristine Platou Aaron welcomed their second boy into the world in March and are loving life in London. If anyone is visiting London, please let them know (kpaaron@greengrassdesign.com). • Stephen ’94 and Andress Beck Pettibone had second daughter Kellogg Claire Pettibone on January 12, 2007. • Kelly Johnson and Katie Whittlesey Comstock reunited in January for cocktails in Buenos Aires. Kelly was in South America for a white-water rafting trip in Chile, and Katie was hiking and camping in amazing Patagonia (Bariloche, El Calafate, and El Chalten) with husband Kevan ’97 and fellow Midd Chicagoans Jay ’01 and Alison Vratil Mikula ’99. Kelly recently relocated from Miami Beach to San Francisco where she is an account director with Goodby, Silverstein & Partners.  • In London, Suwha Hong is studying fashion design and husband Tim Weld is working in private equity. • On September 2, 2006, Ryan Harter married Leslie Dam at the Bel-Air Bay Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif. After a honeymoon in French Polynesia, they returned home to Hollywood Hills. Ryan is VP of investments and development at CIM Group, a real estate development company based in Hollywood. His wife is a recruiting manager with White and Case in Los Angeles. • At the Hudson Theater in Manhattan, Lela Moore and Steven Ryan were married on March 31. Lela is a news assistant at the New York Times and her husband is the assistant producer of Talking Movies, a weekly television show on BBC World. He’s also a puppeteer at the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater company. • Please write in with tales of Midd encounters and updates about you and your friends! See you next June!

Class Secretaries
Nate Johnson (nate_johnson@mac.com)
Katie Whittlesey Comstock (katie.comstock@staubach.com)



Spring 2007

Aubrey Cattell (finally) graduated from the JD-MBA program at Northwestern Law/Kellogg School of Management last June. “Now I’m practicing in the Colorado office of Cooley Godward, a Silicon Valley law firm, doing corporate and licensing work for technology startups. More importantly, wife Cindy and I welcomed our first child, son Thatcher, into the world in February 2006. The whole family is currently living in Boulder, Colo., and enjoying our initial forays into the mountains so anyone living here or just passing through should please feel free to get in touch.” • Scott Nelson and wife Emily welcomed into the world Foster Scott Nelson on November 22, 2006, and enjoyed celebrating the holiday season with their beautiful new baby boy. After a stint on the West Coast when Scott worked at the ad agency Chiat Day in San Francisco, the family moved to Boston’s South End. Scott now works at Converse in the marketing department as the global manager of advertising. • Carole Stromboni (exchange 1997-98) visited Sumita Pahwa in Cairo, Egypt, where the two reminisced about Middlebury, exchanged news of Midd friends, and even looked up Class Notes together. Sumita escaped dreary Baltimore to write her Ph.D. dissertation in comparative politics in the more convivial climate of Cairo. Carole is now working in consulting for Cap Gemini in Paris and keeps in touch with Midd friends, especially Helene Andrawiss and Bongani Dlamini who are now happily married and also live in Paris. • Dan and Emily Olson McLean moved to Shelburne, Vt., last summer. Emily is teaching middle and high school art at U-32 in Montpelier and Dan is working as a reporter at the Burlington Free Press. • Kerra Struthers Mayor and husband Jimmy are proud to announce the birth of daughter Elizabeth Michelle Mayor on June 1, 2006. Jimmy and Kerra are enjoying watching Elizabeth grow and develop and are having fun learning to be parents. • Patrick Knightly and Dave Savarese are hittin’ it big in the San Diego music scene. You can contact them and hear a few of their latest songs on myspace.com/bunyansstake. • Bethany Silva was recently hired by the King Street Youth Center as their operations manager. She has eight years of teaching experience. • For 35 years a cross-country ski race known as the Vasaloppet has been run in Mora, Minn. For the sixth consecutive time, Chad Giese won the premier 58-kilometer freestyle event. “The community pushes me toward the finish line every year. The other competitors keep making fun of me, because all they hear is ‘Go, Chad!’ ” The race is a descendant of one run annually in Mora, Sweden, and Chad, along with several buddies, was planning in February to travel to Sweden to compete in the big Vasaloppet. • Chad Stokes (aka Chad Urmston) will be back on stage with Dispatch this summer when they do three benefit concerts at Madison Square Garden July 13, 14, 15. All the proceedings will go towards charity, including Chad’s own Elias Fund, a scholarship for students in Zimbabwe. Chad continues to play in the band State Radio, writing songs with a social conscience. One of the band’s new songs is “Sudan” about the genocide in Darfur.

Class Secretaries
Nate Johnson (nate_johnson@mac.com)
Katie Whittlesey Comstock (katie.comstock@staubach.com)



Winter 2007

Happy 30th birthdays, Class of 1998! Hope you all are celebrating this momentous occasion in style. Jill Patey celebrated her 30th with an August Pong Tournament on Cape Cod—the indulgent debauchery included “I heart JP” T-shirts and a bejeweled tiara. Please contact Jill if you would like to purchase one of these limited edition T-shirts. • Jenny Arnold, who relocated back to San Francisco from D.C., celebrated her 30th with a blow out in Tiburon; Midd attendees included Kelly Johnson, who just moved back to SF after three years in Miami Beach, Brian “I work for Google” Schmidt ’97 and Michelle Spina Schmidt, who just moved to SF from two heavenly years in Vermont. Kelly casually celebrated her 30th with a two-week trip to Italy. • Jess Perkins just moved to Seattle with husband Kelley to begin a neonatology fellowship (definition of the N word: Specializing in the care and treatment of newborn infants). In Seattle, Jess says she has reconnected with Ingrid Haight Killian and is having a blast. • Vic (Victorious) Abundis reports the notorious Myles Felsing, of the legendary Stew 2 boys, threw a bash in Laguna Beach, Calif., to celebrate his wedding day in August. Midd attendees included Gregory (Pooh-Bear) Poulos, Matt (Society) Lasek, Andy (The Grossman) Gross ’74, Steve Anderson ’73, Brett Alessi, Rob Cohen, Vic Abundis, Downtown Lauren Brown, and Rebecca Viscount. He also says that it was “great hangin’ out with Mike (Roachie) Roche ’97 at Pooh-Bear’s wedding.” Vic’s contact info: abundisv@parkhill.k12.mo.us. • Other amazing weddings of the summer included Tim Weld and Suwha Hong’s wedding in Middlebury. After a two-month honeymoon around the world, Tim and Suwha moved to London. • Kate Pinto and Michael Smith were married on June 3 in East Greenwich, R.I. Kate received her MBA from Johnson and Wales Univ. and is a senior technology project manager at Johnson and Wales. Michael is a technology manager also and together they co-own a restaurant/pub. • Sacha Janke and Jay Erickson were married on September 3 at the home of Jay’s parents in Southbury, Conn. They were married in a Russian Orthodox service (with Brandon Doyle playing the horn), and a celebratory dinner and dancing followed. The couple lives in NYC. • At Mead Chapel, Erin Dempsey and Ian Berger were married on July 29. Erin is working in Manhattan as the retail marketing director for the young readers division of Penguin, the British publishing company. Ian is a writer for television. • Damjan de Krnjevic-Miskovic married Zorica Zukanovic on September 10, 2006, in Belgrade in the private chapel of the Patriarchate of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the presence of best man Ivan Beraha and more than 250 other friends and family members. Damjan, the foreign policy advisor to the president of Serbia, and Zorica, the director of compliance at Serbia’s largest bank (Komercijalna Banka), are happily settling into their recently purchased apartment in the center of Belgrade. They may be reached at zorica.and.damjan@gmail.com. • Kevin Murphy got married on August 19. Murph and Melissa chartered a bareboat out of St. Martin for the honeymoon and sailed all over the Leeward Islands for two weeks. “We liked St. Barth’s the best, but Anguilla was beautiful, as well. Aside from Melissa’s brief bout with seasickness during the passage from St. Martin to St. Barth’s and one minor navigational error courtesy of yours truly (it was just the two of us, no captain, and I refused to use the GPS because I was trying to be a purist), the sailing was outstanding. We’re planning to do it again this spring or summer, maybe in the BVI or possibly in Croatia. I’ve also been working like a dog on my first bankruptcy case and a pro bono criminal appeal (also a first).” • Always the competent multitasker, within a short three-month span, Molly Campbell Voorhees graduated with an MBA from Stanford, moved home to Houston with husband Coert ’96, and gave birth to son Dayton Campbell Voorhees. • Dan and Melissa Loeben Nelson welcomed son Cooper Daniel George Nelson in October. Dan, who many of you know was on active duty for four years, has been recalled (from inactive reserves) for duty in Iraq, and reported to Fort Jackson on December 3. Dan, please know we are all thinking of you. • Tanner and Jordan Lungstrum Blackburn, of College Station, Texas, are happy to report that Owen James Blackburn was born on October 4 with a full head of Blackburn black hair. Dr. Tanner is still influencing innocent freshman minds as an engineering professor at Texas A&M. • Ben Dixon writes, “After my marriage to Emily Humphrey ’00, we took a honeymoon in Sardinia, Italy. I then finished with my job at Harvard where I had been a grants and contracts specialist and graduate student in sustainable development and environmental resource management. After a trip to Alaska to hike, kayak, and visit Sondra LeClair ’00, we moved to Canton, N.Y., just minutes south of the St. Lawrence River. We both work at St. Lawrence Univ. Emily is asst. professor of biochemistry, and I am the university coordinator of economic development. We are also now proud homeowners in Canton, and I have a new set of mountains to conquer—the Adirondacks.” • Last May, Kimberly Finnigan received her J.D. from William and Mary School of Law. She is working in a law firm in Albany, N.Y. • Cameron Dickson and Jan Groblewski are living in D.C. Cameron received her doctorate in clinical psychology from George Washington Univ. in May 2006 and Jan is a senior resident in otolaryngology/head and neck surgery at Georgetown Univ. Hospital.

Class Secretaries
Nate Johnson (nate_johnson@mac.com)
Katie Whittlesey Comstock (katie.comstock@staubach.com)



Fall 2006

We learned recently that Irina Marinov had a first author paper published in Nature, a prestigious scientific journal. The paper, “The Southern Ocean biogeochemical divide,” was the result of studies performed by a Princeton research team. Irina was also featured in another part of the journal as the star author of that issue. She’s pursuing postdoctoral research at MIT as a NOAA Fellow in climate and global change. Congratulations on your accomplishment, Irina! • Anne Marie Oberg Pelletier and husband Michael were thrilled to welcome son Griffin Oliver to the world on April 11. Anne Marie and Michael were married in May 2001, and have resided in the town of Canton, Conn., ever since. Anne Marie is on maternity leave from her executive position at the Hartford, where she oversees the research department for the group benefits division. After graduating from Midd she began her career in research working on the provider side managing research projects for Fortune 500 clients including Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Disney, and GlaxoSmith Kline. Michael is an IT professional who is a senior architect at Aetna. Anne Marie welcomes e-mails from classmates looking to reconnect at amopelletier@hotmail.com. • On June 17, Molly Kroon married James Jennings IV in Rumson, N.J. Molly is a freelance reporter for NY1 News, a cable channel in New York. She earned her master’s in journalism from Columbia. James, a graduate of the Univ. of Rhode Island, is a managing director of sales and trading in the New York office of W. R. Hambrecht & Co., a financial services company. • As Happy Girl Kitchen Co., Todd Champagne, wife Jordan and son Ry (4) continue to grow, brew, pickle, and juice organic foods near their country estate south of Santa Cruz, Calif. Migrant workers welcome! • Diana Wiss was married June 10 to Nelson Tebbe at the Round Barn Farm in Waitsfield, Vt. Diana is a marketing specialist in Manhattan in the global markets division of Deutsche Bank. She earned her MBA from Columbia. Nelson is an assistant prof. of law at St. John’s Univ. in Queens and a candidate for a Ph.D. in religious studies at the Univ. of Chicago. • In other wedding news, Jessica Perkins and Kelly Slusarski were married November 26, 2005, in Newport, R.I. Jessica, who graduated from Jefferson Medical College, will be doing a three-year fellowship in neonatology at the Univ. of Washington Medical Center. Kelly, a graduate of Creighton Univ., is a senior consultant with Mead and Hunt in Eugene. Jessica and Kelly live in Seattle. • Daniel Varholy led a discussion last winter at Connecticut College entitled, “Literary Studies: The Labor of Scholarship and the Labor of Faith in the Works of C.S. Lewis.” The event marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of the last book in Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia series. Daniel holds a doctoral degree in English language and literature from Oxford Univ. He was a member of Oxford’s Magdalen College, where C.S. Lewis was a fellow and tutor from 1925 to 1954. • In a recent “Focus on Faculty” article at Wellesley College, Evelina Guzauskyte was featured. An assistant prof. of Spanish, she teaches everything from basic language courses to intermediate studies of the culture and civilization of Latin America to seminars on Spanish literature. After Midd, Evelina went on to earn an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia.

Class Secretaries
Nate Johnson (nate_johnson@mac.com)
Katie Whittlesey Comstock (katie.comstock@staubach.com)



Summer 2006

Carol McMurrich and Greg Reynolds wrote in to say, “We are so happy to announce two safe arrivals—our son Liam Gregory, who was born on April 13, 2004, and our daughter Aoife Charlotte, who was born on March 27, 2006. Aoife’s middle name honors our first daughter, Charlotte Amelia, who was born and died in May of 2003. We are all doing well living in a beautiful old farmhouse in western Massachusetts, Greg teaching French, and Carol managing the little ones.” • Randi Borgen went on the women’s lacrosse trip to Florida. • Living large in Brooklyn, Lela Moore is now an editor at the New York Times and is focused on a very hot part of the business: “I work for TimesSelect, the subscription Web site that houses all of the op-ed and opinion columns and other web-only features like our burgeoning network of blogs.” Look for Lela’s bylines, which she admits are a “pretty cool” part of the gig. Lela received her master’s in journalism from NYU in 2004. • Dates ’97 and Lauren Brown Fryberger are living in Needham, Mass., with son Connor who was born in October 2005.

Class Secretaries
Nate Johnson (nate_johnson@mac.com)
Katie Whittlesey Comstock (katie.comstock@staubach.com)



Spring 2006

The legendary Vic Abundis reports that Greg Poulos got married on October 22 in Winona, Minn. Joining in the celebration were Matt Lasek, Myles Felsing, Brad Somma, Jon Sweeney, Tim Bianchi '95, Sean Bianchi, Mike Hussey '99, Mike Faucher '99, and Mike Szymanski. Vic writes: "Lasek has started working on his law degree at Colorado in Boulder. As for me, I'm teaching British and classical literature in Kansas City, which is an absolutely beautiful town-and the BBQ is amazing. Last year I traveled to Budapest, Prague, and Vienna for Christmas which was splendid, and this summer I will be back at Midd attending the Bread Loaf School of English." • Go West, young Bouchard! After spending much of his life in New England, Craig Bouchard has moved to San Diego. A three-mile trail of mittens, scarves, and long johns was seen on the Mass Pike on the day of his departure from Beantown. • Bryan Borgia recently "did the relay, a 199-mile running race in California from Calistoga to Santa Cruz with Steve Anderson and Craig 'Sparky' Van Valkenburgh '99." • June 4-10, Dan and Becky Walldroff Urbano will be participating in the AIDS/Lifecyle 5, riding the 585 miles from San Francisco to L.A. For more information, see www.teamurbano.com. • Matt Sheldon graduated from Hahvahd B-School in May 2005, moved the tribe to Pennsylvania, and is currently orbiting around Synthes, a medical device company. • Nate Johnson left his position at Apple Computer and is a first-year MBA at the Univ. of Mich. Meanwhile, Paige Budelsky Johnson holds down the fort and entertains their dog, Fenway, back in Silicon Valley. Thank goodness for frequent flyer miles and instant messaging!

Class Secretaries
Nate Johnson (nate_johnson@mac.com)
Katie Whittlesey Comstock (katie.comstock@staubach.com)



Winter 2006

After finishing her pediatric residency at Brown in June 2006, Jess Perkins will move to Seattle to do a neonatology fellowship. • Nate Johnson started business school at the Univ. of Mich. this fall. • Chris Farrell was headed to China for three months with his MBA program. • In California, Molly Campbell Voorhees is finishing her second year at Stanford Business School. • After spending a year in an art program in Boston, Katie Padden moved back to NYC to pursue a career as an artist; she's living in Brooklyn. • In Chicago, Kristin Arends is a brand manager for Events 360, producing events for nonprofit organizations. • Erin Mara is working for Staples in Waltham, Mass. • Emily Olsonis teaching high school art in New Hampshire, where she lives with husband Dan McLean and dog Marley. • Sophie Hardy moved back to D.C. for her second year of graduate school at Johns Hopkins SAIS: "I had a great first year studying in Italy in the land of tortellini (Bologna) and then did a summer internship in Buenos Aires. It's nice to be home after all that traveling and to catch up with Brett Alessi and Eric Hoffman, who are also living in D.C." • In NYC, Sacha Janke is working for nonprofit Transatlantic Partners Against AIDS (TPAA) that does HIV/AIDS advocacy work in Russia and Ukraine. "The job is extremely gratifying. I recently had dinner with P.J. Smith, Ryan Goldman, Hayden Baker, Tyler Lifton, Erika Crane-Stern, Jamie Houghtlin '96, and Sarah Kincaid (visiting from Madrid)." • Matt '96 and Martha Shay Trail are doing great at Tuck with Will (2.5) and Shay Gwendolyn (1). Martha's hanging with the kiddies during the day and trying to make the most of social opportunities at night. ... Paul and Catherine Trechak Rosenthal became the parents of twins Gabriel Jacob and Natalie Faith this past April. • Out in Vail, Colo., Randi Borgen and her fiancé, Patrik, welcomed son Erik Johan on September 12. • An anonymous source reports that San Francisco residents Myles Felsing and Andy Gross ran the S.F. marathon in July, along with Than'l Badder, who is living in NYC. • Matt Holt reports that he's living the good life, working for a charter sailing company in the British Virgin Islands. • On July 9, Jennifer Andrews and Adam Burke got married on Idlewild Island, one of New York's Thousand Islands on the St. Lawrence River. Jennifer received her MBA from MIT in May. Adam is an environmental engineer and an associate in environmental public policy research at Abt Associates, a consulting firm in Cambridge, Mass. • Eric Nadzo '97 and Liz Dubin were married on August 27 in Newport, R.I., and ran into Jess and Bob Rice on their honeymoon in Tahiti. Living in NYC, Eric is in his second year at Columbia Business School and Liz is an attorney practicing criminal and civil litigation. • Jennifer Beaumont and Davin Wilfrid celebrated their September 10 wedding at Harvard's Memorial Church. At an outrageously fun reception at the Harvard Faculty Club, over 30 Midd alums were rockin' on the dance floor. Joining the crowd in Cambridge were Heather and Kirby Salerno with son Liam Kirby Salerno, born July 1. • In September, Brandon Doyle played the French horn during the wedding ceremony of Cori Messinger '99 and Ben Kahn at Point Lookout, Maine, where he enjoyed catching up with a great group of 1998 and 1999 Midd grads. He has also been seen playing his horn on stage in a NYC rock band called Red Rooster (www.redroos.com) which boasts a loyal Middlebury following. • Now for a shout out to the women of 44 College Street: Marion Bright has been fending off invitations to Homecoming Dances and the sort while teaching at the Univ. of Iowa. In L.A., Elizabeth Gerber continues pulling small children out of the tar pits on the grounds of the LACMA, and spends her free time rock climbing wherever, whenever with a gaggle of young, single men. Diana Wiss, on the other hand, has broken the "not getting married until we're 30" pact made at 44 College Street—but if you're going to break a pact, might as well be for a tall, strapping law professor. Amy Coseo has had a run in with the law as well, but it's pretty well understood that everyone living in Montana has a run-in with the law. Kelly Johnson is actually avoiding the law, taking her business down to Brazil, where it is cheaper and the people actually know how to dance. Her job in Miami has given her loads of advertising experience and a boyfriend. Camila Sosman is currently making law in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she's preparing the island for the onslaught of raucous spring-breakers.

Class Secretaries
Nate Johnson (nate_johnson@mac.com)
Katie Whittlesey Comstock (katie.comstock@staubach.com)



Fall 2005

Kimberly Flores Airasian was awarded a juris doctor degree at Suffolk Univ. on May 22. Kim and husband Robert have been living in Watertown, Mass. • Melissa Barker has taken over head coaching duties for the soccer team at Alexander Dawson in Colorado. • Francis Pollaro recently joined Bostick Realty as director. In his new position, he's responsible for representing tenants in the midtown market. • Hilary Decker Sinnamon e-mailed in June: "Ben and I are in Delhi right now, heading up north tonight for a few weeks of trekking, then to Yunnan province in China for some kayaking and exploring. We just came from a week of wedding events in Zanzibar with Stephi Hill and Saleh Said. They had the most incredible Muslim ceremony on Thursday and then a beautiful beach American wedding on Saturday." Midd friends celebrating with Stephi and Saleh on June 4 included Ryan Goldman, Emily Friedberg '00, AJ Poor Murphy, and Hilary. • Colin and Shayla Schneider '99 O'Neil welcomed daughter Sophie Caroline into the world on June 3. The O'Neils moved to NYC following Colin's graduation from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. • Happy fall, Class of 1998! Remember the crisp, sunny, fall days at Middlebury, surrounded by the Vermont fall colors! Please send/call us with more Midd notes updates!

Class Secretaries
Nate Johnson (nate_johnson@mac.com)
Katie Whittlesey Comstock (katie.comstock@staubach.com)



Summer 2005

Hello, Class of '98! Hope this finds you in flip-flops and shorts, enjoying your SUMMER! Please send in any fun facts and updates about you or your friends. • Dr. J. Tanner Blackburn received his Ph.D. in geotechnical engineering from Northwestern Univ. Tanner and Jordan Lungstrum Blackburn are relocating from Chicago to College Station, Texas, where Tanner will teach geotech and general civil engineering courses at Texas A&M. Jordan is leaving her position as director of development for the Chicago Foundation for Education. • Charles Seilheimer married Nora Darrell on September 25, 2004, and graduated from UVA's business school in the spring. • Slavco Andrejevic completed an MBA program at Harvard. • Davin Wilfrid finished a journalism master's program at Boston Univ. and is a writer for the Eagle Tribune. • And now for a shout out to Longwell. After playing professional soccer in Vermont and living in San Francisco during those post-grad years, Chris Clark has relocated to Southern California, where he works for real estate investment and development company SW Realty Partners. He recently joined Josh Bonifas, Ron Nobile, and Mike Nally, and Scott Nelson for Scott's bachelor party in (you guessed it—Vegas, Baby). Scott (who lives in San Francisco and works for an ad agency) married Emily Taylor in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, over Memorial Day weekend. Josh Bonifas is livin' the good life in Carmel, Calif., working for his family's estate jewelry store. After graduating from Harvard Business School and taking a job with Merck, Mike and Ali Hartz '96 Nally moved to Hohokus, N.J. Joining the Nallys in the Jersey suburbs are Ron Nobile and his wife, Amy. Ron has been employed with HSBC Securities for seven years. • Congrats to Andy McPhee, who was named NESCAC coach of the year for his successful turnaround of the Trinity Bantam women's ice hockey team. Despite coaching the league's only team without an on-campus rink, Coach McPhee turned the Bantams into playoff contenders in the toughest women's conference in the nation. In addition to ice hockey, Andy has been the assistant football coach at Trinity for six seasons, and still enjoys cheese pizza. • When asked for an update, Jason Boatright replies: "I'm a lawyer in private practice in Austin, Texas. I planted a bur oak tree in my backyard on Sunday. I'm building a seven-foot clinker pram rowboat out of Texas red cedar. That's about all that's going to be going on between now and dove season." • Living in Vail, Randi Borgen is coaching alpine skiing at Ski and Snowboard Club Vail. "I'm in the process of remodeling my home and once done invite all to come play." Last winter she was heading off to Kitzbühel, Austria, to watch her Swedish boyfriend race in the prestigious Hahnenkamm Downhill. • Wendy Winet (wendola@web.de) would love to hear from old friends in Berlin, Germany, where she's studying English education and music education. • Todd Champagne savored a winter retreat to Snake Mountain and Skyline Lodge in January. Back home near Santa Cruz, he's a salesman for Happy Boy Farms. • Dr. Tim McMillan reports that he hasn't fallen off the Earth—he was only stuck in grad school. "I was in UC, Irvine, for a nearly- eternal five years. I completed my physics Ph.D. this winter and then moved to Boston in the spring. (If anyone needs a physicist in Beantown, find me.)" • Mike Stineman is the director of business development for Bootsoft, a consulting and technology firm in NYC. • Nathanial Badder has moved to NYC, where he's living with Brandon Doyle and Hayden Baker. He landed a job working for the NBA as the news editor on the sports desk. • Living the good life in her 350-square-foot apartment in NYC, Jill Patey works in marketing for Digitas. Weekends she hooks up with Kirsten Taylor (who passed the New York bar and is an attorney with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP) and Diana Wiss (who got her MBA at Columbia and is burning up the fixed income derivatives trading desk at Deutsche Bank). • Rebekah Fletcherreports that she's in CUNY School of Law with a focus on children's rights, after working for four years in the field. • Tetyana Bisyk and David Cloyd were married in a bilingual ceremony at the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the East Village on May 22, 2004. Julie Culver '00 was at the wedding. Brooke Capps '97 and Eric Hodge couldn't make the wedding, but most certainly attended the bachelorette party! The newlyweds have moved to a brownstone in Brooklyn, right by the park. Tetyana is working for the Grow Network/McGraw Hill, while David is a Web site administrator for Evergreene Painting Studios. • Mike Taylor, who lives in South Boston, is a VP with T3 Realty Advisors LLC. • Kevin and Katherine Inglis Joyce, who both work in downtown Portland, Maine, have moved to Scarborough. Kat continues to practice environmental law. In January, Kat and Kevin visited Boston with son Aidan to celebrate Abby Manzella's birthday, seeing Joyce Wagner, Betsy Goodchild, Meg Allen, and Jeremy Sacco '95. Kat and Kevin were looking forward to a visit from Joyce Wagner and Lauren Stewart in their new home. • In March, Michelle Spina Schmidt taught her husband how to surf in Costa Rica. In Hanover, N.H., she reports there is "a huge, fun Midd crew up here at Tuck, including Martha Shay Trail, Tim Weld, and Shannon Gordon." • After graduating from RISD, Cam Brensinger founded Nemo Equipment, designing and manufacturing products for outdoor adventure and racing. For more on Cam, see page 46.

Class Secretaries
Nate Johnson (nate_johnson@mac.com)
Katie Whittlesey Comstock (katie.comstock@staubach.com)



Spring 2005

Kate Howard Wagner is in her fourth year of medical school at UVM, although she's taking a year off, due to the December 1 arrival of son William Howard Wagner. Kate and husband Phil are calling him Liam. • Heather Corkadel Skinner gave birth to Brodie Mckellen Skinner on July 23, 2004. She was soon back to work at the hospital and coaching skiing in Steamboat, Colo. • Dorian Merina (sanae@dorianmerina.com) would love to hear from classmates. She's living in L.A., working for a poet and teacher. • Kelly Bare is a writer and editor in NYC. She wrote a delightful newspaper piece, called "Getting in the Christmas spirit by being a kid again," for the Lincoln (Neb.) Journal Star. She can be reached at kellybare76@yahoo.com. • Randi Borgen (rhborgen@yahoo.com) is living in Vail, where she has been coaching alpine skiing at Ski and Snowboard Club Vail. "I am in the process of remodeling my home and once done invite all to come play. I will be heading off to Kitzbuhel, Austria, to watch my Swedish boyfriend race in the prestigious Hahnenkamm Downhill in January." • On August 14, Bethany Green and Keith Monda were married on Miramar Beach in Montecito, Calif. Bethany got her MBA from the Stern School of Business at NYU in May 2004. Keith is a visual artist. They're living in Brooklyn. • The marriage of Lydia McNeary and David Keyes took place on November 13, 2004, in Charlotte, N.C. Now living in Royal Oak, Mich., Lydia is a medical resident at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, while David is a resident at Detroit Medical Center.

Class Secretaries
Nate Johnson (nate_johnson@mac.com)
Katie Whittlesey Comstock (katie.comstock@staubach.com)



Winter 2005

After a two-year stint as managing editor of the National Interest in Washington, D.C., Damjan de Krnjevic-Miskovic has returned home to serve as a special adviser to the president of Serbia. He will cover foreign policy and Kosovo-Metohija. "It's an honor to be called to the presidential service of a visionary statesman. If anyone is passing through, please look me up. I'm at krnjevic@gmail.com." • Abby Manzella has returned to New England to get her Ph.D. in English at Tufts. * Cara O'Reilly is living in New York and loving it. • Newlyweds Daniel and Becky Walldroff Urbano have settled in Oakland, Calif., where Dan is a software engineer and Becky is an architectural conservator. • The July marriage of Emily Olson and Daniel McLean took place in Nahant, Mass. Emily is an art teacher at Nashua (N.H.) High School, while Dan is a correspondent for the Manchester Union Leader. • Stephen '94 and Andress Beck Pettibone welcomed their first child, daughter Hannah Andress, on August 25. • Tyler Nottberg reports that new daughter, Maggie, recently enjoyed her "first pumpkin patch photo session" and "continues to demonstrate each day why she is such a blessing!"

Class Secretaries
Nate Johnson (nate_johnson@mac.com)
Katie Whittlesey Comstock (katie.comstock@staubach.com)



Fall 2004

Corey Atteridge (catteridge@ambitbio.com) writes that he and Dave Savarese are "constructing a bridge to total freedom in the heart of San Diego. Come and visit if you too need to escape from the scientologists." • As a veterinarian in Pennsylvania, Karen Olsen is thrilled that she gets to hug puppies and kittens every day for a living. • Jonathan Kosterlitzis a fifth year medical student at UCC, Cork, Ireland. • Luis J. Stephensis busy getting his psychology degree in Mexico City, while doing an internship in a psychiatric ward at San Rafael Hospital. Luis sends his best to Hilary Decker Sinnamon, Edward Digges, Bradford Gay, Elijah Irby, Matthew Gunderson, Eric Hoffman, Devon White, and Catherine Whittlesey Comstock ("I still have your Whittle-Tee Middlebury T-shirt!"). He also sends greetings to Arlinda Wickland and Gary Margolis '67. He would love to hear from all of these people at ljsaa@yahoo.co.uk. "And that includes you, Prof. Ganley!" • Ashburnham, Mass., resident Alexzandra de Barros McBethhas joined the Fitchburg law firm of Gelinas & Ward LLP, as an associate lawyer, where she concentrates on business and commercial law and secured lending. • "I love NYC," writes Cara O'Reilly, "and my job in equity research sales. After four years of acting and writing it's quite a change. I work with a few people from Middlebury." • Kristina Harrison and Elliott Francis were married on October 11, 2003. Now living in Fairfax, Va., Elliott is a recruiter and Kristina is a software designer.

Class Secretaries
Nate Johnson (nate_johnson@mac.com)
Katie Whittlesey Comstock (katie.comstock@staubach.com)



Summer 2004

Kip Digges reports from Down Under, where he's completing law school: "Now that I'm in New Zealand, which is ridiculously beautiful, it's easy to see where they could have set up filming locations for Lord of the Rings. Traveling around the countryside-through mountain passes with snow-capped mountains on one side and the Tasman Sea on the other; hiking up glaciers, around lakes, or through rainforests, or over volcanic craters, hot springs, boiling mud pools, geysers, or abseiling down into underground caves; or kayaking in Milford Sound, surrounded by fiords hundreds of meters high, with waterfalls cascading from all sides-the landscape here is breathtaking. It's amazing how much untouched natural space there is and so few people-despite 40 million sheep everywhere." • Jen Andrews is a first-year at MIT's Sloan School of Management working towards an MBA. • Jen Jensen started a new job with the Department of City Planning in NYC, where she's breaking her own hula-hooping record-12 minutes! Jensen recently spotted John Schowengerdt in New York, as well as Davis Hodge and wife Cintia Fantini. Davis plays racquetball frequently. • Tom Gravel, who works for a sports documentary film company, is "also ready to hit the New York stages with his one-man band show." • Jess Riley writes, "I just moved out to L.A. to finish my master's in nutritional medicine and continue with my screenwriting." • Patrick Knightly's debut solo record, recorded last October, can be found at cdbaby.com. • News from Irina Marinov: "As I am struggling to finish my Ph.D. thesis in carbon cycle and climate change at Princeton, I dearly hope this will be the last summer I spend in New Jersey for a long while. In the fall I will be moving to Boston for a postdoctoral research position at MIT. I hope this move will make it easier to reconnect with old Midd friends in the Boston/New England area." Irina has kept in touch with Marina Malinov-Moeller, who became a mother in February. Marina and husband Nicolas are studying and working in London this year with baby Jonathan. • Visitors to London should get in touch with Emily Richards and Jessie Mello, who are studying for MBAs at the London Business School. "Living in London and being just a cheap flight from anywhere in Europe is amazing!" Brandon Doyle is also in London regularly, working for the New York office of Cambridge Univ. • Colin and Shayla (Schneider) '99 O'Neil are loving life in warm North Carolina, where Colin is at Duke's Fuqua School of Management. • Leigh and Tyler Nottberg are looking forward to bringing daughter Maggie (born March 26) up to Vermont for her first hike in the Green Mountains. • In May 2003, Matt '96 and Martha Shay Trail welcomed a son, who is already being recruited by college teams looking for linebackers, according to Matt's brother, Jeff Trail '99. Matt and Martha recently moved from Boston to Hanover, N.H., where Matt started the Tuck MBA program at Dartmouth. • In August 2003, Michele Anastasio started business school at Columbia, along with Isha Siraj '01, Keith Liljegren '97, Alyson Cucci, and James Farrell '99. In October, Michele and Robert Britton were married in Greenwich, Conn. Fellow Midd cross-country and track runners Angenie McCleary '99 and Jess Blake '99 came to visit Michele recently: "They're tearing up marathon courses across the country. On the other hand, I'm lucky if I can run five miles these days without collapsing." In NYC, Michele runs into Katy Masselam (also doing her residency), Cindy Sada '97 (a first year at Stern), Linnea McArt '97, and Stacy Roose Francis '97. • Dennis '96 and Leena Anderson Jonesand son Quincy (10 mos.) live in Connecticut. Dennis is an assistant treasurer at JP Morgan Chase. Leena is a database manager at the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, a nonprofit that teaches young people to start and operate their own business. • Hadley and Mike Bay welcomed daughter Caroline Leslie in September 2003. Completing two years at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern in June, the Bays move to Charlotte, where Mike works with investment banking firm Edgeview Partners. Memories of "The Pit" and freshman life in Stewart were thrown around while the Bays were living in the same Evanston apartment building as Kevan '97 and Katie Whittlesey Comstock, who were married in Chicago last September. Other 2003 Midd weddings demonstrating the attraction discovered between Midd people after leaving campus include Michelle Spina and Brian Schmidt '97 (married in Lenox, Mass., last July); Lauren Brownand Dates Fryberger '97 (married last August); and Franklin Foster and Amy DiAdamo '97 (married last fall in beautiful Vermont). Love the '98-'97 synergies going on. Let's keep it up.

Class Secretaries
Nate Johnson (nate_johnson@mac.com)
Katie Whittlesey Comstock (katie.comstock@staubach.com)

Spring 2004

Dan Nelson, a lieutenant with the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Division, has been stationed with wife Melissa Loeben Nelson at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, for three years. Dan's unit was preparing to deploy to Iraq for a one-year tour in January. Steve Howard hosted a "bon voyage" party for Dan at his NYC apartment. Guests with the Nelsons included Jennifer Beaumont, Elizabeth Seeley '96, Collin Williams, Steven Howard, Kate Howard Wagner, Davin Wilfrid, Shayla Schneider O'Neil '99, and Colin O'Neil. • On February 8, Chad Giese won his third consecutive Mora Vasaloppet. (That's a 58-km cross-country race in Mora, Minn., if you had to ask.) A few weeks before that, he posted three top-10 finishes at the national championships. • Nathaniel Badder is coaching lacrosse, while working on his master's at Elmira (N.Y.) College. Last fall, he ran a marathon and helped raise over $1,600 for a local charity. He also finished the 10th Annual Philadelphia Marathon in 4:24. "Not too bad for an out-of-shape ex-athlete with bad knees and sore ankles." Than'l reports that Hayden Baker works in NYC as a corporate attorney, but still plans to save the world one day. Also, Brett Alessi moved from Providence to D.C. and works at a nonprofit organization that works in international development. • With his recently acquired master's in music business from NYU, John Bender is an audio engineer at Mirror Image Recorders in NYC, where he's working on new records from Redman, Breaking Benjamin, and Candiria. Bender finished the NYC Marathon in just over four hours. • This spring, Kip Digges is studying in Melbourne, Australia, and Christchurch, New Zealand, for his final semester of law school: "Stop by and say hello if you're headed that way." • Dan Ackerman has graduated from law school (Univ. of Denver) and now lives next door to Coors Field in the heart of Denver. • After a long line of government jobs, Darren Bloch is the manager for government relations for Con Edison in NYC. No blackout jokes, please. As if that weren't enough, Darren is graduating from law school this spring. • Luis J. Stephens (ljsaa@yahoo.co.uk) sends greetings to the Middlebury community. • Justin and Nicola Smith Shipman recently moved to Vermont from Boston. Justin works in the ski industry for Nordica. Nicola was working towards her Vermont teaching certificate last fall. They recently volunteered in Nepal for a month. • Carol McMurrich and Greg Reynolds write: "We have had a great joy and a great sorrow. On May 13, 2003, we welcomed our beautiful baby girl, Charlotte Amelia. She was 5 lbs., 6 oz., 20 inches long, and absolutely perfect. Sadly, we also share that our desperately loved daughter did not survive her journey into the world because of an umbilical cord accident. Our grief is beyond words, but we have been gently held by the love of so many family and friends as we mourn our little angel." • In Sierra Madre, SoCal, Peter Beddow is teaching special education to students with serious emotional disturbance at a residential treatment facility called Five Acres (www.5acres.org). "Basically, I play part parent, part therapist, and part teacher." • In San Diego, Mike Doyle is completing his final year of grad school for acting at the Old Globe Theatre. • In Burlington, Anne Moore has enrolled in the master's program in English at UVM: " The GLBT community center (RU12?) that Don Eggert and I founded is going strong and will soon have to move to a bigger space in Burlington."  • Geo Thompson and two partners have started film/music production company, Iluminatti Ent (www.iluminatti.com). They are distributing "some amazing hip-hop artists, as well as some awesome screenplays. I also have a day job at New Line Cinema." • According to correspondent Hilary Decker Sinnamon, Casey Dove started at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs last fall in NYC, and Eric Anderson works for the Native American Rights Fund in Boulder. Hilary moved to D.C. in the fall to start a master's program in public policy at Johns Hopkins, after marrying Ben Sinnamon last summer on the family ranch in Colorado. • Nat Coughlin and wife Elena Russo still live in Baltimore: "I changed jobs in January and found myself working at a concrete construction company, where there are 200 Latino employees. I haven't spoken Spanish this often (or well) since my semester in Chile." • David and Torri Ross Riedel (married in Mead Chapel on September 27, 2003) also live in Baltimore, where Torri is a senior research program coordinator at Johns Hopkins and David is a second-year resident in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins.

Class Secretaries
Nate Johnson (nate_johnson@mac.com)
Katie Whittlesey Comstock (katie.comstock@staubach.com) 



Winter 2004

José Ruiz was recently appointed director of diversity at Westminster School in Simsbury, Conn. A member of the class of 1994 at Westminster School, José returned to Westminster as a member of the admissions office and a coach for track, football, and basketball. He also helped found Montage Diversity Consultants to assist independent schools in diversity recruitment. José and wife Carol live on the campus, where they supervise a corridor of boys. During the summer, he's studying for his master's in education at Teacher's College, Columbia Univ. • Stephi Hill promised Hugh Marlow '57 that she would hang a Midd banner in her bar in Zanzibar. She reports that "it is all going very well, and I am busy and happy. So no complaints this side." • Tetyana Bisyk writes that she is "still living in Brooklyn with boyfriend David Cloyd and working for the president of Cushman & Wakefield. I will soon be moving with my boss to start his own company somewhere else in NYC. David may soon be going on the road with his band, Good Evening. I have also been regularly hanging out with Brooke Capps '97 and Julie Culver '00." • Aubrey Cattell decided to leave his job at Autodesk and go back to school. He moved from the Bay Area to Chicago this summer and began classes in the dual JD-MBA program at North-western Law School and the Kellogg School of Management. Living in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, he and Cindy Comprelli were dreading the impending winter, so anyone living nearby should get in touch to reassure them that it's not so bad (acattell2006@law.northwestern.edu). • Shruthi Mahalingaiah reports that Laurie Gagnon and Greg Burkett came to her housewarming party. • Katherine Inglis Joyce has joined Verrill & Dana, LLP, practicing out of the firm's Portland, Me., office. Kat and Kevin live in Portland with son Aidan. • Last Matt Kading heard, Dave Scopp was in northern California directing at a nonprofit that facilitates growth in teens through the creative arts, nature studies, and athletics. Matt also reports that Lawrence Klein has been in Dallas, Texas, working as a coastal steward for the National Ocean Service/National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, designing restoration projects for superfund sites, and Mike Snow '01 was in Occidental, Calif., working on an organic farm, with plans to return to Vermont. • Catherine Veach and Kevin Moyer were married on July 3, 2003, at the Bellagio, in Las Vegas. They celebrated with 54 of their closest friends and family, "taking in Vegas and its many attractions for three to ten days. Fellow Midd kids who joined us for the Wild Wedding Weekend were Shannon Gordon, Phuket Rubel, Ben Sigel, Tasman Rubel '00, and Ryan Jennings '93. Kevin and I are at home in Kansas, where he is a pilot and I am general counsel for a communications company. And, unfortunately, we did not win enough money at Vegas to cover all wedding expenses!"

Class Secretaries
Nate Johnson (nate_johnson@mac.com)
Katie Whittlesey Comstock (katie.comstock@staubach.com)



Fall 2003

Neill Hunt (neillhunt@hotmail.com) is out in Basra with the British Army, training the new Iraq Civil Defense Corps. • An MFA was not enough for Travis Greig (tgreig@earthlink.net): "I am returning to pursue a master's in architecture at the Univ. of Texas at Austin. If anyone needs a new house around 2007, let me know!" • After completing four years of teaching 8th grade literature, Brandon Baldwin is beginning his first season as the Lawrence High School (Fairfield, Maine) varsity girls soccer coach. He also bought a house! • In D.C., Brett Alessi (alessi@icicp.org) is the new project coordinator for Innovations in Civic Participation (www.icicp.org). • Tyler Lifton recently left his position as a reporter covering the currency markets for Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal. He was working for his family's business until August, when he began a two-year MBA Program at the Darden School at the Univ. of Va. • Juliana Popper (juliana_dapice@yahoo.com) was married in June to Robert Dapice (Dartmouth '98), a second lieutenant in the Army. They are moving this fall to Fairbanks, Alaska, where Rob will be based for the next two years as part of the new Stryker Brigade. • Jennifer Walton and Kevin Burke '96 were married on June 14 in Prouts Neck, Maine. Jennifer is the assistant manager of the strategic trend-spotting and research group at Euro RSCG Worldwide, while Kevin is an intern in marketing leadership development at IBM in Armonk, N.Y. Kevin got his MBA from Yale in May.

Class Secretaries
Nate Johnson (nate_johnson@mac.com)
Katie Whittlesey Comstock (katie.comstock@staubach.com)



Summer 2003

Lela Moore, who is in journalism school at NYU, writes: "Keeping up with wily New York government officials and doing beat reporting in Brooklyn makes for a very busy schedule." Lela is working for the Chattanooga Times-Free Press this summer. She's also working on a long-term project deriving from the death of her boyfriend on February 25, 2002, after a long battle with an autoimmune liver disease and two liver transplants. Lela encourages all of us to sign our driver's licenses and become organ donors. • Meghan McKnight received a 2003 fellowship from the National Science Foundation to support her graduate study in ecology at the Univ. of N.C. at Chapel Hill. • David Keyes graduated from UT Southwestern Medical School last year and finished up his internship in pediatrics at Medical College of Virginia this year. In July, he's beginning his residency in radiology at Wayne State Univ. • Michele Anastasio, who has been working in credit derivatives at Bear Stearns since last August, is starting school again this summer, "hopefully for the last time." (She also got a master's in statistics in 2000 from UConn.) This time she's heading to Columbia for an MBA. • James and Kerra Struthers Mayor, who were married on August 24, 2002, are living in Virginia Beach, Va. • Michaela McCormick and François Gravel were married on August 30, 2002. Midd friends in attendence were Rebecca Sama,Anne Holloway, Jennifer Cleary, Sarah Nunamaker, Abigail Joyce, Hannah Bottomy, Liz Tedesco, Emil Jattne, Jason Cawley, Brent Sonnek-Schmelz, Melissa Morrissey Jattne '96, Jeffery "Chief" Anastasio '99, Benjamin Barnett '99, and Tim Fox '97. Chaela is a junior at Temple Dental School in Philadelphia, and Frank is a sales rep in Reading, Pa. • Ben Dixon finally completed the massive Middlebury College Bicentennial General Catalogue and moved to Cambridge, Mass. He's working at Hahvahd as a sponsored research administrator. Ben recently joined a squad of Middies in Whistler, British Columbia, for a week of fun skiing with Mark Bisanzo, M.D., Dan the Man Urbano, Neal Van Hoeven, and Mike Hatada. • At Boys' Latin, Brandon Mollett teaches middle school Latin and history and coaches football and lacrosse. A former editor of Inside Lacrosse Magazine, he plays club lacrosse as goalie. • Kate Barch, who teaches at Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Mass., is continuing her running career. This spring she ran in a 5K benefit for the Jimmy Fund-and won the women's division! • After graduating with an International MBA from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management, Susan Quintin joined Dutch financial services company ING Group as a part of their global management program. Working in ING's Amsterdam headquarters, she was being transferred stateside this summer. She is sorry to miss her five-year reunion weekend, but sends a warm hello to her fellow classmates.

Class Secretaries
Nate Johnson (nate_johnson@mac.com)
Katie Whittlesey Comstock (katie.comstock@staubach.com)

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