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This is an
extra-special edition of the class notes. Between bribing
everyone at reunion with 1 kilo of Cadbury and lots of our
classmates coming out of the woodwork, I’ve been delighted to
hear for the first time from a lot of you!
Kai Xu, Renee Willemsen-Goode, Jeremy
Schifeling, and I had a
blast in June with you all – we had a fabulous turnout at the
class dinner – thanks so much to everyone who made it.
Many congratulations to Tim
and Jessica Cuni (’00)
Applebee and their new
baby! Denise Finley and John Lillvis are engaged;
Denise works for TCCP group a non-profit in Philly and
John is working at Cornell doing biomedical research and
thinking about medical school. Big news from Julie
Gregorio and Andrew Stout. Andrew popped the
question moments before Julie’s big move to NYC to start
a Master's program in vocal performance at the Mannes College of
Music (where Oliver Hsu is studying cello). Becca
Lipstein is ring shopping, after being proposed to by lovely
partner Lee; the big date is in July, 2006, in Philadelphia.
For a change, let’s head overseas before spanning the US.
After recovering from last school year in Budapest’s Turkish
baths, Kate Nelson-Lee and Katie Cloonan decided
to extend their UK teaching posts another year. Kate
will be teaching some drama and coaching the U18 Scotland
lacrosse team, managing not to lose them all in a recent Cup
tournament in Prague, while finding free time to play for the
local Home Scots. Katie is also pursuing a Master’s in
teaching at Columbia during the summers. Matthew Landreman
has stayed on at Oxford, as a PhD student in physics, shooting
Really Big Lasers at plasmas to make x-rays. Matthew
also just got back from a summer of science teaching in South
Africa and Zambia.
I’m planning a visit to Danielle Masor in Trieste,
Italy, after she’s plied me with stories of gnocchi, sacher
torte, and other fabulous intersections of Italian and Austrian
cuisine. I'd love to stop and see Sarah Kate Selling in
Milan, but I’m afraid she’d make me go rock-climbing with her
around northern Italy. Just a bit south of there,
Claire Weiss
spent yet another summer of excavating new corners of Pompeii.
Sarah Stanton has recently moved with her boyfriend to
Beijing, where she teaches at Beijing Language and Culture
University and studies
Chinese. Sarah loves Beijing’s blue skies and playing
ultimate Frisbee, but misses the endless noodles and beer on the
streets of Xi’an, where she was previously teaching English.
Kiyoyuki Miyasaka, in his second year of med school in
Japan, went on a whirlwind shopping tour with visitor Nicolas
Blanco, touring the all-important Ginza Apple Store.
Kiyoyuki came back to Philly over the summer to do sickle
cell research at CHOP, and visit Kai Xu and Norense
Iyahen. Kiyoyuki reports that ex-roomate Greg Goldman
was out in LA shooting a pilot for NBC, and Nicolas Blanco
is off to Germany.
In NYC, Robin Smith joined the grad school ranks,
studying physics at Cornell, surely a few buildings away from
where Phil Blumenshine just began medical school,
Andrew Fefferman studies the acoustic properties of glass
around 1 millikelvin, Robin Kramer
is working on his PhD in Astronomy (while hanging out with
Emily Zacken '02). Popping back on the Swat radar,
Sachi Uchimaru and Manu Pradhan have been living
in Boston and Philly, and are now moving to NYC where Sachi
is starting a Masters in Social Work at Columbia and Manu
is transferring from UPenn law school to NYU law school.
Our very own Sydney
Beveridge has been busy as a DJ at NYC’s East Village
Radio. Patty Park writes from Cobble Hill, Brooklyn,
where she’s been steadily working her way up in the book
publishing world, and is currently a Publicist at Random House
Publishing Group, putting her good English literature noggin to
promoting trade fiction and nonfiction, and biding time until
she emerges with that great American volume of poetry. It was
great to hear from Christine James, who recently moved
from Brooklyn to South Jersey and survived her first weeks of
medical school at UMDNJ School of Osteopathic Medicine.
Adrienne Fowler has been living in Brooklyn for the past
year, working as the Program Director for WomensLaw.org, a
non-profit that provides legal information to victims of
domestic violence. Adrienne reports that the NJ state
parks are actually quite lovely, and proudly notes that she can
hold her own with the teenyboppers on her surfboard.
Jeffrey Regier
ditched his consulting job to work as a programmer at Goldman
Sachs and start up web search firm lexez.com – anyone looking to
invest? Aduke Thelwell is surely nearby, doing mortgage
banking at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and performing with modern dance
troupe, Nina Buisson Contemporary Move.
Kasia Koziol-Dube
and Misha Horowitz are lab
partners, yes again, at UConn med school.
In Philly,
Alyssa Timin is working at The Music Project while
freelancing as a music journalist.
Ellie Salgado
is teaching language arts in a local school.
Lisandra Lamboy
is now working at The Food Trust alongside James Johnson
Piett ’02 and David Adler ’00. Lisandra is
developing a corner store campaign that markets healthier foods
to children and increases the quality and selection of food
options provided by inner-city corner stores. Kudos to David
January, who was accepted as an Interdisciplinary Graduate
Education and Research Training fellow at Penn for the duration
of his graduate career – translation, he’ll be taking an extra
year to do a research project in another discipline (other than
psychology, in which he’s pursuing his Ph.D.) related to
language and communication.
Back from an amazing gamelan tour in Bali (can you hear my
jealousy?), Abram Lipman is doing transportation modeling
at Resources for the Future, a think tank in Washington,
DC. Nearby, Zoila Fiorgione
is working with space systems an electrical engineer. Chris
Keary has been working with autistic kids in D.C., and
recently headed off to med school.
Suzanne Wu
writes from Chicago where she is spending
time with Andrew Kazakes '04, having just finished an
editorial internship in Berkeley with Wired Magazine, after
getting a master's from Medill School of Journalism at
Northwestern University. Erika Doyle is working just off
Michigan Ave as a
Production Assistant for an International Tour Company. Although
she has a lovely view of Lake Michigan from her new flat, I
imagine Erika will soon stop just designing brochures to
exotic Tanzania, and actually take off there herself! In her
spare time, Erika keeps up with volleyball and is taking
some web design courses. Nearby, Vanessa Askot is working
on her Masters in Social Work at the University of Chicago.
Out West, Nori Heikkinen has a flash job working for
Google. Helaine Blumenthal is heading out that way to
begin a PhD in history at Berkeley.
And, finally, I want to devote special Swat love to the half
of our class in law school! Felicia Carter exuberantly
began Georgetown Law this past fall. Cathy Ta joined the
ranks at Loyola Law School in Downtown L.A.
Perry Grossman is going to
Williams and Mary law school, studying constitutional law.
Neil Cavanaugh attends Fordham Law. Colin Peng-Sue
just started Columbia Law school. After receiving his MBA
from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, Ben Juhn spent
some leisure time in LA, seeing plenty of fellow SoCal Swatties:
Anne Tantamjarik, Cathy Ta, Ben Chui, and Greg Goldman.
A glutton for punishment, Ben has just begun law school
at the University of Washington.
Laura Fox finished working at MIT in July,
and then took a month-long mountaineering trip with members of
the Harvard Mountaineering Club in order to climb previously
unclimbed 14,000-16,000 ft. peaks in the Borkoldoy range in
Kyrgyzstan. They attained 9 virgin summits, one of which we
decided to name Peak Fox in memory of Laura’s father, who
died of cancer this past April. Laura has just begun
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