CLASS NOTES organizes information for all the other groups in the company. Says Jared, “Systems’ job is to make sure we’re all communicating and meeting each other’s requirements, from hardware installers through research scientists.” The company is currently finishing a power plant in Lancaster, California that will prove the viability of concentrated solar thermal technology. For details and photos, visit www.eSolar. com. Meanwhile, Jared and his family are cultivating a vegetable garden, restoring a mid-century modern house, volunteering and bicycling in Los Angeles County.
1990 Dan DenDanto is the proprietor of Whales and Nails, a business specializing in the articulation of whale skeletons. Courtney Vashro ’99 and Toby Stephenson ’98 are working with Dan on a humpback whale exhibit for the Seacoast Science Center in Rye, New Hampshire. Dan runs his business from Seal Cove, Maine, where he lives with his wife, Megan Smith ’90, and their two boys, Gus and Rocco.
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Dan Sangeap received a Lefkowitz Award from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in December for his work on the Merrill Lynch auction rate securities matter and the investigations that led to improved disclosure to utility company shareholders concerning risks from global warming.
Heather Martin-Zboray was unanimously elected to fill the Hancock County Democratic Committee’s open seat on the Maine Democratic Party State Committee. Heather had served on the committee for several years before stepping down last spring to work for the coordinated campaign.
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After a permaculture design course last summer, Jen Mazer reports that her life was completely changed. She is now growing her own garden and is also involved in the transition movement, which incorporates peak oil and climate change into decisions regarding how to make a town, city, watershed or other region more sustainable. Find her at mazer_flymeaway@yahoo.com.
Natalie Springuel is an extension associate with the University of Maine Sea Grant Program. She spent a six-month sabbatical in Newfoundland in 2008, studying the role of tourism in revitalizing outports following the collapse of the cod fishery. Daughter Anouk, at age one, was Natalie’s able research assistant, engaging Newfoundlanders in conversation throughout the vast island, while spouse Rich MacDonald worked on natural history writing projects of his own. This spring she is once again co-teaching COA’s course This Marvelous Terrible Place, the Human Ecology of Newfoundland.
1993 Sarah (Cole) McDaniel is back to full speed, working at her Portland, Maine law practice and parenting her sevenyear-old daughter after donating her kidney to a stranger in October 2008. Sarah’s mother had been on dialysis for ten months before receiving a new kidney the day before Thanksgiving. In what is known as a “list exchange,” Sarah’s donation allowed her mother to receive a deceased-donor kidney in four weeks, instead of the approximately four years of waiting endured by many patients on the list. Sarah asks everyone whose health allows to consider donating blood, and is more than willing to talk with folks about the possibilities of living organ donations.
Cedar Bough Saeji says she is swamped under her second year of PhD coursework in culture and performance at UCLA. The April issue of National Geographic features photographs by Amy Toensing on the drought in the Murray-Darling Basin of Australia. She also photographed a story on Tonga, the Pacific’s Last Monarchy in November 2007 and one on the Parks of Paris in October 2006. In late June and early July, Amy will be on campus as a teacher in the National Geographic Student Expedition based at COA. The next month, on August 22, she will marry fellow National Geographic photographer Matthew Moyer.
1994 A paper co-authored by former faculty member in botany, Nishanta Rajakaruna and Nathaniel Pope ’08, Jose Perez-Orozco ’08 and Tanner Harris ’06, “Ornithocoprophilous Plants of Mount Desert Rock, a Remote Bird‑Nesting Island in the Gulf of