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I decided to pursue the headstone of the program at Wesleyan Universiry. In the process, l applied for the Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance Scholarship and contacted Yale to find out more about their Ph.D. program for history. I will know the results of the applications in April and a possible deployment to Iraq. I hope to make the Reunion and look forward to speaking with the C lass about their life after Triniry. Meanwhile, I started playing rugby with the Hartford Wanderers and am starting B side flanker. Has Chris Bonny or Matt Henry checked on their rugby status? If either does, Jeff Veneus '97 is the president of the Wanderers, and he would certainly like to hear about their forward progress. We hosted a golf outing to raise money for 911, and Coach Merola was there and mentioned them as some of the best Triniry has ever had. Has Barry Bonds hit #700 yet?" (yes, he has) Jamila (Baly) Harris reports on the festivities surrounding classmates' 30th birthdays this year: " Triniry alums partied hard this sunm1er on July 20, 2004 at Sapphire Lounge in the Village, since we all turned the magical BIG 30! Amongst our 1974 Triniry crew were Joy ScottQuinlan, Rachel Cranston, Monetha Harris, Natalie Leblanc ' 98 , who, by the way, is now attending Emory Universiry in Atlanta to pursue an M.S. in public health, Kalisha Raphael, and Jamila Harris. It was a great way to dance in a new decade of life! Berzet May just received her M.A. from Mercy College in education and is a wonderful and dedicated mat11 teacher in her hometown of Bronx, NY. I am still hanging out in the research lab at Emisphere Technologies where I have worked for the past nine years! I am currently a graduate student at Ciry College of New York pursuing a master's degree in science, and in one of my classes there I met Meg Crotty '95 . Sma.ll world! " Susan Taylor married Dan Gilligan in Boston, MA on April 17, 2004. Triniry alumni / ae in attendance were Laura Vater, David M. Taylor '93 , and Ruth (Taylor) Kidd '88 . Susan and Dan live and work in Manhattan. Sam Tassinari writes from Spencertown, NY, where he is selling real estate in Berkshire Counry, MA, and Columbia Counry, NY, and teach-

HEATHER WYNNE '96 and JEFFREY ULLMAN '96 were married on Oct. 23, 2004 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Trinity alumni/ae attending were: (l. to r.) Cedric Howe '96, Cathy McNally '96, Shashi Anand '98, bride, groom, Amy Sudmyer (nee Stephens) '97, Aaron Burrows '95, Amanda Anastasiou (nee Smith) '96, Evan Goldberg '95, Ted Anastasiou '95, and J.P. Saulnier '95.

ing English at Hudson High School. He w rites, " I married my beautiful wife, Tracy, two years ago and the day before Thanksgiving we will celebrate my daughter Alice's first birthday!" Aina Williams has just moved from Oregon, where she was coaching men's rowing and serving as a sports information director, to Buffalo, NY. She's now working at the Universiry of Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo), serving as the assistant women's rowing coach, and running t11e lightweight women's rowing program. Aina also provided news of Susan Taylor's marriage to Dan Gilligan (confirmed by the bride herself-see above) , Jim Woodworth's marriage to a woman named Kerri, and finally reports that Kath (Sanders) Cibotti and Rob Cibotti are living in Boston. Luke Madigan is on the East Coast and is enjoying his status as a newlY';ved, having gotten married in June 2004. Currently, he 's trying to get through his last two years of residency and is in the midst of applying for his orthopedic spine surgery fellowship (from Boston to Santa Monica). Luke also writes that Bipin Ravindran is fmishing up his last year of his medicine residency and will travel to Seattle for his cardiology fellowship at the Universiry ofWashi ngton. Gaia Diloreto is living in Brooklyn and bought a condo nine months ago. She's working for a small European investment bank, Rothschild, and reports that she "loves living in NYC, can't imagine living anywhere else." She says she's run into Kerry Zucker who lives nearby with her husband, Don, and Jessika Welcome (rece ntly married to Peter Levinson '98-more from Jessika below). Gaia also thinks she's seen Sean McElligott around, but isn't sure if it's really him, and that she ran into Will McCormack a few months ago as h e was coming back from an audition. Katharine Parker is enjoying life as a stay-at-home mother of a little girl named Hayley (born February 2003), who will soon be joined by another baby due June 2005. Though she didn't identifY her geographical location, one can assume she's in England still-as she says she comes to the United States about once a year, usually to visit family in Vermont. Katharine claims to be in touch with Shara Abraham , though admits that she owes her an e-mail! Fortunately, Shara managed to submit her own update: " I am living in New York now and clerking for a federal judge. My husband (Brian Leiken) and I will celebrate our three-year anniversary on New Year's Eve. We are heading to Israel in September and will spend a year there for my husband's graduate studies." Shara mentions that she keeps in touch with Whitney (Pomeroy) Wingerd, Katharine Parker (who, as we know, owes her an e-mail), and that she attended Don Jacob's wedding in early October. Michael Schnitman writes in with news of his recent engagement to Laurel Simonini: "We got engaged on Nantucket last weekend at Great Point and will be married near Sugarbush in Vermont this summer. I am still working at Putnam Investments. After a year managing the realignment of the non-proprietary funds business in Putnam's 401 (k) area, I spent nine months managing Putnam's acquisi tion and integration of a quantitative asset management firm called PanAgora. Currently, I am working for the CFO, developing and analyzing strategies to strengthen our corporate structure and business. Besides spending lots of time at

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