2001 Russell Nadel and his wife, Tara, welcomed a boy, Ari Mayer Nadel, to their family on Aug. 30, 2015. All three have been extremely busy since then! Russell continues to teach Middle School general and choral music at The Potomac School in McLean, Va., and to compose for a string of commissions on the side. He has had choral works commissioned and premiered in recent months by the Six Degree Singers and the Washington Master Chorale; a children’s opera is due to be premiered in May by the students of St. Anne’s-Belfield School in Charlottesville, Va; and compositions for solo cello and for flute and piano are due to be included in recording projects later this year, among others. He also continues to offer Orff-Schulwerk and musiceducation-technology workshops for teachers around the East Coast.
Class of 2001 friends celebrate Rachel Chernoff’s recent engagement to Thom Rainwater in New York City in February. Left to right, Ellie Silverman, Rachel Chernoff, Missy Green Present, Ashley Stempler.
mother. The officer, Jeff Heffernan, alleged in the lawsuit that he was demoted by the police chief, who said the officer was “overtly involved in a political election.” The case made it to the Supreme Court because different Circuit Courts, reviewing separate cases, had ruled differently.
2002 Mike Gallagher writes, “In February, I married Pragya Gupta in Chandigarh, India. Josh Brown, Stu Bell, Soren Krupp and Adam Freed attended. We’re all class of ’02.
Ryan Lockman’s name was listed on a brief that went before the U.S. Supreme Court in a First Amendment case brought by his Philadelphia law firm. The court heard oral arguments in the case in January. His firm, Mark B. Frost and Associates, specializes in civil rights cases, including First Amendment issues involving public employees. The case involves a Paterson, N.J., police detective, who, on his day off, picked up a political lawn sign as an errand for his bedridden
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