CLASS NOTES
Class of 1991, 25th Reunion. Heather Lofgren Leroux, Chris Perry, Jessica Englund Jones, and Randall Krantz.
1991
Chris Perry opened a new specialty beer and wine store just in time for summer called Barley and Hops in Milford, NH. Stop on in!
1992
Sarah Stone Coskun and her husband, Jim, were delighted to welcome their son, Kevin, James Coskun on 11.15.16. Kevin joins big sister, Emma. ▪ Scott Dolan was named the Maine Journalist of the Year by the Maine Press Association for defying a judge’s illegal order to the news media not to publicize certain court proceedings. ▪ Meghan Kenny was awarded a Tennessee Williams Scholarship in fiction to attend The Sewanee Writers' Conference in Tennessee. Her first book, a collection of short stories titled Love Is No Small Thing, is forthcoming from LSU Press, Yellow Shoe Fiction Series in 2017. ▪ John Peltonen and his wife, Amy, are living in Seattle (and have been since 2000). “I have a 40–person technology consulting firm focused on building solutions on the Microsoft stack that make our enterprise customers more efficient and effective. We are active scuba divers—trying to dive at least once a month here in the Puget Sound—and can often be found helping to make wine at a number of the 100+ wineries within ten miles of our house. We’d love a visit if anyone ends up in this corner of the country.”
1993
Kate Hurlbut Chappell was recently appointed Assistant Dean of Students at Roxbury Latin, where she has been teaching and coaching for nineteen years. ▪ Dr. Kate Lally testified 50
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before the Senate Special Committee on Aging at a hearing in Washington, D.C. She addressed gaps in palliative care as it is currently administered to patients. She is currently the Chief of Palliative Care and Hospice Medical Director of Care New England Health System in Providence, RI. She graduated from Wellesley College and Yale Medical School. Kate currently lives in Providence with her husband and two children.
1994
Cam Brensinger joined us for the second annual Alumni Spotlight Series in May featuring entrepreneurs. He is the founder of Nemo Equipment in Dover, NH, recently received an ornamental design patent as a co-inventor of a tent, and was honored as one of the New Hampshire Union Leader’s “40 Under 40.” ▪ Matt Scotch will soon be up for tenure on the faculty of Arizona State in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. ▪ Scott Sumner joined Fiduciary Trust Company in Boston, as Vice President, Head of Custody banking.
1996
The class of 1996 had an amazing showing at reunion with nearly half of their class in attendance! ▪ Paul Abrahimzadeh tied the knot with Tassara Vilaca daFonseca in
September 2015 in Watermill, NY. ▪ Dana Gomez-Gayne is over a year late to share that her son, Max, was born on May 20, 2015. Here he is enjoying cake for the first time. [photo page 58] ▪ Matt Melkonian and his wife, Lauren, welcomed Wesley William Donaldson Melkonian into their family on July 12. [photo page 51] ▪ Tom Wilder and wife, Adrienne, are happy to announce that Andrew Wilder was born on March 12, 2016—“just in time to join us for reunion!” [photo page 59]
1997
Brian Guercio, his wife, and their new baby are living in Montana, where Brian is practicing medicine. ▪ Kelly Steele Reis and her husband, Nicholas, welcomed a new love, Margot Elsa Reis, who arrived April 24, 2016, and joins big sister, Lila! [photo page 58]
1998
Dana Green is happy to say her daughter, Eleanor, was born! [photo page 58] She is now living in D.C. where her husband, Rob Thorpe, is Defense Policy Advisor to the British Embassy and she is practicing law at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz. ▪ Preston Hunter and his wife, Kathryn, welcomed Bennett (Ben) Lislle Hunter. Big sister Madison is awfully excited! ▪ Liz Stefany built a new house with her partner,
Class of 1996, 20th Reunion. Left to right: Bill Mosher, Brett O'Brien, Jared Silverstein, Lisa D'Ambruoso Demers, Eric Muldowney, Mark Ansdell, Tom Wilder, Jesse Davis, Brenna McCandliss Thomas, Chris Killinger, Tim Rehnborg, Julia Davis Michelsen, Dana Gomez-Gayne, Don Monson, Becca Jones Martin, Taryn O’Loughlin Gross, Helen Gemmill, Kristin Pearson Wydom, Joyia Rich Fazelat, John Wallin, and Michelle Lauer.