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Weagle, Jen Winslow Thomas and John and Megan Casey McGrath ’99....Marin Magat and Ian Houseal welcomed a daughter, Wesley, on Jan. 11, 2011.... Elizabeth Hawthorne Newton and Frank Newton welcomed Laura Elizabeth Newton, born Feb. 26, 2012....Oggie IvanovaSriram and husband Raj joined the Foreign Service in 2010 and now serve as vice consuls at the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Emil is 3. They enjoy life in South Asia....Allyson Kelley and Tucker Bailey were married Oct. 8, 2011....Michael and Eleanor Lee Kitces welcomed Samantha on Oct. 4, 2011....Rachel Kilian earned a master’s in molecular biotechnology from the Univ. of Sydney in Australia and prepared to move home to Colorado with her husband and daughter Chloe (3)....Bonnie Warren and Jay Levine were married July 10, 2010. She’s an assistant editor at Wiley-Blackwell, an academic publisher near Boston. He’s a high school history teacher in Haverhill....Stephanie Liteplo Trafton and Ben Trafton welcomed Caroline Maggie Trafton, Feb. 20, 2012....Tracy Lyford and Nick Armstrong welcomed Mya Jean Armstrong on Aug. 30, 2011....Ted Martin and Joy welcomed Caroline Rosemary on Dec. 7, 2011....Elizabeth Merrill is a supervising psychologist at the Child and Family Institute at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City and also has a private practice. She got a dog named Barney and is training him to work with her....The local Patch profiled Matt O’Neil, chef and owner of the Blue Ox Restaurant in Lynn, Mass. Besides working 80 hours a week in his restaurant, he hosts an ESPN show, Cooking Coach, featuring “quick, straightforward segments” with high energy, which is “like what I do here,” Matt said. “I’m able to project my personality and be in front of people. That is when I am at my best.”...Kevin and Katy Marshall Purviance, Andrew (3) and dog Duke welcomed Abby to the family in September 2010. Katy is at home with the kids, and Kevin enjoys practicing dentistry. They vacationed in Acadia last summer and made a pit stop at Bates....Frances Schamberg lives in Brooklyn and works for the NYC Board of Education as a counselor in an Adult Literacy Center in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Married in 2010, she welcomed a daughter, Josephine, in February 2011....Gwen Sedney Gahnberg and Robert Gahnberg welcomed Elijah Lynch Gahnberg on Jan. 12, 2012....Lena Sene managed the presidential campaign of Idrissa Seck, a leading candidate in her home country of Senegal.... Elizabeth Sharp Broderick and Patrick Broderick welcomed Daniel Owen Broderick, Jan. 27, 2012....Andrew Watterson is now a senior consultant at
BrownFlynn in Cleveland, a corporate responsibility and sustainability consulting firm....In Portsmouth, N.H., Erika Zollett now works part time as an environmental consultant so she can spend more time with Savannah Naia, born April 9, 2011.
2001 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Noah Petro npetro@gmail.com class co-presidents Jodi Winterton Cobb jodimcobb@gmail.com Kate Hagstrom Lepore khlepore@gmail.com Sarah Wilson ’02 and Mark Annotto were married Oct. 10, 2010. John Payne ’00 officiated....Nancy Brown and Brian Kraemer were married May 7, 2011....The Brooklyn-focused Brownstoner blog interviewed Sam Charney, project executive for the real estate development firm Two Trees. He recently finished work on a residential housing conversion in the Dumbo neighborhood. Sam talked about balancing the various needs of city agencies and neighborhood groups. He said his professional “eureka!” moment came when he “discovered the developer’s role” in the process of architectural design. “I loved that the developer could play a role in all aspects of the design process, as well as the municipal approval process and construction.”...Carrie Musil and Dylan Cruess were married July 16, 2011. She is an account manager at Onlife Health Inc. of Nashville, Tenn. He is chief financial officer of TF Moran Inc. in Bedford, N.H....Jud and Alanna DeNapoli Morris and big brother Connor welcomed Rose Marion on July 23, 2011....Katherine Enfinger and Oliver Orton were married Oct. 29, 2011. She is a certified yoga instructor and developer representative for Enfinger Steele Development. He is a financial adviser with the Thomson Orton Group at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. They live in Huntsville, Ala....Kate Fink and Gareth Cheeseman were married Aug. 27, 2011. She is a student at the Univ. of Edinburgh’s School of Veterinary Medicine. He is events manager for Historic Scotland.... After earning a Ph.D. at Stanford, Kristina Godek accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at the Dartmouth School of Medicine, where she’s conducting research funded by the American Cancer Society....Amanda Newton (Bowdoin ’00) and Adrian Gray were married Aug. 20, 2011....Steve Hallas is a resident physician at Samaritan Family Medicine Resident Clinic in Corvallis, Ore.... Laura Hardester Hollender and Kevin welcomed Madeleine on March 24, 2011. She joined Mackenzie (3)....Erica Hugo and
Tom Lin were married May 28, 2011....Claire Schmitt and Stephen Mague were married April 1, 2011....Jeremy and Meredith McLean Robitaille welcomed a son, Quinn, on March 1, 2011.... Molly Metcalf joined Best Aquaculture Practices, the leading global certification program for aquaculture facilities, as business development manager for North America.... Noah Petro spoke about lunar basins, “the moon’s big bangs,” at AstroFest in Feburary in London in his capacity as a research geoscientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where he focuses on the geology of the moon and small bodies in the solar system....Eliza Stamps and Ethan Covey were married Sept. 10, 2011. She is a visual artist in Brooklyn, who focuses on drawing and performance art. He is a freelance medical writer, editor and music critic....Victoria Wyeth spoke at the opening reception for her Bates Museum of Art exhibit, Andrew and Jamie Wyeth: Selections from the Private Collection of Victoria Browning Wyeth. The drawings, watercolors and illustrated letters were assembled from her personal collection.
2002 Reunion 2012, June 8–10 class secretary Drew Weymouth drew@weymouthtech.com class president Jay Surdukowski surdukowski@sulloway.com Marine Corps 1st Lt. Tara Businski and her helicopter squadron, based in Okinawa, took part in international training in Guam, South Korea and the Phillipines....Anna Christopher and Tony Perret-Gentil were married Aug. 6, 2011....John Dubzinski took over as head football coach at Arlington (Mass.) High School. He is a guidance counselor at an Everett middle school....Ryan Fitzgerald and Michaela Tiffany welcomed Liam Peter Fitzgerald on May 31, 2011. He joins big sister Anna (2)....Bridget Huber was awarded a Kaiser Permanente Health Policy Journalism Fellowship, as she pursues a dual degree in public health and journalism at Berkeley. She plans to produce an in-depth story on the effects of farmworkers’ exposure to pesticides....Margaret WinterkornMeikle and Matt Meyers were married Oct. 15, 2011. She is a law clerk for a federal judge in Brooklyn. He is a general editor on ESPN The Magazine and ESPN Insider, focusing on baseball.... Alexis Rubin and Evan Woolley were married July 16, 2011. She is a social studies teacher at Explore Charter School, an elementary school in Brooklyn. He works in Brooklyn as a vice president for investments at Revere Capital....Kristin Smith
Pangallo received a Ph.D. in chemical oceanography from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, was a postdoctoral fellow in the biochemistry department at Rutgers and is now an assistant professor of chemistry at Colgate....The Springfield (Mass.) Republican talked with singer-songwriter Matt Szlachetka, whose L.A.based Northstar Session band toured New England in support of its third album, Late Bloomer, including a stop at the Irish Twins Pub in Lewiston. The band has appeared on the NBC show Parenthood. Music Connection Magazine said Late Bloomer “delights listeners with catchy choruses and complex arrangements brimming with surprising, yet refreshing, rhythmic turns.”...The Alaska Star of Eagle River, near Anchorage, noted the appearance of a “new resident in the children’s area of the Chugiak-Eagle River Library. A sweet-faced, multi-colored dragon floats over the bookshelves, chasing stars.” The banner is a memorial to Jessie Withrow, who was killed on July 4, 2000, by a drunk driver while riding her bicycle near her Anchorage home. Her mother, Wendy, commissioned the artwork, which was created by artist Amy Meissner. “Jessie had a lovely imagination and loved fantasy novels,” Meissner said. “A dragon seemed to suit the magical kind of person she was.”
2003 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class co-presidents Kirstin McCarthy kirstinmccarthy@yahoo.com Melissa Wilcox Yanagi melissa.yanagi@staples.com Hilary Benson and Asaph Glosser ’02 welcomed Ari Benson Glosser on Oct. 13, 2011. He joins big brother Eli.... The Newburyport (Mass.) Daily News profiled Alexis Curry Fox, state director of the Humane Society of the United States, who discussed working on new laws to protect animals, investigating farming procedures and answering questions on how to help injured animals. “The spectrum of animals that I talk about in a day is amazingly varied. This is my dream job,” she said. Alexis and husband Jesse Fox live in Newbury, halfway between Boston, where she spends much of her time with lawmakers on Beacon Hill, and Newmarket, N.H., where Jesse creates custom bicycles at Independent Fabrications....Perimeter Gallery in Belfast, Maine, presented a show of mixed media work by Aidan Sofia Earle. She’s working on an M.F.A. at Brooklyn College....The Pacifica (Calif.) Tribune quoted Elizabeth Fatum, an educator and technical theater designer at IBP Associates in the San Francisco Bay Area, who works
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