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00 Brooke T. Noble brookebeebe@gmail.com
Bryan Houseman writes: “I finished my orthopaedic surgery residency in June and will begin an orthopaedic trauma fellowship in Louisville, KY until August of 2016. Our two year old son Grayson is growing up very fast and my wife Jess and I are trying to keep up with him. We wish we could have made it to Reunion Weekend, but I had my graduation ceremony at the same time. I hope everyone from the Class of 2000 is doing well. Go Bears!” Budisatrio Djiwandono writes: “Things have been exciting for me in Indonesia. I’m living in Jakarta and taking care of my family’s various businesses around the country. Besides business, my family is also involved in politics, so I am actually running a political party in Indonesia. We formed our party in 2008, and after seven years, our party is now the third largest political party in Indonesia. I’ve actually been involved in two presidential and two legislative elections. I will be overseeing over 250 local and regional elections this coming December. We want to win in the next general election, which will be in 2019.”
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kadaimports.com) as well as working at an inner city charter school as the athletic director. I travel back to the Himalayas almost every summer to help out my family and the school my people started, the Taktse International School (www.taktse.org). Phil Sandick writes: “After college, I moved to Botswana for a few years. I worked at a private high school, Maruapula, running an IT renovation, coaching girls’ soccer, teaching southern African history, and writing the history of the school. I also made a lot of art, some of which is in the permanent collection of the Botswana National Gallery. It was an amazing time. I went back to Columbia to get an MA in oral history in 2008. Met my wife, we went back to Botswana together, traveled around southern and east Africa for a few months, then moved to Chicago. I got a JD and an LLM in international human rights from Northwestern, and then we moved to Atlanta so I could clerk with a federal judge. It’s been a phenomenal experience. I finish up with the judge in October 2016, at
02 Matthew P. Sposito Matthew.sposito@gmail.com
15th Former faculty members, Devon O’Rourke ’02 and his wife, Jackie, welcomed a daughter to the world, Finnoula “Finny” Rose O’Rourke on March 11.
Shannon M. Flynn flynnshannonm@gmail.com
Alex Barrett and his wife Whitney have recently moved to Brattleboro, VT. In March, their second son, Alder, was born. The newest little Barrett is doing well. On the job front, after working for 2.5 years as the manager of the Yale School Forests, Alex has moved over to the private sector and is now working as forester with a company called Long View Forest, based in Westminster, VT. He spends as much time as possible in the woods, but puts in a fair amount of office time as well. Aka Lauenstein writes: “I live in Denver, CO now and work on my business Kada Imports (www. 56
which point I’ll join the environmental and land use practice group of a large law firm headquartered in Atlanta. My wife is a social worker, but right now she’s staying home with our two kids, Penelope, age 2.5, and Bennett, 2 months.” Justin Dvorkin and his partners bought a 12,000-square-foot brewing facility in Clifton Park, Baltimore, MD, which will be the new headquarters of Oliver Brewing Company, which also launched a complete rebrand to coincide with the opening in June.
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Pete Doss ’01 and Laura Scheiderer were married on June 14, 2014. After graduating from the University of Idaho, Pete went on to The Country Club of The Rockies in Colorado as an assistant PGA golf pro. He is now affiliated with Dye and Doss, Inc. in Urbana, OH. Laura, a graduate of Otterbein College, is a newborn intensive care nurse at Dayton Children’s Hospital in Dayton, OH. The newlyweds reside in Urbana.
Bryan Mornaghi is recently engaged. He has also combined his passions for unicycles and the outdoors into Bryan’s Bikes, an off-road unicycle company. Scott Davidson writes: “I am working in management consulting for the aviation and aerospace industries. It is very interesting work, but the travel is a killer. We are a small firm of 75 people and have a very global client base, which means we are always on the road.”