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School for Environmental Studies in Manhattan, and she, her husband, Peter, and Nicole live in Irvington, NY.
(thanks to Ben) and then headed off to the closing night party,” says Rama.
Stephen Cadwalader ’79 enjoyed
Nicole Betancourt ’86 , who lives
reuniting with friends at the annual Alumnae/i Pub Night in November. He is currently serving as vice president at Jason McCoy Gallery in New York, which features contemporary works in painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and video.
in New York with her husband and two daughters, Pilar and Biulu, enjoys a successful filmmaking career as a producer and director. In 1996, she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for her documentary film Before You Go: A Daughter’s Diary. More recently, Nicole was granted a fellowship by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to create a video series, Parent Earth, which educates parents about healthy food. Launched in 2009, the project “creates and distributes short videos on everything from cooking and gardening to nutrition and behavior.”
1980s Betsy Lichtenstein ’80 lives in New York with her husband, Matthew, and two children, Molly and Sammy. She has worked for the last three years as a geriatric care manager while attending classes at Hunter College’s Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging. She hopes to receive her certificate in geriatric care management in 2014. Adam Campagna ’84 launched
his own architecture business last winter after five years as a senior architect at Rockwell Group, where he handled residential and hospitality projects. He holds a master’s in architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Sheila Choi, and his son, Aidan, who is in fifth grade. Rama Wiener Dunayevich ’84
shared news that a San Francisco Bay Area contingent of Calhounders took the opportunity to have a great mini-reunion on October 15 at the Mill Valley Film Festival for a screening of Ben Stiller ’83’s new movie, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. “While Ben was honored with a tribute award, a group of us—Marco Aurelio ’80, Geoff Strawbridge ’81, Erika Milvy ’82, Michael McCormick ’84 and I—
cheered him on from the VIP seats
Will Pollock ’86 , who is living in
Atlanta, published a new e-book in November, Pizza for Good, cited as an inspiring and wildly entertaining cookbook, memoir and philanthropic guide to building local community through food. It includes 20 recipes for specialty pizzas that stress local ingredients and covers a range of kitchen tips. (Featured in the book is another Calhounder, Rachel Harris Brown ’87, and her son, Ethan.) Will, who is also the founder of a charitable Atlanta-based artists’ collaborative called ARTvision, is donating 50 percent of the proceeds from his book to Positive Impact, an organization that provides programs for people affected with HIV. pizzaforgood.wordpress.com Marc Mendelson ’87 is the latest
Calhounder to return to his alma mater as a parent. He and his wife, Tara, have been thrilled since their daughter, Sacha, entered first grade this year. Marc has a background in finance, having most recently been at JPMorgan Chase; Tara, who had been an assistant principal with the NYC Department of Education, has
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1. (L—R) Geoff Strawbridge ‘81, Rama Wiener Dunayevich ‘84, Ben Stiller ‘83, Erika Milvy ‘82, Michael McCormick ‘84 and Marco Aurelio ‘80 joined Ben for the movie premiere of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty at the Mill Valley Film Festival. “It was great to meet and catch up and, of course, joke around,” says Rama, who adds, “as you can see, Michael has matured considerably since high school…” 2. Marc Mendelson ’87 joined his daughter, Sacha, a new first grader, at Calhoun’s Welcome Back Picnic for Lower School parents.
now started her own business in personal and home organization. The couple also has an older son, Jacob. Ross Kleinberg ’88 has built his own PR freelance consultancy, KBERG MEDIA, specializing in strategic media relations for consumer-facing and businessbased clients, while still passionately coaching soccer and playing basketball on the weekends—“sans Sybil yelling or Neil draining 3’s!” Ross notes. His daughters, Sophie, now 10, and Samantha, five, are both competitive gymnasts and “still enjoy Dad’s motivational quotes.” Kathleen Acosta ’89 is completing
her master’s at Bank Street College in dual-language childhood special and general education. “Between my experiences as a full-time special-education teacher and various substitute-teaching assign-
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ments, I have gained exposure to varied learning environments across the grades,” Kathleen reflects. She also provides private tutoring to elementary students in all subject areas. Ellie Spielberger Wertheim ’89 is a family law attorney, specializing in divorce mediation and family conflict resolution as a partner at Family Mediation LLP. Ellie, who received her JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1997, is a certified mediator in New York City family courts and serves on the board of the Family and Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New York. Ellie and her husband, Jon, have two children, Benjamin and Allegra.
1990s Naomi Horowitz Fowler ’90 lives in New York and has been working in jewelry manufacturing for EF3 Alliance. Her son, Griffin, will be starting kindergarten next year.
WINTER 2014