forward to a more stable 2009 and getting past the sleepless nights with MMS II. I’m sure I speak for the whole class when I say our thoughts were with the Stewart family. All reporting in from OKC: Michael Love and his wife welcomed their second daughter, Reese, in May. Todd Currie is “still married (Kellie), still working (Perimeter Technology), and still chasing my son (Nate, almost 2).” In the Eric Dahlgren household, Reagan (3rd grade) and Emma (1st grade) are at Casady and doing well. Rex is almost 2 and full of energy. Jamie is still over-worked at home but tries to find a few minutes during the week to decompress. Quail Creek Petroleum Consulting still keeps me busy, which I am thankful for.” And, Bobby and Libby Bradshaw Nelson report that daughter, Charlotte, turned 2 in March and that they will be welcoming a baby boy in May!! As for me, Henry and I are all settled in in the windy city with our rooftop views of Wrigley Field and Lake Michigan. We recently got back from a trip to Buenos Aires, where I met some of Henry’s family for the first time. All that Casady French isn’t doing me much good with an Argentine husband. Oh well! As always, you can reach me at lisaerlich@yahoo. com. Thanks again to everyone for writing in! Talk to you all again soon!
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Adrienne Ballew Elder 1200 Larchmont Ln. Oklahoma City, OK 73116 (405) 843-5784 adrienneelder@hotmail.com
I am saddened to start with the news of the death of our dear friend and classmate, Madeline Donnan Lamb, who passed away Dec. 7, 2008. She is survived by her daughter, Chloe Donnan Gentry, age 5. Please contact Emily Pomeroy at pomeroye@yahoo.com for information on how to make a donation in Madeline’s memory. We all have wonderful memories of Madeline and were able to celebrate her life at Lauren Douglass Sullivan’s home an evening before the service. Pictures that capture some of the treasured moments we had the privilege of sharing with Madeline have been posted to the Casady Class of 1995 Facebook page. We love and miss her dearly. Those attending her service included: Emily Pomeroy, Trent Hancock ’93, Jeneane Mackey Wright, Kelli Reynolds Chihab, Claire Chandler, Anne King, Bill Vassar, Benji Homsey, Emily Dahlgren Haemer, Adrienne and David Elder, Josh Taaca, Emily Nelson-Crain, Michael and Whitney Stone, Amanda Woodward Olszewski, Lauren Douglass Sullivan, Patrick Garrett, Hayden Glenn Smith, Todd Blasdel, Patrick Finley and Drew Hoffman ’97. Other reports: Hiral Parekh graduated from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern with a MBA last June and moved back to the Bay
Area to work in corporate finance at Symantec. She has seen Carey Jones and hopes to see other classmates in the area. She is playing soccer, hiking/skiing, and volunteering outside of work and has enjoyed staying in touch with Casady folks through Facebook! Megan Tepper-Rasmussen Sokolnicki was just named the director of community service at Kent School. She now divides her time between the admissions office and planning all the community service activities for the school. Trips range from midnight runs in New York City to rebuilding homes destroyed in Hurricane Katrina and working with orphans in Mexico. She says it’s a wonderfully fulfilling job! Other than that, she and her husband, Jeremy, are both still living in Kent, living with 84 high school boys in the dorm.
Michael Rosensaft’s twins, Jake and Hallie were born November 21, 2008. Mike Rosensaft had big changes in his household with the arrival of twins on Nov. 21, 2008 – Jake and Hallie. He says that they are growing at an incredible rate, and there’s no question that at least his son has inherited his tall genes. He and his wife Jodi couldn’t be happier. On the career front, he is still working as a federal prosecutor at the United States Attorneys’ Office in the Southern District of New York, but now he has moved to the International Narcotics Unit. They focus on large drug organizations importing narcotics into the United States such as the Mexican Cartels, the FARC and the Taliban. It’s very exciting work and he says he couldn’t love his job more. Blair Naifeh and his wife are expecting their first child in May. They moved back to OKC in September where he is now working for his family real estate company. Carey Jones is still living in San Francisco and reports that she left her job as an editor at a book publishing company in August 2008 (after 8 years) and traveled to the east coast to work on organic farms in New Hampshire and Maine for a month. Last fall she started culinary school (back in SF). She says that it’s been an amazing change—she is doing something she loves all day long, and it’s really wonderful to not have to be at a desk in front of a computer for 8 hours a day. After she finishes school she plans on interning at a restaurant for a month or more... and after that, she says “who knows. I’ll keep you posted as I figure it out. :)”
Kelli Mowdy is currently a PhD student at Columbia, studying policy analysis. She says that she is “specifically studying low income family demography. I’m in the dissertating phase and will be very happy when it’s done, although that probably won’t be for at least another year. I got married in March to my husband, Mike, who works in the tech industry. We moved to San Jose a few months ago for his job, so I’m working on my dissertation remotely. It’s been an adjustment after living in New York City for so long, but we love the bay area (especially the weather). Other than that, we spend our time hiking and traveling to weird places, like Malawi.” Kelli also reports that Ditya Raman after working in Jordan for UNHCR for the last few years, is back in New York at NYU getting her LLM, specializing in International law. Nellie Shaheen is living in Northern New Jersey, recently married and works in finance. Kelli also has heard a bit from Heather Jones – and that she is living in Dallas and working in finance at UT Southwestern. Emily Nelson-Crain reports big news that she and Tiffany are expecting, due in September! Emily is also keeping busy with work (rescuing businesses that have emergencies), traveling to watch Tiffany play on tour, and trying to start preparing for life as a parent. Usman Baber gave a brief synopsis of the past 9 years….”went to Rice, then did a year in AmeriCorps in Houston. After that I did med school and internal medicine residency at UT Southwestern in Dallas. Right now I’m in the second year of cardiology fellowship at Mt. Sinai in New York City. I’ll probably end up back in Texas once I’m all done here. At some point I’ll probably have to get married as well (now that Winston is engaged!).” Robert Williams reports that he and his wife, Lori, “had a third son on Dec. 15. His name is Parker Wayland. His big brothers, Chandler (9) and Rylee (4), think he is pretty great. I still live in OKC and work as a petroleum land man, running title for oil and gas leases. I get to work at home, allowing my wife to finish her second master’s degree in School Psychology. Life with 3 kids now stays very busy.” Keven Guynn is still happily married and living in LA. He reports that we are thinking about having kids but haven’t made an official decision. I’m currently working in healthcare and considering going back to school (Daschle debacle made me cry). If we decide to do so (grad school is a group effort) we will move to either Washington or back east. I worked with the Obama campaign and fortunately lost and gained many friends as a result. I’m still trying to be the last person on earth without a Facebook page... very tempting. Next up Burning Man….lol”. Patrick Garrett says he is still working all the time with his dad and brother at Garrett and Co. LLC. He did manage to go to Alaska again for a nice fishing trip last August and a couple of trips to Las Vegas to just get out of town. He keeps in touch with Jeff Klos pretty