class notes
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Meg Malone Thompson peterthom@comcast.net
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Karen Smith Shaw ’72
Nancy Ditz’s son Jack and daughter Emily ’12 at a tailgate
in Korea, where Mark works for Samsung. Her daughter, Kelly, lives in Boston and works as a Spanish and Portuguese translator for hospitals. Kelly’s twin sister, Julie, lives in San Francisco and has a nonprofit company called “New Door Ventures” that works with street kids.
was very happy to be in her home surrounded by loved ones and activities. She will be missed. I am still happily married to Bruce, and my son, Genna, is 15 years old and in high school. I am excited that ClearVision, my surgical face mask invention, will be produced this month in the USA!”
Pam Wass Rozycki writes, “Life has been wedding central for me. Valerie, our daughter, got engaged to Trip Wagoner, aka George Richard Wagoner, III, February 13, 2010, and married him June 25, 2011. Our son, Stefan, got engaged to Julianna Tabor on December 17, 2010 and will marry July 27, 2012. I’ve been very busy having fun with our growing family. Valerie and Trip live in Bangalore, where she is CEO of ZipDial, a mass marketing startup, and he is an executive at Groupon India. Stefan and Julianna live in Bethesda, MD, where he is a medical student for the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, specifically for the Navy, and she is a school teacher in Washington, DC. Mark and I have been remodeling our home amidst all the wedding planning, so we haven’t done any exciting traveling. I still play as much tennis as I can.”
1970
Carol Henley Meredith krolle@comcast.net Pamela Silver excitedly shares, “I became one of the founding Professors of the Systems Biology Department at Harvard Medical School and the new Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, where my group works on problems related to solving sustainability issues and disease. We have received a large Department of Energy grant for the research. In my spare time, I have bought a sailboat and race it at Marblehead—we are currently in second place for the season.”
1971
Jeanne Fisichella Hahne bighahne@yahoo.com Jeanne Fisichella Hahne says, “My mother died on August 18, 2011. She
Allison Goetz Davis writes, “I’m living in Redwood City with my two teens, Zoe (16) and Leo (13), and working at Stanford in admissions for the MBA Program. Has it really been 40 years since we graduated?!”
Alixandra Plank Brevig still lives in Portland and is loving it! “I work in commercial real estate and am looking forward to retirement. My daughter is at the University of Edinburgh and my son is a senior in high school. For fun, I ride my 17.2-hand Dutch Warmblood/ Thoroughbred horse over fences.”
1972
Karen Smith Shaw kesshaw@ucdavis.edu Karen Smith Shaw is busy with work and family. “My oldest daughter graduated from Iowa State in 2010 and is busy starting her fashion business, Robin’s Nest, in Mendota Heights, MN. My youngest daughter is in her third year at Boston University. I am enjoying our mountain home and have restarted golf to fill the empty nest.” Nancy Ditz is still close to campus: “Our daughter, Emily Mosbacher ’12, is a senior at Castilleja and our son, Jack Mosbacher, is a senior at Stanford. Jack is in the honors program at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, and spent most of the summer in Uganda studying its emerging oil economy. Em spent most of her summer playing soccer, as her club team won the state championships. Bruce and I are sprinting to try to keep up with them!”
Sarah Wallace is beginning her 28th year at WABC-TV in New York: “No other woman street reporter has ever worked longer at a single New York City station, so I guess that says something about longevity! I focus most of my work on investigative stories and that is extremely rewarding. My husband, Harry (an anchor at the local Fox-TV station), and our two children, Sara (23) and James (14), recently returned from a two-week vacation to Thailand. It was an incredible experience. We try to get to the West Coast as often as possible to see my mom and my three sisters: Katharine “Vandy” Wallace O’Reilly ’66, Derry Wallace MacBride ’69, and Betsy Wallace Dixon ’71. Marilyn Tate Wilson happily reports, “Betty Ann Jackson Reinhardt, Susan Bobadilla Reaves, Meg Malone Thompson, Chris Julius Thurmond, and I are all looking forward to our third annual goddess beach getaway. Monterey here we come!!”
1974
Heidi Singhoff Brown heidi.s.brown@gmail.com
1975
Jessica Hansen Fellows angelpiejess@hotmail.com Giuliana Danon Vural sends a note from Fort Worth, TX: “I would like to share that I have a 10th grader and an 8th grader who are excelling, a husband working on the latest, greatest military jet aircraft, and I have just opened my own law firm practicing oil and gas law— the Vural Law Firm PLLC. Life is very busy—challenging and rewarding.”
Helen Schawlow Johnson is a published author! “My husband, Tom, and I have written two books together, Two Toms: Lessons from a Shoshone Doctor and Also Called Sacajawea: Chief Woman’s Stolen Identity, both about the Shoshone people of Wyoming. It was exciting this past June to give talks about the Two Toms book at Grand Teton National Park. Tom and I live in Wisconsin and have two daughters. Both are college students, one at Miami University in Ohio and the other at Wake Forest.”
Elisabeth Giansiracusa is celebrating 30 years in Italy this October. She retired from teaching but is freelancing as a researcher, translator, and cultural consultant. fall/winter 2011 | 67