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Erika Tiegel Freitas with her family
Christl Mitsch Drewry ’82 and Robin Haber Kallas
Daniel and Noah Gionet
sciences, and our daughter graduated in May from Sonoma State University. My husband and I are both educators at St. Mary’s School in Los Gatos.” Jennifer Pollock is still close to Castilleja. “I continue to love living in this area, often driving by Castilleja in my career in residential real estate. My family (all still local) and I enjoy the renovated and enlivened Town & Country Village nearby. My daughter, Elisha, will attend Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, in the fall. I see several Casti classmates regularly. I hope all is well in each of your lives. Blessings!”
touch with her far-flung siblings, including Maria Riofrio ’86. Melissa is a senior editor at PCWorld.com, helping reinvigorate the publication during an extremely challenging time for journalism of all stripes. She also leads the Homeless Cat Network, a local nonprofit animal rescue group with over 200 volunteers (including herself) and almost 20 years of presence in San Mateo County, working to spay and neuter feral cats so they can live healthier, safer lives. In her spare time (ha!) she loves to read, see movies, cook, sing, and play piano, as well as see friends, including Stacey Smith and Heather Allen Pang ’84.
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Yoshimi Segawa Munch ymunch@ysmcommunications.com Robin Haber Kallas says, “Alex and I almost have an empty nest: Ben is in college, and Sam will be graduating high school in June. We are looking forward to traveling the world over the next few years. Christl Mitsch Drewry ’82 lives only about ten minutes away, and our boys have grown up together as close friends—Castilleja bonds sure can endure!”
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Laura Greene Wilkin lwilkin@cipa.org Debra Delizonna Gionet announced that she and her husband, Chris, were “doubly blessed” in January with the arrival of their twin baby boys, Daniel and Noah.
Renée Conrad has two children. She is a trust and estates attorney at Hales & George and just moved to Saratoga to be closer to work. Andrea Amdahl Taylor is completing her sixteenth year with the Chicago Symphony Chorus and continues to teach private voice lessons. She enjoys traveling and recently returned from a trip to Ecuador/the Galápagos with her husband and eight-year-old son.
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Sonja Hellman Bogumill sonjabogumill@yahoo.com Pamela Hawley is excited to report, “My organization, UniversalGiving (universalgiving.org), recently relaunched its site with personalized fundraising lists, e.g. for your birthday, anniversary, or child’s event! A great way to increase giving and make it a natural part of your life. I also continue to love being ‘Aunt Pammie.’” After graduating from law school in England and working in Hong Kong for six years, Christina Tam Fong is living in domestic bliss as a stay-at-home mom of four kids: David (11), Grace (9), Sammy (4), and Elizabeth (2). “We live in a beautiful place called Great Neck, NY. We are only 25 minutes by train away from New York City. Great Neck is the only town in the United States that has a ‘Park District’ (check us out at greatneckparks. com) and provides its residents with country club-style living. I am still in close contact with Alyssa Anderson and Zandra Chan. I would love to hear from friends I’ve lost touch with from Casti!”
Katie Harris is an associate professor of history at UC Davis and lives in Berkeley. “I spent fall 2012 on sabbatical in Rome, where I did archival research for a second book project. The book treats the way that 16th and 17th century Catholics approached the epistemological problems posed by the relics of saints. I’ll be returning to Rome and to archives in Sardinia and Sicily in May-June. My son, Arvid, will be entering kindergarten in the fall(!).”
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Kristin Young Gilbert kristigilbert@sbcglobal.net Melissa Riofrio feels fortunate (and okay, “sometimes overwhelmed”) to have a fulfilling life of family, career, and social justice work. She loves sharing her home with her mother, as well as her spouse and pets, and she is in frequent
’87 Christina Tam Fong with her family
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