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studio she’s been going to for over 34 years at Glen Echo Park in Maryland. Don Goldberg reports that daughter Kate Goldberg ’18 loves CC and has joined the Shwiffs. He and wife Anne had dinner recently with Doug Green ’78, and he and Bob Landau had a great road trip last fall to visit some old haunts in Vermont. Don and Anne also had brunch with Peter Mykrantz and Debbie Low Mykrantz in New York in January. They struggle with being empty nesters but are adjusting with frequent trips to see their daughters, including a late-May visit to Istanbul, where their older daughter is studying.
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1982 ——— Correspondent: Eliza Helman Kraft, 73 Primrose St., Katonah, NY 10536, liza.kraft@gmail.com
1983 ——— Put a Camel to work. Through the College’s job shadow program, alumni and parents are paired with current students who are interested in following in their footsteps. Time commitment: minimal. Experience: invaluable. Help a Camel get over the hump.
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Joy Jerome Turtola adopted his second child, Andrew John, last August. Andrew, 9, loves to play Xbox with older brother Cody, 13. Shari Weathers Randall was fortunate to have a mini 1983 reunion with friends from Hamilton residence hall at daughter Jessamyn’s wedding to David Lampen, Jr., on July 12, 2014. Virginia Aldous Emerson, Barb Ritter Sauder and Terri Paradis LeDuc P’14 were in attendance. Terri’s son, NCAA champion runner Mike LeDuc ’14, added to the fun. Heather Cusack lives in Cutchogue, Long Island, and works for the Peconic Land Trust, planting medicinal and culinary herb gardens and teaching workshops on the uses of herbs — skills she learned from her original teachers in the CC botany department. Son Desmond Tetrault just graduated from the Macaulay Honors Program at Hunter College in New York City. Son Max Tetrault is an energy efficiency consultant for Con Edison in Brooklyn and a musician performing at various clubs. While studying at the Boston School of Herbal Studies last summer, Heather often saw Lisa Sheehy. She hopes to get to the next reunion. Life is good for Cynthia Susla Chick, who is busy with her interior design career in Boston, Newport and
Palm Beach, where she has offices and homes. She finds herself slowing down more, working when she wants, and traveling and golfing with her husband and their expanded family of four stepchildren, their spouses and 11 grandchildren. Cynthia is involved with her Palm Beach Daughters of the American Revolution chapter, which supports veterans and their families — a cause near and dear to her heart. Eric Jacobson lives in London and began working last year for a small peer-to-peer lending company, Niche Capital Limited. He was looking forward to the spring and BBQ season. If you plan to be in London, please get in touch. Ken Lankin is associate corporate medical director for JPMorgan Chase, helping to operate onsite health and wellness clinics. What started with Ecology 101 has evolved into a career in occupational and environmental medicine. He enjoys tree identification with his 6-year-old son, Edward. Oren Tasini is happy to report that daughter Sara earned a master’s from New York University this year. Meanwhile, daughter Madeleine ’16 spent her junior semester abroad with CC’s SATA program. Oren and wife Tammy live in Florida. Laurie Reynolds Rardin and husband Jed Rardin ’85 are pleased to say that oldest daughter Brynne Rardin ’17 loves her experience at CC. Laurie and Jed enjoy seeing their alma mater through her eyes — especially areas they never experienced, like the studios in Cummings Art Center. They are beginning the college tour process with daughter Marta. Laurie has worked at Dartmouth College for six years, putting research on arsenic and mercury and its effects on human health into action in local communities at state and federal agencies, and in the policy world. Jed is in his 14th year as senior pastor at South Congregational Church in Concord, N.H. They loved the snow but are concerned about global climate change. “If you haven’t seen ‘Chasing Ice’ — you must!” Judith Krigman lives in Columbus, Ohio, and works at Ohio State University’s Comprehensive Cancer Center in radiation oncology as the director of the mouse group. She cannot seem to get away from her fuzzy buddies. Judith develops protocols with regards to rodent models for various cancers. Peter DiMuro is back in Boston, where he is now the executive director of The Dance Complex, a multi-studio
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