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Serena Torrey Roosevelt reports that her family relocated from New York City to the San Francisco Bay Area in July. During their planned one year in California, Serena will start the Bay Area chapter of the NationSwell Council, a "domestic version of the Council on Foreign Relations" that she helped to launch in New York City last year. While they are in the Bay Area, Serena's husband, Ted, (Deerfield '94) will be a Sloan Fellow at the Stanford Business School, and children Teddy (5), Katharine (2), and Clare (2) plan to spend as much time as possible outdoors.
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Mary Ballantyne and her husband, David Ebenstein, welcomed their fourth child, Thomas James, on March 15, 2015, joining siblings Charlotte, Ryan and May. Dave and Mary live in Stamford, Conn., and regularly see Emily Meyer Song and her son Arthur in a music class. Mary is looking forward to bringing the gang to our upcoming 20th reunion.”
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Noah Charney was interviewed on NPR about his latest book The Art of Forgery: The Minds, Motives and Methods of Master Forgers. Noah is an art historian and the founder of The Association for Research into Crimes against Art. Megan Clarke and her husband, Michael Archambault, welcomed their third daughter, Grace Phipps Archambault in May, who is just as delightful as her two older sisters, Lucy (3) and Catherine (2). Megan is currently completing her dissertation and will begin her doctoral internship in Clinical Psychology at Connecticut Valley Hospital and the Whiting Forensic Institute in Middletown, Conn., working with individuals with serious mental illness in inpatient, outpatient, and maximum security settings. Jennie Ripps’ company, Owl’s Brew, had a recent writeup in the New York Times. Jennie and her business partner Maria Littlefield set out on a quest to fuse their passion for tea with their thirst for premium cocktails. The result? Owl’s Brew, a line of tea-infused cocktail mixers that has attracted tea lovers, health food enthusiasts and cocktail aficionados
alike since its introduction in late 2013. (Jennie was profiled in the spring 2013 issue of the Bulletin). She reports that she welcomed her second child on June 30, Miles Richard Brockman, who joins his older sister, Juliet Jay Brockman.
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Erik Fleming reports that last summer he received a Ph.D. in public health and he married Starr Plummer at a ceremony in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. Amongst his groomsmen were Brooks Rockwell '98 and Joshua Dolin '98. Earlier this year Erik was appointed Assistant Professor at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles. He was also selected to be a member of the team that represented the USA at the Touch Rugby World Cup in Australia.
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husband David Ebenstein welcomed their fourth child, Thomas James, on March 15, 2015, joining siblings Charlotte, Ryan and May. Dave and Mary live in Stamford, Conn. 2 Michelle Judd Rittler ’98 and her husband, Stephen, welcomed their first child, daughter Caroline Patricia, on March 9, 2015. Born three weeks early, Caroline arrived with a healthy set of lungs, a full head of hair, and her mother's dimples. 3 Matthew Emmett Shields ’95 married Katharine McCarthy on May 25, 2015, at the Ritz Carlton hotel in St. Louis. In attendance were close family, including Matt's two daughters Abigail Rae and Shelby Katheryn. 4 Marianne van Pelt Self ’88 is an equestrian journalist who lives in West Cork, Ireland. She is pictured here at Royal Ascot with Seig van de Vater, Esq. 5 Colleen Morrow ’97and husband, Rob Luzzi, welcomed a son, Luca Rocco Luzzi, on June 19, 2015. He weighed 8 lbs. 4 oz. and was 21 inches long. 6 Megan Clarke ’98 and her husband Michael Archambault welcomed their third daughter Grace Phipps Archambault in May.