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4 1 Ellen Davie Hirs ’83 cheered on her
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daughter Liz, pictured at right, at the Awty International School Swimmers State Championships. Liz broke two Awty school records for the 50- and 100-yard swims.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan at a mid-December Mass in celebration of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus.
enjoyed a great day on the river with limits on Chinook salmon! 4 Andrew Borrok ’89 and his wife, Tanya, welcomed a daughter, Katherine Charlotte ("Charlie") on January 28, 2014.
’82 Liz Alford Hogan spent two great weeks over Christmas and New Year’s connecting with Laurie Abel while skiing in Big Sky, Montana. It looks like it will be a tradition. Anyone interested for next year? Looking forward to our 50th birthday gathering! Barry Sheridan writes, “My family, which includes our daughter Nina, who is currently a senior at Choate, spent a week this winter in Palm Springs, and we were joined by our youngest daughter’s godfather, Dave McWhirter.” ’84
Ninfa Z. Bito writes from Makati City, Philippines, “I was recently appointed as Country Director for All Hands Volunteers in the Philippines. All Hands is a U.S.-based non-profit disaster response organization mobilizing volunteers to assist disaster-stricken communities. Our organization’s first response was in 2004 in Thailand in the wake of the tsunami, and since then it has deployed an international volunteer corps to Haiti, Peru, Japan, and the Philippines. In the U.S. it has deployed to help communities damaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy. Presently, All Hands is in the Philippines assisting communities in the earthquake-damaged areas of Bohol and in the Haiyan-damaged areas of Leyte. Check us out at hands.org as we transition from early response toward recovery and rebuild projects for transitional schools and shelters.”
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Jerry Farrell, Jr., his wife, Natalie Campisi, and his parents, Gerald and Mary Ann Farrell, attended events in mid-December in New York City in connection with the Ordine degli Santi Maurizio e Lazaro (the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus), in which Farrell was knighted by Prince Victor Emmanuel, the head of the Italian royal family. The events included the Ballo di Savoia at New York’s Metropolitan Club as well as Mass at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral celebrated by Cardinal Timothy Dolan. Cardinal Dolan greeted Farrell and the members of the Order following the Mass. Leah Guggenheimer is now COO of Tiger Bay Advisors (www.tigerbayadvisors.com), a professional services company that enhances the ability of investment managers to compete in a crowded market by upgrading their key non-investment functions. Don MacKinnon writes, “I’m close to launching my new venture, Milq, a site and app dedicated to creating a better way for us to discover and share culture (music, film, sports, fashion, etc.) with each other. Recently, I launched an iPad app I developed with Ken Burns to bring his films together in a new way. As part of it, I worked with Ken to create playlists around themes that recur throughout U.S. history: race, innovation, politics, etc. Kind of like mixed tapes about America.”
Jon Bornstein writes, “Three boys, ages 10, 8, and 4. Moved back to the North Shore of Boston from North Carolina several years ago so the kids can experience the never-ending snow in Red Sox Nation!” Christina Cook writes, “My family and I recently relocated from Hanover, N.H., where I was working as the senior writer for the president of Dartmouth, to Philadelphia, where I’m now working as a writer for the president’s office and communications office at the University of Pennsylvania. I also recently had a book of poems published, titled Lake Effect.” Kevin Kassover has transplanted from Los Angeles to San Francisco. He’s heading up the Aesthetics division of California Skin Institute (CSI), the largest privately owned dermatology practice in the state. He supervises four areas of business: plastic surgery, lasers, injectables, and skincare products. He welcomes hearing from any Choaties in the Bay Area: kevin@kassover.com. So far he’s spent time with Joe McAndrew, Courtney O’Connell ’86, Jamie White, Cornelia de Schepper ’66, Nicole Ryan, Sherry Daniel ’86 and Jennifer Weltzien, among others. Kate McNulty joined the board of the Northern California Planned Giving Council. Robin Sparkman left her job as the editorin-chief of The American Lawyer to become the CEO of StoryCorps, the national oral history project. She’d love to hear more from alums in the nonprofit world.
’88 Amy Talkington worked closely with her editor (and classmate) Daniel Ehrenhaft while writing her first novel, Liv, Forever, published in March by Soho Teen (See review on p. 57). They’ve traveled to various conferences with the book and got to see Lisa Zeitz in Philadelphia and convened with Lacey Terrell, Sunday Stevens, Mike Stein ’87, and Reeve Stein when Dan visited Los Angeles. ’89 Andrea Miralia writes, “My other half, James Butler, and I welcomed Lucian Miralia Butler into the world on December 5, 2013, in Maryland. We’re hoping to bring Lucian to Reunion in May, but right now, we’re just enjoying the smiles and trying to get some sleep.” David Wood recently gave the keynote address for the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor’s “Early Modern Colloquium,” promoting his most recent book, Recovering Disability in Early Modern England (Ohio State University Press, 2013). David continues to serve as Honors Program Director and Associate Professor of English at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, where he lives with his wife, Vicki, and their children, Maddie (9), Henry (7), and Nate (5).