Class of 2000 Robert Allen robertfallenii@gmail.com
Ioni and Akylas, children of Brett Winton ’97
So, I quit my job and spent nine months checking things off that list. I hiked across the Swiss Alps, did an eight-day silent meditation retreat, got my yoga certification and attempted to learn piano, to name just a few. I am now back at work doing project management for LinkedIn and am trying to squeeze in as many fun trips as I can throughout the summer.
Class of 1999 Nina Jacobi nina.jacobi@gmail.com Bobby Curnow is working as a writer and editor in San Diego. His graphic novel, Ward’s Valley, came out via Top Shelf Publishing in early April. Daniel Raimi has been traveling extensively to promote his new book, The Fracking Debate. He is excited to spend more time at home in Ann Arbor this summer, since he and his wife, Kaitlin, are expecting their first child (a boy!) in August. Whitney Goodman just moved down to Charleston, South Carolina, to go to school for physical therapy. She is still dancing quite a bit. Margaret Jones is out in Seattle, continuing her work at
the five-state trauma center at Harborview, where she provides medical care to patients with spinal cord injuries. Margaret is still traveling when she gets the chance — she just got back from an amazing trip to Patagonia and Torres del Paine National Park in Chile earlier this spring. Matt Crawford is finishing up his orthopedic surgery residency at Duke and will be moving to Vail with his wife, Julie, for a sports medicine fellowship. Most importantly, their son, Luke, was born in September 2017 and has been a true joy. Amar Goli is living in LA and working for CBRE in the downtown LA office. They focus on large retail centers and single-tenant retail and industrial properties nationwide. Amar and his wife just celebrated their first anniversary in February. They were married last year in Carmel, California, with many of our fellow DA classmates in attendance. As for me, my husband Peter and I welcomed our son, Thomas, in January. We are bleary-eyed but in love! I’m enjoying maternity leave before returning to my work in healthcare consulting. Thanks to all for your updates! Please keep them coming. Warm thoughts to each of you.
Big congrats goes out to Siobahn Grant, who got engaged in January and will be married to Brian Dobbins in Durham this December. Jessica Crowe Whilden’s daughter, Caroline, will join kids of Tyler Elkins-Williams, Ben Berchuck, Lee Patterson and Susan Knott Easterling next year in DA pre-kindergarten. Cavaliers 2032! It boggles the mind. Anna Allen is living in Raleigh, working for Miller-Motte College teaching in the veterinary technician program, and having an amazing time raising her 3½-year-old son Samuel! She is looking forward to visiting Leigh Quarles and her family over Memorial Day in Kansas City, Missouri. Clare Norwood recently bought a fixer upper and is living in the attic (by choice) while she rehabs the house. She will be running the Cincinnati Flying Pig May 6 and hoping to qualify for the Boston Marathon a second time, which is amazing! Jamie Krzyzewski Spatola informs me that Aden Darity is the athletics director at my grade school alma mater, Carolina Friends School. According to Jamie, he’s doing an awesome job and she runs into him a good bit. Cristina Bejan recently moved to Raleigh, where she is working in education and theater. Her play, Colombo Calling — a play from Sri Lanka, recently appeared at Imurj. She is producing Eclipsed by Danai Gurira in the Women’s Theater Festival this July and August, performing at the Durham Fruit and Produce Company. Alivia Sholtz Archer is still working at the Duke Clinical Research Institute — this May will be four years. This past Halloween Alivia and her husband, Greg, moved into their new home in Durham and their son, Ford, arrived six weeks later. She’s keeping busy between work and getting her family settled in their new home. Congrats on all fronts! Terri Ginsberg Jordan
has been in the D.C. area for the last 12 years, avoiding tourists and working as a corporate lawyer. Her children, Noah (4) and Avery (2), keep them on their proverbial toes and familiar with the local Arlington playground scene. Nate Solberg will be getting married to Sarah Swann this summer. His business, Nordic PC, is now 10 years old, and is doing really well. They’re moving into a new larger facility and they’ve hired a third employee. Elizabeth Lessey-Morillon had a daughter, Cossette Eloise Morillon, last spring. Last summer, she finished her postdoc at National institute of Cancer (Bethesda, Maryland) in the Laboratory of Pathology doing tumor microenvironment and immunotherapy research. She started working at the FDA in Silver Spring, doing cell therapy product review in division of cellular and gene therapies. Before that, she graduated with a Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from UNC in 2014. Tom Lind lives in Nashville with his wife, Carrie, and three kids: Lucy (4), Bo (2) and Jack (10 months). Carrie works at Vanderbilt University as a pediatrician and Tom is an anesthesiologist in a local private practice. To quote Tom, “Life is good!”
Class of 2001 Allison Kirkland allison.kirkland@gmail.com
Amelia Ashton Thorn amelia.a.thorn@gmail.com Amazingly, we have now been graduates for a little over 17 years — about the same age we were when we graduated. Whoa. Now that we have your (stunned) attention, here’s what our classmates have been up to lately. Misty Piekaar welcomed her first child, a girl, in January 2018. Her name is Kailee May McWilliams. Misty reports that she is reveling in the year of “firsts” — first baby smile, first Mother’s Day, etc. Life, she says, is good! Also enjoying life as a new mom is Amelia Ashton Thorn, who spends many of
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