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awesome! Fern apparently is a big fan of mine and in turn, my daughter LOVES Fern. We must get together more often! Besides work, carpooling to my son’s kindergarten, and volunteering at my daughter’s preschool, our family loves to travel and have some fun trips planned for 2015: Mexico, Berlin, Germany, camping in Yosemite, Arizona for baseball Spring Training (OK, that’s my husband’s choice but still it’s fun), and possibly Denmark to visit my younger brother who moved there earlier this year for a job. Thankfully traveling with these kids is getting easier, and they really enjoy it, so I’m hopeful it will be a good year of fun adventures. It’s nice to hear from everyone! Stay warm and healthy!” Andreanna Kapogiannatos also wrote in from the west coast, specifically Seattle, to report: “This is our fifth year in Seattle and we love it here. I stay busy with my two daughters, Ava, nine, and Alena, three, and our new addition, a five-month-old Vizsla puppy named Ruby. Our family really enjoys exploring the Pacific NW, trips to the east coast to visit family, traveling to California to see the in-laws, and the occasional visit to Hawaii for some sun in the winter. My husband has also gotten the girls interested in watching and going to football games, so much so that their favorite colors are blue and green. Go Seahawks!” On the eastern front there was a lot of positive news about artistic endeavors from both Heather Milne Ritchie and Jessica Harper. Heather wrote to say, “Been hitting the rock pretty hard up here (in Vermont)—ha! But seriously, making my own sculptures and ones for the memorial industry has kept me busy lately. I am going to send the Emma Development Office a hard copy of the Vermont Woman article so they’ll have it, but that was the highlight of my fall. The kids are both in school and doing great. I have carved the EWS logo in limestone and would like to donate it as a class gift, but I still need to arrange the details of it with the school. My best to everyone for the holidays!” Jessica Todd Harper shared, “My most interesting news is that my second book of photographs, The Home Stage (http:// www.artbook.com/9788862083645.html)
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is out this fall. My best Emma worthy story is that Bridghe McCracken drove two hours (and left two kids) to be at the accompanying opening in New York earlier this month just because, as she described it, this was my dream in high school. Bridghe is great. But we knew that. My book travels also took me to SF where I was lucky enough to see Alicia Hafner Kletter. Her family and her home are both lovely. Chris and I are still right outside Philadelphia and our twin boys, Nicholas and Marshall, started first grade this year while our youngest, Catherine, started pre-school. My book is very much about this stage in life—the ‘you’ve got your hands full’ time of life.” Many thanks to all of you who wrote back to my FB post with news; I hope we can continue the conversation! There’s also quite a few of us who will be turning forty shortly, so if you’d like to gather for a toast, please get in touch!
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Leslie Butler-MacFadyen, 23 Holden Road, Cherry Hill,
where we got to bond pre-race in outrageous outfits to keep warm (I wore a bathrobe and Kate wore a children’s puffy coat). The good news is that we all managed not to be blown off the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in 40 mph winds, and also that we all made it across the finish line. Kate Lang Litton also gained a new neighbor and running partner in Cristen Murray, who reports that she recently left her job at New Balance and moved to Portland, Maine, where she is currently staying home with her two girls. For the sports fans, Tracey Gibson is now the president of the Sea Hawkers Booster Club of Southern California. She also recently spent some time with Yukiko Iguchi ’96 in Tokyo, where they reminisced about life on Sage 3 Long. Courtney Clark Hunt and her husband bought a farm and are in the process of starting a winery. Any chance for an EWS 20th reunion 2016 vintage?
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Caryn Lewis Hadley, 16 Lynbrook Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603,
845.891.4948, carynlewis@hotmail.com
NJ 08034, 856.667.3281, macfadyens@
(You can also find me on Facebook.)
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Alert! Record number of people reporting in! It is so good to hear from you all! Anju Lunia Williamson is living in Atlanta with her husband, Dan, and two kids, Sid and Lina. Lina was born on June 12. Anju reports her biggest accomplishment in the last few months was surviving her daughter’s colic. This fall she started back to work part time as a pediatric dentist. Atlanta has been a fun place to raise kids, but they do miss all their friends and family up north. Jenny Orr Sensenbrenner reports in with baby news as well (you will see the majority of our posts relate to babies). Her third child, Libby Jane, was born on June 9. She is very excited to finally have a girl to join big brothers Jack (love that name; if I had a boy he would be named Jack) and Matthew. Elda Abate reports in for the first time! As you can all expect Elda has been living an active life between NYC, Los Angeles, and South Beach building up her career in the field of nightlife at “some of the most amazing bars and nightclubs in the U.S.” She has been back and forth from South Beach to
Nothing to report. Please send news.
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Andrea Hanley, 16 Michigan Avenue, Troy, NY 12180,
ak.hanley@cdlschool.com 20th Reunion • Nothing to report. Please send news. Reunion April 24–26, 2015.
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Lilliana Anthony-Brown Mason, 167 East 67th Street, Apt. 6A,
New York, NY 10065, 917.679.6339, lillianhall@gmail.com
To start, two of us gave birth, and two of us ran a marathon. I’m going to go ahead and tell you that birth hurts more, and marathons hurt a lot. Laura Freelove and Kate Breen Roberts both welcomed baby boys named William. You read that right; we’ve got not one but two new little Williams in the 1996 family. Kate Lang Litton and I both ran the NYC Marathon in November, along with Meghan Deberry MacArthur ’95,