CLASS NOTES
Above: Ismini Naos ’96 and her husband Jerry Nijmeijer. Below: Alli Coppell ’96 and her husband Gonzalo Guerrero.
Emily Santos ‘96, Rich Santos ’94 and Natalie Santos Ferguson ’90 with Natalie’s daughters, Drew and Charlotte, in the summer of 2009.
’96 Andrew Dale
atdale@gmail.com Leading off with great news, Linley Smith Dixon and her husband Peter are having a baby in January! Also in baby news, Janelle Milam Schmidt and her husband
at Brown and have taken a job at Southern Maine Medical Center in Biddeford, ME. Rachel and I are still riding the wave of excitement over the birth of our son, Eli Barasch Nilson, born in March 2009. We welcome visitors!” Andrew Gohn joined the Maryland Energy Administration in Annapolis as a clean energy program manager and writes, “I work to support development of wind power in Maryland. This is really a dream job for me, and I’m thrilled to be able to work on renewable energy policy and still live in Baltimore.”
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Mike (not the Hall of Fame third baseman) added Connor Adam to their family on June 24, 2009. Janelle says that their son Drew loves being a big brother. Speaking of kids, Suzanne Benson’s daughter Isabella Voshell entered Friends Pre-Primary this fall. Now…some other news direct from Charm City. For a month-long stretch this winter it seemed that everywhere I turned, I saw Brandon Maslan, Esquire. First, I saw him at a Baltimore County Bar Association event where we had a few beers and reminisced, then I bumped into him out on the town in Federal Hill, and then again at a fundraiser a friend of mine organized in Little Italy (Joe Johnston ’98 was there too.) Brandon is practicing law for his family firm and doing very well. He speaks to Brad Surosky often and says that Brad is doing great in LA. Brandon also told me that Josh Hantman is still in DC practicing law. I also saw Atman Smith recently and we had a good time catching up. Atman and his brother Ali Smith ’94 continue to do great work with the nonprofit they founded, the Holistic Life Foundation (www.hlfinc.org). HLF just completed its second year of a yoga/mindfulness study involving fifth grade innercity youth. The study was a partnership with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Penn State’s Prevention
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Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development. Ali says the program went so well that the research will continue for another two years, expanding the scope to include more schools. Dr. Dan Munoz continues to work like crazy in his cardiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins and began his job as one of the chief residents of internal medicine in July. Edith Dietz is in her second year of medical school and is really enjoying her work with patients. And, while I missed it this year, her dad’s big event—the Maryland Film Festival—was another big success. Of course Edith’s brother, “Big Time” Bob Dietz ’99, was in town, but he’s so Big Time these days that he arrives by limo and is ushered quickly in and out of
Jeannie Achuff ’96 and Ernest Morrow were married in August.