CLASS NOTES everywhere he goes by his security people. I hear that Big Time is doing well in Chicago. Edith hung out with Anjana Jindal earlier this year, who is about to finish her glaucoma fellowship at Wills Eye Institute in Philadelphia. After that, she’s joining the ophthalmology department at Temple University while staying on at Wills parttime. Gwen Armbruster reports, “I moved back to San Francisco, again, this past June (I swear, second time’s the charm!). I am in graduate school at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in their new Dan Kahn ’96 with tattoo artist and television personality M.B.A. in design strategy Kat Von D at her book signing. program and will be getting my degree in June 2010. I am also interning for six months in the strategy department at Yves Behar’s award-winning industrial design and brand identity studio called fuseproject (www.fuseproject.com) in downtown San Francisco. I love being back on the West Coast, and am excited to finish up school sooner than later!” Dan Kahn e-mailed, “My wife and I went on a cruise to the Panama Canal and Costa Rica. The rainforest was amazing and now I wish I had taken that class trip to Costa Rica. I also ran into Kat Von D (‘LA Ink’ star) and had her autograph a copy of her book.” Alec Hawley was in town in May. Edith, Alec and some of our parents had brunch together one day and also had a fun night Mike and Janelle Milam Schmidt ‘96’s sons in Hampden. Alec is a landscape architect and he was, until May, living in Canada. Drew, 3 and Connor, born June 24, 2009. His drive from Canada to California, where he now lives, was an epic journey; he wrote to me about some of his adventures on the road, saying, “The plateaus of Minnesota gave way to the crazy landscape of the South Dakota Badlands, then on to the mountains and American flags of Wyoming, where there was still about five feet of snow! Yellowstone was also covered in snow, with steam rising from the geysers. I saw big-horned sheep, elk and some kind of antelope.” Alec is living in San Francisco again, the site of his famous breakout TV role as “Mark,” the angry abusive murderer on one of those crime reenactment shows. I’ll never forget the look in his eyes as he set fire to a Jeep and stared coolly at the wreckage. While in SF, he’ll continue to operate his side Claire Cherlin Kosloff ’97 and “Uncle” Reid business selling animal pelts, syrup, rare Cherlin ’99 show off Claire’s new daugheggs and non-ferrous metals on the ter Alexandra Lang Kosloff in Los Angeles Internet. (You can’t make this stuff up.) in August 2009.
While Alec was in town we also hung out with Jay “Moves” Mund. “Moves” continues to work at Kennedy Krieger while attending graduate school and generally dominating Route 40. I missed a karaoke birthday party for Madeline Franklin in New York, but got a text from Maddie during the festivities affirming that they were having a good time. I heard Trevor Soponis ’95 and Emily Santos were there. Maddie said she did a rendition of our classic “go to” Starship duet, “Nothin’s Gonna Stop Us Now,” but she had to use alternate (read: lesser) talent for the male vocals. Maddie and Emily were in attendance this summer as Lydia Ries married Tom O’Halloran. Cary Pirone and Jeannie Achuff and her husband Ernest Morrow were also there. Ismini Naos wrote from New York, “We moved from Manhattan to Larchmont in Westchester County a few months ago. The move was a good one, as we have a lot more space and the town is super cute. I am engaged to a wonderful guy, Jerry Nijmeijer, who hails from the Netherlands. He is a physicist and a specialized optics project manager for a company that designs microchip manufacturing machines. Jerry’s company designed the lenses for the Hubble telescope. The wedding will be sometime next year. I continue to work as a senior medical planner for HOK Architects and am enjoying seeing the progress of one of my projects, a new hospital for the University Medical Center at Princeton, NJ, which is set to see its first patient in 2011. I see quite a bit of Jill Meister Feldman and her husband Art. They take the train to visit us and Jill—who incidentally is the new editor-in-chief of GetMarried.com and the senior supervising producer of ‘Get Married’ on Lifetime—has been a huge help in the wedding planning.” Another New Yorker, Jessica Lichtenfeld, wrote: “I
Mehul Parekh ’97 and Mather Preston ‘97 at Golden West Café in Hampden.
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