CLASS NOTES
alumni team comprised of Brian Valle ’99, Rob Travieso ’97 and me. Andrew Kelly is in the midst of a Ph.D. program in political science at Northwestern in Chicago and will soon be a proud uncle thanks to his brother Mark Kelly ’97 and his wife Kari. Sasha Bergey is entering his second year of business school at Georgetown and spent part of the summer crunching numbers for the shrimp farming business run by Friends School alumni Guy Furman ’98 and Scott Fritze ’98. Susie Peterson graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical School this past spring and started her residency in emergency medicine at Hopkins. So cross your fingers that she’s on call next time you’re in the ER. In other big news, she and Phil Ghassemieh ’01 are engaged. The Friends School cupid strikes again! I’m back in Baltimore to finish my last year of medical school after a year of research in New York. Thanks, as always, to everyone who keeps in touch. Looking forward to our 10 year Reunion in May!
’01 Carrie Runde 3626 Fremont Lane N #204 Seattle WA 98103
crunde@alumni.upenn.edu Hello from sunny Seattle! Here are some of the recent happenings of the Class of 2001. Sara Zager married Mike Chapper ’00 on June 14, 2009 at her family’s home in Baltimore. In attendance from our class were Kim Clark and Adam Green. While I wasn’t able to attend the wedding, I did get to celebrate in Sara’s honor at her bachelorette party in Baltimore in May. I also got to catch up with Kim, who’s
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doing fabulously and living in Philadelphia. After getting married, Sara spent her summer working at Sidwell Friends School in DC, fulfilling a 150hour internship requirement for her graduate degree. Paul Kritzler graduated from Quinnipiac Law School and is now working for the Connecticut Sara Zager ’01 Department of and Mike Chapper the Environment ’00 at their June in Hartford. In 2009 wedding. August, Paul married Jenny Stewart, whom he met at Lafayette College. Emma Viscidi is engaged to David Gallagher and is living back in Boston. She just completed her master’s degree in public health at Johns Hopkins and is starting a Ph.D. program in epidemiology at Brown University this fall. Yaron Miller e-mailed me this summer from “somewhere in CT,” where he was about 1,460 miles into a 2,200-mile hike of the Appalachian Trail. He expected to finish sometime in September, and then planned to cross the Atlantic for a 10-day vacation in France. Molly Kastendieck is most likely jealous of Yaron’s European vacation, as her 10-day kayak trip in Sweden “got canceled because of the stupid economy.” I was lucky to host Molly here in Seattle while she attended a work conference back in March. Molly is still working in the Student Activities Center at George Washington University in DC and has a new puppy named Ruby. Jennifer Tufaro is living in Canton and is excited about her recent acceptance into an interior design graduate program at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. She will continue working in real estate development while she’s in school to “keep her foot in the door.” Jennifer is still passionate about film design, working on little films here and there and also helping out with the Maryland Film Festival. She is happy to report that she is keeping in touch with her Friends classmates. Lauren Stone married Eric Prendeville in October and Emma Viscidi, Jennifer Tufaro and Lizzie Cusack were all in the wedding party. Peggy Kremen recently received an M.S.W. from NYU. She’s living in
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Greenwich Village and is a social worker at a Brooklyn outpatient substance abuse clinic. She e-mailed updates on the classmates she keeps up with: Rachel Lipman graduated from Penn with her M.S.W.; Peggy is trying to convince Rachel to move to NYC to pursue a social work career there; Rachel is looking at jobs in Philly, DC and NYC. Christine Pappas has been living in San Francisco for a few years and works at Schlesinger Associates doing marketing research. Peggy had plans to visit her this summer. Warry Siebert moved to NYC in January and is on the front line of a company called Branded Evolution that does on-line advertising. Lizzie Cusack lives in Fells Point and is a nurse at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Please continue e-mailing me with updates about yourselves and your friends from the class of 2001!
’02 Camille Powe
camille.powe@gmail.com As usual, the Class of 2002 is doing amazing things—traveling the world, earning all kinds of degrees, making important scientific discoveries and even producing Hollywood movies. With our reputation, who would expect anything less? Margaret Sampson is starting her second year of a master’s program at Purdue in sport and exercise psychology. She completed a summer internship working at a pediatric obesity clinic in an Indianapolis hospital, and found it so rewarding that she hopes to make a career out of it! She writes, “There is a definite need for weight management programs here in the mid-West.” Before grad school, Margaret was in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic. “If anyone is thinking of joining the Peace Corps or is planning on taking a vacation to the Dominican Republic, let me know. I
Anita Myers ’02’s sons, Quentin and Quavion Alexander.