class notes “Modern Family,” was nominated for a “Best Director” Emmy for that show but did not win. (The show, however, did take the Emmy for “Best Comedy.”) Earlier this year he took home a Golden Globe and a Directors Guild of America Award for his work on the series. At press time (August), Holter Graham reported that he had completed two of the four phases of his chemotherapy for leukemia. If all goes according to plan, he’ll complete the protocol sometime around the New Year and start a maintenance regimen. “I plan to run a sub-three hour Baltimore Marathon in 2011. So, there.” Holter’s wife Neela Vaswani’s second book, You Have Given Me A Country, was published this summer, and Neela will be one of the Class of 1989 Visiting Scholars at Friends this year.
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Sunee Claud suneeclaud@gmail.com
Sunee Claud reports, “Many in the DC-metro area will recall hibernating or fighting cabin fever during the infamous Snowpocalypse 2010 that covered the area with several feet of snow. I, however, was thankful for the storm’s week-long gift-fromthe-weather-gods holiday that resulted as a time to put the finishing touches on my February 14, 2010 wedding to Spencer Reisinger at Oxon Hill Manor.” Dabney Neblett Bowen writes, “We welcomed another baby girl, Leighton Sterling Bowen, on May 12, 2010.” Dabney, Michael and big sister Wesley are all enjoying the newest addition! Ilse Levin and her husband Seth Flagg welcomed their first child, Alistair Serafin Levin-Flagg, on April 30, 2010. He was born at National Naval Medical
Center and weighed in at 7 lbs. 15 oz. Unfortunately just a few months later, Ilse and her brother Pete Levin ’97 lost their father, Peter Moritz Levin, after his year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. With help from Elizabeth Elliott’s mother Genie and Lucia Treasure ’99, a beautiful memorial service was held at Stony Run Friends Meeting on July 17, 2010.
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Elizabeth Leonard Clifton elizclifton@gmail.com
Hello, friends. It’s been a full year since I gathered news from our classmates and I’m happy to say that a lot of wonderful things have been happening in people’s lives— positive career changes, weddings, and new babies. (News is listed here in that order!) St. Frances Academy named Joseph Garner as football coach. A graduate of Morgan State University, he has been an assistant coach at Patterson High School, Baltimore Poly and most recently at McDaniel College. He is an adjunct professor of physical education at Coppin State University and will continue in that capacity while coaching the Panthers. David Peck is living in Baltimore and has been married for eight years. He writes that he has “a little girl named Hannah that is the center of my life.” She was born in March 2008. David is self-employed in a business he started in 2006. “We sell, design and install residential and commercial automation systems, lighting control, custom theaters, and audio systems. Who knew that a lifetime of playing music would get me into supplying music to other people? I just finished up a big school auditorium and a couple of health clubs. My wife is the director of a school here in Baltimore that deals with an
Sara Pfaff ’95 and her husband Francesco Baravalle at their May 2010 wedding in Italy.
emotionally disturbed/mentally retarded population.” Experienced doula, perinatal educator and parent, Emily Pelton Watson is excited to announce the opening of her new business—Baltimore Family Beginnings. Emily says, “We offer professional labor support services for the metropolitan area and will be holding childbirth and parenting classes in north Baltimore city. Find us on Facebook and at www.baltimorefamilybeginnings.com.” Esther Moran Hamm writes, “I got married on July 3, 2010 to Erich Hamm in Boothbay Harbor ME. Lauren Buerger-Holub was in attendance with her husband Travis and baby Julian. We will continue to live in NYC, where I work for an educational nonprofit called SFK and where my husband
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runs his own event lighting and design business called the Glow Design Group.” Caroline Mallonee married Eric Huebner at Stony Run Friends Meetinghouse on June 19, 2010. Dear friends from Friends were present to share the day, including Frannie Hochberg-Giuffrida, Elise Pittenger, Carmina Valle, Dana Kerley Jimenez and Blakely Mikula Hamilton. After a honeymoon in Italy, they settled in Buffalo, NY, where Eric is on the piano faculty at SUNY Buffalo. Carrie continues to enjoy her work as a composer and will travel to Japan this winter for the performance of a commissioned piece. Elise Pittenger married Fernando Rocha on July 17, 2010 at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Baltimore. Several
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