class notes she fosters homeless dogs, which is a lot of fun. This summer, she traveled to West Virginia, Florida, Arizona, Iowa, and Nebraska...and then to Portugal, Africa, and Spain in the fall! Welcome back to Baltimore, Kelly Bouxsein. Kelly is starting a M.P.H. program at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Rosalie Parker hopes Kelly will visit her at the JHU Museums where she currently works. Kelly saw Jessie Adkins who was recently visiting from Seattle. Jessie is in grad school at University of Washington and plans to graduate in December. Anne Preis is living in Baltimore’s Lauraville neighborhood with her pup Jack and is working as director of finance, admin and marketing for Marie Louise Bistro and Catering in Mt. Vernon. Josh Stone says, “I am building a house in Canton on a lot that used to be an old church and the process is a nightmare.” Exciting baby news! Rebecca Clemens Mikel and her husband welcomed Hunter Stanton Mikel on July 12, 2010. “Hunter arrived a week early, weighing 8 lbs., 3 oz. and 20 inches long. He’s a very easy baby so far and my husband Clinton and I are having a blast being new parents!” Hope to see you all at some Friends School events this fall and winter. Please keep me updated throughout the year with your latest news!
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Hi again, newly-minted 10 year grads. It was great to see everyone at the reunion in May—always a pleasure to hang out with Friends alumni. There’s lots of good news (per usual) to share in Class Notes. Ana Munoz graduated from Yale law school in May, and
writes, “I’m doing a fellowship in the Bronx fighting coercive interrogation practices of immigrant pre-trial detainees in local jails. And I’m also loving Brooklyn.” Geoff Graham spent some time in Antarctica and I listened to his chronicles of the experience on WYPR. He let me knew that the group he’s been working with for the last two years, Lower Dens, is releasing their first album on the record label “Gnomonsong” this July 20. He says, “We’ve been spending most of our
judicial clerkship with the Honorable Judge David W, Young in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, she was recently accepted an associate position in the negligence department of the law firm of Chasen Boscolo in Greenbelt, MD. She says, “I love the firm and the work. In between court hearings and depositions, I found some time to plan my wedding to Recao Collins, which was held on October 10, 2010 (10-10-10) at the Newton White Mansion
Tiffani Sterrette ’00 and fiancé Recao in the summer of 2010.
time touring in the US to promote the album and will be touring in Europe this fall.” Wedding bells are in the future for James Yolles and fellow Friends alumna Laura McComb-DiPesa ’02, as well as Andrew Kelly and his wonderful girlfriend Eleni. James is Director of Public Affairs at the Alliance for Downtown New York, a Lower Manhattan business improvement group. Tiffani Sterrette also let me know of some happy nuptial news. After completing her one year
in Prince George’s County. Reco is an assistant vice president of the Government Banking Group at PNC Bank.” She also recently ran into Josh Pincus-Sokoloff and “his beautiful fiancée” at the Mt. Washington Tavern. Jenna Bond-Louden will start Columbia Business School in the fall—congratulations! Ben Camp sent in a wonderfully comprehensive update a few months ago. He writes, “From 2000-2005, I attended Drexel University in Philadelphia, obtained a
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degree in music industry, purchased a few rental houses and produced a few club records. Then from 2005-2007, I started a dance music record label (www.humannaturemusic.com), taught music production at University of the Arts in Philadelphia and worked for Pieris Music, a charity organization which provides free music lessons to underprivileged inner-city youths and, for the over-21 crowd, puts on “classical clubbing” concerts to re-engage today’s youth with our rich western musical tradition. Imagine a nightclub with glam’dout Philadelphia Orchestra performers performing Bach Violin Partitas to a thumping electro beat, all after midnight, and you’ve got the picture. For the last two years, I’ve been attending Berklee College of Music in Boston, continuing to run the record label, and getting involved in music publishing (with my music being played as cues on MTV, Fox, TLC). I recently won this year’s ‘Johnny Mercer Songwriter’s Project,’ and as a result will be spending a week at Northwestern University in Chicago studying with LinManuel Miranda, the writer of the 2008’s Tony awardwinning best musical “In The Heights.” Um, wow. And now, for the section in which I detail super fun lives on the West Coast in the field of medicine. Priya Shashidharan moved out to San Francisco after graduating from medical school at the George Washington University to complete a residency in family medicine at UCSF. She says “I am looking forward to connecting with Friends School alumni in the Bay Area!” Gwenn Rosenberg wrote that she was thinking of all the Friends schoolers she hadn’t seen in years, and hopes all are doing well. She’s living in Portland, OR and recently started clinical rotations as a
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