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JANINE D’ADAMO ’98 and Alec Heuisler’s ’99’s wedding in Rehoboth Beach, Del., in the summer of 2012.
ERIN HALL ‘98’s Stone Hill house in Hampden.
Pictured behind the happy couple are Dorene, Conor and Declan Creaney, Erin Hall ’98, Marc Broady ’98 and Ben Pollak ’99.
Congratulations, Jesse! Carrie Maylor DiCanio is in her fourth (going on fifth) year as an associate at Anderson Kill & Olick in New York. Her husband Mike and their son Ian are doing well. Ian turned 22 months old in November. The DiCanio family is looking forward to moving from Brooklyn to Maplewood, N.J., in September. Maggie Beetz continues working as the editor for Baltimore’s Gay Life Magazine, which is published by the Gay & Lesbian Community Center (GLCCB) in Mount Vernon. She adds, “My husband Jesse Whyte and I are starting to think about buying a house. No exciting travel news this year (because we’re starting to think about buying a house!).” I still see Elena Johnson and Sarah Brager all the time. Both are well. Elena just got a new job with a group called Compassion Over Killing, and Sarah is raising the most beautiful daughter in the world (whom I get to see all the time, too). I also keep in touch with Justin Rossello. On a sad note, my cat of nearly 17 years, Ben, passed away this year. We’re just starting to think about adopting another feline friend soon. Maybe we’ll have someone else to report about next time.” It turns out Caroline Keelty Casey is the first Friends School parent among us! Caroline has an 18-month-old daughter, Nora, who is currently in day care at Baby Friends. “She absolutely LOVES Baby Friends and so do we. She actually used to cry when we came to pick her up from school. That certainly broke
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my heart, but it made me feel good that she enjoyed what she was doing and who she was with during the day. We are also moving to a single-family home in Ruxton so we will have more room for our growing family!” In other news, Caroline earned her master’s in real estate from Johns Hopkins a few years ago, and she is currently working at her family’s real estate building and development company. As for me, I had such a great time all summer with my husband Bill and (then) 17-monthold son Silas enjoying the pool, the public library, our first beach vacation and just time together. What a fun age! We are endlessly entertained by his growing personality, curiosity and coordination. It was certainly not easy parting with him again in the fall as the school year got under way, but we were both in for a big change for the better this time around. This fall I began teaching right down the street at Calvert School. I am thrilled to have joined Calvert as the new secondgrade (eighth-age) boys’ homeroom teacher. The icing on the cake is that Silas now attends Kiddie Calvert day care, just one floor below me. In other news, I became an aunt (on the Alger side) when my brother Jordy Alger ‘02 and his wife Marisa welcomed a baby boy, Leon Eugene Alger, on July 23, 2012. Leon has a full head of dark hair and is cute as a button! I just learned that Emily Baum and her husband Josh Burke have been back in Baltimore for about a year and a half. His job at Under Armour brought
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them home, and they have been happy to be closer to family and friends. Emily began her private practice about a year ago and is enjoying her work as a psychologist. Emily also shares, “As I’m writing this I’m sitting with Mike Malin at chemo. We have a regular date every other Tuesday. As some of you may know he is fighting brain cancer for the second time. He is quite amazing, and I feel very lucky to be spending time with him.” Our love goes out to the Malins during this difficult time, and we continue to hold Mike, his wife Cathy and two children, David and Abigail, in the Light.”
1999. Rosalie Parker rorosalie@gmail.com Salute to my dearest classmates, and let me just say, WOW. I generally stay away from caps, however we have some major updates on all fronts. Thanks for always getting back to my prying emails! Please let me start with two of my best friends, Alec Heuisler and Janine D’Adamo ’98 (see 1998 Class Notes for more information), a couple I’ve known since my first days at Friends School in 1996, besides
KIM HAMILTON KASPRZYCKI ’98 qualified for the National Eventing Championships.