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Congrats to Priya Shashidharan, who finished her residency in family medicine at UCSF and recently moved back to the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. area. Joe Fleury married Jenny Pontier in June in a wonderful celebration in Baltimore, and fellow Quakers John Fleury ’03, Rob Lower and Warry Siebert ‘01 were in the wedding party. Big news from our local star, Billy Nobel. He writes, “I’m still living in Nashville and enjoying it down here. I’ve been spending the summer playing keyboards in Tim McGraw’s band on the McGraw and Kenny Chesney ‘Brothers of The Sun’ tour. It’s been an amazing experience, and we have toured all over the country, which has also allowed me to visit with many friends and family along the way. Next up is a residency in Las Vegas starting in December, where I’ll be playing in the band for McGraw’s and wife Faith Hill’s ‘Soul2Soul’ concerts. Of course, I am very grateful to Michael McVey and the music department at Friends for instilling in me many of the necessary musical skills that have allowed me to get this far. I can’t thank you all enough!” James Yolles and Laura McComb-DiPesa recently caught his show in New York and were treated to a glimpse backstage! Christina Schoppert married Andrew Deveraux in June at Clifton Park in the company of many Quakers. They set out for a wonderful summer honeymoon on the Trans-Siberian Railroad and will place roots in Los Angeles this year. Felicitations to Andrew Kelly, who completed his Ph.D. at Northwestern in June and
landed the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research fellowship at the University of California Berkeley. He and his wife Eleni Wolfe-Roubatis visited us in Nashville on their way out West, and we had a great time listening to live cowboy music and eating snow cones. Hope the hot summer days treated everyone well. Until next time!
by Lightning. He thanks everyone for their Friends support and had a blast at this year’s 10th Reunion! Chris Wright is living in Durham, N.C., where he’s completing his M.B.A. He and Jason Berman met up in Steamboat Springs, Colo., this year, where they skied a record 24-hour snow fall of 27 inches.
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Christopher Wright cswright@gmail.com Meg Baldwin is living in Charlottesville, Va., and is busy pursuing her master’s of landscape architecture degree. Tim Kamphaus celebrated his 27th birthday in Washington, D.C., with fellow 2002 alumni Zac Shapiro, Andrew Jazwiecki, Kevin Loeb and Matt Peters; a fun time was had by all. Congrats to Tim! Jason Berman turned the big 3-0 this year on Aug. 26. He produced another two films this summer, Kilimanjaro and Chu & Blossom and has three films being released before the end of the year, Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best, LUV and Struck
SARAH KNAPP ’03 and Efrain Castillo Villavicencio at their July 2012 wedding
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Jessica Carambelas says, “Last year I bought my first house in Butcher’s Hill. I love grilling out on the rooftop deck during the summer. For my career, I have joined forces with Tom James of Baltimore and am now a custom clothier. Last but not least, my dog Minnie and I just celebrated her 8th birthday. Life is good!” Sarah Knapp Castillo says, “I married Efrain Castillo Villavicencio. I’m now Sarah Smiley Knapp Castillo. My maid of honor was Grace Patterson Leatherman ‘04, and my brother Jesse Knapp ‘01 was one of the groomsmen.”
2004. Abby Seiler aseiler8@gmail.com It’s been an exciting summer for many of us. Mike Levin got married this spring to Emily Hoppe, whom he met in college, and is beginning law school at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law in August. Grace Patterson Leatherman is now a middle school history teacher in Montgomery County, Md., where she lives in Ijamsville with her husband John and their two cats and eight chickens. Another teacher, Sammie Cusack, is living in Charlottesville, Va., teaching kindergarten and loving it! She spent the summer traveling around the East Coast, dancing at Peabody and catching up with friends and family. Kathleen Gorman is in her fourth year of medical school at University of Maryland School of Medicine and has decided to pursue pediatrics. She recently traveled to Beijing, China to visit her older brother and has taken up rock climbing and yoga as new hobbies. Since completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Denver, Loren Kagan has moved to Philadelphia and is living on Ritttenhouse Square. He owns his own boutique financial planning firm and will be graduating this winter with a certificate in entrepreneurship from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of
Business. Farther away, Colin Molloy is living in Hollywood, Calif., where he recently signed with Aqua Talent Agency. He’s been acting out there for about two years, doing commercials and short films, and he just had the opportunity to work with comedian Jim Gaffigan and Shia LaBeouf. He says Danny Robertson is out there with him, still doing his acting thing as well! Alex Broekhof is living in Cambridge, U.K., studying electrical generators for offshore wind turbines. This summer he’ll be in Switzerland doing a 100-K hike from Mont Blanc to the Matterhorn with his brother, Laurens Broekhof ‘00. Another adventurer, Peter Weitzmann, has been in Australia for the past nine months on a working holiday with his girlfriend. They’ve been traveling around the country in their camper van, Cosmo, and working on farms picking plums, apples, tomatoes, pumpkins and cantaloupes. They’re currently in Onslow, Western Australia working at a grocery store. The coral reef behind their caravan park is exposed at low tide; sometimes they walk out and catch octopus trapped in the tide pools. He says it’s great fun! Rachel Fitz moved to Washington, D.C. last year after a year in India and Israel, where she did social justice work with African refugees and tribal women. She bought a home a block from her brother, Sam Fitz ‘02, in Columbia Heights and says she rents out most of the rooms to pay the mortgage. She also adopted two loving kittens and was just promoted to assistant general manager at The Meridian Pint (an awesome spot, if I may say so). She’s there a lot so drop by and say “hi!” Caitlin Garman and I are also in Washington, D.C., living together just blocks from Rachel. Caitlin recently completed a degree in social work at the University of Pennsylvania and is now a social worker at a KIPP public charter school in Anacostia, D.C. This summer I started working for the Center for Food Safety, a public-interest food and agriculture nonprofit and have been volunteering with a local urban garden.
2005. Tim McLaughlin timothy.mclaughlin3@gmail.com Please send your news for Class Notes!
2006. Nicole Runde nicole.runde@gmail.com Natalie West just started a position as an AmeriCorps VISTA in Baltimore’s