Class notes
the to Hesse. Last year I taught at Earlham College—it was nice to be back at a Quaker institution for a while, although I prefer northern California to anywhere in Indiana.”
1992 Class Secretary needed! If you are interested in learning more about this volunteer job, please contact Amy Langrehr.
Class of ’93 alums (l.-r.) Dana Kerley Jimenez, Blakely Mikula Hamilton, Carrie Mallonee Huebner, Eric Huebner, Frannie Hochberg-Giuffrida, and Carmina Valle pose for portraits following Carrie and Eric’s wedding. (Photo by Shane Carpenter.)
baby girl in October. She is a fat and happy three month old now. We still live in Manhattan and I still work as an architect. For the past three years, I was working on a new law school building for Stanford University, but now that construction is almost complete, I will be working on a different project when I return from maternity leave in February.” The last update that I received for this batch of notes came from Katherine Leatherwood Brakman, who, after 17 years of owning her own production company, Fiat Lux Films, is moving to the other side of commercials: advertising. “I am taking a full time position as senior producer at The Martin Agency. I will be working in their in-house post production facility, Running with Scissors, on accounts, including Morgan Stanley, Discover Card, GEICO, WalMart, Hanes, Pizza Hut and Tylenol. While this marks a dramatic change in my life (and a slightly frightening loss of autonomy), fortunately it does not require relocating. I 40
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will remain in Richmond, VA with my husband Eric and our two children, Stella, 6, and Nora, 4.” Although Katherine is staying put, my family and I moved from central New Jersey to Arlington, MA in December as my wife Lindsay took a new job. The Boston area welcomed us with quite a lot of snow, as one might have predicted, but we are enjoying the area and hope to be settled fully when this goes to print. Feel free to contact me if you are ever in the area!
1989 Meghan Stern meghan@stern.net
Jon Kallen is still living out in the heartland, Des Moines, IA, working as an environmental and regulatory attorney for an energy company. “I’m married with three boys under the age of six. In my spare time, I have been getting involved in local politics, ending my first term as an elected city council member in Johnston, IA (population 17,000.) I am up for re-election Friends School of Baltimore
in November so send me some campaign contributions!”
1991 Tricia Merson Harding bittersweet49026@ yahoo.com
Rachel Kurzweil Dvoskin writes, “After doing a post-doc at the University of Florida, I’m back up North (woo hoo!), living in Takoma Park, MD, working at the Genetics and Public Policy Center in DC. Our one-year-old son Ike is adjusting well to being ripped out of sunny, 80 degree Gainesville after being deposited into DC in the dead of winter. I’m happy to be back in the area and can’t wait to see old friends more often.” Christian Anderson writes, “I’m a visiting professor of German and film studies at Connecticut College. In March, I was awarded a Ph.D. in German from the University of California, Davis, with a dissertation that analyzed transcendental discourses in the Bildungsroman, from Goe-
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David Knowles writes, “My wife Wendy and I live in Severna Park with our daughter. I work in Washington, DC as the director of communications for the Corn Refiners Association, where I spend my days working on an advertising and public relations campaign to counter the widespread misinformation about high fructose corn syrup.” Chris Henry is living on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, working in urban planning by day as a project manager with AECOM. He is also an editor with the newly launched cycling magazine, Peloton. Chris is engaged to his fiancée Marisa and will be married in Brooklyn in September.
1993 Elizabeth Leonard Clifton elizclifton@gmail.com
Hello, friends! Things have been a little quiet in the Class of 1993 news department, but the news we have to share is joyous. First, we have a birth announcement from Karen Hudson Burd. She and her husband Travis Burd welcomed their first child, Carly Cousart Burd, on November 24, 2010. Karen is taking some time off from being a social worker to be a mom and plans to open a private practice in the coming months. Emily Pelton Watson has been a doula in the Baltimore area