Class Notes
Kai, David Schummers, and his (at the time) fiancée Laura Browne (I’ll get there). Lauren and I loved every minute of it. Just an incredible weekend and amazing that it was part of an epic back-to-back celebration! But, we weren’t done … Just two weeks later, we flew to California for the Schummers-Browne affair. This one was held in northern California on Tomales Bay at the Marconi Center. It was a beautiful setting and a great time. David’s siblings Laura Schummers ‘01 and James Schummers ’91 were there of course, as were Muñoz and his wife Kelly, Will Sieck ‘95 and his wife Katie, who was (at the time) expecting another child! David and Laura had a Quaker wedding ceremony in a little green patch overlooking the water — it was epic! Fast forward to September … the Cusack-Lyon wedding was another awesome night, filled with Friends School alums. Kathleen married Chris Lyon a fellow attorney and a damn nice guy. FS alums in attendance included Kathleen’s sister Lizzie Cusack ‘01, Maddie and Kai, Edith, Sara Hubbard, Joe Johnston ‘98, Mike Malin ‘98, Chris Murray ‘97, Garrett Smith ’97, Abby Owen Perry ‘97, Jessie Owen Kostelnik ’95, Jake Martin ’99, Jennifer Tufaro Nolley ‘01 and Christina Tufaro ‘05. OK, wedding updates finished … on to babies. Maddie and Kai are expecting in June! Way to DO WORK Maddie and Kai! Alec Hawley and Jaimie Van Pernis have a little girl
named Talulah who is super cute. Alec is still working as a landscape architect in San Francisco and running his Internet business selling Canadian syrup and animal pelts. He also added another rare bird to his collection, this one is a Kakapo named Jules who has a brilliant brown plumage. Christopher Wilson and Stephanie Hanes Wilson relocated to Andover, Mass. in June 2010. Chris is the head of school at Esperanza Academy in Lawrence, Mass., a tuition-free middle school for low-income girls, and Stephanie continues to work as a freelance journalist, reporting stories in the U.S., Africa and Caribbean. Their daughter Madeline Thuli Hanes Wilson was born last February. Jeannie Achuff Morrow moved to Canada last winter with her husband JEANNIE ACHUFF MORROW ’96 and son Ernest. They live on Vancouver Island in Curzon, born April 2011. the city of Victoria. Their son Curzon was born in April 2011. Jeannie is fools of themselves on the dance floor, practicing as a naturopath part time especially an uber-sweaty Carlos and Ernest is working for the Anglican Fernandez. Dan’s dad Alvaro was in rare Church to develop a contemplative form, both at the rehearsal dinner and community. Every time I hear from during the wedding. It was a thrilling Jeannie I remember when she and weekend, but there was more to come. Abby Birdsall Beauregard got into The following weekend, Muñoz flew to my mother’s pond for a “swim.” Abby Massachusetts for my wedding to Lauand her husband Pete are expecting ren Lipcon. Dan was my best man and their second child, another boy in April. hit a home run in his toast, weaving in They live in Sudbury, Mass., and Abby the great story about our fateful trip to teaches second grade. Alright … the 2004 American League Champiweddings and babies aside … James onship Series. We had several Friends Simermeyer is in his second year of School attendees: Alec Hawley, Edith, law school at University of New Mexico Kathleen and her (at the time) fiancé and is probably still terrorizing freshChris Lyon (I’ll get there), Maddie and men (or “1L’s” as they say in law STEPHANIE HANES WILSON ’96, Chris Wilson ’96 and their baby girl, Madeline, born in February 2011 school). Instead of throwing them in the dumpster behind the Caf though, he probably corners them and
makes them recite the Rule Against Perpetuities. Back in Baltimore is Anjana, who joined Katzen Eye Group as one of their glaucoma specialists and has been busy building her practice. Welcome back to Charm City! Let’s hope your return does not create another situation that results in Jell-o shots being “spilled” on my mother’s white chairs! Just kidding, I actually kind of hope that happens again. Jamie Nissly Falcon is still in Los Angeles, in her 12th year working for LAUSD schools. Her family took a trip to Big Bear this year to see some snow. Up in Northern California, Gwen Armbruster continues to live and work in San Francisco. She graduated in May 2010 as a member of the Pioneering Cohort 1 from the M.B.A. in design strategy (DMBA) program at the California College of the Arts. She is currently working as the program coordinator for the DMBA, a two-year, full-time, low-residency M.B.A. program focused on innovation, sustainability and entrepreneurship utilizing the “design thinking” methodology. For more information: www.designmba.org. Lacey Levitt ’91 graduated from University of Virginia last year with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is completing a postdoctoral fellowship in forensic psychology at University of Massachusetts Medical School. Edith Dietz, apart from being on the wedding circuit like we were, is doing a pediatrics residency at Hopkins. I ran into her at the Baltimore Marathon (not running it) and we hung out on Super Bowl Sunday. Apparently her brother “Big Time Bob Dietz ‘99” is married and living in Chicago, but he’s often shielded from the media, so we don’t get much access to his dayto-day activities. I’m imagining board
JAMIE NISSLY FALCON ’96 and daughter Serenity in Big Bear, Calif.
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