Class Notes
FRIENDS AT THE WEDDING OF JOE JOHNSTON ‘98 and Jennie Hart Johnston (from left): Stephanie Martin, Jake Martin ‘99,
Jesse Paulson ‘99, Jen Portland, Cathy Malin, Mike Malin ‘98, Jennie Hart Johnston, Joe Johnston, Kathleen Cusack ‘97 and Chris Lyons. Not pictured: Jamie Johnston ‘94 and Peter Johnston.
‘98 is doing well and I hope to see you all at our next Reunion.” Thanks, Joe! Since Mike Malin has already been mentioned in two other classmates’ notes, it’s about time we got to his own update. Mike has left his job at Mercy and has gone back to work at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. “I am the manager of medical operations for The Center for Autism and Related Disorders. My wife Cathy started a new job teaching at Jemicy’s upper school in the fall. I continue to get outstanding reports from my neuro-oncologist and have graduated to six-month follow-up visits from visits every four months. Our 16-month-old son David
is running around and talking up a storm. He is the light of our life.” Mike will also be joining the Alumni Board at Friends this year — so glad to have a fellow ‘98er on board! Maggie Beetz is also living locally. She resides in Baltimore County and is working as the editor for Baltimore’s Gay Life newspaper. She and her husband Jesse Whyte enjoyed a 10-day trip to Ireland this past summer. In my own news, 2011 has been an eventful year (all based on one major event, really). On March 6, 2011, my husband Bill and I entered the ranks of parenthood when we welcomed our son, Silas Alger Forrester. He has been an absolute joy
and even at only a few months old is more fun than we had ever imagined a baby could be. It’s hard to keep up with how fast he has been growing and changing, but we have been doing our best with copious photos and videos. We are so happy to have Silas’ uncle and aunt, my brother Jordy Alger ‘02 and his wife Marisa, living in Baltimore these days while Jordy attends the University of Maryland School of Medicine. That concludes our class notes this time around. Thanks to everyone who wrote in. I hope you all are having a wonderful fall and that you enjoy the holiday season. We’ll look forward to hearing from you again in the spring!
1999. Rosalie Parker rorosalie@gmail.com “Greetings” has become so overused, so I’m going to start giving you all an Italian ‘Salute’! Thanks to all for sending in your updates. I hope my initial email gave you some ideas for news to share with classmates; there’s the usual — work, marriage, move, school, baby, etc. — but if you don’t have any of that going on, write about anything … new hobbies, favorite shoes. Mine might go like this: Rosalie Parker spent her summer renovating her house in Baltimore. She hopes to get a dog sometime in the future but won’t be walking him in her new favorite
Jeffrey Campbell shoes.” (Yes, please make fun of me!) I have to start out with all of the updates that Reid Cherlin put together for our class. We haven’t heard from him in a while, but he might just be our next class secretary, considering all of the news he gathered. Reid reports, “Summer 2011 saw a bunch of great family events in my little corner of the class of 1999. In June, Robert Dietz married the lovely Emily Phair in her hometown of Waupaca, Wis. On hand to celebrate, among family and friends from around the country, were FS alumni Brian Valle, Jeremy Barofsky, Chris Condlin, Will Terrin and me — and of course former Upper School Senate co-president Edith Dietz ‘96. Robert and Emily said their vows in a beautiful yard overlooking Waupaca’s famed Chain-o-Lakes, and their celebration continued late into the evening in admitted contravention of the Quaker tenet of moderation. Over the course of four days, we spent a lot of time on boats, eating cheese curds and appreciating Robert, past and future. The event was even more special for the presence of Chris’ 6-year-old Nikita Condlin, who, not surprisingly, made more new friends than anyone. Many of us were lucky to be able to spend more time with Nikita and his famously energetic dad as they bounced through New York, Boston, Cape Cod, Baltimore and Washington over the course of a wonderful two-month visit. Chris took the summer off from his work as an attorney at Cleary Gottlieb in lower Manhattan to focus on the junior Condlin’s tastes for important American things like chocolate ice cream, air museums, Dr. Dre and Angry Birds. Brian Valle, who recently completed his master’s degree in city planning at MIT, has just moved to D.C. to keep me company and begin work in real estate at The Bozzuto Group. His departure left Jeremy Barofsky, his roommate in Cambridge for the past two years, inconsolable for a solid week. Despite his loss, Jeremy continues to march through his doctoral degree in health economics at the Harvard School of Public Health and continues to help the rest of us learn to dance. This spring, Jeremy and Brian got to see globetrotting classmate/DJ wunderkid Tim Sweeney (and his robot-inventorturned-hedge-fund-quant brother, John Sweeney ‘96) go to work at one of Boston’s hottest clubs. Tim continues to draw a global audience for his weekly “Beats in Space” radio show and perform at some of the hippest events around the world, including the final LCD Soundsystem show in New
SILAS ALGER FORRESTER, son of Bill and Justine Alger Forrester ‘98.
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