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1996. Andy Dale Andrew.Dale@tdameritrade.com
MADDIE FRANKLIN GROSS ’96 and Anjana Prasad Jindal ’96 spent time together with
their new additions, Brayden and Sonal, over the holidays.
Baltimore’s Bolton Hill neighborhood, has a 1-year-old daughter and is a lawyer at Baltimore law firm Brown Goldstein & Levy. Still reading voraciously, he recommends Starting Strength, by Mark Rippertoe, and Tenth of December, by George Saunders. Tara and Ben Robinson had a second baby boy, River, in November. “He is a very good little brother to Leo, now 2 1/2.” Jon Bailey is balancing work and music, owning and operating Baileywick Home Services, while playing “folk and roll”-style jams as the maestro of the Jon Bailey Band. Check out his full-length album Chances or find him online at www.thejbb.com. Sarah Scott, not letting the birth of her son last March slow down her running schedule, is already prepping for the National Marathon this March. Further south, Cory Brown has been stuck in the Bermuda Triangle. He reports, “My wife and I had a daughter, Olivia Beverly Lynn Brown, in July, and with my son Sterling, they keep us busy. I have found some time to dabble in the restaurant business and am part owner of a small cafe on the island. I think I have come to realize that being a ‘foodie’ and owning a restaurant are two totally different things! Especially since I still have a full-time job working in urban, or should I say island, planning. I definitely miss the big city sometimes and not being there to enjoy the Ravens’ Super Bowl festivities.” In a series of Facebook photos that defied belief, Doug Nilson clearly won the unofficial “best beard of 2013 contest,” cementing his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde image as both a responsible doctor and burly Maine-iac to his two growing boys. Over on the West Coast, Ryan Artis
says, “I co-moderate one of the Internet’s largest forums for organized crime research, and I conduct research in that field for others who work in writing true-crime books. I am also currently working on my first historical fiction book.” In between work, he found his wife Melissa and they are enjoying life in Sacramento, Calif. Elizabeth Malls reports great news about her upcoming nuptials. “I’m getting married in Coronado, Calif. on June 22. My fiancé’s name is Craig Olsson. We met in San Diego, but he is from DC, where he attended Sidwell Friends. I teach elementary school, and he is going to school to get his high school teaching credential in math.” In a shocking revelation, Alex Karweit admits to football heresy. “I’ve lived in San Francisco for 14 years ... so yes, I am heartbroken by the 49ers losing to the Ravens. At home, my wife Suzanna and I have an adorable 1-year-old named Andy. He just started walking and constantly attacks our poor dog, Bob, who somehow doesn’t fight back. I spend my days and nights running a mobile messaging startup, which makes me certifiably insane. I do a lot of other things somehow though. I did take off a few years to pursue music and made some records. Weirdly, I just got on a Paul Oakenfold record, so now I’m doing a bunch of trance collaborations. I also run a lot and like to train for races. If anyone is out here and needs a running partner for a long run, let me know.” While social media hints at other milestones (Alexis Kremen, Sara Pfaff, and Anders Selhorst), we will wait for full, authorized updates from individuals before recounting them in detail.
As I write this, I am still basking in the glow of the Ravens’ Super Bowl win. I got a chance to hang out with Christian Muirhead ’97 and his brother Stefan while down in New Orleans for the game. On my way there, I hung out in Nashville with Kelly and Dan Munoz. We caught up over hot chicken from Hattie B’s, a Nashville staple. Speaking of hot chicken, Jaimie Van Pernis and Alec Hawley are expecting another baby! They are already parents to Talulah, who is very cute and continues to put out an extremely high quality Facebook presence. Alec still works as a landscape architect in San Francisco and his internet syrup/pelt business is flourishing. His rare bird collection has shrunk over time as they make room for another child. He’s down to two birds now, a Yellow Eyed Junco named Bert and an Artic Warbler named Plinko. Alec takes them to work sometimes, and he can even get Bert to rest on his shoulder during meetings! Alec and Jaimie recently had dinner with Jeannie Achuff Morrow at a restaurant in Berkeley where Jeannie’s son Curzon evidently ate all of Talulah’s yogurt treats. Alicia Freeman wrote in with an update and revealed that she too is a fan of The Bachelor, the best worst show on TV. More on The Bachelor later … Alicia just finished a seven-year stint as an ESOL/Spanish teacher in Baltimore City Public Schools and now works as the Community Outreach Coordinator for Archbishop Borders
School in Highlandtown, which is a dual-language, Spanish immersion, Catholic community school. Alicia was also appointed to the Mayor’s Hispanic Commission for Baltimore City and sits on the Education and Cultural Development subcommittees. She is still big on the Baltimore salsa dancing scene too. Speaking of dancing (at weddings, not salsa), congratulations go out to Tom McConlogue who married his longtime love Nicole in January. Tom works as a senior software developer for Systems Alliance in Hunt Valley. George Ward wrote in with some interesting news. After tours in Beijing and Washington, DC on the Cuba desk, he’s learning French full-time in preparation for a two-year assignment with the Department of State in Montreal. I’m fairly certain this is a cover story and George is running clandestine operations, taking top-secret photos with a camera inside a cigarette lighter, drinking martinis in strange Moroccan casinos, driving Aston Martins, flying sea planes and saving the world. Got a nice email from Lydia Ries O’Halloran who lives in Oregon where she and her husband Tom both teach college-level environmental science and ecology. They are busy parents as well to their daughter Ada, 2. This spring, they will be in Virginia building chicken coops, planting apple trees, gardening, fermenting things and getting ready for baby number two’s arrival in June. In more parenting-related news, Kai and Maddie Franklin Gross and their little boy Brayden made appearances in Baltimore over the holidays. Dan Kahn is also chasing a baby around — he and his wife are parents to Aidan, who as of this update is 6 months old. Alli
TOM MCCONLOGUE ’96 married his longtime love Nicole Brown in January. Their wedding was held at Westminster Hall, where Tom’s senior prom was held! Jed Elliot ’95 was a groomsman.
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