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Class Notes
Thanksgiving weekend 2012 with a good number of Friends friends. We are now living in Hoboken. I work as a proofreader for a pharmaceutical consulting firm and continue to translate on the side. Jefrey’s working on the ‘next big thing’ and establishing his start-up in Manhattan.”
2004. Abby Seiler aseiler8@gmail.com CAROLYN RICHARDSON ’02 and
Julian Kennedy ’01 took a bicycling trip in the French Alps.
2003. Jessica Vanderhoff jessicavanderhoff@gmail.com
CAMILLE POWE ’02 celebrated her wedding with sister Jasmine Powe ’08, mother
Dorothy Powe and Irene Donnelly ’02.
interviewing for fellowships in neurohospitalist medicine. She recently published a journal chapter with mentor Dr. Amy Pruitt on infectious diseases of the spinal cord in Neurologic Clinics. Carolyn Richardson and Julian Kennedy ’01 did a guided cycling trip in the French Alps. Their adventure included many mountain climbs from the Tour du France with the highest one of 6,774 feet of elevation gain. Dorothy Williams Cook married Mowry Cook on June 16, 2012. She is
enjoying married life and her new job at Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital. I married Immanuel Foster on June 23, 2012. Friends’ eighth grade English teacher Rodney Rice officiated the ceremony in Philadelphia. Bridesmaids included Irene Donnelly and Jasmine Powe ’08. Fellow class of 2002 alums Jessica Hellmann and Thomas Bennett also attended the celebration. I am an internal medicine resident at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Mariel Oquendo Smith writes, “Last year I graduated from New York University with a master’s in museum studies. I then moved to Arlington, Va., and I work for the Newseum as a teacher. In September, I got married at the Baltimore Engineer’s Club to Ryan Smith. Ryan and I met as undergrads at the University of Maryland. We were lucky to have many Friends alums with us on our wedding day! Kelly Hendry Cotting, Emily Weinman and Eric Oquendo ’07 were in the wedding party. Emily Shadur Braman, Lisa Gabriel, Rachel Naumann and Zach Kreinik ’07 were very special guests. Rachel even caught the bouquet! Courtney Carlson writes, “I returned from Bogota, Colombia in December 2011 and brought my favorite souvenir, Jefrey Bulla, with me. We celebrated our wedding in Baltimore during
Peter Weitzmann is living in a small village in western Thailand near the Burma border, where he’s been teaching English to young adults. His students are ethnic refugees fleeing Burma’s political mismanagement and a dismal system of secondary education. In addition to English, the students study the politics of environment and human rights in the hope of returning to their ethnic state in Burma to work for the development of neglected communities and their political freedom, in general. Also abroad, Alex Broekhof is in Cambridge, UK with around a year left in his Ph.D. working on electrical generators for wind turbines. Back in Baltimore, Lehn Robinson is working for his dad’s decorative painting company and writing and recording music. He and a friend recorded a DIY folk album for Christmas, available at tallsaul.bandcamp.com. Charlie Totten finished law school at The University of Baltimore last spring and is currently serving as the director of compliance at a healthcare company where Throop Wheeler also works. Charlie lives in Federal Hill with his younger brother
JORDY ALGER ‘02’s adorable son Leon. COURTNEY CARLSON ’03 celebrated her wedding on Thanksgiving weekend 2012 with the help of a few Quakers!
From left: Liz Gilliams ’03, Laura Buck Dukes ’03, Jess Ton, Caroline Kensler ’03, Courtney, Ellen Kutzer ’03, Pam Soffer, Hannah Stern ’03 and Neetu Agrawal.
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