CLASS NOTES
CATIE BLACK MCDONALD ’05 at her August 2015 wedding with, from left, Annie Kruger Payne ’08, Lindsay Grau ’05, (Catie), George Benson, Hargot Hecht ’05 and Drew Black ’06 GARY WILLIAMS ’04 with wife Christina and son Julian
husband Matt are expecting their first baby this fall. Carolyn also expanded her San Francisco Pilates studio, Keep It Classical Pilates, last August. Gary Williams is working with B’more for Healthy Babies to mobilize communities in East and West Baltimore around reducing the infant mortality rate in Baltimore. He’s also serving as board chair of the Young Nonprofits Professional Network Baltimore and working on getting a Realtor’s license. His son Julian is almost 2 years old. Sarah Goldberg received her Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian cultures from Columbia University this May and wore the funny cap and puff-sleeve gown and everything. She says she feels smarter and more respectable already. Congrats, Sarah! Katie Ray is also living in New York City and recently crushed the Brooklyn half-marathon in two hours flat. Emma Bartlett Guzowski and Brian Guzowski tied the knot on Dec. 12, 2015 at the Franklin Park Conservatory here in Columbus, Ohio with several Friends
friends in attendance. Tim Wright married Carol Clifford, a St. Paul’s ’08 grad, in October. They met at their first job at T. Rowe Price and are now living down South in Charlotte, N.C. Charlie Totten has been living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico for seven months and married Lauren Marks ’07 in September of this year. Lindsey Syropoulos Wedekind and her husband Russell took a two-week trip across Europe this past spring to celebrate turning 30 and also their second wedding anniversary. They had an amazing time in Ireland, England, Germany and the Netherlands and met up with Lauren Goode ’05 for the Netherlands portion, making it extra awesome. Kathleen Gorman adopted a baby kitten last year and this spring adopted a second baby kitten, officially becoming a crazy cat lady. She’s also completed her residency at University of North Carolina Medical Center and is moving to Washington, D.C., in order (I presume) to be closer to me but also to take a fellowship at
National Children’s Hospital. I’m still in D.C., and recently began working at Food & Friends, which provides meals and nutrition counseling to those living with serious illnesses. I also got hitched in September to Kevin Gilliagan, surrounded by multiple generations of Friends alums.
2005 This class needs a secretary. If you’re interested in helping with this volunteer job, please contact the Alumni Office. Congratulations to Catie Black, who was married to Rob McDonald last August, in the presence of many Friends friends!
2006 Nicole Runde nicole.runde@gmail.com We had an amazing turnout for Alumni
Weekend this year for our 10-year Reunion. It was surreal and magical to see so many classmates back in the Quad again. Robert Janey and Josh Thomas traveled all the way from China! I loved meeting and hearing about all the new jobs and children and marriages and girlfriends and partners and kittens. If you didn’t make it to reunion, you were missed! XO! An update from Brian Penza: Brian has developed an interest in high-speed driving since earning his bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 2010. His hobby began as a few innocent autocross events, dodging cones around a parking lot, but that has since expanded to driving on closed circuit tracks. He’s even shared this addictive pastime with his father, Jeff Penza. Together, the two of them spend occasional weekends at racing venues around the country and push their dedicated track cars to the limit. They both enjoy the high-adrenaline
BRIAN PENZA ’06 and father Jeff Penza together in their race car
LINDSEY SYROPOULOS WEDEKIND ’04 and husband Russell are joined by Lauren
Goode ’05 in Amsterdam.
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