CLASS NOTES
LISA ENGEL MAIORANA ’92 and Sankari Wegman ’92 last summer with their children,
(from left), Eli , 8, Zach, 6 and Aaron, 4, Maiorana and Jayanta, 9, and Uma, 7, Wegman.
beginnings, but I often think back fondly on those intense and often wonderful nine years we spent together on Charles Street. And I truly wish everyone all the best!” Congratulations to Lara Zizic, who writes, “I have a new baby girl as of March 7, little sister to my 2 1/2-year-old daughter, and also have a film doing the film festival circuit called ‘Mission Congo,’ which I co-directed with my husband, David Turner. We live in Brooklyn, N.Y., and would love to catch up with everyone, but it may be a bit hard to get to Reunion as my parents no longer live in Baltimore. I’d love to catch up with the NYC/Conn./N.J. people, but the recent Reunions seemed to occur around the times of my daughters’ births!”
Disneyworld, she bumped into Natalie Santos Ferguson. It really is a small world after all! Tyler Buck is now the director for corporate and community partnerships for Special Olympics Maryland. If anyone has ideas for potential partners for SOMD please shoot him an email at tbuck@somd.org. Rob Sullivan’s second book, “Cinema Symbolism: A Guide to Esoteric Imagery in Popular Movies,” can be viewed at facebook.com/cinemasymbolism, and is scheduled to be published this spring. I thoroughly enjoy the fruits of Oakland life (some of which are literally fruits, from Sarah Miller’s garden) with my wife Kristen and son Ben, 2 1/2, (who are both also fruits, figuratively). Kristen is an all-star consumer rights lawyer and food justice advocate. I recently opened the San Francisco office of a New York-based employee rights law firm. Meanwhile, my son Ben pretends to mow the lawn, announces which stuffed animals need to see the doctor and angles for rides in the shopping cart.
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After teaching at the University of Chicago for three years, Sarah Miller and her partner Erin have relocated to the Bay Area and bought a house within walking distance of yours truly and my family. She’s working on a book and will be teaching a course in 2014-15 about the history of photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. Kate Kaufman Gibbons still lives outside Rochester, N.Y., with her husband Dave and their children, Paige, 10, and Brooke, 6. She is a special education teacher working with third grade this year. Earlier this year on a trip to
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JENNY WEISBERG ’89 and her family thoroughly enjoy life in Jerusalem.
We have a lot of news to share from our class ... Amy Hutchens started her own company in November 2013, CLEAResources LLC. David Saunders says “hello” from Bangkok, where he is in his sixth year as chief of the Department of Immunology and Medicine at the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS), looking after the U.S. Army’s malaria research program in Southeast Asia. Jon Sherman has a trio of good-news items to share. Not only is his wallpaper company, Flavor Paper, doing great (including four patterns in the CooperHewitt Design Museum arm of the Smithsonian), Jon is also very busy at home. He recently got married at Preservation Hall in New Orleans with Phil McIntyre, Eli Balser, and Julie and Chris Vaughn in attendance. To top off a busy spring, Jon and his wife Denine welcomed a baby boy named Cosimo on April 24, 2014. Jenny Weisberg writes, “I’m so sorry I’m not going to be able to make it to the Reunion. I would so love to see everyone. Since my graduation from Bowdoin College in 1993, I have been living in Jerusalem. I have been married to Rabbi Joshua Weisberg (originally from Ontario) for 18 years now and we have seven kids between the ages of 16 and 1. As you can imagine with so many kids, being a mom is my main focus in life. I also have a popular website for Jewish mothers called JewishMOM.com and have written two books on pregnancy and motherhood, “Expecting Miracles” and “One Baby Step at a Time.” My life’s journey has taken me very far from my
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David Knowles knowlesdavid@gmail.com The Class of ’92 has a lot going on these days. We’re living all over the country and the world, doing interesting work, still making new kids and turning 40. Jamie Skeen Schumann-Dahlberg gave birth to her third child on Oct 7, 2013. She is happily married and living in Portland, Ore., where she works as
a psychiatric charge nurse at a hospital. Paul Donowitz reports from his home in Yangon, Myanmar that he got married in 2013 to Bobbie Sta. Maria, who is from the Philippines. Pau is a lawyer and works for the Asian Development Bank. I’m assuming he lives the farthest away from campus of any of us. Arsh Mirmiran might be the closest, living in Homeland with his wife Lauren and daughters, Maggie, 3, and Greyson, 1. He is a partner with Caves Valley Partners, a real estate development firm in Towson. He led the development of 1111 Light Street, a fantastic new mixed-use project in Federal Hill. He entertains me by phone about once a week during our drives home from work. I was relieved to hear that despite leaving San Francisco for Columbus, Ohio, Drew Curlett is still “a hippie at
The Magic of Mike Fund’s 1st Annual Dinner & Auction When: September 10, 2013 from 7 – 10 pm Where: Pier 5 Hotel, 711 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD Tickets: $150 per person Information and to Purchase Tickets: https://www.smore.com/v2e09the-magic-of-mike-fund. All tickets include dinner, drinks and dancing. A live auction will also be conducted during the evening. All net proceeds directly benefit Mike’s two young children. If you are unable to join us at the event, kindly consider donating to the Magic of Mike Fund.