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CLASSMATES from the Class of ’99 gathered to celebrate together during a Baltimore reception for Deana Carr-Davis’s recent wedding. From left, Anna Carroll, Mary Beth Stricker Sieck, Dan Sieck, Laksman Frank, Deana Carr-Davis, Laura Liebman Fine and Rosalie Parker.
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Rosalie Parker This class needs a new secretary. If you’re interested in helping with this volunteer job, please contact the Alumni Office. Salute my dear classmates! We’re coming upon our 15th Reunion, and I hope that we all rekindle our relationships. I’ve been lucky enough to see so many of our classmates this year, including a fabulous trip to Charlie Achuff’s house in Bethany Beach. Charlie, his partner Adam, Lucia Treasure and Amanda Bates Parks were all there. Along with witnessing the rocket NASA set off, we played the best game ever, Cards Against Humanity. Charlie is finishing up his M.A. in history, and he and Adam will move back to NYC, where he hopes to find work in a library or archives. In October, we had the Mill No. 1 opening, a real estate development project that involved a number of Friends school alums, including Jennifer Tufaro Nolley ’01, Steve Travesio ’94, Harry Connolly ’70 and Bob Tucker ’70 as well as myself. So, funny story for me that ended up in marriage: Laksman Frank was a friend of mine at Boston University, where Deana Carr-Davis and I graduated. They met after graduation, years later through a mutual BU friend and ended up tying the knot! The couple wed in Florida and had a celebration soon after here in Baltimore. We celebrated with Mary Beth Stricker Sieck and Dan Sieck, Anna Carroll, Benjamin and Laura Leibman Fine. Now, on to some more news from our class … Chris Condlin shared, “I have been working as an associate in the law firm Cleary Gottlieb in NYC since November 2009. I always enjoy getting to see fellow ’99ers Will Terrin, Reid Cherlin and Tim Sweeney from time to time as well as certain other FSB grads from other, less cool class years. I can’t believe that my son Nikita
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is already 9-years-old! He and I will be in Baltimore for most of July, so hopefully some others will be around.” Drew Shelton says, “I am planning to attend the Reunion after-party with my wife, assuming I can get a babysitter for little Annie Shelton. As for news, I spent part of last summer at Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala., on an engineering/ education grant and got to try out a lot of astronaut-caliber simulations. I also learned a lot that I can use in the classroom, as I teach astronomy, and I’ll be running some space-related camps at Carroll County Community College this summer.” Johanna Tassone Howe says, “I can share that I was promoted to senior mental health therapist in the Mood Disorders Clinic at Johns Hopkins Bayview. On my days off, I’m a part-time stay-at-home mom to 3-yearold Cam and 1-year-old Ellie. My little patients have taught me a great deal of patience.” Let’s give a big congrats to Meagan Ciesla, who just earned her Ph.D. in creative writing and literature from The University of Missouri! Congrats to Jessie Adkins too, as she and her husband Bob welcomed a baby boy on Oct. 4, Luke William Jacobsen. She adds, “We’re loving being parents, if not being a little sleep deprived.” Lastly, another congrats to Matt Sherman, who has opened up five Jugo Fresh shops and lives with his girlfriend. He’s happy and has firmly planted his roots in Miami. Not too much noteworthy for me — been busy with the new job. Sophia Silbergeld and I continue to partake in tartare evenings and travel to the islands. I see Kate Erwin Ward often at 13.5%, and Wilson Taliaferro and I are co-presidents of the Alumni Board … who would have thought? This is my farewell for class notes after five years. Someone better step up! All my best to all of you from Rosalie Parker.
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CHRISTINA SCHOPPERT DEVEREAUX ‘00 and husband Andrew with their son William.
1999.
Sammy Williamson slwillia@gmail.com Hi all. Hope everyone managed to stay warm this winter if you were within the reaches of the Polar Vortex. Lesley Wojcik Raphael wrote to me from the balmy West Coast with some news: “I finished my residency in anesthesiology at OHSU in Portland, Ore., and took a job here as a private practice anesthesiologist. So far, it’s going really well! Dave Richman-Raphael ‘99 and I had a baby boy named Jack in October. He’s the cutest baby in the history of the world, in our humble opinion. We’re enjoying the Pacific Northwest but missing everyone back on the East Coast!” Jenny and Joe Fleury didn’t let the Ravens and Orioles offseason get them down and have been busy with a new and very cute dog named Gus. Kelly Swanston is also living in Baltimore and working as an assistant public defender. Katrina Rouse, another esquire, is a MARC train ride away and enjoys working as a trial attorney at the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. She runs in Rock Creek Park with neighbor Brian Valle ’99 on occasion and is in a book club with a bevy of Friends women. She writes, “Kelly recently hosted me, Sima Fried,
ADRIAN GREEN, son of Shula and Adam Green ‘01, celebrates his 6-month birthday.
Emily Heinlein, Priya Shashidharan, Jessica Norwitz, and Amy Rouse ’02 for a lively discussion of the book ‘Lean In.’ A few of us had read the book in preparation. Kelly served a delicious eggplant lasagna that her mom, Becky Swanston ’69, made.” Andy Gabriel is living the good life in Miami. He married Leslie Price in April of this year, and hats are off to Laura Frank for introducing them. Jeni and Craig Hollander welcomed a beautiful daughter, Lydia Grace Hollander, in January. Another handsome ’00 baby arrived in Los Angeles just in the nick of time on Dec. 24: William Trent Devereaux, son of Christina Schoppert Devereaux and her husband Andrew. I am finishing my residency at Vanderbilt this summer, and Rob Travieso ’97 and I are packing up our belongings once again and heading to the Windy City, where I’ll be doing a cornea fellowship at Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary; we both plan to explore the city and spend much of the year in down coats. We are very sad to leave Nashville behind but ready for the next adventure. That’s a wrap!
CARRIE RUNDE PADDOCK ’01 and Kristaps
Paddock at their July 2013 wedding at the American Visionary Art Museum.