Andy Fenselau is a Silicon Valley transplant, where he loves the California lifestyle with Suzanne and their three kids, Nick, 14, Rebecca, 13, and Sam, 8. They spend a lot of time at the beach, in the redwood forests, and skiing, plus the usual soccer, horseback riding and music activities with the kids. At work, he runs a $300 million storage networking business for Emulex, after several misadventures with start-ups! And in his “spare time,” Andy is board president for Sustainable Schools International, one of the most successful N.G.O. models for rural education and community empowerment in developing countries (S.S.I. focuses on Cambodia, where Nick was adopted from). Andy has big plans for the company, so let him know if you’re interested in any way! Matt Gordon was married to his sweetheart, Marianne Michallet Gordon, in Lyon, France. In attendance as groomsmen were Gilmanites Casey Gordon ’90, Justin Brown, Kirby von Kessler, George Konstantinos Dritsas Hopkins and Mike Taylor. On March 7, 2013, Matt and Marianne welcomed a son, Abel Gordon, into this world. “All three of us are healthy and mostly full of vigor. We live and work in Los Angeles.” Drit praised Matt as an “ebullient, irrepressible and recent inductee to the world of fatherhood.” He continued, “2012 was a whale of a year for me. I got married in 2011, and we had a truly remarkable year together. In the end we decided to dissolve our marriage, but we communicate often and are perhaps even closer now.” George’s previous employer, the Qatar Foundation, showed graciousness, compassion and generosity as he transitioned towards taking care of his father, who was living alone and dying of cancer. George shared, “My father passed away on October 7. I now live here in Greece with a black Labrador retriever named Zorba in the house my father built for his mother back in 1970.” George also sang the praise of Matt’s short film, “The Dynamiter,” for which he shared executive producer credits with Todd Murphy and Sue-Joe Shin. “Due in large part to my stellar performance as a soft-spoken short order cook (I had no speaking lines and was in the background for 0.7 seconds), this film became an official selection for the Berlin Film Festival in 2011. It went on to win the jury prize at the 37th American Film Festival in Deauville, France, and was awarded the Best First Feature Film by the jury of the Durban International Film Festival in South Africa. For those of you interested, it is available via Netflix and Amazon.” George plans to relocate back to the United States in the next six months or so. After eight years overseas, he’s preparing himself for “reverse culture shock, while very much looking forward to reconnecting with everyone back home.” “We welcomed a new baby girl, Hee Jin Sofia Shin, into our lives on December 21,” Sue-Joe Shin reports. “Our boy just turned two in February so we are busy, but grateful that everyone in the family is healthy.” Sue-Joe still lives in Manhattan Beach, Calif., traveling back and forth to Asia. Tom Hagigh had a year of big changes, after leaving Morgan Stanley Smith Barney to join Wells
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Fargo Advisors in March. In October his family moved to Lothian, Md. (“Hopefully our third and final move!” he says.) His boys are now 10 and eight, loving their new house and new school. “Things are great!” he says. Geoff Kinsey left a solar startup in Los Angeles last year, after having set a new world record for solar module efficiency (34%). He is now in Boston, working as director of photovoltaic technologies for The Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy. George Liebmann has been at his ranch in Vermont since giving up the apartment in New York City a year ago. He continues to consult, and also works for Longstreet Worldwide, the Los Angeles-based investment bank, doing mergers and acquisitions in energy and commercial real estate. “We are always looking for good investment opportunities for our funds from $25 million to $2 billion.” Chip Linehan finished the second of three years of his education leadership doctoral program at Harvard. He’s just loving it, having partnered with two colleagues to start a new secondary school model called Building 21. “We are seeking to open our first school in Fall 2014. “Family is great,” Chip adds. “Our son Cormac turns four this summer and is a true ‘threenager.’ Our daughter turns two in May and is going to be a handful!” Scott McMillin and I reflected on our soft spot for movies based in ancient Rome, which we attribute to Mrs. Sarbanes’ Latin class. He recommends “Vikings,” The History Channel’s first scripted series. “It’s actually pretty good. The historical inaccuracies are relatively small and the overall vibe is spot on, thanks to Michael Hirst, who wrote the ‘Elizabeth’ films and ‘The Tudors.’ Check it out!” Scott also keeps in touch with Daniel Casasanto, who has visited him in Chicago. While David Meese and his wife Leigh feel as young as ever, their two sons are getting older. The youngest, Allen, reached double digits in February, and the oldest, Robby, has had his learner’s permit for three months. “So far his driving has been incident-free!” David exhaled. Trey Muldrow and wife Dana just had a baby girl, Rory Leigh Muldrow, four months ago. Along with older sister Carlyle Nicole Muldrow, the family is doing well in Brooklyn, N.Y. After 10 years or so spent writing and paying the rent as a non-profiteer, most of it in Baltimore, John Stinson did a 180 and is now a Philadelphia lawyer, litigating commercial lawsuits as well as trust disputes and some education suits. His wife Jennifer is staying true as a writer and semi-autonomous non-profit worker. The Stinsons have two beautiful girls, 5 and 2, who are a drama queen and a hockey “enforcer,” respectively. John hopes to write fiction again, but admits to finding “opportunities to make up tales on my day job” for now. We were all saddened by the death of classmate and Twelve-Year Man William Sheldon in November 2012. He was missed as we gathered for reunion this spring. I also had a big year, successfully traversing the tenure process at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
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