General Staff School. He will be moving again this summer, but the destination is not yet certain. Matt also just completed a master’s in aeronautical science from Embry Riddle University in December. Ben Wilson continues to live in New York City. He and his wife Courtney celebrated their daughter Piper’s first birthday in December. Karthik Balakrishnan married Samantha Thompson in September and again in November. He is in the final year of surgical residency before moving to Cincinnati, where Karthik will be doing a pediatric otolaryngology fellowship. Lorne Smith lives in the San Francisco area. He married four years ago, and for the past decade he has been the West Coast sales representative for Warrior Lacrosse. Lorne also runs lacrosse camps (www.lornesmithlacrosse.com). He still plays music. His last group Guns for San Sebastian (get the album on iTunes!) broke up in April 2011, but Lorne continues to perform under the name “Lorne & The Wayhighs” (www.lorneandthewayhighs.com). He is planning a new EP in 2012 with a few videos. My wife Abby, our children Rosie and Charlie and I are living in the Boston area, where I am in the final stretch of my training in pediatric anesthesia.
1996 Lee Kowarski kowarski@kasina.com One of the benefits of being in consulting is that I get to travel, and I’ve tried to catch up with as many Gilman classmates as possible this past year. When in Boston in 2011, I stayed with Jason Haas and his wife Jessica at their new palatial estate in Arlington. Jason started his Ph.D. studies at the MIT Media Lab and recently completed a book that should be out mid-2012 from MIT Press. In Chicago, I’ve had the chance to catch up with Jason Mersey and his wife Rachel over some amazing meals at Next Restaurant. Jason, who continues to work towards his M.B.A. at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, had a big year — celebrating his 10-year wedding anniversary and accepting a new job at AQR Capital Management. Also in Chicago is Gaurab Bansal, who has moved there temporarily from Seattle to serve as in-house counsel to President Obama’s re-election campaign at the headquarters. In Los Angeles, I enjoyed meeting Noah Gallico’s son Will, who turns two in June. Noah and his wife Sarah remain in Hollywood where Noah has worked at Universal Pictures in creative advertising and marketing for nearly six years. Everyone should be sure to set their DVRs to record Sarah’s new show, “GCB,” which premiered on March 4 on ABC. Noah reports that he saw George Mumford and Paul Furrer over the holidays. George and his wife, Sarah Fowlkes (BMS ’96), have twin 2 ½-year-old boys and a nearly one-year-old daughter. Paul has a two-year-old son with his wife, Mary. Also in LA is Sean Kiernan, who is still an agent
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with Impact Sports and will be getting married in August to his fiancée Alejandra in Laguna Beach. In Baltimore, Evan Kreitzer was kind enough to get my wife and me some tickets to the Jets-Ravens game (despite the fact that we were rooting for the “wrong” team), where we tailgated together with Chris Tully and the GEICO Caveman. When not rooting for the Ravens, Evan continues to work at American Bank as a senior loan officer. He lives in Owings Mills with his wife Keren and their two boys Sam and Coby. Tully had his first child in January, Spencer Grace. While at the game (and as my Jets were getting destroyed), I also saw Lawson DeVries (who is engaged to Bailey Gelderman and getting married in Chicago in May), Brandon Croxton (who works at 1st Mariner Bank) and Kumasi Vines (who works for the mayor’s office in Baltimore). Also in the Baltimore area, Scott So lives in Fells Point, works at Sylvan Learning in their technology department managing a software test team and continues a long-term relationship with his girlfriend Jaime. Scott reports that John Battaglia will marry in the summer of 2012. George Brown lives in Lutherville with his wife Emily. They had a daughter, Rosa, in March and have survived their first year as new parents. George’s company, Greenleaf Remodeling, won two Remodeling Awards of Excellence through the Home Builders Association for a bathroom designed for an owner with disabilities and a kitchen using sustainable building practices. They do mostly high-end work in old homes and use sustainable building practices. George continues to sing in the choir at Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church and has started shooting sporting clays, trap and skeet. John Boyle took on a new job this past year as the director of development for the Platelet Disorder Support Association in Rockville. In addition to running development for the PDSA and raising his two-year-old son (also named John, but not junior) with his wife Tara, John is taking a program in non-profit leadership at Notre Dame of Maryland University in all of his free time. Jay Homa is a CPA in Rockville, Md., specializing in tax. He and his wife Meghan are constantly trying to keep up with their three-year-old daughter Anna. Jeremy Edwards and his wife Gretchen live in Arlington, Va., with their two sons Cole, 3, and Eli, 1. Jeremy works in Washington, D.C., as an attorney specializing in intellectual property litigation. Another attorney, Kevin Frank, continues to work and live in Dallas (and he adds “if you can call that living”). Despite his cynicism about Dallas, I know that Kevin is happy working at Atmos Energy and that his annual Meat-A-Thon event was a rousing success with 22 meats served (including python and gator). Andy Cohen will soon be joining Jeremy and Kevin in the legal ranks. He has finished law school and planned to take the New York bar exam in February. Andy will be clerking for the Honorable Cathy Seibel, District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, starting in August 2012. He and his wife Hanna have moved to ’burbs of