Student Chapel, with Fr. C. Hightower, S.J., officiating. Zags in the wedding party including Rob Anderson (’06), Annie (Carey) Rosick ’07 and Emily Hache. Jon and Jessica live in Seattle, where Jessica is a physician recruiter at Group Health and Jon is executive director for the Sounders Women and Seattle Sounders U-23 teams. Gretchen Taylor graduated this year from the University of Nevada School of Medicine and is headed to Scottsdale, Ariz., for an internal medicine residency at the Mayo Clinic. Before medical school, Taylor spent four years as an oncology clinical trials assistant at Johns Hopkins University. ’07 Alexandra Fitterer and Andrew Herron married in November. The couple lives in Austin, Texas, where Alex works for Concordia University Texas as the online center dean. She is in her final year of earning an Ed.D. in leadership at Creighton University. Andrew is a software engineer for National Instruments. He graduated from the University of Tennessee with biomedical and mechanical engineering degrees and earned his J.D. from the University of Kentucky. Father Paul Fitterer, S.J., performed the nuptials at Swiftwater Cellars Winery in Cle Elum, Wash. Paolo Espaldon and Erin Burns (’08) married in October at St. Aloysius Church. Their bridal party included Zags Jon Kropp (’06), Matt Sullivan (’07), Sean Stokke, Ben Ferrel and Katie Wood (’08). The newlyweds live in San Diego. Paolo is a program director at Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College, and Erin is an institutional researcher at the University of California, San Diego, by day and yoga teacher by night. ’09 Maria Hassett married Michael Lanahan in September
2013. They met in law school at the University of Chicago and married in the Rockfeller Chapel on the Chicago campus. Emmilee Racek (’08), Mellie Hock (’09), Dan Hess, Brittany Murphy, Hubert Wenzel (’10) and Emily Wenzel attended the wedding. Josh Seaman (’09) and Nazareena Zorzi attended a reception in Beaverton, Ore. Maria works for a Michigan Supreme Court justice. She emailed, “Being an attorney is truly a dream job for me. I love the law. I'm always learning something new.” Alyse Altenburg was selected as a Presidential Management Fellow for 2014. She was one of 600 finalists chosen out of nearly 7,000 applicants. The fellows work two years with a federal agency. Altenburg, a sociology and Spanish double major at Gonzaga, went to Peru with the Peace Corps. This spring, she graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, with a master’s degree in applied sociology. She is interested in criminal justice and social inequality, especially violent gender crimes and discrimination against women.
Joshua Kurz (’04) Andrew Herron and Alexandra Fitterer (’07)
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’10 Christine Kelly and David Machado married in August 2013 at the Gonzaga University Chapel. Their wedding party included Brandie Schmierer, Chino Betita, Joe Matelich, Mac Gills, Megan Pohley and Tara Scott. Christine and David live in Liberty Lake, Wash. ’12 Chelsea Stone is a graduate student at Drexel University’s School of Public Health, where she is researching asthma. Last year she traveled to Croixdes-Bouquets, Haiti, to gather data on pediatric asthma. Her focus is on living conditions, particularly housing, sleeping and cooking set-ups. Stone notes that asthma, unlike many diseases, has no biological marker. This means it’s
Erin Burns (’08) and Paolo Espaldon
Michael Lanahan and Maria Hassett (’09)
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