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1 GA faculty past and present reunite at the Met, spring 2013: Jeff Schwartz, Sherry Tamalonis, Penny Liu, and Carol Dixon 5
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2 Class of 1998 celebrating their 15th reunion in London, May 2013. Front row: Cat Lavers Mallet and Adrienne Myer Bohannon. Back row: Fiona McDermottWheeler, Heather Lambert Cruikshanks, Alice Drummond-Hay, and Katie Battle Lomas 3 Elizabeth D’Antonio ’06 at her graduation from NY Law School where she served as the class’s elected speaker
4 Gracia Vargas ’11 on a service-learning trip to the Dominican Republic 5 Greta Spangenberg ’08 with one of the children from the program where she volunteered in Cape Town, South Africa 6 Class of 2003. Front row: Bronwyn Mathis Roy, Katherine McGirr Nix, Sally Lynch, Nikki Malcolm, Lily Gumz, Whitney Martin, and Heather Northrop. Back row: Haley Rosengarten, Christina Welsh, Rebecca Allen, Samantha Klein, Anna Weissman, Cate Candland,
Chloe Wohlforth, Kate Whipple, and Kristin Gregory 7 A bow from Morgan Breck ’06’s accessory line, Huntington B 8 Class of 2008. Front row: Faye Keegan, Emma Feiwel, Stephanie Park, Clare Berner, T.T. Gattinella, Ashley Kellam, Colleen Elrod, and Callie Harris. Back row: Tyler Chapman, Hayden Kiessling, Margaret Jessiman, Ali Fox, Lacy Kiernan, Alex Burnett, Greta Spangenberg, Kassandra Carrara, Lily Galef, Jordan Taylor, Nina Mullen, and Caitlin Brisson
9 Elizabeth Silva ’01 and Ebony Murphy-Root ’00 in NYC, spring 2013 10 Emily Orrick ’98 and daughter Isabelle (6), sporting matching GA T-shirts, at reunion weekend, May 2013 11 Rebecca Raaen Raymond ’99’s children Logan (3) and Mackenzie (6) 12 It was a mother/daughter outing to the Katie Couric Show for the Markeys and Blacks: Heather Black ’06, Kelly Anne Markey ’06, Pinky Crabtree Markey ’73, and Debbie Black PP ’06, July 2013
(continued from page 57) DC area (www.coldcountrysalmon.com); collect articles about prison reform, restorative justice, and innovative programs for incarcerated folks to post on my ScoopIt site (www.scoop.it/t/humanizing-justice); and play lots of broomball with the DC and Baltimore broomball leagues (it’s kinda like ice hockey minus the skates, with a ball instead of a puck, fewer pads, and a different shaped stick— rather masochistic but tons of fun!).”
1995
Christie Browning Rana and her husband Adam welcomed their third child, Charlotte Browning Rana, on May 1, 2013. Charlotte is well protected by her older brothers, William (5) and Harrison (3), and the entire family is feeling very settled and loving life in Falmouth, ME.
1996
Paulina Fibak Mulone writes: “I met my husband Fabio, who is Swiss-Italian, when my car broke down in Paris on April Fool’s Day 2009. He stopped to help me, so I got him a box of macarons (famous French I included my phone pastries) to thank him. number and dropped [the And because I found him macarons] off at the hotel very cute, I included where he told me he was my phone number and staying. The rest is history! dropped them off at the - paulina fibak mulone ’96 hotel where he told me
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he was staying. The rest is history! We moved into our new home outside of Geneva and had two boys, Matteo, born June 2010 and Arturo, born June 2012. I also have a yellow lab named Chloe who has been with me since I started working in New York after college. She is 12 now!” Tyler Rapp Stroka reports: “I have started a new role as Director of Corporate Access at Sterne Agee. I am traveling a lot to NY and hoping to run into some GA alumnae when I am down there. We are in the process of selling our condo and moving down to Hingham, MA, to be close to my sister Suzanne Rapp Troyer ’91.”
1998
Bette Armstrong Soto writes: “I still live in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and I teach first grade at Poly Prep Country Day School. On May 14, my husband Peter and I welcomed our son, William Thomas, 5 pounds 14 ounces, and 49 cm long. He’s a very happy and healthy baby!” Stephanie Benedetto started her own business, Paper No. 9, which specializes in bespoke sustainable textiles made out of recycled paper. Kristy Keller writes: “Brad and I live in Baltimore, MD, now with our cat Ozzie. I am working at a nonprofit with adults on the autism spectrum. I run our Supported
Employment Office, assisting clients with jobs, resumes, and basic life skills.” Heather Loomis Tighe writes in: “In August I married Brett Tighe in Jackson Hole, WY. Caitlin Loomis Stitelman ’00, Nilla Watkins, Julia Lockhart Simon, Fiona McDermott Wheeler, Elizabeth Richards Bing, and Julia’s son Jack, who is my godson, were all in the wedding party. For the last 10 years I have lived in San Francisco and have been working for JP Morgan as a Managing Director in Fixed Income for the Private Bank. It’s been wonderful having Elysia Bevan Pearce and Sam Drimal Chatham out here, too. Nilla just moved to Los Angeles, and Julia Lockhart Simon is pretty close by in Denver. In addition, I get to see Charlie Morgan when I come back to NYC, and we were able to spend time with Fiona, her husband, and new baby in London recently!” Fiona McDermott Wheeler reports: “I had a little boy in January, Tristan Ross Axel Anderson Wheeler. After my maternity leave, I returned to JP Morgan Private Bank, where I market alternative investments.” Emily Orrick reports: “I attended my 15-year reunion, and I brought my kids Isabelle (6) and George (4). I still live in Costa Mesa, CA, and work now as the Director of Marketing for Northbound Treatment Services, a drug and alcohol residential treatment center.”
Alexandra Webb Clark married Alistair Winthrop Conger Clark on November 3, 2012, at the Gasparilla Inn in Boca Grande, FL. Stephanie Staidle reports: “After 10 years in NYC, I have been living in San Francisco for over a year, and have connected with Lauren Malan and Tamara Zakim. I have started my own business, The Right Brain Entrepreneur: www.trbe.org.
1999
Rebecca Raaen Raymond reports: “We are so blessed to welcome Grant Edward Raymond to our family. He was born on March 7, 2013, and was 9 pounds 3 ounces, and 21 inches long. Big sister Mackenzie is now six and finishing up kindergarten, and big brother Logan is three.”
2000
Vanessa Cosgrave Homuth and her husband Brandon welcomed Katherine Marie Homuth on May 1, 2013.
Ebony Murphy-Root reports: “I was excited to run into Elizabeth Silva ’01 at Mole, a great Mexican spot on the Upper East Side. I had just interviewed at the Calhoun School, and she teaches a bilingual fourth-grade class for the New York City schools. A great afternoon of teacher talk and catching up!” Congratulations to Ebony on her new position at the Calhoun School working in the middle school humanities department.
2001
Ashley Whittredge de Zablah recently was accepted and enrolled as one of the youngest professionals in the Georgetown-ESADE 14-month Global Executive MBA program (GEMBA). Ashley and the rest of her incoming cohort began global residencies in June. The GEMBA program is designed for international executives working full-time, and its classroom is on a global scale. GEMBA’s learning residencies will take place in the U.S., Spain, Brazil, China, and India, culminating in a graduation ceremony at Georgetown in July 2014.
2005
Vanessa Rios graduated from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in May 2013. She was the first REACH scholar to join the REACH Prep organization as a member of the professional staff. In her role, she was instrumental in the design of post-placement counseling services. At the graduation ceremony, Vanessa was recipient of the Eugene J. Gangarosa Award, one of the two student awards presented. The award is presented to the graduating student who has demonstrated a creative approach to solving public health problems, and who shows promise for outstanding service in the international arena. Vanessa was cited especially for her investigation of resilience among youth in one of the poorest communities in Asunción, Paraguay. Executive Director of REACH Prep Peggy Sarkala attended the graduation with the Rios family
and said, “Brilliant and ever the optimist herself, Vanessa was able to discover some of the factors that contribute to positive deviance in the face of hardship and deprivation.”
2006
Morgan Breck is working in finance in NYC and learning the ins and outs of web design and social media. She launched a line of hair accessories this year named Huntington B. Fourteen years of wearing GA green and yellow ribbons come full circle! Check out Morgan’s bow collection online through her website, www.huntingtonb.com. Elizabeth d’Antonio graduated from New York Law School cum laude, and was elected as commencement student speaker alongside guest speaker Mayor Bloomberg. This fall she will clerk for a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Following her clerkship, she plans to pursue a career in public service as a prosecutor. GA faculty member Irma Torres and Lindsay Casson came to her graduation brunch following commencement to help celebrate!
2008
Greta Spangenberg was surprised recently by two photos that arrived in her email without a sender’s name or identifying URL. Upon further investigation, she traced the anonymous photos back to the summer Global LEAD program that she attended in Cape Town, South Africa, after her sophomore (continued on page 64 >) g r e e n w i c h ac a d e m y.o r g
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