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Class Agent David Cheng dcheng23@hotmail.com
Nicole Shen ’95 Erin with her husband and their three children
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ily (now five of us) – our daughter Rowan was born this summer, also with a full head of red hair.
Hey Everyone!
Hannah.Soule@bloomingdales.com Greetings from New York City! Just kind of a fun update: I recently put together an event for Bloomingdale’s with the Countess LuAnn de Lesseps from The Real Housewives of New York City on Bravo. We had such a strong RSVP response that Bravo decided to film the event for an episode of the show! They tell me it should air in late February or early March.
The cast of The Real Housewives of New York City at my event
For those of you who know me personally, you’ll understand why it was crazy for Bravo to mike me during the filming. Hopefully my mouth won’t get me into too much trouble this time around! Although I did manage to work HKIS into one of the conversations with one of the housewives when we were speaking about schools abroad. Fingers crossed it won’t make the cutting room floor.
I love what I do and get to see so many new cities because of my work! I feel really lucky to be doing something I am so passionate about. I am also very happy to say that I have a baby girl who is now 14 months old! Her name is Brigitta and she is the joy of my life. I am planning on moving back to Hong Kong in the next year or two so hopefully can catch up with more people from HKIS once I am back in town. I am excited about the move too. I love being in California and want to eventually come back here, but right now I want Brigitta to experience HK culture and life just like her Mommy! That is all for now. Please feel free to stay in touch with me!
Genevieve Barber (nee Handler) ’95 Genevieve@birchallpr.com 2009 was a busy year for me. I was married on September 19, 2009. It was a beautiful and warm day (by Canadian autumn standards, anyway). We went to Iceland for our honeymoon, an incredible experience.
A lot of time was spent exploring remote hiking trails and incredible natural landmarks. We nearly got lost in a lava field, but other than that survived relatively unscathed. We were even lucky to experience the northern lights dancing and crackling outside our hotel. Currently my husband Jamie and I are living in Toronto, Canada where I am an Account Director at a Public Relations Firm.
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Hannah Soule ’94
I currently live in Irvine, Orange County and have been living in California since 1999 when I moved here. I am the owner of a hospitality design firm called Futura Interiors and established the company back in 2003. We design mainly hotels worldwide and I am always traveling back and forth between California, HK and China.
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I am currently on leave, but will return to teaching next fall. We are entertaining the idea of a move to London, where my husband is seeking work with the organizing committee for the 2012 Olympics. In the meantime, we continue with our crazy renovation and a busy life with three children under five.
So much has happened in my life since I graduated from HKIS. I cannot believe that it has been 14 years since I graduated. Time passes by so quickly!
Class Agents Fahd Hakim fbh04@aol.com Jennifer Doman jdoman@deloitte.com and Sara Dallaire Sara.dallaire@gmail.com Class Agents Lisa Tan lisa@lisatan.com Meghan Heidmann (Smith) meghanheidmann@gmail.com Tim Lo lo_tim@hotmail.com and Victor Yeung yeesung@gmail.com
Sophia (Sayers) Gilsdorf ’97 sophiagilsdorf@gmail.com Our daughter, Ivi Kalleni, was welcomed into the world this past September. She is named after my late mother, a former HKIS teacher. Her big brother, James, turned two this summer, and he is a great helper. We are still living on Camp Lejeune, a Marine Corps base in North Carolina where my husband, DragonTales
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