Joel Erem, son of Burak ’01 and Jen Erem
Ben Rubenstein ’01 celebrated his wedding day with fellow Class of 2001 alums
I feel I am finally working in my dream job. Other than that, my son Matthew just turned 5, and my other son Noah just turned 2. They are a handful, and though it is a challenge to be mom to two rambunctious boys, I love (almost) every minute of it. Hope everyone else is doing well, and already thinking of making it back for our 20th Reunion. I cannot believe it has been that long.” Hope everyone is well—Darcy is right—crazy that our 20th isn’t too far away! Feel free to send me your news at erischwa@gmail.com— Erica Lynn Schwartz
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Robert Curry rccurry01@yahoo.com
Gaby Moss’s first book is coming out on December 6 from HarperCollins. It is called Glop, and it is a parody of Gwyneth Paltrow’s website, Goop. It is hopefully funny and also only medium disrespectful. William Nuland writes, “I had a flurry of Hilltopper fun over the past few months. The family and I relocated to San Mateo, California, for four weeks while I onboarded at Facebook, which has its own Hop alum cohort. So I plugged back in with Blaise Dipersia (virtually at least) and ran into Emily Triffin, who was onboarding during my interview loop. Out in California, the family and I spent an early afternoon with George O’Brien and his brood, a weekend with Harold Pierce, his wife and daughter, and tried (but failed) to hang out with Sabrina Singh and Andrew Myrick. Either way, I was able to plug back
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in with some old friends and feel the love while a few thousand miles from home.
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Marissa Black blackmarissa@gmail.com Daniel Zlotoff zlotoff@gmail.com
As has become our custom, the Class of 2001 continues to make incredible strides. Catherine Foster and her husband, David Ellison, welcomed their son, William Houlding, on July 8, 2016, at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. She writes, “He has changed our lives; we are totally smitten.” She is taking maternity leave prior to returning to her job at Sotheby’s. André Warner and his wife, Solimar Santiago Warner, celebrated the birth of their first child, Santiago Andrés Warner, on May 23, 2016. In just a couple of months, Santiago has traveled from near to far, from the Bronx to Barcelona, to meet family and friends. The young family had a chance to visit the Ommegang Brewery in Cooperstown, New York. In anticipation of Santiago’s arrival, Bryan Warner, Tiffany Johnson, Ryan Harrity, Brendan Donahue, James Haffner, Adam Hellman and Hollen Spatz, Matt Lundgren, Dan Slotnik and Dan Wolf gathered to wish the expectant parents well. Ben Rubenstein has reached some major milestones as well, both professional and personal. He sold his company Yodle to Web.com, and has started a new real estate technology company called Opcity. He also got married and went on a
Brody Paul Wirtz, son of Hillary and Kyle Wirtz ’02
honeymoon in Iceland, where he ran into fellow alum Justine “Popi” Benisch on the street. You truly never know when or where you might find a fellow Hilltopper! Meanwhile, Burak Erem is finishing a postdoctoral research fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he has been working on developing new medical imaging technologies, writing papers, and applying for grants. He and his wife, Jen, recently had a second baby, Joel, while big sister Orly is busy helping them out. Despite all the activity, Burak still manages to get out to play soccer once a week. He looks forward to doing a Cooper test on the old boy’s varsity soccer field next time he is on the Hopkins campus. Please keep the updates coming— your classmates would love to hear about new family members, new jobs, new homes and new adventures.
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15th Reunion
Hopkins—June 9 and 10, 2017 Aaron Zelinsky aaron.zelinsky@gmail.com
Melissa Feldsher is working in the Brooklyn
headquarters of Hillary for America, her third (“and definitely last!”) presidential campaign. She’s on the paid media team, so she is partly responsible for all the Clinton ads filling the airwaves, and is “especially sorry to any classmates living in battleground states.” She’s also about to celebrate her one-year anniversary with Will Deitz, who “(weird coincidence) once went to a homecoming dance with Natalie Evans ’01.” 53