ALUMNI NEWS
Doug Rosenzweig Houston, Texas dougrosez@aol.com
1988 John Semander Houston, Texas cperiod@hotmail.com
1989
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Elizabeth Oxford Pagan Houston, Texas elizabethpagan@me.com Hello to the Class of 1989! Here is the news that came in this time around: Congratulations to Tiffanie Cozean who recently took the Membership Development position at the Petroleum Club downtown. She says if anyone is interested in joining the Club to contact her at member@ pcoh.com. More congratulations to Paul Romano, who reports that he moved back to the Houston area in August of 2011 from Victoria and reopened his law firm in Sugar Land Town Square. In April of this year, Paul partnered with another attorney named Kenny Sumner and together they have formed a new law firm called Romano & Sumner. Paul’s focus is on trust and estate litigation while Kenny’s is on family law. Paul also reports that in March of 2012 he married Laura Rosales. Paul has two girls from a prior marriage and Laura has one daughter of her own, so they were pleasantly surprised when they found out back in December that they were going to have a little boy! Baby boy Romano is due in September. Sheereen Azimpoor writes in that she and her husband “still live in Potomac, Maryland and keep busy with work and with their three and four year old daughters, Vida & Lily, who continue to entertain and energize us!” Webb Jennings and his wife Christy are here in Houston and are enjoying life with their two daughters, Lila Virginia Jennings and Mary Blackshear Jennings. Lila is four and a half years old and attends Westminster Day School and Mary B. is six and a half years old and attends the School for Young Children. As always, thank you for writing in! Everyone loves to hear how old friends are doing. I hope everyone has a happy and fun summer.
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Robin Kayem Hancock Austin, Texas rskappraiser@msn.com
Jennifer Wilson Brown Houston, Texas jenniferwilsonbrown@yahoo.com
1991
Billy Forney Houston, Texas Bforney3@mccombsenergy.com
Lane Alexander Danville, California lanealexander@yahoo.com Great news as Amy Esacove’s North Blvd has finally made it to the big screen. Shooting on her compelling journey of looking back to move forward starts this June & July. We wish you the very best with this project Amy and know that your Falcon fans can’t wait to see the show! Direct from Disney World, Christi Parker reported in that Loulie had just met Princess Aurora for the first time. “Besides that excitement, I’ve recently opened my own business The Parker Center (www.theparkercenter.com). We train business professionals through their corporations in interpersonal communications and etiquette as well as do individual coaching.” Jennifer Cripe wishes everyone a happy 40th birthday as most of us hit that milestone this year! She hopes that “everyone is feeling the wisdom of age but the lightness of being young at heart. I just got back from a wonderful birthday celebration with some dear friends in Alabama. I’m also looking forward to taking some time off from work this summer to enjoy Montana with my kids, Carter (8) and Haley (5). We have a family beach trip planned with my parents and both brothers and their families in June. All is well!” Haley Thomas says that “Rob’s business is doing well, and I’m still enjoying the blessing of staying home with the kids. We are living in Richardson, Texas now, and we are loving it. The kids are growing so fast! Cobb is nine, Charly is eight, Ridge is six and Tribb is two! We are excited to take our first trip to Disney World in September!” Lisa Wong is moving to Atlanta where her husband will be working at his company’s headquarters. She writes that “Ava (8 1/2) and Alex (6) are sad to leave Kinkaid and all their wonderful friends but we are making this into a positive adventure. My kids are intrigued by the idea of having a basement in the house. We will be living in Buckhead and hope we have lots of Houstonians come visit!”
Amy Stuyck Watson Houston, Texas amyswatson@hotmail.com For this summer’s newsletter, Billy, Jennifer and I thought we would try something different to make the update more interesting. So we posed the following questions to all of our classmates: 1) In what city, or cities, have you lived since graduation (including where you currently live)?; 2) In what type of business or industry do you currently work?; and 3) If you could visit just one city in the world in the next 12 months, where would you visit? Here are the responses we received. Read closely because there are some interesting answers! Elizabeth Dean Amelio: 1) Houston to Little Rock, AR to Athens, GA to Houston to Dallas to Mexico City back to Dallas to Rome, Italy to Munich, Germany to Lisbon, Portugal and currently living in Madrid for the last three years. Whew!; 2) Elizabeth was teaching school until she started a family of three kids (settling into new countries and cultures and learning new languages has been a full time job); 3) Marrakech. Doug Ames: 1) Austin to Houston to Tyler; 2) Judicial Appellate Attorney; 3) Munich, Germany. Tim Anderson: 1) Clinton, NY (Hamilton College), Boston, Chicago and Denver; 2) Satellite Communication (Internet) Services – Marketing; 3) Buenos Aires. Dianna Rosser Aprile: 1) Middlebury, VT to Jackson, WY to Seattle, WA to Charlottesville, VA to Houston to NYC to Larchmont, NY; 2) Dianna works in the area of energy private equity; 3) Istanbul, Turkey. Doug Aron: 1) Austin, Houston and currently Dallas; 2) Doug is the CFO of Holly Frontier Corporation (petroleum refining business) and CFO of Holly Energy Partners (a petroleum pipeline company); 3) Augusta, Georgia. Doak Brown: 1) Austin (college) to Houston; 2) Doak is an attorney and principal of The Brownstone Group, Inc. and its related companies, which specialize in multi-family development and construction. Doak works alongside his two brothers,
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Jed Brown ’87 and Wil Brown ’95; 3) Africa. Jennifer Wilson Brown: 1) Austin (college) to Houston; 2) Jennifer is a full time mom who dedicates a saintly amount of time supporting her kids in their many athletic endeavors; 3) Africa. Allison Speed Crosswell: 1) Atlanta from 1996-2000 then Houston; 2) Allison worked in finance and is currently a hard working, but non-earning, mother of three boys; 3) Buenos Aires. Holt Dunlop: 1) Houston to Nashville (college) back to Houston to Newport Beach, CA to Manhattan Beach, CA to Los Angeles to Austin; 2) Holt works in Commercial Real Estate (principal investment); 3) Alaska or Maine. Jeff Eberhard: 1) Upstate New York for college, then two years in Washington, D.C. and since ’98; 2) Jeff is an attorney practicing in the areas of securities and commodities litigation; 3) Singapore. Chicago Billy Forney: 1) Houston to New York to Houston; 2) Billy works in the field of Oil and Gas Exploration and Production; 3) Vancouver, BC. Elaine (Sima) Granmayeh Khalil: 1) Houston to San Antonio and back to Houston; 2) Elaine is a radiologist specializing in breast imaging; 3) Visit her brother in Moscow, Russia. Molly Moore Khalil: 1) Washington, D.C. to Houston to New York to Houston; 2) Molly is on hiatus from the work force. She “got a sweet temp job as a carpool driver”; 3) San Francisco. Keith Koford: 1) Houston, Lufkin, TX, Dothan, AL, Auburn, AL and Gainsville, FL; 2) Keith is an attorney in the medical device industry; 3) Hallsville, TX where good friends, family and roots are located. Nicole Lorenzo Lynch: 1) On her way to Palo Alto for a year where her husband, William, will be working for Microsoft. William Papadopoulos: 1) Houston to Washington, D.C. to Paris, France to Washington, D.C. to Austin to Houston; 2) William works in the field of Commercial Real Estate Development, Management, Investment and Leasing; 3) Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Lisa Pittman: 1) NYC, Austin and Houston; 2) Lisa is an attorney; 3) Johnny Depp’s island (“with him present to wait on me without that Amber chick” ☺).
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