Class Knox Class Correspondent: Stephanie Hasan Detterline 4330 Conifer Court, Glen Arm, MD 21057, 410-882-1018, stephaniedetterline@gmail.com
1999 This is our 15th year since graduation! How crazy is that? Life keeps us all busy in Southwest Wisconsin. Owen is eight, and Elora is five! Ellie got to spend her birthday being a flower girl in Kevin’s cousin’s wedding. What a birthday! ❯ Tami Gillip Rudolph and her husband welcomed a baby girl, Chloe, in April. ❯ Beth Gerlach and husband Dave welcomed Jackson Gabriel Gerlach Clay into the world! ❯ Nedra Joseph writes: “I married Ajay Nayak about a year ago in Chicago. It was so nice to have our closest friends and fellow Knox alums share this special day with us: Jalin Karia ’00, Sumi Chatani ’00, Thamindri De Silva, Desmond Fortes ’00, Surani Palihena ’05, Graziella Mendonsa ’02, Monica Marsicek ’00 and Sowmya Ramadas ’00. We have since moved to Morgantown, West Virginia, where Ajay is completing his postdoctoral research.” Nedra and Ajay also had a baby on February 3; his name is Roshan Joseph Nayak. ❯ Frederik Waldeck and wife Martine welcomed son Pim (named after his grandfather), on January 2; born at home. “Pim’s big sister, Annabelle, loves every aspect of her brother. Workwise, I will make a career switch this coming summer. After 10 years of large animal practice as a vet, I will now specialize in infectious diseases of cows at the National Animal Health Centre.” ❯ Natalie Bus Hoskins graduated with a master of arts in reading instruction (education, to be a reading specialist) from Aurora University. ❯ Jenny Seidelman started a new job as associate director of corporate, foundation, and government support at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Her full-length play, Outside/Inside, is a finalist for Polarity Ensemble Theatre’s 2014 Dionysos Cup Festival of New Plays and received two public readings in Chicago. ❯ Derk “Will” Lion ’00 is making me extremely jealous. He has taken a job in Frankfurt, Germany, for the next few years and enjoys the experience and travels a lot. ❯ Erin Severs writes: “I married Ken Keplinger four years ago and, just this past year, he took my name, changing his to Ken Severs. We bought our dream home just under two years ago, an all wood home on 20 acres of beautiful rolling hills where FutureFarming.org (our not-for-profit; Ken is the director) will be able to start the many community programs and organic farm we intend to get up and running. On the professional front, I was just promoted to assistant professor of English at Mohawk Valley Community College (MVCC). I am a placement test reader and designed and ran two brand new courses: writing skills and a gender studies seminar. I was also
accepted to the Leadership Academy, where I hope to design and implement a gender studies certificate program. On a different note, MVCC sent me to The Kellogg Institute three years ago, where I received my graduate certificate in developmental education and published a paper at the National Library for Developmental Education. ❯ Cindy Lauer writes: “After I graduated, I went to Chicago Medical School for four years, funded by an Army scholarship. I completed medical school in 2003 and moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, for a general surgery residency. I graduated in 2008. I married an army nurse anesthetist in 2007, and we have been happily married since. We were stationed in Fort Polk, Louisiana, and Fort Benning, Georgia. I was deployed to Baghdad, Iraq, and Talil, Iraq, with my active duty husband in 2009 and 2011. I went to a trauma/critical care fellowship in 2011 at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I moved to San Antonio, Texas, in 2012 and have been a practicing army trauma surgeon for the past two years. I was deployed again to Shindand Airbase, Afghanistan, last year, where I was the officer in charge of my forward surgical team, and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. I am currently a major in the U.S. Army, the assistant program director of the surgical critical care program, and a trauma/critical care surgeon at Brooke Army Medical Center. I do
not have any children, but have six loving retired racing greyhounds and a warmblood horse named Falco.” ❯ Amanda Weimer Ziehm writes: “My family and I are moving from Chicago to Dallas, Texas! Husband Kirk is an executive with a technology firm there. We have two energetic and sweet children: Madeline (4) and Jack (2). I enjoy staying home with them, as well as running Sneaker Tree, a non-profit organization founded by my sister and me. Sneaker Tree’s mission is to provide new athletic shoes and gear to female student athletes. Check out our website at sneakertree.org.” ❯ Jessie Jurgens Salsbury writes: “I volunteer at three theatres in Kansas City: The Unicorn Theatre, The Kansas City Rep, and The Living Room Theatre of Kansas City. Someone at each theatre knows a Knox theatre person. I have enjoyed connecting with friends from Knox to help me with a play submission I’m writing: Ben MoellerGaa ’98, Philip ’98 and Rachel Michalski Mottaz, Becky Schlomann, Tim and Jesse Shaffer Ballard ’00, Gwendolyn “Wendy” Prellwitz, and anyone else who may have jumped in to help since writing this. I plan on seeing Kate Berry Mann act at Creede Rep and enjoyed watching her on TV!” ❯ Sharwari “Sherry” Badola lives in the Bay Area, California, with her husband and five-year-old daughter. For the past two years, she has been trying to branch into web design
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Approaching 40th Birthday Inspires Alumni to Complete Warrior Dash Competing in a Warrior Dash were Dana Vig ’96, Mike Smith ’94, Doug Tobin ’96, Scott “Rab” Meyers ’96, Tom Wilcoxen ’96, Ed Frey ’96, and Dana’s wife, Emily.
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