Class Knox life through our Knox family.” —Ariel Lauryn ’08
2009 Ahoy, 2009! Time keeps ticking on. It seems many of you have become right proper grownups somewhere along the way! Read on for all of the exciting things everyone is up to. ❯ Pam Schuller moved to New York City and is having a blast exploring her new home, still doing comedy for fun, and continuing to manage youth programs for the East Coast. ❯ Jackie Lee completed a master of public health and healthsystem pharmacy administration residency at the University of Iowa and started as assistant director, pharmacy operations, at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. ❯ Matt Baker writes, “A.” ❯ Patrick Cavins writes, “Ph.D. status attained!” ❯ Audra Adolph is working as a neurosciences nurse at St. Thomas West in Nashville, Tennessee, and spends free time catching the local music scene with Karl Bair ’12, who works with TransAmerica Financial Advisors in Brentwood, Tennessee. ❯ Jacob Scholl writes, “I got married in July to an amazing woman. We moved to Washington, D.C., to be closer to work. I’m still at the National Institutes of Health, working as a scientific information analyst.” ❯ Christina Pfaff and Colin Alber had a busy spring: backpacking in the Grand Canyon, starting new jobs (her as a practice economics analyst, him as manager of a bike shop), and buying a house in Barnhart, Missouri. They officially moved in July with their two cats and the hope of a pug joining the family soon. ❯ Cal Kotz freelances, works on his novella (which he periodically discards in despair), and says clever, amusing things semi-professionally in Des Moines. He works in financial services by day and has totally not sold out at all. Probably. ❯ Taramaria Hood writes, “Life is bright! I am getting married at the end of August at the Red Rock Canyon! Adventures to come (a kayak trip!). I feel very lucky. Hope everyone else is well!” ❯ Hannah Gdalman has worked for the Knox Barcelona Program since fall 2013. Her lifeblood is the WhatsApp group message that she shares with CeCe Manganaro in London, who is a professional badass at the London Original Print Fair, and Amanda Look in Chicago, who is a womanin-charge at Northwestern University. They’re planning a reunion sometime around Thanksgiving. ❯ Anita Longhini Knez and husband Brandon welcomed a baby girl, Addison Lucille, on December 6, 2014. Anita lives with her family and dogs in Minneapolis and continues her work with people living with mental illness, supporting them on reaching their education and employment goals. ❯ Pac Pobric got married to Adrian Marshall on July 31. A reception was held the next day in New York with a big group of the best friends anyone could ask for, including a whole bunch from Knox. ❯ Sarah Williams writes, “I enjoy Chicago life with my rat, my cat, and my boyfriend. I work as a humane education specialist at The Anti-Cruelty Society and attended lots of cons this year. Life is good!” ❯ In June,
Danielle Jones boarded a plane to Budapest, where she has taken a job teaching English. ❯ Simon Lepkin continues to enjoy working at a startup in Silicon Valley, while Liz Soehngen volunteers with a rape crisis center and is building a graphic design portfolio. They’ve bought a condo in San Jose and now own a for-real couch, not just a futon. ❯ Samantha Pelkey-Flock and Drew Flock ’08 still live in beautiful Portland, Oregon. Samantha entered her last year of her master’s program in counseling, and Drew completed his first year as senior program manager at Technolutions. They also enjoy frequent hang outs with fellow Knoxies Alana Ogilvie ’10, Paul Cotton ’08, Jen Wolf ’08, Tim Yee ’10, and Tim’s fiancée, Jaimie Thompson! ❯ Michele Darrow received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Baylor College of Medicine and will relocate to the UK for her next adventure. Come visit! ❯ Erin Warford writes, “I got my Ph.D. in classics from the University at Buffalo in May 2015! I’m a ‘Dr.’ now! I work as an adjunct in Buffalo while I try my luck on the academic job market. Here’s hoping for a teaching position at a small liberal arts school like Knox…” ❯ Rachael GoodmanWilliams writes, “I finished my first year in a community psychology doctoral program at Michigan State University and am celebrating with a road trip back to Portland. West Coast coffee, here I come!” ❯ Audra Boekenhauer and Matt Allis ’08 finally tied the knot on Saturday, June 27. Knox provided the perfect venue for the intimate ceremony and awesome dance party that followed. The majority of attendees were Knox alums, which of course helped make this a party to remember. ❯ Daniel Hoffman is still a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal, farming, biking around, and eating lots of mangoes. ❯ Sean Carmichael writes, “I just accepted a position as a writer on Apple’s retail marketing and communications team and moved to California late last summer.” ❯ As for me, I now have an apartment with a spare bedroom, which makes me feel as if I’ve arrived as an adult. (Come visit me!) Still in Sydney, still working in tech for nonprofits. Other exciting events include diving the Great Barrier Reef, taking up acrobatics, and getting myself all civil unioned. That all this round, folks. Keep rocking it. Class Correspondent: Brittany Leggans knoxclassof2009@gmail.com
2010 Shane Donegan forgot to send his notes in on time because he was busy killing it at Twin Cities Pride. ❯ Samantha Newport returned to Des Moines and may finally be half as tidy as her mother always hoped she would be. ❯ John Eisemann and Jen Milius planted a wicked huge garden, adopted a kitten named Rimsky, and continue stripping 85 years of paint from the woodwork in their historic Portland, Oregon, home. ❯ After completing a master’s degree, Virginia Graves returned to Chicago from San
Francisco and works at Feeding America. ❯ Alexandra Braun is learning the ins and outs of the event planning industry and can often be found in the park with her westie, Elphaba. ❯ Ellie Poley and Brittany Alsot ’08 moved from Seattle to Chicago in fall 2015. “We’re going to try it out for a year and see how it goes!” ❯ Alana Ogilvie still lives in Portlandia, works as a family therapist, and (again) waits for a formal decision on the publication of her article. ❯ Kara Krewer graduated with an MFA in poetry from Purdue University. She married Andrew Kottwitz in October 2014 with many Knox folks in attendance! She taught creative writing at Interlochen Arts Camp this summer, and teaches film studies at Purdue this fall. She and Andrew live in Lafayette, Indiana, with their new cat, Buster. ❯ Richard Thiemann wants to do a cross-country Knox trip before relocating to Singapore for work at the end of the year! E-mail your address to r.e.thiemann@gmail.com, and he’ll show up. “No, seriously, I will appear on your front lawn frothy with party spirit.” ❯ John ’09 and Chanel Miller Lane enjoy Macomb, playing music locally, and tending to their garden. John tunes and repairs pianos. Chanel works at the Carthage Public Library as the children’s librarian. ❯ Abby Harms is pursuing a master’s degree in international human rights at the University of Denver. She also interned with Syria Direct, a nonprofit organization training Syrian refugees in journalism, in Amman, Jordan. ❯ Nicole Henniger is finishing a Ph.D. in social psychology at UC San Diego, doing behavioral health research with the Navy, and teaching courses. In July, she traveled in Europe after presenting at an emotion conference in Geneva. ❯ Jessica Baham completed her first semester of graduate school at New York University and loves living in New York City. This summer, she worked in Dublin, Ireland, as the assistant program director for the NYU Summer in Dublin program. ❯ Ben Scott enjoyed the Virginia heat while preparing for his second year as a Master of Landscape Architecture candidate at the University of Virginia. This summer, he cataloged the Benjamin C. Howland Jr. papers for the UVA Special Collections Library, rehabbed a house and entered a design competition in New York with friends, and completed a garden design for a juvenile detention center in central Virginia. ❯ Kristin Miller and Spencer McNeil moved to Chicago after Kristin graduated from medical school. Spencer started the second year of a master’s degree program in architecture, while Kristin continues a neurology residency at Rush. ❯ Sandy Guttman is in her second year of the MUSE program and researches museum accessibility with an aim to create an audio tour for audiences with vision impairment. ❯ Since graduation, Hue Le Marley enrolled in the post-baccalaureate pre-medical program at Washington University in St. Louis and got married. She started as a first-year medical student at Duke University School of Medicine in August. ❯ Aaron ’11 and Andrea
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