1997
Jake McKinstry was named one of the Puget Sound Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” in 2015. He is a principal with Spectrum Development Solutions, a Seattle-based real estate development company.
1998
Jordan Swanson writes, “A recent Tuesday afternoon call from Managua, Nicaragua, to Tempe, Arizona, was an unusual customer looking for an unusual business. In Nicaragua, a surgeon working to strengthen access to surgical care travels regularly back to the U.S. for regular — but short — trips and was looking for car insurance to specifically cover his occasional driving. In Tempe, a young entrepreneur has helped launch a company that is disrupting the car insurance market by pricing insurance based on miles driven. Imagine the surprise to both, Stephen Green ’07 the entrepreneur and Jordan Swanson ’98 the surgeon, when in reviewing the billing address discovered the Lakeside connection. Just two Lakeside grads, doing things that wouldn’t have been technologically possible five years ago, who had a chance encounter based on mutual need...” Jordan is working in Nicaragua as a surgeon and, in partnership with the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health, USC, and Operation Smile, to strengthen access to surgery and advance the quality and outcomes of surgery across that country. He shares,
Charlotte Rae Callahan, daughter of Evelyn Spence Callahan ’94 and her husband, Will.
“More people die in the world each year of conditions treated by surgery than from AIDS, TB, and malaria combined. The poorest third of the people in the world only receive about 3 percent of the surgical procedures in the world, despite that surgery is increasingly seen as costeffective. Worse, about 50 percent of surgical deaths occur among this poorest third. Nicaragua faces a number of these challenges. We are launching initiatives to build comprehensive care for children with cleft and congenital anomalies and enable advanced orthognathic and craniofacial surgical treatment for them; eradicating the backlog of untreated patients in Nicaragua; and developing new tools and training programs to surgical providers across the country. It has been a challenging, humbling, but very meaningful opportunity for my family and me.”
1999
Jenny Lawson and husband Steve Sheahan welcomed their second daughter, Melia Sol, into the world on Oct. 21. 2015 was a busy year for the Kegel family. Terry Kegel married Anna Fleming on June 28, Gary Kegel ’96 married Alisha Perry on Aug. 30, and Ilana Kegel ’04 married Amit Singh on Sept. 19.
2000
At the Capital Challenge Horse Show in September, Alexis Taylor Silvernale won the World Championship Hunter Rider (WCHR) Developing Pro Challenge and also claimed the WCHR Developing Pro National Championship. Alexis is
Jordan Swanson ’98, left, is a surgeon in Nicaragua. the owner, head pro, and head trainer at Aleron Training Stables in Kirkland.
2001
See 2002 notes for news on Dan Benedetti. Liza Buzytsky writes, “Since finishing my MFA in May of 2015 in fibers & materials studies at Tyler, I’ve begun working as communications director for Clodagh Design in New York. In addition to delivering design that supports wellbeing and can transform people’s lives, Clodagh Design is involved in a number of philanthropic initiatives including the Thorn Tree Project, a not-for-profit grassroots organization building schools in rural Kenya. I work on developing Clodagh’s mission and vision as a designer and as a ➢
Alice Oliver Hetherington, daughter of Katie Monroe Hetherington ’95 and her husband, Jim.
Melia Sol, daughter of Jenny Lawson ’99 and Steve Sheahan.
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