CLASS CONNECTIONS
Ilana Kegel ’04 married Amit Singh on Sept. 19.
Kaci Callahan Benedetti ’02 and Dan Benedetti ’01 with son Grayson. community leader. I also live in Brooklyn, teach yoga and meditation, and continue to make my own art and design work, which you can find on my website www. buzytsky.com.” New York Times bestselling author Tommy Wallach’s second novel, “Thanks for the Trouble,” was published in February. It’s a “unique story of first and last loves.”
2002
Kaci Callahan Benedetti and Dan Benedetti ’01 welcomed their son Grayson Aldo Benedetti in October. The family lives in Boston, where Dan is completing a three-year fellowship in pediatric oncology at Harvard. Mairead Case’s novel “See You in the Morning” came out recently from Featherproof books, and she’s felt lucky to see several Lakesiders on book tour, including Rob Leitzell and Alison Myers Berkley in Brooklyn and Lakeside teacher Brian Culhane in Seattle.
2003
Ben Flajole married Brittany Blondino on Oct. 10 in Seattle. Lakeside alums from seven different classes attended. Ben reports that one of many highlights was the best-man toast delivered by his brother, Pat Flajole ’05.
2004
After 10 years teaching math at Lakeside (and five years as a student), Siva
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Sankrithi will retire at the end of the 2015/2016 school year. He notes that he’s spent over half of his life at Lakeside. He plans to devote himself fully to caring for and teaching his 2-year-old son and spending time with family.
Gary Kegel ’96 married Alisha Perry on Aug. 30.
See 1999 notes for news on Ilana Kegel. A member of the US LM8+, David O. Smith brought home the bronze medal from the Rowing World Championships in Lake Aiguebelette, France. You can find the race online to check out the photo finish. In November, veterans Andy Bench and Carsten Belanich came back to campus to participate in the Veterans Day assembly at Lakeside Middle School, sharing with current students why they chose to serve in the military. In a November Seattle Times article about his new Hulu streaming series, “RocketJump: The Show,” Freddie Wong credits Lakeside arts teacher Al Snapp for inspiring his exploration of video while he was a student. “He was a really big part of getting technology in that high school,” Wong said. “And at Lakeside they let us do our own thing.” Erin Pettersen married Keith Jarrett at the Inn at Ship Bay on Orcas Island on July 11. Doug Rooke married Holly Andersen on Aug. 16 in Denver.
Terry Kegel ’99 married Anna Fleming on June 28. Kate Zyskowski married Justin Schram in Colorado on Aug. 8. The couple recently returned from a year and half in Hyderabad, India, where Kate, an anthropologist, was completing her doctoral dissertation fieldwork and Justin was the chief medical officer for a diabetes prevention technology startup.
2005
Aubrielle Houston Kituuma and her husband, Nathan Kituuma, welcomed the birth of daughter Emani Kituuma on April 3. Mike Stennis was included in NewsOne’s profile “5 Millennials Of Color Working On Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign.” He manages the scheduling desk in the vice chair department, which involves scheduling nationwide campaign events