25th Reunion:1985 Class AgenT
Alicia Schober ’85 alicia_e_schober@yahoo.com (408) 973-1475
Oliver Brown ’85 is pursuing his Ph.D. at the University of Rochester. Eckart Baum ’86, international exchange
student from 1985-1986, and his wife, Sylvie, welcomed Rebecca Olivia in January 2010. She joins sister Elisa and brother Matthias at home in Prague, Czech Republic.
Michael Zaretsky ’86 has a recent book, Precedents in Zero-Energy Design: Architecture and Passive Design in the 2007 Solar Decathlon, published by Routledge Press. Michael is an assistant professor in the School of Architecture and Interior Design at the University of Cincinnati (UC), where his focus is on sustainable design and appropriate technologies. He was a practicing architect in Copenhagen and San Francisco before beginning his academic career six years ago. His wife, Adrian Parr, Ph.D., also teaches at UC; they have three children: Lucien (14), Shoshana (3), and Yehuda (9 months). Kaarin Coe ’88 was in Kuwait before
Christmas and remained through her birthday in February. While there, she performed psychological evaluations and transition training for Navy personnel who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Karin Deutsch ’89 continues to work
at Freedom House (www.freedomhouse. org), a non-profit organization focusing on research, programs, and advocacy to promote fundamental human rights and freedoms. She manages an annual publication on freedom trends in the media, and has also been increasingly involved in tracking global developments in the Internet and new-media sphere. This past year, work took her to Berlin, Amman, Oslo, Warsaw, and Tbilisi to speak at conferences, and she has also guest-taught classes on media issues at several colleges in the United States. In
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her limited free time, Karin enjoys taking advantage of culture in New York, especially free summer concerts in Central and Prospect parks, as well as yoga classes at her local gym. She also had fun chaperoning her mother (Edna Deutsch, math teacher from 1978-2004 and Scottish Exchange guru) on a trip to Tibet, seeing amazing scenery and a unique culture that has survived Chinese political and cultural encroachments, not to mention sampling yak burgers and yakbutter tea!
90s
Erik Deutsch ’92 became vice president of
engineering and principal investigator for his company’s government contracts. While at his previous job, Erik designed and built a micro-electro-mechanical chip that was responsible for finding water on the moon when the LCROSS mission completed its flight this past fall. Erik and his wife, Julie, enjoy living in Brooklyn and continue to take trips to California to see Julie’s family, to Colorado to go skiing in the winter, and this year to St. Maarten to celebrate their first anniversary.
20th Reunion:1990 Class AgenTS
Kathryn Becker Gameros ’90 kgameros@sbcglobal.net (214) 599-8579 Kirsten Allen Reader ’90 kreader@harleyschool.org (585) 256-1428
Kathryn Becker Gameros ’90 lives in
Dallas, Texas, with her husband, Bill, three daughters, Zoë (6), Isabel (4), and Nina (1), and two dogs. She is looking forward to catching up with her classmates at their upcoming (gulp) 20th reunion. If you have not done so already, join Facebook—Chris Smith and Terri Schaller Kabes ’90 posts make it well worthwhile!
Lara Ropiteau Davis ’90 and her husband, Lane, welcomed a new baby girl, Audrey, on April 20. Congratulations, Lara and Lane! Kirsten Allen Reader ’90 writes: “I am finishing my eleventh year of teaching at Harley. I have two beautiful children and a wonderful husband. I love teaching my seventh and eighth graders as I try to channel Alex DeSantis on a weekly basis. I also enjoy running, biking, cooking, playing with my kiddies, and long walks on the beach. I will be attending our twentieth reunion in the fall, and I hope to see lots of former classmates there as well.”
Sarita Gupta ’92 and her daughter, Suraiya
Sarita Gupta ’92 lives and works in the
Washington, D.C. metro area with her husband, Eddie Acosta. Sarita, the executive director of National Jobs with Justice, has been living in D.C. for six years. Sarita and Eddie became parents on May 19, 2010, to their daughter, Suraiya Camila AcostaGupta. They are enjoying their journey as new parents so far.
Angel Ramos ’94 lives in Orlando, Fla.
Since graduating from Harley, Angel went back to Puerto Rico and completed a bachelor’s degree in psychology. He then moved to Portland, Ore. to pursue an M.A. in Buddhist studies and is now in Orlando working as a Spanish interpreter. Angel says he is “very grateful for having had the chance to attend a school like Harley.”