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Nicole Brown ’00 delivers her acceptance speech as the grand prize winner of the Japan Foreign Trade Council international essay contest. Meredith Keller ’00 and Jason Hasday were married in NYC on October 22, 2011. They live in Manhattan. A family trip to Atlantis, Bahamas, brings three alumni brothers and families together: (back) Todd Mendlinger ’08, Wendy Mendlinger-Savin, David Savin, Layna Mendlinger (wife of Josh), Josh Mendlinger ’87, and Ross Mendlinger ’04. In the front are Cooper, 8, and Noah, 11, sons of Josh and Layna.
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Jason Kraus writes: “I am working as an artist in NYC and showing internationally. I went back to graduate school at Columbia last fall to get my master’s degree in fine arts. I
Last September, Preston J. Byrne qualified as an English lawyer with the firm of Berwin Leighton Paisner, an international law firm headquartered in London. His practice encompasses bilateral and syndicated corporate lending, acquisition finance, and securitization.
Bar Association and graduated with dean’s honors. While an undergraduate at Tufts, Tucker was captain of the varsity men’s lacrosse team, earning All-America and Scholar AllAmerica honors. He volunteers as a Big Brother in the Big Brother Big Sister Foundation of Greater Boston and resides in South Boston.
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Last fall, Betty Gilpin appeared in the role of Dinah in Zoe Kazan’s play We Live Here at the New York City Center, Stage I. Amy Irving and Mark Blum played her parents.
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With the impending London 2012 Olympics, archer Tina Jeon ’04 shot an Olympicsthemed commercial for Omega watches with an Italian production company. Michael Phelps and other well-known summer Olympians are also featured in the commercial and print advertisements. Tina blogged about the experience: tinaontarget. wordpress.com.
am getting married to Leslie Fritz this summer.” Margaret Nicoll is busy working with her husband on Sky Saddle Swings, a handcrafted wooden rope swing business (www.SkySaddleSwings.com).
Tina Jeon is a director at Qorvis Communications in Washington, D.C., and leads the firm’s account in the South Pacific. Representing the government of the Republic of Fiji, she has traveled with the country’s prime minister and attorney-general, supporting their Ministry of Information as the country prepares for democratic elections in 2014. J. Tucker Merrigan is a partner at Sweeney Merrigan Law, Boston, Mass., along with his brother, Peter Merrigan ’01. His practice concentrates on cases involving personal injury, wrongful death, premises liability, products liability, medical malpractice, and insurance law. Tucker is a member of the Massachusetts Bar, the Boston Bar Association, and the Massachusetts Bar Association. He graduated from New England School of Law, and he earned his bachelor’s degree in political science at Tufts. As a law student, Tucker served on the board of the Student
Lauren Robertson has recently been published as a second author in the journal Science Translational. The article, “Surgical Stress Resistance Induced by a Single Amino Acid Deprivation Requires Gcn2 in Mice,” has been picked up by the popular press for application in humans — and featured in The Washington Post and on ABC News and Fox News. Lauren recently was accepted to doctoral programs at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania in, respectively, biological public health and neuroscience. Lauren asks friends and classmates visiting Boston to drop her a line for a drink or coffee.
2007 | Reunion Elena Correa graduated with honor from Colorado College.
News from Benjamin Kraus: “I graduated from Claremont McKenna College in May 2011. I moved back to New York and started in the analyst program at Morgan Stanley. Matt Ginsberg and I share an apartment on the Lower East Side.” Having graduated from Oberlin in June 2011, Caleb Strait is now a graduate student in brain and cognitive science at the University of Rochester. loomischaffee.org | 55