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’80 Jeff Carney is an associate professor of English at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah. His first novel, The Adventures of Michael MacInnes, was published last fall and is a story about a 16-yearold orphan’s experience attending a prestigious boarding school in 1924 (read a review on page 5). Jeff received a master’s from the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been teaching at Snow for 15 years, and can be contacted at jeff@jeffcarney.net.
’83 Megan
Todd Friedman married Andrews April 21, 2006, in Key West, Florida. The wedding event consisted of a four-day cruise that departed from Miami with 45 guests, friends and family, and a ceremony and reception at a beachfront hotel in Key West, the first port of call. Todd writes that it was a memorable event, and that he highly recommends getting married in shorts. Many classmates met Megan at the class’s 20th reunion in 2003. The couple lives in Plano, Texas.
Jeffrey Curry is excited to report that he has returned to the consulting profession. He is working with Ensemble Business Advisors, who work with business owners in western Pennsylvania to help resolve issues and to pursue opportunities.
Todd Friedman ’83 (far right) and Russell Weaver ’85 (second from right) with their team at the 20th Annual Open Water Swimming Championship in Kagoshima, Japan. John Hollinshead ’80 with Olympic gold medalist Melvin Stewart ’88 at John’s daughter’s swim-team banquet.
Ra’id Shihadeh teaches mathematics at the community college on the Blackfeet Reservation in Browning, Montana. Assistant Head of School Don Hill and wife, Linda, paid Ra’id a visit in July.
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John D. Koch has redeployed from Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for actions in Afghanistan. He has returned to Sigl, Germany, and the Joint Multi-National Training Center at Grafenwoehr with the Directorate of Simulations.
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John Balbach works for Cleantech Capital Group, which brings together large institutional investors with entrepreneurs and growth companies to accelerate commercialization of clean technologies. During the past year, John has had the good fortune to work with Michael Harshfield, who is vice president of deployment, customer care and supply chain for Reactrix, a fast-growing company in Silicon Valley.
Betsy Mitchell moved to Meadville, Pennsylvania, and began work in July at Allegheny College as director of athletics and recreation. Her stepdaughter, Claire, has attended summer camp at Mercersburg for the past two years. Ming K. Sui left the federal government in May 2006, and is a lead economics business analyst in the Center for Acquisition and System Analysis division at the MITRE Corporation, which is a not-for-profit consulting firm that mostly deals with government issues. In his position, he also works with the Department of Homeland Security.
’84 Deirdre Murphy Barone, her husband, Michael (an assistant professor in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins), and their daughters, Bridget, Meredith, and Emily, were named the 20052006 Maryland PTA Family of the Year. The award honors the family’s seven years of dedicated, selfless service to the Rodgers Forge Elementary School community. Cmdr. Anthony T. Calandra graduated in 2003 with highest distinction from the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He served on the staff of Striking and Supporting Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO) as an air planner and information operations specialist, and now lives in Anacortes, Washington, with wife, Tamara, and their two children, Alexis and John Robert.
Amie Schaufler Hellauer lives in Newport News, Virginia. She and her husband have two girls, Mary (8) and Erin (6), who keep Amie busy with all sorts of activities. Her brother, Andrew Schaufler ’86, lives in nearby Virginia Beach. Andrea White Hosbein left Harris Bank in Chicago to start her own fixedincome money management firm, Cypress Capital Partners. Christian Rubeck lives in Warwick, Rhode Island, with his wife, Shari, and two children. He is the project manager for twin towers being built at Waterplace Park in downtown Providence, and he and Shari recently had an art exhibit of some of their work at 17 Peck Gallery in Providence. Robin Sarner is a family physician in Tacoma, Washington, and is pursuing a master’s in public health at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In his spare time, Robin competes on an outrigger canoe racing team. Last year his team completed a 40-mile race from Molokai to Oahu, Hawaii. Bill Suggs finished flying in December as the last commanding officer of Sea Control Squadron 30 (the Diamondcutters). He is now in Washington, pursuing a master‘s in national resource management at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.
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Billy Butkiewicz is a PGA head golf professional at Waters Landing Golf Park in Germantown, Maryland. He can be reached at billy_b@pga.com. Former Mercersburg faculty member Angela Carstensen is chair of libraries at Convent of the Sacred Heart on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and sings in the Riverside Church Choir, a 60-voice professional group. Dan Henderson reports that he is still in touch fairly regularly with Paul Furigay, Byron Wilfong, and Bruce Keizler ’86. Dan is sorry that he missed the reunion last year, and can be reached at dannyhenny@yahoo.com. Glenn Houck co-founded LeadQual LLC (www.LeadQual.com) to help businesses improve their returns on Internet-based marketing. Kimberly Hall Klein and her husband, Joe, live in Mill Valley, California. They were married in Maui in July 2004. Kimberly and Joe are frequent competitors in triathlons and biking events, and Kimberly has even learned to surf. She has been working in medical sales, and she and Joe are expecting twins in March. Margaret “Peggy” Raley accepted the 2006 Arzt Award from the Delaware Celebration of Jazz. The award is
presented to an individual for educating and inspiring young musicians. Russell Weaver and Todd Friedman ’83 competed in the 20th Annual 2.5-mile Open Water Swimming Championship last July in Kagoshima, Japan. They were part of a four-person team representing Miami, which is Kagoshima’s sister city, and were the only foreign team invited to participate (a total of 100 teams competed in the event). Russell is fluent in Japanese, and, having studied abroad, has established many professional and personal relationships throughout Japan. He lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Neil G. Jones, Ph.D, was promoted to a University Senior Lectureship in Law at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He was previously a university lecturer, and last year became editor of the Journal of Legal History. He supervises and lectures in legal history to both undergraduates and postgraduates, and also supervises undergraduates in modern land law. Neil’s Ph.D. dissertation on the history of trusts in England from 1536-1630 was awarded a Yorke Prize by the University of Cambridge in 1996, and he is working on a book in the same field. Barry McCann moved with his wife, Michele, and daughter, Lydia (4), from south Florida to Colorado Springs. He has taken a new position as brand leader of PaperDirect at Current USA. Barry says to feel free to stop by for a visit.
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Valerie Johanessen LeGrone and husband, Tim, live on the water in Virginia Beach with their two sons, Jimmy (10) and Daniel (8). She is working for Sentara Medical Group as a nurse practitioner in the palliative care/hospice department. Valerie still enjoys running and swimming, and would love to hear from anyone in the area. James “Jamie” Finlay married Genevieve Theriault May 6, 2006, in St. Columbia’s Church of Scotland in London with a reception following at the Royal Geographical Society, where James is a Fellow. Genevieve is French Canadian with family originally from New Brunswick, and her immediate family is now based in Seattle and the U.S. Virgin Islands. She is an architect who had been living and working in Chicago for many years until the couple met on a mutual friend’s boat on Lake Michigan in August 2004 when James was visiting his family. The couple lives in south London, and James is continuing with his photographic work while Genevieve starts work at an international architectural firm.