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Since December 1993, Andrew Saulnier has lived in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with his wife, Michele, and their two kids, Hannah (12) and Nick (10). He is a home inspector and learned to water-ski a few years ago. Andrew is restoring a 1987 CRX, and says he recently got his "poster" car—a 1987 Porsche 928 S4 (fortunately, it doesn't need to be restored). He invites anyone to contact him and catch up.
Zania Pearson zmp2work@verizon.net Ames Prentiss aprentiss@intownvet.com
’89
Gregory Oberfield is a senior network engineer with AT&T in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.
Helen Barfield Prichett helenprichett@yahoo.com Laura Linderman laura.linderman@t-mobile.com
’91
Janelle Denny married Brian James Flinn September 16, 2007, in Golden, Colorado; the couple honeymooned in Telluride. The entire Flinn clan spent Thanksgiving in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Health, and will be teaching a disaster management course in Beirut next December and in Saudi Arabia the month after. Paul Royer and Rob Pitts keep Amer and Rima company whenever they visit the nation’s capital.
Kelley Keeler and E. Austin Short III are engaged, and will be married this June in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Danielle Dahlstrom dlld93@hotmail.com
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Amer Al-Nimr is in his chief-resident year of internal medicine and pediatrics at Case Medical Center/Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. While the pace is hectic and the stress is high, he says he immensely enjoys teaching the new interns and medical students. Rima, his wife of two years, is an OB/GYN dietitian, and they occasionally slip away from it all for coffee or lunch. He looks forward to two upcoming trips for the Rainbow Center for Global Child
Max Merrill maximilianatlas@yahoo.com
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James Barnes is an advisory software engineer at IBM in Raleigh, North Carolina. He had most recently worked as a senior Internet technology engineer at MetLife. "I realized I enjoyed what I was doing at IBM, so I had to go back,” he says. “Jennifer and I also learned we really do belong in the South." Meredith Glah Coors caught up with classmates Max Merrill and Lorna Wright while they were in Denver for a conference; they visited Meredith’s home for dinner and met her family. “Max is even dating one of my sorority sisters from Cornell—small world,”
Meredith writes. “It was nice to see old friends.” Jung-Hwan “J.P.” Shim is happy to report the birth of his first child, Yoo-Chan, on January 5, 2008. J.P. lives in Seoul, Korea, with his wife, Monica, and is a market analytics manager for Pfizer. Los Angeles-based newspaper Entertainment Today named the Jamie Wollrab-directed play, Feeding the Monkey in Hollywood, as one of the top-10 plays of 2007.
Lori Esposit Miller lori_esposit@msn.com Geraldine Gardner geraldide@hotmail.com
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Stephanie Shepherd Ragland received an MBA in quality management and organizational development from Upper Iowa University in May 2007. She has opened an Edible Arrangements store in Chambersburg.
Marriages The wedding of Matt Gallon ’97 and Diana Blazar, August 5, 2006.
At the wedding of Eileen Sheffler ’92 and Greg Prugh, October 13, 2007: (L-R) Laura Linderman ’91, Maureen Sheffler ’92, Eileen and Greg, Bert Murray ’92, and Allison Felley ’92.
At the wedding of Gina Cianelli ’98 to Matthew Vernoga, July 8, 2006: Tom Cianelli ’71, Gina and Matthew, and Mary Cianelli.
Bill Thompson ’61 to Sandra Lee Thompson Cooper, October 20, 2007. Craig Amaral ’77 to Jeanne Marie Albanese, April 22, 2007. Colton Partlow ’97 to Victoriann Mastrapa, May 19, 2007. Catherine Wahl ’99 to Chris Bove, November 17, 2007. Janelle Denny ’91 and Brian James Flinn on their wedding day, September 16, 2007.
At the wedding of Amy Clippinger ’99 to John Santa Barbara, June 9, 2007: Amy (second from left) with cousins June Marquiss ’01, John Marquiss ’97, Jenni Marquiss ’95, and Stephanie Turner ’06.