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Mark Montgomery was interviewed for Carrier, a 10-part PBS miniseries that follows the USS Nimitz during a deployment to the Persian Gulf in support of the Iraq War.
◆ Duncan White duncan.m.white@accenture.com ◆ Todd Wells todd.wells@jetblue.com
◆ Mark Pyper mark.e.pyper@smithbarney.com ◆ Bruce Ricciuti jbr@birchrea.com
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Jennifer Cox is a New York–based filmmaker. She is a principal in Moto Films LLC, and has produced and directed shows featuring the likes of President Bill Clinton, Alan Greenspan, and Ethan Hawke. Her client list has included Showtime, the History Channel, and Lifetime, as well as corporate clients MetLife and Barnes & Noble. (For more information, visit www. motofilmsllc.com.) She adds that about a year ago, while en route to a shoot with author/reporter Tom Friedman, she ran into Kitty Daly Resor, and they’ve been in touch since. Raymond Liddy was recognized in the San Diego Daily Transcript’s list of Top Attorneys for 2008; the list pays tribute to San Diego County’s legal cream of the crop.
◆ Rachel Haines Bowman rachbowman@comcast.net ◆ Ann Quinn aquinn@scandh.com
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More than 20 years after they first floated the idea to start a company and work together, Jose Alonso and Jorge Vargas have done just that. In 2004, Jose and his father-in-law founded ForgeHouse Inc., a software solutions company based in Alpharetta, Georgia. Jose is the company’s chief operating officer; Jorge was hired as its chief financial officer this spring. The company went public in January 2008. Tom Evans started swimming with a Masters group in Denver, and finished third in the 1500-meter freestyle and fifth in the 400-meter individual medley at the 2007 U.S. Masters Nationals. He also completed all five events in the Postal Championships. For his efforts, the Denver Athletic Club honored him as one of the club’s Athletes of the Year. Tom occasionally trains with some “kids” who swam for John Trembley at Ten-
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nessee, and says he also got in a good ski season this past winter and managed a run with Chris Erdman. “Our children had a good time together, and we got to catch up a bit,” he says. Tom is vicepresident of acquisition and development at Magnolia Hotels. “I have taken on a new role helping a smaller hotel company grow into a brand,” he says. “Our hotels are in the central business districts of Denver, Dallas, Houston, and Omaha; each is in a historic, architecturally significant building that we have transformed into a hotel.”
’86 Elizabeth Steinhauser Bray is enjoying life in Texas. She was recently promoted to vice-president for Cape Classics, a South African wine importer. She says that the world of food, wine, and travel is great fun, but time at home with husband Christopher and daughters Riley (7) and Casey (5) is more fun than anything in the world.
◆ Kirsten Dryfoos Thompson kirsten.e.thompson@gmail.com ◆ Louis Najera louis@davincicomm.com
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Amy Konikowski-Lamperti published The Playground Guide, Best of Morris
To Marianne Rosini Taylor ’90 and her husband, Steven: a daughter, Regan Patricia, March 10, 2008. To Tim Putnam ’94 and his wife, Julie: a son, Miles MacKinsey, June 30, 2008. Lily Joon, daughter of Sasha Emral Shaool Nourafchan ’93 and her husband, Romyar, born June 8, 2008.
Isaiah Torohn, son of Yvonne Rodriguez Blanc ’87 and her husband, Glenford, born March 13, 2008.
To Tim Peterson ’97 and his wife, Michele: a son, Kain Alexander, August 16, 2007. To Masroor Ahmed ’99 and his wife, Suroor Raheemullah: a daughter, Sophia Nasiha Ahmed, August 8, 2008. To Laura Downs Niedosik ’01 and her husband, Lenny: a daughter, Allison Elizabeth, March 26, 2008.
Rowan Philip, son of Kim Lloyd ’90 and her husband, Jonathan Nessel, born April 23, 2008.
Children of Paul Moody ’89 and his wife, Jill: big sister Heidi holding Paul, who was born June 6, 2008.
Todd Friedman ’83 and Rip Esselstyn ’82 at the 2008 Masters Swimming National Championships in Austin, Texas.
To Kathleen Fleck ’07 and Morgan Siffert: a son, Noah Louis Siffert, June 18, 2008.
Susan Blaschak Mironov ’83 with her children, Zachary and Amber, and husband, Scott.
Faculty/Former Faculty To Amy Dickerson Mohr and her husband, John: a daughter, Ann Kathryn (Annie), September 15, 2008. To Derry Mason and his wife, Sarah: a daughter, Mary Elizabeth, August 8, 2008. To Todd McGuire and his wife, Michele Poacelli: a son, Gaven Peter, August 27, 2008. To former faculty member Jack Sweeney and his wife, Mary: a son, Jackson Robert, July 23, 2008.