Class Notes
Class Notes
Members of the Class of 2003 gathered for a reunion on November 27 at Iron Hill Brewery in Maple Shade: Tristan Bresnen, Mark Schenkel, Abbey Morgan, Aaron Washington, Johari Sykes, Lindsay Michaelson Kelemen, Alice Edgerton, Dylan Kelemen, Erika Richardson Hall, Rachel Cope Tavin, Fanny Mixter, Amanda Turner Rivenburgh, and Jennifer Harris. Brian Schopfel recently merged his creative agency Eyes and Ears Entertainment with a multimillion dollar company in Los Angeles and created a new agency called The Uprising Creative, where he is now Partner and Executive Vice President of Business Development. To view some of the agency’s recent work, including collaborations with Justin Timberlake and Edward Sharpe, visit TheUprisingCreative.com. Mary Gonnelli Schopfel is working as a Family Integrated Transitions (FIT) Coach contracted through a juvenile jail in the Chicago area. She does individual and family therapy to facilitate the transition of youth being released on parole back to their home environments. “Our evidencebased treatment shows that youth who have parents that are highly engaged with the child’s support systems, such as school, parole officer, counselor, mentor, sports coach, friends, community, etc., have a higher likelihood of success. In other words, we are preventing recidivism.” Matthew Van Meter married Colleen Fitzharris this past December in Ann Arbor, MI. Colleen recently graduated from The University of Michigan Law School, and Matthew teaches English and history at University Liggett School.
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AMONG FRIENDS
John Palumbo and Christine Schantz Palumbo ’05 at their wedding.
Melissa Waxman and Jason Fleischer were married October 12 in Philadelphia. The officiant was Adam Serlin ’02, and the attendants included several 2003 classmates: matron of honor Mary Gonnelli Schopfel, as well as bridesmaids Kay Blake Eljdid and Abbey Morgan. Also in attendance at the wedding were Akemi Moriuchi ’04, Molly Kreider Viscardi ’02, and Brian Schopfel.
2006
2004
Jackie Draper is the girls’ head varsity soccer coach at Ed White High School in Jacksonville, FL where she teaches.
Bayley Michaux married Brian Dougherty in Hawaii, where Brian was stationed with the Marine Corps for three years after college. The couple met in South Jersey and are old friends.
2005 Christine Schantz married John Palumbo on May 4, 2013 in Moorestown. They were married at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church and a reception was held at the Schantz family home on Riverton Road. “We were overjoyed to celebrate our marriage with family and friends at such a special location,” shared Christine. She is in her first year as the Director of Parent and Alumni Programs at MFS. John is in his sixth year working at Penn Color, Inc. as an Account Manager. The couple resides in Philadelphia’s Fairmount neighborhood.
Ted Kreider is a fourth-year M.D.-Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania. He was invited onto a steering committee for LGBT health initiatives after designing a three-hour curriculum involving transgender health that is now mandatory for first-year medical students at Penn.
2007
2008 Charles Hodgens recently began his graduate degree in biology at the University of North Carolina.
2010 See page 32.
2011 Jake O’Donnell is a member of the University of Richmond men’s lacrosse team. The program is in its inaugural season as an NCAA Division I program and opened the season with a narrow 13-12 defeat to #7-ranked University of Virginia in front of over 4,000 fans at Richmond’s Robins Stadium.
SPRING 2014