Class Notes
Mini Munchers Provides Family Restaurant Reviews in NYC Alumna Carla Cicalese Sullivan ’92, a longtime Manhattanite and mother of three, capitalized on her knowledge of both the city restaurant scene and its parenting network to create Mini Munchers, a popular website that is a veritable Zagat Guide for the stroller set. As a foodie who likes to eat out with her family, Carla saw a need for a comprehensive restaurant database for families in New York City as well as visitors. Mini Munchers is a colorful site that rates New York City dining experiences according to how kidfriendly they are, including factors such as stroller accessibility, high chairs/booster seats, kids cups/straws, length of time between ordering and getting food, bathrooms/diaper changing facilities and entertainment value. The site posts the restaurants’ children’s menus. The top rating Mini Munchers confers is Four Crayons – restaurants that rate no crayons receive instead a piece of broccoli. Mini Muncher’s current top-rated spots include such places as the midtown Beacon, where kids might be invited into the kitchen to help make their own cotton candy for dessert, the West Village’s Cowgirl, Ideya in Soho and Landmarc at Columbus Circle. To see more, visit www.minimunchers.com . Carla came to MFS from Westfield Friends in 6th grade, and perhaps her role as editor-in-chief of the Cupola foreshadowed her current career in web journalism. Carla, named to Cum Laude as a senior, has fond recollections of many of her MFS teachers, including Chuck Boothby, Steve Edgerton, Rich Marcucci and Davie Weiner. After majoring in government at Georgetown University, and then completing a fellowship in communications at Boston University, Carla embarked on a journalism and public relations career in New York City. After she and her husband, HSBC banker Bob Sullivan, started their family, Carla was looking for an opportunity that would dovetail with her new lifestyle. Now with her son Ryan, daughter Keelin and baby girl Kelly, Carla intends to keep Mini Munchers going, even after moving to suburban Ridgewood, NJ in August 2011.
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Tug Haines traveled the country this summer to see as many minor league baseball games in as many states and venues as possible. His trip was featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer. He chronicled his travels on the blog www.casualfan.org.
Rachel Melroy writes that she is engaged to be married this winter to Brad Husser. They are planning a February wedding at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Sheila Lebow Gross ’60, a close friend of the Melroys, will be officiating the ceremony. Rachel is still living in
Helen Pettigrew Partridge ’95 and her new daughter, Charlotte.
1995 Charlotte Isabel Partridge was born on July 16 to Helen Pettigrew Partridge and her husband James. They are moving to San Francisco in October and would love to meet up with other MFS alums out there.
1996 See reunion photo page 27.
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Members of the Class of 1991 gathered at The Greenleaf during Alumni Weekend. Left to right: Larry Leverett and his son Graham, Rachel Williams Speller and her daughter Amari, Colleen Coleman, Aneira Puttaswamy, Rebecca Ansel, Darnel Barnes, Michelle Campbell, Jon Yohannan, Stephanie Berger and Jocelyn Ziemian.