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Sarah Coyne ’89, Stacey Bradford ’89, Amy Slotnick ’89 and Jennifer Riemer Allen ’89 in Puerto Rico
Sue Karlin writes: “It’s been a year of interesting stories – covering SpaceX’s Elon Musk, new space technologies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, an attempted space launch at the University of Southern California Rocket Lab, space science education at Burning Man, and the master artists who teach drawing to Disney animators. As for my NA partners in crime: I watched July 4th fireworks with Jay Moore and his family during their visit to Los Angeles, attended Michael Blum’s ’79 backyard ‘Shakespeare in the Yard’ production, and returned to the playa [the Black Rock Desert of Nevada] with Brian Stroehlein ’80 for our annual Burning Man pilgrimage. A sad note was the passing of classmate Doug Zargham, with whom I reconnected at our 30th Reunion, and who left us far too soon.”
1982
1986
Contact: Kristen Brask Martin kbcolesfamily@comcast.net
Contact: Betsy Dollinger Bernstein bdb1@mac.com
Richard Weinblatt earned certificates in service administration and basic emergency studies from Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis. He is pursuing a technical certificate and a degree in homeland security and public safety.
James C. Schachtel dschachtel@verizon.net
1984 Contact: William E. Markstein WEMarkstein@gmail.com
1985 Contact: Kimberley Griffinger Wachtel kgwachtel@gmail.com
Brett Baron and fiancée Melissa announced their engagement last May. Brett is a recruitment relationship manager for Allegis Global Solutions, a leading global recruiting company. Trevor Weston, associate professor of music at Drew University in Madison, NJ, was one of four featured composers at the second annual Colour of Music Festival in Charleston, SC, in October.
Warren Kermit Kusnan, son of Joe Kusnan ’89
Jason Berlin ’90 with bride Apryl Lundsten and family
Glenn Waldorf gwaldorf@bellenv.com
1988
Jason Berlin tells us that he “tricked the way-out-of-myleague Apryl Lundsten” into marrying him on May 17, 2014. His brother, Eric ’92, was in attendance, of course.
Contact: Melissa Dollinger Shein msheinus@yahoo.com
1991
1989
Contact: Richard L. Worth richardworthmd@yahoo.com
Contact: Stacey L. Bradford-Greenberg stacey.bradford@gmail.com
Best friends Sarah Coyne, Stacey Bradford, Amy Slotnick and Jennifer Riemer Allen spent a long weekend in Puerto Rico over the summer, soaking up the sun and celebrating their many years of friendship. Joe Kusnan and his wife, Jeanne, announced the birth of Warren Kermit on April 11. At the time of delivery, Warren was 3 lbs., 10.5 oz., but Joe reports that he is strong and healthy and just needs a little more time to grow.
1990 Contact: Matthew T. Gertler mgertler@newarka.edu Troy Powell troy256@mac.com
Rajan Khanna’s first novel, Falling Sky, was recently released by Prometheus Books. The book is a postapocalyptic thriller about an airship captain trying to survive in a world devastated by a pandemic. Fellow science fiction author Tad Williams described it as “Hemingway meets The Walking Dead.” Andrew Morrison and his wife, Gabriella, live in a tiny house on wheels in Oregon. They have embraced the tiny house movement, detailed on their new website, TinyHouseBuild.com. A YouTube video tour of the house has gone viral with nearly three million views. In Colorado in early October, OUTREACH fall | winter 2014