CLASS NOTES soccer and jv baseball. His greatest news is that in June ’12 he married Katie Sullivan, a pharmacist for Harvard Vanguard. Classmate Callie Burgess was a reader at their wedding and faculty member Charlie Malcom attended. Cody Lounsbury married Gabriel Roy in August of 2012. Nathan Louras has started his fourth year of medical school at the University of Vermont’s College of Medicine. He’s shared some awesome pictures of good times with classmates in New York City. Roscoe McNair recently co-founded Students of Music, an independent music education and management organization that specializes in performing and auditory arts, including the study, training, and playing of virtual and live instruments. The organization is headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., and offers music instruction in string orchestral instruments. Additional services include training in computerbased DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) platforms, and the production of original music for film, dance, theater, video games, advertising, and multimedia projects. He continues to work full-time as a case manager within the immigration services department of IBM. Saya Namikawa has been performing for children with the Italian theater company Teatro all’improvviso. Her highlight performances in ’12 were at the Luxembourg Philharmonie and in Tunisia. In March ’13, she will be in France and Turkey. If any NMHers are in Europe, she would love to catch up. Email her at teatro.allimprovviso@ gmail.com. Maggie Politi joined the national tour of Seussical the Musical as Mayzie La Bird. She is excited to be a returning cast member for the Gay Bride of Frankenstein in its New York premiere. This year, be on the lookout for her Verizon, Miller 64, and Power Swab Teeth Whitening commercials. To keep up with Maggie’s amazing acting career, check out www.maggiepoliti.com. Clifton Porter married Suzanne Malpass on 4/21/12 in Chicago. They honeymooned in Antigua. They live in Milwaukee, Wis., where he works as a replenishment buyer at Roundy’s Supermarkets. Scotlan Ryan is a wardrobe stylist in New York City. She recently finished working on an independent film being made in the Rockaway section of Queens, N.Y. She enjoys spending time with classmate Jamieson Baker and talks to Hayley Cutler, Sarah Dunton, and Brendan Mysliwiec daily, whether by email, gchat, or phone. She recently met
up with classmate Matthew Trevithick on his visit home from Afghanistan. Sarah Simons graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a master’s in social work and is now practicing as a licensed social worker in an outpatient HIV clinic in North Philadelphia. She also finished her first century (100-mile bike ride) in September. Erica Smith lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and works at the Churchill School and Center, a school for students with learning disabilities, where she teaches chemistry. This past spring she completed her master’s in adolescent special education and chemistry for grades five through 12. She’s looking forward to taking a trip to D.C. this spring with Courtney Eustace and Julia Ledewitz to visit classmates. Devyn Stevenson lives in Somerville, Mass. Last summer she left her position as a technical recruiter to pursue graduate school at UMass Boston. She’s in a one-year, teach next year, where she spends the entire year student teaching in the Boston public school district while going to school full-time. She’s working in the North End of Boston, where she’s been placed in a fourth-grade class and has enjoyed the experience so far, especially as she begins to take over teaching. Her long-term goal is to get involved in a program with youth in Boston to promote financial literacy in K–12 education. Matthew Trevithick has recently finished two and a half years at the American University of Afghanistan and has begun work as the director of communications at a research center in Kabul. He has published several articles, some of which have been featured in Foreign Policy magazine, and is in the process of publishing a book he recently co-authored. As for me, I’m living in Bayonne, N.J., with my son David (3). I finished my master’s degree in accounting last fall and work at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the ethics and compliance group, responsible for internal leadership and external regulatory compliance reporting. In my hometown of Jersey City, where my local work office is, I organize our PwC Earn Your Future Program, a five-year program committed to increase financial competency, fill gaps in the education system, and contribute to a healthier economy.
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DONNIE BLACKWELL 40 Passaic Ave West Paterson NJ 07424-2517 ptowndon@gmail.com ARJUN PANT 14 Egmont St Apt 1 Brookline MA 02446-3615 arjunpant@gmail.com
Members of the class of ’04 gathered in New York City: Gabriela Torres, Mohammed “Rumman” Hossain, John Kim, Richard Colligan, Nate Louras, and Katharine Schulman.
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LAKOTA COON 67 Coon Holler Lane Castleton VA 22716-2931 wackylacky@gmail.com KATE HAYES 215 E 95th St Apt 22K New York NY 10128-4084 kdahayes@gmail.com
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LIZ DONALD 1466 Mill Village Rd Craftsbury Common VT 05827-9813 elizabethsdonald@gmail.com From Liz: Rebecca Donald and I quit our jobs in September to move to Craftsbury, Vt., to train yearround with a group of elite rowers as part of the Green Racing Project. We are both looking forward to connecting with NMHers in the area. Let us know if you find yourself in Vermont or if you want to plan a visit. Congrats to Chris Reid, who married Aleshia Summer in August. Alex Engels, Max Zeitler, Ben Lindgren, Mark McCourt, Noah Saxton, and Wilson Zinnurov ’08 were there to help celebrate. Clive Weeden continues to live the dream;
he is heading to Australia to play basketball. Faridat Arogundade is studying law at the University of Chicago after spending this past summer working in New York City. I was thankful to hear that her family, who lives on the north shore of Staten Island, was safe and sound after Hurricane Sandy. I enjoyed catching up with Emily Tisdale and Carly Helmetag at the NMH Vespers alumni reception in Boston. They are doing well, spending time together, and enjoying the laid-back nature of the city. Teresa Le is working at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. If all continues to go well, she plans to stay in South Africa for the year. She recently connected with Naomi Stewart-Rubik. Max Zeitler is living in Boston with Alex Engels, working in sales and far surpassing his
monthly sales goals, making him one of the top salesmen at the organization. After spending ’12 at Morgan Stanley in New York and on the Obama campaign in Las Vegas, Bill Ward is reconnecting with his “fac brat” roots, working in the Advancement Office at NMH. If you find yourself in western Massachusetts, please let him know. Sheba Wilson is working on her master’s in philosophy at San Jose State University, focusing on inquiries within the philosophy of science, time, and economics, respectively. She’s also co-founder and singer/songwriter for the duet and social