CLASS NOTES through May), Malaysia (June through July), and New York City (August and beyond). Please contact her at: sh2285@gmail.com.
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Northfield Mount Hermon Donnie Blackwell ptowndon@gmail.com • Arjun Pant arjunpant@gmail.com • JingPing Zhang jingping.ellen.zhang@gmail.com
Ria Jodrie Kalinowski ’01 with baby Ella Mei
• Desmond Romain’s son, Ayden James, was born on 11/21/15. • Year 2015 was a great one. Looking ahead, our 15-year reunion will be taking place this summer during the weekend of June 5. Mark your calendars and RSVP!
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Northfield Mount Hermon Danielle Henry Beale dhbeale@gmail.com
A huge congratulations to Miranda Sajdak! She was a winner of the Next MacGyver competition, which looked for TV ideas that featured female engineers or female protagonists who use their powers of engineering to solve problems. Miranda created a concept set in World War II called Riveting. • I’ve recently moved to West Palm Beach and was lucky enough to connect with Penny Morgan ’71, who helped us narrow our real estate search. Thank you, Penny! • Keep me updated, ’02! I love hearing from you.
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Northfield Mount Hermon Dee Guo deedith@gmail.com • Mira Sharma mira.sharma.mcgill@gmail.com
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Northfield Mount Hermon Jamieson Baker jamieson.baker@gmail.com • Jane Lilly Warren janelillywarren@gmail.com • Daniela Frias daniela8_5@hotmail.com • Nina Scheinman nina.scheinman@gmail.com
From Nina: Shin Young Hwang, J.D. ’15 (Michigan) and B.A. ’10 (Columbia), has just graduated from the University of Michigan Law School and is currently bar prepping and barhopping in Ann Arbor, Mich. In spring 2016, Shin Young will be near Brussels, Belgium, as a visiting research scholar, and will spend the early summer in Kuala Lumpur as a Michigan Fellow at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Malaysia. She will come back to the States in August 2016 to work for a law firm in New York City. Shin Young would love to meet up with NMH alums in the area: Belgium/France (March
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From JingPing: Greetings from New York City, everyone! The year 2015 was a memorable one for us, as we celebrated our 10th year since NMH graduation. Wish I made it back to the reunion, which I heard was a great time! • After a gap year working full time at Sony Music as a digital strategist, I went back to Harvard to finish my M.B.A. and got to work on some interesting projects, one of which was to advise the rock band Linkin Park on how to go beyond music and invest in technology. I moved back to New York City, and it’s been awesome catching up with NMHers such as Putri Kafrawi, Lila Nazemian, Nicole Williams, Henry Wainhouse, Laurel Edson, and J. Peter Donald at various alumni events every once a while. • Putri Kafrawi had an adventurous 2015. She began the year with a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, had a blast at our 10-year reunion, and celebrated Eid with family in Indonesia for the first time in 13 years. She also passed all four parts of her C.P.A., and rewarded herself with a beautiful and scenic trip with her travel buddies to Bhutan. • Cait Nordehn met up with Amihan Jones in Kathmandu, Nepal, in December. Amihan is working in Kathmandu for Save the Children as a Leland International Hunger Fellow. Cait traveled to Nepal from Washington, D.C., to meet with stakeholders for a USAID-funded gender, nutrition, and agriculture project that she supports. • Shannon Spaulding writes, “I recently graduated with my M.D. from Flinders University (Australia).” She started her internship at Alice Springs Hospital in January. “I’m looking forward to working as a doctor and not being a student after all this time! The only NMH alum I’ve seen lately is my brother, Duncan Spaulding ’09, who works in optics near Rochester, N.Y. He’s recently learned to ride a motorcycle, and lives in his bachelor pad with two cats.” • Sarah Shinkle Haggerty says, “On 5/2/15 I married Joseph Patrick Haggerty IV. I also started working as a human resource client partner at George Washington University in September. It was a pretty good year!” • A bit belated, but Katie Guffin married Abram Hecht in November 2014, and her close friends Rachel Disbrow and Jenn Donais were both bridesmaids and in attendance. • Hannah Marshall is assistant editor at a weekly newspaper group in Vermont. In 2015 she appeared twice onstage with the Burlington-based Lyric Theatre Company in the ensemble of White Christmas and as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde: The Musi-
cal. She would also like to thank all involved for a great 10-year NMH reunion weekend. • Remember to join the “NMH Class of 2005” Facebook group to better stay in touch. Look forward to seeing more of you this year!
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Northfield Mount Hermon Ramon Guadalupe rmg57@cornell.edu • Collin Lever collinlever@gmail.com Zach Rogers is living in Philadelphia, working
for the Philadelphia Housing Authority as a compliance unit manager. He’s also co-owner and CFO for a start-up coffee-roasting and distribution business that seeks to provide job opportunities to returning citizens (excons). • Khrystin Bryant Brown says, “Thank you, NMH, for showing me how to use my voice, not only in the spotlight but also in the background to help others move forward.” • Matt Shephard-Lupo writes, “I’m living in New York City with Alex Boll ’07 and working in tech/BD for a corporate travel management company. I’m running two travel organizations as well: Young Travel Professionals and Travel+SocialGood. Been traveling around a bunch of this year in Asia and Central America for biz and pleasure.” • Kate Hayes is living in New York City and working at Echoing Green, where she manages a leadership development program for young corporate professionals. She travels frequently, does a lot of yoga, and still sees Amanda Kusek all the time. • Amanda Kusek celebrated three years at Highgate Hotels, where she spends her days branding independent hotels and managing a hectic office. She finally fulfilled her dream of going to Paris, and tacked on Stockholm for good measure. Amanda spends all her free time freelance writing and editing, and still lives with her little Jack Russell terrier. • Eli Lovely says, “After spending a year in Turkey on a Fulbright, I pursued an M.A. from Georgetown. I’m currently a communications director for the American-Turkish Council, and helping to plan NMH alumni events in Washington, D.C.” • Jon Gustafson is pursuing his M.A. in teaching, with an emphasis on K–6 elementary education, at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn. He’s also a literacy tutor for primary school students in Minnesota Reading Corps. “I’ve taken a step back from my D.J. alter ego, ‘guffstar,’ after playing at various Minneapolis venues and accumulating 1.5 million SoundCloud plays on various R&B remixes and edits,” says Jon. • Tom Howley is completing a federal clerkship in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, after which he plans on returning to private practice litigation. He also serves as president of public policy at the Philippine American Chamber of Commerce. • Emily G. Wood is a student of Light University, and is on her way to becoming a biblical counselor