Keiko Achiwa Connor ’02 and husband Brendan Connor with their baby, Maya da Costa.
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JOSH GRUBMAN 14 Deldorf St Quincy MA 02169-1820 joshuagrubman@gmail.com
Pooja Desai Patel ’04 with her husband and son, Rian.
taurant in New York and moved back to California. She is currently running her family’s wine business as president of Gemstone Vineyard in Napa.
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CHRISTOPHER A ZISSI 30 Berkshire Dr Winchester MA 01890-3233 christopher.zissi@gmail.com
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Another year in the books and we have been quite active. Ben Daniels is now assistant general counsel at Fresenius Medical Care in Waltham, Mass. Alex Lloyd married Rachel Conrad on 8/16/14 in Austin, Texas. Lawrence Delevingne married Lindsay Slote last August. During 2014, Lawrence has been able to catch up with classmates Alphonzo Terrell, Neale Mahoney, and Brendan Connor ’02. After stints in New York; Vientiane, Laos; and San Diego, Rujeko “Ru” Hockley is back in New York and working as assistant curator of contemporary art at the Brooklyn Museum. Josh Bigelow visited Alex Fischer in New York City to celebrate the beginning of the holiday season. Josh flew in from Los Angeles, where he continues to run the bus transit–monitoring company he started in his dorm room at USC. Alex is still at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he just launched a new teaching and research program on environment, peace, and security, and where he continues to act as the associate director of the Haiti Research and Policy Program. Amy Marks sold her catering business and res-
Thank you to everyone who wrote in to update us on your whereabouts! I love small-world stories, so I was thrilled to hear that Jeanette Caceres Schaudt and her company, Local Lathers, is being sold in my dear friend and colleague Jill Lindsey’s namesake boutique in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Ashley Bean lives in Carbondale, Colo. In winters she is a professional ski patroller at Aspen Snowmass, and in summers she is a team rider for Badfish Stand Up Paddleboards. Gelila Bekele had her first child, Aman, with her partner, Tyler Perry. Congratulations! Lucy Hubbard Mandarakas sent in a picture of her little family, husband Nick, and children Charlie and Emily, standing in the spot Nick proposed years ago in Brooklyn! Danielle Henry Beale welcomed her first child, Parker Vianney, with husband Garrison on 11/4/14. Sara Stephens Wilson welcomed her first child, Stella Mowery, with husband Dan on 12/7/14. Sara and Danielle Henry Beale joke that they timed their pregnancies so that Stella and Parker would attend NMH and have an arranged marriage!
Gelila Bekele ’02 with partner Tyler Perry
Danielle Henry Beale ’02 with her baby, Parker
Geoff Gonzalez is working toward a second bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at Florida A&M University. Over the next several months, he will be distracting himself with Florida State basketball games. Jason Wilson is living in Chicago with his partner, Olivia Tsipris. They met in law school and have been together more than five years. Jason coaches a youth hockey team in Wilmette, Ill. The kids are 9–10 years old, and finished in second place at a tournament. There is a coaching profile of Jason on wilmettehockey.com. His youth hockey team went shopping over Thanksgiving and donated more than $200 in groceries to “A Just Harvest” in Chicago. Jason still sees Scott Sortal ’01, who is a teacher at Mt. Carmel High School in Chicago and is the reason Jason is coaching in Wilmette. Last year, Scott married Sara Stutz. Maria Schrautemyer Abe married Masahisa Abe in May 2013, and moved to Tokyo. She has reconnected with old friends from NMH, including Yuka Terada and Kaoruko Handa. Liz Kaminoh ’03 visited Japan and a group of NMHers had a mini-reunion for her visit, including Kanako Takahashi ’05, Tomoko Araki ’04, Asako Kakuta ’05, Maria Schrautemyer Abe, Minoru Toyoda, and Kaoruko Handa. Kate Perry is living in Seattle, managing and bartending at Rumba—one of the top rum-centric bars in the country. She loves it, travels a lot, and gets to drink all of the rum! She spent her holidays with her sister, Abby Perry ’05, childhood friends, and Nathaniel McVicar and his wife and children. Kelvin Martinez and wife had a daughter, Isadora Ana, born on 12/25/14. Brendan Connor and Keiko Achiwa Connor welcomed their first daughter, Maya da Costa, on 8/20/14 in New York City. Mom and baby are doing well and the new parents are excited to be a family. Meagan Delaney and her partner, Todd, are still successfully running Meagan’s store, The Rising States, in New York’s Lower East Side. Stop in to check it out. Allan Olson wrote that he received his M.B.A. from NYU-Stern! Congrats, Allan! Valentin Meloty-Kapella graduated last September from an advanced master’s program in financial markets from the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. He joined the European Public Affairs department at BNP Paribas— a French bank with an international presence. He would love to catch up with any fellow Hoggers! Valentin, Geoff Gonzalez, Eduardo Ponce de Leon, and I all attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges together, so it was wonderful to hear from two out of my three NMH college guys! Zach Bruning is doing well and wrote in an update consistent with his nature. Danielle Henry Beale stated, “Zach Bruning, never change!” I hope you all were able to catch Brett Gallaway ’03 as himself on an episode of this season’s Kourtney and Khloe Take the Hamptons! I hope you all are doing well, and please continue to write in! All the best—Anne Morgan
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