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I anxiously await the fame and fortune I’ve been told comes with this degree. The fame will help me to compete with son Felix’s dominance on the social media front, and the fortune will offset the cost of hiring armed guards to protect Felix from being kidnapped by his “fairy godfather” Mike Ackil. Otherwise, Felix, my husband, Matt, and I are all loving the North Shore life in Salem.’ Dan Primack shared the CliffsNote. He writes, ‘I started dating a girl (Jennifer) in college. Followed her to New York after college. I needed a job to pay for a tiny apartment with a shower in the kitchen, so I took a lousy one in business journalism. I soon got a better one. I married girl and moved back to Boston area in 2001. I moved to Framingham and joined Fortune magazine. I had baby (Emma) and stopped getting to sleep in on weekends. I didn’t mind (too much). I moved to Southborough.’ Dave MacKay, who is business partners with Jeff Glew in real estate development, reports on some of his fellow classmates:
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‘Jeff Glew and his wife had a baby girl, Avery, this past September. Jim Hampe was reelected as comptroller for Arlington, Mass., in October, and Tim Cleary is getting married in Sydney, Australia, this coming year. Jon Olinto and Anthony Ackil recently appeared on ‘Good Morning America’ and have begun to franchise their healthy fast-food restaurant, b.good, across the East Coast.’ Alex Kealy writes that he lives in Wellesley with his wife, Nicolle, and three girls, Hadley (5), Cassidy (3) and Taylor (1). Their girls keep them very busy. When he’s not chasing them around, Alex works as a solar project developer for Solect Energy Development. Katie Helwig is a newlywed! She reports, ‘I got married on Aug. 24 to Alex Panarella in Rye, N.H. (Rev. Chris Holton-Jablonski ’94 was our officiant.) Chris’s sons, Ben and Jack, were the flower boys. We moved back to the Boston area last year so I could attend graduate school at Tufts Friedman School. I’m pursuing a dual degree MPH/ MS in Food
Policy and Applied Nutrition.’ Gerht Lubitz is proud to announce the birth of his third child and a new home: ‘My last few months have been largely occupied by home projects and family. My family moved into a new house in April, and we have been trying to improve it basically ever since. Funny how we missed so many warts during the open house and home inspection! On July 5—hottest stretch of summer in my memory—my wife, Jessie, gave birth to our daughter, Henley Elizabeth. Henley was welcomed home by her sister, Alling (5) and her brother, Brandt (3).’ Kirstin Gollop Schena writes, ‘On Oct. 28, at 3:50 p.m., we welcomed Grace Mae Schena into the world at 6 pounds even and 18.5 inches long. Then, 2.5 hours later, at 6:24 p.m., we welcomed Cooper Frank Schena at 7 pounds, 11 ounces and 20 inches long. We are thrilled to have two healthy and happy babies in our lives.’ Starr Glidden Peteet and her husband also welcomed twins in October.
Dan Baranovsky and his wife, Lena, are proud to announce the birth of Aleksandr ‘Sasha’ Baranovsky, on Aug. 29, in New York City. Heidi Notman Muccifori announces, ‘My husband, Jay, and I welcomed our first child, son Teddy, on July 3, 2013. Teddy is awesome, and we are having a blast with him. We live in Hoboken, N.J., but are very much looking forward to coming up to Massachusetts and seeing everyone at reunion this spring.’ Kathryn Lieber Berman writes, ‘Heidi Notman twisted my arm and said I had to write in with an update, so that Teddy, her new son, didn’t get all the attention. My husband, Seth, and I had a baby boy, Wynn Alston Berman, on Aug. 17. He is doing great! We’re looking forward to another Colorado ski season and are already negotiating who gets to watch the baby on powder days. I’m going back to work next week. I’m working as a primary care doctor for Denver Health.’ This year we had two class-
Left: Annie Stephenson Murphy ’94 and her husband, Taylor, celebrate the baptism of son Callum with godmother Lisa Zeytoonjian Glenn ’94 on Cape Cod this summer; middle: Karen Anderson ’94 in Sydney, Australia; right: The kids of Annie Stephenson Murphy, Lisa Zeytoonjian Glenn and Andra Voldins Dix, all ’94. From left: Ava Murphy, Callie and Olive Glenn, Sage Albright, holding Callum Murphy, August Dix, Nate Albright and Laila Dix