Above: Nicodemus ‘01; left: Schindler ‘01; far left: Kovac ‘00
Church. The couple lives in Spokane, Wash. Neal met Liz at his birthday party in 2012 and liked her from the start. After all, she was feisty and wore great hats. Liz took a little longer to warm up to Neal, but they were soon getting cocktails at Bon Bon and picking peaches at Greenbluff. The couple honeymooned in Long Beach, Wash. Neal is a mental health counselor at a family preservation services agency; Liz is a house parent at a crisis nursery. They have “a smart and beautiful cat, Pepper Ann, and a hungry goldfish, Rory.”
2002
Mark Tipton was appointed executive director of the Portland Conservatory of Music [Maine] and accepted the position of trumpet instructor at Bowdoin College, a post that he held at Colby College for four years. The Colby College Symphony Orchestra premiered his orchestral composition, Cor Cordis, in December 2012.
cine and pulmonary and critical care], a Master of Medical Science degree, and an NIH training fellowship in lung inflammation, all at Ohio State, but am still proud to be an alumna of the last Ohio school to beat the Buckeyes in football.” n Anne Gadwa Nicodemus and Julia Nicodemus were married in Providence, R.I., on November 9, 2013, their 11th anniversary. The couple has moved halfway across the country together twice, bought a house together, coparented fur babies, and legally adopted a single
family name (Anne’s mother’s maiden). They are “thrilled to finally gain some federal legal rights, now that half of DOMA has been repealed.” n Yvonne Piper earned an MS at the University of San Francisco School of Nursing in June 2013. She is a family nurse practitioner in San Francisco, working as a primary care provider at Lyon-Martin Health Services and as a study clinician at San Francisco City Clinic. n Neal Schindler and Elizabeth James were married June 23, 2013, at Salem Lutheran
2013 ALUMNI-ELECTED TRUSTEE ELECTION RESULTS Karen Buck Burgess ’72 was elected to serve a four-year term (2013-2017) as an alumni-elected trustee. Burgess has worked for more than 25 years as a public interest lawyer specializing in financial market issues. She served at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in a variety of senior legal positions, including associate general counsel and counsel to the chairman. Burgess is currently legal counsel at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, which was chartered by Congress after the Enron collapse to strengthen financial reporting. She is married to journalist John Burgess ’72. They have two daughters, Katharine and Sarah. On January 30, 2013, alumni-elected trustee Dr. Kofi Lomotey ’74 resigned from the Board of Trustees. Lomotey was serving a six-year term, which ends on June 30, 2014. Dr. Jacob Gayle ’79 has agreed to continue his service on the Board of Trustees and complete Lomotey’s term. Gayle is vice president of community affairs at Medtronic, Inc., in Minneapolis and executive director of the Medtronic Foundation.
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2003
Rebecca Hartsough Brentin and Steven Brentin announce the birth of baby boy Gabriel Muir on December 26, 2012, in Denver. The healthy, happy baby “has already become a hiking fanatic, just like his middle-namesake, John Muir.”
2004
William Frost accepted a position as political officer at the U.S. embassy in Lome, Togo. “I’m very excited to spend my first tour with the State Department in charge of my own section, even though it scares me as well. I’ll be here until August of 2014.” 39