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Several friends from the Class of ’91 gathered in Delray Beach, Fla., in April 2013 to celebrate the wedding of Josh Tulgan. From left are Charlie Glass, Matt Reid, Hilary Gershman, Max Hoover, Josh Tulgan, Win Burke, Hilary Driscoll, Sasha Kipka, and Christoph Cushman.
In East Hampton, N.Y., in August, Blair bumped into David Sprindzunas at a 40th-birthday getaway for a mutual friend. In May, Zander Evans drove up from New Mexico to Moab, Utah, and reunited with Ben Lumpkin, who flew in from LA, Guido Sandulli from Salt Lake City, Rajen Parekh from New Jersey, and Ben Ranney from Chicago. The five got out on some of Moab’s famed mountain bike trails and found, according to Zander, that “40 doesn’t move quite as fast as 18 did.” Ascha Drake lives in Berkeley, Calif., with her husband, Scott, and their dog, Lola. She is teaching painting, drawing, and sculpture at The Bay School of San Francisco, which is located in the Presidio. Ascha is also on the education staff at the de Young Museum and the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Kinn-Ming Chan de Velarde e-mailed from Kalamazoo, Mich., with lots of news. She was so happy to see Erin Twomey on Cape Cod for a short visit in June. She wanted to drop in on Alex Techet, too, but Alex was sequestered at home in Cambridge on bed rest; her healthy and beautiful triplets (yes, you read correctly!) Lydia, George, and Henry were born in September. Congratulations, Alex! Kinn occasionally sees Steve Trivers ’57 at Sunday Mass, and Steve Lee has visited several times when traveling with his family between Chicago and Detroit. Both families have children all around the same ages, so it is always a fun reunion. Kinn’s son Bo was included in a short segment on Michigan Public Radio in August about drug shortages and their effects on his health. Bo was born with the rare congenital disorder currently known as Microvillus Inclusion Disease, which requires IV fluids and other medications. Thankfully, Bo
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remains stable and just started first grade. Kinn’s daughter, Ahn, started preschool this fall. Kinn and Nat Furman both wrote about William Tong’s campaign to be elected mayor of Stamford, Conn. Willy worked hard to achieve his dream, but he lost the primary by fewer than 200 votes. He is currently a fourth-term Connecticut state legislator who is known for his diligence. During the race, Willy was endorsed by the governor of Connecticut, as well as by several local representatives and El Sol News, which called Willy an “outstanding person.” Finally, congratulations are in order for two of our classmates, who have new positions and have made big moves. In June, Desmond Butler was named chief correspondent in Turkey for the Associated Press. Desmond joined the AP in 2004, first working as a reporter in New York and since 2006 as a foreign affairs correspondent in Washington. Before joining the AP, Desmond was a reporter for the New York Times based in Berlin. Desmond, his wife, Miriam, and their sons have settled in to life in Istanbul. After 14 years teaching high school chemistry in Bangor, Maine, Sasha Alcott has donned the Exeter maroon and gray as the school’s new chemistry teacher. In addition to her job change, Sasha got married in June to Christopher Viner. The two are bandmates in the rock duo known as When Particles Collide, and in September they released their fourth set of recordings, a five-song EP called Ego. That’s all the news for now. As you live, work, travel, and learn this year, please don’t forget to write and tell us what you have been up to. Looking forward to hearing from you! —Hilary
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Here’s hoping everyone had a great summer. Alex Wolf rented a place in the Hamptons for a few weeks for his family of six, which I learned when I bumped into him on a Southwest flight back to LA from San Francisco. I took my family of five to Maui in August and suddenly realized I’m well past “relaxing” vacations when I started geeking out over the dual power sliding doors on the Dodge Grand Caravan I rented. It was quite the comedown from my two days of Teutonic thunder at the Porsche Sport Driving School in July, when I got to fling around the track several mechanical beasts that will probably never grace my garage. I’m currently rocking the Toyota RAV4 and Nissan Leaf—my dream of joining Jeff Gregg Bennett and his Lotus Elise SC on the track in a Cayman S with all the trimmings drifts ever further out into the future. I couldn’t have asked for a nicer reentry upon my return from paradise, however, than attending the lovely seaside wedding of Josh Davis and Daniela Sloninsky in Pacific Palisades, Calif. (just below Malibu), along with Dylan Seff, Christian Lentz, Sam Endicott, Robert Feldstein, and Jennifer Giles Adams ’90. Josh’s brother, Kenny Davis ’89, served as best man. It was unseasonably warm for LA, so dancing the hora turned into quite the sweaty affair. After catching their breath, Dylan, Christian, and Robert relayed their latest. Dylan, wife Jordan, and their 100-pound Great Dane