THE HEDGE GARDEN: CLASS NOTES
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1: Congratulations to Tina Wadhwa on the birth of her son, Bodhi; 2: Congratulations to Michael Alexander and bride, Elyse Boyle; 3: Michael Alexander married Elyse Boyle on August 22, 2015 at St. Cecilia’s Church in Boston. The reception took place at the Fairmont Copley Hotel. Dan McCoy was a groomsman.
Molly Northrup Bloom
molly@mollymac.net Kristyn Burtt
kris9094@sbcglobal.net Jim Brady shares, “Evan Franklin and I had the opportunity to skate with NHL alumnus Hal Gill. We played in the 3rd annual NHL Alumni Pro Am to benefit Children’s Hospital Pediatric Concussion Research Study. Each team has to raise a minimum of $25K to get into the tournament. Team Cushman & Wakefield raised $64,000 and the tournament overall raised over $900,000 this year for Children’s Hospital. Matt Adams ’91 (not pictured), another Pingree alumni and fellow business associate at Cushman & Wakefield, also played in the tournament on our team.” Leslie Otto Owens has joined MIT Sloan School of Management as senior lecturer and executive director of the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). CISR’s mission is to develop concepts and frameworks to help executives address the challenges of leading
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increasingly dynamic, global, and information-intensive organizations. In this role, Leslie will direct the operational activities of CISR and lead an Action Learning course on digital transformation at Sloan. Leslie joins MIT CISR from Forrester Research where she was a vice president and research director. Congratulations Leslie!
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1991
CLASS AGENTS
Shannon Patti Yates
shannonpyates@gmail.com Pam Torto Sinclair
pamelasinclair@gmail.com Katherine Armstrong Layton and her husband, Tim, proudly share, “We are thrilled to announce the arrival of Miss Evelyn Sarah Cole Layton, who joined our family of four—making it five—on August 20, 2015. Evelyn is a dream and a wonderful addition to our family. Big brothers Benjamin (3) and Will (1) are enam-
ored—as are we! We look forward to bringing the full Layton brood to Pingree one of these days—perhaps for our 25th next year!” Paige York, director of business development at ReVision LASIK and Cataract Surgery Center, was profiled by her alma mater Otterbein University. The school commended York’s passion for community service. “I have engaged our team into volunteering and we have been nominated for the Business First Corporate Caring Awards for this year due to our efforts,” said York. “We raised more than $17,000 for more than 12 different non-profits, individuals in need and local groups, just in 2014.” Read the full spotlight on the Otterbein website at bit.ly/1hsqJBO.
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CLASS AGENT
Samantha Drislane Markowski
s_drislane@hotmail.com Nicole Serratore shares, “With a love of theater I developed in my years at Pingree, I am now working as a freelance journalist writing about theater and travel. I have published articles in publications such as American Theatre magazine and Exeunt Magazine on issues of gender parity in theater, American artists presenting work at the Edinburgh Fringe festival, and profiles of theater artists working in Berlin, Istanbul, and New York. I have been accepted into the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Critics Institute this summer.”
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1992
CLASS AGENT
Diana Benton
dianabenton@hotmail.com
Rebecca Symmes Lee
rebeccasymmelee@gmail.com Marcel Faulring
mfaulring15@gmail.com Kevin Fitzgerald announces, “I began a new path this year by attending graduate school full-time in January,