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CL ASS N O TE S Reid M. Ross spent five months in Tokyo working on an advisory project for Blackrock. In his free time, he had the opportunity to travel around Japan. He remembers, “Coach Stone taught us discipline on the soccer field. His teaching has remained with me to this day.”
SPECIAL REUNION CLASS OF 2002: (left to right) front row: Catherine Biesty, Evangeline Arapoglou, Jonathan Bracci; second row: David Willner, Anthony Chilelli, Victoria Perrotta, Molly Dorkey, Chantee Parris; third row: Andy Mumm, Donald Smartwood, Tara Bhupati, David Baran, Matthew Keller; top row: Christian Zaino, Cameron Bossert, Michael D’Alora.
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Nicole Annucci Ghirardi has a 2-year-old, Andrea, and is pregnant with her second child. Since graduating from Poly, she has studied in Spain, traveled Europe and gotten her master’s in education. She has been teaching Spanish at Fontbanne as well as in the public school system for many years. Being a mother is one of her greatest achievements.
John Dumey married Morgan in September 2010. They will soon be welcoming their first child into the world. They live in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Tara (Anant) Kando and her husband, Rich, welcomed their first little Kando, Nicholas Richard, into the world on June 17, 2010. Tara has been doing work with the Good Dog Foundation (pet therapy), running, traveling, and pursuing her interests in fine and decorative art and furniture design. 44
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Dr. Shruti Chakrabarti Ramesh finished her pediatric residency at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in NJ in 2007. Two weeks after graduation, she gave birth to daughter Shreya. ”The rigorous academics at Poly... gave me good study habits that allowed me to be pre-med at Bryn Mawr while also being extremely involved in extracurricular activities,” she says.
2001
Rudolf S. Hanja is in real estate. He started with Prudential Douglas Elliman in their TriBeCa office and has worked as a sales agent, selling and renting apartments in Manhattan and Brooklyn, ever since. He loves the opportunites his job gives him to be an “amateur NYC architectural and cultural historian.”
Julian B. Holder graduated from West Point in 2005 and has been deployed to Iraq multiple times. He was nominated for the US Physics Team in 2001 and has received two scholarships from the American Physical Society. He has also received an Army Commendation Medal, a Bronze Star Medal, an Air Assault Badge, and a German Proficiency Badge. His favorite Poly tradition was Chapel.
Katherine Zinsser got her BA from Smith College in 2005. Her first job was as a wilderness counselor for teens in Utah. Since 2008 she has been working on her doctorate in applied developmental psychology. She will be getting married this summer and is excited to show Caitlin the fabulous Poly community.
2002
Jonathan H. Bracci runs a fence and ironworks company, along with a bungalow colony, in upstate New York. He recently opened up a Thai restaurant in Rockaway, NY, called “Thai Rock.” He just submitted information to the Guiness Book of World Records about possibly breaking the world record for singing upside-down. Alissa J. (Bello) McGrisken married her high school sweetheart, Ray. They have a daughter, Mackenzie. McGrisken made a career change to education where she can combine her passions by working with students in maritime settings.
Frank Nasso is credited as second-unit director and co-producer, as well as camera-operator, on Sing Your Song, a feature-length documentary based on the controversial life of entertainer and human rights activist Harry Belafonte. Sing Your Song was nominated for Best US Documentary at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Robert Redford personally introduced the film at the festival’s opening night. Margaret W. Van Dusen recently became a licensed architect in Louisiana. For the last four years she has been working in New Orleans at Sizeler Thompson Brown Architects, specializing in healthcare architecture.
2005
David Austin Cohen was married on May 21, 2012 to Mariann Uleberg. Both David and Mariann are graduates of Berklee College of Music. They live in Allston, MA, and work together at Equilibrium Guitars (www.eqguitars.com), their custom guitar business, in Somerville, MA.
2006
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Daniel Newman attended Georgetown where he studied with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former National Security Advisor Anthony Lake. He
learned Arabic and in 2009, took and passed the Foreign Service Officer’s Test. He plans to be part of the Service’s 159th Junior Officer Class. He credits Poly for helping “nurture my love of travel.” Krystina M. Zaykowski graduated from Bates College this past June and is working in New York City. She has “stayed in touch with two faculty members, Ms. Chase and Ms. FitzSimmons—the Internet is great.” She adds that “Elizabeth Semmens is playing professional volleyball in France.”
Diane Bernstein graduated from the New York Univerity College of Dentistry in 2010. She is currently working at Modern Dentistry as a general dentist. She was married on February 5, 2011.
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SPECIAL REUNION CLASS OF 2007: (left to right) front row: Nadia Ahmed, Elizabeth May, Janissia Orgill; second row: Richard Reitzfeld, Vera Shekhets, Deana Belvedere, Meghan Manning, Christina Sapega, Kathleen Boardman, Gabrielle DeAllie; third row: Stephanie Darand, Xiomara Trotman, Lucy Poe, Lisa Shushkovsky, Andrew Schrijver, Andres Ventura, Candice Clark,Benjamin Maer; top row: Benjamin Plotz, Kartik Raju, Lee Pollard, Edward Lord, Caitlin Wheeler, Alexander Donnenfeld, Daniel Dimant.
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