starting March 6 with Brit Eaton, Lambros Xethalis, Clifford Hilpert, Holly Greenberg Le Crann, Ben Travers and Pete Sienkiewicz.”
Wiley, son of Leslie Elmore ’86 doing a BattleFrog Series
Joey and Stephen, sons of Rachael Katzenell Stockton ’86
Leslie Elmore is doing another obstacle course race this year in SC. Her new favorite sport! She has a BattleFrog and a Spartan race coming up this spring. Her son, Wiley, has taken up obstacle course racing, too. Here he is doing a BattleFrog Series in SC, 6/14!
teacher. I taught second, third and fourth grades before that. Every once in a while, my husband and I take a drive into Princeton and I think about our PDS days with a big smile. It was great to see everyone at the 25th reunion. I hope the 30th is just as successful; it will be here before you know it.”
Rad Roberts and Steve Anderson biked around Davis, CA in the fall sunshine with Steve’s son and daughter. Rad met with Aaron Bruce in a sunny campus quad and talked of campus diversity and pre-kids travel adventures. Steve Utaski brought his statuesque wife and daughters over to Rad’s New Year’s Eve party in Seattle and Andy Smith and Rad talked about brain hacking and the Internet of Things at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. “As for me, I’m in Seattle happily married with three kids (11, 9, & 6).” By day, he has fun mixing academic research, new technologies, and private companies in equal parts. Beyond that, he climbs, snowboards, travels, and spends as much time with his kids as possible before they fly away. “Last year I reached the age my father was when he was diagnosed with the cancer that killed him four years later. It makes you think. We are all, it seems, just wildflower seeds cast into the wind, searching for a patch of fertile soil and sun where we can put down roots, grow, and bloom before the winter frost is upon us.”
Rad Roberts ’86 and wife Beth at the wedding of Steve Anderson’86 Rachael Katzenell Stockton has been happily married for 23 years to her husband Andrew Stockton. “We have two amazing boys! My oldest son, Joey, is a junior at The College of William and Mary in the Mason School of Business, my second son, Stephen, is a junior in high school at Henry Hudson Regional.” They live in Highlands, NJ, right on the Jersey Shore. She has been teaching for the past 15 years at Highlands Elementary School right in her hometown. “It has been a great career for me. I am currently the school’s ASI Math
Ann Miller Paiva lives in Brooklyn with her son, Alex (12), and her daughter, Sophie (6), and their cats, Macaroni and Sophie, Jr.
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Marc Collins: “Life remains its good, standard self in DC. Lots of work travel to (mostly) fun locales. Recent stops have included Montevideo, where the steak was every bit as good as advertised, and Lisbon, where the same may be said of the wine. Vacation in summer 2014 was in northern Spain. San Sebastian is our new culinary Center of the Universe. Casa Urola is a must-do restaurant. Sit upstairs and ask Dona Arantxa for her favorite white.” Jack Alvino reported from Los Angeles, “I started my own entertainment production company called Dreamlight Entertainment and I wrote and am directing a horror feature. We are just finishing up the trailer. I also have another company, Digital Ladder; it rents professional camera and film production equipment. My family is good. My little daughter, Bella, is 8 and we also live with Scooter and Twinkie, two giant cats that are the size of bears, and just celebrated my 10-year wedding anniversary. I can’t believe it. Where does the time go?”
Sofia Xethalis 1953 Shore Oak Drive Decatur, IL 62521 217-422-5648 sxethalis@yahoo.com.au
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Amy Venable Ciuffreda 8 Rydal Drive Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 609-882-7899 amy.ciuffreda@gmail.com Arianna Rosati 251 W 19 Street #3C New York, NY 10011 917-202-7114 pavianyc@gmail.com
Marc Van Dyke ’88 and his son in Patagonia
Arianna Rosati wrote: I’m typing this from New York City in February — and I’m not the only one who feels stuck in an endless winter. When I asked for “thrilling updates for the next breathless installment of the PDS Journal,” many responses read like this: “Things are good, but the same old, same old.” I did hear from lots of the fellas, the first of whom also had weather on the brain. Mike Lingle: “My girlfriend and I moved to sunny Miami six months ago, and we love it. Neither of us is missing NYC as much as we thought we would (especially the cold). I’m taking a break from the tech industry and have been making hip-hop music for the past 18 months. Unexpected, but I’m having fun. And it’s starting to sound pretty good.” Brit Eaton: “Check out the March issue of Playboy magazine. I made the cover! And you are sure to find the pictures of me thrilling and breathless as well.” Paul Robertson: “I think I am still the GM at Lone Mountain Ranch, the same ranch as last update, which is noteworthy. I’m bracing for PDS counterculture reunion in Big Sky
Marc Van Dyke sent a picture from a Patagonia camping trip in October 2014 with his 18-yearold son in at Fitzroy in Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina. Note that this kid is a total mini-me, facial hair and all.
Next time, I’ll include a picture of myself and Jessie Robertson Wilt from our upcoming trip to Las Vegas, where we’ll be celebrating the wedding of Nicole Dunn ’89. Then again, you know what they say about what happens in Vegas…
1989
Doria Roberts PO Box 5313 Atlanta, GA 31107 404-874-3779 doriaroberts@yahoo.com Lauren French Stout 965 South Morgan Street Meadeville, PA 16335 814-337-5686 lfrench@allegheny.edu Doria Roberts here!
We haven’t had an update in the Journal for a while, but some (great) news and updates came in from the class that I wanted to share… Spring 2015