all made the trip out to Pebble Beach for my wedding to David Plonsky in August. Along with my sister, Mia Rabinowitz Cote ’01, it was great to look out and see the faces of PDS friends. It made the weekend extra special to be able to share with them.
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1998
Giovanna Torchio Lockhart 2446 Belmont Road NW Washington, DC 20008 gray.giovanna@gmail.com
1999
Joanna Woodruff Rominger 836 South Broad Street Lansdale, PA 19446 jbw1980@gmail.com
Joanna Woodruff Rominger: It’s crazy to think that it’s been 15 years since we’ve graduated from PDS! From engagements, weddings, babies, graduations, and world travels, there have been many exciting things happening for the Class of ’99 over the past 15 years. Here are a few updates from our classmates: Sharon Herbert loves life up in VT. She graduated from the New England Culinary Institute this summer, and was their class speaker! She recently left her job at Burton to start a new adventure of owning her own business. Good luck, Sharon!
Alex Mathews wrote from the East Coast of Africa, “I’m currently living in Tanzania, where I’ve been working for a micro-insurance startup company. We are building new ventures to provide insurance services to the lower income population. The company is based in Switzerland, but I’m on the ground in Africa working on various projects. It’s a big change from renewable energy, and an even bigger challenge, but there’s never a dull moment. I’ll be climbing Kilimanjaro later this summer.” Maren Levine Hefler also wrote: “I am still living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Jackson will be 7, and Sylas, 5. This past summer, the boys went to a day camp in the woods of Rockland County, NY, where they got to build campfires, and make art out of twigs. There’s nothing better than having them come home dirty and happy.” Maren added the addition of a girl to her family of four. Arrowyn joined the Hefler crew in the late summer.
2000
Natasha Jacques Nolan 44 Fox Chase Run Hillsborough, NJ 08844 nkjphoto@hotmail.com Sapna Thottathil 4127 Bayo Street Oakland, CA 94619 sapna.thottathil@gmail.com
Sapna Thottathil sent news, which just missed the deadline for the fall Journal: “I’m excited to announce the release of my book — India’s Organic Farming Revolution: What it Means for our Global Food System. This book is based on several years of research on sustainable food systems in Europe and India and explores questions around local food, being an ethical consumer, and Fair Trade and organic production. I will be speaking about the book at various events across the country in the next few months, and it would be wonderful to see PDS alumni! If you’re interested in learning more, please check out my Facebook page: https:// www.facebook.com/indiaorganicrevolution.” Lia Nielsen wrote, “I recently launched Simply Sustainable, LLC with showrooms in Lambertville, NJ and New York, offering a curated collection of environmentally-friendly building products, associated consulting and design services. Four years ago, my husband Jason Kliwinski, and I founded the Green Building Center so we could make ‘green’ easy and accessible. We’ve spent a great deal of time teaching and lecturing around the country with the goal of making sustainable design and construction the first choice for everyone.” Natasha Jacques Nolan:
I have been very busy since the last Journal, and I love seeing all the updates in the Journal and on Facebook. January 11th we had the grand opening for GiGi’s Playhouse Hillsborough; it was a great success. GiGi’s Playhouse is a Down syndrome achievement center that offers free therapeutic, educational and social programs for the Down syndrome community and their families. The first gala was March 14th. I hope everyone is well and I look forward to seeing everyone at the 15th reunion!
Amanda Suomi Gorrie and Rob Gorrie welcomed a happy and healthy baby boy, Noah Orion Gorrie, on May 12, 2014. Living in Brooklyn, NY, they are enjoying their new roles as parents...sleepless nights and all! Janine Winant Cooper, and her husband Jon Cooper, work for LifeVest Health, a healthcare technology company that her husband started. They are living in Hopewell, NJ with their two boys, Gilbert who is 2 ½, and Theodore, who recently turned a year.
Piper Nolan, daughter of Natasha Jacques Nolan ’00, enjoying playing on the stage of Gigi’s Playhouse
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JOURNAL
2001
Carolyn Yarian Morgan 223 East 61st Street, Apt 2G New York, NY 10065 609-638-7249 (cell) carolyn.morgan2012@gmail.com Wilson Weed 25 Swan Street Lambertville, NJ 08530 561-214-5327 wweed1@gmail.com
2002
Margaret Lee Sayen Schmucker 52 Hermitage Drive New Hope, PA 18938 marleeschmucker@gmail.com
Shanique Street sent in an update, “I currently live in DC, a city I absolutely love! I have been here for about three and a half years and recently started a job as a program manager with the Learning Tours program at CARE USA. The new job is particularly special because I first heard about the organization when a PDS alum, Dede Pickering ’71, spoke to members of our class for Career Day in 2001. After hearing about CARE’s focus on international women’s issues, I knew I wanted to work there some day. Before that I was a senior program specialist at Graduate School USA, where I helped design and implement projects for the State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program. In terms of our class, Ilana Goldfarb Lanciotti and I speak pretty often/all the time. Hope everyone is doing well!”
Sarah Maloney Schoenholtz (pen name Sarah Blake) wrote in to share the following, “My first book of poems, Mr. West, is out with Wesleyan University Press. It’s an unauthorized lyric biography of Kanye West. Hope you’ll check it out!” The Alumni Office also learned that Sarah was interviewed on the radio about her book. The link is: http://www.newsworks. org/index.php/art-entertainment-sports. Scott Schaub wrote in to say, “My wife Katie Emhof Schaub and I recently bought our first house in Pennington, NJ, which is where we both grew up. With the new house came our first dog, Madison, an adopted Staffordshire Bull Terrier/Rhodesian Ridgeback mix. This past spring, Katie took a new job with The Independent Traveler/Cruise Critic, which is a company started by Carlton Tucker’s wife... small world! I am still working in Princeton for Pinneo Construction as a project manager, and am currently the President of the Corner House Foundation board; a local, nonprofit organization providing leadership, prevention, treatment and outreach programs to young adults and their families. We also work with PDS students to provide mentoring and leadership to the area’s youth.” Jessica Tamayo sent the following, “I just stepped into the role of director at Gazebo Park School, a unique child-centered, ecoconscious outdoor early childhood program on the grounds of the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA. Would love to share the magic with