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The Sayen/Schmucker wedding was truly a PDS affair — pictured from l to r, top to bottom: Elizabeth (Betsy) Bristol Sayen ’69, Henry P. Bristol II ’72, Paul Giancola, Jeanie Gorman Wilson ’69, Cary Bachelder Dufresne ’77, Martha Tattersall Giancola ’78, Michael Sieglen ’02, Julie Wilson ’02, Ashton Todd ’01, Margaret Lee Sayen Schmucker ’02, Grant Schmucker ’02, Clark Bristol ’07, Page Schmucker ’00, Brett Haroldson ’02, Adam Vigiano ’00, Morgan Kelly Ehne ’02, Chris Palsho ’02 Mia Rabinowitz Cote ’01, Nick Sardar ’01, Kristen France Sardar ’01, George Sanderson (faculty), Rachel Bristol ’09, Mimi Matthews ’14, Elizabeth Sayen ’03, Seth Potter (former faculty), Benjamin Bristol ’13, Wilson Weed ’01. 2003) on their beautiful weddings. They were all wonderful affairs at which I may have discussed the fact that every ranking of high schools over the past few years has PDS ranked considerably higher!”
Michael Highland wrote, “Chrissy and I got married on August 23rd; we had the ceremony at an island chapel on Squam Lake in New Hampshire. My folks hosted the party and it was pretty awesome. Some PDS friends (and their lovely spouses, which is still weird) came and we had a good old time. I’ve been told as long as we don’t finish sending out thank you cards, our marital bliss will continue indefinitely. Life in LA continues to be weird and entertaining. We’re moving to larger place the end of the month in Del Ray, which in the local parlance is pronounced Dehlraaaaah.” Christopher Campbell wrote, “I spent the majority of 2014 deployed with the 13th Fighter Squadron in the Middle East. Halfway through the deployment my unit was called into combat to aid Iraqi and Kurdish forces repel ISIS. We escorted airdrops and evacuations on Mount Sinjar, delivering over 114k meals and 35k gallons of water to save 40k Yazidi refugees. We also helped the Iraqis recapture and secure the city of Mosul and the Haditha Dam. Our final few sorties included airstrikes in the city of Kobani, where ISIS had created a stronghold. The deployment was tough, both physically and mentally, but I think the mission was entirely worthwhile.
“I am happier to report that Melissa and I will be moving again. I have been accepted to USAF Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB, CA. We are thrilled to leave the cold winters of Misawa, Japan for the warm Mojave Desert, JOURNAL
outside of Los Angeles. We will travel to the base in late June and would love to meet up with fellow PDS alumni in the region.”
Jon Headley wrote, “I took an opportunity to move and am managing Latin America for American Express corporate credit portfolios. I manage Mexico, Argentina, Spain, the Caribbean, and underwriting. I’m the happiest I think I could be, and have been here for a year and looking forward to the future. I recently had my 30th birthday and celebrated it with friends from college and Princeton, cruising Mexico on a yacht (including Laura Spritzer).” Jon has also been recognized three times globally by his company’s global excellence award for superior leadership; he’s won each time in a new location and now in international scopes.
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From Helena Fishbein: “My husband is Michael Warfel (the same person I took to our senior prom and who watched an entire season of PDS girls ice hockey). We got married January 18, 2015, on the beach in Southwest Florida, where we live. Lauren Nohe Tigani was my Matron of Honor.”
Nanette O’Brien-Blake is working on her doctoral dissertation on representations of food in modernist literature and life-writing, and is in the second year of her DPhil in English at Wolfson College, Oxford, under the supervision of Hermione Lee. She is organizing a conference in Oxford for September
2015, titled, ‘After-Image: Life-Writing and Celebrity.’ She lives in London with her husband Bill O’Brien-Blake, who teaches economics and politics at the Forest School. From Scott Rosenberg: “Life is good. The company I founded, iDox, is growing and things are very busy. I still live in Philadelphia, but with a lot of business near Princeton, I am still often in the area. Aside from work, golf and skiing still remain my passions, and I am happy I can still enjoy both with friends and family. My best to all the “04’s!”
Allie Rubin is living in New York, working as the associate counsel at the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice. On March 7, she married Jason Meizlish. PDSers who attended the wedding included: Susannah Blair, Lily Mitchell, Brett Downey and Carly Berger. Lily Mitchell reported, “I’m firmly rooted in Texas but happily came back to the East Coast for Allie Rubin’s wedding in March.” Katie Levine White gave birth on February 9, 2015 to Steven Wayne White
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Rajiv Mallipudi (Pudi) is having a great time on his third year clinical rotations at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. This fall he will be applying for an emergency medicine residency. He also keeps busy by continuing to personally train his peers in the gym, and is still dancing, acting and bodybuilding. This winter he aims to lead his ice hockey team to another undefeated intramural championship. He’ll dedicate the win to his PDS ice hockey captain, Will Denise.