65 Classs Notes
Kaitlin Snyder Howard ’02 and husband, Ben Howard
Katie Weber ’03 and John Patteson ’02 in Hong Kong
2001
after some extended travels last year in India and other parts of Asia, have been working on my second graduate degree in counseling psychology with a depth emphasis. I began seeing clients about six months ago and am loving this work, and the endless possibilities of where it can go in terms of incorporating wilderness rights of passage work and/or mindfulness meditation practices...Not to mention what a revelation it is to feel like I’m doing exactly what I want to be doing, as a job. I also met my partner of the past two years during said Asian travels, and he moved here from Spain in August and has been keeping me company ever since...Lastly, but obvi not leastly, I’m super thrilled and excited to get to be a part of Grant Schmucker and Marlee Sayen’s wedding this fall! Congrats you two!!!!
Nick Sardar 10 Park Avenue Apt. 18K New York, NY 10016 nicksardar1@gmail.com Ashton Todd 20 Boudinot Street Princeton, NJ 08540 ashtontodd@gmail.com A. Joy Woffindin 211 Goat Hill Road Lambertville, NJ 08530 609-397-0033 feelthejoy@gmail.com
2002
Margaret Sayen 52 Hermitage Drive New Hope, PA 18938 margaretsayen@gmail.com Andrea Swaney 243 West 15th Street Apt. 4FE New York, NY 10011 andrea.swaney@gmail.com
Nate “Windsor” Smith is playing in a Brooklyn disco drag band, Amerigogo (amerigogomusic.com). The band’s releasing their second album in May 2014. Check your radio waves for “Straights Go Gay” and “Just B.U.T. (Beauty)” (Tongue is firmly in cheek.) He works as a songwriter, musician, poet, and abstract painter. You can see his work at nathanwindsor.com. He would love to connect with any PDS alumni, reach out to him at iamnathanwindsor@gmail.com
Julie Wilson sent the following note: “Hi fellow PDS-ers! I hope everyone’s doing well. I’m still living in the Bay Area, now in Marin, and
Sarah Maloney Schoenholtz had an exciting announcement: “My first book of poetry, Mr. West, is coming out in fall 2014 from Wesleyan University Press!” Aviva Perlman sent the following news: “In May 2012 I graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary with an MA in Jewish Education and got a job as the Jewish & Student Life Programming Coordinator in the High School division of the Abraham Joshua Heschel School. I am responsible for all the non-classroom programming and activities that go on throughout the year. I have the chance to do a lot of neat things, many I never expected to get to do as a Jewish educator. One highlight was in February when I chaperoned a trip to Vienna, Austria as part of an exchange program we have with a Jewish day school there. One thing that is kind of funny is how much Heschel is connected to PDS. The current Head of the Heschel Lower School is Dina Bray, a former head of the PDS Lower School, as well as the mother of one of our own, Isaac Bray. Additionally, Anne Metcalf ’82 joined
the Heschel Science Department this year. It was exciting to figure out we are both alumnae! In any case, I can’t believe I get paid to do what I do. It has been a dream.” Johanna Dickson shared: “Ironically, right after the last Journal came out I started a new job! I am now a digital publicist at MediaConnect, a division of Finn Partners. I do online outreach for a wide range of book titles.”
Ari Paul sent the following: “The update for me is that I just started a job working as an investor for the University of Chicago endowment.”
Jennifer Urs had this to share: “I just got off a seven-day New Year’s Cruise with Brooke Popko to celebrate the end of a wonderful 2013. Last year, I started my new job as the Director of Business Development for a confectionary broker, got engaged, bought a house with my fiancé, and, most recently, learned that I’m pregnant. So here’s hoping the dress still fits when I get married on March 15 and, if not, here’s hoping my maids of honor, Brooke Popko and Alix Warren can somehow squeeze me in, nonetheless.”
Kaitlin Snyder Howard reported: “I’ve been living in LA for a little over six years now where I’ve been modeling and acting for a living. I got married to a wonderful man, Benjamin Howard, this past October. Alice Chow, who lives nearby attended and my brother, Max Snyder, was a groomsman. It was a wonderful day! Things are going really well for me, career wise, and personally right now. I have many great things to look forward to this year. All my love to the rest of the class of ’02!”
Spring 2014