Class Notes

Remington both work for SOIL to increase household access to safely managed sanitation in Haiti, and Adrienne Lane works for Water for Good to improve and scale durable water services that will last for the people of the Central African Republic.

Don Berg ’s new book came out in December. Don and his partner, Joyce O’Halloran, attended seven conferences on two continents in 2022. One conference was in England, and they took advantage of that trip to also visit France. Before that trip, on the last evening of a July camping trip, a pair of dogs spooked Brianna, the most inexperienced of their four pack llamas. The hardware on Brianna’s tieout broke, as intended to prevent her from breaking her neck in such situations; she outran the dogs easily and was off in the woods overnight. In the morning, with the help of fellow campers, Don and Joyce learned that Brianna was on the Pacific Crest trail heading toward the Frog Lake parking lot, and then that she’d arrived at the parking lot and then headed out towards Highway 26. A very helpful couple gave Joyce a ride to Brianna’s location next to the highway behind a guardrail. Joyce almost caught her, but Brianna hopped over the guardrail, crossed the highway, and bounded up a slope too steep for humans to ascend. Eventually, after a park ranger arrived and stopped traffic on the highway, Brianna was induced down the less steep portion of the slope and Joyce finally caught her. Brianna was none the worse for her adventure, though Don strained a knee while navigating the “easier” slope. (See Reediana.)

Sarah Semon says, “Hi class! I am currently a third-year internal medicine resident in Brandon, Florida. I just matched into an infectious disease fellowship at UC Davis and am excited to move back to the West Coast come summertime!”

2013 10TH REUNION

Lucy Sexton was story producer on an HBO original documentary series that premiered in fall 2022. (See Reediana.)

2014

New species of parasitoid wasp genus Aleiodes include Aleiodes colberti, Aleiodes elleni, Aleiodes falloni, Aleiodes shakirae, and Aleiodes stewarti.

2015

Eve Mozur recently started a new job at Colorado School of Mines as a materials scientist and is setting up a research lab. “Since reaching out to a Reed alumna with a research group ( Mary Jo Ondrechen ’74 to give credit) started my research career I wanted to make sure that my information is available to Reedies as well.”

2016–17

New species include ant Zasphinctus obamai, bee Lasioglossum obamai Genaro, fish Tosanoides obama, fluke Baracktrema obamai

2018 5TH REUNION . . . and spiders Spintharus barackobamai and Spintharus michelleobamaae.

2019

Congratulations to Ashlee Fox, one of 20 graduate students selected from a pool of nearly 1,000 for the 2022 class of Samvid Scholars, a merit-based graduate scholarship established in 2021 by Samvid Ventures to invest in the graduate education of future leaders who are committed to effecting positive change in society. In addition to receiving up to $100,000 in funding for their graduate program, Samvid Scholars engage in two years of leadership development programming to support them to fulfill their extraordinary potential to drive change. Ashlee is currently attending Yale Law School.

2020–22

New genus of east African huntsman spiders, Thunberga, first described in 2020; contains 29 species as of April 2022.