Congratulations to the Classes ending in 4's and 9's, who are celebrating their reunions in the 2014-2015 school year!
RIVERDALE ALUMNI
Please send your news to your Class Correspondent(S) before MAY 1, 2015. 2006 Tracy Dansker tdansker@gmail.com Eric B. Nusbaum nusbaume@wustl.edu Sandra Thomas SandyT@princeton.edu
2007 Kate Lehrhaupt kate.lehrhaupt@gmail.com
2008 Michael Roberts michael.roberts@law.nyu.edu Andrew J. Taub andrew.james.taub@gmail.com Zoe Zetlin-Fishbein zzetlin@gmail.com
2009 Josh A. Howard rujoshingme@me.com Joshua S. Pearl josh.pearl@verizon.net Gracie Phillips egphilli@gmail.com Ashley M. Rainford arainford@wesleyan.edu Alyssa J. Smith alyssajaclyn@gmail.com
of being his dean throughout high school. After graduating from Haverford in 2009, Dan went to Germany, where he was a PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute in Tuebigen. “Our community mourns with his parents, Marjorie and Ellis, as well as with the rest of his family and friends, and I ask that you keep all of them in your hearts and prayers.” Cheryl Weinheim, Jill Metzger, and Sakura Yagi recently got together with Pam Asen (see photo below) to celebrate Pam’s M.S. in social work from Columbia University. Pam is moving to Chicago and will focus on nonprofit management and contemporary social issues.
2008
QUAD extends condolences to Anika Murray, whose grandmother, Virginia "Gina" Donchian Murrary '39, died on November 25, 2014 at her home in Maine. For more, see the 1939 Class Notes on page 32.
Among those who attended the 5th Reunion event were John Geary, Fahmina Ahmed, Ian Brown, Jason Marin, Alex Chouraqui, Josh Howard, Jesse Horwitz, Eli Bunzel, Stephen Kolman, Rachel Bigio, Gracie Phillips, John Popkowski, Julian Musikant, Max Weinstein, Michael Benson, Zoe Greenfield, Ali Margolis, Andrew Wynne, Clio Massey, Ben Etkin, Ed Wasserman, Michelle Goodman, Carla Diaz, Isabel Eckstein, Daisy Hackett, Ben Resnick, Nina Boyd, Claire Eden, Katie Zinman, Peter Glennon, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alyssa Smith, Erik Goyenechea, Isabel Borish, Dan Weiss, Julia Dworkin, and Hannah Campbell. For more on Homecoming/Reunion 2014, see pages 24-30.
Vanderbilt, Nate had an amazing series, doubling to lead off the bottom of the 15th inning of the game UVA won 3-2 over Texas. The UVA starting catcher also was drafted in the 34th round of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks. Congratulations, Nate!
IN MEMORIUM ALUMNI Elizabeth A. Aubry ’39 Virgina Willon Clark ’47 Barbara Hurley Melville ’52 Naomi Timmerman ’52 Lou Padula ’53 Rachel Smaltz ’82 Alexandra Brown ’90 Dan Arnstein ’05
2011
Nate Irving, currently a senior at the University of Virginia, played in the 2014 College World Series this past June. Although UVA lost in the championship game to
2009
Everyone had a wonderful time celebrating their five-year reunion in a downtown club on Friday, October 17 (see photos at right). Though it was a late night for some, the class returned to campus the next afternoon to take part in the Homecoming festivities and Reunion lunch.
Danielle Suchman dsuchman@skidmore.edu
Class of 2005 classmates (from left) Cheryl Weinheim, Jill Metzger, Sakura Yagi, and Pam Asen recently got together to celebrate Pam’s M.S. in social work.
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The Class of 2009 enjoyed their five-year reunion. Among those who returned to celebrate was their former dean, Stephen Kolman.