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with the Umstead 100 Ultra Marathon in April. Amy McCormick Vokey and her husband Nick moved to New England last fall. They miss Brooklyn very much but love having the Cape, North Shore, and Coastal Maine at their fingertips. Basil, their dog, is especially enjoying the outdoors. Amy started a new job at Anthropologie + BHLDN working as the visual merchandiser. They are excited to announce that they will have a baby due early July! Laura Stenovec is still living in Denver and loving it. She loves having so many Catalina girls there with her and seeing Ani Silversprings Okun, Adrienne Partidge, and Sarah Maguire Duffy as much as possible. This past summer she was lucky to get to visit Emma Hinsdale Pickering in Singapore and Rene Leung and Angela Yao in Hong Kong. She had so much fun! Laura recently started working for a new company out of Santa Monica, Beautycounter. Their mission is give everyone access to safe skin care and cosmetics products. She is on a mission to make the world safer for those that she loves and cares about. Her website is lauras. beautycounter.com. In addition, she is still working as the development director for the Junior League of Denver and overseeing the West Coast for Tri Delta sorority. It’s a full life but she loves it.
Class of 1999: Front row: Lauren Spees, Valerie Melo, Kitty Lyons, Kelly Robbins, Andrea Silversprings Okun, Natalie Burke, Mieke Fuchs Smith, Sarah Maguire Duffy Second row: Whitney MacDonald Gough, Justine Carroll Campbell, Ariana Ebrahimian, Julie Rathman Fenton, Laura Stenovec, Elizabeth Poette-Campbell, Katie Maloof Alden, Adrienne Partridge, Katie Maurer Third row: Ali Schneider, Elizabeth Brinks, Andrea Woodhall Ford, Alaina McDonald
2000
Susie Bokermann susiebokermann@gmail.com Brigitte Kouba brigittekouba@yahoo.com Members of the Class of 1999 pose at the wedding of Alaina McDonald: Katie Maloof Alden, Mieke Fuchs Smith, Adrienne Partridge, Alaina, Elizabeth Poett, Laura Stenovec, and Sarah Maguire Duffy
Beginning with this issue, we will publish notes for each class once a year—odd-numbered class years in the spring and even-numbered in the fall. Look for your class notes in the fall issue!
2001
Sheila Callahan sheilacallahan@gmail.com Astri Rahardja married Jason Tabalujan in Jakarta, Indonesia in October 2013. Catalina girls flew in from Singapore, Hong Kong, California, Texas and New York to attend the wedding. Diana Mak,
Citra Soedarsono, Clarissa Nurimba ’00, Amanda Walujo, Michelle Schneider, Brogiin Keeton, Annie Hilby, Kiren Rizvi, and Aniela Rahardja were all in attendance. Astri and her husband will continue to live in Jakarta, Indonesia. Beth Canavan Jones and her husband Sebastian welcomed their first child, Luc, in November 2013. Beth says that he is a great sleeper and that she and her husband are in love with him! Claire Reilly and Julia Verdi had the chance to catch up with Beth in London this past August. Claire met up with Julia as she finished her law school summer abroad program in Paris and the two explored Ireland together. Sheila Callahan White married Bradley White last July in Santa Barbara. In addition to the many Catalina girls from the class of 2001 that were there, Sheila’s aunts Mary Louise “M.L.” Frawley ’67, Sally Frawley Strub ’71, and Joan Frawley Desmond ’73 were also in attendance.