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in the same school now, which makes my life much easier. We’ll be skiing at Tahoe during the school break later this month. Can’t wait!” María Esther Juarez Letamendi: “My daughter Emilia Letamendi ’16 is a junior at Catalina this year and she is doing great, having fun with her new friends, and studying really hard! I loved coming back to school as a parent for this year’s Parents’ Weekend, and upon seeing Mr. Oder, I of course made a complete fool out of myself by bawling my eyes out. It was just so emotional, that feeling of coming full circle. Emilia will graduate next year and I know I will be crying even more when she does! My other kids, Fernando and Diego, miss their sister a lot but love seeing her every time possible. I still live in Mazatlan right across the street from Ale Leon Letamendi’s house, which is a blast! Our children are first cousins and we have been very lucky to have this beautiful relationship since we were in school together. A bunch of Mexican friends from Catalina and I have chats on Whatsapp and we are in constant touch with news and pictures. I love hearing from each one of them. Rosana Pages just had her fourth baby adding up her family to a total of six children (her husband had two from a previous marriage) and I just saw her and she looks amazing! Kiki Diaz-Brown is even more active now than ever! She is the personal secretary for a friend who is campaigning for political office. Yolanda Orrantia is currently playing Marguerite St. Just in the play
Nicole Lazarus ’93 and husband Jeffrey Adan
The Scarlet Pimpernel in Mexico City, so if you are there make sure you go see her! She is phenomenal in it! It’s amazing how fast life goes by—Fernando and I feel very lucky to have recently celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary! I am really enjoying being the mom to two boys now that Emilia is away at school. Boys are fun and loud and our house is always full of hungry friends! Life is good.”
1992 Amy Paulsen apindc@yahoo.com
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1993
Galen Johnson galen.a.johns@gmail.com Nicole Lazarus was married in October 2013 to Jeffrey Vincent Adan. Socially, she now goes by Nicole Adan Lazarus. Congratulations and best wishes to Nicole and Jeff! Christine Griffin Young is still living in Oslo, Norway, with her husband, Scott, and children, Charlotte (8) and James (5). They have lived there since 2010 have decided to stay for at least the next few years. Christine writes that they clearly agree with all the “happy country” survey results regarding Norway. She is working for a maritime insurance company, which she finds challenging and surprisingly interesting. If anyone is traveling through Oslo, Christine would love to meet up and is also happy to offer travel tips. Corinne Quinn is the administrator for the Nutrition Education Obesity Prevention (NEOP) Program of the Vallejo Unified School District. NEOP seeks to create a healthier community, one person at a time, through nutrition education and physical activity education with approximately 650 children and their families throughout the District each semester. Madeline Daniels writes that her son David (14) will be starting high
school at Palma this year, and her daughter Della (6) is doing well in her kindergarten year. Maddy and her husband, Erich, are working tirelessly on a massive Burning Man art car, which is called “The Lobata” and is a two-story high comb jelly that swims effortlessly through the deep ocean desert at Burning Man. It can hold over 100 people and can serve as a moving sound stage. Some of the lights on the giant car are sound interactive, making for a breathtaking sight. The car is supported by a nonprofit called UNAVERZ, of which Maddy and Erich are a part. Maddy and Erich are also working hard at their jobs; Maddy working for her family as a property manager, especially for the vacation rentals, and Erich as an oceanographer at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) working on robots. Karen Demski O’Brien: “Our first child, Magdalena, was born in April 2014 and she is a happy healthy baby!” I (Galen Johnson) am still enjoying being back on the West Coast, and I am traveling a lot more for work these days, which I find both fun and exhausting. I had dinner with Catherine MacDonald Christian when I was at a meeting in Sacramento last spring, and (despite the restaurant catching on fire!) it was a real treat to catch up in person and hear about her fabulous daughters and the business she runs with her husband, Tony.
1994 Amy Smith Ainscough amyucl@aol.com
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1995
Megan Heister megan.heister@alumni.carleton.edu