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Births
1977 Katherine Boentje Frisch is “living the dream!” She’s been married for 40 years, and has been traveling a lot.
1979 Kevin Blake and wife Susanne Reioux Blake ’74 met up with fellow alum and former Crack Squad member
Bain “Biff” Smith ’61
recently. Kevin writes, “Biff sent me such a nice Thank You note for his Crack Squad package that I sent him a Thank-YouFor-The-Thank-You-Note note. Then, seeing that he lives in Pebble Beach, Pictured, L-R: Smith ’61 Kevin Blake ’79, Bain “Biff” and that we would be in Monterey for our daughter Annalee’s graduation from Naval Postgraduate School in December, we arranged for Biff and his cool wife Camille to meet us at the Graduation luncheon in Carmel. Biff and Camille appeared at the restaurant towards the end of our luncheon, right on time. They sat with us for about 45 minutes and we regaled each other with our life stories.” Pictured, L-R: Annalee Blake, Camille Smith, Bain “Biff” Smith ’61, Kevin Blake 79 Kevin shared that Biff is a retired English teacher and part-time jazz piano professional, and that his wife Camille is also an accomplished piano expert. He said that Biff drives across country every summer to Boston, where he runs a summer program for young jazz pianists at the well-known Berklee college of music, and that this summer he plans to time his trip east to coincide with the SSM All School Reunion. 1993 Rande Paquin-Stanton continues to oversee Central Wisconsin Health and Wellness Operations for Wal-Mart and has been working through the pandemic. Her boys are now in middle school and high school.
BIRTHS

Congratulations to the following on the newest addition(s) to your family!
Katie Cates and Dean Cates ’97, a boy, Jameson David Cates, December 17, 2021
Lauren Stieger Clarine and Jeffrey Clarine ’97, a boy, Carter Brendan Clarine, September 25, 2021
Fay Simer and Kurt Simer ’99, a girl, Beatrice Ann Simer, July 14,2021
Rachel Dugan and Mark Carpentier ’03, a girl, Edith Marie Carpentier, November 10, 2021
Rachelle Paquin Gonzalez ’03
and Ysidro Gonzalez, a girl, Eliana Johanne Gonzalez, September 14, 2021
Claire Wittich Harper ’05 and Todd Harper, a girl, Helen Amelia Harper, February 22, 2022
Leslie Wiebler and Taylor Wiebler ’03, a girl, Natalie Peyton Wiebler, September 29, 2021
Courtney Vidrine and Eric Vidrine ’03, a girl, Aurora Grant Vidrine, October 12, 2021
Haley Chorney and Taylor Chorney ’05, a boy, Watson James Chorney, November 20, 2021
Madeleine Umhoefer and Ben Umhoefer ’05, a girl, Zoie Joy Umhoefer, November 8, 2021
Stefanie Raaen and Edward Raaen ’06, a boy, Oscar William Raaen, November 12, 2021 Amanda Weidner and Allysen Weidner ’06, a girl, Lula Rae Weidner, November 17,2021
Annessa Smith and Jeffrey Smith ’07, a boy, Levin Marek Smith, March 14, 2021
Tianyang Tang and Marcus Clemons ’08, a boy, Linden Gabriel Clemons, September 21, 2021
Kristina Rioux ’08 and Ilya Kravtchouk ’08, a girl, Mila Kravtchouk, January 19, 2022
Emily Young Malley ’09 and Joseph Malley, a boy, Joseph Victor Malley, September 3, 2021
Taylor Nasby and Mark Nasby ’09, a girl, Reid Olivia Nasby, September 19, 2021
Summer O’Connor Edwards ’12
and Christopher Edwards, a boy, Leo Christopher Edwards, May 2, 2021
Alexis Crossley Miller ’12 and Matthew Miller, a boy, Reece William Miller, December 6, 2021
Sandy Wu and Yu-Chiang (John) Lee ’04, a boy, Ruei-Hsiang Lee, August 9, 2021
SSM FACULTY & STAFF
Samantha Candy and Jeff Candy, a girl, Delaney Grace Candy, February 2, 2022
Katherine Warner and
Michael Warner,
a boy, William Laurence Warner, February 2, 2022
1997 Royce Zimmerman was named a Top Financial Security Professional by Forbes and Shook Research in their inaugural list honoring professionals in the insurance industry. Royce has worked for Northwestern Mutual since 2000. He shared on Facebook, “I was surprised and, of course, very humbled to learn that our team was selected as one of the top 250 Forbes Financial Security Professionals in its inaugural ranking. I am grateful for and inspired by the support and commitment of that team.”
1998 Jung-Joon (JJ) Kim is in his fifth year working at Microsoft. He writes, “I worked on video production for a new Microsoft Windows 11 launch behind the scenes story. We also adopted a rescue dog from Korea last year and his name is BingGoo.”


2002 Michelle Horrigan
Roberts writes that she was “recently promoted to Sr. Global PM Leader at Amazon in the nontraditional data center environment (go girls in STEM!).” She was also able to catch up with Marty Mjelleli ’01 and Jessica Keiker ’02 at the local rink while they were coaching their kids.

Pictured, L-R: Marty Mjelleli ’01, Michelle
Horrigan Roberts ’02, Jessica Kovacevich Keiker ’02
2004 Joey Resch writes that he “bought a house and signed with the PICU group at UMN, so officially a Minnesotan!”
Megan Trout joined the team at Heyday (www.heyday.co) as a Senior Brand Manager in October 2021, handling brand management in ecommerce. 2006 Allysen Weidner and her wife Amanda celebrated the birth of their daughter, Lula Weidner, on November 17, 2021.


2010 Zoie Reams (left) and Tiana Hamilton (center) met up with classmate Jimmy Mullin (right) in January when the Minnesota Gopher’s men’s hockey team took on the U.S. Under-18 NTDP team, which Jimmy is an assistant coach for.
2011 On Saturday, September 25, 2021, Angelika Daxer-Strub and Markus Daxer joined in marriage in Salzburg, Austria.
Bianca Leacock Whittaker and husband Niko Whittaker welcomed a baby girl, Gabriella Marie Whittaker, on Tuesday, February 8 at 11:11am, weighing in at 8 lbs 2 oz. Gabriella joins big sister, Giavanna.
