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law senator and was a member of the International Law

Jeremy Silverman ’01 married Mirja, a Berliner,

Review. Collin is currently an associate attorney with

in October 2011 with their friends and family in Berlin,

Hameline and Eccleston, LLP, an oil and gas law firm based

Germany. Marksmen classmates in attendance were

in downtown Dallas. Jasmine and Collin reside in Lake

Brian Beneke ’01, Tim Fuller ’01, Gordon

Highlands with their three dogs: Dominic, Layla, and Tuna.

Huddleston ’01, and Ned Price ’01. The ceremony took place at the Berliner Dome, followed by a reception at the Schlosshotel in Gruenewald. Jeremy and Mirja reside in Berlin where Jeremy is a hotel consultant specializing in concept development, and Mirja owns an online agency. Jeremy shares that he has been working in Berlin now for five years, and if any St. Mark’s alumni are traveling through Germany, he would love to act as a Texas ambassador.

Jasmine and Collin Lensing ’01.

Nick Orenstein ’01 was asked by a climate change blog named “Skeptical Science” to write a guest post about his “Just Science” app. Nick focused on the educational merits of mobile apps and finished the piece with a reference to a life lesson learned in his St. Mark’s eighth-

Mirja and Jeremy Silverman ’01.

grade geometry class taught by Dr. Michael Keyton. As Nick recalls, Dr. Keyton drew two circles in chalk on the blackboard. One was very large, the other about mediumsized and fully contained within the larger one. “The larger circle,” he told the class, “represents All Knowledge. The smaller circle represents Human Knowledge.” Dr. Keyton remarked on the fact that they were not yet equal and challenged Nick and his classmates: What does it take to grow the inner circle, and what are you doing to help the cause?

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