grade) go to school as well. This year I am teaching 5th grade. There are quite a few alumni who have children at SPA. Last month, David Murphy, Bob Larson, Darius semmens, Charlie neimeyer, John Bradford and I spent the weekend at nick Johnson’s house and cabin in Duluth. Everyone is doing well.” Marc Olson has three kids, ages 11, 12, and 15, all of whom are busy with sports and activities. In fact, his oldest made the Chanhassen girls’ varsity soccer team this fall. He is the Vice President of Finance at Allianz Life and when he’s not working, he finds himself busy coaching soccer. Dan sharp writes, “My wife Laura Wolford and I live in New Orleans with our 1 1/2 year old son Artie (who is admittedly cute but wakes us up way too early) and our 6 year old Elio (who doesn’t yet realize that Mardi Gras, red beans and rice on Mondays, and speaking only French at school aren’t usual in the rest of the U.S.). I teach ethnomusicology and Latin American studies at Tulane University. I’m currently finishing a book and app titled Between Nostalgia and Apocalypse: Popular Music and the Staging of Brazil”. Matt Heffernan moved to
Los Angeles from the Twin Cities 13 years ago to continue work on films, television and commercials. He had originally started in Minnesota working in production with movies such as The Mighty Ducks 3, Jingle All the Way, Sugar & Spice, and Joe Somebody. To follow the career path
he started in Minnesota, he moved out west. Since then, he’s worked on many films and TV shows throughout the world. He continues to reside and work in Los Angeles and currently is working on the ABC show “Modern Family”. Joel weitzman admittedly finds
it hard to believe he’s lived in Boston for over 20 years now. “It has really become home,” he states. “However, I do miss Minnesota and all of my fellow Spartans.” He’s the president of a printing and marketing company just north of Boston and spends most of his free time coaching his son AJ’s mite hockey team—“working hard to get Massachusetts hockey up to Minnesota’s level”. sandhya sathyakumar is an infectious disease physician in Chicago. Socially, she sees Jenny toth, Adam Benepe, Von Kolpe and Maia Allison fairly regularly. She writes, “If there are any SPA people in Chicago, it would be great to catch up!” Jeffrianne Young (Droel)
writes, “We still live in Des Moines, Iowa where I am a partner in my ophthalmology practice. With that said, my mind is mostly occupied by raising our three children—ages 8, 6 and 4. At the moment, I am navigating our eldest’s fascination with Lady Gaga’s music, our middle’s love of both Superheroes and Jake Bugg’s music, and our youngest’s stuffed animal menagerie. Although the Midwest is very pleasant for raising our family, we love to travel both within the US and internationally as much as we can.”
shauna Colman sanidas and her husband Oli live near Denver, Colorado with their two children, Luke (9) and Ella (5). She continues to enjoy her work doing design specifications for spec and custom homes on a part-time basis. “With both kids in school, I love the opportunity to pay closer attention to my work as well as to have time to volunteer in the elementary school” she states. Overall, she reports that life is good! Kitty Higinbotham lives in St. Paul with her partner and their 16-month-old twins, a boy and a girl. She is a writer, and most of her work can be found in the realm of public relations, technical writing and grant writing. She also enjoys playing squash when she can. Dan smith lives in Washington, DC with his wife Jamie, and their three children Claire (7), Ben (5) and Sarah (3). He practices law as in-house counsel at a non-profit organization. Jenny toth and Adam Benepe ’91 will be celebrated
their son’s first birthday on December 20, 2013 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico with Mr. Scruffles and friends.
1993 CLASS AGENTS:
Ben Beach beach_benjamin@hotmail.com Jim Delaney jdelaney@poweredbyengine.com John Cosgriff john.w.cosgriff@gmail.com Mary Dickinson MacDonald mgdickinson@yahoo.com
The Class of 1993 celebrated its Reunion during Reunion Weekend, september 6-7, 2013. see pages 32-33 for Reunion class photos.
We apologize that John Cosgriff’s name and email address were misprinted in the Class Notes section of the most recent magazine. His correct email address is john.w.cosgriff@gmail.com.
1997 CLASS AGENTS:
Dena Citron Larson denacitronlarson@gmail.com Jeff Jarosch jeff.jarosch@gmail.com
s Alison Crossley graduated in June with a PhD in sociology from the University of California-Santa Barbara. She celebrated with a beach party in Santa Barbara. rhys Conlon and raj Boopathy, Hilary gebauer and Marc Katz, and Dena Citron Larson came to California for the fabulous graduation festivities. Matt Felt and Chad Kampe came to Santa Barbara the next week for another round of celebrations. Alison just started a postdoctoral research fellowship at Stanford University’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She and her partner Tim Kelso are excited to explore the bay area and to have visitors! Charlie Knutson, Jay gordon, Zameer Baber, peter Melloy, Daniel Johnson, trevor Axner, Mike Kremenak and Winter/Spring 2014 | SPA
35