in Los Angeles; Cathy Paper, who is revving up RockPaperStar in St. Paul; and Sean Gilshannon, who is working the green end of things in Seattle. Dave also notes that Steve Levitt’s second book, SuperFreakanomics, has come out and done well, that Tom Joo is still teaching law at UC-Davis, and that Ken Rice remains in the property game in Baltimore. Becka McKay, who teaches in the English department at Florida Atlantic University, recently published two books: a book of poems, A Meteorologist in the Promised Land; and a translation of Blue Has No South. She spent some time in the spring of 2010 traveling to Boca Raton, Boston, and Chicago to do readings from both books. Daisy Campbell Fang Pellant and her family recently moved to Tbilisi, Georgia, where she and husband RM work at the International School of Tbilisi. “We are now nestled between the Black Sea, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and... oh, yes, Russia,” Daisy reports. “Things have settled down since the invasion—which we thankfully missed. RM is the Director of Instruction (same as the Principal) and I am the school counselor, psychologist, and community mental health go-to person. We have a wonderful, small school PK-12 so I am able to attend to stressed out seniors and biting 4-yr-olds all in the same day, although sometimes the seniors are biting and the 4-yr-olds are stressed. Our students are from State Department and NGO families and represent more than 26 different countries. The country is incredibly beautiful and we never tire of having mountains right outside our door.” Daisy and RM’s four children are also students at the school: Ruby-Kate is in
7th grade, Max in 5th, Annika in 2nd, and Lucy in Kindergarten. “We get home each summer to our house in Mac-Groveland and enjoy visiting with SPA friends,” says Daisy, who spent time in the summer of 2010 with Nicole Winter Tietel, Anne Tschida Longenecker, Mollie Ward, Carrie Clark, SPA Lower School librarian Margaret Kelberer, and Upper School math teacher George Leiter. “We had a wonderful time at the 20th reunion and we’re sorry to be missing the 25th. Until then, I can be reached at daisy-pellant@qsi.org. If you are coming to Georgia, we have plenty of space for visitors!”
Martha has played throughout the United States and Europe; her tour of Finland with the Stuart Brothers was documented in a live album released in 2009.
Scott Smith and wife Catherine live in Arden Hills, Minn., where Scott is a plant engineer for International Paper. “Last summer, I visited Clemens Ladenburger, who was a member of our class in the fall of our junior year,” Scott reports. “Clemens currently works for the EU in Brussels and had a hand in writing the EU constitution.”
Debbie Lipschultz Goldenberg goldenlips275@aol.com
The July 10, 2010 Star Tribune ran an article about former sports agent John Wolf and his parting of the ways with NBA power forward Amare Stoudemire. John now owns Chicago Lake Liquors in Minneapolis.
Shauna Colman Sanidas and husband Oliver Sanidas live in Englewood, Colo., where Shauna is an interior designer and mom to Luke (5) and Ella (2).
1988 CLASS AGENT:
Daniel Deuel dhd823@comcast.net Dana Nelson is a Lutheran minister in Lima, Peru, where she and husband Tom Ososki have lived for the last several years.
1990 CLASS AGENTS:
Darren Strafelda darrens@mlazgar.com Fritz Hoeschler is a weapon system officer with the U.S. Air Force, and will soon return from a 4-month deployment to Afghanistan, where he has been supporting troops on the ground.
1986
1993 CLASS AGENTS:
Ben Beach beach_benjamin@hotmail.com John Cosgriff jcosgrif@chicagogsb.edu Mary Dickinson MacDonald mgdickinson@yahoo.com Jim Delaney jdelaney@wedrivebusiness.com
▲ Sean Cairncross and Emily
CLASS AGENT:
John Patterson john.patterson@state.mn.us Singer and songwriter Martha Scanlan performed at the Gingko Coffeehouse in St. Paul in May 2010. Martha, who makes her home in Birney, Montana, released her first CD, The West Was Burning, in January of 2007 to great critical acclaim. Since that album’s release,
view the devastation for himself, and to bring soccer gear and personal care items to the island; the effort was a collaboration between the organization he founded, the Sanneh Foundation, and the LA Galaxy of Major League Soccer. Since March 2010, the Sanneh Foundation and Los Angeles Galaxy Foundation have sponsored the Haitian Initiative, which provides soccer-based youth programming, aid and equipment to Haiti as it rebuilds from the earthquake. In July 2010, the Haitian Initiative brought a youth soccer team from Haiti to Minnesota to compete in a tournament at the USA CUP.
▲ In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti in January 2010, Tony Sanneh organized a relief effort focused on bringing soccer back to the children of Haiti, and bringing the children of Haiti to soccer in Minnesota. Sanneh visited Haiti in March 2010 to
Skor welcomed a son, Dominic Stuart Cairncross, on March 24, 2010. Dominic joined big sister India James Cairncross, born November 10, 2007. Shandra Dayton Powell and husband Zach welcomed a daughter, Lila Rose, in July 2009. Carrie Higginbotham Menk married John Menk in 2002. They have two kids (Reuben,
fall 2010 | SPA
33