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John lives most of the year in New York, but returns to his Bahamian roots a few times each year.
love to reconnect with Anita Bejmuk Thompson, Selene Susunaga, Alice Cotton ’92 (the LA roomies!), Sylvie Amani, and any other dear friend who shared wonderful TASIS memories with her. lvaroli@yahoo. com.
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Class Agent: Lori Ketter Romero loriketter@q.com While in Dubai, Associate Director of Admissions Emily McKee met with Thai-Sung Char and his family. Thai-Sung had very pleasant and fun memories of his days at TASIS. 20 • Erica Hermann Gillett returned to campus in July with her two kids, and enjoyed seeing Bill Eichner again. 21
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Class Agent: Franca Marena Gullett fmarena@aol.com Charlotte Bushroe sold up and moved to Mexico at the end of June. • See the Reunions section for photos of the 25th anniversary reunion in Las Vegas.
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Class Agents: Kristina Malcolm kmalcolm44@gmail.com and Gina Jose Heydari ginajose@hotmail.com Letizia Varoli is currently living in the UK with her little girl Luluah, and is running her own natural skin care company. She’s sad to have lost touch with old friends, but would
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there! I started a new lifestyle, travel & food blog, www.mikinava.com.” • Asmat Noori took advantage of a two-week family holiday in Europe to visit campus with his daughters Shannon and Fiona. Asmat works at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. 22 • Associate Director of Admissions Emily McKee had dinner with Hansoo Lee in Korea. His older son, Edward is considering TASIS for his high school years. We hope to see him soon! 23
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Class Agent: Miki Schroder Nava sakeli@hotmail.com Mari Asaoka Honda has lived in the United States, Hong Kong, and Romania since leaving TASIS, but is now back in Japan. She is married, and has a very musical family: “My son (11) plays cello in junior orchestra, and my daughter (3) has just started taking violin lessons. I enjoy playing piano with them.” • Miki Schroder Nava has been living just across the border from Lugano in Italy with her husband and daughters, Gaja and Soraya. “I often see Carla Bigio and Cristina Rigamonti ’93. As my husband goes to Istanbul for work often, I like to tag along and go see Hulya Sen as well. I saw Brandee Nunley Chylinski in New York a few months ago, which was great! This summer I will be going to the States and will stay with Trish Ross Markelin for a week, so I am really looking forward to that. In October I plan to go to Japan and hope to have a mini TASIS reunion with the Japanese gang
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Class Agent: Paula Quijano quijano.paula@gmail.com
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Vacancy for class agent – contact alumni@tasis.ch to learn more about taking on this role.
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Class Agent: Nicole Pearson rothko333@yahoo.com Lizzie Jarvis saw Josh Miles ‘93 in London earlier this year in April, a mere 19 years since their last encounter! 24 • Lori Gurley Stein visited campus with her husband and two daughters. Lori worked in real estate sales before taking a break to be at home with her
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girls who just finished grades 5 and 2. She enjoyed reliving the days of walking down the Belvedere steps! Lori also updated us about her sister Emily ’92 who is an epidemiologist based in Bangladesh and is currently teaching a course at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. 25
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Class Agent: Gina van Hoof gvanhoof@gmail.com
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Class Agent: Kevin McMenamin mcmenamin@hotmail.com Desiree Estefan took advantage of a business trip to Milan to visit campus. Some years ago, Desiree found that work was getting boring so she went to Paris to study and then founded a Mexico-based marketing and communications company for luxury goods. She keeps the company small (just her and two assistants) out of preference, realizing that strong growth would change the character of her work. 26 • Alex Wasylko visited with his wife Lileya on their honeymoon which took in Croatia, Switzerland, and Italy. Alex is a broker for Marsh. Lileya is a teacher of language arts and literature at St. Bridget’s in the East Village and felt at home on the TASIS campus. 27