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and station in NYC (taking over Eiji’s old apartment). I’ve also been back in touch with Gen Ichino ’97. The following day, I met up with Hiroko (Ogawa) Otsuki ‘94 who has just given birth to a baby boy, Gou. She invited me and my mom for lunch at her parents’ place where we spent the whole afternoon talking and playing with the baby. On a more personal note, my brother Yuki Yamashiro ‘98 got married last fall and is having 2 more receptions in Japan (had a wedding in LA in February) so I’ll be going to both, one in Tokyo and the other in Okinawa.” 69 • Gina Van Hoof writes, “In May, I was in NY. I had bartered a photograph in an exhibition in Brussels last November for a plane ticket to NY where there is a high concentration of TASIS alumni!! There I saw Sally Akrawi who was very pregnant and will have given birth by the time this is in print. She was doing well and her husband is adorable. Sara Conklin housed me in her wonderful loft in Brooklyn. She too is doing well, working hard for Cipriani. I had some time to catch up with Kat Johnson who is settled into her NY life. I also got some good quality time in with Jenn Granville ‘94 who was then living in NY too; she has in the meantime moved to Los Angeles. I also got to catch up with Neil Vaswani ‘95 who would love to hear from Carmen Frank ‘95 if anyone knows of her whereabouts. Masha Tivyan was in town briefly so we managed to catch up too, she is now a stand-up-comic - look out for her gigs
in the US! Michele Josue ‘97 almost made it out, but had too much work, so we just had our phone time! I came back with photographs of a tugboat graveyard down at the bottom of Staten Island, and exhibited those in Brussels from June 15-July 22nd. 70 • Christian Nagy is about to move to Frankfurt, working for a specialist headhunting boutique. • Sarah Huisentruit and Earl Hain have remained best friends and are both living in Washington, DC. Earl has completed his masters in information technology and is currently exploring the real estate industry in DC. Sarah is pursuing dual master degrees in international management as well as an M.B.A. She currently works at George Washington University Law School’s Creative and Innovative Economy Center (CIEC) as the Education Director. They would like to be reconnected with their old friends so please don’t hesitate to send emails. • Masha Tivyan and her fiancé Ben recently took a trip to England. They had a wonderful time dining in London’s finest restaurants. Ben recently wrote for and edited an animated show called “Creature Comforts,” a show by Aardman, the people behind Wallace & Grommit and Chicken Run. She received credit as an “Interviewer.”71
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• Alexandria Yarra-Feldman has this report about the ‘97 reunion, “A group of us went to Las Vegas and had drinks at the Mix Lounge at the Mandalay Bay on Friday. On Saturday, we went to dinner at the Venetian hotel. Besides my husband, Ross Feldman, and me, these are the people that attended the reunion: Michele Josue, Anna Josue ’00, Kevin McMenamin and his wife, Paige McMenamin, Hosan Kim, Patrick Matta, Heather Johns, Violet Cabrera, Ava Klein, Shannon Callihan, Veronika Muhlhofer, Gen Ichino, Soren Hughes, Russel Lee, and Travis Belgard ’98.” • Yumiko Yamada was recently married. She has been working in a container sales division at a shipping liner company and spends her weekends furnishing and decorating their new home. Last summer, she played beach volleyball and also volunteered as a cycling tour guide around Tokyo city for tourists from overseas. 72 • Polat Gulman has moved back to Istanbul from Miami. Currently, he is working on a new project to develop a shipyard for offshore supply boats and tankers. • Maria Camila Giannella was married April 8th, 2006. She’s living in São Paulo and working for a branding consulting firm, Thymus Branding. 73 • Brian Brown is the assistant winemaker and production manager at a boutique winery in Rutherford, California which is in the heart of the Napa Valley. It is a brand new facility called Round Pond. He is also the consulting winemaker for two other wineries in California.
• Dynamic sibling duo, Alexander Wasylko and sister Nadya ’99 are currently living in New York City. Alexander wears a suit and works in marketing for AIG. Nadya wears her light meter and works as a freelance photographer. Both Wasylkos live within walking distance of each other in Brooklyn, and would love to hear from their TASIS friends. Alexander can be reached by email at: aphex1979@hotmail.com, and Nadya at: nadya@nadyawasylko.com. • Mana Morita (see 96) 74
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