class notes ~leanor Traubman '91 also enjoys writing her blog,
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Times: For People Who Think Outside the Box. (creativetimes. blogspot.com) features interviews, images and stories to spark the imagination and fuel creativity. is a very happy baby and a real joy! We live in Columbia, MD - I work in Washington, D.C., at IREX (the International Research and Exchanges Board) and manage several U.S.-government-sponsored grants in the former Soviet Union that focus on Internet and education development. With this job, I've been able to travel to Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan. I hope all is well!" Also checking in with great news, this time from beautiful Napa Valley. CA, was Scott Gerien. Scott: ''I'm still living in the SF Bay Area, and in 2004, I married my wife, Julie, in Los Angeles. Last year I had the opportunity to change law firms and move my intellectual property practice to Napa and joined the firm of Dickenson, Pearman & Fogarty I head their intellectual property practice group and am a member of their wine-industry practice group and represent many of the wineries here in the Napa Valley At the end of 2005 Julie and I moved to Napa and on February II, 2006, we had our first child, a beautiful baby girl named Georgina." Scott also reports on some other friends and Trinity grads in the Bay Area as well: Ed Kupa and Karen Zeltzer (who I believe met at Orientation freshman year, right? I always think that is amazing and very cool). Ed and Karen live in Alameda with their two girls, Jenna and Lily Ed recently switched jobs and now works for Abbott Laboratories in Alameda. Scott has also seen John Lee '88, who works for Kenneth Cole and the SF Film Festival, Kate Scanlan '88, who is a litigator working with complex class-action law suits, and Lisa Crounse ' 91 , who works for - Autodesk. Scott also interacts regularly with Dave Copland, who is also an attorney specializing in IP law. Dave is living in Germany with his wife and two daughters. Dave just switched firms and now works for Foley & Lardner, and he does the trademark litigation work for 7- Eleven. Many thanks to Scott for all the updates, and Scott, one last thing: if you get around to it, please ship me a case of the Caymus Reserve '96 Cabernet Sauvignon. And Dave, from you I'll take a large raspberry Slurpy Thanks. I had a nice e-mail correspondence with my esteemed predecessor in this position, Sara Moorin Lang, who is living large, enjoying life on the island of Bermuda (who wouldn't)) , 64
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where she relocated some time ago with her family Sara has taken full -advantage of her beautiful vacation-destination home and was chock full of great updates on Class of '90 ers, many of whom made the trek out there to visit. (Aside to Sara: I am available to visit anytime, with or without family in tow.) ~oth Sara: "Laura Cooper Page told me I would love living in Bermuda, and she was right. It is a great place for our famil y And, it is a great place to see lots of Trinity people! Our children attend school with Charlotte Toogood. Her parents are Chase ' 96 and Carolyn '96 Toogood. Our son participated in a squash tournament. The celebrity guest was squash sensation Nick Kyme, who graduated from Trinity well after we did. "On the way from New Hampshire back to Bermuda, I started off the new year running into an old friend, Paige Baumann, who was also at Logan airport before 9 :00 on January I. She was starting a 20 (or so) -hour plane odyssey on her way to spending three weeks exploring several countries in the Far East. If you are wondering if you would recognize Paige if you saw her, I can guarantee you would as she has not aged a day since I last saw her in 1990. "Julie Virdone Finch, her husband, Trinity grad Chris, and family spent a week in a house near us in New Hampshire in August. I was very excited to meet the newest Finch, Lila Cavanaugh, born on October 24, 2005. She is a very smiley baby and a fabulous dancer. Big sister Anna and big brother Henry were great playmates for my children, Nate and Hannah. "While the Finches were in town, I was lucky enough to host Nancy Nereo and her son, Julian, who was born on December 21 , 2005. He is an energetic little guy with a great disposition. Arlene Angulo Kelsey came up from the Berkshires for an overnight. It has been many years since I saw her, so that was lots of fun . She teaches Spanish and entertained us with tales of pre- teens and actual teenagers ... her own and those she teaches. Alix Ogden stopped by for an overnight on her way back to Providence from Prince Edward Island. Sounds like she had a great vacation. It was fun to see her and catch up on all the latest from her job as the Providence, RI , parks commissioner and hear about her two
children. "Another person I've seen a lot of this summer is Ray Crosby '89. Originally. I ran into him at the Home Depot. It turns out he and his family just purchased a house about a half mile down the road from us. His son, Ben, and daughter, Ani, are both very cute. "Christine DiStefano Mown had a third child in the autumn 2005. Her son's name is Charlie. "In September 2005 , we had drinks with Anthony and Sharon Simkiss Merhige, who were in Bermuda right around their IIth anniversary This summer, they skipped Bermuda in favor of attending some World Cup matches. " J saw Cindy Woosnam Ketchum and her children in March 2006 in NYC. Wilson was born in July 2005 and is a very smiley guy We were so excited to see the Ketchum's new apartment. I'm somewhat disappointed that we won't get the annual change of aqdress card from the Ketchums, but I know Cindy is glad to finally be somewhere permanently "Also permanently ensconced in the Big Apple is Martha Willoughby. She just bought a great bright and cozy apartment in Brooklyn. I am hoping to see her in Bermuda soon. "This spring, I was able to get out to Wilton, CT, to visit Jen Tesoro Reece and her three children. They are all adorable. }en's house is incredibly organized and very cozy The girls' rooms look like they could be in a magazine. One thing that is great about the bedroom is the painting on the wall . The artist was none other than Katie Everett Denious '9I. "In June, we were in Denver on the way to my brother's wedding. We got to see Shannon O'Connor Christian, and meet her husband, Scott, and son, Reece. Reece is a busy and very happy toddler! "My husband, Peter '88, hosted a whole bunch of Trinity Class of 1988 friends for a weekend this summer. Guests in attendance: Mike Daly (currently living in Florida) , Tasa Nagashima (he and his wife, Wendy Salustro, adopted a little girl, Skye earlier this year) , Craig Gemmell (father of two and working at Groton Academy) , George Manthous, Tony Luciano (recently relocated to NJ) , Matt Donahue (father of Finley. born in the past year) , Mike Williams (dentist in Simsbury) , and Bernie Lee (living in Glastonbury and ran the Burlington marathon this year) ." Other news briefs, heard on the grapevine: Peter St. Philip and his wife had a baby daughter last summer. AJ Contessa and his wife also had a girl in 2005. Gail Feinberg Brussel had a baby girl this past spring, Gabrielle. Susan