CL ASS NOTES
Cole, Colleen Smith Hayes, Alexander H. Ladd IV, Ashley Gilmor Myles, Benagh Richardson Newsome, Lisa Koch Rao, Peter J. Tighe
1996
Class Secretary: Elizabeth “Bee” Bornheimer, 1132 Bush St., San Diego, CA 92103-2802; elizabeth. bornheimer.1996@trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Anne Chick Goodrich, P.J. Louis Jr. Hello, Class of 1996! Hope everyone had a wonderful summer (of course, I am writing this mid-June, but you won’t be reading it until the fall). Thank you to the handful of wonderful classmates who have sent in updates. Keep them coming. Jessica Davidson is associate professor of history at James Madison University in Virginia, where she lives with her two sons, Michael and Carlos. She continues her love affair with Spain during summers teaching a study-abroad course in Barcelona. She fondly thinks of her experience at Trinity, both her friendships and education. Every now and then, she coincides in NYC or in Virginia with Becky McElroy Mendoza and Dawn Jacob Laney, both with boys around the same age, and in Denver with Laura Paulick Moody, who also has two children. Jono Lenzner reports: “I am living in D.C. with my wife, Matea, and our two daughters, Sophia, 10, and Grace, 7. I recently returned to the U.S. Department of Justice to serve as the first assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland, overseeing the criminal, civil, and national security divisions. Matea is an editor at The Washington Post, where she oversees the political investigations team, which handled coverage of Trump and the Mueller probe. Matea works with our classmate Dave Clarke, who is also at The Post. I get to see Ken Pouch, John Dugan, and Kelly Collis.” Congratulations to Ross Meglathery, who reports that he was promoted to the rank of colonel in the Marine Corps on May 1, 2019! Aina Williams has been happily living in Seattle for the past 13 years. She has been running her personal training business since 2006 and just recently opened The Ride, a boutique fitness experience that provides indoor cycling, boot camps, and meditation. See www.therideseattle.com. That is all for now. As you finish reading this and think to yourself, “Wow, I wish there were more updates from Class of 1996,” remember that you can be the change you wish to see in the world. Send news.
1997
Class Secretary: Hai-San “Sam” Chang, 15 Daisy Ln., Ellington, CT 06029-3239; haisan.chang.1997@ trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Benjamin J. Russo, Susan Church Zibell Thank you, Class of 1997! Another outstanding
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response to Class Notes! I’ll keep my comments brief. I just finished my first Spartan Race, and I’m hooked. Looking to do the trifecta: Sprint, Super, and Beast. The Super is next up in November in New Jersey. And Beast will be in the spring of next year! Please say a prayer for me. From Joe Tranquillo: “Sounds like you are having fun! I’ve also gotten into some fun/crazy races (in fact, did the third-ever Tough Mudder a long time ago, the first one that had dangling electrical wires). I guess an update would include a few things: I was recently promoted to full professor of biomedical engineering at Bucknell University. I have spent the past year as the director of Bucknell’s Teaching and Learning Center and had an epic six-week cross-country driving trip this past summer with my family, Lisa Davis Tranquillo ’98 and our two kids, Laura, 13, and Paul, 11.” From Aaron Jacobs: “Jeff Pyle, Sandy Pesiridis, and I are all working together on a case (and occasionally finding time for lunch). The following update comes from the three of us: Jeff Pyle continues to practice First Amendment law at the firm of Prince Lobel Tye, where he has been since 2003. Aaron Jacobs joined Jeff, his former Jones Hall mate, at Prince Lobel in 2017, where Aaron continues to practice technology litigation. (As it happens, the managing partner of Prince Lobel is a member of the Trinity College Class of 1985. Go Bantams!) Sandy Pesiridis is a partner at Grimaldi & Pesiridis, where she practices primarily family law. Jeff and Aaron recently teamed up to help Sandy in a defamation case filed against one of Sandy’s clients in Los Angeles, California.” From Jill Pagliaro “Pags” Stepper: “My family and I decided to leave the San Francisco Bay Area (where my husband and I grew up) and head to the mountains. We’re renting a house while building our home in the Prosser area of Truckee, California (Tahoe National Forest). Our daughters learned to ski and snowboard this winter, and we’re all looking forward to a summer of hiking, biking, climbing, swimming, and kayaking in very, very full lakes and rivers! Hope you are well!” From Courtney Zwirn for Ben Russo: “Ben Russo’s company became the official guacamole and salsa of the Red Sox!” From Mary Kent Hearon: “Hi, there! It’s Mary Kent. Hope you’re well! Living in South Carolina. Started a jewelry company called The Heart Knot (www.theheartknot.com) and doing lots of traveling to NYC and Paris.” (BTW, Mary’s stuff is beautiful.) From Colin Woodward: “Here in Richmond, Virginia, we recently celebrated the fourth birthday of our youngest daughter (and honorary Martian), Nola June Woodward. Our eldest, Ella, finished kindergarten this week and loved every minute of school. We’re so proud of her!
In June, I traveled to Gettysburg to give a talk at a Civil War conference. I also published an article in Civil War Times magazine on cavalry officer Robert E. Lee Jr. In July, I’m starting a new position at Hampden-Sydney College in western Virginia. I’ll be commuting from Richmond to work as an archivist processing the papers of General Sam Wilson. ‘General Sam’ was president of the college for 10 years, and he was the man who came up with the military doctrine of counter-insurgency. I’m also in talks with an agent about my book Country Boy, about the singer Johnny Cash.” Keep the news coming! Have a great summer!
1998
Class Secretary: Jessica Lockhart Vincent, 8 Arborlea Ave., Yardley, PA 19067-7406; jessica.vincent.1998@trincoll. edu • Class Agents: Levi D. Litman, Geoffrey R. Zampiello Geoff Zampiello reports that he is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Geoff writes, “IEEE senior membership is an honor bestowed only to those who have made significant contributions to the profession.” Congratulations, Geoff! As always, if you have any news or information you’d like to share with your classmates, please send me an email at jessicalvincent@ yahoo.com.
1999
Class Secretary: Alyssa Daigle Schoenfeld, 28 Woodvue Rd., Windham, NH 03087-2113; alyssa.daigle.1999@ trincoll.edu • /groups/TrinColl1999/ Hello, and happy summer! I am writing to you post-Reunion, and it’s hard to believe our 20th has now come and gone. It was so great to catch up with fellow ’99ers on the quad, and, for those who weren’t there, the Trin campus is looking great, and a number of things have changed. On that note, I highly suggest you attend the 25th Reunion so you can see for yourself and join the celebration. The consensus from those who attended was, well, we need more attendees! So, a number of us are working together to start the outreach sooner (as in now) regarding the 25th Reunion. … The Class of 1959 had more than 90 classmates attend this year. I think we should be able to beat that easily, and Reunion really is a situation where the phrase “the more the merrier” applies, so please, be a “more” in ’24! Whoa, we may just have stumbled upon a ’99 Reunion attendance campaign slogan, folks! To stay informed, we have a class Facebook page, and I recently created a new LinkedIn group: Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ groups/TrinColl1999/; LinkedIn group: www. linkedin.com/groups/12256554/. I also will send an email with the links through the Alumni Office, and I encourage everyone to join both if you have not already. Aside from Reunion
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