CLASS NOTES on how young we remain and far we can still go. That’s the hope anyway. Karin Bennett Micheletti reports: “Lynn Snyder Seay and Karin Bennett Micheletti spent a long weekend with Karina Fabi Ozment at her beautiful home in Jupiter, Florida. We caught up while doing yoga, going to the beach, paddle boarding, and riding bikes around town. Karina singing with the reggae band was the highlight of the weekend!” Thanks KB – and you all look just amazing! Liz White Michel reports: “I am in my 21st year of private practice of internal medicine and pediatrics in Covington, Louisiana, a suburb of sorts of New Orleans, which is where I grew up. My husband, Kirk, and I have three young kids for our old ages! 13, 10, and 8! Miss Connecticut but not the winters!” Thanks Liz! Wonderful to hear … I always remember you coming out of a (early morning) lab or two on my way to Mather. Tom Dunn reports: “On April 1, I gave a guest lecture in Professor Zannoni’s Econ 318 econometrics course on using economics to quantify damages in securities fraud cases. I also gave a talk in the Career Development Center on careers in economics. And beforehand, I had breakfast and caught up with Kim Crowley. I am a supervisory financial economist with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where I help catch bad guys and keep all our retirement money safe.” We need you, Tom! In every way. Keep up the good work! Finally, great news from Robin Saitz this past spring. Here is part of an April 28, 2015, press release from her new firm Brainshark. Go get ’em Robin. “Brainshark, Inc., a software as a service (SaaS) company delivering content-driven sales enablement solutions that help businesses close more deals, today announced the appointment of marketing veteran Robin Saitz as chief marketing officer. With a proven track record of building highperformance teams and brands, Saitz will spearhead the company’s marketing strategy, ranging from messaging and positioning to demand generation and awareness programs. ‘Robin is a high-energy, results-driven marketing leader who has the ability to think strategically and collaboratively while leading a team to execute at the highest level of performance,’ said Brainshark President Greg Flynn. ‘As we continue to expand Brainshark’s position in the sales enablement arena, Robin will play an essential role in our growth.’ Prior to Brainshark, Saitz had a successful 25-year career with PTC, where she was most recently senior vice president of global marketing and operations and led the company’s lead-torevenue initiative. During her tenure, she helped the company grow from $25 million to $1.3 billion in revenue, while leading all aspects of marketing, including product and solutions marketing, corporate branding, social and content marketing, demand generation, regional and channel marketing, and global events. Previously, Saitz worked as a member of the technical staff at both GTE and Raytheon. She earned a master of science degree in engineering management from Northeastern University and a bachelor of science degree in engineering and
computers from Trinity College-Hartford.” Thanks everyone and please keep the news coming. All the best for the months ahead – Aileen
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Class Secretary: Douglas Kim, 708 Union Valley Rd., Mahopac, NY 10541-3973; douglas.kim.1987@trincoll.edu • Class Agent: Bryant S. Zanko Last week, I was thrilled to cross paths with old Ned Ryerson on a street corner in town. I admit that, at first, I didn’t recognize old “Needlenose” Ned, but he quickly reminded me of his singing belly-button trick at the school talent show, and it all started to come back. Moments like these are what make Harold Ramis’s Groundhog Day a favorite even 22 years after its release. Nobody wants to be Ned Ryerson, the overly chatty schoolmate looking to sell you a single premium life insurance policy, but we do want to know. Call it ego, sentimentality, or just plain curiosity, but the fact is that most people want to hear what their classmates are up to. Here’s my point – I’m told people were disappointed I didn’t write an installment last quarter, so I apologize. With that said, I’ll lead with the kind of story our class hasn’t had in a long while. I’m pleased to report a wedding. Lisa Cadette Detwiler recently tied the knot with CNBC on-air personality Jim Cramer. Lisa was kind enough to reply to my inquiry about schoolmates in attendance at the ceremony: “Nan Tellier vanderVelde and Murphy vanderVelde, Ginny Vogel Yonce, Ingrid Kotch, Laura Danford, Wendy Sheldon, Peter Voudouris and Biz Hosler Voudouris ’88, Scott Zoellner, Bill Detwiler, Kate Cadette, Kate Rodgers Smith, Maxwell Smith ’86, and Isabelle Parsons Loring and Ian Loring ’88 were all in attendance! Go Trin!” We wish you and Jim all the best, Lisa. From Chevy Chase, Maryland, comes news from Ellen Garrity that she recently had lunch with local classmate Debbie Liang-Fenton. Ellen continues to prosper at the auction house Sloans & Kenyon where she tells me they recently hired a newly minted (and very impressive) Trinity alumna, Mimi Warner. Debbie, now in her seventh year at the U.S. Institute of Peace, continues to be a watchdog for human rights in the NGO world, where she is a senior program officer. I’ll close with a mention of Aileen Doherty ’86, who my wife and I plan to see this weekend for the first time since graduation. It’s a reminder that Trinity is a small and very intimate world of friends where you are always welcome. And if I haven’t seen you in 28 years, please don’t hesitate to get in touch and share your news for this page. If we get together, I even promise not to mention single premium life insurance.
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Co-Class Secretary: Nancy E. Barry, 166 E. 61st St., #8C, New York, NY 10065-8518; nancy.barry.1988@trincoll.edu • Co-Class Secretary: Thomas P. Chapman, 61 Copper Beech Dr., Rocky Hill, CT 06067-1836; thomas.
chapman.1988@trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Constantine G. Andrews, Jeffrey A. Baskies, Esq., Arthur F. Muldoon, Jr. It’s been a busy few months since we last wrote in. We have just returned from another annual Trinity excursion – this time to Greece. Our trip was filled with beautiful islands, lazy days on the beach, and fantastic seafood. We spent a lovely 10 days with Vikki Wenzel, Barbara Caldarone, Michelle Boudreau, and Terry Caldarone ’86 in a nice little villa by the sea in Naxos, with a pit stop in Athens. We also had the chance to catch up with a few long-lost classmates in Boston on Easter weekend. First, Tom had lunch with Diane Manning Abe and Laurie Carlson Giannaros at the Copley Fairmont (great food and cocktails, by the way) on Good Friday. Diane had just dropped off her two daughters, Grace and Katie, at Anime Boston, and Laurie had the day off from her job at Harvard Medical School. We had a lot of laughs as we got caught up and reminisced about our Trinity years. Diane and her family live in Lexington, Massachusetts, and she is already looking at colleges for her oldest daughter, Katie. Hints were dropped about Trinity! Laurie and Diane still see each other regularly since they are both in the Boston area. Diane also sees Kirk Brett and Laura Ulrich Brett often at Okemo in Vermont, where their families ski together. Then we (Nancy and Tom) had another mini-reunion later that day when Liz Kehrli Salpoglou joined a group of us for dinner and drinks near the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art. Liz is still working for the same company but is in a new role as marketing director. She lives in Dedham, Massachusetts, with her husband and her son, Brady. The icing on the cake of a great Easter weekend was the chance for Tom to have a leisurely brunch with Jill Mello at the Beat Hotel in Cambridge. We had not seen each other since graduation, so we had a lot of catching up to do. Jill is a lawyer with McCarter & English in Boston, and she and her husband and two daughters live in Cambridge. We had a great time chatting about travel, work, the Cambridge school system, and the benefits of a gluten-free diet, of all things. I was so glad to see her after all these years – it was like not a day had passed since May of 1988. Liesl Odenweller writes in from Venice to say that she continues to love life in Italy, where her musical venture, Venice Music Project, is growing and thriving. Last year, the project was listed third in a New York Times article about must-see attractions if you only have “36 Hours in Venice.” This year, the Venice Music Project has created a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization (take note, all alumni looking for a place for charitable donations) and has launched a 60-concert 2015 season in March. Discounted tickets are available to Trinity alumni and students when visiting Venice. Liesl’s husband, Frank, has been jetting around the world consulting for big multinational corporations, and their daughter, Anna, has started middle school at the English International School of Padua and is thriving. Wendy Goldstein Pierce writes in from //Fall Fall2015 2015//
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