CLASS NOTES Boston to say: “Liz Cahn Goodman visited for two nights as she was driving her son’s car to Maine for him. She is still working for WellCare in Tampa. On the same weekend, we also went to a surprise 50th birthday party get-together for Bryant McBride. It was great to see some long-lost Trinity pals like Mike Doyle ’87, Mike Anderson, Bob Loeber, and Mark Galley. Also that weekend, I met Stacy Waldman Bass for the signing of her new book, Gardens at First Light, here in the Boston area. It was great to catch up with so many people all at once.” Paul Schlickmann, who is director of athletics at CCSU, writes in: “I had a Memorial Day backyard barbecue in West Hartford attended by Tim Steele and also by men’s basketball head coach Jamie Cosgrove. A good time was had by all. Congrats to Jamie and his staff and student-athletes for an exceptional season.”
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Class Secretary: Juliana Lowry, 2275 Cocalico Rd., Birdsboro, PA 19508-8222; juliana.lowry.1989@ trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Jonathan W. Cox, Donna F. Haghighat, Douglas Michael Macdonald Hello, ’89ers! The world changes, but the friendships we built ’neath the elms remain. Facebook is an easy way to keep up with those friendships. If you’re not on Facebook, sign up! You’ll get updates every day instead of three times a year. Before I get to the submissions, let me tell you what I’ve gleaned from Facebook: Marissa Boyers Bluestine is saving lives, literally, as the legal director of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project. You can find her on radio, in newspapers, and even a character on the TV show The Divide, played by Tony Goldwin. She, her three kids, and husband, Eric, enjoy family movie night on a regular basis. Charles (Chuck) Cordova is blissfully happy in love with his fiancée, Zulie Torres. He works at a New York City law firm and sports dapper bow ties. Caitlin Dean also shows off her fancy bow ties on a regular basis. She enjoys coffee and coffee shops and travels a bit for her new job. In the ’80s, she had a high-and-tight perm (didn’t we all?). Laura Updyke is a research analyst at the National Council on Teacher Quality. Not only does she work to improve education, but she also has a gaggle of kids that she is raising. They play a lot of sports, including soccer and golf. And here are the updates from people who wrote in: Nancy Sullivan writes, “We moved into a new house last fall. We are still in Williamsburg and love it here. We’d love to play host to any of our fellow ’89ers. Always lots to see and do on your way to the beach. Since you asked about anniversaries, our 25th is coming up in September.” Andrea Krause Schreiber, who lives in Frankfurt, Germany, says that she has rented a part of a farm garden. It’s like a co-op where you learn to tend your own rows of plants. As of mid-May, she already harvested a large number
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of radishes, and the first spinach was ready to go, too. Her daughter Katrin is enjoying it! Scott Sherman updates us on his family. “My daughter Sarah and I attended the Admissions 101 seminar at Trinity. Sarah left seriously considering Trinity. My eighth grader, Rebekah, will be transitioning to high school. And my 8-year-old son is really getting into baseball. My wife, Bridget, teaches music in a Catholic school for pre-K through sixth grade and then on Mondays and Wednesdays teaches dance and voice in our home for free to friends of my kids. I am closing in on 4.5 years managing technology at WNE for the College of Pharmacy.” Paul Furigay says, “This year we celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary and ushered the last of our kids out of the nest and off to school. We are even happier to report that our oldest of four, Max, proved true to his Bantam lineage and was chosen to join Trinity’s Class of 2019 as a Presidential Scholar.” Our esteemed president, Doug Macdonald, was interviewed by Nature Reviews Neurology about his recently published work, where he led an international group of researchers to quantify mutant huntingtin protein in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of Huntington’s disease patients. Using a novel single-molecule counting assay, they observed positive correlations between CSF levels of mutant huntingtin and disease stage, with higher levels seen in more advanced patients. The levels of mutant protein in CSF also associated with patients’ clinical symptoms. Doug and his colleagues hope this assay will be used in upcoming clinical trials of gene silencing therapeutics aimed at decreasing the amount of mutant huntingtin protein in patients. Matt Cost writes, “My daughter, Brittany, is in Cape Town, South Africa, for the summer doing an internship for ELLE magazine. My youngest, Pearson, is graduating from high school and will be attending Gettysburg College in the fall. In expectation of having no kids in the house, I am transitioning to the more flexible lifestyle of writer and have just published a historical novel available on Amazon titled Joshua Chamberlain and the Civil War: At Every Hazard. I am hoping to start spending more winter time in a warmer climate but will remain in Maine for the rest of time.” Rob Cummings and Ci Conran have been keeping up with classmates. “Our son Griffin is a graduating senior and plays on his high school ultimate Frisbee team. We were heading down to Scarsdale to play, but when we arrived, he realized he did not bring his cleats. Fortunately Emily Blumenfeld and Dave Lowey ’90 recently moved around the corner from where they were playing. We were able to quickly arrange – via text messaging – borrowing Dave’s cleats. They were still warm from Dave’s early morning adult soccer league game. We see Samantha Koster every few months on her way to and from NYC and Connecticut from Wilmington, Delaware. We also met up with Katie Sherr Blanque and her husband, Frederic, for some fine (kid friendly) dining at Smashburger after local Little League games.” Andy (“Turbo”) Warren and his wife, Laurie, had their 20th anniversary last summer
(2014). He says, “Our oldest, Ariel, graduated high school last spring. He’s postponing college to serve in the IDF. My daughter, Shoshana, is an ambitious rising senior who occasionally pencils in some time with us. Shlomo is entering 10th grade and had a big wrestling season this past year with two tournament wins, all pins, and team MVP. And the baby, my rising eighth grader, Gavriel, all of a sudden has become a teenager way too fast for us. All of my kids attend Maimonides School in Brookline. And it’s a wonderful small world because Scott Mattoon ’91 became their general studies principal this past year. I also recently learned that Ted Einhorn ’91 has a nephew in Gavriel’s class.” ’89ers, I wish you all well. Please send me your updates at julielowry@yahoo.com, or find me on Facebook.
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Class Secretary: Beth Clifford, 14 Bramblebush Rd., Crotonon-Hudson, NY 10520-3417; elizabeth.clifford.1990@trincoll.edu Hello classmates! It was so great to see so many of you at Reunion. While over 100 of us were on campus, we definitely missed the rest of you! You can bet that even if you weren’t there, you were remembered fondly. The campus looked beautiful, the students were very friendly, and the Class of 1990 was a strong presence at all events. AJ Kohlepp, Todd Coopee, Peter Swanson, and Jen Osborne Prescott presented their books at a book-signing event. Their books ran the gamut from nostalgia to futuristic young adult works. Ed Troiano spoke about his career as a special agent with the ATF to a standing-room-only crowd. Peter Denious was awarded the Alumni Medal for Excellence. Mike Davis won the award for alumnus who traveled the farthest to get to Reunion. A lot of effort went into planning the Reunion. Our Reunion Committee had about 20 people. Although lots of committee members stepped up in a variety of ways, a few people really went above and beyond: Greg Johnson kept running tallies of the RSVP list; Mike Cavanaugh planned much of the Reunion dinner; and Dawn Browne McGreevey organized the wine tasting. Courtney Cimilluca Zanelli and Alexis Brashich Morledge were great behind the scenes. And, thank you to Peter Denious, who arranged to host our class at a May reception with President Berger-Sweeney. Thank you! Though no one would mistake (most of ) us for college students, all of us have aged gracefully and settled into adulthood. Sure, some people came in a car they borrowed from their parents, some people were spurning suitors at AD well after midnight, others played ridiculous drinking games, but, overall, we are all officially all the way grown up. We’re in a variety of life stages, too. The youngest child (related to anyone in our class) I spotted on campus was Richard Coleman’s adorable preschool daughter, Harper. Other kids on campus included Scott Gerien’s children, Jen Osborne Prescott’s boys, and Nancy Nereo’s son and daughter. My daughter, Hannah, and Melissa Gold Jelinek’s daughter,