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Sophie Starchman ’11 and Dimitar Gochev ’11 were married on August 5, 2017, in Boise, Idaho. Bantams joining the couple included Todor Mitev ’12, Vlad Burca ’14, Rebecca Ostrowsky ’11, Trang Luong ’11, Rumen Vasilev ’09, Rayan Beydoun ’12, Kalin Gochev ’09, Nichole Strack Guerra ’11, Katie Masi ’13, Elizabeth Dalton Baca ’11, Yuwei Xie ’11, Andrei Marchidan ’13, Pooja Shakya ’11, Katie Marinello ’11, and Cathi Meunier Shershneva ’11.
Samantha Moore ’12 and Andrew Bates were married on June 24, 2017, in Osterville, Massachusetts. Front row: Chelsea Mello ’12, Katlin Mock ’12, Amanda Kohlhas Moore ’81, Andrew Bates, Samantha Moore ’12, Susy Arnold ’12, Ellen Grossman Habelow ’81; back row: Courtney Chaloff ’12, Sarah Whitham ’14, Emily Guthorn ’12, Kelly O’Brien ’12, Judy Klein Gardner ’81, Liza Heussler ’12, Lindsay Monaghan ’12
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in Madrid, Spain, Andres Vargas left his job to travel all over Southeast Asia. He ventured to Thailand, Malaysia (where fellow ’11 classmate Randy Lim is from), and to Singapore. He has started his M.B.A. program at IE, which has been intense but enjoyable. If any fellow Bantams find themselves in Madrid between now and July 2018, make sure to say hi to Andres! Kayla Lawson and Sean Zimmer were married this past April at Burning Daylight Farms in Charlottesville, Virginia. This momentous occasion was attended by many Trinity alums, including Brian Cheney ’10, who performed the ceremony, and Sean’s grandmother, Sonia Lee, Trinity professor of language and culture studies, emerita. They live in Brooklyn, New York, where Kayla works for Village Health Works, an NGO based in Burundi. She just returned from a two-week field visit at the VHW campus. Sean works in tech as a product manager and volunteers with the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy and Brooklyn Bird Club. After graduating with her master’s from Oxford University, Cristina Conti co-founded a personal matchmaking company, Matchmakers In The City. With its first office in Beverly Hills, California, the company has expanded in the last six years to New York City, San Francisco, and D.C. A noted celebrity matchmaker and dating expert, Cristina writes articles on relationships that are frequently featured on Elite Daily, YourTango.com, and Entity, among others. Cristina and Daniel Pineda were married on April 22, 2017, in Warwick, New York, and she is enjoying her status as a newlywed! Alex Okano and Andrea Titone were married on June 3, 2017, at Russo’s on the Bay in Queens, New York, surrounded by fellow Bantam friends. Dimitar Gochev and Sophie Starchman were married on August 5, 2017, in Boise, Idaho, where Sophie grew up. They are deeply thankful for the Trinity alumni who traveled from across the United States and overseas to celebrate together. Sophie and Dimitar reside in Bristol, Connecticut, where she works as a teacher after earning her M.S. in elementary education in May 2017 and he is a software engineer II at ESPN after getting his M.S. in computer science in May 2014. Having met in their freshman dorm almost 10 years earlier, Amy Almeida and Orhan Gazelle were married on May 28, 2017, in Bristol, Rhode Island. The ceremony was officiated by the couple’s good friend and fellow Trinity alum Matthew Nestor ’12. After meeting in a frat basement, Kurt von Seekamm ’09 and Katherine Fawcett were married on June 10, 2017, at her family’s home in Marshfield, Massachusetts. Katherine recently spent the summer at Spotify in New York and is returning to finish her second year at the Tuck School of Business in Hanover, New Hampshire. Kurt is an assistant professor of economics at Salem State University in Massachusetts.
Andrea Titone ’11 and Alex Okano ’11 were married on June 3, 2017, at Russo’s on the Bay in Queens, New York. Bantams in attendance included James Gately ’10, Rachel Low ’10, Callie Barr ’10, Samantha Petcu ’11, Ezra Moser ’10, Sarah Pratt ’10, Jack Abbott ’10, Stephen Gruendel ’11, Andrea Titone ’11, Alex Okano ’11, Mike Lau ’10, Isabelle McTwigen ’10, Olivia Berger ’10, Jennifer Petit ’11, Michelle Cohen ’10, Sara Fiorillo ’09, Will Pollock ’10, Rob Key ’10, and Doug Baillie ’10.
Chloe Koines ’12 and Jeffrey Menard ’13 were married on August 12, 2017, at the Wychmere Beach Club in Harwich Port, Massachusetts.
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Trinity Fund Goal: $8,000 Class Secretary: Mary Kate Morr, 4121 Knox Ct., Denver, CO 80211-1653; mary. morr.2012@trincoll.edu • Class Agents: James J. Armillay Jr., Esq., Mary Kate Morr, Nicole Lustig Pasternak, Lily Pepper Sommer, Kathryn T. Van Sickle, William A. Yale The Class of 2012 has several recent weddings to celebrate. Carly Rando and Jim Wood ’10 were married on June 16, 2017, at Wychmere Beach Club in
Carly Rando ’12 and Jim Wood ’10 were married on June 16, 2017, at Wychmere Beach Club in Harwich Port, Massachusetts. Front row: Jessica Girvan ’12, Saya Lindsay ’12, Carly Rando ’12, Lindsey Weiner ’12, Ali Zanghi ’12; middle row: Nana Sampong ’12, Camila Soriano ’12, Ryan Piacentini ’09, Jim Wood ’10, Brigitte Cellino ’12, Celia Colman-McGaw ’12, Sarah Hagman ’12, Domi Di Dia ’12; back row: Jeremiah Bayer ’10, Kent Graham ’10, Chris Dibona ’10, Joe Markovich ’10, Tim Bourdon ’08, Conor O’Sullivan-Pierce ’10, Tyler Berry ’09, Paul Romano ’81
Naomi Sobelson ’12 and Joseph Mashburn ’13 were married on September 3, 2017, at Mount Washington in New Hampshire. Front row: Abby Himmelrich ’12, Ben Rudy ’13, KC Clark ’13, Naomi Sobelson Mashburn ’12, Joseph Mashburn ’13, Tony Chen ’13, Julie McDonough ’14, Ayala Cohen ’13; middle row: Ben Hoeft ’13, Jynette DeMarco ’13, Kim Wagner ’13, Kathleen McKenna ’13, Marc DiBenedetto ’13, Brett Jackson ’09, Devlin Jackson ’09; back row: Stu Lovejoy ’13, Jennifer Estabrook ’82, Scott Estabrook ’82, Rip Furniss ’12
Harwich Port, Massachusetts, alongside many Trinity College alumni. Carly and Jim first met in 2009 at Psi Upsilon’s annual Tropical Party and began dating shortly after. 69