CLASS NOTES Colin’s writing (very slowly) a book about Johnny Cash. Great news all around. Congrats, Colin! Jessica Benjamin Dobson wrote that she had the chance to catch up with Tamara Wiley Kennedy, Jill Crowley Kelsey, and Kelly Conte Martin in Boston to celebrate Michelle Buckley’s birthday. “It was great to get some time to catch up without all the kids, even though it was way too quick! Tammy and Kelly both live in Massachusetts, and Michelle recently moved back to Connecticut. I came down for the night from New Hampshire, and Jill made the trip from Sag Harbor. We had a great night, and Michelle was definitely surprised!” They aren’t the only classmates who’ve had a chance to reconnect lately. Writing from Johannesburg, South Africa, Tshepi Maesela let me know that she recently had the opportunity to catch up with LaTanya Langley, who was there for work. Tanya Jones writes, “All is well in NYC. I am still working as an executive producer of branded video content. It’s an exciting time for video. I’m constantly trying to find new ways to tell stories, inspire, and motivate users to share and engage. I continue to coach and create partnerships around workshops and retreats in and around NYC and abroad. I will certainly hit up all of you with an invite. I had a good catch up with our class president, Professor Shaakirrah Sanders, recently. She is doing well in Idaho and is due to visit New York for a conference in June. I had the pleasure of spending time with her this past summer in Cape Cod with a few other Trinity grads. It’s becoming an annual tradition, and I’m loving it. I keep in touch with the usual suspects, Natasha Haidous, Lisa Schramm Buckley, Kate McCabe, Rachel Carr Devlin, and Paul Lordan. Everyone is doing well. I met up with Kim Roberts in New York and had a great dinner catching up. Looking forward to seeing her at her wedding in 2016.” Rhitu (Siddharth) Rose let me know that she has moved back to Syria as special assistant/ humanitarian coordinator to the most senior U.N. official in Syria (the humanitarian and resident coordinator in Syria). She is working on projects where 13.5 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in Syria alone. Thank you for the important work you are doing, Rhitu. With that, I’ll let our class president close: “Fall has been quite lovely here in Boise. I can hardly believe that I have started my fifth year at the University of Idaho College of Law. Where has all of the time gone? Speaking of time, I can’t believe we are less than two years away from our 20th class Reunion. I am super excited to see you all! I have recently had a double dose of ’97 love in Idaho. First, I met up with Mr. Paul Lordan in Portland, Oregon. After tearing it up in Portland, he accompanied me to Boise for a quick visit. We had a blast (Boise will never quite be the same). Next, I received an e-mail from Ms. Emily (Miller) Burns. She lives in Boise with her husband and works at Boise State University. We recently enjoyed cocktails and caught up on the past 18 years. It was great to see her. In other
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class news, I’ve recently chatted with Tanya Jones, received a voice mail that I have yet to return from Rhitu (Siddharth) Rose, and owe Alice (McCartney) Auth a telephone call. Finally, I hope all of you Facebookers join the new Trinity College Class of 1997 20th Reunion page that I (literally) just created. Happy hollies and blessings in the New Year! Your class prezzy, Shaakirrah R. Sanders”
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Trinity Fund Goal: $25,000 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 Congratulations go out to Ryan Moore and his wife, Laura. They welcomed their first child, Sebastian Bodhi Moore, on October 5, 2015. The family is healthy and happy. Jeff Cross writes, “I appeared in the Mark Wahlberg-Seth MacFarlane movie Ted 2. I was outside the courthouse as both a reporter covering Ted’s personhood trial and one of the well-wishers cheering the success of his appeal at the end and was on Ted’s right in the Boston Globe photo of him leaving the courthouse after being declared property. I also lost an entire Saturday at Gillette Stadium getting a photo of myself with the New England Patriots’ fourth Super Bowl trophy and worked seaborne crowd control at the starting line of the 2015 Marblehead (Massachusetts) to Halifax (Nova Scotia) Ocean Race sailing regatta.” On Sunday, September 27, Anna Norland was inducted into the college player category of the Connecticut Field Hockey Hall of Fame. Way to go, Anna! I was lucky enough to spend some time with Katie Pilcher Knowles this summer. Sitting on the couch, with a beer in hand, watching the Sox on the TV, it was almost as if no time had passed and we were back in college. Then we were snapped back to reality when we had to stop what we were doing to yell at our children to stop talking and go to sleep. That’s all for this issue of The Reporter. As always, please send any news or updates to jessicalvincent@yahoo.com. Thank you! The Alumni Office reports: Charles Leatherbee has been promoted to executive vice president and regional manager for commercial development operations at Skanska in Boston.
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Trinity Fund Goal: $30,000 Class Secretary: Alyssa Daigle Schoenfeld, 28 Woodvue Rd., Windham, NH 03087-2113; alyssa.daigle.1999 @trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Alyssa Daigle Schoenfeld, Maureen Smith St. Germain Greetings, fellow ’99ers! This Reporter issue damn near wrote itself, and I couldn’t be more thrilled! Fall in Boston has been both beautiful and busy, and I feel like July turned immediately into October before I knew it. It was great to hear from so many this time around, and I am happy to share the following interesting news from our classmates: Oh, baby! They are still arrivin’, so we keep on multiplyin’! Our newest arrival is Tully Michael Edward Katrancha, born on September 28 to Julianna (Bogdanski) Katrancha and husband Jedd. Everyone is healthy and doing well, and the first-time parents are proud and excited! Congratulations, Katranchas! Kristin Nabers is also adding to her family in Decatur, Georgia. She writes: “The biggest news for me lately has been the arrival of my second baby, Oliver, in June. He is actually a super chill baby. I’m finding that the cliché about second babies being easier is definitely true in my case (thank goodness). His big sister, Matilda, is 2, and is over the moon for him.” Kristin connected with Jamie Griffith recently. “Jamie started a job as an assistant professor in philosophy in Bratislava, so I was lucky to catch up with him when he was here for a conference recently. The move sounds like a great adventure, but his tales of European bureaucracy make the DMV sound positively delightful in comparison.” Thanks for writing, Kristin, and welcome to baby Oliver! Oh, I had to look up Bratislava; I hope it comes in handy in some form of trivia now that I know where it is! Emily (Beales) McDowell was at a recent conference for college admissions in San Diego and ran into many Bantams, including “fellow ’99er Mo Zelaya, Michael Pina ’92, who trained me to be a tour guide, and Francis (Spike) Gummere ’61, whom I have known since I was in high school! I also had the chance to connect with the new dean of admissions, Angel Pérez. Next week, I will be heading to campus to have dinner with the large group of students from the school at which I work who are now Trinity students. It’s an exciting time to be a Bantam!” For such a small school, the wide reach never ceases to amaze me! The presence in academia seems to be particularly strong and continues with fellow alum Amie Margolis, who writes: “In July I began working at the Buckingham Browne & Nichols school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the Office of External Affairs. My son, Aidan, and I recently moved to Watertown. I see Jocelyn Bartlett Frank ’98 on a fairly regular basis as well as Adrianne Ober ’98 and some of the other Trinity folks in the Boston area.” The Boston connection is also strong — and awesome! Kerry McKevitt continues to work for the Spanish Navy and writes: “My students are / Winter 2016 /
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