class notes Congratulations to ali the proud parents!. .. And, I may have a few more little bundles of joy to announce in the next issue. Stay tuned. Unti l next time, be well. Wishing you ali good health and lots of hap pi ness! - Alyssa.
Alumni Fund Goal: $15,000 Class Secretary: Virginia W.
Lacefield, 3504 Tates Creek Road, Lexington, KY 405172601 E-mail: virginia.lacefield.2000@ trincoll.edu Class Agents: Anne Sawyer Shields, Chris Borden Greetings again to the Class of 2000! I'd like to kick off this column with a shout out to Melissa Figueroa, Alexander Vincent, Katie Wallack,
and Jamie Baird, who jointly saved our class notes from being a one-paragraph wonder. Thanks much, you guys! Now on to the news ... Continuing our recent tradition of follow-up reports, Melissa Figueroa checked in to say that she spent Labor Day weekend attending the wedding of Amanda Lydon and Ajay Sutaria in Portsmouth, NH , along with fellow alumnae Laura Vangsness Holt, Julie Guilbert Maher, Toni Finney Clark, Tanya Suvarnasorn Keegan and Juli Tomaino.
Sounds like there was quite a turnout! She also reports that Juli relocated from NYC to Chicago in July after completing her residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology, and that Toni's twins Kyla and Brandon, Julie's daugh ter Meg, and Tanya's son Oliver ali turned one this past spring/early summer, while Laura's son Liam turned two in August. Melissa will have a one-year birthday to plan herself next year- she and her husband welcomed their second child, Madison Clara, in May. She writes, "big brother Brayden turned four in April and is very excited about his baby sister, and stepsister Michelle will turn 14 in December and has been a big help. I am still working as a consultant for CE TRA Technology but have cut back to three days a week to spend more time witl1 the kids." Have fun! As for other one-year celebrations, Stephanie Lane Fortin just marked her first wedding anni versary in November. She was married to husband Nico last year in the Outer Banks (NC) , and the happy couple has since relocated to Belgium. Other Triniry alums currently residing across the pond include engineers Mikko Auvinen and Nicolas Gastaud, two of our most jet-setting classmates! Nick relocated yet again this year, this time from Houston, TX, to Bristol, England (slight climate change there) , where he continues to work for Schlumberger doing "cool research in high -temperature, high - pressure sensors." Zander Vincent claims that Nick's projects have successfully passed several field trials (congrats!) , so hopefully they'll let him stay in the country for a while longer. Meanwhile, back in Finland, Mikko and wife Heini celebrated the birth of their second son in the wee hours of October 28. Having seen baby photos, I can personally report that their new addition is adorable and that Mikko was appropriately dressed to greet him in a Trinity College sweatshirt- gotta get those kids think ing about college early! According to Zander, the TRINITYREPORTER
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J. MICI-1AEL DIVNEY '00 ("Mike") married Anna (Arnold) Divney at a ceremony held on August 13, 2011 at the Keuka College Chapel on Keuka Lake in NY State's l=inger Lakes Region. The reception was held at Esperanza Winery, and the couple honeymooned immediately after in Greece. Among those in attendance were Rick Coduri '99, Courtney (l=ulks) Coduri '99, Sally (Maier) Ketchum '99, Sim Ketchum '00, and Joe Cortese '05. proud papa is "enjoying fatherhood by traveling to Germany for a conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics." Mikko refers to this as "bathing in adjoint theory and algorithmic differentiation." We'll have to check back later and see how that compares to bathing a newborn. ;) In more personal news, Zander is happy to report that he returned home last summer (June 2010) following an eight- month deployment with Navy Mobile Construction Battalion 26 to Afghanistan, where he was assigned to Kandal1ar Airfield (KAF) and Multinational Base Tarin Kowt (70 miles north of KAF). He writes, "wh.ile there, I was the officer in charge of the small detach.ment at Tarin Kowt and led 20 Seabees doing construction on the base and another 20 Seabees building a new outpost outside the wire. I am now back at Lehigh University full time completing my master's degree in energy systems engineering and looking for a job." Very impressive! Glad you're home safely. though - hope your next employer doesn't send you to a war zone! James Baird is also on track to finish school and start the job hunt. Currently residing in southern California, he's got just under a year left before he will wrap up his master's in divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary and head out to find a church where he can serve. In the meantime, he and wife Danielle, who just celebrated their second wedding anniversary in September, are preparing for the birth of a baby girl in January, 2012. Good luck, and don't forget to wear your Trinity gear to the hospital! )an1ie's SoCal neighbor, Katie Wallack, is enjoying some excitement of her own. She's been living in Los Angeles for a little over two years now and is continuing to build her career on the silver screen. Last month, two films she appeared in premiered in LA.: Like Crazy with Anton Yelchin and the silent black-and -white period romance The Artist, recently acquired by th.e Weinstein Company. Both are already creating Oscar buzz, but Katie couldn't stick around to enjoy it because she had to catch a flight back to her hometown of Anchorage, Alaska, to start work on the upcoming
feature The Frozen Ground opposite icolas Cage. Congratulations, Katie! Will definitely be buying a ticket to see th.at next year! Speaking of frozen ground, l happened to be in Hartford the weekend before Halloween, where I was attending Beth Gilligan 'o!'s fabulous wedding reception with fellow 'oo members John Brigham, Sara Merin, Ann O'Conneii-Davis, and Jon White, as well as a whole bunch ofTrin alums from other years. The blizzard-enhanced drive from Maryland was rather dicey, but I'm glad we braved it, since Amelia Ames' Right was grounded, and she had to stay home in DC. Katherine Woodcock LeDuc also got snowed under in Middlefield, but was able to dig her way out and drive up to join us for a ch.atty hotel brunch the next morning. Afterwards, a group of us paid a visit to Trinity to wade through 20" of snow and mourn the wreckage of trees along Summit Street and on the ~ad. The grounds crew was already out clearing the debris on a Sunday, but it may take quite a while for the treescape to fully recover. On the upside, the Bishop was still standing, neighborhood kids were trick-or- treating at Cinestudio, there was a sturdy- looking snow fort under construction on the ~ad , and I saw at least two or three students blithely trekking across campus in shorts, so it seems safe to say that life at Trinity continued relatively undisturbed by the massive storm. Trin students are resilient as always. So that's the news from Lake Trin -Trin, where ali the traditions are strong, all the students are good looking, and ali the alumni are above average. Hope you're having a joyful winter season - stay warm and keep in touch!
Alumni Fund Goal: $17,000 Class Secretary:Benjamin E.
Sayles, 195 W Canton St Apt 1, Boston, MA 02116-5970 E-mail: benjamin.sayles.2001@ trincoll.edu Class Agents: Charles Botts, Jay Civetti, Ann Grassing, Carrie Kasper, Dave Kieve It seems like just yesterday that we are all getting down to business at our 10th reunion - I think everyone would agree, AD never looked so good. Now the leaves have dropped and as the snow begins to fall , Hartford may seem like a world away for some of our classmates. Kristin Forester reports back from Hawaii, having recently moved there for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Tired of the rat race, Kristen is now teaching surfing to aspiring Big Kal1unas. She is maintaining a blog (islandleidy.blogspot.com) and you can also fol lower her on twitter: @islandleidy. If you are out there, definitely check her out! Also enjoying life at the beach is lan Hoge ...Santa Monica to be precise. Ian continues to make music (and who can forget h.is After Dark solos>) , check out his latest album: I Choose Love. Also holding it down on the Left Coast are Adam Karp '02, Brian Andre, and Will and Rebecca Homer-Smith Dearie. Adam Karp admits that he continues to be awesome, continuing to rip up the Bay Area. He and h.is wife extend a wholehearted "Arriba" to his fellow classmates. Also in the Bay Area, Rebecca Homer-Smith (Dearie) and Will Dearie h.ave two beautiful chil-