1991 Brooks and Emily Worthington Jordan gave birth to Lief Jordan on April 5, 2002; the happy family lives in Healdsburg, CA.
Jason Wenz is now a married man; his wonderful bride is Elizabeth. Will Redfield stood at the wedding. Jason is enrolling full-time in the University of Chicago MBA program. Speaking of Will Redfield, he got engaged to Elsbeth Norton on August 31 in Mt. Whistler, British Columbia. He’s still employed at http://www.bom.com “Not dot bom! BOM DOT COM! (Bill of Materials)!” he writes. “I’m the President of the Georgetown Club of Northern California and coach of our SFHOYAS Softball Team which just crushed an NBC corporate team. I don’t even really know how to play softball, but check out the action at www.sfhoyas.com.” You can reach Will at will@redfield.net.
Since Sharon Dana Karlsberg was looking forward to seeing all of her Thacher friends and classmates at the 10th Reunion, we’re glad she wasn’t disappointed. She and her husband Craig moved from Arlington, MA to Berkeley for business school. Before they left the east, though, Sharon and Craig had a great tour of the MIT Media Lab from Win Burleson CdeP 1990, spent St. Paddy’s Day with Betsy Burleson in New Haven, and saw Andrew Shakman CdeP 1990 in Ventura over the winter holidays. Steve and Anne Berube Gard welcomed son Kaden to their home on December 13, in the year of the horse. What irony?!!! Sarah Diggle Duffy has shifted from being a marketing manager, to teaching. After studying in Oxford for one year, she is now in her second year of teaching in Chiswick, West London (a “big, bouncy state school!”), where she teaches mostly English, some Latin and Classics. Instead of attending the Ten-Year Reunion, she married Chris Duffy—the origin of that extra appendage on her name—but she’s still known as Digs. “I missed everyone enormously!”
Alec Perkins with his bride Serena
Dana and Mara Fischbacher Gibson love being parents of Mark, who will turn three this May.
This just in! Amy O’Shea married Harry T. Hunt on August 10, 2002.
1992 Brittany Walker married Pat Conant over the summer. They met while she was living in San Francisco, but they have since moved to Fort Collins, CO, where she is taking steps to get her teaching credential while trying to keep her marketing business afloat. Paige Fulton graduated from UCLA Magna Cum Laude in Philosophy/Far Eastern Religions in 2001. Now she’s opening her own Equine Training Facility in Santa Rosa, CA: Fulton Farms, 47240 Guenza Road, Santa Rosa, CA 95404 Gatsha Small graduated again last year with a degree in Aerospace Engineering and now works for Edwards Air Force Base as a Performance and Flight Qualities Engineer. He is engaged, spending a lot of time biking (hopes to do the AIDS ride from San Francisco to LA in June), and just finished making his fiancée a hope chest.
From the decks of the USS Constellation, Ben Clammer wrote that “stress is building over here.” He’s been busy with Operation Southern Watch, flying routine patrols and waiting for the next command. Despite flying over enemy terrain, he finds landing on the ship at night to be his most stressful activity.
1994 According to Rika Howe Toll, Aspin Bowers is currently in Telluride, CO, living out her cowgirl heritage. She still loves the smell of hay and that good old horse *&#^. She has applied to Midwifery School in Taos, NM, and started a twoyear program in January. Rika is still a graduate student at UGA in Athens, GA; meanwhile, Nate Toll is head coach of the UGA crew team.
1993
Katie Prager enjoys her work as a small-animal vet in Berkeley almost as much as her weekends.
Speaking of double-Toad unions, Rosa Barkus and Jose Klein joined the Peace Corps and will call Suriname, South America, their home for the next two years. They’re working with a NonGovernment Organization in the capital city doing HIV prevention and support activities. If you contact them via email, you can find out about their bizarre tropical afflictions: rosasepulvedaklein@yahoo.co.uk
Brian and Helen Holmes Gold
Who would have thought surfing and a law degree could go hand-in-hand? Meghan Jeans figured out a way. Having just graduated from Vermont Law School, she’s now practicing environmental law on the island of Kauai. She’s representing some homeowners in an environmental lawsuit against a developer whose Clean Water Act violations destroyed one of Hawaii’s most pristine coral reef ecosystems. She is looking forward to seeing all the CdeP 1993 folks in June. Aloha! Her new email address is mjeans@whalemail.com. Another practicing lawyer is Matt Farrer, who works in San Francisco. He remains an avid music-lover and philosopher, but now he’s taken up Chinese Kickboxing. Sonya Day is doing Bio-Chem research at the Gene Center in Munich, Germany. Her home address: Sonya Day, Alspitz Str. 11, Munchen, Germany 81373. Email: quinnone2002@yahoo.com. Joining the ranks of doubleToad marriages are Laura Wentworth and Todd McCloskey who married on August 14, 2002, in the Rockies. Camillia Joy (Carley) married Evan Louden on June 16, 2002 at Cape Cod.
Did you catch the Time magazine article on the terrorist attack in Bali? The October 12 cover story described the party atmosphere that was transformed into a crucible of horror when a car bomb blew up the Sari Club nightclub, resulting in the loss of hundreds of lives. Brian Bennett authored Time’s account of that tragic evening. Flying in the bush slowed down for Will Scoular last summer after he totaled his old Cessna in a less-than-graceful landing in the Chugach Mountain Range. Instead, he’s the resident high school teacher in a subsistence Eskimo village called Koliganek. This is Will’s fourth job teaching since he graduated from high school, and with each new teaching experience, he “gains better perspective of the opportunities we had at Thacher. Now I particularly appreciate the great educators, such as Chuck Warren and Bill Tabrisky…In a heated discussion, a high school educator once warned me, ‘If you live long enough, life has a way of getting back.’ I now understand the wisdom of his statement.” Last September Carson Campe and Chris Nichols met up in Philadelphia to hear the music of Nick Young’s band AI: “The show was amazing!” Pictured here is the Nichols family: Vicki, Gary, Amy, and Chris. Mark Peirsol CdeP 1962 reports that daughter Cate Peirsol graduated summa cum laude with a BS in Nursing from the Dominican University and passed her California State RN Board. Cate is now working in the ICU of Kaiser San Francisco.
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