CLASS NOTES
FELIX HENRY CARPENTER IS THE FIRST CHILD OF HEATHER CORSON ’95.
HADLEY GRACE, DAUGHTER OF ETHAN MARK ’95
PROUD NEW DAD JESSE DIAMOND ’95 WITH SON, JACKSON THOMAS
writes, “I am enjoying the lifestyle and nature in Boulder and welcome friends to visit.”
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Vivi Alyeshmerni married Ben Kollmeyer in South Lake Tahoe on August 8, 2014. After completing undergraduate and graduate programs at Stanford University, Vivi taught AP biology and coached CCR at Crossroads High School in Santa Monica, California. In 2001, Vivi went on to medical school in Tel Aviv and is now a pediatrician in Orange County, California. Although she and her husband enjoy trail running and surfing year round, they return to Minnesota to visit family and enjoy the seasons. Anthony Bushnell has been selected to the 2014 Minnesota Rising Stars List by Super Lawyers for his criminal defense practice. No more than 2.5 percent of attorneys in a state are selected to the Rising Stars List, which is composed of attorneys 40 years of age or under or in practice 10 years or fewer. Anthony was also selected as a Top 100 Trial
Attorney in criminal defense by the National Trial Lawyers. He has practiced criminal law since opening his own firm in 2007. He and his wife, Sarah, live in Blaine, Minnesota, and have three children.
Beads of Hope Lucy Hadl Moore ’91 (at left) with business partner Jamie Page
REUNION
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Heather Corson and her husband, Rolla Carpenter Couchman, welcomed their first child, Felix Henry Carpenter Couchman, on July 23, 2014. The family resides in Brooklyn and had plans to take Felix on tour in the fall to meet friends and relatives in Minneapolis and London.
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Susan Bowers Morton and her husband, Chris, welcomed their first child, Julia Elizabeth Morton, on September 14, 2013. She writes, “She took her time being born, but she’s become an impatient and eager girl who’s curious about everything and everyone.”
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Matt Hansen has been working for KPMG for almost 10 years and was recently promoted to director in the forensic investigations group. He married
SUSAN BOWERS MORTON ’96 SAYS DAUGHTER JULIA IS “AN IMPATIENT AND EAGER GIRL WHO’S CURIOUS ABOUT EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE.”
Lucy Moore Hadl ’91 has a passion for helping women advance themselves and a deep sense of connection with those half a world away, which she says comes from travel and observation. That’s why, from her hometown of Los Angeles, Hadl and business partners Jamie Paige and Devon Reilly have started a business to benefit women in Ghana, West Africa. CEED — an acronym for the business’s mission to change, employ, empower and dignify — trains and employs local village women as artisans of decorative beads, called CEED Beads. (In Africa, such beads are worn on a woman’s waist throughout her life and believed to protect and empower the wearer.) Consistent employment affords the women the ability to support themselves and their children. “The work experience the women gain is meaningful in a society in which women are offered few options
for dignified employment,” says Hadl. “We’re taking steps to stop the cycle of poverty and counteract the cycle of gender inequality currently inherent in the larger African community.” Business partner Paige has traveled to meet with all of CEED’s Ghana artisans. Operation Dignity International, a nonprofit organization based in Ghana, serves as the company’s main point of contact. Working with the developing world has its challenges, including language barriers and a lack of technology (computers are often powered by car batteries and Internet connection is painfully slow). But, Hadl says, the rewards are worth the challenges. The business partners have plans to expand the accessories line soon and high hopes for the future — for both the company and the women it employs. “CEED’s founding vision is to profoundly change the lives of the women we employ so that they can better care for themselves and their children,” Hadl says. “Our vision is to eventually open a vocational school to train women artisans. The money we make from every sale of an original CEED product goes directly toward making this vision a reality.” For more information visit ceedproject.com.
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