CLASS NOTES
MICHAEL OLSON ’01 AND COURTNEY HENNESSEY WERE MARRIED ON APRIL 4, 2015. JILL YABLONSKI KRESSE ’98 AND HER HUSBAND, TIM, WITH THEIR DAUGHTER
STEPHANIE SWANSON ’01 MARRIED GIORGIO MOSONI ON MAY 31, 2014, IN WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.
THIS LITTLE BOOKWORM IS THE DAUGHTER OF SOVADY PHE HUSTON ’98.
Dunedin Blue Jays, a minor league affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays. He is calling 140 games this season across the state of Florida, all of which will be available online at dunedinbluejays.com. Natalie Owens-Pike is the executive director of LearningWorks, a public-private partnership between Minneapolis Public Schools and Blake. The program offers a two-year, 500-hour, tuition-free academic enrichment program to highly-motivated Minneapolis Public School students and provides teaching opportunities to high school seniors and college-age students. Previously, Owens-Pike served as LearningWorks’ alumni director where she redesigned Leadership Academy to focus more directly on high school readiness. She also expanded the program’s alumni networking opportunities with leading local and national organizations.
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After nearly seven years in New York City, Katy Marshall is moving to Boston to attend Harvard Business School (HBS). While sad to leave New York (at least temporarily), she is excited about the opportunities that await
her at HBS, as well as the chance to reconnect with Blake friends on campus. She is leaving her current role at the Boston Consulting Group in June and plans to spend the summer traveling to Australia, Southeast Asia and Europe. If you ever find yourself in Cambridge, please let her know.
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After working as Blake’s assistant Annual Fund director for nearly two years, Emily Blease will return to school this fall to pursue a master of philosophy in anthropology at the University of Oxford. Devin Durant graduated in 2014 from Northwestern University with a master’s degree in biomedical engineering. Jay Jasper earned a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from Purdue University and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Along the way, he participated in the development of over a dozen robots, including Andy, winner of a half-million dollar Milestone Prize in the Google Lunar XPrize mission, a competition to land a privately funded robot on the moon. Jay
has begun work as a mechanical robotics engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology. JPL is the leading U.S. center for robotic exploration of the solar system. Ummul Kathawalla is a research project coordinator at Northwestern University. She will join the University of Minnesota’s counseling psychology doctoral program this fall. Ande Saunders is development coordinator for Civic Works’ Baltimore Center for Green Careers, a nonprofit that trains Baltimore residents for jobs in the emerging green economy. She helps to grow and sustain funding for the program’s work, coordinate partnerships and research potential areas of program expansion. Ande is applying to various schools to pursue a doctorate. She plans to identify applications of decentralized sanitation methods to address ecological and human health problems. In her spare time, Ande participates in historic 1812 reenactments, pursues opportunities to sing and volunteers with local advocacy groups. She enjoys creative writing and is compiling a collection of her poetry for future
Births & Adoptions Robby Bershow ’98 a daughter, Beatrix Eliza, May 8, 2014 Mariya Connors Melby ’04 a son, Theodore Temple, March 5, 2015 Mia Greene Como ’05 a son, Levon Oliver, March 4, 2015
Marriages Michael Olson ’01 and Courtney Hennessey April 4, 2015 Stephanie Swanson ’01 and Giorgio Mosoni May 31, 2014 Kristin Ankeny ’03 and John Bickenbach August 9, 2014 Nellie Connolly ’04 and Alistair Thornton September 6, 2014
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