ClassNotes Austin Freeman recently got married on March 16 to Mariana Duran. They are currently living and working in Chicago.
Mid-Atlantic. He is currently working with more than 30 families from Maine to Florida and reports that “life is good on all fronts, we’re very lucky!”
2000 Class Agents: Kimmy Gardner and Jack Meyers
Kylee (Jakobowski) Newman and her husband, Andrew, were blessed with the birth of their first child, a son, Jake Andrew Newman, born on January 9, 2013.
Drew Evans has just completed his Ben Rogers and his wife, Candice, and daughter, Addison Chandler, born on September 1, 2010, welcomed the arrival of Henry Baird Rogers on January 15, 2013. Ben works in Washington, DC, for HSBC Bank as a commercial relationship manager, and they live in Arlington, VA.
Rachael Garrett recently got engaged Ed Shaw was married to Gloria Franke on October 13, 2012. In attendance were: (l to r) Elizabeth Shaw ’96, Ed Shaw, Gloria Franke Shaw, Patrick Dee, and Benjamin Nero.
James Strohacker and his wife, Katie, welcomed James Becket “Jeb” Strohacker, Jr. on November 6, 2012. They moved back to the Philly area from Boston over the winter, as his yacht management business (www. becketco.com) is expanding into the
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1986. I help people with every aspect of personal finance such as debt, mutual funds, and life insurance. I also am looking to develop other regional vice presidents in my organization. I currently reside in the Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia but am looking to move to Conshohocken near the end of the year where my office is located.”
to Graham Dow. She is receiving her doctorate in environment and resources from Stanford University in June, and this fall she will be doing a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University at the Kennedy School of Government to examine agricultural technologies for sustainable development.
2001 Class Agents: Evan Coughenour, Drew Crockett, Sarah Baker, and Pete Tedesco
Jaclene Ashford reports: “I was just promoted to regional vice president at Primerica Financial Services in April. I was the first woman to get promoted out of my base shop office since
first year in the Wharton MBA program. Drew took a school trip to Antarctica this past year. La Camioneta, the first feature-length film by Mark Kendall, is set to be distributed this summer, with one-week theatrical engagements in NYC (May 31–June 6), Los Angeles (June 7–13), and San Diego (July 2–7), as well as screenings at the Wexner Center for the Arts (July 17), the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (Sept 20 & 27), and the Phoenix Art Museum (Sept/Oct). More info will be announced soon: www. lacamionetafilm.com.
Bryan Koegel was the chairperson and emcee for the March of Dimes “March for Babies” in King of Prussia last month, and his brother Jon ’97 is getting married in June. After being away in Taiwan for seven years, Peter Liu is back and going to Carnegie Mellon for his MBA. He is happy to be back in the States and has mastered his Mandarin, both written and spoken.
Jaclyn Paige Lees was married to Chad Allen Leck on June 27, 2009, at