NewsNotes Vince Rhee and Kay Choi were married in June 2011. Webbies in attendance included (L to R) Kevin Park ’99, Eric Tzeng ’99, Peter Choi ’99, Ralph Gifford, Carson Moore, and Ben Dey. - 42 Congratulations to Albert Walsh and Jordan Shay who were married on March 23, 2012 at the Marigny Opera House in New Orleans, LA. Pictured: Albert Walsh and Jordan Shay with Webbies, Ben Dey, Ralph Gifford, Sam Bailey ’99, Lawrence Tollenaere ’03, Anna Simle ’05, Robert Walsh ’04, George Peake, Carson Moore, and Kate Walsh Garrett ’02. - 43
2001 • Karen Chan is a strategic planner at Dentsu, an advertising
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agency in Tokyo. She’d love to connect with other Webbies in Japan.
2002 • Jonathan Forney is engaged to Rachel Kelly. The wedding is
planned for September, and Loren Rotner will be in the wedding party. Jonathan is a co-owner of City Bikes in Portland, OR, a workers cooperative. He also has his punk rock band. Harason Horowitz is now working at Claremont McKenna College as a development coordinator.
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Adam Christopher Rhodes was born on April 10, 2012, weighing 8 lbs. 10 oz., to James Rhodes and his wife, Kerry. Mom and dad are thrilled with the new addition to the family. James graduated from The Wharton School with an MBA in May, and he and his family have moved to Dallas, TX, where he joined Deloitte Consulting’s health care practice. - 44
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2003 • Christopher Forney is in his third year in the Middle East
in advanced Arabic studies. He recently published an academic article “Spaces of Exclusion in Twelfth-Century Santiago de Compostela” in Comitatus, a journal of medieval history sponsored by UCLA. He plans to begin work at Cal State San Bernardino as the first non-native speaker ever hired as an Arabic tutor, and he is beginning applications for PhD work in medieval history. Caleb Morse has left his role as director of banking operations at Green Dot Corp. and has moved to Uganda to work as a consultant for the company TechnoServe, which builds business solutions for rural poverty. There Caleb will be working on restructuring the agricultural focus of Northern Uganda and finding new markets for 15,000 farmers to participate in. He will return to California this fall to pursue a master’s of business, and a master of science degree in environment and resource at Stanford University, where he intends to focus on entrepreneurship and social innovation. Caleb also continues his work with the nonprofit, World Wide Impact, a 501(c)3 NGO he founded in 2007 that also focuses on building sustainability in developing nations. - 45
2004 • Tara De Silva graduated from Wellesley College in 2008.
She is now living in Los Angeles and was recently accepted into the American Film Institute as a screenwriting fellow. Alexandra Dellerson is working at a hedge fund in midtown Manhattan and enjoying life in the city.
Frank Fu completed his bachelor’s at Carnegie Mellon, and he’s now attending law school at Boston College. He looks forward to the next alumni event in the area.
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Sarah Javaid and her sister, Naila ’06, are medical students in Dubai, India, where in their spare time they help the Dubai Autism Center with its fundraising efforts. Sarah also enjoys writing and has had several articles featured in Middle East Health magazine.
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Michelle Lo is happy to be back in San Francisco. She’s now the sales operations coordinator at GREE International, a global mobile social gaming company that reaches over 190 million players and offers over 7,500 game applications to users around the world. She met up with one of Jeff Hyman ’89s Idol Worship “mudlings” on the streets of San Francisco. - 46 Chris Oakley finished his second year at Claremont Graduate University, where he is pursuing both a master’s in public health and a master’s of business administration. Outside of the classroom, he helps run the obesity study at the university’s School of Community and Global Health, which aims to develop an intervention strategy to improve nutrition behavior