CLASS NOTES Alumnae from the Class of 2006 on campus with their husband and children, prior to the Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony (November 2017) that included the women’s 2003 softball team.
Eze Abosi ’06, Brendan Merrell ’07, Patrick Mulrooney ’07, Clarissa Odence ’11, John Greklek ’07, Justin Forrester ’03, Alex Cline ’07 and Michael Ewing ’14 all work at Decision Resources Group.
into the Athletics Hall of Fame that night as a part of the 2003 women’s softball team.” In attendance were Beth (Carcone) and Jimmy Peters, Katie (Ratner) and Dave Moriarty, Erika (Eisenhut) and Jim Rahill, Stephanie (Rubino) and Ryan Grant ’05, and Alicia (Gifford) and Frank Arcuri ’05.
2007 CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Jackie Siedlecki Murphy Delmar, N.Y. jaclynrenemurphy@gmail.com Caroline Blackburn, an attorney in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., was recently promoted to chief assistant county attorney for Dutchess County. Her practice focuses on labor and employment, taxation and finance, and general municipal law. She is a graduate of Albany Law 54
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School. She and her husband, Daniel (married in June 2016) reside in Clinton Corners, N.Y. Jazmin Puicon was recently awarded the highly competitive Warren and Beatrice Susman Dissertation Completion Fellowship at Rutgers University for 2017-18. She is a doctoral candidate in history at Rutgers, specializing in Latin American History and Women’s and Gender History. Her dissertation research focuses on AfroColombian women, salsa music, and popular democracy in urban Colombia in the 20th century.
2008 CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Dana Cohen Bernstein New York, N.Y. dana.lynn.bernstein@gmail.com
Kate Langwig has been named as an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, part of the Virginia Tech College of Science. Kate focuses her research on the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, addressing such questions as pathogen transmission and dynamics, heterogeneity in host susceptibility and infectiousness, the impacts of pathogens on ecological communities, and the conservation and policy implications of infectious disease. Eden Neary writes, “In September of 2017 I became a nationally certified drug recognition expert. A drug recognition expert has specialized training in detecting drug impairment of operators of vehicles. There are about 8,000 DREs worldwide. Also, on January 21, 2018, I was promoted from trooper at Vermont State Police New Haven Barracks to sergeant at the Vermont State Police Rutland Barracks. I am a night shift patrol commander at the Rutland Barracks.”
called RC Atlee—with no small thanks to Ellie Rines ’10. I hosted a dinner in honor of two Union/Sigma Phi friends who are both engaged to be married—Brandon McArdle ’09 and Matthew Kearney ’09—and both living in Philadelphia. Both weddings are this summer.” Jude Mason went to his 50th Phish show. He is also expecting a baby girl.
2009 CLASS CORRESPONDENTS
Gabe Kramer Los Angeles, Calif. kramerg3@gmail.com Carl S. Winkler New York, N.Y. carl.s.winkler@gmail.com Mary Roberts recently started a theater company at the historic Muscoot Farm, where she works as an educator. The company performed a night of one-acts in June, a staged reading of The Crucible in an old barn in October, and then an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol that took audiences in and out of different characters’ homes.
Eden Neary ’08 Mary Roberts ’09 Robert Atlee-Hodgson writes, “Celebrating two years in Hamptons real estate working with Compass Hamptons. Just had a record sale in East Hampton estate section, still splitting my time between Philadelphia and NY. I also opened a pop-up gallery—
Rachel Fitz will be completing her anesthesia residency at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J. this June. She will be staying on as an attending physician for general and obstetrical anesthesia and acute pain management. She