Alessandra Love Simons and her husband, Adam, enjoy living in Oakland, CA with their two children, Sydney and Charlie, who was born in Sept. ‘12, and their St. Bernard, Chester. Alessandra sees Lauren Martinkovic Mullins and her daughter sometimes, but she says, “not often enough.” Alessandra also writes, “If anyone is ever in the area, they should let us know as we’d love to see them!” Lauren Martinkovic Mullins reports that she and her husband, Travis, “not only survived their first year of parenthood, but loved it!” Daughter Ada turned 1 in Sept. Lauren reports Ada “is walking, chasing the dog, learning lots of words, and has brought so many smiles, laughs, and love to the family.” They are planning Ada’s first trip to CT this Nov. and are excited to spend time with family – including Kristin Martinkovic White ’91 – and to celebrate Thanksgiving. They also have plans to spend time with Michele Gemino Egan, Katie Marages Schank, Hally Phillips Trementozzi, and Kristen Magiera Roberts. When the whole gang gets together, there will be a total of 10 kids! Four of those children belong to Michele Gemino Egan and her husband Matt, who welcomed son Colin in Feb. ‘13. Michele reports that he is “the fourth and final addition to the Egan clan!” Their family moved to a new home in June, which is no small feat with four kids under the age of six. Hally Phillips Trementozzi writes, “Hi everyone! Hope all are doing well and dominating the mid-30s (how did that happen?).” She also reports, “Our two young kids (Lucas, 1 and Clara, 3), keep my husband Jon and I busy, but they are such fun little personalities that we love every minute of it (well, almost).” They enjoy being back in the Boston area where Hally works in Business Development at a pharmaceutical company while Jon is working to start up an economic analysis department at a global architecture/ urban-planning firm. She and Krisi are both in the Boston area and try to see each other as often as they can. Hally is looking forward to getting together with the Egan, Mullins, Roberts, and Schank families over Thanksgiving and having a chance to meet some of the new babies. I am also looking forward to the mini-reunion over Thanksgiving. Once the holidays are over, our family will pack up and leave DC in January for a big move to Athens, GA where my husband Jesse will start a faculty position at U of GA. I’ll be working on finishing my dissertation, which (fingers crossed!) should be completed by this time next year. I’ve had the opportunity to design and teach my own urban history course this semester at GWU, and I love being in the classroom! I find it so challenging and energizing. While our work keeps us both busy, nothing keeps us busier than raising our 20 month-old daughter, Alice. This active and spunky little girl keeps us on our toes! This coming year will be busy, but it will also be an adventure filled with lots of new and exciting things.
Hope that everyone is well and look forward to hearing from even more of you next time!
2003
Danielle Stewart Knope 210 Fellsview Terrace #211 Stoneham, MA 02180 danielle.k.stewart@gmail.com Karimah Gottschalck 241 Taaffe Place Brooklyn, NY 11205 karimah2@hottschalck.com I, Danielle Stewart Knope, was married to Zach Knope in Portsmouth, RI in Sept. ’12, and was lucky enough to have some of my wonderful Westover friends there to celebrate. I had a wonderful time at our 10-year reunion in May – what a great turn out for the class of ‘03! Ellie Magin is living in Chicago, IL and working as a line cook at The Chicago Diner, a vegetarian restaurant. Jessica Garassino Vargas had a wonderful time as a bridesmaid in Adriana Tin’s wedding in Sept. ’13, and was able to catch up with Elise Drew Leon then as well. Jessica Haggerty is still living in S. Boston, MA and graduated with an MSF/MBA from Northeastern U. in May ’13. Julia Isenberg is currently pursuing an MS in Fundraising Management at Columbia U. She saw Sara Chaudhri in NYC recently in Fall ’13 after class, and also ran into Tasia Jones in Oct. ’13 at the Southington Apple Festival in CT. Alissa Ryan Kelley loves her new HR job at a Stamford tech research company. She and husband Aaron live in Hamden, not far from Bruce Coffin, and enjoy fun visits from Chris Sweeney and Tom Hungerford. She attended Keely Davies’s Key Largo wedding, which was “out of this world!” Sarah Welinsky embarks on her final year of grad school. She volunteers as team capt. of evacuators to assist her NOLA townsmen out of the city in a state of emergency. That said, she prays for a quiet end to hurricane season. She and boyfriend Charlie loved reunion, and now he definitely understands her better! Mia Psorn spent a whole year in Paris while working for her Masters in Economic Law. A week after reunion, she married Samuel Levine, with Nicole Dilport Blanchard, Elizabeth Pollina, Lauren Robinson, and Katie Szanto in attendance. They all were a huge help with preparations, too! Mia also visited Lauren and boyfriend Andrew in Seattle. She anticipates her last semester at Georgetown Law before joining the “real world”. Alex Rathbone stays busy with her business, the Fox Valley Grappling Club, which teaches Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai kickboxing, kids’ martial arts, and fitness.
2003 Continued She, her fiancé, and his daughter Grace moved with the business to a new location in Appleton, WI. Alex travels to compete in jiu-jitsu often, such as the Pan-Am and World Championships, and won gold at the IBJJF Chicago International Summer Open. Colette Opsahl Fennessy enjoyed seeing all the WO girls at reunion, although can’t believe that we’re now all so old! She happily kicked off her summer by marrying her spouse Sarah this June 29th in Stamford. Colette is an engineer at UTC Aerospace Systems and welcomes any interested WO interns.
2010
Catherine Campbell 14 Narrow Brook Road Weston, CT 06883 ccampbe3@concoll.edu Hard to imagine that only four years ago we were all sitting on the senior steps in Red Hall! Since then the class of 2010 has done so much! Here’s a bit about what we’ve been up to: Sara Arno has been working hard up at Middlebury C. in VT. This summer she was able to take a break and celebrate her birthday with family and friends in NYC. Part of the celebrations included a dinner at the restaurant Daniel with lots of Westover grads, including Grace Buckles, Sarah and Hope Boyer, Daryan Johnson, Allie Dinielli, Claire Murphy, Olivia Bates, Emily Ganem, Caroline Sanford, Carolyn Jay, Annaliese Snodgrass, Molly Hubbard ‘09, Hilary Zeiss ‘09, Krysten Peck ‘11, Christine Callahan ‘09, and Bridget Hinz ‘09. Grace Buckles has also been at school in Vermont, and the University of Vermont in Burlington, where she works for the Alumni Association as the Director of Senior Activities while she studies Religion. She recently completed a semester abroad in Cardiff, Wales.
was triple his birth weight and remained on track with other babies ever since! We were all so thrilled for Jordan and her fiancee Jeff! So excited to meet little Mason in the future! Maybe at alumni weekend?! On a more solemn note, and as much of the Westover Community has already learned, our class sadly lost our first member this year. Meghan Beebe was tragically taken from us at the end of December, and her loss will always be felt by our class, and by all that knew her. It is truly the most difficult task to try to sum up the type of person Meg was, and the type of grief we feel by her loss. She was a beautiful, smart, and kind soul; the type of person one aspires to be. She was the best and brightest of people, so bright, in fact, that her light still shines even in death. Her overwhelming optimism, empathy, and passion for living consumes all those who ever had the pleasure of knowing her. Rich Beebe, her father, charged our class with living life the fullest, just as Meghan always had, and for he and Meghan both, we will continue to live and laugh and love. We will keep her light burning bright, for as Mr. Beebe had expressed during his Eulogy, “Meghan Lives.” What is wonderful and comforting, amidst such a dark and dreadful event that was Meg’s death, is the powerful reminder of our bonds to one another. A favorite photo of our class’ Senior Graduation Circle was passed around during the days following Meg’s death, and one classmate was apt to point out when looking at it that within a circle, the loss of one tie is certainly felt by all those that remain, but losing that tie forces the remaining members closer together, making the circle unfortunately smaller, but even tighter. Despite the sad circumstances, our Class thanks Meg, for once again bringing us together, and for reminding us of the everlasting power of our sisterhood. We miss you Meg, and we love you, but we will always have you near and dear to our hearts. We will hear you in the music, our dear sister, until we meet again.
Morgan Winston also experienced a “life-changing” semester abroad in Australia, and since her return has been hard at work at Occidental University, researching and studying for the GREs. She’s hoping to go to graduate school in the Fall for marine biology! Sarah Buck has been competing in triathlons! It’s no wonder that on the morning of Sept. 27th she ate frosted flakes for breakfast - the breakfast of champions. Both Tori Stratton and Kate Campbell plan to visit her out in Denver this fall. Lastly, and perhaps most excitingly, Jordan Willis and Jeffery McKee’s welcomed a beautiful baby boy, Mason James McKee, on April 26, 2013! Although he was born six weeks early and spent two week in the NICU, by four months old he
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