Veronica Roman (Los Angeles, CA): “Loving life and living in Los Angeles. Enjoying raising my 11 year old son, Diego. Happy Reunion! Thanks Westridge for helping me learn que: Si se puede!”
1998 Brooke Atkinson Yohalem (Pasadena, CA) and her husband, Mark, welcomed Eleanor Ann Yohalem into the world on April 27, 2010 (12 years and one day after her parents’ first date)! The whole family is doing great and living in Pasadena.
Class of 1985 reunion In June 2010, the Class of 1985 held a reunion barbecue lunch at the home of Kristin Olson Panehal and Jim Panehal in Newport Beach. Pictured, back row, l-r: Cassandra Hinz Mittelberg, Cindy Brooks-Hoban, Kristin Olson Panehal, Hilary Whelan Reyl, Lori McConaghy Newman, Melissa Monk, Liz Connor Allen, Robin Preble. front row, l-r:Elena Saris, Mary Herms, Julianne Anderson Shuler.
1986 Whitney Bennett Salerno (Valencia, CA): “Always fun to hear what everyone is doing. We’re blessed with three boys, ages 12, 11, and 8. Life is busy and wonderful. Hope everyone is doing well. 25 years flew by so fast!”
1987 Jennifer Tongish Giles (San Marino, CA): “Enjoying being busy with our two boys: Carson is almost 10 and Cole is 6 1/2 going on 16, it seems. Busy with my architectural projects: a 2-story house addition in San Marino soon to be completed, a one-story addition with new kitchen in Burbank, and helping a friend search for a house here in San Marino. Also busy with volunteering at our boys’ school, Kidspace Children’s Museum in Pasadena, and at Westridge on the Alumnae Council. Just visited recently with Laurie Edmundson who took a road trip down to So. Cal. to introduce her new daughter to family and friends. Little Charlotte (2 years) is a true blessing to Laurie and Mikal. Wendy Burns Everett came for our visit and shared dinner with our family and guests. My husband, Mark, is trying to stay busy in the architectural world with this slowing economy. My freelance work is helping tremendously. We have just celebrated our 15 year anniversary.”
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Leslie Reeves Lindholm (Altadena, CA): “Phil and I have been married now for 14 years. In our own ‘unique’ manner — we’re celebrating our anniversary at the end of the month, at Pink Floyd’s production of The Wall in downtown LA! Our two children: Henry and Kelly, ages 7 and 5, are whirling dervishes! They both attend Saint Mark’s School near our home here in Altadena. I am now working for a South American importer (TGIC Importers) overseeing their corporate chain accounts. We were recently awarded ‘Importer of the Year’ by the Wine Enthusiast magazine, and being a small company — this was tremendous! Phil is a passionate sailor and keeps a boat up in Channel Islands Harbor, so we spend a lot of time together out on the ocean. Thus, both kids have become great fishermen!”
1988 Thembisa Mshaka (Brooklyn, NY) recently appeared on TV One Access: Most Legendary Sex Symbols. She was also a finalist in the books category for a Shorty Award with Put Your Dreams First: Handle Your Entertainment Business.
1991 Jennifer Poehler Eastlack (San Diego, CA): “Just added baby number five in spring 2010. Finally, a girl! I am taking a break from my dermatology practice to hang out with the kids.”
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1999 Amanda Clark Flach (Azusa, CA) had a second child in February 2010, Charlotte Lynn Flach.
2000 Betsy Roth Smith (South Pasadena, CA) became Mrs. Caleb Smith on October 10, 2010. Her sisters, Eleanor Roth ’14, and Mary Roth Johnson ’02 served, respectively, as bridesmaid and matron of honor.
Katherine Rutledge (Pasadena, CA) volunteered at an Andean clinic in Ecuador for the month of February 2009. She graduated from Albany Medical College, NY with an M.D. in May 2010, and married Gene Schiappa at the Caltech Athenaeum in Pasadena in June 2010. She is doing her residency at St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals in Manhattan (Columbia University).
2002 Brittany Heggem (Pasadena, CA) received her doctorate of veterinary medicine from the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine in May 2010. Currently, she is a zoological medicine intern at Louisiana State University and is pursuing specialization in zoo medicine. Brittany is engaged to Benjamin Perry, a fellow veterinarian who is working toward specialization in veterinary surgery. A summer 2011 wedding is being planned in Pasadena.
2004 Katharine Swartz (Pasadena, CA): “I just finished my Master of Public Health from the Keck School of Medicine with a practicum at the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France.”
2005 Amanda Bradley (South Pasadena, CA) is a first year law student at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
2001 Heather Koffman (New York, NY): “I am currently working at Peking University’s School of Transnational Law as a C.V. Starr Lecturer. The School of Transnational Law is an exciting new kind of international law school where the students, who are all Chinese graduate students and who all speak English as a second language, receive instruction in English and they will graduate with both an American J.D. degree and a Chinese J.M. degree. They will be uniquely positioned to practice transnational law. After two years of practicing law in New York City I am finding teaching in China an exciting and challenging change.”
Katherine Hassan (Davis, CA) married Sam Jubelirer in Pasadena on January 6, 2011. They met while they were both attending Pitzer College. Currently, they live in Davis, California.
2007 Emily Riggall (Northfield, MN) will graduate from Carleton College in June 2011. Clare Sherman (Pasadena, CA) is currently in the Earth Sciences undergraduate program at Stanford. She hopes to apply to the fifth year program to obtain a master’s in biology.
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