Class Notes ever in Naples, Florida, please give me a call.”
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Saori Tate ’95 and Thomas Silecchia
Todd Stuart writes, “I moved to California right after graduating from Gettysburg in 1990. I am a teacher at a small private school in Costa Mesa, California. I have taught here for 19 years in grades K to 4th grade. I am presently a 2nd/3rd grade teacher and the assistant principal. I am married for the second time, and have two lovely children – almost 2 years and 2 months. I just retired from coaching club soccer, which I had done since ‘95, to spend time with the family. The Academy website looks great! I see that Mssrs. Cook, Kelly, Lagomarsino, and Mazeika are still at the Academy. They all look great! Last summer when back east, I met up with classmate Keith Fuller. Mark Warburton passed through the area with the junior class from the Laurel School on a pre-school
class trip. He arranged for former WMA English Department Chair and author Todd Felton to give the girls some background on the Transcendentalists, and he met Director of Communications Rita Carey for dinner.
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Paul Magyar is in the real estate business in New York City. One recent referral looked familiar to him; come to find out it was Vasilios “V” Klitsas ’97. They were both surprised.
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Mark Oppenheimer, WMA Middle School 1986-1988, writes that his book about his high-school debating career, Wisenheimer, is now out in paperback. Mark earned a Ph.D. in religious studies from Yale University. He has been an NPR commentator, a newspaper editor, and a visiting professor at Stanford and Wesleyan Universities and at Hartford Seminary. He writes a biweekly religion column “Beliefs” for The New York Times and is available for speaking engagements through the American Program Bureau.
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Kyle Nicholson’s most recent short film, “The Other Soldier”, has been accepted into four festivals – the Other Venice Film Festival, Somewhat North Of Boston Film Festival, NYLA International Film Festival and Marbella International Film Festival (MIFF),” Kyle told Reminder Publications reporter Chris Maza, “We are still waiting on more festivals right now but the film is taking flight.” His complete interview can be found at http://www.thereminder.com/ localnews/wilbrahamhampden/ wilbrahamnativesta/.
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Saori Tate married Thomas Silecchia in June.
Teresa & Frank Bruno ’98 with their wedding party on the steps of Rich Hall.
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Marcy Zahornacky Minnick welcomed into the family a second daughter, Tenley Hudson Minnick.
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Congrats to Marcy, husband Manny, and sister Teagan! Jacob Dyer-Spiegel finished his Ph.D. in literature and translation studies at UMass-Amherst last May, and he’s still in Brazil as a Fulbright Scholar.
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Teresa Holuk and Frank Bruno married on September 3, 2011, at Teresa’s childhood church in Three Rivers. Before heading to the reception at the Hampden Country Club, where they went to WMA prom together, they had to stop and take pictures at WMA. Teresa says, “WMA holds a very dear place in our hearts. Frankie & I started dating in 1998 when he was a senior and I was a junior. We absolutely had to stop and take pictures on our wedding day at the place where our relationship began.” The wedding party included the following alumni: Lauren Skowyra Cresta ’97, Kimberly Unrine Treibick ’99, William Metzger ’97, Teresa Holuk Bruno ’99, Frank Bruno ’98, Natalie Holuk Metzger ’96, Keith Holuk ’02, and Colleen Holuk ’97. Teresa & Frank live in Miami Beach, where they own and operate Global Tours & Transportation (gttlimo. com), a black car/limousine service. In addition, Teresa works in sales for Manheim, the world’s leading provider of used vehicle services.
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Matt Hill writes, “A lot has happened since I left WMA 11 years ago. I have been working the last five years with Ally Financial, Inc. (fka General Motors Acceptance Corp.) and have recently moved to Detroit to our Executive Office with a promotion into international operations. I miss New England a lot, but my wife and I are enjoying it here so far. She runs our own company: http://www.trinus.com. br/ from here in the U.S. virtually through Skype, video surveillance, and with the assistance from some of her family back in Brazil. It has been doing very well, and she travels back to Brazil about once a