Class notes
Erin Lynne Facciolo ‘98 and Brandon Wehler at their wedding in October 2010, with strong representation of the Wilmington Friends community Erin, Brandon, stepson “Little b,” and baby Ginger on a hike
2001
Jaclyn Mraz graduated from the University of San Diego Law School in May. She has moved to Denver and was planning to take the Colorado Bar Exam.
of natural surfaces such as the sound and feel of footsteps on snow.” Coincidentally, another Friends connection exists with Alibaba— James Hopkins ’05 works for the company in China.
The Mraz family celebrated Jacklyn’s graduation from law school: Kate ‘16, Dorothy Connolly Mraz ‘74, Jaclyn ‘01, Fred Mraz, Lauren ‘02, and Kristen ‘05.
Sarah Titone shared that she is enjoying her job in Solano Beach, CA: “I’m currently working for a private performance studio in Carslbad as a fitness coach. The studio is called Ezia Human Performance, and we work with everyone from professional athletes to the everyday novices who love to work hard and train like the pros.”
Faye Paul married Arthur Lipovetsky on August 6, 2011 in Chicago, and wrote to us in September: “After the wedding we went to Los Angeles for about six weeks to help out a friend who was making a movie there. Most recently we were in Hawaii for our official honeymoon. Now we’re back in Chicago and getting ready to go back to work. I graduated in June from law school and took the Illinois bar in Chicago, and on Monday I’ll start working in the litigation group for a Chicago law firm called Barack, Ferrazzano, Kirschbaum & Nagelberg…In 2013 I’ll be returning to Delaware for a year to clerk with Judge Thomas Ambro on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals (the year prior I will be clerking for a district judge here in Chicago, Judge Edmond Chang).” (See photo next page.) Rebecca Stevenson (See 1996.)
2004
Matthew Ross Johnson was accepted to the London School of Economics, working toward a Master’s in Business, Finance, and Economics. His plan is to continue to work toward a Ph.D. in international economics. He studied Central American Economics in Costa Rica during the spring 2011, with a complete immersion in Spanish.
2002
Mindy Kittle and Bryan Keane were married on May 29, 2011 in Columbus, OH. Members of the wedding party included Jenny Kittle Trainor ’02, Jon Kittle ’04, and Lauren Mraz ’02 (and, of course, longtime WFS teacher and proud dad Dick Kittle). Mindy and Bryan met while playing lacrosse at Ohio State. They live in Columbus; Mindy is a CPA with Nationwide.
Mathew Levin is a second year Ph.D. student in Applied Economics at Northeastern University in Boston. When we heard from him, he was doing an internship with Matthew Johnson’s mom, and former Friends trustee Sandy Ross Johnson, Executive Director of the Camden Redevelopment Agency in New Jersey. Matthew Levin was researching the revenue generation of solar panel fields as a potential source of income for Camden.
In June, Lauren Mraz ’02 received her Master’s in Business Administration from the University of California, Irvine. She is working for a medical device company in Irvine. (Also see photo, 2001.) In June, PC Magazine reported on the top inventions nominated by internet dynamo Alibaba: “Alibaba.com has inaugurated a new way to highlight unique patent trends around the world called the Quarterly Inventors Index, which will spotlight ten inventions among the tens of thousands that receive patents each quarter.” This “celebration of innovation” listed Daniel Joseph’s invention of “Walk Like an Eskimo” as one of their top 10 winners. “Walk Like an Eskimo” is described as “A flooring system that simulates features
2003
Mindy Kittle ’02 was married on May 29, 2011 to Bryan Keane.
Elyse Sahadevan wrote to us: “I have recently moved back to the Wilmington area and will be teaching art at Highlands Elementary starting this fall [2011]. I was working at the DCCA this summer in their summer arts program and was excited when I found out I had five different students who went to Friends. Of course after finding that out I had to ask them who their teachers were! I was informed that they had Teal [Rickerman]
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