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Class Notes Archive |
Charlotte Brownlee writes: I graduated from business school at UCLA in June and in August married Alex Corman 91. We had a great turnout of Harvard folks: from 89, Margi Rosenthal, Debby Reiner, Ginny Stimpson, Al Wickers, Dan Stolar, Grace Won; from 88, Elise Feldman and Coleen Keating; from 91, Lillian Shia, Josh Wilkes, Mike Hurwitz, Jim Keagan; from 85, Javan Bunch and Jamie Ward; and from 63, Elliot Brownlee. Alex and I are living in Burlingame, just south of San Francisco. I am a senior consultant at Deloitte&Touche. The Bay Area is full of old classmates- they pop up on every corner! Danny van der Rijn has been working since graduation in the software industry near the Silicon Valley. He and some friends left Oracle to start their own business, an internet software startup: I cant comment on our successes and/or failures at this point, but I sure can say that its been quite a learning experience, and that it takes up about 80% of my time. Im a bouncing father of a proud 2-month-old girl named Madeleine, who takes up the other 80% of my time. Christine Berkenstock Yardley and Kevin Yardley are enjoying their daughter Elizabeth Helen Yardley who was born on Mar. 27, 1997. Kevin continues his work in reforestation in Costa Rica, Central America and Chris is in her fourth year as a public high school teacher in Quakertown, PA. The commute between the two places is rather long by plane--2.3 hours to Miami and then from there 2.5 hours to Costa Rica. Anyone visiting CR or who is interested in environmental work in the tropical rainforest, please contact them at: theyardleys@enter.net or barcasa@sol.racsa.co.cr. Bob Chapski writes: Well, I have finally gone back to graduate school. Not to mention leaving Boston after over 29+ years (That sounds better than 30). This past September I started the MIM (Masters in International Management) program at Thunderbird (AKA the American Graduate School of International Management) which is the #1 Business School in the area of International Business. I am studying Spanish and Latin America as well as all the fun stuff like Accounting and Economics. (If I had stayed awake in EC 10 I could have waived this!) I am slowly adjusting to the heat here in Glendale, which is just outside of Phoenix, Arizona. Anyway, I welcome any and all visitors and/or e-mails. I can be reached at chapskrp@t-bird.edu. Bentley Boyd and Allison Brody announce the birth of their son, Truman Brody-Boyd on June 30, 1997. Truman is the godson of classmates Carin Aquiline and Jimmy Golen. Allison writes: So far, Uncle Jimmy, the AP sportswriter, has been incredibly restrained about sending sports paraphernalia. Our older son Samuel has turned 5 and begun kindergarten. Bentley continues to do his daily editorial cartooning from home, although now he does it with Truman drooling on his right shoulder. Im the Director of Communications for GuideStar (http://www.guidestar.org.) the donors guide to the nonprofit universe, which offers information on all American 501(c)(3) charities. Id love to hear from any classmates interested in philanthropy or working in the nonprofit world. My e-mail is abrody@guidestar.org. Yes, those editorial cartoons at our site are done by a very talented former Crimson cartoonist with a wet right shoulder. Steve (89/90) and Kathleen (Taylor 90) Mullery are thrilled to announce the birth of their first child--Patrick Thomas Mullery. Patrick was born on Sunday, October 12, 1997 (the day before Kathleens 29th birthday). Evan Seevak and his wife Sarah are living in Settale and have been working as residents since graduating from med school at Stanford in 1996. Valerie Peltier (nee Speyer) and her husband Jeffrey Peltier 88) gave birth to a baby boy, William Edward Peltieron July 8, 1997. The Peltiers live in NYC. Ana Chereta Dyer works for Fleet Financial Group, Inc as a Regional President for the Greater New Bedford and Greater Fall River areas in Massachusetts. In her new position, Ana manages commercial lending and private client services for the $81.7 billion institution. She also finds time to volunteer with several community organizations such as the I.H. Schwartz Childrens Rehabilitation Cente, the Southcoast Hospital Groups Steering Committee for the Center for Womens Health, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, the Sippican Tennis Club and the United Way. Dyer and her husband Timothy live in Marion, MA with their two children, T.J. (6) and Celia (4). Adrienne Su has published her first book of poems. Middle Kingdom was brought out by Alice James Books in September. Aline Brosh was married in September to Will McKenna (Princeton 88) at the San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara, California. Harvard attendees were Kate Adler 91, Kalya Alpert 91, Amanda Schafer Brainerd 89, Andrew Gardner 89 and Kim Harris Gardner 90, Marchus Mitchell 89, David Barron 89 and his wife Juliette Kayyenn 90, Stacie Lipp89 and James Magowan 89. Brosh and McKenna reside in Los Angeles. Alison Charney recently performed in Puccini's Madama Butterfly. It was her debut with the New York-based touring company, Opera Northeast. Other roles Charney has performed include Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera Memphis; Norina in Don Pasquale with Washington Summer Opera; and Musetta in La Boheme with the Nashville and New York City Operas. A finalist in the prestigious 1993 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Charney received graduate degrees from the Peabody Coservatory and Johns Hopkins University. After college, Sean Pierce worked in the research department at Harvard Business School and in consulting at Harbridge House in Boston. Pierce then attended Harvard Medical School, completed his internship at Mt. Auburn Hospital and is now in his third of four years of dedicated radiology training at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. He writes: if anyone should be passing through or find themselves in St. Louis for whatever reason, feel free to give me a call. Or just call anyway, Id love to chat -- this is especially true for the old crew for Wigg-I as well as the Currier contingent. Pierce can be reached at sean_pierce.research_mailserver@mirlink.wustl.edu. Born to Kim Gardner (nee Harris) 90 and Andrew Gardner 89: Juliet Esther Gardner on June 1, 1997. Andrew can be reached at gardnan@ffhsj.com. Arianna Fioratti was married in June 1997 to Count Mario Loreto Frusci di Bertinoro (Universita degli Studi di Firenze: Baccalaureate 91, Doctor of Economics and Business 95) at the brides familys tenth century castle near Siena. The brides cousin, James Montrose Sansum 89 assisted in the ceremony as a witness. Among the four hundred guests in attendance were classmates Tom Byrne and Scott Hoy and Alvin Rodolfo 88; David Boit, Vanessa Chase, Betsy Fleming and Tia Fuhrmann from 90; as well as Georgia Bush, Anne Coolidge and Rulonna Neilson from 91. Fioratti is a painter and textile designer while her husband is president of Blue Hill Italia S.p.A., an export firm. The couple will live in New York and Florence. After graduation, Todd Brun attended grad school at Caltech in Pasadena and received a Ph.D. in 1994. He then spent two years at the University of London and is now doing a second postdoctoral degree at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of California, Santa Barbara. By recent reports I still look much as I did in college, so not everything improves with time. After graduation in 1989, Ronald Granier spent a year in Heidelberg, Germany as a Rotary Scholar. He and his wife Jennifer Vance, whom he met in Germany, were married in December 1991. Returning from Heidelberg, Granier enrolled in the graduate History program at the University of Chicago and received his Ph.D. with honors in December 1996. He is now an Assistant Professor of History at Furman University in Greenville. He writes: We are very happy here at Furman, and South Carolina is the only place I can think of where espousing the same political views that made me editor of the Salient can get me branded a liberal. Any classmates who can appreciate that irony are heartily encouraged to drop me a line. Born to Ana Maria Montes-Diaz and Lazaro Diaz, a son, L. (Lazaro) Gabriel, on August 2, 1997. Gabriel surprised his parents by arriving one month early and rather quickly (his parents are calling him the bullet baby.) Despite his early arrival, Ana and Gabriel are doing fine. The family is living in Durham, NC where Ana works for a nonprofit media awareness organization and Laz is completing his internal medicine residency at Duke Medical Center. Jen Weinreb was married on August 2, 1997 in Canaan, NH to Todd Owen (Wittenberg Univ. 88). Harvard attendees included: classmates Stacey Berg, Kathy (Klegar) Kahn, Katie (McAnaney) Molinski, Sean Rockett, Ronda (Appelbaum) Rockett, Nelle Pace, Kurt Wheeler, Katie (Toner) Scullion. Weinreb works for the North Carolina Department of Human Resources as a policy liaison (working on welfare reform) and her husband is a grad student in the City and Regional Planning dept. at UNC-Chapel Hill. Born: to Marisa (Cigarroa) and John Heymach, a daughter and first child, Claudia Isabel, on April 24. According to Marisa, the baby definitely runs on Heymach Standard Time. She was born ten days late. Four of those days we spent waiting in the hospital for the labor-inducing hormone to kick in. John is finishing up his M.D./Ph.D at Stanford, and Marisa is a staff writer for the Stanford News Service. Friends can reach John at heymach@cmgm.stanford.edu and Marisa at marisac@leland.stanford.edu. Martha Moore and her family have moved to North Carolina where her husband Chris has accepted a position as the associate pastor of pastoral care at Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church in Southern Pines. Moore will be working on her dissertation full-time at home with help from her baby daughter Miriam who was born April 1997. Moore can be reached at mmoorek@emory.edu. Caroline Bicks graduated from Stanford last June with a PhD in English Literature, specializing in Reniassance lit. and the history of midwifery. Bicks also was married last summer to Brendon Reay (Reed 87), a graduate student at Stanford in Classics. The wedding took place the brides parents home Castine, Maine, and guests included: Grace Won, Donna Friedman, Ethan Mintz, Andrea Sachs, Chris Van Arsdale, Stefanie Roth (all 89), as well as Deborah and David Farbr Sonnenberg (with their beautiful baby girl Rachael), Jill Neptune, Adam Barr (all 88), Nick Davis and David Dishy (87). Pier Carlo Talenti (90) was the highlight of the ceremony when he sang some vintage Sondheim. The couple is back at Stanford for the year, trying to enact the nearly impossible: getting academic jobs in the same time zone. Hankins Parichabutr lives on Waiheke Island - an island of 6000 people - 35 minutes by ferry from Auckland, New Zealand. I emigrated to New Zealand at the end of 1995 and am loving it - have my residency and intend to stay. Ive telecommuted back to the States since coming over first for a database company in California and now for a company with partners in San Fran and here in New Zealand. I believe in choosing an environment most productive for performance, creativity, business, learning, whatever. Work is a nuisance, but if it must be done then ill be on a boat or on the beach getting it done with the tools and technology to help do things quickly and efficiently. Stefan Krieger finished his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago and started last fall as an assistant professor at Yale in the fall (where his email address is stefan.krieger@yale.edu). David Saenger is in his first year of internal medicine residency at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City. Married on July 20, 1997: Gary Susman and Renee Torgler (University of Colorado 94) in New York City. The wedding and reception were held at Carmines Restaurant on the Upper West Side, site of many a romantic, garlic-infused date for the couple. Wedding guests included classmates Chuck Henebry, Rob Rader, and Lea Saslav, who performed the music during the ceremony. Also representing Harvard were the grooms father Stephen Susman 57, his uncle Morris Susman 62, his cousin Robert Susman 01, and the couples friend J.C. Herz 93. A splendid time was had by all, even though we forced the guests to rise at an ungodly hour in order to make the 8:30 a.m. event. After a leisurely brunch reception, we fled to the seaside hamlet of Greenport, Long Island, for a honeymoon and have now grudgingly returned to work: Renee is a traffic coordinator at a pharmaceutical advertising agency, and I continue to freelance as an arts and entertainment reporter for such publications as The Village Voice and such on-line services as MSNBC. The newlyweds have recently purchased an Upper West Side home and would be delighted to hear from classmates and friends at (212) 873-2597or GSus5@aol.com. Mary Lanzerotti has worked for IBM since November 1996 at the T. J. Watson Research Center in New York. She can be reached at: 306 Drew Lane, Carmel, NY 10512. Telephone: 914 279 7793. Carter Vincent moved back to San Francisco last summer after a wonderful year in Austin. He has made a career shift and is now involved with electronic commerce, working with RoweCom, a Cambridge base company that developed the first automated sales and purchasing service for the information industry, winning an award for best business to business electronic commerce on the Internet by the Gartner Group last year. Vincent writes: Clearly this is quite a change from the old days of sitting around on the coffee farm in Costa Rica!!! No more sitting on the veranda drinking coffee and smoking Cuban cigars for me. Now I get my thrills from processing 100 emails per day, selling the virtues of EDI, and figuring out ways to bore tunnels through firewall,...but it is a good change. Gotta keep the skill set up to date, I figure. Vincent can be reached at cvincent@rowe.com. Cigdem Gencer is happy to welcome classmates and friends in Madrid, Spain where she moved in September as part of the start-up team for Mitchell Madison Groups newest office. She can be reached via e-mail (gencer@mmgnet.com) or through her office (tel: 34-1-391-5920). 
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