Class of 2013

Hi, ’13s.

Time just keeps on ticking and the new babies and accomplishments keep coming! Congratulations to everyone. Let’s get into it.

Alexis (Monroe) Lightner and Jacob Lightner welcomed their second daughter, Elaine, on April 3. The two girls were gifted matching outfits by the inimitable Georgia Travers. The family still happily resides in Philadelphia. Natalia Agredo and her husband, Joe Allen, welcomed their daughter, Penny, earlier this year. Around the same time, Jane Cai and her husband, Weston Wilkinson, celebrated son Mac’s first birthday. Kali Montecalvo and Torrey Barrett attended the celebrations along with family members Angela Cai ’17 and Noah Manning ’17.

Barbara Richardson’s third book, Ice Eclipse, is now available on Amazon.

Melanie (Parnon) Guyer earned her M.Arch. from the University of Oregon in June. This summer she was recognized with the Metropolis Future100 award as one of the top 30 graduating M.Arch. students in the country. The Guyer family (Melanie, her husband, and five boys!) moved this summer to Seattle, where Melanie will pursue her architecture license working for the firm Mithun.

In her very first Class Notes update since Commencement, Kimmy Fiscella shared: “I’m currently on the home stretch of plastic surgery residency in Albany, New York, and heading to Long Island, New York, for microsurgery fellowship when I finish next summer. I have no kids to report but I have raised two, now senior, Baltimore rescue cats that are thriving as reluctant upstate New Yorkers.”

And Anna Leah Bernstein-Simpson wrote: “(To paraphrase Dimensions and Enrique Iglesias), you can run, you can hide, but you can’t escape law school…I’ll be starting at Northwestern this fall!”

Cheers to you all. I’m training for another ultramarathon, looking forward to using my new scuba diving open water certification on vacation in French Polynesia this fall, and trying to keep my freelance writing career alive outside of my day job. Email me any time with updates or ideas for this column!

—Svati Narula, 2038 Hopi Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505; svatinarula@gmail.com