Class Note 1983
Random emails were sent to a bunch of classmates asking for news and I got news from only two of those random people. David Krall is general counsel of VIA Motors Inc., which converts Chevrolet Silverado pickup trucks and Chevrolet Express vans into plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, primarily for commercial fleet use. He has two sons, Steven, who graduated from Miami University (Ohio not Florida!) in 2012 and now works as an analyst in the finance department at Aon Corporation in Chicago, and Andrew, who has Angelman syndrome and still lives at home with David in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Ashley Korenblatt is the CEO of Western Spirit Cycling in Moab, Utah. Western Spirit is a cycling tour company and gives bike tours for people and families of all abilities all across the Western states. Ashley wrote back to me while she was in the middle of preparing for Outerbike: “Everyone is invited to come test ride 2015 bicycles while enjoying the incredible trails and national parks around Moab, Utah, October 3-5! Can’t make it on such short notice? We will be running another one in March of 2015.”
David Stern was recently feted for being the senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El for 25 years. How can we have been doing anything for 25 years? We’re not that old!
Facebook has been full of pictures of classmates dropping their kids off at college. Kathy Bowler Mitchell’s daughter, Lauren, was pictured climbing onto a bus for her freshman trip. Facebook is also a source of summer vacation photos: Liz Mueller spent the better part of her summer in Italy, Reed Webster spent some time on a boat with Rich Diver and a bunch of Lodge boys got together on Long Island for who knows what (Rob Roach posted pics of himself, David Friedensohn, Paul Curnin and Steve Cramer McAlpine).
Anne Burrill has been working for the European Commission on EU environment policy since 1997. She first developed policy on integrated coastal zone management, then she dealt with international affairs (in environment), including the environmental part of the accession negotiations for the countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007, and now she deals with the EU’s environmental grant program. Anne also spent the academic year of 2011-12 as a visiting fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle, teaching EU environment policy and doing related research.
That’s all for now. Send me a note about what you’re up to. I can’t write this unless I hear from you! (I guess I could make things up but I’m not sure that’s allowed!) Forever green.
—Maren Christensen, 173 S. Nardo Ave., Solana Beach, CA 92075; marenjc@yahoo.com
