Liz McClintock was the first to reply to my call for scoop, so she gets to start off this column: “I was accepted as a fellow at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po University) for the academic year 2012-13, and I’m hoping that my time here in Paris will vastly accelerate my progress on my thesis. It is certainly improving my knowledge of café, fromage et vin!” Tom Pennekamp is living and working in Miami as a trial lawyer handling personal injury, wrongful death and complex commercial litigation matters. “I handled a case against an abortion clinic in Miami were a child was born alive in the clinic and they killed it. Had the clinic shut down, the owners prosecuted and the doctor’s license stripped in Florida. I worked on the Value Jet disaster, as well as the plane crash that killed the young pop singer Aaliyah in the Bahamas among others. I also handled one of the largest voluntary settlements in Florida history, which was $17.5 million for a victim of a scuba accident at a Ritz Carlton in Jamaica. And I am single and raising three kids ages 15, 15 (twins) and 11.” Heather Ryan lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with her husband, David Dube (University of Saskatchewan ’85). She wrote: “I am the vice president of Street Cat Rescue and help organize Pets in the Park, a joint fundraiser for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Street Cat and New Hope Dog Rescue. I have a business training off-the-track thoroughbred racehorses to play polo and I serve on the dean’s advisory committee at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan.” 9 Sanders said: “I am living a crazy fast life between southwest Colorado and Anchorage, Alaska. I spend two weeks in Ouray, Colorado, with my teenagers working at urgent-care clinics, hiking in the San Juan Mountains, and learning to grill as a single mom. Every two weeks I head to UC Boulder to visit my daughter. Then it’s up to Anchorage, where I work at urgent-care clinics, cut wood, shovel snow, shoot guns, play with my Alaskan family and recover sanity from herding teen kids.” Bruce Coffee teaches middle-school U.S. history in Richmond, Virginia. He writes: “My nonprofit reading program has been quite successful in the last two years. It’s called One School, One Book and is now in 400 schools across North America.” Lee Merkle Raymond wrote: “We were unable to attend the 25th reunion because we were living in Sydney, Australia, where I ran the corporate debt team for Bank of America and integrated the newly acquired Merrill Lynch investment banking group into the lending process at the bank. We came back to California for our girls to start high school and middle school with their classmates in Palo Alto. We traveled as much as possible—diving in the Great Barrier Reef, hiking a glacier in New Zealand and riding camels at dawn at Uluru (Ayers Rock).” From Andrea Strimling: “My husband, Tsering Ngodup, our 6-year-old son Yeshe Dorje and I live in Lexington, Massachusetts, abutting conservation forest on one side and the Minuteman Bikeway on another. I do applied research on international peace building, especially civil-military coordination in places such as Afghanistan. I’m interested in how organizations work together toward shared goals, even across profound organizational differences. Our two older children (my kids through marriage) live in Germany. One works for the German development aid agency and the other finished high school. Yeshe is into everything—sports, music, art. And we are going solar!


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