Class Note 1994
Issue
March-April 2023
Hi, ’94s. I’m writing this column as 2022 comes to a close. Collectively, we had a pretty exciting year as we reconnected with classmates, developed our careers, and even turned 50 (or 51, for some). By the time you’re reading this, we’ll be just more than a year away from another shared experience—our 30th reunion! Mark your calendar and start making plans now to come in June 2024.
Thanks to Amy Nevin, who kindly rallied her friends to send me updates, so I have lots to share. Beginning with Amy, she is a practicing pediatrician in Pittsburgh. She spent the majority of her clinical career helping to start a new federally qualified health center branch, where she became a leading advocate for housing and lead exposure. Most recently, Amy has widened her expertise to include behavioral health therapy and psychopharmacology, while also overseeing peer-support programs for Type 1 diabetes at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Apparently, instead of sleeping, she also serves as the national director of pediatrics at a dynamic public health startup, Wellness Equality Alliance. Amy writes, “We had great success vaccinating folks at the Mexico-Texas border against Covid-19 and are now expanding into other areas! I oversee a diverse and dynamic national task force of community health workers. Leadership of this organization includes a fun group of energetic, creative thinkers in medicine, pharmacy, and nursing.” Knowing Amy from our Tri-Delt days, I know she is the fun, energetic, creative hub of this important group!
Martha Kiddoo Krieg has spent most of her time since leaving the Granite State in the Mountain West. After 12 years in Vail, Colorado, and another 11 years in Truckee, California, Martha now lives in Park City, Utah. She teaches elementary school “here and there between powder days” and enjoys spending time with her family on and off the slopes.
Liz York lives in Tunbridge, Vermont, with her husband and two children on a small, diversified organic farm where they grow produce and raise livestock. She writes, “I take my lumps volunteering for the town government there. To quote Homer Simpson, ‘Did you know that so-called “volunteers” don’t even get paid?’ ” Oh, Liz, how well we can relate. We are grateful for civil servants such as you!
Suzie Fromer has embarked on a couple of new professional ventures during the past several years. She writes, “I had a lot of fun growing my Etsy jewelry business and stretching as a jewelry maker during the pandemic. I had a lot of ‘high concept’ pieces that really took off (including a Lone Pine Dartmouth necklace that is being sported all over campus), but I’m thrilled to announce I’ve also taken on a new part-time job. After participating in my local Repair Cafe as a volunteer jewelry fixer, I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to get more involved with the larger movement in my area.
“I recently joined Repair Cafe Hudson Valley, which is under the umbrella of the nonprofit organization Sustainable Hudson Valley, as its Repair Cafe coordinator. Repair Cafes are a wonderful resource that help people fix their beloved but broken items while also reconnecting with their neighbors or meeting new ones. So now in addition to traveling all over the Hudson Valley, New York, and beyond doing free jewelry repair and helping out in other ways at the many cafes in the area. I’m also doing PR and grant writing and am always looking for new ways to spread the Repair Cafe love.”
Please drop me a note with your update!
—Laura Hardegree Davis, 520 Meadowlark Lane, Brentwood, TN 37027; lauradavis723@mac.com
Thanks to Amy Nevin, who kindly rallied her friends to send me updates, so I have lots to share. Beginning with Amy, she is a practicing pediatrician in Pittsburgh. She spent the majority of her clinical career helping to start a new federally qualified health center branch, where she became a leading advocate for housing and lead exposure. Most recently, Amy has widened her expertise to include behavioral health therapy and psychopharmacology, while also overseeing peer-support programs for Type 1 diabetes at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Apparently, instead of sleeping, she also serves as the national director of pediatrics at a dynamic public health startup, Wellness Equality Alliance. Amy writes, “We had great success vaccinating folks at the Mexico-Texas border against Covid-19 and are now expanding into other areas! I oversee a diverse and dynamic national task force of community health workers. Leadership of this organization includes a fun group of energetic, creative thinkers in medicine, pharmacy, and nursing.” Knowing Amy from our Tri-Delt days, I know she is the fun, energetic, creative hub of this important group!
Martha Kiddoo Krieg has spent most of her time since leaving the Granite State in the Mountain West. After 12 years in Vail, Colorado, and another 11 years in Truckee, California, Martha now lives in Park City, Utah. She teaches elementary school “here and there between powder days” and enjoys spending time with her family on and off the slopes.
Liz York lives in Tunbridge, Vermont, with her husband and two children on a small, diversified organic farm where they grow produce and raise livestock. She writes, “I take my lumps volunteering for the town government there. To quote Homer Simpson, ‘Did you know that so-called “volunteers” don’t even get paid?’ ” Oh, Liz, how well we can relate. We are grateful for civil servants such as you!
Suzie Fromer has embarked on a couple of new professional ventures during the past several years. She writes, “I had a lot of fun growing my Etsy jewelry business and stretching as a jewelry maker during the pandemic. I had a lot of ‘high concept’ pieces that really took off (including a Lone Pine Dartmouth necklace that is being sported all over campus), but I’m thrilled to announce I’ve also taken on a new part-time job. After participating in my local Repair Cafe as a volunteer jewelry fixer, I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to get more involved with the larger movement in my area.
“I recently joined Repair Cafe Hudson Valley, which is under the umbrella of the nonprofit organization Sustainable Hudson Valley, as its Repair Cafe coordinator. Repair Cafes are a wonderful resource that help people fix their beloved but broken items while also reconnecting with their neighbors or meeting new ones. So now in addition to traveling all over the Hudson Valley, New York, and beyond doing free jewelry repair and helping out in other ways at the many cafes in the area. I’m also doing PR and grant writing and am always looking for new ways to spread the Repair Cafe love.”
Please drop me a note with your update!
—Laura Hardegree Davis, 520 Meadowlark Lane, Brentwood, TN 37027; lauradavis723@mac.com