Happy spring everyone! The success stories of fellow classmates keep coming in and I’m thrilled to share them with you all! Starting off, I’ve been following the development of a company called Plum Print, which was cofounded by Carolyn (Levine) Lanzetta to address the challenging fact that the average child brings home 800 pieces of artwork by the end of the elementary school years and the majority of parents have neither the time nor the expertise to preserve these precious memories. “The basics of our business are straightforward: Plum Print transforms overwhelming piles of children’s artwork into digital archives and prints elegant custom coffee-table books. After placing a small deposit, a Plum Parcel prepaid shipping kit arrives on the customer’s doorstep. Parents simply drop the artwork into the box and Plum Print takes care of the rest. Plum Print scans or photographs all types of artwork, edits each image and creates custom layouts for each coffee-table book. Parents approve the proof and the beautiful book is shipped to the family.” The idea for Plum Print came when Carolyn found herself “drowning in artwork.” She asked other parents how they handled the problem, but no one really had a good answer. So she ended up photographing her child’s art and putting together a custom book. Soon friends of hers were asking if she’d make them a book, too, for their kids’ art, and the small business was born. Plum Print recently raised a million-dollar seed round to expand its brand ambassador program, which involves partnering with local schools and parent-teacher organizations, and increase its offerings to include other photo gifts. Check it out at www.plumprint.com.


In other great news, Alex Magleby was recently named director of performance for USA Rugby. Alex previously served as national director of sevens, and will now “have overall responsibility for the men’s and women’s national team pathways, age-grade programs and the management of an integrated high-performance system within the development, emerging and elite levels of the game in the United States. Alex has already overseen multiple aspects of the growth of the men’s and women’s Eagles sevens teams, including the creation and expansion of the Olympic development academy, construction of the Elite City Sevens competition and the first national team recruitment camp at the Olympic Training Center. As a player, captain and coach, Alex has won 18 Ivy League championships and five national titles.” Congrats!


Congratulations to Mike Lewis and his wife, Diane Woodhouse, who welcomed their daughter, Sasha, to the world on January 1! Sasha joins big brother Hunter, who’s 2. Mike lives in Boulder, Colorado, where he is the cofounder of a startup called Kapost, which is the world’s leading provider of content marketing software and services, powering the content operation of more than 100 companies, including Fortune 500 companies. 


Finally, I know it seems impossible, but the 15th anniversary of our graduation from college is quickly approaching! Like our 10-year reunion, we will celebrate our 15th reunion with the ’01s and ’02s, so mark your calendars for June 17-19, 2016, to make the return to the College on the Hill. I have no doubt it will be an epic weekend for the class of 2000!


—Kelly Heaps, 3666 Willowlea Court, Unit B, Cincinnati, OH 45208; heaps.k@pg.com