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On August 27, in the middle of Hurricane Irene, Shelley de Alth got married to Andrew Leonard (Emory ’02) at a summer camp in the Poconos. The hurricane held off and it was the perfect camp wedding, complete with a bonfire, color war and swimming and boating on the lake. In attendance were Daniele Genadry, Jill Garrido, Nate Anderson, Austin (Williams) Sibley, Julie (Cumming) Higgins, Halia (Barnes) Evans, Abby Corcoran and Mike “Roney” Ronickher.


Katie (Escherich) Morison wrote to fill me in on the birth of her daughter Juliet. Katie and her husband, Mark, welcomed Juliet Allerton Morison on May 24. Katie commented that, “A newborn baby was the only thing that could have kept me away from our reunion! I was so sad to miss it but we’re loving parenthood and can’t wait to bring Juliet to Hanover for a visit.” The couple lives in Forest Hills, New York, and both work at ABC News.


Similar news arrived from Gabe Brooks. He and his wife, Jessica, were thrilled with the July 4th arrival of Bear Jonah Brooks. Bear’s arrival prevented Gabe and Jessica from attending the wedding of their Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, neighbors Erin Morrissey and Pierre Vanden Borre (Colby ’02). I’m told it was a fantastic wedding.


I received word of one of our classmates in the national news. Molly Redmond is the lead author on a paper reporting on the microbes that are “eating” the oil from the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Molly and one of her colleagues, both geochemists from the University of California at Santa Barbara, published their research in early October in the “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.” The research is credited with helping scientists better understand how to respond to marine oil spills. 


Lastly, I also heard from Shirley Lin about her recent professional accomplishments. Shirley recently completed a clerkship with Judge Denny Chin of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. She then started as a Skadden Fellow at the Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund, to represent low-wage immigrant workers and support their organizing efforts. In between her clerkship and new position at Skadden she decided to finally give up one bit of native-New Yorker stubbornness and get a driver’s license, saying, “I’m sure I’ll need all the advice I can get on parallel parking in Manhattan!”


That’s all the news for now. Please keep sending along your updates. 


—Anne Cloudman, 30 W 90th St., Apt. 3D, New York, NY 10024; acloudman@gmail.com