Hello, ’02s!

Lauren Lafaro and her husband, Travis Elmer, recently moved back to the United States from Tokyo, Japan, where she served at the U.S. embassy as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear advisor. She will be leaving DOE after 15 years to take a job at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she will oversee the arms control and nonproliferation work. Lauren is looking forward to trading sake for California wine and being back in the United States after more than seven years overseas.

Mary Anne Mendenhall and her husband, Gordon Watson, welcomed a son, Rafe Taegun Watson, on October 26. He joins his two brothers and the dog they got two weeks before they learned of him, when they felt clear a third wasn’t in the cards! The happy family lives in sunny Encinitas, California.

—Anne Cloudman, 215 W 98th St., Apt. 12C, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com