Class Note 2004
Hello, ’04s! Here are some updates on what seems like a busy and exciting spring for many of you.
David Seidman recently accepted a new position within his current company, Microsoft, at the Microscoft security response center. His wife, Julia (Keane) Seidman, is finishing her master’s in teaching at Seattle University in June. She and David have gotten many visits from medical students interviewing for residency programs, including Fenton McCarthy and Laura Rosow.
Laura Jones was engaged to Brian Mathay (Harvard ’04) and the wedding is set for October 10. Laura was featured in Business Week this year as one of “21 People Who Will Change Business,” an article focusing on young people specializing in innovation. Laura’s profile can be found at http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/09/0930_dschool_alumni/11.htm and you can read the article at http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/sep2009/id20090930_806435.htm.
Brian Orce is the production and post-production supervisor of VBS TV (www.vbs.tv), the online video division of Vice magazine. Last year Brian worked with the UN and the International Rescue Committee to help members of Acrassicauda, an Iraqi heavy metal band, get asylum status in the United States. He was the associate producer on a documentary about the band’s experience which can be found on the Vice website: www.vbs.tv/watch/acrassicauda--2/heavy-metal-in-baghdad-feature.
Sheila Hicks completed a master’s program in school leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is now the director of financial aid at Riverdale Country School in New York. Sheila continues to play rugby with the New York Rugby Club, which won the Women’s Premier League National Championship this year.
Ryan Alison Foley lives in Turin, Italy, and is in the first year of a master’s program in comparative law, economics and finance. Aside from enjoying her studies, she loves living in and traveling around Europe.
Jennie Savoca is a fourth-year medical student at University of Florida. She will be starting her residency in internal medicine at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in June. Jennie is of course very excited to return to the Upper Valley. Congratulations!
Judith Phillips graduated from University of Pennsylvania Law School last May and is currently living in Israel and working for a venture capital firm. Special thanks to Judith for providing the following updates.
Valerie Silverman is a second-year law student at Boston University Law School and will be working at Paul Hastings LLP this summer.
Claire Superfine was recently engaged to Jake Schneider and will be getting married next spring. Claire is finishing her last year at Boston University Law School and will be clerking on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court after graduation. Claire was recently offered a clerkship with a federal district court judge for the following year. Exciting news all around!
Heather Kiefer graduated from University of Pennsylvania Medical School last year and is in her first year of residency in neurosurgery (“slacking off, as per usual,” according to Judith) at Vanderbilt University.
Having graduated from law school in May 2009, Ingrid Swanson received a Skadden Fellowship to work at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association. Judith adds that Ingrid is also raising a very adorable puppy named Roxy.
Kate Minikel and Darren Thomas welcomed their son Griffin “Finn” Edward Thomas in February. Congratulations, the pictures on Facebook are adorable!
Ashley Massey is getting a D.Phil/Ph.D. in geography and the environment at Oxford.
Julia Reeve is currently pursuing a master’s in architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Finally, Sara Heaney is back in Hanover, getting her M.B.A. at Tuck.
As always, thank you for keeping me in the loop. Please send all of your news to jess.leinwand@gmail.com.
—Jess Leinwand, 1440 S St., NW, Apt. 2, Washington, DC 20009; jess.leinwand@gmail.com
