Class Note 2009
Issue
Sept - Oct 2015
I’m deeply saddened to share that our classmate and friend Leslie “Leah” Adkins passed away on May 5 in Los Angeles, where she had just completed her M.B.A. coursework at University of Southern California. Leah was an enthusiastic member of the community and a class leader. You can read more about her and her many contributions to our community in the magazine online.
Julia Bronson graduated from dental school at Midwestern University and represents team USA, with Kelly Foley ’12 and Lindsay Holdcroft ’14, at the Street Hockey World Championship in Switzerland. Kathryn Boucher graduated from the University of Chicago Law School and joined Covington & Burling’s San Francisco office as a patent litigator. Wendy Diao received her M.D. from Jefferson Medical College and began a family medicine residency at the University of California, Davis. Family and friends attended her commencement, including John “Yuehan Yeye” Nordling ’56, who inspired her for a decade. Ibrahim Elshamy graduated from Stanford Law School and serves as counsel to startups at Gunderson Dettmer in the Bay Area.
Anthony Guzman and Emily Watson are engaged! He proposed almost 10 years after meeting on third-floor Bissell. After meeting through Zach Swiss, Bret Tenenhaus and Jenna Pfeffer ’12 got engaged May 30 in Central Park!
Kat Andrews and Nick Weir got married in Kennebunkport, Maine! Morgan Cawdrey married a woman he met while working at Brewster Academy. He started an annual weekend-long Western art show and auction in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Ben Zabar ’04 and Marki Grimsley got married in N.Y.C. last October. There was a lively version of the alma mater as well as “Blame it on the Boogie,” complete with full Leach Field dance moves. Morgan Hartley and Taylor Babcock marry on September 19 in San Diego. Andrew Kaminski married Hannah Kurland at the Missouri History Museum. Trevor Granger, David Nachman and Igor Borodulin ’11 were in the wedding. More than six years after they started dating, Neil Kandler and Asafu Suzuki married at the Columbus Zoo. Nithya Sharma ’08, Molly Hallam, Jess LaBrie and Dave Kopec were in the wedding party, and Kaili Lambe caught the bouquet. Kat Rice married Marshall Wallach on July 25 in Buxton, Maine! Caitlin Cunningham, Bridget Alex ’08, Aryn Gruneisen, Monica Hernandez ’10 and Minal Caron were in the bridal party.
Christopher Brouwer took the summer off to travel, seeing Chrissy Donnelly in Colombia and Bolivia, Danny Michlewicz in Medellin, Colombia, and Johannes Lohman in Bogota, Colombia. He returned to California for Thomas Donahoe’s wedding and went to London with Nate Niparko to see Joe Malchow ’08 marry. Nathan Empsall writes, “After five years I left Washington, D.C., for New Haven, Connecticut, where I’m attending the joint program between Yale Divinity School and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. This means I’m in seminary to become an Episcopal priest, but keeping my focus on climate justice. I’m still a digital campaigner with Care2, focused on police accountability issues.”
Josh Jacobson joined the Centre for Effective Altruism as director of marketing and communications in Oxford, United Kingdom. Eric Kaufman started a new job at One Rock Capital Partners. Lilian Mehrel is in Miami writing and researching her TV series. Her short film just won a Puffin Foundation film award. Caitlin Pierce lives in Yangon, Myanmar, and works for a human rights organization.
James Bramante moved back to the United States from Singapore and started a Ph.D. in marine geology and geophysics at MIT. He and Grace Chua ’07 welcomed their first child, Darren Xuwei Bramante. Jordan Sedlacek started his last year of veterinary school at Colorado State University. As part of his Ph.D. work in hydrology at University of Colorado, Boulder, Peter Shellito participated in a NASA field campaign to validate its new satellite, SMAP, which measures soil moisture from space.
—Liz Doolittle Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com.
Julia Bronson graduated from dental school at Midwestern University and represents team USA, with Kelly Foley ’12 and Lindsay Holdcroft ’14, at the Street Hockey World Championship in Switzerland. Kathryn Boucher graduated from the University of Chicago Law School and joined Covington & Burling’s San Francisco office as a patent litigator. Wendy Diao received her M.D. from Jefferson Medical College and began a family medicine residency at the University of California, Davis. Family and friends attended her commencement, including John “Yuehan Yeye” Nordling ’56, who inspired her for a decade. Ibrahim Elshamy graduated from Stanford Law School and serves as counsel to startups at Gunderson Dettmer in the Bay Area.
Anthony Guzman and Emily Watson are engaged! He proposed almost 10 years after meeting on third-floor Bissell. After meeting through Zach Swiss, Bret Tenenhaus and Jenna Pfeffer ’12 got engaged May 30 in Central Park!
Kat Andrews and Nick Weir got married in Kennebunkport, Maine! Morgan Cawdrey married a woman he met while working at Brewster Academy. He started an annual weekend-long Western art show and auction in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Ben Zabar ’04 and Marki Grimsley got married in N.Y.C. last October. There was a lively version of the alma mater as well as “Blame it on the Boogie,” complete with full Leach Field dance moves. Morgan Hartley and Taylor Babcock marry on September 19 in San Diego. Andrew Kaminski married Hannah Kurland at the Missouri History Museum. Trevor Granger, David Nachman and Igor Borodulin ’11 were in the wedding. More than six years after they started dating, Neil Kandler and Asafu Suzuki married at the Columbus Zoo. Nithya Sharma ’08, Molly Hallam, Jess LaBrie and Dave Kopec were in the wedding party, and Kaili Lambe caught the bouquet. Kat Rice married Marshall Wallach on July 25 in Buxton, Maine! Caitlin Cunningham, Bridget Alex ’08, Aryn Gruneisen, Monica Hernandez ’10 and Minal Caron were in the bridal party.
Christopher Brouwer took the summer off to travel, seeing Chrissy Donnelly in Colombia and Bolivia, Danny Michlewicz in Medellin, Colombia, and Johannes Lohman in Bogota, Colombia. He returned to California for Thomas Donahoe’s wedding and went to London with Nate Niparko to see Joe Malchow ’08 marry. Nathan Empsall writes, “After five years I left Washington, D.C., for New Haven, Connecticut, where I’m attending the joint program between Yale Divinity School and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. This means I’m in seminary to become an Episcopal priest, but keeping my focus on climate justice. I’m still a digital campaigner with Care2, focused on police accountability issues.”
Josh Jacobson joined the Centre for Effective Altruism as director of marketing and communications in Oxford, United Kingdom. Eric Kaufman started a new job at One Rock Capital Partners. Lilian Mehrel is in Miami writing and researching her TV series. Her short film just won a Puffin Foundation film award. Caitlin Pierce lives in Yangon, Myanmar, and works for a human rights organization.
James Bramante moved back to the United States from Singapore and started a Ph.D. in marine geology and geophysics at MIT. He and Grace Chua ’07 welcomed their first child, Darren Xuwei Bramante. Jordan Sedlacek started his last year of veterinary school at Colorado State University. As part of his Ph.D. work in hydrology at University of Colorado, Boulder, Peter Shellito participated in a NASA field campaign to validate its new satellite, SMAP, which measures soil moisture from space.
—Liz Doolittle Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com.