Scott Decker wrote to share that, “I just started a game of bigger better to see if I can get an island in Alaska: www.coloradoforalaska.com. Let me know if anyone wants to play!”

Nathan Empsall was ordained as an Episcopal priest on June 15, following his graduation with two master’s degrees from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Yale Divinity School in May. He and his wife, Diana, will continue to live in New Haven, Connecticut. He is serving as the new campaigns director for Faithful America, which brings the online organizing approach of groups such as MoveOn to progressive Christian causes. He will also serve as a priest part-time at the church of St. Paul & St. James (PJ’s!) in Wooster Square and continue to run the Facebook page and website Episcopal Climate News.

Kyle Fortune-Lad and Clare Fortune-Lad had a baby, Benton Reed Fortune-Lad, on a snowy March night in Lowell, Massachusetts. She shared that he is not named after Doc Benton, the ghost of Mount Moosilauke, but he is not not named after him, either. Ayla Glass is an associate producer on the feature film Changeland, written and directed by Seth Green and starring Green, Breckin Meyer, Macaulay Culkin, and Brenda Song! The movie came out June 7, and you can learn more at www.changelandmovie.com.

Johanna Hauer graduated from medical school! She wrote, “Nothing really changes for me because I am continuing in my oral and maxillofacial surgery residency at UConn, but it is an exciting milestone to reach at the halfway point in my residency. The best part is that I still get to stay a palindrome—D.M.D. M.D.!” Jarrett Mathis has been the executive director of his own nonprofit, Empowering Ourselves, for about seven years. He founded it with the mission to empower and uplift at-risk African American youth in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, which is largely inspired by the late Sen. Robert Kennedy. He shared that they have been struggling as of late but an anonymous donor just donated a $5 million contribution to endow his job.

After stints in Chicago and New York City, Weston Sager and Victoria (Toumanoff) Sager moved back to Weston’s home state of New Hampshire and bought an 18th-century farmhouse in Weare, New Hampshire. Weston is practicing law at Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, PC, in Concord, New Hampshire, and continuing his legal research on U.S. state-funded media in his spare time. Victoria is teaching at the Well School in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and establishing herself as a professional painter and portraitist. Kelsey Sheehan and Luke Mann-O’Halloran both welcomed daughters into the world on June 10. Kelsey gave birth to Vivian Beverly Simonov (her dad is Michael Simonov, a Michigan grad), and Laura ’10 delivered Samantha James O’Halloran. They have been friends since they met on the third floor of Bissell back in freshman year. Jack Sisson married Sarah Grossman ’11 on June 15 in Huntington on Long Island, New York. They celebrated at their reception with classmates from the graduating classes of 2008-12.

I’m saddened to share that our classmate DeVon Mosley passed away late last year. You can read more about him and his involvement in our community in the magazine’s online obituary section. I did not have the opportunity to know DeVon personally, but send my condolences to his friends and loved ones.

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d. kahane@gmail.com