Patrick Hansen sent greetings from Stockholm, where he, wife Cynthia ’99, 12-year-old daughter Elisa, and 6-year-old daughter Annika were celebrating Christmas and New Year’s. Patrick wrote: “We are in Europe for seven months at the invitation of the linguistics department of Charles University in Prague, where Cynthia is spending a ‘reboot’ of her 2020 tenure sabbatical from Grinnell College. Prague finds itself in global headlines again on our return visit. The city shut down aggressively in March of 2020 at the start of the Covid epidemic. We cut our trip and Cynthia’s sabbatical short at the time and returned to Iowa. This past week tragedy struck the building where the linguistics department is housed, with Europe’s most horrific mass shooting in decades. We were two blocks from the faculty of arts building the day before the shooting, but thankfully enroute to Sweden the day it happened. We were shocked to land in Stockholm to such terrible news. We don’t anticipate changing our plans at this time, but we are mindful that the faculty and students will be grappling with this horrible event in the coming weeks and months. We pray for healing in Prague and for an end to gun violence everywhere, especially in schools and on college campuses.”

Congratulations to Sashi Bach, whose law firm, Boies Schiller Flexner, was recently named by American Lawyer magazine as “Florida Litigation Department of the Year.” Sashi, who is co-administrative partner of the firm’s Fort Lauderdale office, attended the ceremony for the honor in New York. She wrote: “I have practiced law here with the same core group for more than 20 years. I am very fortunate to do what I love every day with an amazing group of people and am so proud of our success in Florida.”

In other news, the following ’97s attended President Beilock’s road show in Boston in November: Lynne Ricketts McClory, Taidgh McClory, Lynne Soutter, Lindsey Noecker, Jeff Longnecker, Rachel Levy Wexler, Sarah Lenczner Caputo, David Zipkin, Abigail Klingbeil, Blaire Osgood Bernard,and James Lipscomb.

Take care, everyone. Please send your news.

—Jason Casell, 19018 Salado Canyon, San Antonio, TX 78258; jhcasell@gmail.com