Class Note 1992
Issue
So how’s this for a fun start to our Class Notes? A couple months ago I spoke with a classmate and asked him to send me an e-mail detailing his latest shenanigans. I then copied the e-mail, put it into my document and saved it for deadline day.
Then at deadline day I checked it again—and the person’s name was missing! I only had their closing tag: “Best, C”
So C, feel free to send me a choice e-mail saying, “Seriously, what is your issue?” In the meantime, to help uncover the mysterious C, this person:
• Has been writing films for the last few years and a few of them are going to be made into features next summer. One is Nik Bones, in which Colin Farrell plays an Irish assassin who gets out of rehab, is sponsored by Will Ferrell and finds himself unable to complete any of his assignments. The other is Harvard to Homeless—yup, the opposite of that crazy Lifetime feature on Liz Murray called Homeless to Harvard. In this one a homeless guy in N.Y.C. is a genius living off of the generosity of others, but at one time he was an associate professor in the mathematics department at Harvard.
• Splits his time between N.Y.C. and London and says he is “trying to find time to feed my goldfish.”
• Had an update on Ted LaGuerre: “He has a couple beautiful kids and his son Jake is turning into quite the athlete so I hear.”
C, show yourself! Answer in the next issue (I hope).
As you might imagine I was more than a little excited when I received an e-mail from an M. Sharapova—at last, I thought, the lovely tennis star Maria had come to her senses for me! My dreams of glory were dashed, however, when I realized it was actually classmate Margot (Jereb) Sharapova.
“After being a corporate nomad, moving every 18 months, it has been nice to be in New Jersey,” she wrote. “My husband and I have been in Princeton Junction for the last three years. I’m still working for GE, now in their healthcare division as the CIO of medical diagnostics. I still love triathlons, but generally keep to the sprint distance so that I’m not too tired to be a mom after a long day at work. The great part about New Jersey is that I can hop on my bike and ride straight from the house into the countryside.
“I’m enjoying the twilight before the teenage years with my kids. My son is 11 and I’m so proud of his accomplishments considering his Down syndrome. He just finished the rec league soccer season, where he made passes and dribbled the ball. My daughter just turned 9 and she’s an outdoor nature lover—right now her favorite activity is convincing her dad to troll on eBay for fossils and minerals.”
As Margot savors her preteen children, Kate Aiken begins that childhood chapter of her life. What better gift on Father’s Day than to make your husband a father, and so it was that Kate and her husband, John Glenn ’85, welcomed Max into the world on June 21. Congratulations, Kate and John!
—Mike Mahoney, Penn Athletic Communications, 235 S. 33rd St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; (215) 898-9232; mahoneyw@upenn.edu
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So how’s this for a fun start to our Class Notes? A couple months ago I spoke with a classmate and asked him to send me an e-mail detailing his latest shenanigans. I then copied the e-mail, put it into my document and saved it for deadline day.
Then at deadline day I checked it again—and the person’s name was missing! I only had their closing tag: “Best, C”
So C, feel free to send me a choice e-mail saying, “Seriously, what is your issue?” In the meantime, to help uncover the mysterious C, this person:
• Has been writing films for the last few years and a few of them are going to be made into features next summer. One is Nik Bones, in which Colin Farrell plays an Irish assassin who gets out of rehab, is sponsored by Will Ferrell and finds himself unable to complete any of his assignments. The other is Harvard to Homeless—yup, the opposite of that crazy Lifetime feature on Liz Murray called Homeless to Harvard. In this one a homeless guy in N.Y.C. is a genius living off of the generosity of others, but at one time he was an associate professor in the mathematics department at Harvard.
• Splits his time between N.Y.C. and London and says he is “trying to find time to feed my goldfish.”
• Had an update on Ted LaGuerre: “He has a couple beautiful kids and his son Jake is turning into quite the athlete so I hear.”
C, show yourself! Answer in the next issue (I hope).
As you might imagine I was more than a little excited when I received an e-mail from an M. Sharapova—at last, I thought, the lovely tennis star Maria had come to her senses for me! My dreams of glory were dashed, however, when I realized it was actually classmate Margot (Jereb) Sharapova.
“After being a corporate nomad, moving every 18 months, it has been nice to be in New Jersey,” she wrote. “My husband and I have been in Princeton Junction for the last three years. I’m still working for GE, now in their healthcare division as the CIO of medical diagnostics. I still love triathlons, but generally keep to the sprint distance so that I’m not too tired to be a mom after a long day at work. The great part about New Jersey is that I can hop on my bike and ride straight from the house into the countryside.
“I’m enjoying the twilight before the teenage years with my kids. My son is 11 and I’m so proud of his accomplishments considering his Down syndrome. He just finished the rec league soccer season, where he made passes and dribbled the ball. My daughter just turned 9 and she’s an outdoor nature lover—right now her favorite activity is convincing her dad to troll on eBay for fossils and minerals.”
As Margot savors her preteen children, Kate Aiken begins that childhood chapter of her life. What better gift on Father’s Day than to make your husband a father, and so it was that Kate and her husband, John Glenn ’85, welcomed Max into the world on June 21. Congratulations, Kate and John!
—Mike Mahoney, Penn Athletic Communications, 235 S. 33rd St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; (215) 898-9232; mahoneyw@upenn.edu