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David Giordano ’85 celebrated his 40th birthday in
style with his wife Adria and their 2 girls, Gabriella
(2 yrs) and Francesca (1 yr.)
February. We decided to find out the sex of this
one and it’s another boy. He’ll be joining Eli (6),
and Asher (4). Our dogs Banjo and Lola are presumably
excited, as well. I just got back from the
mountains helping Eagle (aka Franz Frechette)
hang some Christmas lights in the trees around his
house. He’s a mountain man living up in the
beautiful forests west of Boulder with his insane
dogs.” On the East Coast, the stork has landed for
one of our fellow classsmates. Jeff Feola and his
wife, Camille, welcomed their first child in July
2006. Baby Matteo and family are living in
Brooklyn, where Jeff is a psychiatrist at SUNY
Downstate Medical Center. Recently, the
Alumni/ae office received the following e-mail
from Jeff, “Hi, I’m typing this one handed, feeding
our new baby boy with the other.”
Congratulations, Jeff, on your new son and your
skill at multi-tasking. Jeff also reports that former
classmate and Brooklyn neighbor, Eric Zamore,
and his wife, Molly, just had their second child,
Ainsley. Word has it that Chris Mansfield and his
wife also welcomed their second child, a son, in
October. Congratulations to all! Tom Rodd
wrote: “In the fall, my Dad and I attended Bud
Erich’s memorial at Hopkins. My son came with
us and he had a good time watching the soccer
and football games. We ran into Beth Ciardiello
and her daughters and had a few minutes to catchup.
During the holidays, my family went to
Vermont and New Hampshire for a week and had
a nice time. Leanne’s parents watched the kids,
while we had an overnight in Burlington VT.
While there, I ran into Laurie Stevens, who was
visiting her sister, Wendy Stevens Hillmuth ’90,
and their family for the holidays.” On to other
continents, Brian Vasey recently completed some
travels to Australia and Iceland. Last but certainly
not least, Dave Giordano celebrated the “Big 40”
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F R O M T H E H I L L
in style, rat-pack style
that is. His wife, Adria,
pulled out all the stops.
There was a wonderful
Sinatra singer, who sang
all Frank cabaret style
songs for four hours.
There were libations
(martini’s anyone? and
the “Classic GIO-tini”
made the way he likes
it–vodka, two olives), and
of course there was plenty
of good Italian food from
an antipasto station and
pasta bar to yummy pastries.
Finally, there were
many friends and family
including fellow Hopkins
alums Tracey Shapiro Fitzpatrick, Jackie and Jeff
Potash, Jon Shapiro, and Howie Young and
Kevin Reynolds ’81.
1986
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MONICA WATSON
mm1watson@yahoo.com
Hello classmates, it was great receiving more
updates from classmates. Keep the updates coming!
Jeff Fields writes that he is currently living in
Iowa City IA with his wife, Patti, and their two
sons, Xavier (9) and Zachary (6). Patti is the director
of volunteer services at the Crisis Center in
Iowa City. They provide food bank and crisis telephone
line services. She was elected in 2005 to the
Iowa City Community School District school
board and she really enjoys it. Jeff just started his
10th year practicing law. He joined a firm on
August 1, after practicing solo for nine years. He
is enjoying it a lot. Jeff is also active with the local
Democrats, currently serving as the finance chair.
He planned their
annual barbeque this
past September and
it was his first time
planning anything
like that. Mike
Thomas writes that
he will be headed to
Afghanistan in
March with the
P r o v i s i o n a l
R e c o n s t r u c t i o n
Teams. He is returning
to Navy service
after having been
out for several years.
Mike does not have
a military e-mail
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address yet but can be reached at archangelventures@mac.com.
Mike says it would be great to
hear from people while he is “over there” and will
certainly send updates as he is able. Kyle
Theodore writes that he saw Mike Thomas when
he was back east for the NYC Marathon. He was
supposed to see Andy Chepaitis too, but missed
him in the crowds. Kyle was one of 38,368 people
from more than 100 countries that tested their
endurance and spirit on the streets of New York.
This was one of the largest marathons ever staged.
Kyle’s unofficial results are: Finish time: 3:42:23,
Overall place: 6738.
1987 | 20th reunion
hopkins
BETSY FLOMAN FISHBONE
sbfishbone@optonline.net
2007—Our 20th Reunion year–pretty scary!
Hopefully I’ll have more news to report after seeing
you all at the Reunion, but for now, the Class
of ’87 news is as follows: Thanks to Gerry
Giaimo, a number of our classmates have been emailing
back and forth–it seems that Gerry’s
fledgling guitar career has taken off and his band
has been playing all over New York. Hopefully,
some of you were able to see him. If not, maybe
he will agree to play for us at Reunion! I also just
spoke to Jen Chernock Howland, who is living in
Massachusetts with her husband and two little
girls and working per diem as a nurse in Rhode
Island. I also spoke to Jackie Klein Babat, who has
three children and is living in Tennessee. Jackie’s
neighbor is Dave Seligman and she says that she
sees him often. Jen Hibbitts is living outside of
San Francisco and is working in retail real estate.
Father, son, and grandfather: Tom Rodd ’85, Daniel
Rodd, and Former Headmaster Tim Rodd gathered
at the Bud Erich memorial service on Homecoming
Day on October 21.