April 2012 - Alumni News - Williams College

CLASS NOTES
tasting in Napa the following day
with Jen Doleac and Daniel Klasik.
Vivien Shotwell’s novel, Amato
Bene, will be published by
Ballantine Books in 2013 and
translated into four languages.
Renee Dumouchel left the 92nd
Street Y in NYC after five years
to become the associate director
of external affairs for the
Guggenheim Foundation. She is
super excited to start this next
phase of her journey and gets lots
of free passes. If you’re in NYC
and are looking for a cultural
play day, let her know. She also
loves teaching yoga and is putting
together a series of workshops
on the yoga of transformation,
taught in the Phoenix Rising
style. Inspired by her puppeteer
boyfriend, Renee recently joined
an arts collective to create new
works combining dance, poetry
and puppetry. She also got to
ring in the new year with Heather
Brubaker and Zach Yeskel ’04 and
spent time cavorting in NYC
with Debby Chen, waxing philosophical
about holistic health and
French food.
Rob Michelin is a visiting
lecturer at Williams in the music
department. He also teaches
in NYC at Arts and Media
Preparatory Academy. Rob is
applying for doctoral candidacy
in cultural anthropology.
As always, our classmates’
families continue to grow.
Graeme Sanderson and his wife
Beth celebrated the birth of their
son Deacon Thomas Sanderson
on Aug. 24. Matt Grunwald stood
vigil at the hospital to welcome
Deacon into the world. Graeme
just completed his MBA at NYU
Stern’s executive program.
Anastasia (Gilman) Leyden had
her second child, Isabel Rose, on
Sept. 14. Anastasia, her husband
James and Isabel’s big brother
Patrick are all smitten.
Bethany (Sayles) Yu and her
husband Jonathan welcomed
their second child on Nov. 25.
Baby Peter joins his big sister Evie
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in exploring Philadelphia, their
new home since the Yus relocated
in July so Jonathan could attend
business school at Wharton.
Tina Howe and her husband
Brian Clites welcomed a son,
Liam James, on Nov. 28. They
were having a wonderful holiday
season with him.
Kimmie and Angus Beal are
settled into Salt Lake City and
had a baby girl, Phoebe, on Dec.
2. Angus loves EM residency.
Kimmie and Angus’ 2-year-old
had his first day on skis, and
they were all looking forward to
Wasatch powder for the rest of
the winter.
Courtney Janney and her husband
Ben welcomed a daughter,
Kairi Noel Janney, on Dec. 20.
Sarah Nichols had a busy year.
She spent the spring semester
teaching at Whitman College,
then moved down to Claremont,
Calif., to join her husband. Along
the way she enjoyed meeting
Ephs at the wedding of Chris
Holmes in Chicago in March
and catching up with Lillian
Diaz-Przybyl ’04 and Jesse Dill
’04 after the latter biked from
San Francisco to LA in June for
a fundraiser. In September Sarah
enjoyed seeing many classmates
at Alix Davis’s wedding. Jen
Barone visited Sarah in October
on a whirlwind vacation tour
through California. Sarah is looking
forward to her first Christmas
in a house she shares with her
husband after many years of
alternating between parents
and in-laws. She is currently an
adjunct in the physics departments
of several schools and
hoping that one of them will have
money for a full-time hire soon.
Phil Dimon has returned from
two years in India with the
Foreign Service. He is now in
DC learning Spanish. Later this
year he will head to El Salvador
for two years on his second
assignment.
Nick Nelson and Sarah Klionsky
live in Cambridge, Mass., and
have enjoyed meeting up with Jeff
Garland, Ian Warrington and other
classmates on occasion. Nick and
Sarah had a great time skiing,
sledding, playing in the snow and
eating a lot in Vermont over New
Year’s with Jordan Goldwarg,
Bekah Levine, Malin Pinsky, Kristin
Hunter-Thompson and Liz Mygatt.
They also enjoyed seeing Bethie
Miller over the holidays.
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Josh Weisenbeck writes: “My
wife and I had our first child,
Ethan Claxton Weisenbeck, born
Sept, 1, 2011. He’s doing great,
and we’re blessed to have him!”
MJ (Priest) Lanum also had a
baby. Theodore Arthur Lanum
was born on Nov. 17, 2011.
MJ writes, “East 1 seems to be
having a baby boom, with Rob
Follansbee and Ali and Chuck
Abba also having kids this year.
Game on, other entries.”
Shamus Brady is considering
a run for Congress in the
4th district of Massachusetts.
He encourages his classmates
to reach out to him if they are
interested in the campaign.
Chris Ryan married Ellen
Abbott on Aug. 13 in Charlotte,
N.C. They met while attending
business school at Wharton, and
they are now living in Boston.
Chris is working for a midmarket
private equity fund called
Riverside Partners, and Ellen is
working for a consulting firm
called IGS.
Elizabeth Just married Stephen
Dobay ’05 on Oct. 22, at the
Museum of Natural History
in New York City. About 35
Williams people attended,
and the Octet sang during the
ceremony and the reception. The
happy couple spent New Year’s
in Puerto Rico with Alex Lees
’03, Jenny Eames ’01, Andrew
Marks ’05, Ellie Schmidt ’06 and
Peter Schmidt ’08.
On Sept. 18, Liz Kaplan married
Dan Gordon, a graduate
of the University of Missouri-
Columbia, in a beautiful
ceremony overlooking the ocean
in Ipswich, Mass. With them to
celebrate were Sarah Godbehere,
Mike Henry, Jen Lazar and Daniel
Shearer.
Jen Lazar and Daniel Shearer
celebrated their first AND
their 10th anniversary this past
December. They’ve been married
for one year and together since
our sophomore year! Jen spent
most of 2011 running the first
year of the Field Academy, a
traveling high school that she is
founding with Heather Foran. Jen