April 2012 - Alumni News - Williams College

CLASS NOTES
for permission—in Spanish!
Following the proposal, Ian
surprised Mike with champagne
and a visit from his very happy
family.
The lovebirds also had dinner
with Jon Brajtbord and Sarah
Jenks ’07 (who were traveling
across South America on
their honeymoon) after their
weeklong “engagement-moon”
in Punta del Este, Uruguay.
Surekha Gajria planned on
finishing her PhD in biomaterials
at UCSB last spring. She’s
engaged to a German named
Thorsten, a polymer chemist
whose company manufactures
the artificial leather used in
Louis Vuitton bags. They’re
looking forward to a fall wedding
in Germany and think
they’ll stick around for at least
a few years.
Angie Chien married Garrett
Calderwood in Fort Worth,
Tex., on Oct. 1. Taylor (Tyson)
Haywood was a bridesmaid. At
the reception, Angie and Garrett
taught wedding guests Matthew
Brown, Sarah Brooks, Courtney
Bartlett, Erin Wagner, Nadia
Moore, Ali Macdonald, Daley
Kirby ’07, John Haywood ’04
and Don Macdonald ’04 how to
“wobble.”
Alan Cordova attended the
wedding of Phyo Phyu Noe to
Lwin Mon Thant in Yangon,
Myanmar, on Christmas Day
with Jay Bid, Thomas Kunjappu,
Wei Wang ’07, Ta Banchuin ’08
and Aom Wisa Kitichaiwat ’10.
Creston Herold’s wife Carrie
gave birth to baby girl Charlotte
Ruth at the end of December.
She arrived with a full head of
dark hair after a “near spontaneous”
delivery.
Christine Matulewicz was
working on her master’s at Penn
and eagerly awaiting the arrival
of Christine (Rodriguez) Nieves’
baby girl.
Devon and Jackie O’Rourke
(three!) returned from Jordan
in June and settled back into
life in South Berkshire County.
They never feel far away from
the Purple Valley with the likes
of Andrew D’Ambrosio ’10,
Will Cronin ’10 and Julia Cohan
’11 working alongside them
at the Berkshire School. A few
Ephs visited them on the Cape
in August, and they bought a
house in Eastham, Mass., in
the fall! They’re renovating it
and looking forward to future
gatherings.
Blake Albohm spent six weeks
in Amman, Jordan, in the fall,
and Sasha Gsovski (four!) left
104 | Williams PeoPle | aPril 2012
2006 classmates (from left) Sarah Steege, Miriam Lawrence, Cassie
Montenegro, Elissa Hardy and Alissa Caron got together New Year’s Eve
on Boston Common. The group also was celebrating Alissa’s visit from
Cambodia and Sarah’s birthday.
consulting to work on health
policy in Senator Kerry’s office.
Her colleagues aren’t keen on
her choice of baseball teams,
but this only makes her feel like
she’s back at Williams.
She was home in NYC for
the holidays and had a raucous
reunion with Jeanne Lehmann,
Melissa Paige, Emily Casden
and Jesse Schenendorf in the
West Village, and she and Blake
caught up with Jeremy Wertzer
(a second-year at Tuck) and Ben
Berringer (now an attorney at
law) at the Jets-Giants game on
Christmas Eve. She also—quite
literally—bumped into Sally
Dickerson in the Union Square
craft market. And Gillian Weeks
accompanied her and her mom
wedding-dress shopping.
EmCas moved into her own
one-bedroom apartment in
Crown Heights last April and
turned in her thesis in May. She’s
now Master of Art History/The
Universe! She’s been back at the
Jewish Museum since finishing
her course work; she made her
YouTube debut giving a tour of
“The Snowy Day and the art of
Ezra Jack Keats” exhibit; have a
peek and help make her famous,
“Bieber-style”!
Blair Coffman bid the Big
Apple adieu when Pandora
transferred her to the West
Coast late last year. Now she
lives in San Fran’s the Haight;
she misses nothing less than
winters in Williamstown and
NYC. As proof, she rang in the
New Year at Ocean Beach with
John Silvestro, Lindsay Dwyer
’05, Katie Shattuck ’05 and J.J.
O’Brien ’05.
Reed and Annie Harrison
(five!) moved out of the third
floor of Annie’s childhood
home; now they’ve got a home
of their own. Reid works in
operations management at
Columbia Sportswear, and
Annie is doing contractor
training at Intel; both mentor
through Minds Matter, run by
Graham Covington ’64. Alex
Chan and Emily Peinert have
paid them a visit, and they have
met up with fellow Portland,
Ore., Ephs Chris Yorke and
Joanna Westrich, too.
Morgan West sticks together!
In November, Anna Gunning
and JA Matt Hoffman ’04
visited Macy Radloff at Macy’s
restaurant in Boston: The coffee
and pastries were “lovely.”
And in October Liz Woodwick
took advantage of Macy’s sweet
Harvard digs when she was in
town to cheer on current and
alumni Ephs at the Head of the
Charles regatta.
Liz was in sunny, summery
Santiago, Chile, when she
emailed me; she started her
last semester of b-school by
participating in a two-week
global business program. She
interned at Deloitte last summer
and is excited to return to the
Minneapolis office next fall.
Elissa Klein is keeping count,
too, but of Ephs at Harvard’s
ed school. In addition to Marty
West ’98, Richard Murnane ’66
and Thomas Payzant ’62 are
profs there, and Cynthia Zwicky
’05 is getting her doctorate.
David Butts got his PhD in
aerospace engineering from
MIT before Christmas and took