April 2012 - Alumni News - Williams College

From left: Josh Kurzban ’91 and his wife Michelle caught up with Scott
Schwager ’91 in London on their way to a wedding.
on a practice-wide basis. I am
looking forward to bringing my
boys, Jake, 8, and Alex, 5, to
the reunion this summer, as the
Berkshires are practically in my
back yard. I would like to give a
shout out to Sage B entry-mates
Derek Schilling, who has just
returned from a sabbatical in
southern France (pauvre bâtard),
and Doug Boyce, who is the chair
of the music department at The
George Washington University.”
Joan (Malamud) Rocklin shared
that she got married to Bob
Rocklin in 2009 and in 2011
welcomed Sam Rocklin to her
clan. She also sent a lovely
picture of her wedding and a
really cute picture of her baby
boy. She has also co-authored a
legal writing textbook, A Lawyer
Writes, which is good reading
for first-year law students or
anybody having trouble sleeping
at night. And Joan and Bob (also
an attorney) are working on
a second textbook, tentatively
titled To Move a Court.
We learn that Jeremiah Axelrod
also welcomed additions to his
family this past year: Amalia
Serenity Axelrod-Delcampo
and Sophie Amistad Axelrod-
Delcampo were born on July 3
to Jem and Lil Delcampo (Drake
’92). The twin girls are happy
and healthy, having completed
their first big trip (to Tennessee
for the holidays) and look
forward to the Williams reunion
in June.
Abigail Solomon is engaged and
plans to get married Memorial
Day weekend on Martha’s
Vineyard to Jason Teuscher.
Congratulations, Abigail! If I
recall correctly, your family has
a lovely house on the beach in
Chilmark. But details of that
long-ago evening on the beach
are hazy, except I still remember
Will Brockman arriving late after
finishing his thesis and running
into the ocean fully dressed. We
hope no one will do that at your
wedding!
Tony Elison moved to the
Seattle area (as of late 2010,
actually), and chose to live on
Mercer Island as it is where
Greg Hart also happens to live.
“As a result, both of our lives
have regressed by a few decades,
as we hang out on weekends
with nothing better to do. It’s
also interesting to see the kids
well into a second-generation
Elison-Hart friendship. Although
this time around it seems the
Harts are the better athletes,
young Charles, 7, and Catherine,
5, seem to be preserving some
semblance of family honor for
the Elisons with their superior
dance moves.”
Louisa (Mittlegluck) Quittman
also gets to hang out with
Williams classmates. She is “still
at the Treasury Department,
trying to find ways to make our
financial system work better
for the 99 percent, and works
with a number of Williams
folks, including the famous
Don Graves, and got to have a
Williams intern this past summer,
thanks to Michael Tae ’97.”
Louisa recently caught up with
Deborah Lee, who is preparing
for the Episcopal seminary.
Melinda (Varn) Pearson admitted
she never writes and that
“when you said it was the saddest
ever, I felt a certain twinge
of guilt and obligation.” She
reports, “I now live in Ventura,
Calif., after stints in Sacramento
n 1991–92
and Denver, working on various
degrees and having fun. My husband
Duane and I have two fantastic
daughters, Marlo, 6, and
Alice, 4. I am an English PhD
dropout (yes, the pathetic ABD)
and currently full-time SAHM
(oh the acronyms!), but am contemplating
returning to teaching
English lit and composition once
my girls are both in school full
time. Or maybe taking up tennis?
We’ll see.”
Deirdre Flynn, who protested
that she had little to tell, did a
great job reporting on the whereabouts
of several classmates:
She reports: “Kate (Lee) Flynn
and I had dinner last week. She
is doing well in her job at JP
Morgan, where she has nearly
hit the 20-year mark. I can’t
understand how it’s possible that
we are old enough for someone
to have been at a job for 20
years, but apparently the math
works. I also had lunch with
David Willmott’s wife Catherine
when they were in New York.
They live in Portland, Ore., now,
but their East Coast friends are
assuming that’s not a permanent
move.
Did you know that Alison
Bonner is now married? As I was
enjoying a mint julep on Derby
Day last May, I emailed her to
wish her a good one (as it was
this Kentucky roommate who
introduced me to all the hoopla).
As it turns out, she actually was
at the Derby, where her then
boyfriend proposed. They didn’t
wait long before finishing the
deal, but I have no more scoop!
And I still live in NYC with four
kids and a minivan.”
Also doing an excellent job of
reporting on classmates is Heidi
Sandreuter. Heidi is “still at
Pepsi. It’s been 12 1 ⁄2 years, all in
marketing, and for the last year
I’ve been leading the media strategy
team for Pepsi Beverages.
My position has allowed me to
work closely with Matt Colangelo
’98, who is our finance guru.”
Heidi looked at an apartment
shown to her by her Sage E
suitemate Abigail Lash but had
yet to pull the trigger. She visited
Ashley Edgar Milliken and her
husband Peter ’91 last fall and
went out to San Francisco in
October to check in on Candace
Kelly. Candace had just returned
from a two-year detail in DC.
They also “bopped over to Josh
Levenberg’s house in Hillsboro,
where he and his wife Verna are
raising three terrific kids.”
And Amy Sachtleben writes that
she was (at the time of writing)
aPril 2012 | Williams PeoPle | 81