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CLASS NOTES Last year Annaliese Beery (plus husband David and toddler Ronan) left sunny California for a neuroscience faculty position at Smith College. They now live in Northampton, Mass. Kate Boyle Ramsdell writes, “Jamie and I kicked off 2012 with the arrival of Whitman (Whit) Boyle Ramsdell! He was born early in the morning on Dec. 27. What a love he is.” And in other New England hot spots… “Our third daughter, Georgia, was born last March. In June, we moved from Berkeley, Calif., back to a small, cold, northeastern liberal arts college town: Middlebury, Vt., where my husband landed a post-PhD job teaching economics. I’m feeling a lot of Williams deja-vu, except that now I’m seeing things from the vantage point of the professors. … Already had some fun visits this fall from Maria Plantilla and Kristin Hem,” contributes Faith Cinquegrana Gong. Susan Costanzo writes, “In 2009 I left Best Buy with the help of a severance package that I voluntarily accepted prior to Best Buy’s round of involuntary layoffs. I visited Frank Vigorito in Gato Morto, Spain, in the Galician region. The highlight was when Frank and I drove to Braga, Portugal, to go skydiving! We're both afraid of heights, so it was an exercise in overcoming fear. I’ve dabbled in modeling and acting and working with certain photographers in Minneapolis. It makes for some great Facebook profile pictures, I'll admit. “I now work with FICO in the Marketing Solutions division. We serve the retail and CPG industries. My client is also my former employer—Best Buy. “I recently returned from a trip to London where I said goodbye to 2011 and hello to 2012. Other recent travels include a trip to China this past summer, where I met up with Adam Nowak ’95, my former JA, in Shanghai for a weekend. I then took the bullet train to Nanjing.” Kate Ramsdell and I have been working together for about a year and a half leading the agent team raising funds for the Alumni Fund. A brief stop in our nation’s capital… Alex Steinberg Barrage and Mike Tae have been lunching at various eateries around the Treasury building, rekindling the lazy days in Baxter where Alex and Amina Abrahams laughed with Mike. Alex writes, “I’m 90 | Williams PeoPle | aPril 2012 still running. Two kids later and somehow I’m faster. So many pluses to enduring childbirth!” Jonah Wittkamper ran into Dahna Goldstein at a congressional event on philanthropy in November. “She and I now run in similar circles, linking technology and giving. … I was playing in my front yard with my boys when Eli Boritz randomly walked by with his dogs. We have been living near each other for over four years and just discovered it. … He’s now working at NIH. I saw Dana Mason. … She’s also working in a similar field— bridge-building and mediation. She’s a new mom, too. I exchanged holiday text messages with Josh Solomon. I’ve been in touch with Francisco Alarcon. We will someday go cave diving together,” writes Jonah. Last April Cora Ganzglass quit her job as legislative director at a consumer protection nonprofit to hike the Appalachian Trail. She writes, “My boyfriend and I started April 7, 2011, down at Springer Mountain in Georgia. Over six months we hiked north through 14 states, approximately 2,100 miles, seeing lots of Ephs along the way. I got to meet up with Julie Weed ’96, Emily Eakin ’99, Gina Coleman ’90, Cammie Barrow and Michel and Derek Ohly. I also met along the trail another Williams through-hiker, Krystal Williams ’96. On Sept. 30 we reached the northern terminus of the AT, Mount Katahdin. Since then we have returned home to the DC area and are slowly adjusting back to the real world.” Bob Feit writes, “My wife Preethy and I are the proud new parents of Nathan Ram Feit, who was born on Oct. 27. The little guy is doing well and shows some promise of being a ‘starter’ baby. He has already been visited by Chetan Rao ’97, Ron Alcala ’97, Lenny Alfred ’98, and David Galaty ’98, who are all doing well.” And all the places in between and abroad… Laura Christensen Guthrie submits, “Trent and I are enjoying life in Michigan. Our son Quinn, 2, is too fun for words. I quit my job about a year ago to concentrate on Quinn and all the life stuff that needs to be done. Trent continues to enjoy his work as an orthopedic trauma surgeon in Detroit at Henry Ford hospital. We bought a house in the nearby city of Northville … and are working on plans for renovations before we move in.” Jennifer Feighner and husband welcomed their third child, Julia, in October. “She is a wonderfully sweet newborn, and her older siblings are enjoying her as well. Life continues to be good to us in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana-— we are building a house on 61 acres we have christened Skyfire Ranch, and I was able to start up our hospital medicine program full time, with the recruitment of three additional hospitalists,” she writes. Dylan and Harriet (Greenwood) Ragozin and Charlotte and Isla left the Bay Area for a one-year stint in Basel, Switzerland. Dylan works for Genentech, which was purchased by Roche, and he is there leading a project related to the integration of the two companies. Harriet is taking a year off from work and enjoying being a stay-at-home mom. They spend their free time traveling as much as they can; so far, they’ve explored Switzerland, France, Germany, Croatia and Israel. Guillermo de las Casas writes to us from the 90th floor of a hotel building in Shanghai. “I will be glad to be done with a month and a half of traveling for work and vacation around Europe, South America and Asia. Have just rented my new home in Hong Kong. I really hope to be the host to some of my Williams classmates during my stay here!” Sam Sommers contributes, “I just published my first book, entitled Situations Matter: Understanding How the Context Transforms Your World. It’s a behavioral science book written for a general audience, and I’ve spent time promoting it on local radio, NPR, MSNBC and on-line (more details at www.samsommers.com). Marilyn and the girls are well.” David Monoky and I celebrated our Second Annual Art Basel Miami Random Sighting in December. He is enjoying his career as a doctor in NYC, and we reveled in the pleasant Miami winter weather. Matt Rouse and I shared some delicious BBQ in Atlanta on a quick stop over. And now a word from our president… Seth Morgan writes, “It’s not too early for people to contact Hallie D’Agruma to help with reunion. She is really working hard to make it a good time for everyone and could use the help.” Biggest Takeaway: Come to reunion. Help with reunion See you in June, for the big 1-5. Until then, be well and enjoy life! xoB
1998 Andrea Stanton 734 St. Paul St. Denver, CO 80206 1998secretary@williams.edu Hello, all, and happy 2012 from Denver! Several 1998ers wrote in with news about how they finished 2011 or are starting 2012—lots of great stuff all around, including a few first-time updates. I’m going to try another regional division, so… Starting off on the East Coast, Andrew Fagenholz writes that daughter Ruby arrived in October, joining older sister Viola, 2. They live in Boston, and Andrew describes himself as: “Slogging away at a mega law firm as of this writing, so work and family occupy all hours.” He notes that Evan Hornbuckle ’99 was his “go-to tennis partner on the local public court” but that Evan recently moved away. If you’re in Boston and like tennis, you might get in touch with Andrew. Diana Villamarin writes from Connecticut that she married Carl Solazzo on Nov. 21. The newlyweds spent the holidays with her family, including Anamaria Villamarin ’95 and Tim Lupin ’93, where she was also able to spend time with goddaughter Isabella Tarantino (daughter of Ken Tarantino ’97). Back in Boston again, Peter Robinson writes that he, wife Liz and daughter Millie had a great year. “We managed to meet up with Aaron Kammerer and his family regularly,” he writes, “most recently for my birthday, where we made a hasty retreat from the restaurant because, well … our kids are 2 years old.” They also ran into Whit Growdon, whose children attend the same nursery school. Family adventures included putting Millie on skis (a hit!) and ice skates (deemed “scary”), while Pete joined the board of a local charity, CYCLEKids, “which is fighting childhood obesity through putting bike and nutritional programs into urban schools.” Meanwhile, he adds, “I am happy to report that my company has officially matured out of the toddler stage.” Lauren (Guth) Barnes writes that she and husband Tony are doing well, and that daughter Ariadne, 7 months, is “crawling and pulling up on anything she can get her hands on,” which Lauren describes as “both thrilling and terrifying.” They recently spent a weekend in Washington, where Lauren was sworn in to the Supreme Court Bar and heard oral arguments for a case involving the EPA. “Ariadne was a star throughout,” she notes, adding: “Like her dad, she can fall asleep before the plane takes off and not wake up until it lands.” Lauren also notes that she and Tony will be sad to say goodbye to Abby (Fisher) Williamson and family this summer, when they move to Hartford for Abby’s newly-accepted position as assistant professor of political science and public policy at Trinity College. “We’re sad to see them leave Boston,” she says, “but we’re thrilled for her.” Writing from our nation’s capital, Rob Watkins notes that he and his wife welcomed a son, Aire Furio, in late July. Sam Young writes that he attended the Iceland Airwaves Music Festival in October, a few days after running the Army Ten Miler—“my first big distance race,” he notes. Sam adds: “I’m training for the Rock ‘n’ Roll USA Half Marathon in March and taking a class on the taxation of financial instruments”—which he describes as a conversation ender. Micaela Coady writes from New York that she and Kate (Genung) Taylor and their families enjoyed a “lovely” dinner at the Taylors’ over the holidays. “Kate’s two daughters as well as my daughter were luckily asleep,” she says, “so the four of us could really live it up.” They’re planning another “somewhere on the East Coast get-together” with Liz (Mills) and Chris Little, Britta (Beenhakker) Mullany, Kai Collins, Erica Bollerud and Katie Schultz but note that “our group now includes over a dozen adults and eight kids, so it’s a challenge to find a house large enough to hold us all.” Jonathan (J.O.) Oakman writes from South Carolina to say: “All is well in 70-degree Charleston.” He adds: “The weather is great for the kids to play outside, but I do miss snow and pulling on a heavy coat every once in a while!” From the West Coast comes some of the most interesting travel news of this update. Ned Sahin and wife Nicole are traveling the world for a year while she works on a book, Ned “writes up my scientific papers and grants,” and they work together on a startup. We look forward to future updates! Jim Ying writes that he and his wife spent Christmas Eve welcoming n 1997–98 new daughter Harper, who joins son Miles, 20 months. “She’ll inevitably be getting those combined birthday/Christmas presents,” he writes. After several years in Seattle, Jim is now in San Francisco, working at a social gaming startup. They live in Millbrae, but he says: “We’ll probably be headed back up the coast pretty regularly, since we have family in the Seattle area.” Brad Johnston writes that he spent Thanksgiving at Sally and Chris Bell’s house, where he found an Amherst alum among the guests—although one, he notes, who brought “delicious” contributions to the potluck. Chris in turn adds that he and Sally have been “expanding my life-long vegetarian palate by sampling freshly caught oysters in, logically, Oysterville, Wash.” Giving up on the low snow levels across the U.S., they headed up to British Columbia for a week of Nordic and telemark skiing, which Chris described as “getting our Norwegian on.” Finally, Evelyn Spence has rejoined the ranks of West Coasters, having returned to Seattle from Brooklyn. She’s still traveling, though: “I spent New Year’s at Mount Rainier with Honora Englander,” she writes, “and now I’m off to Mongolia and South Korea to write about skiing in Asia!” Moving overseas: Our woman in Brazil, Thais Mariz de Oliveira, writes that she is currently on maternity leave from her work as a headhunter with Heidrick & Struggles, having given birth to daughter Catarina in October. Catarina joins son Caique, 4, and Thais reports that she is “loving every minute” of her leave. She adds: “I had a VIP visitor come in for a quick visit to meet Catarina: Carlos Arnaiz was here for a couple of hours with Nacho (Jose-Ignacio Palma). Even though it was too quick,” she says, “it was absolutely amazing to reunite.” And, she concludes, she’ll be in Williamstown for our 15th reunion. Another 1998er abroad is Reed Lindsay, who is working as a freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker in Cairo. After covering the Egyptian revolution with partner Jihan Hafiz, “we later covered the Libyan rebellion and did a documentary film called Benghazi Rising.” They returned to Egypt in October, and Reed now contributes to the Real News Network. I hope that the year ahead aPril 2012 | Williams PeoPle | 91
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