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2002–2003
and Sherry connected at our five-year
reunion in 2007 and, as they say, the
rest is history. The happy couple
plans an October wedding.
Alex Pelberg Slawter proudly
reports that her sister, Liz Pelberg, is
engaged to Joseph “JJ” Schariter.
Liz and JJ plan an August wedding.
Also in wedding-planning mode
are Rachel Devlin and her fiancé,
Robert Allen. They plan a September
wedding. After Lafayette, Rachel
received her MBA from Wagner
College. She is an account
manager with Bank of America
in Newark, N.J.
On Jan. 2, Jody Feldman married
Courtney Valerio in Westport, Conn.
Jody works in Manhattan as an
associate with HSBC, the London
bank. He works in the financial
institutions group, providing
financial advice for insurance
companies.
Matt Murphy and his wife,
Angela Marucci Murphy ’03, are
the proud parents of a baby girl.
Their daughter, Madeline Elizabeth,
was born Jan. 8.
Erin Fitzpatrick Mackey and her
husband, Allen, welcomed their son,
Colin, to the world Jan. 19. He
weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces,
and was 21 inches long. Mom,
dad, and baby are all doing well.
That’s all for now! Enjoy the rest
of your summer and don’t forget to
email or Facebook me with your
updates. Ciao!
2003
Liza Lesser
lizalesser@gmail.com
President: Morgan Albus Mooney
Fund Manager: Melissa Mitchell Pizarro
Reunion Chair: Alison Ahart Williams
Web Page Administrator:
Michael De Lisi,
delisim@comcast.net
Hi, classmates. It sounds like things
are going well for everyone. Don’t
forget to check out the alumni
page on the Lafayette web site to
see pictures, including new babies,
recent weddings, and other fun stuff
that people have sent.
Mike Wade got engaged to
Heather Alexander in December;
they planned to marry in July and
honeymoon in Hawaii. Mike bought
a new house after the old one burned
down, and he has a dog. Mike is
working in Princeton, N.J., as the
facilities manager for Novo Nordisk,
a pharmaceutical company. He also
wrote that Adam Decker got married
to a wonderful girl named Lauren.
Robyn Novick planned to marry
Patrick DeRespinis at The Venetian
in Garfield, N.J., June 27.
Debbie Katchen is engaged to
Jon-Paul Marnien ’02.
Danielle Neufell is engaged
to Andrew Mack. They plan to
wed next July in the 1,000 Islands
Region. Danielle and Andrew live
in Flemington, N.J.
Leigh Minarick met her
husband, Dave Angeluzzi, while
abroad in Florence, Italy, during
Lafayette’s study abroad program
her senior year. He was studying in
Florence through Loyola College’s
abroad program. They married
Sept. 6 and honeymooned for
three weeks in the Maldives, with a
stopover in Dubai. Leigh and Dave
were expecting their first baby, a little
girl, due July 5. They live in Butler,
N.J., and Leigh works for Atlantic
Health.
Amanda Carey Faulkner was
excited to report that she and her
husband, Jim, were expecting their
first child, a baby girl, June 15.
Angela Marucci Murphy and
husband Matthew ’02 are excited
to announce the birth of their first
daughter, Madeline Elizabeth, born
Jan. 8.
Heather Badamo is a Chester
Dale Fellow at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York.
Juliana Spagnolo Raimondi
was married Oct. 17. She completed
a grad program at UC–Berkeley
for architecture. Currently, she is
studying for the GREs, working on
her portfolio, and applying for her
M.Arch. to matriculate in the fall.
Dr. Abigail Stringer Willitsford
and her husband, Dr. Adam
Willitsford ’02, enjoy living in
Louisville, Ky. In April, Abby was
elected to Omicron Kappa Upsilon,
the national dental honor society,
and in May, she received her Doctor
of Dental Medicine degree from the
University of Louisville School of
Dentistry. She is a dental resident at
the University of Louisville Hospital.
In their spare time, Abby and Adam
enjoy traveling, kayaking, hiking, and
playing with their new dog, Spencer.
Melissa Mitchell Pizarro started
a new job as associate director of
parents programs at Swarthmore
College in September, and she loves
it! Melissa and her husband, Derek
’04, spent Christmas and New Year’s
in Hawaii with their family, visiting
Maui, Oahu, and the Big Island. In
June, Derek and Melissa intended to
head to Italy (with stops in Florence
and Rome) and the Seychelles
Islands.
Farisai Maguwah will return to
school this fall at the University of
Texas at Austin’s McCombs School
of Business for an MBA in finance.
Erica Neri graduated from
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy
and Health Sciences in December
with a master’s in physician assistant
studies. She will be working as a
PA in the emergency department at
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in
Boston starting in July.
Jen Tonkin wrote in her update
that “after getting my master’s in
applied math from the University of
Delaware, I taught for one year at
Temple University and Mercer
County Community College in New
Jersey. I am now in my fourth year at
The Key School in Annapolis, Md.
Starting in the fall, I will take over
the mathematics department chair of
the Upper School. I am excited
about this new post and the
challenges and opportunities that it
will bring. I work with great people
and amazing students and always try
to recruit for Lafayette. One of my
first calculus students is now a junior
at Lafayette, but I’m afraid to say
that I write too many letters for
students who end up at Lehigh! One
of the great things about teaching is
having the summers off to travel.
Last summer, I spent 10 days in
Hawaii with Janine Stavrovksy.
She’s been living on the Big Island
since 2005 and was able to show me
some amazing sites. We put our
geology classes and time spent
sunning on the Quad to good use
out there! I also traveled to
Breckenridge, Colo., for Stacey
Wagner’s wedding, along with
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