Woodstock School Alumni Magazine Vol CIV, 2011
Woodstock School Alumni Magazine Vol CIV, 2011
Woodstock School Alumni Magazine Vol CIV, 2011
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Quadrangle - 93<br />
to hear from WSkers in Melbourne! ABRA lives<br />
in Seattle with husband Chris & son Adam (2).<br />
She works at PATH, a global health nonprofit,<br />
in the area of maternal/neonatal health tech. She<br />
looked forward to traveling to Nepal for work<br />
last Sep. MARIE & family moved to Sri Lanka<br />
at the end of the yr & her boys Noah (9) & Kamille<br />
(6) have adjusted very well to their new<br />
school & life & have already made close friends.<br />
She & husband Thomas are continuing their<br />
projects in the Maldives & move back & forth<br />
when required. They recently acquired an island<br />
from the governm’t to carry out aquaculture<br />
activities & train youth in this field. The coral<br />
frame project they are working on is doing great<br />
& you can view it on www.reefscapers.com. Marie<br />
is still involved in the mngmt of sharks in the<br />
Maldives. She has managed to work alongside<br />
other conservationists to implement the largest<br />
shark sanctuary in the world. She travelled to the<br />
US for a shark meeting in Jun & was very happy<br />
to meet AVINASH after 18 yrs! VARSHA &<br />
family live in BC, CAN. Husband Sanjeet works<br />
in Richmond at the Hilton. Daughter Mehr is 2<br />
& son Veer 6. Varsha works with the Ministry<br />
of Children & Family Developm’t. She is planning<br />
a trip to India. INNI had a busy yr at work,<br />
attended a couple of interesting conferences,<br />
Pacific Environmental Security Conf held in<br />
Honolulu in Mar & the 2nd S Asian Maritime<br />
Security Conference held in Colombo, Sri Lanka<br />
in Jul. Her kids are keeping them busy! Zayan<br />
is in gr 4 & Zaba in gr 1. ANNA works for a<br />
financial co, State Street Corp in Fitchburg, MA.<br />
supporting an online cash mngmt system. She<br />
& her husband have daughter Nassra (8) & her<br />
husband’s nephew Ikuji (5) also lives with them;<br />
they are the constant joy of their lives! PORUS<br />
& family are keeping well & he keeps busy in<br />
growing their hospitality business in Mumbai.<br />
Over the summer, they had a nice family holiday<br />
in France, including Euro Disney. They also<br />
had a brief stay in Mussoorie; he visited WS &<br />
met AMY, MISS CHANDER & MR MARK.<br />
MACHUT writes that the Shishaks arrived<br />
safely in Rangoon, Burma on Jul 29, together<br />
with their 11-mo Rhodesian Ridgeback pupp &<br />
are slowly settling in. He is the Economic/Commercial<br />
Officer at the US Embass & Liina is<br />
consulting with the social marketing healthcare<br />
NGO Population Services Int’l. They expect to<br />
be there for 3 yrs. JOHANNES started in Jun<br />
as a support engineer with the German software<br />
giant SAP in Galway, Ireland. They service the<br />
new Cloud Tech of SAP in his dept. ANJALLEE<br />
married Harinder Hallan on Jul 23. What was<br />
to be planning for an engagement, turned out to<br />
be an exciting & busy wedding! She works at<br />
the CIBC Bank. JOY & family live in Gurgaon.<br />
Son Nathan is in gr 2 & Rachel started school<br />
this yr, so Joy is enjoying some time to herself!<br />
She also enjoyed the mini-reunion with DIA,<br />
KARUNA & SUJOY. Her<br />
Nathan & Dia’s Krishan<br />
played very well together!<br />
Life is good at my end: just<br />
celebrated 9 yrs of marriage<br />
with Kajal. Son Akash (7)<br />
started gr 2 & keeps us busy<br />
with school, swimming,<br />
karate, soccer, ice-skating<br />
& more. We had a nice trip<br />
to various cities & towns in<br />
Quebec during the summer.<br />
Well that about wraps it up<br />
from my end! Hope to hear<br />
from many more of you next<br />
yr!—Anil<br />
Class of 1994<br />
The Class of 94 has been<br />
busy expanding its family<br />
with offspring this past yr,<br />
working hard at home & on<br />
careers with too many wonderful<br />
projects too count.<br />
You can tell which stage of<br />
life we are in. EKATERINA<br />
WITJES-SAOUNINA & Endrik are in Belgium,<br />
close to Antwerp, 2 adorable sons, Illian-Nikita<br />
(5) & Victor-Alexei (2). KATE is still running<br />
her children’s goods wholesale bus, but plans on<br />
taking a break from work for a couple of yrs to<br />
spend more time with the kids, travel & organize<br />
their wedding party. Vimala Aldis CRISPIN<br />
lives in Bangkok with journalist husband Shawn<br />
& sons Dylan (7) & Shay (3) who love superheroes.<br />
She is with Child Frontiers, working<br />
to improve the care & protection of children.<br />
RAHUL GANDOTRA’s film is nearing the<br />
end of its festival life & has gotten into the 1st<br />
round of the Oscars, maybe making it to the final<br />
ten. He is also preparing his 1st feature, which<br />
is an expansion of the short, aiming to shoot<br />
around Oct 12. RINGAE NUEK & husband<br />
are in London & have spent the past few mos<br />
working on some iPhone & iPad apps. With son<br />
Odysseus (2.5) & new baby girl in Sep, Ringae<br />
will be taking the next few mos off to look after<br />
both of them.SUNAYANA JHALANI DYER in<br />
Boston MA had some visitors: Erik Geissal &<br />
wife Katie, then Sacha Bouter & Martin & will<br />
meet up with KIM PAES soon. SUNAYANA<br />
works at Wellesley College going on 4 yrs,<br />
managing & planning events. Her children<br />
Annika (6) is in gr 1 & Kai (2) is in preschool/<br />
daycare at Mass General Hosp where husband<br />
Teague works. Celebrating their 8 yr anniversary<br />
this mo. JIGME TSERING made a switch after<br />
10+ yrs in the govt, to the corp world. Wife Tashi<br />
has finished her MA in AUS & son Tsheyang is<br />
happy have the family together again. PENNY<br />
MULDOON PORTER in Melbourne is still a<br />
private speech pathologist with 2 kids! Isobel,<br />
Kurt '94 and Amy Asher and family<br />
the older started school this yr, exciting at 1st but<br />
very old hat now! ERIK GEISSAL & Katie are<br />
expecting a baby in late Feb. Erik enjoys being<br />
a primary care doctor & loves Portland, with<br />
their small home farm & brewing beer as well.<br />
SACHA BOUTER & Martin are in Washington<br />
DC, but leaving in the Fall & heading to Islamabad,<br />
PAK. She met with MACHUT SHISHAK<br />
’93 & VAMSEE KANCHI ’93 & families in<br />
DC. FARAHANAZ POLLARD WASSON has<br />
moved to Mumbai for the next 3 yrs with Jay’s<br />
work. Zavin & Zaira love their new school &<br />
they are looking forward to a trip to Mussoorie.<br />
MANAV KOHLI just hit a milestone of 10 yrs of<br />
marriage! Daughter Anaiya (5) started going to<br />
school & son Ayaan (3) is in play school. KURT<br />
ASHER has been happily married to Amy since<br />
00. We have 5 beautiful children; Hannah,<br />
Abigail, Isaac, Joanna and Lydia. We currently<br />
live in Newton KS. I have been working as the<br />
Office Manager of our family business since 05.<br />
ARJUN BHALLA is living in London, working<br />
as Web Developm’t Team Leader for asos.com.<br />
He will be celebrating 5 yrs of married life with<br />
Joti in Feb! Since his promotion & move to the<br />
Legal Aid head office, JAY CADIRAMEN has<br />
also moved now lives in Brisbane, loving inner<br />
city living. He’s now a registered Family Dispute<br />
Resolution Practitioner too, assisting separating<br />
families with disputes. SALLY AHN MOON<br />
lives in Washington DC metro area with a very<br />
active a girl (3), a boy (1) and a husband of 10<br />
yrs! The kids are keeping us really busy. I work<br />
as an IT consultant mainly working for federal<br />
gov. SARAH DOEBLER, Tim, Selma (5) &<br />
Ian (3) are still in Minneapolis MN. Kids are
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