Fall/Winter 2010 - Pingry School
Fall/Winter 2010 - Pingry School
Fall/Winter 2010 - Pingry School
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62<br />
the pingry review<br />
2002<br />
Charlie Diemar married Abby Wehr on July 17, <strong>2010</strong>, in Manchester, Connecticut. Joining the celebration were fellow <strong>Pingry</strong> alumni and faculty: Kevin<br />
Boova, Lauren Callaghan, Charles Fraser, Brad Gillispie, Conor Griff, Christine Layng, Jay Lydon, Tim Moyer, Pete Myers, Adam Schmidlin,<br />
Stew Stout, Tony Marchigiano ’03, Dave Shalit ’03, Katie Corrigan ’03, Caroline Diemar ’99, Lauren (Gruel) Diemar ’96, Thomas Diemar ’96, Jack Diemar<br />
’93, Rob Diemar ’91, and Coach John Magadini.<br />
Thomas Diemar ’96 with his daughter Charlotte (a future <strong>Pingry</strong> grad) rallying<br />
the troops for a group picture at his brother’s wedding, above.<br />
Thao Nguyen is pursuing<br />
a Ph.D. in Chemistry<br />
(Nanoscience) at the<br />
University of Maryland,<br />
and his expected graduation<br />
is December 2011.<br />
John Porges is working<br />
at Kingsland Capital<br />
Management as a junior bond<br />
trader. He recently traveled<br />
with Rob Oh around Salt<br />
Lake City for a weekend of<br />
outdoor activities.<br />
Sarah Saxton-Frump is living<br />
in Austin and teaching at<br />
KIPP: Austin Collegiate. She<br />
teaches ninth- and tenthgrade<br />
history and sponsors the<br />
student government at her<br />
small high school. Her student<br />
government is even trying<br />
to found an Honor Board<br />
much like <strong>Pingry</strong>’s. She loves<br />
Texas and went on her first<br />
hunting trip this past year,<br />
during which she had much<br />
success. She misses the East<br />
Coast, though, and hopes the<br />
Class of ’03 is doing well.<br />
2004<br />
Marisa LaValette maintains<br />
a travel blog, 256 Days in a<br />
Pickup Truck (256daysinapickuptruck.blogspot.<br />
com). She is encouraging<br />
readers to follow her, so you<br />
can click “follow” to sign up<br />
on her site. She is continuing<br />
to help the recovery efforts<br />
following the earthquake in<br />
Haiti (see “Alumni Make<br />
Time to Help in Haiti” in the<br />
Summer <strong>2010</strong> issue of The<br />
<strong>Pingry</strong> Review), and she is<br />
searching for a literary agent<br />
and publisher for a new book.<br />
2005<br />
Drew Blacker is a paralegal<br />
with Simpson Thacher &<br />
Bartlett in New York City. He<br />
has been living with <strong>Pingry</strong><br />
classmates Adam Freedman,<br />
Michael Silber, James<br />
Somers, and Nikhil<br />
Srivastava in a five-bedroom
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