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stood with his children, to see a dude walking by withan F&ES hat on his head. scribes1963@yahoo.comAlexis Harte writes that he lives in Berkeley, Calif.,with his wife,Anna, and their daughter, Mia, wholooks just like him.Alexis directs the urban forestprogram for San Francisco’s Department ofEnvironment. He also writes and performs music,touring on occasion. alexis@alexisharte.com;www.alexisharte.comCynthia Wood Henshaw, director of communityforest programs for the New England ForestryFoundation (www.newenglandforestry.org) inLittleton, Mass., has been blessed with a healthy babygirl, Gabriella Henshaw, born July 6.chenshaw@newenglandforestry.orgDave Moffat joined TNC New Hampshire thissummer and is learning all the dirt roads and bestswimming ponds in the state. Wendy Taggart ’98is across the hall at TNC. Carol and Dave have a newpuppy ruling their lives. Dave was elected vicepresident of the F&ES Alumni Association ExecutiveCouncil in the balloting held this summer. He hasenjoyed becoming active in alumni activities andwould welcome hearing from any alums who wouldalso like to get involved. dmoffat@aya.yale.eduNicky Robins writes:“I continue to train, danceand work as a Sangoma (African traditional healer),and my learning in this tradition has led me to aframework for sustainability that has been around formillennia. It makes sense to me and apparently to thevarious corporate clients I have been testing it outwith. I am a founding member of the consultingcompany Incite Sustainability, with a particular focuson sustainability coaching.”nicky@incite.co.zaKen Snyder writes:“I have had a great couple ofyears building my nonprofit, PlaceMatters.com. Thisyear, I merged with the Orton Family Foundation, asmall operational foundation headquartered inVermont. I represent their Rocky Mountain office,heading up their planning tools program.”Will Stevenson writes:“Working in Waltham, Mass.,to bring automation and efficiency to managingcommercial real estate. Two kids—3 and 5—which iswhere most of my time goes.”Diana Wheeler writes:“On September 20, 2004,Don and I flew to Durban, South Africa, to adopt our8-month-old daughter, Katherine Sinethemba WheelerRedmond.As far as I know, she’s the only native Zululiving in our neighborhood in Austin. She’s now 19months old and I can’t believe we’ve had her for over ayear. The three dogs are still in the process ofadjusting, especially now that she’s completely mobile.I’d also like to put a plug in for supporting theEnvironmental Foundation Ltd. (www.efl.lk).Cynthia Caron has been associated with them since1995. In addition to work on preventing coral reefdynamiting, they are also involved in the campaignagainst the Sethusamundran canal, which India plansto dig in the Palk Strait (between Tamilnadu and SriClassNotesLanka’s western coast). It will have significantimpacts on the marine life in the Gulf of Mannar.Anyone interested in donating can contactme (dwheeler@aya.yale.edu) or Cindy(cmc41@cornell.edu), who’s now living andworking in Sri Lanka.”Jane Whitehill writes:“I have a new and even betterjob translating science into English. Lyman is living inChicago and writing computer programs. I continueto work in support of sustainable policies for theenvironment and the citizenry.”janewhitehill@hotmail.com1995CLASS SECRETARIES:MARIE GUNNINGmjgunning@aol.comCIARA O’CONNELLciaramoconnell@aol.comLaura Meyerson, Ph.D. ’00,and Fred Meyerson,Ph.D. ’00, left Washington, D.C., this summer afterfour years inside the Beltway. They write:“Laura’stime at the Heinz Center has been fun and interesting.It has focused primarily on national-level indicatorsof nonnative species, but Laura has also focused onecosystem services and indicators for urban systems.Laura worked for Tom Lovejoy and with AnneMarsh ’91, Ph.D. ’96, and also saw Ryan Valdez’96 with some regularity.”Laura and Fred will join thefaculty of the University of Rhode Island in SouthKingston. Laura will continue the work she started atthe Heinz Center on ecological indicators, and alsoundertake fieldwork related to invasive species andrestoration ecology. Fred will continue his work onhuman population and the environment, and willfinish a book on American population policy. BothLaura and Fred will teach various ecology courses,including Terre Eco. Malcolm, 7, and Cortlandt, 3,will miss their friends in Washington.meyerson@heinzctr.orgRicardo Tarifa is a forest specialist with the Amazonrainforest program at the World Bank office inBrasilia. He travels to the Amazon often and, in hisspare time, enjoys biking throughout various parts ofBrazil. Recent travels included a visit to Spain’sAndalucia, where he visited the village where hisgrandmother was born.Maria Uriarte and her husband, Gustavo Azenha,welcomed the arrival of their son, Lucas UribeAzenha, in early June. They are living in New YorkCity, where Maria is an assistant professor in theDepartment of Ecology, Evolution and EnvironmentalBiology at Columbia University.199610th Year Reunion.CLASS SECRETARIES:KATHRYN PIPKIN kate@goodisp.comJULIE ROTHROCK jarothrock@juno.comSaleem Ali, who is on the faculty of the University ofVermont, recently got a grant from the TiffanyFoundation to study the environmental and socialimpacts of gemstone mining in Brazil, Madgascar andBurma/Myanmar.Deron Chang is teaching at Choate Rosemary Hall(a boarding school 20 miles north of Sage Hall). Heand his wife, Penny, were expecting their second childin October. Their first child,Abigail, 4, loves to gohiking in the woods! See the F&ES website for a photoof Abbie admiring a piece of Mother Earth.Ronnie Cherry is working with Levi’s Asia-Pacific,and has moved from Singapore to Hong Kong. He andhis wife celebrated the birth of their daughter, Bailey,in May. Ronnie has ferried Starbucks coffee to CindyCaron ’94 on frequent visits to Sri Lanka.rcherry@levi.comMichele Dash writes:“I have been assigned to theDepartment of Energy’s office in Moscow for twoyears.”mdash@doe.ruWarning G8 leaders that the only way to avert climatecatastrophe is by holding corporations accountable,while securing environmental justice and politicalstability, were Michael Dorsey, professor ofenvironmental studies at Dartmouth University andformer Sierra Club director, along with Ken Wiwa, sonof slain Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, NoreenaHertz, Steve Kretzman and Stephen Mills, whodiscussed “Achieving Environmental Justice andPolitical Stability in a Changing World”on July 3 inEdinburgh, Scotland.Andi Eicher writes:“Sheba and I are working inThane (part of the Greater Mumbai urban sprawl)with a program called Jeevan Sahara Kendra, whichhelps people and families affected by HIV/AIDSthrough home-based care.We have two adorablekids—Asha, 4, and Enoch, 2, who enjoy going tonursery school. Though we live next to the SanjayGandhi National Park, we don’t venture in muchbecause some of the leopards seem to have developeda taste for humans when they can’t get normal prey ordogs.We are active in our local church, and find ourwork quite challenging, especially when it comes toterminal care. Our apartment is a blessing because weonly have a two-minute walk to work—an absoluterarity in Mumbai.”andi@aya.yale.eduJared Hardner recently moved from Palo Alto, Calif.,to Amherst, N.H., where he is settling into a new homewith his wife, Shaye, and twin daughters. He continuesto manage Hardner & Gullison Associates, LLC.Workhas recently been taking him across the U.S.West forthe National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and to theGalapagos Islands for Conservation International.Fall 2005 39