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ClassNotesDavid Newman writes:“Benjamin Merrill Newmanwas born on December 29, 2004. He gets along wellwith our golden retriever, Cody. I’m with Millipore, abioscience company. In addition to beingenvironment, health and safety director, I am plantmanager for the facility in Bedford, Mass.”Katie Genshlea Paris writes:“I’m a part-timeconsultant for a green buildings developer—theWindmill Development Group—helping to raisefinancing for green building projects in Canada. Mydaughter, Julia, 5, is in first grade, and Simon, 3, isstarting preschool. I’m officially a soccer mom, nowthat Julia plays soccer. I’m still having fun as anAmerican in Canada, getting used to winter andloving skating and canoe trips.”Jennifer Pett-Ridge writes:“I was married lastSeptember to another environmental scientist, LoganHennessy, whom I met while doing my Ph.D. at UC-Berkeley.We got married at the MendocinoWoodlands Camp in California. Derek Halberg andChristy Johnston, Whendee Silver ’87, Ph.D. ’92,and Steve Beissinger attended. In May, I finished myPh.D.; my studies were of redox effects on soilmicrobiology and N isotopes in Puerto Rican soils.I’m working as a postdoc at Lawrence LivermoreNational Lab, doing nanoscale mass spectrometry tostudy bacterial metabolism and soil chemistry.”Kate Pipkin is in the Raleigh, N.C., area workingpart-time for a state agency, the Wildlife ResourcesCommission, on rules/regulations and specialprojects. More important, she is excited to bewatching Taylor Elliott Pipkin, born in early 2005,grow and get into everything!Lloyd Raleigh writes:“I am a contractor for WWF-China in northwestern Yunnan Province, and amtraveling around China and elsewhere. I am workingon several film projects for them, as well asecotourism and forest management plans for Tibetanvillages. Prior to that, I lived on Martha’s Vineyard foreight years, working for The Trustees of Reservations,enjoying beach volleyball and island life.”lloydraleigh@yahoo.com; keeps a travelog atwww.travelpod.com/members/lraleighAnne Reynolds writes:“In March, my husband andI had a baby girl, Hannah Kerry, much loved by herolder brother, Tim. I love being a mom of two, andstill enjoy working at Environmental Advocates ofNew York.”Kath Schomaker won a seat on the legislativecouncil in her hometown of Hamden, Conn. Shewrites:“I’ve been there for 11 years now, and it’s timefor more involvement. There are a lot of developmentpressures on the remaining 20 percent of the town’sopen space. I also sit on the board of the town’s allvolunteerland trust.”Lara (Nachiem) Swenson writes:“Our daughter,Emma Jane Rose, was born on Mother’s Day (May 8).Jack and I are busy—Joseph is now 9 years old, Jamieturned 2 in October, and Emma Jane is 6 months.I’m temporarily a full-time homemaker, a job that’smuch more exhausting than my math/scienceteaching position.”1997CLASS SECRETARY:PAUL CALZADA pcalz@metro2000.netNancy Alderman,president ofEnvironment andHuman Health (EHHI), received the Public HealthAward for contributions in the area of environmentand human health from the New England PublicHealth Association in 2001. EHHI (www.ehhi.org)has published a series of studies, many concerningschoolchildren and their exposures, includingChildren’s Exposure to Diesel Exhaust on School Buses,A Survey of Asthma Prevalence in Elementary SchoolChildren and, recently, The State of Nutrition andPhysical Activity in Our Schools. EHHI, founded byAlderman in 1997, is a nonprofit organizationdedicated to protecting human health from environmentalharms through research, education andpromotion of sound public policy.1998CLASS SECRETARIES:NADINE BLOCKnadineblock@alumni.williams.eduCLAIRE CORCORANCorcoran_Claire@hotmail.comJeff Adams reports that he and Kirsten PrettymanAdams ’99 had their first daughter, Lily, on July 27.Kim Baymiller writes:“My husband and I aregoing to relocate to Shanghai, China, within thenext several months.While we are both employedby International Paper, his job is being transferredand I am looking to see what opportunities may existin Shanghai. In 2004, I took a role in our sustainableforestry and forest policy group, managing waterpolicy issues for the forest resources group. Thisinvolved development of a wetlands mitigationbanking enterprise, structuring a team frameworkof policy representatives, and so on.”Nadine Block is living and working in theWashington, D.C. area. She and her husband, Patrick,just bought a home in Falls Church,Va., and arequickly discovering the joys and despairs of homeownership. She recently met with Sarah Whitneyand her husband, Steve, for a fun weekend of hikingand camping at Cunningham Falls State Park inMaryland.Pascal Collotte is a civil servant with the EuropeanCommission, dealing more and more with high-techand less and less with the environment. He is incharge of the operations (projects cycle) providingfunding for the deployment of new e-services to theEuropean market. www.europa.eu.int/etenAndrea Cristofani married Mark Geurts, whograduated from the Yale School of Management in1998, in Mendocino, Calif. Stephanie Campbelland Lila Gil ’99 attended the wedding.Andrea andher husband went to South Africa for theirhoneymoon, which she said,“is an amazingly wildand pristine country with miles of undeveloped beachand coastal forest.”They are living in San Francisco,where they have reconnected with many F&ES andSOM graduates.Antonio del Monaco has been working at theGlobal Environment Facility’s Office of Evaluationsince 2002. His work has contributed to improving themonitoring and evaluation of GEF projects. In 2005,he also joined a program at Georgetown University tobecome a certified financial planner to assistindividuals in achieving their financial objectivesthrough proper planning in the areas of investments,taxes, retirement, estate and insurance.After five great years as the land protectioncoordinator with the Land Trust of Napa County inCalifornia, Vanessa Johnson went to Ecuador onSeptember 1 for a year of teaching English toecotourism students. She is volunteering forWorldTeach, a nonprofit based at Harvard’s Center forInternational Development, and is living inRiobamba, a small city at the base of Ecuador’s largestvolcano (now extinct).Indah “Indi” Kusuma got her Ph.D. in forestryfrom Louisiana State University last summer.She is married to a Baton Rougean with one son(18 months), and lives in Louisiana. Indi has kept intouch with Paul Gagnon, who is still working on hisPh.D. in biology at Louisiana State University. He ismarried to Heather Passmore (from North Carolina),a colleague in the same department.Lisa Mastny is senior editor of the magazine andother publications at the Worldwatch Institute. She istelecommuting from Durango, Colo., where she lovesbeing able to take midday hikes in the mountains orgo rafting on the river. In August, she had a nice visitfrom Jennifer (Yelin) Kefer,her husband,Josh,and their 14-month-old son,Ari, who live in SilverSpring, Md.Keely Maxwell, Ph.D. ’05, writes:“I am a newhomeowner with a new job (tenure track!). I am anassistant professor of environmental studies atFranklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., andloving it so far. It’s lovely here—I take long bike ridesthrough Amish country.Went to Peru for two weeks.”kmaxwell@fandm.eduTobgay S. Namgyal writes to tell us that his brother,Sonam Wangchuck, is part of the incoming F&ESclass for fall 2005. Sonam brought his family withhim, including a son in 9th grade, another son in 5thgrade, and a daughter in 2nd grade.Chris Williams and his wife,Amy, had a secondchild, Madeline Grace, on April 20, the day before herbig brother, Noah, turned 2.40ENVIRONMENT:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies