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1999CLASS SECRETARIES:JOCELYN FORBUSH jforbush@ttor.orgJENNIFER GARRISONjennifermgarrison@yahoo.comCHRISTIANA JONESchristiana@aya.yale.eduBryan de Ponce writes:“All is well here inSeattle.We recently returned from a yearlong tripthroughout Asia.We quit our jobs, rented a houseand hit the road. Deborah (Swander) de Poncehas started an immigration law firm. I am attemptingto enter the green building industry. In the meantime,I am doing program management consulting workfor Microsoft.”2000CLASS SECRETARIES:ERICA SHAUB schaube@battelle.orgZIKUN YU yuzikun2001@yahoo.comThu Ba writes:“I am working at the UNDP office inHanoi. I was also offered another job at the WorldBank in Hanoi, but I chose the UNDP job. My job isGEF program development. It is very interesting andchallenging, but I still need to learn a lot. My husband,Lam, has resumed his work at Siemens with a slightlydifferent role, heading a mobile network unit. LamNhi, our daughter, is going to an InternationalChildcare Center in Hanoi and having a hard timeadjusting to the weather and everything here. LamNhi has been sick three times since we came back.I am looking for contacts with GEF programs eitherglobal or regional (in any country office where GEFportfolios are well-developed), so I can gain somepractical knowledge about GEF portfoliodevelopment. The GEF portfolio in Vietnam isrelatively small (as compared to China, India,Malaysia and other Asian countries), and our bosseshere are very keen on making it grow. I have to admitthat I miss Yale and New Haven a lot. I hope to get achance to visit the school, the professors and friends.”Katherine Bill works for the Methow Conservancyin north central Washington, and also does a lot ofmountain climbing.Linus Chen is a first-year law student at EmoryUniversity.Connecticut Clean Energy Fund staffer Bryan Garciawas in the “Staff Member Spotlight”in the April/Mayissue of Clean Energy Today, published by CCEF. Thearticle read,in part: “As director of energy marketinitiatives, Bryan Garcia oversees the strategic directionand management of the fund’s voluntary clean energymarket initiatives, public awareness, monitoring andevaluation of program effectiveness. Encouragingvoluntary purchases of clean energy is Bryan’s primefocus. He plays a key role in several programs,including the clean energy communities program andSmartPower’s 20 percent by 2010 campaign.”ClassNotesTony Rodolakis writes:“In April and May, I took fiveweeks off from work to participate in an exchangeprogram to Argentina.We were way up near theborder of Chile and Bolivia—what a beautifulcountry! Anyway, it turns out that one of the people Imet there has come to Yale for six weeks as part of theEnglish Language Institute.”Sylvia Stone writes:“I’ve finally left the WildlifeConservation Society after four years, and after seeingmany other F&ES alumni join the team—YemiMegenasa ’02, Abby Weinberg ’03 andDaniela Vizcaino ’04. It was a wonderfulexperience working there, and I would be happy todirect more alumni their way. I’m in the San FranciscoBay area, and seeking a new job with a medium tolarge national conservation organization in programmanagement. I have applied for several positions, andone of them was with The Nature Conservancy inSan Francisco.”After five years as a mediator of environmentalconflicts, Becky Turner has returned as a student atthe Vermont Law School. She looks forward toreconnecting with her East Coast classmates.Zikun Yu writes:“I moved to New York City and ammanager of the purchasing department in the NewYork branch of a recycled material import/exportcompany called Genius AA Corp.”20015th Year Reunion.CLASS SECRETARIES:LEIGH CASHleigh@cultureearth.comADAM CHAMBERSadam_chambers@nrel.govJENNIFER GRIMMjwgrimm@earthlink.netBruce Cabarle ’83, director of the Global ForestProgram, writes: “As of July 1, Kerry Cesareo isdirector of the Global Forest Program’s NorthAmerican Forest and Trade Network. Kerry willoversee development of the forest program’s relationswith U.S.-based forest product companies, which arepotential members of the North American Forest andTrade Network. The goal of the network is to catalyzeNorth American businesses to adopt and executepurchasing policies that shift trade in forest productsfrom illegal or poorly managed forests to known, wellmanagedand credibly certified forests.”Adam Chambers writes:“I will soon be leavingNational Renewable Energy Lab to work for IIASA inVienna,Austria, where Arnulf Grübler works when heis not teaching about energy and the environment atF&ES. I’ll be there for two years working on post-Kyoto analysis that will hopefully bring China andIndia to the table.”achambers@aya.yale.eduMatt Hollamby is working with the WyssFoundation, and attended weddings for MargieHuang (in New York) and Smita Malpani (inVermont) last summer.Quint Newcomer defended his dissertation lastNovember. He is station director and resident scientistfor the Ecolodge San Luis and Research Station inCosta Rica, operated by the University of Georgiain Athens.Jennifer Osha (Jenosha) is working in WestVirginia on creative projects to raise awareness abouta form of coal mining called “mountaintop removal.”The first project, a CD compilation of songs writtenabout the impacts of mountaintop removal, alongwith interviews from coalfield residents, was releasedin the spring of 2004. The second project is a noveltitled The Green River Coalfish,focusing on a smalltown in West Virginia that begins to fight againstmountaintop removal. In October 2003, Jenosha gavebirth to a son, Elijah Storm Wellings-Osha.Diane Russell writes:“It has been a wonderful fouryears at ICRAF and in Kenya, as well as Cameroon. Iwill miss my ICRAF friends very much and hope tosee you in the United States or when I return to Africa.I am joining USAID’s biodiversity team based inWashington, D.C. I look forward to continued collaborationon issues related to conservation, agroforestryand livelihoods.”Mariana Upmeyer married Peter Du Brul in July.Mariana is the conservation planning associate at thePine Barrens program of The Nature Conservancy inBrowns Mills, N.J.2002CLASS SECRETARIES:CATHERINE BOTTRILL ANDROBERTO FRAU-RODRIGUEZSageboy02@yahoo.comNissa Mardiah is working as head of a subdivision,providing further analysis to the assistant minister foragriculture and forestry at the IndonesianEnvironmental Ministry.Kim Thurlow married doctoral student Mark Sternin late June.Madeleine Weil, policy analyst for EnvironmentNortheast, said she is thrilled that the ConnecticutHouse of Representatives approved the ConnecticutClean Diesel Plan bill (S.B. 920), which will reducehealth risks from diesel pollution in the state.“The billdirects the Connecticut Department ofEnvironmental Protection to report back to thelegislature with a comprehensive strategy forminimizing emissions of toxic diesel soot. … We arethrilled to see that the strategy will include specificrecommendations for achieving near-term reductionsfrom school buses, transit buses and state-fundedconstruction diesels.”mweil@env-ne.orgFall 2005 41