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N O M I N A T I O N S S O U G H T F O RTHE PARK ALUMNIACHIEVEMENTAWARDThis award is to be given to the Park alumnus/alumnawho exemplifies the School’s values and educationalmission through distinctive achievement in theircommunity or field of endeavor. This person’s leadershipand contributions have made a meaningful impactand inspire our current students and alumni.To nominate a Park alumnus/a for this award, pleaseinclude your nominee’s name, class year, profession,and reason for nomination. All submissions must bereceived by December 1, 2010 to be consideredfor the 2011 award.Send nominations to alumni@parkschool.org or ThePark School Alumni Office, 171 Goddard Avenue,Brookline, MA 02445Thursday, May 20On an unseasonably warm May evening, more than50 Park alumni and their guests met on Yawkey Way forthe Annual Alumni Night at Fenway Park. WithJon Lester on the mound, the Red Sox beat the MinnesotaTwins 6-2. Our group enjoyed seeing “WelcomePark Alumni” displayed on the Jumbotron, munching onCracker Jacks, and reconnecting with old friends.Indonesia, but has been traveling agreat deal for work and fun. Shewrites, “In April, Anna Lewis and Imet in Cape Town, South Africa for avacation with Chloe Lewis ’99. Wehad a fabulous adventure whichincluded time in Cape Town, KrugerNational Park, and the Nkomazi,where Chloe was working forTRIAD Trust, an NGO serving localleaders and their communities in theareas hardest-hit by HIV/AIDS.”Sarah goes on to tell us that while inBoston in June, she bumped intoAshley Hall, Becca Sullivan, AnnaSullivan ’95, Katherine McManmon’95, and Ladd Thorne ’96 at abar in the South End. “It was great tosee them and catch up; everyone isdoing well.” Katharine Jose left herposition as politics editor of the NewYork Observer to start a new journalismventure called Capital (capitalnewyork.com).Lennie Larkin isabout to finish hiking the entireAppalachian Trail. Danielle Miley iscurrently interning with the UNDPEnergy and Environment unit inPhnom Penh, Cambodia, and willreturn to the Yale School of Forestryand Environmental Studies this fall.Kelly O’Reilly is writing for NBC’sfashion blog, “The Thread,” andproducing Taxi TV fashion segmentsin N.Y.C.1998Class RepresentativesLydia Hawkinslydiahawk@hotmail.com508-362-8225Meg Lloydlloydy5@hotmail.comSarah Swettswett.sarah@gmail.com617-794-8164Adam Cohen moved back to theBoston area to head up the EastCoast work for his company, PioneerGreen Energy: pioneergreen.com.Cindy Doseretz writes in with excitingnews that she was married in Mayto her college sweetheart, MatthewArenson. “We met at the first footballgame of the season our freshman yearat the University of Michigan andhave been together ever since. Wewent to French Polynesia for twoweeks on our honeymoon.” ClairePasternack tells us that, “after eatingmy way through Paris during a post-Harvard graduate fellowship year, Iembarked on a career in education. Idecamped to Los Angeles andtaught 8th- and 9th-grade English andFrench at the Harvard-WestlakeSchool for four years. I also coachedthe Middle School Debate Team andwrote curriculum for a new Debatecourse. Former Park intern RonnieCodrington-Cazeau, now MiddleSchool Head at Harvard-Westlake,was my fabulous boss and mentor.”This fall, Claire will start a one-yearmaster’s in policy, organization, andleadership studies at the StanfordUniversity School of Education,where she plans to focus on educationalleadership. On Aug. 28, at theBoston Public Library, Claire marriedher sweetheart of over seven years,Brian Goldsmith. “Several close Parkfriends—Jonathan Tucker, AshleyWhite-Stern, Abbie Johnson, andAnna Deknatel —were in attendance,”she reported. Brian begins hissecond year at Stanford Law Schoolthis fall. Claire says, “After years oflong-distance dating, Brian and I arethrilled to live not only on the samecoast but in the same house in PaloAlto.” Prior to the wedding, JonathanTucker crashed Claire’s bacheloretteparty in N.Y.C., which included fellow’98 park alums Anna Deknateland Abbie Johnson.1999Class RepresentativesElizabeth Weymanyman14@aol.com781-237-5957Susanna Whitaker-Rahillys.w.rahilly@gmail.comColin M. Arnoldtanker223@gmail.comEarlier this year, Chloe Lewis wasliving in a rural region of SouthAfrica, working as the director ofHealth education for the TRIADTrust, an HIV-education nonprofitbased out of Boston (triadtrust.org).Chloe says, “It was a pretty spectacularfour and a half months. We gotsome great press on our program/work recently, in The New YorkTimes and WBUR, and ESPNcovered us as a World Cup feature.TRIAD works in the Nkomaziregion, in the MpumalangaProvince of South Africa, which isabout five hours east of Johannesburg.The area is estimated to havethe highest infection rate of HIVamong adults anywhere in the world(65%), and joblessness is around70%, so the area is very, very poor.Despite these conditions, the peopleare wonderful and the landscape isgorgeous! I really valued being inSouth Africa and the work I wasdoing — and continue to be involvedThe Park Bulletin | Fall 2010 49