Class Notes

Never Too Busy for CAThe wedding party of Suz Tolwinski ’00: Dan Eberle ’99, groom Coley Ward, Suz,Liana LoConte ’00, Sarah Green ’00, and Greg Tolwinski ’97young adults at the Hillel at Stanford, andon the bunny slopes in Tahoe.2000 10th reunionClass Secretaries: Sarah K. Green,sgreen@gmail.com; Erin Hult,ehult@stanford.eduAriana Green is spending the winter inBuenos Aires, working for a legal NGOon First Amendment issues and doingsome freelance writing. She enjoyswatching old couples tango at 2:00 a.m.on Tuesday nights, sipping kiwi juices,and taking nightly walks in the city’shuge rose garden. In the fall she’ll go tolaw school stateside. Sarah Green did alot of traveling in the past year, headingto Taiwan, San Diego, San Francisco (tovisit Liana LoConte), Tuscon (twice, oncefor Suz Tolwinski’s wedding), London (tovisit Noah McCormack and wife), Italy inAugust, and Germany for Christmas. Inhindsight, she wishes she had signed upfor a frequent flier program. HeekyungKim recently moved to Seoul to help herparents roll out an e-commerce business;she is also enjoying her family’snew Labrador retriever puppy. “Greetingsfrom la ville lumière!” writes AlissaKing, who is in her third year of a dualdegreeprogram between Columbia LawSchool and University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.Alissa sees a lot ofJulie Kleinman, who is in Paris for doctoralanthropology research, and also hada visit from Bess Kargman, who was inEurope filming for her documentary.Liana LoConte is living in the Bay areaand loving her job in product managementat GreatSchools.org. Liana is happyto report she got engaged in Septemberto Ethan Ris, and they are starting thedaunting task of wedding planning.Justin Newberg and Erin Hult arenewly minted doctors (but not the kindwho help people). Justin is a postdoctoralfellow at the Baylor College of Medicine,applying bioimaging techniques tostudy mechanisms of nuclear receptoractivity. Justin writes, “Even though Idon’t drive a pickup (yet?), I’m starting tofeel Texan.” After a year and a half inEngland to research his PhD in history,Noah McCormack returned in March toCambridge, MA. While he’s glad to beback, he will miss the steady stream ofguests he had in London, which includedSarah Green and Jane Kucera. SathyaMohan is doing a joint JD-MBA at Northwesternand has been ice and rockclimbing a lot, training for a climbing tripto the French Alps. Eric Nguyen andBonnie Abbey-Warn were engaged lastAugust in Acadia National Park and willwed this fall in western Massachusetts.Eric completed a master’s degree in educationalleadership at Teachers College,Columbia University and will return toteach at Nobles this fall. With Bonniealso completing a master’s degree thisyear, Eric and Bonnie look forward to twopaychecks and the end of a long-distancerelationship. Anna Riego has beenliving in East Harlem for the past twoyears, working at Ajilon Legal for thepast five years as an executive assistant,and recently as a certified dog trainer aswell. Anna was surprised but delightedto dance with Michael Littenberg-Brown in the NY salsa scene! Suz Tolwinski-Wardand Coley Ward weremarried October 3, 2009, and their wed-ding party included Dan Eberle ’99,Liana LoConte, Sarah Green, and GregTolwinski ’97. Suz has been enjoyingbiking in the Tucson sun and continuesworking on her PhD in applied mathematicsat the University of Arizona,developing a new mathematical frameworkfor reconstructions of climate inthe last couple millennia. Seth Wylie isfinally going to save the world in his newposition at the Consortium for EnergyEfficiency.2001As a 2008 Marshall Scholar, Ben Carmichael ’01 moved toOxford University and its Environmental Change Instituteto work on two master’s degrees. He has written speechesfor the Natural Resources Defense Council and blogs for itsOn Earth magazine and has published articles in Print andPortfolio magazines. His writing, coupled with academicstudies, leaves little time for volunteering, yet Ben is amongCA’s one hundred dedicated class secretaries—a job he cando even from a distance (other class secretaries hail from allover the U.S., Singapore, and the Ukraine). These volunteersare the backbone of the alumnae/i volunteer structure: notonly do they keep their classmates informed of each other’snews and moves, they are the go-to people for informationabout their classes.Class Secretaries: Ben Carmichael,b.h.carmichael@gmail.com; Caitlin K.Grasso, ckgrasso@gmail.comNews from the class of 2001 finds a lotof people starting new chapters, eitherby finishing or beginning graduateschool. Alex Aronson began StanfordLaw School in the fall of ’09. Jess Blumhas just started a PhD in classics at Yaleand is “really enjoying it so far.”Rebecca Brigham plans to graduate inMay 2010 with an MSW from the Universityof Pennsylvania. “After twointense years of graduate school inPhilly, I am excited to move to Boston,where my boyfriend lives, and to rejointhe working world.” Ben Carmichael isfinishing his master’s in environmentalpolicy and behavioral economics atOxford, where he is enjoying playing forthe university squash team. He had awonderful reunion with Nell Opel andAlex Berlin in Edinburgh, Scotland,where they celebrated Alex’s engagementto his longtime girlfriend, MoSarna. Roger Chung is working on aPhD in public health, and just released agospel CD called The Chimes thattopped the jazz chart in Hong Kong. NickDeane reports that after months “in75C O N C O R D A C A D E M Y. O R G S P R I N G 2 0 1 0