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Danielle Lynch Lee '93 with her daughter Morganand classmate Anne Rose Moller's daughter SkyeLeo, son of Justin Samaha ’94 and Eliza Miller ’94Sarah and Paul Sommer '94 with Thea KathrynCascades. She is a naturopathic physicianand writes: “My practice is gettingbusier and busier. I am starting to getthe hang of running a business and seeingpatients at the same time, and I’mactually really enjoying it. I got hitched inAugust to one Mr. Colin Riley.” SarahHsia, Adria Linder, and MeredithSterling occasionally get together inNYC, outside their alumnae/i newsgatheringritual. Sarah is an attorney at aprestigious law firm, doing intellectualproperty litigation. She often travels toEurope on business. When she’s notworking, she’s busy with friends or chillin’with her pup. Adria started her ownrecruiting business after the abruptcrash of the hedge fund where sheworked. Her field is quant, research, andtechnical folks for the financial servicesindustry. Meredith is a paralegal, but isconsidering moving back to Boston. Shewants to know, “has anyone movedfrom the Big Apple back to Beantown?People say I’ll be bored, but maybe achange of pace is just what I need!”1993 15th reunionClass Secretaries: Andrew Newberg,arnewberg@gmail.com; Sam ThayerWilde, revwilde@hotmail.com; David J.Wolfe, david_j_wolfe@yahoo.comDevin Beringer writes: “I’ve spent thelast seven years living in China (HongKong, Beijing, and Hangzhou) working asa marketing consultant. For the lastthree years I’ve been in Hangzhou workingfor a local dotcom called Alibaba —interesting to say the least. I’m currentlybased in Bangkok, but plan to moveback up to Shanghai soon. I haven’tseen any other CA alum in eons, buthappy to get in touch!” Ben Bellreports: “My wife and I have been livingin San Francisco for the past few years.We hang out with Leigh Okies andChris Nicholson. I’m an executive producerat Electronic Arts. It’s a great companyand I work with fantastic people. Inmy free time I ride and race bikes.” TheClass of 1993 baby boom continues!Amy Goorin Fogelman welcomed LilyJune on December 2, and “big sisterElla, 4, is very proud!” Amy lives withher family in Needham and has returnedto work at MGH, where she is a generalinternist. Nancy Haas Hillis writes withmore happy news: She and her husbandare expecting baby #3 in August. Olderbrother Ryan, 4, and sister Natalie, 2,keep her busy when she’s not workingas a pediatric hospitalist at a communityhospital in New Jersey. Her husband willfinish his cardiology fellowship in Julyand has taken a job at a hospital in thePhiladelphia area. “I talk to Amy GoorinFogelman often and saw Ella and newbaby Lily when we were home overChristmas.” Aaron Jacobs, his wifeSuzi, and daughter Sylvia (Class of2024?) are doing well. They’ll be missingour 15th reunion for a very good reason:a second baby, a son, is due June 30.But Aaron does hope to make it to SethBlumsack’s wedding in September.Anne Rose Moller sends news of avisit with Danielle Lynch Lee. Anne hastwo children, Tobey, 4, and younger sisterSkye. Danielle is expecting a son inMay to keep her daughter Morgan company.Sam Thayer Wilde and her husbandwere expecting baby #2 in lateApril. “My 18-month-old son is strong,healthy, eats like a horse, and brings usso much pleasure.” Next winter, Sam’sfirst novel will be published, followedthe next year by another, both byBantam. “This is a great lifetime dreamcome true for me.” Sam continues toteach yoga and run a small interfaithministry. She always keeps in touch withSarah Thompson Evans, who is happyliving in LA. Amani Willett is living inCarroll Gardens, Brooklyn with his wifeAli. He works as a photographer, shootingeditorial assignments, and recentlypartnered with Fariba Alam to shootweddings. “If anyone is getting married,let us know!” Still in Boston, DaveWolfe is an attending physician on themedical psychiatry service at Brighamand Women’s Hospital. He also servesas director of education and training forpsychiatry, managing teaching programsfor medical students and residents.1994Class Secretary: Elizabeth Pinsky,egpinsky@hotmail.comTess Munro Bauta traveled aroundNew Zealand for a few months with herdaughter and husband, and is expectingbaby #2 before moving back to NewEngland from Chicago. Seth Bruningwrites from Portland, ME, where he isworking as the program assistant for asocial service agency that opened awomen’s shelter last January. Seth isengaged to Amy Donahoe! NickConiaris lives in San Diego and runs acommunity mental health clinic that provideshousing and psychiatric services toindividuals with major mental illnessesand criminal involvement, with the goalof helping them live more independentlywhile reducing their use of jails andemergency room services: “Todaysomeone threw a golf ball at someoneelse’s head and two people got arrested.Never a dull moment!” StéphaneDreyfus moved back to Berkeley and isteaching all over the world, includingNew York City, Maui, Arizona, and anumber of places in Asia. Mike Greenhas moved back to NYC (Brooklyn) andis leading business development forKaboose, a network of family-focusedWeb sites. Ben Harder returned to U.S.News & World Report, where he’s nowthe deputy health editor. He’s still livingin DC, and he recently discovered thatyou can snowboard in Maryland — if youdon’t mind coming home very bruised.Zöe Cooprider is also still in DC andalso has a new job, as program managerfor Alliance for Peacebuilding and theGlobal Peace Index. Jorge Solares-Parkhurst checked in to say hello; he isserving on the CA Board of Trustees.Congrats to Siri Sahaj Kaur, who gother master’s of fine arts in photographyfrom Cal Arts in May 2007 and marriedTroy Morgan in Vermont last July. Theylive in LA, where Siri teaches at OtisCollege of Art & Design and sees SandyRousmaniere and Ben Upham all thetime. Congrats to Kristin Spinola, whowas also married this past year (an intricateIndian-Italian merger that requiredthree ceremonies) and relocated fromCambridge to NYC. Morgan Robinsonalso reports from NYC, where he iscodirecting a documentary about solarenergy in Africa, doing freelance filmwork, and visiting the Samaha-Millerclan. Jeremy Tamanini is back fromDubai and is a first-year graduate studentat Georgetown in the ForeignService master’s program, with a focusin foreign policy. Living in DC has beengreat, starting with his first day of apartment-huntingwhen Erin Shoudt spottedhim on a street corner and took himfor a ride in her convertible! Jeremy andAndrew Gardner also have a fewYouTube videos under their belts, eachdealing with a different culinary pursuit(the first was about making marinarasauce from scratch and the secondabout grinding meat). And now for “TheSpawn of 1994”: congratulations toNick Lauriat and Courtney, who welcomeddaughter Caroline on March 21,2007. They are still living in Arlington,and report that all is well. Congratula -tions as well to Sarah Russell and SeanMcElligott, who welcomed CharlieMcElligott Russell on January 19.Furthermore, Paul Sommer and wifeSarah are thrilled to announce the arrivalof the joy of their lives (which have beenturned upside-down): Thea Kathryn onSeptember 25, 2007. Randi LevinsonLeigh and husband Darby welcomedyounger daughter Ariza Ayela Leigh onApril 24, 2007. The family is having a big77WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008