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Avery Rose, daughter of KimMaster ’95Joia Spooner-Wyman ’96, Spanish teacher Steve Cambria,Javier Mendoza, Polly Hunt Mendoza ’95, Elissa Spelman’96, Liz Najjar ’95, Mae Clarke ’95, and SampsonOnyinyechim at Polly and Javier’s weddingKim Holzer ’96 in the waters off BermudaCONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008year: this June, Darby will be ordainedas a rabbi, and Randi will finish medicalschool (she’s officially postponing graduationto conduct a year of research inpreterm birth, before her residency inobstetrics and gynecology). Randiwrites: “It’s been a long road gettinghere, but I do finally feel I am landingexactly where I belong, which is bothexciting and terrifying.” And lastly inbaby news (that we know of), ElizaMiller and Justin Samaha welcomedLeo Edward Samaha on October 11. Hejoins big sisters Eve and Dorothea inadding to the general chaos of theMiller-Samaha household. Since thewhole dance company thing was gettingto be too much work, Eliza has decidedto switch tracks and is starting medicalschool this fall. It’s a great way to relaxand get away from the kids. Justin isproud to be creating music and sounddesign for the groundbreaking World ofWarcraft Machinima series on the Web,validating a lifetime of playing D&D(mmovie.voig.com). Someday you cansay you were there when it all began,Friday nights in Russell Robb. (Your classsecretary would like it to be clear thatshe was never, ever “there” when itcame to Dungeons and Dragons.) I, BizPinsky, am busy muddling through yeartwo of pediatric residency in Boston.1995Class Secretaries: Jennifer Cotton,JWCotton@wellington.com; RachelRaymond, roozer@hotmail.comKim Master is living in Boulder with herhusband Noah and daughter Avery Rose78(born last May). Katrina Yeager Farmerwas married on August 11. She is freelancingand teaching in NH while workingon her master’s. She and herhusband look forward to traveling thissummer. Alex Erwitt lives in Brooklynwith her husband Jon — they are thrilledto announce the birth of their baby girlViolet Erwitt O’Hara, born June 4, 2007.Iwei Chen is busy preparing for herwedding this summer to her fiancéShine. They plan to move this summerto San Francisco. Kate Cross is living inArlington, MA, and still running herdance school, Moving Arts, in Harvard,MA. Kate and her students performedwith The Bang Group this winter inBoston, and she also performed withEgo Art at the ICA and Green StreetStudios in January. Sam Holtzman hasbeen living in Nagoya, Japan, for a year,where he is a professor at a businessuniversity. He is exploring Japan andworking with several Japanese bands.This summer Sam plans to travel toNew Zealand and Australia. KarenaDetweiler is a product manager at BoseCorporation, continuing to get somegreat marketing experience. She wasvery excited this year to be able to buy aone-bedroom condo near Central Squarein Cambridge, so she can continue tohold on to a slice of city life while workingin the ’burbs. Nora Lehmann, anartist-in-residence at Boston University’sSchool of Visual Arts, showed figurativeworks at the Sherman Gallery at BU lastfall in a show entitled “Corpora Nova.”Jen Meagher Cotton was married inSeptember and moved to Portland, OR,in March. Ninian Stein has degreesfrom Brown, Yale, and Harvard, cappedoff with a PhD from Brown, and isnow at U Mass Boston. Arielle Raff ismoving to an area just north of SanFrancisco, where she will be working ona small but established organic farm.Sam Zimmerman-Bergman, who isstill living in DC, had a great story torelay to all of us: While at a workmeeting in Baltimore in December heended up presenting to Tom Wilcox, inhis role as president of the BaltimoreCommunity Foundation. RachelRaymond is still living in Bethlehem,PA, and has recently gotten out of constructionand customer relations andmoved into the sales department forPulte Homes, where she has workedfor the last three years.1996Class Secretary: Emily BockianLandsburg, Emily@headdownwind.comHello Class of ’96. From the notes itseems we’ve had a pretty good yearthis time around, save for the strangefact that we’re all turning 30, which previouslywas an age reserved for old peopleand adults. Lauren Bernard hasexciting news all around: “In August Ileft the corporate 9-to-5 to officially goout on my own. I have been workingfrom home doing mostly residential projects.”She was expecting a baby boy inMay with her boyfriend of 3½ years.”Congrats Lauren! Ali Ardalan is workinghard, enjoying San Francisco life, andlooking forward to welcoming 30 thisJune on the beach in Italy at a goodfriend’s wedding. He had drinks withGeraldine Alias and Damien Rodgerover the holidays and is trying to meetup with Ed Notosoehardjo and EugenePark. Scott Armstrong is finishing anMBA at UChicago and entering the venturecapital world in California or Boston.“I am loving Chicago and having a greattime at school (a two-year vacation). Ifanyone wants to visit, I have a sparebedroom, so come on out.” AnnieBarrett is also wrapping up her last yearat grad school. She took a three-weektrip to Japan and China and is hoping toget some more traveling in this summerbefore reentering the 24-hour work dayof architecture. Emily BockianLandsburg has fallen victim to the 24-hour work day, as the newly appointedchairman of the National BiodieselBoard’s first sustainability task force.Thoughts of starting a family wereimmediately pushed off for another year.Boo. But maybe, just maybe, this is theyear she stops talking about it and finallygets a dog. Adam Cutler wrapped up amaster’s in international education developmentand works at a Latino communitycenter in Boston. “After a lot ofhard work, I got it off the ground and toa self-sufficient stage, and now I am adirector of education at a Latino immigrationcenter in Boston.” NoahDeGarmo returned from a trip toAustralia and decided to become a professionalscuba diver, just as he finisheshis 12 long years of medical school andtraining. If scuba doesn’t pan out he’ll bean attending for Northwestern UniversityMedical School at Evanston Hospital,and also performing with a violinist fromthe Lyric Opera later this spring. MaryGallaudet is house-hunting in Phila -delphia with her new husband David.