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CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008as a lighting designer/technician andhas worked on a couple of independentfilms. Sarah Schindler Williams graduatedfrom NYU Law in May 2007, thankfullypassed the NY bar exam, and isnow a real-life litigator at Kramer LevinNaftalis & Frankel, a midsize law firmin midtown Manhattan. The last semesterof law school was Sarah’s favoritebecause she participated in a clinicinvestigating and preparing the postconvictionpetition of a death-row inmatein Alabama. Living for two months inMontgomery and working in the SEcorner of the state was an unforgettableexperience and made her laugh at allthe times in high school when wewould complain about what a smalltown Concord is. She recently becameengaged and will hopefully be Ms.Schindler-Williams (not Miss) by the endof 2008. Sarah has also seen GabeGreenberg a few times and ran intoEmily Warren at the DUMBO subway afew months ago. She is looking forwardto the reunion and would love to hearfrom any other CA Brooklynites (or even— sigh — Manhattanites). Will Decaneasrang in the New Year up in the NorthCountry with Gabe Greenberg andAndrea Cooper, eating good meals,huddled by the fire pretending to behardy outdoorsmen. He’s also run intoJay Briedis and managed to whip himin Wii bowling! Beatrice Putnamreports “after six months living inEngland she’s back in Portland OR,engaged, and happily working on ourhouse, our garden, and my art.” Sincegraduating with a master’s in engineeringfrom Cornell in 2004, PongAbhakara returned to Bangkok, wherehe is an engineer at AEROTHAI, the airtraffic service provider for Thailand. KymNicholson rang in 2008 with Jay Briedis,Jon Schechner, and David Lang. Shealso met up with Mi-Hyang Kang fordinner earlier this winter for the firsttime in 10 years, though it didn’t feellike that much time had passed. EmilyCoit is completing her PhD in English atYale. She likes New Haven less and less,but life is generally pretty good, and sheshould be out of there in a year or two.Emily is looking forward to attendingreunion. Over the past year, much ofNashan Vassall’s life has been dedicatedto applying and getting into businessschool. This fall he’ll start MBAstudies at Wharton. Rosie Branson-Gillis pursuing a master’s in the publichumanities, focusing in public art andcuratorial studies. While in school, shecontinues working for Errol Morris, adocumentary filmmaker who investigatesthe relationships between photographyand truth. She is currently in agreat relationship and considers herselflucky to live a happy life. Corey Mastersmarried Mark Bartley in May 2007 in80Jed Spiegelman, Micah Spooner-Wyman, Sarah Anderson,Adam Geer, and Nicholas Jorgensen, all from the Class of1999, in December in BostonBermuda, where they are living. SylviaBronson was a bridesmaid. Before settlingdown, Corey sailed from Spain toBermuda during the Tall Ship race week.She also won third prize in a photo contest,and one of her photos was publishedin the book, Moods of Bermuda.As for Eddie Concepcion, I am currentlyworking as a benefits associate forPublicis Groupe, the world’s fourthlargest communications group in corporatebenefits. I am in a wonderful relationshipwith my girlfriend Melissa andam beginning to get my act together forgrad school (knock on wood!). I cannotwait to see everyone in June! I wannagive a shout out to my boys in NY whocouldn’t get me updates in time: EvanGatica and Steve Siu! And I’d like toofficially welcome back to the mainlandMr. Michael Cook.1999Class Secretary: Elizabeth K. Prives,lprives@yahoo.comAmi Boghani lives in Prospect Heights,Brooklyn. She is still working withdirector Mira Nair, focusing on generaldevelopment as well as the coordinationof Nair’s nonprofit initiatives in India andEast Africa. Willie Diaz lives in Yuma,AZ, where he is a border patrol agent.He and his wife Melonie recently celebratedtheir sixth anniversary. Williehopes to return to the East Coast soon.Maggi Pattillo is doing a master’sprogram at Drexel in information scienceand working at artnet.com. She enjoyshanging out with her family— husbandDavid, stepdaughter Taima, 10 — andseeing CA friends. She sees MaggieInnes ’00 and Rob Seward ’98 a lot.Liz Prives retired from NBC UniversalTelevision Studio last June and is enjoyingher new career teaching at BingNursery School at Stanford University.Micah Spooner-Wyman is still inBoston and looks forward to his annualvisits from Sarah Anderson, MeganKellett, Nicholas Jorgensen, AdamGeer, and Jed Spiegelman. Micah andSarah visited Jed in Chicago, and as aresult of Jed’s musical ties, got to attendLollapalooza 2007. Micah and his familyrecently spent time in Cambodia, wherethey provided dental supplies to underprivilegedstudents. Micah is a diehardfan of Miss Fairchild, featuring SamPosner and Schuyler Whelden ’98.Yemi Talabi received her MBA fromBrandeis two years ago and bought ahome. Last May she married ChrisOates in Jamaica. Ruth Landy was hermaid of honor, and Joselin Pichardoand Lise Godshalk were bridesmaids.Yemi and Chris are expecting their firstchild. Ginny Bonavia is also having ababy, due June 22. Dan Schulmanmoved to Oakland in January; he took athree-month trip to South America.2000Class Secretaries: Sarah K. Green,sgreen@gmail.com; Erin Hult,ehult@stanford.eduDan Epps was sad to be graduatingfrom Harvard Law School, which he hasgreatly enjoyed — especially workingwith Jane Kucera on the Harvard LawReview and taking classes with MarkEgerman. He is, however, excited tobe moving to Charlottesville, VA, nextyear to clerk for the Hon. J. HarvieWilkinson, III on the U.S. Court ofAppeals for the Fourth Circuit. Heencourages anyone who’ll be in thearea to look him up, as long as theydon’t mind that he now spends muchmore time thinking and talking aboutboring legal things than he did at CA.Ariana Green is spending the year ona Gates Scholarship, which is fundingMatt Bassett ’02, a volunteer fireman with a day job inhomeland security for the State of Marylanda master of philosophy in social andpolitical sciences at the Universityof Cambridge. Her research is on thepolitics of genetic testing for breast cancer.She also works with the Londonbureau of the New York Times, continuingcollaborations she began last yearwhile on a Fulbright in London. Arianaspent eight nights on the road coveringJuly terrorism in London and Scotland,wrote for the paper’s ArtsBeat blog, andmade an NYT Web video on the invasionof U.S. football into Wembley Stadium.“Cambridge, UK, is a bit like Cambridge,MA, but with many more chapels,cobblestones, and punts,” she writes.“‘Tis quite quaint, indeed.” Sarah Greentraveled quite a bit this year, visitingSuz Tolwinski in Tucson and joiningNoah McCormack and Julie Kleinmanin Provence, as well as hitting up theBahamas with her boyfriend. She worksin the editorial department of HarvardBusiness Press while continuing to writeher weekly sports column for theBoston Metro. Her baseball blog,UmpBump.com, has been picked up byESPN.com, the New York Times,Deadspin.com, and AOL Sports, amongothers. Isn’t it about time you startedreading it? “Ale and I got engaged lastyear,” writes Keith Katz on behalf ofhimself and Alejandra Hernandez. Theymarry in Boston in July, then move fromNew York to France “as I’ll be startingbusiness school at INSEAD, and Ale willbe continuing her career in women’sfashion in the fashion capital of theworld. Can’t believe we’re only twoyears from our 10-year reunion. Crazy.”Liana LoConte is living in Providenceand working to improve public educationin RI. She sees Sarah Green and SuzTolwinski whenever they are all in MA,and she saw Luke Garmon, ChrisRivest, London Parker McWhorter,and Ethan Dobrow at PrabhakarMithal’s engagement party last fall. Erin