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Hult is still in graduate school atStanford and is enjoying having her sisterLauren Hult ’98 in the neighborhood(working on an MBA at Stanford).Darren Lefkowitz is living and workingin Chicago: “I’m freezing my ass off.And I’m thinking about grad school.”Noah McCormack got engaged lastJune to Priscilla Parris; they marry inAntigua June 14. Sarah Green, DanEpps, Julia Cohen, Maggie Innes,Maggi Pattillo-Dugan ’99, and TomMcCormack ’05 will attend. Noah andPriscilla will move to London this fall soNoah can pursue research for his PhD.Sarah Millerick has been working atGenzyme for over a year and is alsopursuing an MBA at Boston Universitypart-time. She is loving city life in hernew Cleveland Circle condo. After a fewmonths traveling in SE Asia, BethMitchell and her boyfriend Jesse are offto Rio de Janeiro for six months or so.Her goals include becoming trilingualand learning how to samba. SathyaMohan reports he has been travelinglots, for work and fun, including a monthskiing and climbing in the Italian Alps.Sathya is in close touch with Jeff Fabreand Mayank Mehta ’99, both in theMBA program at UPenn, and he hopesto head to graduate school himself soon,most likely in international relations.Congrats to Beth Myers, who is gettingmarried to her girlfriend Suzanne inOctober. Beth is in her second year oflaw school at North eastern. She andHilary Goss escaped the cold with a tripto Florida in February. With a dog andplans to buy a house, Dugan Tillman-Brown seems to be getting settled inMidland, TX. He is a financial analyst foran oil and gas company. “I neverthought I would do this, but I rather likeit.” Jon Roth plans to marry inSeptember. This spring, he enjoyedcoaching lacrosse at Woodside HighSchool in California with his brother,Chris Roth ’97.2001Class Secretaries: Caitlin K. Grasso,ckgrasso@gmail.com; Katherine V.Liebesny, kliebesny@gmail.comRob Adkins has returned to Brooklynfrom Shanghai, where he had a gig forthe last five months with a jazz groupcalled the Theo Croker Quintet. Thegroup played six nights a week at aplace called the House of Blues andJazz. “It was pretty far out. Everythingwas super cheap and poppin’, but the airquality made NYC seem like a nationalpark.” Eric Berger is still consulting inBoston and recently got back from aninteresting UN conference in London onthe future of AIDS. Rebecca Brigham isstill living in Seattle, working at a residentialtreatment center for boys in fostercare, and loving it! “I’m enjoying mylast spring in my beautiful adopted citybefore heading back to the Northeast inthe fall to start my master’s in socialwork. I am looking forward to reconnectingwith some CA folks when I am backon the East Coast.” Ben Carmichaelwas recently awarded a MarshallScholarship, with which he hopes togain two environmental master’sdegrees, starting at Oxford’s Environ -mental Change Institute and finishing ateither Cambridge or LSE. In the meantime,he is writing speeches and bloggingfor the Natural Resources DefenseCouncil (NRDC) and planning plenty ofexcursions abroad. “If anyone wants togo skiing, fishing, or tramping in Europe,let me know!” Siu Ping Chin Feman ishaving a great time in her second yearof med school at Tulane, and has alsobeen hanging out with Dave Liebowitz’02 in New Orleans. Yung-Yul Choi isfinally graduating from college (Emory)after seven years. He prides himself onbeing the oldest among all seniorclasses. Meanwhile, halfway around theworld, Roger Chung is busy studyingfor a graduate degree in the School ofPublic Health at the University of HongKong. He’s still singing in the shower. . . and occasionally in nightclubs,churches, and at ceremonies. AbigailCohen is in a master’s program inschool psychology at Fordham Univer -sity. She loves NY and keeps runninginto random CA people all over the city.She recently went on a crazy trip toTunisia in January with fellow alumHilary Falb and “yes, we came back,and no, we are still not sure why wewent, but it was interesting.” Hilary is ina PhD program in Middle Eastern historyat UC Berkeley. Our long-lost classmateJeff Cutler is in his second seasonworking as an interpreter for SuntorySungoliath Rugby Club in Japan. Hehopes to make it back to the U.S. for abrief vacation soon. Nick Deane hasstarted work for a family business, buthas taken several breaks to join MikeFirestone on the Clinton campaign. Heis also a major beneficiary of the skilland expertise of Tom Schlesinger-Guidelli behind the bar. Liz Down willleave DC and her job with Congress -woman Maloney in May, after threegreat years, and will be taking the summerto travel before starting law schoolat Cornell. Shira Drossos is teachingfourth and fifth grade English toadvanced students in a Boston publicschool. Caitlin Grasso is still living it upin Boston on Beacon Hill and gettingready to start law school in the fall.Brian Gray is working in RI and still livingwith Mike Firestone in Cambridge,“although he hasn’t been around toomuch in the last year due to his lovefor Hillary Clinton.” Haninah Levine isliving in Washington, DC, working for aconsulting firm and singing. He looksforward to every chance to go to Israelto visit his two nephews, 3-year-old Elyeand 1-year-old Ariel. On the other coast,Stephen Lloyd and Alex Aronson areenjoying life in Portland. Stephen is ageographic information systems technicianfor the conservation-based nonprofitEcotrust. At Ecotrust, he has had exposureto both social and environmentalissues of the Pacific Northwest, particularlyrelated to the salmon fisheries. Everthe outdoorsman, Stephen recently traveledto New Zealand with family, despitean indoor soccer knee injury. With awell-timed winter ACL repair, he hopesto return to his outdoor adventures bysummer. Margot Lubin continues towork with Realtor Gail Roberts, sellingCambridge and Boston real estate. Thenext future female doctor of our class,Annie Mancini, is finishing her premed,post-baccalaureate program at BrynMawr. She has had many reasons to celebratethis year, including her brother’smarriage in February and the birth of herniece, Zoe Rose. Annie looks forward tomoving back to New England. (MaybeMargot can help her find something thatfits in the med school budget!) Speakingof moves, Laura McConaghy made aquick move up to Brattleboro, VT, thisfall to start a new job with TheExperiment in International Living. Shetravels all around New England recruitinghigh school students for the programand is looking forward to leading one ofthe international trips this summer.Another new Vermonter and futurephysician, Katie Mygatt, loves living inBurlington and “can’t imagine studyinganywhere else.” A perk of studyingmedicine in the country, Katie X-countryskis through organic farm fields to clearher head! She also hopes to head toSeattle this summer to study complementaryand alternative medicine.Cecilia Roussel is also headed back toschool, to study architecture. She hopesto move from Philadelphia to Texas orOregon in the fall. While Cecilia hopesto move West, Meggie Stoltzman isworking her way back East after aseven-month trip around the country,hiking, biking, and visiting friends andfamily. Headed to NYC? You just mightfind Chloe Temtchine performing hersongs, recording her first album, andgenerally propelling her way to musicstardom. If you are in the city youshould contact her to find out her performanceschedule. For those of us outsidethe Big Apple, we’ll have to settlefor Myspace and YouTube performances!Closer to me in the frigidMidwest, at least Carey Tinkelenbergmakes good use of the ice that surroundsus. She remains director of theskating school she founded a few yearsago (northfieldskating.org) and is writinga column for Skating magazine aboutmanaging and improving programs.She also continues her work for theUniversity of Minnesota, doing clinicalinterviews for a behavior genetics study.Finally, I am so pleased to announce toall those not on Facebook that EmilyWhiston and Nick Schuller areengaged! The wedding will be in August2009, which will hopefully give Emilyenough time to plan the extravaganzaaround her PhD studies in microbiologyat Berkeley. Nick is happy teaching middleschool English and working on histeaching certification. Thanks to everyonewho shared their news. I,Katherine Liebesney, continue toendure medical school in Chicago andam nearing the transition from the classroomto the hospital! Life, however,has been a little sweeter since I foundTed Goodspeed ’98, who contacted meafter moving to Chicago last spring.2002Class Secretary: Natalie A. Krajcir,Nerli315@sbcglobal.netAdil Bahalim joined AccentureConsulting after graduate school last fall.Although he enjoys not doing homeworkon the weekends, Adil misses the bubbleof school and hopes to go back oneday. He’s also been doing quite a bit oftravel — Europe twice in the last yearand, to top that, on a trip to Vegas hewon a jackpot! Okay, well, it was not ahuge jackpot — he walked away fromgambling after winning $50 on a $1 slotmachine. Matthew Bassett is living inDC and working for the state ofMaryland on homeland security andemergency management projects. Mattenjoys DC, but is happiest when he isspending time out on the truck or theambulance with his volunteer fire stationnear Baltimore. Sarah Bertozzi enjoyedher second year at Harvard Law and isspending her summer in NY as a summerassociate at Cravath, Swaine &Moore. She loves being back in Bostonmost of the year and near so many CAfriends, although she wishes she couldsee them more. Next school year, shepromises! Maria Harris is living in SanFrancisco while working at the Environ -mental Defense Fund. She has seen alot of Kasia Cieplak-von Baldegg, wholives just a few blocks away. They bothenjoy the fact that spring comes to theBay Area in mid-February! NatalieKrajcir continues doing research for theCleveland Clinic’s Department ofPediatric and Congenital Neurosurgery.One of Natalie’s gynecologic copublications,concerning female infertility, waspublished in the Modern Trends section81<strong>WWW</strong>.<strong>CONCORDACADEMY</strong>.<strong>ORG</strong> SPRING 2008

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