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1999

Nancy Carew Magnus
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From the tropical blender bar to the late night at Peabody’s, Reunion was a blast! Please keep sending me pictures and stories from the weekend so we can keep an ongoing photo album on our online class page. For those who couldn’t make it, we look forward to seeing you at our 10th!

Jocelyn Ditzel and I attended Liz Roberts’s bachelorette party in NYC and reconnected with Kristen Lepore and Leah Bokenkamp for a weekend of crazy fun. We also bumped into Washington, DC, Web developer Land Fisher at a rest area in Maryland on the way to NYC.

Kristen Lepore, who worked for Planned Parenthood and a national breast cancer organization in NYC for several years, is coordinator of development for a new national HIV/AIDS activist organization. In her spare time, Kristen has been working as a peer educator at a local LGBT health center and other social services organizations. The Brooklyn resident is an avid community gardener and a new devotee of knitting. She is also training to work as a doula, providing support to mothers before, during, and after childbirth.

Last winter Leah Bokenkamp traveled to Costa Rica to complete her yoga teacher training at the Nosara Yoga Institute. Leah lives in Marblehead, MA, with Mike Rozinsky and is steadily building her massage and yoga practice. Many of her weekends are spent racing with her sailboat crew and practicing for the 2011 World Cup. She welcomes hearing from classmates at leah_massage@lycos.com.

Emily Donnis and Aidan McCann are living in Texas, near the Mexican border. Aidan finished his first year of teaching second grade for the Teach for America program. Emily works for a local scholarship foundation through a Budweiser distributor. They are both enjoying meeting new people and living in a different area of the country.

Christy Lewis is a legislative assistant at the US Agency for International Development, working in the Office of Iraq Reconstruction in Washington, DC. She stays in touch with Courtney Alperin, who is in the MBA program at Babson College. Christy also spends time with Christopher McGrath, executive director of Handgun-Free America in Washington, DC. In June, Christy attended the wedding of Elisabeth Webb to Shep Langenheim in Toledo, OH. Participating in the ceremony were Courtney Alperin, Brigid-Ann DiBella ’00, Sharon Su ’00, and Al Negron ’98.

Aaron and Melinda Ulmer Prills could not attend Reunion due to an early closing date for their new home. The couple recently spent time with Adam Swart, who returned from his service in the Peace Corps in Nepal this summer.

Ingrid Sarmiento started a doctoral program in clinical psychology at Clark University this fall. She lives in Ayer, MA, with fiancé Eric Wells.
In May Julie Marie Combal received her master’s of professional studies degree in art therapy from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.

Amanda Larson Gebhardt and husband Peter announce the birth of daughter Bianka in June. “Although parenthood has its challenges,” observes Amanda, “Bianka is the greatest love of our lives, and we can’t imagine the world without her.”

Katie Roberts Cunningham Wilker and husband Rob celebrated the birth of son Graham in July. Mom and baby are doing well.

After completing a master’s in Budapest, Hungary, and working in NYC for two years, Sabrina Hussain is back in Ithaca, NY, where she lives with her boyfriend, Ellert, and works in Cornell University’s human resources office. Last summer she traveled to Iceland for the third time and highly recommends visiting this beautiful country: “The pools are great and the nightlife is even better!” She adds that Reunion “was a blast.”

Ali Gottfried married Ben Serebin on July 18 in her parents’ backyard in Katonah, NY. Skiddies in attendance included Jen Kahn, Melanie Zalman McDonald, Miriam Kleyman Abramovich, Hannah Duggan, Liz Nyman, and Cheryl Villa-Abrille.

Noah Thomas, who married Allison Smith ’98 in June 2003, teaches 3-D design part-time at Fullerton College in California. He was recently accepted into a master’s program in architecture. Allison has accepted a Yaddo artist’s residency to paint in November.