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2003

Betty Juncker
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Callie Works-Leary is pursuing an MBA at Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business in Dallas, specializing in marketing and entrepreneurship. She recently caught up with roommates Rozlynn Rozkuszka, Abigail Janco, and Rebecca Booker to celebrate the birthday of Kirsten Lewis in NYC.

Vane Becidyan graduated with a master’s in interior design from Pratt Institute last May and
now works for Ghislaine Vinas Interior Design in Tribeca. Over the summer she spent time with Kirsten Steglich and Dan San Germano ’02, among others, at my wedding in Pennsylvania. She also caught up with Christina Oliva ’04, Laura Martin, and Jen Lieberman for a third-floor Rounds reunion, and later ate fabulous Turkish food with Clara Harazim Gaspari. Any fellow Brooklynites interested in joining her for brunch at Bubby’s can e-mail her at vbecidyan@gmail.com.

Shane Furhman lives in Brooklyn. He was an associate at the New York office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, a large corporate law firm, this past summer; he will return there full-time after graduation from Brooklyn Law School in June. He attended the wedding of freshman-year roommate and fellow Bandersnatcher Jason Dolmetsch and Alexina Buchanan Jones.
While there, he caught up with Erik Grimaldi ’98, Misha Watson ’00, and Caitlin Wall ’02.
Vera Ventura is a video production and instructional media teacher at Watertown (MA) High School. She is also a director, producer, and editor for WCATV, Watertown’s public-access
station, and operates her own business, Veracious Productions (www.veraciousproductions.com).

Brad Emott is in his first semester at Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine on the island
of St. Kitts in the West Indies.

Jessica Bloomfield and Tamsin Imrie are traveling around England and Scotland on a surf trip. They live in Paia, Maui, where they have “plunged into la dolce vita!” Tamsin is opening up a boutique on Maui, called Imrie. They encourage anyone coming to Maui to contact them at bloomfieldjessica@hotmail.com and tlimrie@hotmail.com.

After completing a master’s in film and television studies at the University of Warwick in England last year, Charlie Achuff was accepted to be a junior fellow summer intern in the motion-picture division of the Library of Congress. He had a wonderful time researching a rare 1957 television appearance by silent-screen star Gloria Swanson. He is currently living at home near Baltimore, MD, and applying for jobs in film archives, libraries, and museums.

Justin Rogers-Cooper is in his final year in the English PhD program at the CUNY Graduate
Center in Manhattan. He lives in Astoria, Queens, and teaches in the English department at Queens College in Flushing. He still meets up with Mike Kilivris (Pittsburgh, PA), Dan Byers
(Red Hook, NY), Kaja Ciupinska (Manhattan, NYC), and Weld Granbery (Manhattan) regularly. In January 2006 he took a road trip to South Africa and Namibia with his father.

Musician and recording engineer Matt Appleton spent last winter and spring touring the US and Europe as a saxophone and trombone player with the punk band Goldfinger. Back in Los Angeles he has been busy in the studio collaborating with The Used, The Matches, Goldfinger, Good Charlotte, and Silverchair, among others. He was recently visited by Sam Stuart ’02 and Molly Griffin ’06.

Sarah Aman and her longtime boyfriend, Peter Marche, were married September 28 in Rochester, NY.

Dan Byers left Fabric Workshop and Museum (a contemporary art museum and artists-in-residence program) to attend graduate school. He can be reached at daniel_i_byers@yahoo.com.

Eric Hanson and Nikki Napolitano were married over the summer and honeymooned in Hawaii. They live in Brooklyn. Eric hopes to start a part-time MBA program next fall somewhere in Manhattan.

Jennifer Sheffield spent last fall as a graduate student at Boston University’s College of Communication and is studio manager for the Washington National Opera. She had a silent role in L’italiana in Algeri and served the stage management team as a child wrangler for the American premiere of Sophie’s Choice. On the weekend she works on the race crew for Capital Running Company and has completed two 5Ks in the DC area.

Maren Levine Hefler was married in February to Jonathan Hefler, the COO of a litigation support firm. Having finished her master’s at Columbia to become a licensed psychotherapist, she is a school counselor at the Brearley School, a girls’ prep school in Manhattan. She teaches health and sex education, and provides one-on-one psychotherapy for the students. She is taking ceramics at
a great studio on 88th—“but no teacher will ever compare to Professor Brodie!” she says.

Carolyn Depoian is in her first year of law school at Tulane. Although she spends most of her time in the library, she really loves living in New Orleans. “It’s been great watching the city come back—and there’s no snow!”

In April Laura Martin moved from France to Madison, CT, where she passed a real-estate exam. She works at Sotheby’s International Realty in Greenwich, CT. She has also been taking classes at the Fashion Institute of Technology and is freelancing as an image consultant. She can be reached at lauramartin8@gmail.com.

Shonda Arie Lackey passed the registry exam in polysomnography and is a certified sleep technologist at Clinilabs in Manhattan.

Alli Sennett Liss is pursuing an associate’s in nursing and working as a nurse’s aide. After living
at Zen Mountain Monastery following graduation, she continues to maintain close ties with the place and has become a student of the abbot.

Katie Doyle completed a master’s degree in bilingual/multicultural education/TESOL at Southern Connecticut State University in May 2005. She co-authored an article with the Training for All Teachers Program titled “Mainstream Teachers + Sheltered Instruction = Engaged English Language Learners”; it was published by Thresholds in Education Foundation, Northern Illinois University. She now works for the Meriden public schools in Connecticut. To hear about her program or get a copy of the article, e-mail her at k_doyle03@alumni.skidmore.edu.

I married my Skidmore boyfriend and best friend, Seth Hagymasi ’02, on July 15 in Hawley, PA. Four days after the wedding, Seth and I closed on our first home in a private community in Torrington, CT. I continue to teach chemistry in Fairfield. Seth, who completed his master’s in physical therapy at Sacred Heart in May, works for Physiotherapy Associates in Watertown, CT.