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Neil Astmann and wife Laura welcomed son William on October 4.

Cornell Woolridge successfully managed the 2008 primary campaign of State Rep. Marie St. Fleur, 5th Suffolk District in Massachusetts, and is politically involved in the Boston area. He lives in Haverhill with Candace Parsley.

Kenneth Dunbar and wife Amy Steele ’99 welcomed son Jackson on September 3; he is doing great and growing fast.

Evan Saffer is still making music with bass player Jason Brown in their band Fixer. They signed a record deal late last year, and their debut album, Before the Sun, is out now. One song, “Mixing in with My Blood,” was featured on MTV’s The Hills. Their video for the single “Tell No One” came out in October, and they are currently on national tour. Evan and Jason, former Dynamics, played in a jazz combo and in their own rock band, the Greenlight, during their Skidmore years. You can listen to them at www.fixermusic.com and www.myspace.com/fixermusic.

Jared Grodner and wife Judith, an ’01 Sarah Lawrence grad, have been married three years. After two years working a day job, Jared is back in business for himself, designing and building furniture and custom architectural metalwork out of his Paterson, NJ, workshop. His work can be seen at www.grodnermetal.com.

Emmy Cotton married Robert Parks in 2006 in Chatham, MA. Beth Kelliher, Jessica Bilsky, and Susanna Hamilton ’01 were bridesmaids. Dave Fallon ’02, Wes Goldstone ’02, Andrea Glasier ’02, and former women’s swimming coach Mary Ann Gerzanick were in attendance. Emmy (swimmore00@yahoo.com) and her husband welcomed son Will on July 25.

Happily married for three years, Justin Adsit and his wife have a 15-month-old baby girl who has become his world. Justin is a VP for a marketing-services company in Fort Lee, NJ.

Katy Michos lives in southern Jersey and is a psychotherapist in a community mental-health agency in Pennsylvania. She graduated with a PsyD from Widener University in 2006 and is on the road to becoming a licensed psychologist. This past June she married Brent Keller on Long Island. In attendance were Jess Wagner-Whyte, Benjamin Miller, Brian Barlow, Sarah Cosman Barlow, Cornell Woolridge, and Antonia Batalias Krimitsos.

Amy Kashman married Henry Weismann IV on July 6 in Island Park, NY. Skidmore roommate Crista Cavicchio performed a reading at the ceremony. Amy received her master of science degree in education from Hofstra University in 2004 and teaches elementary school in North Colonie, NY. The couple lives in Albany, where Henry runs his own Web-development business, Weismann Web.

Crista Cavicchio lives in Somerville, MA, where she is a bilingual family therapist at the Family Center Inc., a clinic. Crista is preparing to take the independent-licensing exam. She stays in weekly contact with Jessica Zambarano and Elaine Boyd ’01 and maintains monthly contact with Damion Grasso, Sarah Bergh, and Amy Kashman Weisman.

Matthew Slater, a litigation attorney in Boston, recently defended a client in a high-profile motor-vehicle homicide case; his client was acquitted on all charges.

Kathryn Ross married Mathijs Zandbergen last June in Oxford, England. In attendance were Donna Bernstein, Jennifer O’Shea, and Emily Falcigno. Katie (kbross15@yahoo.com) and Mathijs were finishing their PhDs—hers in comparative social policy and his in material science—at the University of Oxford and moving to the Netherlands in January.

In August Joshua Pierce and wife Leslie welcomed twins Ellery and Mira; they are doing well after being born prematurely. Adam Kirkman ’99, Jeremy and Chrissy Staudinger Ezra, Joseph and Veronica Catano Bilotta ’01, and Linda Sullivan Jennings have all been to see the girls.