Skidmore College - Scope Magazine Fall 2018

47 SKIDMORE COLLEGE grade English and history in the Lexington public schools. Rachel is a developmental specialist in an early interven- tion program for families and their children with develop- mental delays. Alexandra Ravener Feigman afeigman@gmail.com ’07 Lauren Bloomen- thal married Skyler Farmer Aug. 4 in Seattle. Those in attendance included Philip Anstey ’06, Dina Pantuso Du Val, Kerry Genese, Sarah Hoffman, Aleksa Lazare- wicz-Anstey and Rachel Schillhammer Mekelburg . Mike Hochron married the love of his life, Elle Ballen- gee, on Sept. 1 on a farm outside Columbus, Ohio. The ceremony was attended by fellow Thoroughbreds James Tak ’06 and Kendra Asplund Tak . Mike serves as policy director to Franklin County Commissioner Mari- lyn Brown, helping develop and oversee services for the residents of one of America’s largest counties. Elle is a nurse in the neuro-ICU at Riverside Methodist Hospital. The newlyweds love their city and two dogs, and they would be glad to welcome anyone passing through or moving to central Ohio. Autumn Bush autumnbush@gmail.com   Chris- topher Toregas is a vice president, senior port- folio manager and financial adviser at Morgan Stanley’s Park Avenue Plaza wealth management office in NYC. A certified financial planner, he is on Forbes magazine’s list of America’s Top Next- Generation Wealth Advisers. Matt Shrensel , known to classmates as “Strudel,” moved to Portland, Ore., married girlfriend Heather, started a new job at the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and in June welcomed a new baby boy named Shay! Shannon Hassett shannon.hassett@gmail.com ’10 In May Aviva Ariel- Donges completed a master’s in public health and passed the national certification exam. She and her husband moved to Chicago, where she is finishing a clinical internship year for a doctoral program in clinical health psychology at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center. The couple are thrilled to be closer to friends and family and plan to stay in Chicago for the near term. Lauren Donovan married Ken Michalzuk in August in her home state of Maine. Among the bridesmaids were Julia Auster and Kristina Scheurle . Lauren and Ken reside in NYC, where she is director of publicity at Scho- lastic Inc.  Morgan Violette married Jonathan Fusco June 16 at the Stone House at Clove Lakes on Staten Island. She wore the wedding dress previously worn by maid of honor Kiera MacDonald , and the event was photo- graphed by Julia Luckett- Cox ’12. Caroline Scherer, Katherine Sommer, Justin Morelli ’09, Peter Selinsky, Ethan Foscue and Nicholas Pierce were all on hand to celebrate.  Nicholas Pierce got engaged to Julia Luckett-Cox ’12 in August. Nick popped the question on the shore of Lake Champlain in South Hero, Vt., during a beautiful sunset. They live together in Winooski, where Julia oper- ates Julia Luckett Photog- raphy and Nick works as a librarian at UVM. The couple first met in Mozart’s Operas taught by Tom Denny, and soon afterward sparks flew one night at Desperate Annie’s. Their dog, Zhivago, attended their wedding ceremony. Alexandra Wennberg is a recipient of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship. She is moving to Padua, Italy, to continue her research on Alzheimer’s disease. Ross and Jess Goldberg welcomed baby Evan (Class of 2040) this August. They are excited about their ex- panding family! I graduated from Columbia in May and now work at Mount Sinai Hospital as a volunteer coordinator. I married Max Nisen July 29 in Philadelphia and was delighted that Me- lissa Ross, Sara Riker, Jess Goldberg, Ross Goldberg, David Butler, David Engel, Keith Petri, Jakob Schen- ker, Emily Goldman, Elissa Nadworny, Michael Cass- Antony, Rachel Elias, Sonia Segal-Smith, Julia Auster, Michal Rose ’09 and Logan Brenner ’12 came to share in the celebration. I feel lucky to have such a wonderful Skidmore family! Claire Solomon claire.a.solomon@gmail.com Brendan Calafiore credits the Skidmore course Global Financial Institutions, taught by Paul Calhoun, for “open- ing my eyes to the world of structured financial products and real estate finance.” He pursued the latter in his se- nior year, with the help of the Skidmore alumni network, and cultivated relationships in NYC real estate. After a few years in finance and data analytics, he completed a full- time master’s in real estate finance and development at Cornell University and has been active on the buy side of private-equity real estate investing ever since. In his free time, he is an avid skier and wine enthusiast. Tanner Kaufman Tanner.Kaufman@gmail.com ’16 This summer Mario Hyman played for Memphis City Football Club, the first semi-pro soccer team in Memphis, Tenn. He also worked as an information technology intern at the FedEx headquarters there. Now in his last semester of a master’s program in electrical engineering, he plans to return to the Northeast for employment and reconnect with Skidmore friends. Jordan Grapel completed a master’s degree in autism studies at the University of Massachusetts and ac- cepted a position as a clinical research specialist in the neurophysiology lab at Duke University’s Center for Autism and Brain Development in Durham, N.C. Lindsey Decker is pursuing a master’s in computer science at Tufts University in Boston. Jessica Stoukides gradu- ated from the University of Rhode Island with a master’s in kinesiology in May. She is a now a therapist at a farm that provides equine-assisted therapies for individuals with a wide range of mental- health conditions. Office of Alumni Relations Skidmore College alumni@skidmore.edu M A L S Lisa Chalidze ’08 is a visiting lecturer at Norwich Uni- versity’s School of Justice Studies, with special interest in the role of police and the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and 14th Amendments. She writes, “The Skidmore MALS program was a great help in effectuating my gradual, planned transition from the practice of law to academe.” Tracy Eastwood Sturtevant ’87 lives outside Brisbane, Australia, with husband Mike and their cat, Oz. She feels incredibly lucky to be working at her “dream job” as equine coach coordina- tor and head coach for the largest therapeutic riding program in the country. She recently became the first riding coach and mentor in Australia to be certified by the Professional Association of Therapeutic Horseman- ship International. She looks forward to assisting other coaches and riding centers in becoming certified/accred- ited members. Tracy keeps in touch with Lisa Willey Porter ’87, Mike Porter ’87, Jeanne Cooney Dunn ’86 and Jen- nifer Hill Thorne ’88 , and she recently caught up with Stephen Legan ’87 in NYC. Tracy says, “I am back and ’09 REUNION ’19 ’11