Class Notes, November/December 1997
Wednesday December 31, 1997 Category: Archives Permanent Link
Statistics say some nauseatingly large percentage of us think we’ll marry another Cornellian, and our class is definitely off to a good start. Cornellians galore decamped to Lowell, MA, for the wedding of Eric Harten and Christine Del Favero, who met in Martijna Briggs’s Dutch class on the Hill. Matthew Watts ‘95 took a breather from Andersen Consulting to be the best man. Groomsman Matt Scherkenbach flew up from Florida. And the maid of honor, Renee Knoll, joined a coterie of Chi Omegas-Christine is in Chi O-that included Suzanne Fariello, Grad, Catherine Row-botham, Jennifer Grosner, and Christy Martin ‘98. (Renee works at the Four Seasons in Boston, Suzanne’s at the Vet college, Catherine just finished a year as a Chi Omega chapter consultant, and Jennifer’s just finished her master’s in social work.)
Other Cornellians at the wedding: Jason Biegelson, ME M ‘97, Caroline Bower ‘99, Jim Butler (American Airlines in Texas), Anne Catlin ‘95, Jeremy Fox ‘95 (now at Harvard’s medical school), A. H. “Sander” Kersten, ‘93-94 Grad, and Alex Pigliucci ‘95 (another Andersen consultant). And, of course, we can’t forget Eric’s dad, Ronald Harten ‘66, and a family friend, Ellen Feinstein Ellner ‘66. Eric and Christine are now living on Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, MA. Eric is a second lieutenant in the Air Force, doing computer simulation and other electrical engineering-type things. Christine is teaching in the Museum of National Heritage in Lexington and serving as the education coordinator for the Whistler House Museum in Lowell.
Other couples who probably spent the summer returning the five extra sets of salt and pepper shakers: Tricia Seith, who married Dave Bolduc ‘94 last spring. They live in Cincinnati- aka a “young Cornellian wasteland”-where Tricia is a hospital manager at PetCare Animal Hospital and a weekend keeper at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens. Also, Jean-Paul Chaine and Llasmin Orsini Fuentes married last December and live in Quantico, VA (aka FBI Central). And, the last of the weddings, Matthew Altman reports he joined Scott Saperstein, Jamie Murdock ‘97, Matt Wilkinson ‘95, and Kevin Lyons in Denver last May. The occasion: Luis Ambroggio’s wedding. “We all had a great time,” reports Matt, “even though Wilk was in the bathroom most of the night.” Some things never change …
Thankfully, I haven’t heard any reports of anyone registering for gifts at the Campus Store, but keep me posted. (Yes, you’ve reached the first of my no-longer-disguised pleas for news.) This is also a good place to tell you that, sorry-we cannot print news of engagements, but are delighted to report the happy news after those wedding bands are safely on your fingers. [And, for future reference, the same is true for pregnancies/births. Let us know when the baby has arrived!- Ed.]
After traveling through Canada, the Caribbean-and Columbus, Ohio-Aurianne Nappi has settled down (for now, anyway) in Boston, where she works at Techlaw, an environmental consulting firm. “Still trying to get used to this 8 to 5 type of day,” she reports. Let us know how if you figure out, OK? Other Cornellians-in-Boston: Peter Maxfield and Chris Silveira are raking in the big bucks doing that computer programming/software shtick. Pete’s at Parametric Technologies and Chris is at Sapient. Matt Karp ‘97 is at Ernst and Young’s real estate division. Adam Lorenz is working toward a master’s in engineering at MIT. Ronald Zaslow’s at Boston U. law school. And Geoff Lopatka has hung up his hockey skates, picked up a business degree, and begun toiling away at M&M Marketing, a sales and marketing company in Needham, MA.
On the opposite end of the continent, Karen Thiessen is an operations analyst at Doubletree Hotels in Phoenix. Her housewarming in Scottsdale was a hotelie mini-reunion, with Jan D. Freitag ‘97, Phil Baugh, Marty Kandrac, and Wendi George popping by.
And in another Cornellian oasis-this one actually has Ithaca- type weather-Wai Mui “Sharon” Cythia Tung, Youngsin Na, I. Max Chuang, Maricela Estrada Rodriguez, ME E ‘97, Neil Jain, and Steve Remy ‘93 (all at Motorola in Chicago) relieve stress by playing volleyball-on a team called Big Red.
Postcard from Sonya Hand: She’s working at McKinney and Silver, a Raleigh, NC, ad firm, and looking for a good grad school. Luckily, she’s only an hour from Fort Bragg, where boyfriend Matt Stover ‘95 is entering the second half of his commitment to the army. In his free time he’s skeet shooting at his new house or visiting his new neighbor, a calf named Norman.
For once, this isn’t nearly all the news I’ve got, but we’ve a serious shortage of duespayers, which equals a serious shortage of space. Soooo … please help out our class treasury (not to mention our gossip-hungry classmates) urge your friends in the class to pay their $29.96 class dues. And while you’re at it, send me a postcard. (Motto: It’s easier than getting on AOL.)
Courtney Rubin, Class Columnist
