Class Notes, November/December 2001
Monday December 31, 2001 Category: Archives Permanent Link
Well, folks, it’s great to be back. And it was great to be back. Hope you won’t mind my getting metaphysical for a sec, but being back on campus for the big 5-year was really good for the soul. In a short four days, revisiting old haunts, seeing familiar faces, and dabbling in activities once thought of as sophomoric (yes, it’s probably not a good idea to put two class correspondents on the same wine tour bus) was nothing short of amazing. Although we could never recreate being fun and fancy free with our whole careers and lives ahead of us, it was nice to try.
Karen Ehret reported that Jim Fahey and wife Christine welcomed a son last year. Jim recently passed his professional engineer test. He and his family are living in NYC. Steve and Alex Dadio live in Philadelphia and are also the proud parents of a baby boy. Allison Davis spent the summer in Bombay and returned to MIT in the fall for “more school.” Stephanie Britt Griffen is training for her first half-marathon in December. Karin Whitford Stewart and husband Bill are living in Boulder , along with Bill and Gina De Martini Hander. Deb Moll is living in Virginia and is working at Sprint, where she’s been since graduation (we’re thinking that’s record-setting). As for Karen, she is leaving our fair city of San Francisco to move to Sydney, Australia, for six months to a year to work on her golf game, and she’s “not coming back until I shoot under 90.” Good luck!
Gina Saline married high school sweetheart Tom Accordino (Colgate ‘96) on Apr. 20, ‘01 at OKEHA Castle in Cold Spring Hills , NY . Maid of Honor was Bridget Lowell, Ann Gable was a bridesmaid, and Amy Chiaro read for the ceremony. Cornellians in attendance were Amy Bird, Marguarite Carmody, Sheila Di Gasper, Alicia Parlanti, Emily Luskin, Lynn Burke ‘70, and Roy Girolamo ‘72. Gina and Tom are living and working in Manhattan , where Gina is in-house legal counsel for a marketing company. Michael Power was married to Catherine Elizabeth Thompson on June 30, ‘01 in Rehoboth Beach , DE. Mike is the legislative director to US Representative John Sweeney and Beth is currently the director for government affairs for the National Rural Health Association.
After finishing NY College of Osteopathic Medicine in the Spring, Mathew Nelson was married on Memorial Day weekend to Tara Ann Liberman in Queens , NY . Cornellians in attendance were Ron Johnstone, Marc Saulsbury, Alli Santacroce ‘97, Matt Malone, Jasper, ME C ‘97, and Nisha Mathew Cordero, Dave Poggi ‘97, and Pete Minneci ‘94. Mat and Tara both begin their residencies this fall in and around NYC.
Jeremy Cooper started working toward his MBA at Georgetown in August. Congratulations to Matt Ciesielski and wife, who welcomed daughter Faith Ann into the family in September 2000. Matt is working in marketing for John Deere in Augusta , GA. Daughter Jessica was born to Amy and Ron Johnstone on Apr. 30, ‘01 . Ron and Amy are living in San Francisco , where Ron is a lawyer with Cooley Godward.
Josh Babbitt, MS I ‘97, is working for Rosetta Marketing Strategies, a start-up marketing company in Princeton , along with Chetna Bansal, ME Eng ‘97, and Jeanine Schoen, who was interning between her first and second years of business school. Josh said, “My life reads like one of your columns, a seemingly endless stream of weddings, none mine,” and added that Lee Goldstein and Gretchen Goldfarb ‘97 were married earlier this year.
J. Paige Adams Graziano Pongratz wrote: “Finally sold my little lake house in Middleboro (boo hoo!), got married, and moved to a farm in Pembroke , MA . Couldn’t be happier!” Paige changed jobs as well, and is now at the Plymouth County Animal Hospital in Marshfield , MA . Jennifer Grant wrote that Judy Keisler married Albert Concepcion ‘95 in April. Jennifer, Becky DeVito ‘97, and Amber O’Reilly were in the wedding party.
After five years on the coffee house circuit in L.A. , James B. Edwards returned to Ithaca to pursue his MBA at the Johnson school. Jessica Katz graduated with honors from the School of Optometry at Berkeley in May and is currently in Boston for her residency. As Jess writes, “Who knows after that?” Minutes after finishing the New York Bar, Joanna Citron made a beeline for Southeast Asia , where she will be traveling before starting her career as a lawyer in DC. Joanna reports that Maya Holmes is happily married and teaching biology at an elementary school in Chapel Hill , NC , and Wendy Meredith Hunter is in medical school at the U. of North Carolina.
Alison Conlin is finishing up her last year at SUNY Upstate Medical School and reports that Lisa Perronne is working for Bristol Myers Squibb in New Jersey , and Alex Castro, ME CS ‘97, is living in Seattle and working for Microsoft. One of our classmates wrote: “I am truly happy with my career, outside interests, and the peace of mind I have found since graduation.” May we all be met with that kind of happiness.
— Sheryl Magzamen, Class Correspondent
