CLASS OF 1992 | 2023 | SPRING ISSUE
Hi all: So great to see so many of you at Reunion this last May! Hope to catch up with more of you soon. In the meantime, here’s the news.
Susannah Fox and Eric Halperin report that they dropped their child Rain off at Butterfield this fall as a frosh at Wesleyan. Also joining the ranks of Wesleyan parents is Karen Earl whose daughter started at Wes this year. Karen is an endocrinologist in San Francisco. Her oldest will graduate from the University of Chicago next June and she also has a middle schooler.
Brennen Keefe was sad to miss our 30th Reunion but was able to meet up with his old teammate Jonathan Soros this summer when Jonathan was in Chicago, managing operations of his Athletes Unlimited softball league.
Chris Chesak made the trip back to Wes for Homecoming where the Cardinals secured another Little Three Championship by beating Williams. Chris reports that it was great to reconnect with old teammates (Jason DeGeorge ’94 and Mike Flynn ’93), classmates (Karen Cacace), and meet others who had played football at Wes before (and after) him.
In other sports news, Tony Brita reports that the 1991 men’s soccer team was inducted into the Wesleyan Athletics Hall of Fame at the “swanky and opulent” Courtyard Marriott in Cromwell, Connecticut, on Saturday, October 1. The class of ’92 was represented by Tony as well as Odi Kuiper and Pete Doolittle. Another teammate, Vizir Ajro ’93 was also in attendance.
Ruthbea Yesner continues her job leading a team of researchers and advisors around implementing meaningful tech innovations in the public sector, with her specialization being urban areas. Most recently she spoke on a panel at the World Smart Cities Expo in Barcelona and collaborated with the World Economic Forum on a paper on developing public/private partnerships in smart cities. She reports that family life is good, too, with one stepdaughter in nursing at UMass, and three more teens in the process of finishing high school. Ruthbea managed to see a whole mess of ’92ers this fall. She met up with Karen Cacace and her husband Mike Flynn ’93 to see her whole extended family for a high school football game. She also had a great time over cocktails with Jonathan Soros in NYC, where she learned about how he is working to change the entire women’s sports industry; bumped into Katherine Petrecca at the airport as she headed to a conference for women leaders in the sports industry; and recently kept Dave Kane company while he drove to his newish home in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, after relocating from NYC.
Brian Cheek has started a new career as a golf professional. He was in Hilton Head, Bandon Dunes, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, last year but just moved to the Atlanta area to be the player development professional at Planterra Club.
Amy Larson is still living in Portland, Oregon, practicing law with a medium-size firm, and doing her best to keep up with her dynamic eight-year-old and three-year-old sons. She’d love to reconnect long-lost Wes classmates including Foss 7 dorm mates so reach out to her!
Also out west in Ty Jagerson, who joined GM last year to run the V2X team, which is the part of GM’s EV group building out new businesses around smart charging and VGI.
Maria Truglio is at Penn State, where she is a professor of Italian and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her son Thomas graduated from Drexel Medical School in the midst of the pandemic and is now a second-year resident in medicine at Dartmouth. Her son Anthony has been teaching with the linguistics program at Penn State. And Maria and her partner Greg Fox got married in July 2021 up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Several of Maria’s Wesleyan pals were able to join to make the day extra special!
Chris Arndt is still living in Telluride, Colorado. His sons Alden (13) and Graham (11) seem to enjoy school, and love playing lacrosse and basketball, and skiing. Chris continues to work to accelerate clean-energy politics and policy. His wife Patty is also well and has just started an as-of-yet unnamed interior design firm. Chris also continues to write and record music, inspired by his experience recording Baggage Claim songs from his college years as the Lost Bags album—check it out under the under Doc Project.
Grant Brenner remains in the East Village in New York City. On the professional front, the company he co-founded, Neighborhood Psychiatry and Wellness, merged with another group and Grant is now chief medical officer of The Collective—Integrated Behavioral Health. Also in New York, Kevin Day continues to live in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and is telecommuting to his new job as VP of Portfolio Management at Conifer Realty, an affordable housing developer based in Rochester New York.
Chadwick Canedy welcomed a new baby girl on November 10th, Arden Haneul Canedy. She is currently doted over by brothers Easton (five) and Declan (seven).
Jeff Kipnis has released his third Lightning Squirrel novel and ninth overall publication this past July, titled the Legend of Lightning Squirrel and is book 1 of The Bolt Saga. Jeff also reports the sad news that his wife Nancy passed away on August 7, after a 20-month battle with cancer. She leaves behind their son Jack, who is 22 and is studying meteorology and psychology at Rutgers University, and their daughter Jenna, who is 19 and is studying health and exercise science at Middlesex College.
That’s all for now. Please send me your news—I would especially love to hear from you if it’s been a while since you last checked in. Your classmates want to know what you are up to!