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Hi, Wes friends! Thank you so much for sharing your news. We have some career updates, trips overseas, and exciting updates about children of graduates.

Jaime Bachrach emails, “It’s been 15 years since we left NYC for Litchfield County, and we continue to enjoy the natural beauty around us. Our wine company continues to grow, especially on the logistics side, and luckily the tariffs have not tanked our business! Our older daughter, Logan (22), lives and works in London when she’s not traveling the world, and our younger daughter, Esmee (19), is following in her sister’s footsteps by attending college abroad—at Trinity College in Dublin. We have visited Ireland twice since she started in September, and also enjoy skiing and other outdoor trips with friends and/or the girls. In Connecticut, we continue to see Sean and Deirdre (’94) Kelly frequently, as well as the Glastonbury trio of Jeff Kestenband, Erin Boggs, and John Langmaid ’92.”

Clay Dreslough (né Dresser) writes, “I ran into some health problems in my 30s and 40s but eventually figured out that things improved significantly on the Pacific Coast. In 2018, we moved from eastern Connecticut for the small city of Arcata on the north coast of California. We love the people and the weather. I’m hiking 15-plus miles every week in the redwoods with our 12-year-old pibble mix and continuing to play ultimate Frisbee. We still own and run Sports Mogul Inc., where I’ve expanded from computer games into board games. Dee and I celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary this year, and our 25-year-old daughter, Ellie, is enjoying her job at Redlands University in Southern California.”

Tuula Hoiska Fai recently visited Wesleyan and was excited to see all the new buildings, including the Usdan University Center. She also visited her best friend’s—Jennifer Stark ’92— younger sister Amy to sing carols to Jen at her gravesite in Tolland, Connecticut (Jen passed away in 2023). Tuula recently left cybersecurity to pursue real estate investing full time. This career change is giving her more time to finish her healing journey memoir and to train for swimming competitions. Tuula resides in Sedona, Arizona, but spends summers in New Hampshire with her father and often goes to Florida to visit her son, Trevor, who is an engineering major at the University of Florida.

Michael Hanna PhD writes, “For the past 20 years, I have been working independently as a medical research consultant. During the COVID pandemic, I often read in the news about the epidemic of mental health problems—depression, anxiety, stress, etc. Reading that news, I became a bit rueful that I had drifted away from my original training in clinical psychology and working directly with patients. Having done all my education and training over 20 years ago in three different countries, the bureaucracy to make that return became my Herculean labors. But this past summer I got licensed as a psychologist in France (where I had done my master’s degree, 1995–1997), and recently I succeeded in becoming licensed as a psychologist in Connecticut. This spring, I will probably be moving back either to Paris, France, or to Connecticut, a state I have become fond of over the years. I’d be glad to hear from anyone reading this: mhanna@wesleyan.edu.”

Andy Nordvall writes, “I’m still teaching English as a foreign language to adults in Los Angeles. I recently completed my first Kickstarter campaign for an anthology of dystopian science fiction called Bad Future, which I contributed to, edited, and am in the process of printing. I recently moderated two panels at Los Angeles Comic Con, “Neurodivergent Creators Unite” and “What Can Dystopian SciFi Say About Our Dystopian Present?”

Scott Robbins emails, “I am still practicing law in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. I was elected as the vice president of the Missouri Bar in September. I look forward to representing almost 32,000 licensed Missouri lawyers during my three years in the officer rotation. With this election, I will become president in September of 2027.”

Laura Ross writes, “I am still living in Los Angeles as head of school of Harvard-Westlake School. My husband, Gregg Ross ’90, is a math teacher there. Casey, our daughter,
is in her junior year at Wesleyan, majoring in classics and just came back from studying abroad in Rome. Our son, Graham, just got accepted ED to Wesleyan, so next year they will be there together. We are so excited. Go Wes!

Maura Solomon Woosley is living in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband and 10-year-old daughter. After 23 years at Citi working in the Government Affairs shop, Maura started a new job this past fall on the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services as the staff director for the Financial Institutions Subcommittee. She is excited for this new chapter in her career.