Class of 1989 | 2014 | Issue 1
Thank you SO much for your service David Milch! Welcome to our new guy, Jonathan Fried. Yay!
Sooooo many updates, we speed-wrote… .
Stephanie Dolgoff, now “happily divorced,” is hanging with her twin tween gals—while her Formerly Hot book has been optioned by Lions Gate!
Joel Jacobs is studying barefoot massage and has begun acting lately even though he’s still got his day-job practicing environmental law in the California Attorney General’s Office.
Rabbi Jennifer Feldmen-—Kehillah Synagogue of Chapel Hill, NC.—proudly shepherds a congregation that includes quite a few Wes alums. She’s even officiating a Wes wedding in Latin America!
Vermont-based soul and blues singer/guitarist Dave Keller is celebrating the release of his new CD, Soul Changes—recorded with Al Green’s original backing unit, The Hi Rhythm Section!
We heard from Jaewoo Choo, who lives in South Korea working as a professor of Chinese foreign policy at KyungHee University. Jaewoo is married to James Rhee’s cousin. He and his spouse have a 14-year-old son.
In Jericho, N.Y., Jeffrey Naness is a partner practicing labor and employment law for management at Naness, Chaiet & Naness.
This past November Dr. William “Rob” Spencer won his second term as a Suffolk County (N.Y.)legislator.
Robin Allen McGrew is living in Athens, Greece, with husband Wes, their 15-year-old son, Nicholas, and daughter Susanna.
Dr. Jim Vincent has been running his own real estate appraisal firm for 15 years. Meanwhile, he still keeps up with theater.
Ellen M. Richard Tan has caved to our peer pressuring (Yay us!) and given us the good news that she is “happily gay-married (to quote Colbert) to Dorothy Tan, with one marvelous girl pitbull dog, Sophie.”
Phineas Baxandall is living in Cambridge, Mass., along with kids 14 and 12 with his partner, Sarah. He left academia about a decade ago and still does a fair amount of research as part of advocacy to close corporate tax loopholes.
Paul M. Gallo and his wife, Katie, just welcomed their second daughter, Kelsey Jordan Gallo, this past November 4th.
Kevin Heffernan just moved from Northampton back to Boston, Mass., where he is a housing lawyer for the State. He has two boys ages 2 and 5.
Jeff Brez has moved to the United Nations Secretariat in New York, where he works with the creative community (TV, film, etc.) and NGOs to promote UN priority issues and foster social change. He is married to Adriano Monti.
Holly Adams is dusting off her passport because—guess what!—she and her husband are officially empty nesters, y’all.
Marit Larson and Adam Sobel are still in New York with their two boys Eli (15) and Sam (12). Adam is a professor of atmospheric sciences at Columbia; Marit is Director of Wetlands for the NYC Parks Department.
Anjulika Chawla has been living in Rhode Island since September 2011 and writes: “Met my guy here, and 11 years and four kids later we have gotten engaged on April 1st of 2013. It may take us another decade to actually get married, but you are all welcome to come when it does happen!”
Jonathan’s updates here:
Kim Slote lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, with her two children. Victoria Shestack Aronoff started nursing school, after a decade of grant writing. She lives in Maplewood, N.J., with her two children. Mark Seasholes has been in Hong Kong for the past five years, with his wife and daughter. They are in Austin, Texas, for the year. He saw Michael Mahon around Halloween for some barbecue, live music, and a UT football game. Bob Sutherland owns and manages several Sutherland Lumber stores. He lives in Niwot, Colo., with his wife and two daughters. Edward V. Colbert III is a partner with Looney & Grossman in Boston. He has a wife, two children, and at least five pets. He coaches hockey, and plays in a league with John Brais ’86 and Ted Galo ’85. Robin Smith is now vice president and general counsel for the Americas/Pacific Region of the US subsidiary of LEGO Systems, Inc. She reports that Dar Williams’s performance at Homecoming was “fabulous.” Evan Heimlich taught a World Religions course at Norco College in Southern California. Katey Miller Goldberg and Steve Goldberg celebrate 27 years since dating as sophomores! They live in Greenwich, Conn., with their three children. Steve is a senior portfolio manager at Citadel Asset Management and Katey works part-time in commercial real estate. David Levine visited Ricky Kotler in Baltimore, where Rick is a doctor in the managed care division of the Baltimore VA hospital. He lives in Columbia, Md., with his wife and three kids. David, an investment banker for middle-market companies, lives in Chappaqua, N.Y., with his wife and two kids. After many years teaching art history at Swarthmore, Janine Mileaf is the director of The Arts Club of Chicago. Matthew Coan lives in Mill Valley, Calif., with his wife and three kids. He co-founded Presidio Benefits Company in San Francisco. He was at Wesleyan’s first Little Three football championship in 43 years with Norm Beaulieu, Jim Lukowski, Mike Charlton, Adam Rohdie, Andy Lacey, Jim Regan, and Greg White ’87.
Since last reunion, Abby Smuckler Lotwin has married, had twins, left her long career in educational publishing, and moved to the ’burbs. She recently got together with Ladeene Freimuth, Colleen McKiernan, and Rachel Wulf Silver. Andrew Manning is a research geologist in Denver, Colo., is married, and has two daughters. He was inspired to see Wesleyan Earth and Environmental Science grads and faculty at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. John DiPaolo is a deputy assistant secretary for policy in the US Department of Education. He and his wife have one daughter. Janine Mortimer is in the Dominican Republic, enjoying the sunshine as the marketing manager for Occidental Resorts in the Caribbean.
See you at our 25th (gulp) Year Reunion!
Jonathan Fried and Michele Barnwell
jonathan.l.fried@gmail.com
fishtank_michele@yahoo.com