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Hello all! Here’s what we have:
Al Viegas writes with the unexpected news that he will be starting in September as an astronomy professor and observatory director at St. Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill, New York. After 35 years in finance, Al has always wanted to teach and is really excited about becoming a part-time professor. “I am still four to five years away from retiring, so this will be mostly a night gig, but it sets me up for another decade or two after retirement working with kids and teaching science, which is great! Ironically, while I did not major in astronomy at Wesleyan, I actually chose Wesleyan because of Van Vleck Observatory! So, life has had a nice boomerang effect here and I am psyched!”
Lara Goldmark wrote in while relaxing in the South of France with her mother’s side of the family, in the same little town where she got married 27 years ago. “At the wedding, back in the day, were several folks who are all doing great—some attended the recent Wesleyan reunion this May and then went on to an off-campus swim team gathering: Maria Floyd Cohen ’91, Susie Wigdale ’89, Jil Zilligen, Courtney Fahy ’89, and Mark Mullen ’89. My co-founder and I recently stayed at Mark’s apartment in Barcelona when we went to pitch her business school buddies to invest in ZForm, our app to eliminate bureaucracy. We hire Wes grads btw. 🙂 End of this month am looking forward to seeing Drew Weissman ’88; he married one of my best friends from high school and they are also doing great.”
Victor Khodadad continues to be heavily involved with his opera company, New Camerata Opera, which is based in New York City. “The 501(c)3 nonprofit organization produced an immersive and thought-provoking production of Peter Brook’s La tragedie de Carmen at The Nagelberg Theatre in Manhattan in the fall of 2024. NCO is also committed to education in the arts and has recently presented all three of its children’s operas—Party at the Opera, Peter Rabbit, and Rumpelstiltskin—at NYC schools. Victor recently joined the board of directors and is gearing up for the next main stage production. More information is available at www.newcamerataopera.org.”
Becky Lloyd DesRoches had a great time catching up with so many classmates at our reunion and plans to make many mini-reunions between now and our 40th. Becky writes of two highlights from the year. In May Becky got promoted to associate professor of psychology at Regis College—“long time coming. The best spring highlight was playing in the South African Grannies International Football Tournament at Nkowankowa Stadium. Yes, I’m that kind of soccer mom—my kids don’t play anymore but I do.”
Tim Freundlich did the pandemic two-step and moved from San Francisco to Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 2020, with Gus (now 16), Milo (now 19, and who just finished his first year at Holy Cross), spouse, Julie Dowd, and small dog, Russell, and a bigger dog, Lexi. Tim has recently co-founded another “impact investing” endeavor, CataCap.org (and still is working at the firm he founded, ImpactAssets).
Finally, Nadine Angress writes that she had a great time attending our 35th Reunion and connecting with many people she hadn’t seen in years. Nadine also went to the Rhode Island home of Jen Zoltners Sherer ’91, “where we had a mini- reunion/memorial with swim team friends to celebrate Ernie Luikart who died in the fall of ’24. From the Class of 1990 there was Jil Zilligen, Wendy Herrick, Ed Brown, Greg Lesser, [and] Dave Griffith. [Other Wes attendees] were Renée Carl ’91,Maria Floyd Cohen ’91, Bill Fabbri ’91, Ann Goebel-Fabbri ’91, Courtney Fahy ’89,and Missy Brown ’89. It was wonderful to remember our cherished friend while also enjoying reconnecting.”
That’s all for now. Wishing everyone happiness in the upcoming holidays. I will be back in touch early next year.
VANESSA MONTAG BROSGOL | vanessa.brosgol@yahoo.com