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Hi, Wes friends. We have some exciting updates this issue—new jobs, empty nests, documentary premieres, and other updates. As always, we appreciate hearing from you, so please keep sharing updates! 

Julie Anderson writes, “I am in the process of transitioning to a new job as head of school of Rectory School in Pomfret, Connecticut. Rectory is a junior boarding and day school serving students from pre-K to ninth grade. My husband and I recently purchased a home in Maine, where we look forward to spending time during vacations. My oldest child is a recent graduate of Wheaton College in Massachusetts and works for a nonprofit that supports employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities. My youngest will be a junior at Hampshire College, where he is engaged in theater and gender studies.” 

Shana Ciociola Boniface emails, “I’m still in Montclair, New Jersey, a town so filled with Wes alumni that there are three of us on my block, all in vastly different graduating years, but still, what are the chances?! In other Wesleyan-related news, my older daughter will be attending Wesleyan in the fall as a recruited rower! We are so thrilled for her!” 

Jacob Bricca writes, “I’m happy to report that two documentaries that I worked on recently made their premieres. I was at the world premiere of The Chaplain and the Doctor, which I edited, at the San Francisco International Film Festival in April, and was thrilled to collaborate with Ted Reichman ’95 on the music for the film. The doc is about two extraordinary women trying to fix a broken health care system in Oakland, California. I also celebrated the release of Marriage Cops, which I co-edited, at the HotDocs International Documentary Film Festival in May. It’s a cinema verité account of a group of female police officers deputized to provide marriage counseling in northern India. Each will be released to the general public later this year.”

Dave Davis provides an update: “Greetings from sunny Manhattan Beach, California! Lynne and I recently celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. We have two amazing daughters—our eldest is heading into her senior year at UC Berkeley, and our youngest will begin her college journey at Vanderbilt this fall. With both girls off to school, we’ll soon be empty nesters! On the professional side, I co-founded a start-up in 2023 called Calliope Networks. We focused on licensing audiovisual works to generative AI companies for model training. Late last year, we were acquired by a larger start-up called Protege. I now lead Protege’s content licensing division, and I’m happy to report it’s been a great ride so far.”

Jodi Samuels writes, “My spouse, Evan, and I are now splitting our time between our townhouse in Sacramento, California, and an apartment in downtown Evanston, Illinois (just a few blocks from the Northwestern campus), so that we can be closer to his family in the Chicago area. Our two kitties are gradually getting adjusted to flying back and forth with us (wish they could get their own frequent flyer accounts! ). We spent New Year’s in Vancouver, British Columbia, again this year and participated in another Polar Bear Swim in English Bay on January 1. Other international travel included a week in Singapore in March and a weeklong river cruise in Lyon, France, with some of Evan’s family. Finally, as part of my path toward transitioning to an encore career in the language professions, I’m now part of the French volunteer translator team for Kiva.org, a great microlending organization.”

Steve Wald emails, “Rachel Whitaker and I celebrated 32 years together in early June. Nineteen years in Urbana, Illinois, just down the street from the wonderful Evelyn Shapiro ’87. Rachel is the Harry E. Preble Professor of Microbiology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; I am living a SiSP graduate’s dream as director of government relations for the College of ACES (agriculture), here in the heart of the Corn Belt. Did you know Wesleyan was home to the nation’s first agricultural experiment station in 1875? In frequent touch with classmates . . . Wes equipped us for this awesome, awful moment. Hold strong!”

SUZANNA HENSHON | suzannahenshon@yahoo.com

SARAH ESTOW | sarah_estow@hotmail.com