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Hello fellow ’95ers!
Bo Bell writing this time with class notes ahead of REUNION 2025! I’m excited to see many of you next May, as are some of our other classmates, as you’ll see here in their notes! Personally, I’m still in the idyllic town of Cold Spring in the Hudson Valley of New York, working for a digital product shop called StudioLabs and raising a teen and a tween, hiking the mountains, playing lots of soccer, and drumming for several local acts. Now, on to the notes!
Andrew Dickson is still living in and loving Portland, Oregon: hosting storytelling shows for The Moth, auctioneering events for nonprofits, rolling out a new performance art piece—AC Dickson: Life Coach—and recently published a book of stories. He’s happily married with a 16-year-old and soon-to-be 14-year-old and recently hung out with fellow Portlander, Ryan Myers—they’ll both be making the trip east for reunion!
Ed Lee wrote, “I’m ecstatic to write that I got married to an amazing woman, Nina Moe, on August 3 in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The small ceremony was beautifully officiated by Jenny Gotwals. I was also thrilled that Ethan de Seife, David Goodman, and Bill Wolkoff made the trek from California to celebrate.” They live in Arlington, Massachusetts, where Ed is in his eighth year of “professoring” at Emerson College.
Sarah Kirkland Snider is a freelance composer and co-artistic director of Brooklyn-based New Amsterdam Records, living in Princeton, New Jersey, with her husband and two kids, Jasper (15) and Dyo (13). Sarah is currently writing an opera on 12th-century theologian/composer, Hildegard von Bingen, as well as orchestral, chamber, and choral music.
I heard from old friend “Meanne” Jeanne Bonner, who writes: “I am happy to say I am planning to attend the reunion and also happy to say I’ve been reminiscing a lot about our times on Foss Hill because I am teaching a GLSP course on memoir this fall. If you haven’t been back to campus, I can tell you it looks amazing! I will publish my first full-length translation next year with Paul Dry Books (Paul Dry, the publisher, has a daughter who attended Wesleyan)—it’s called This Darkness Will Never End, and it’s a short story collection by a Holocaust survivor who settled in Italy after World War II. Finally, I’m eager for my 12-year-old son, Leo, to experience the Wesleyan campus when it’s full of ‘my’ Wesleyan people.”
David Biello is living in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, with two teen kids. “Beatrice is 17 and thinks Wesleyan’s brutalist performing arts buildings are scary, while Desmond is 15 and couldn’t care less about college, yet. I work at TED Talks, leading the charge for TED Countdown (their only issue-specific event series and talks), which is focused on climate change and aims to amplify solutions, accelerate progress, and maybe give us a little inspiring hope amidst the doom and gloom. We had an amazing summit in Detroit in 2023 and next year, just after reunion, we’ll be holding our next one in Nairobi.”
Curtis Nelson writes: “I’m looking forward to the reunion and I hope to be able to attend. I recently visited Connecticut in May as my oldest daughter, Carter, graduated from Trinity College. My wife, Krystal, and I had a great time visiting family and friends and celebrated with a trip down to the Brushmill, which was just as nice as I remember it from my days at Wesleyan. I hope to be back on the East Coast a couple of times this year as my youngest daughter, Nicole, is playing hockey for RIT and will be graduating in the spring. Attached is a picture of Krystal, myself, Carter, and Nicole at the waterfall outside the Brushmill for graduation dinner.”
Finally, Eric Meyerson recently started a new job running marketing for a computer vision company called Mashgin. He reports: “During my unemployment period, I got to see Wes people all over, including Morgan Fahey and Mo Ouyang ’96 in LA, and Mark Ladov ’94 in NYC. My daughter just started school at Smith College, and she is loving it. And my old Foss 7 homie, Eitan Mendelowitz, lives just a few minutes from campus—it was a delight to grab dinner with him there. I’m really looking forward to our 30th Reunion. I’m not usually THAT GUY but I already booked a hotel. Hope to see y’all there!”
BO BELL | bobell.forreal@gmail.com
KATY MCNEILL | mcneill40@gmail.com