CLASS OF 2003 | 2025 | FALL ISSUE
Alison Criscitiello co-led an international deep-ice coring project on Axel Heiberg Island in the Canadian high Arctic this past spring. After two months, Alison and team reached bedrock at 613 meters, making this ice core the deepest in Canadian history (and in all of the Americas)! The ice core contains 10,000 to 20,000 years of climate history. Here is a link to an article about it: deepest ice core.
On June 21, Erin Malone married her partner of 16 years, Brian Guy, in Lincoln, Vermont. They had many alums join them “in celebrating our midlife love including: my freshman year roommates, Julia (Bruckner) Newman and Rachel Schiff; my WesLax teammates, Sonya Behnke, Meriel Darzen ’04, and Bernadette Doykos ’04; Clark Hall buddies, Sarah Erlinder, Allison Lorentzen, Erica Sattin, Alison Plenge, Maggie McConnell, Cara Romanik, Colin Aitken, Noah Newman; and a few dear friends I’ve connected with since graduating, Eve Hadley, Bethany Caruso, Adam Lachman, Cecelia Bathory ’02, Tamara Reimer ’02, and Jodi Reiter ’01. Obviously, the Wesleyan crew brought the energy and enthusiasm.
Meredith Barrett and Aaron Stoertz took a seven-month sabbatical with their two daughters to travel the world, visiting Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Cambodia, Tanzania, Switzerland, and Italy. Along the way, they enjoyed Negronis on the shores of Lake Como with Noah Newman and Julia (Bruckner) Newman, who were traveling Europe with their two daughters, National Lampoon style.
Tejas Desai’s new book, Bad Americans: Part 1, was published in September. Tejas said, “This is an ambitious pandemic novel filled with six long stories that portray different aspects of the American experience during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic—basically Boccaccio meets The Bachelor.” A review by Publishers Weekly described it as a “powerful rending of the human experience uniting a divided America.” In addition, it has been described as “a genre-defying tour de force” and a “vital mirror to America’s soul.”
AMY TANNENBAUM GOTTLIEB | atannenbaum@wesleyan.edu