Class Notes Archives
July/August 2009 |
May 2005 Hello all! First, some reunion news--I hope you have all made hotel (or other) arrangements--looks like there will be quite a crowd at this year's reunion! It isn't too late to register; check web.mit.edu/alum for all the latest info on general reunion events and for the specific activities being planned for our class. Your team of tireless reunion volunteers has been working extremely hard to make this 10 th reunion memorable for all of us! If you can't make it in person, you can always participate by making a submission to our alumni book and/or by participating in the class gift. All donations to MIT made within this fiscal year will count towards our class of 1995 gift to MIT, so please make a pledge and encourage your friends to do the same as soon as you can! Now, on to the notes?I am happy to report that I received a first-time submission from Laura Groves (Gatewood). She graduated from the University of Georgia veterinary school in May 2004. She, her husband, Rich, and three-and-a-half-year-old son, Morgan, are anxiously awaiting their permanent resident visas to immigrate to Hamilton, New Zealand. In what some would call another country, (though not quite as far as New Zealand), James Brooks is trying his hand at being a Texan. After graduating from the leaders for manufacturing program in June, James moved to Houston, TX, to take a job with Schlumberger Oilfield Services. He's hanging out with native Texan, and former (1993) co-Baker house social chair, James Pearson. Janet Maza (Woods) and her husband, Alfonzo, celebrated their first anniversary last Thanksgiving. They are expecting their first child in July. Last fall Janet was promoted to an assistant project manager position with Austin Commercial, a Dallas-based general contractor. She works in the field office on a large project near Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix, AZ, and imagines that juggling maternity leave and motherhood with the demands of construction management will be a challenge. In January, she had fun hosting her first "extern" through the alumni program. It turns out that Phoenix is a pretty desirable IAP location, especially with all the weather in Boston this year. Jenn Long Steele and her husband, Andrew '97, bought a townhouse in Waltham, MA, and moved in the day of the blizzard of 2005. They were there less than 24 hours before losing heat and hot water. They would have been better off, but they also didn't have internet access yet and felt un-informed about how to fix the utilities. "Yay homeownership," she writes. Gus Leotta is currently an army doc and at the time of this submission, he is getting ready to re-deploy to Iraq for the second time in 12 months with the 101 st airborne division. He currently lives in Heidelberg, Germany, where he spends his time coaching the Heidelberg High School tennis team and snowboarding throughout Europe. He recently traveled to Pittsburgh, PA, to see John Rhee's wedding, along with Steven Spence, Will Zhou, and other MIT alums.Stephanie Shaw graduated from MIT with her PhD in atmospheric chemistry in 2001, living up to the prediction by her freshman year floor tutor (Mark Wang) that it would require spending about a third of her life on MIT's campus. After graduating, Stephanie and Simanta Chakraborty moved to San Francisco, where Stephanie is a NOAA postdoctoral climate change fellow at UC Berkeley, and Simanta is director of client services at Reactivity, a web services security company. They were married twice in the spring of 2003 at both an American-style wedding held on the beach at Sanibel Island, FL, and a Hindu ceremony in Bethesda, MD. Many MIT alumni were in attendance. Andrea Jensen is still living in Shreveport, LA, stationed at Barksdale AFB and flying the B-52 Stratofortress. She is looking forward to the reunion this summer--especially the reunion row! After ChannelWave, Dan Housman's first start-up was sold to a public company, Click Commerce. Dan left and is now starting a new venture at Viapoint creating a smart desktop organizer and mentoring new entrepreneurs through MIT's VMS program. Stefanie Moses and her husband, Sergio Rubio '94, welcomed their first child, Diego Alden Rubio, into the world on January 29th, 2005. Diego was nine pounds, three ounces and 21.75 inches long--they have yet to figure out where his size came from! Stefanie reports that he's a little angel, and that they are very lucky. Congratulations! Thank you all for the submissions. I look forward to seeing you in Boston during reunion! --Ranjini Srikantiah, secretary, 92 Westwood Blvd, Westwood, NJ 07675; e-mail: ranjini@alum.mit.edu. |