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September 2005 Hello, everyone! I just came back from our reunion and I must give kudos to all who contributed to the weekend. Thanks go to Jahnavi Swamy and the entire reunion committee for putting together a fabulous set of events. The highlight for me was the dinner cruise around Boston Harbor. We will soon have pictures and video clip on our website... stay tuned for details. Now onto the notes... there were many people
at the reunion but I did not haw a chance to talk in detail with all of them. Here are the ones on whom Roderick Diaz came with his wife, Fiona Schneider whom he married in October 2005. Roderick recently started a new position as West Coast planning manager at STV, a transportation-planning company in the Los Angeles area. Stan Thompson, also in LA, is enjoying his freedom by traveling around the world. He recently visited Peru with Michelle Green '96. Bonnie (Kim) Niederstrasser and her husband, Carlos, went to Erica Hanley-Onken, along with Matt and Zoe, enjoyed seeing everyone at the reunion. Erika is living in North Carolina working for Intrasphere, a pharmaceutical/medical device consulting firm. Despite being only two days away from her due date with baby number two, Jocelyn Chen attended the reunion with her husband, Kai, and her lovely 20-month-old daughter Alethia. They are all living in Boston. Ranee Mehra is coming up on her first anniversary with Sharad Verma, who works at Bayer Pharmaceuticals. They live in New Haven, where Ranee is pursuing a medical-oncology fellowship at Yale University. Anna (Tomassini) Plehn is a project engineer at Moog a motion-controls company. Her husband, Jose '96, is an economics professor at the State Erin Lavik, an assistant professor at Yale University, was able to tear herself away from writing medical-school recommendations for her students Brian Robertson, Eileen, and their two daughters are living in Annapolis, MD, where Brian is helping to start a solar-energy-financing company Not present at the reunion, but there in spirit: Jonathan Hardy is a development engineer at a small Texas software company called People- Nicole (Gotti) and Ed Hernandez have added another bundle of joy to the family with the arrival of Antonia Edward Hernandez in November. Andrew Kraft continues to add to his collection of "simultaneous job hats" as he runs Adweek/Brandweek/Mediaweek's Digital Marketing Conference and Expo, as well as corporate relations for the ninth annual Webby Awards. Heather Wages is in her eighth year of teaching highschool chemistry here in Massachusetts, and was recently named to the list of Who's Who Among America's Teachers for the second time. Heather also directs, advises the technical-theater program, and recently started an improv troupe-that took bronze in a regional competition in its first year. Kyle Shinseki will receive his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, IL, in June. In July, Kyle will be moving to San Juan, Puerto Rico, to work in U.S. Hispanic marketing at Procter & Gamble's Multicultural Business Development Organization. Porshia (Parkinson) Wrschka gave birth to Leila Patrice on Oct. 10, 2004. The family lives in Danbury, CT. Mom works for IBM and dad Peter works for ATMI, both as engineers. Karin Lin and her husband, Cade Murray '96, welcomed their second daughter, Kyla Chen Murray, on March 22. She joins big sister Kiera, who is thrilled with the newest addition to the family. Thanks for your Class Notes contributions over the years, everyone. This is my last column for now, because someone else will soon take over Please send news for this column to Ranjini Srikantiah, secretary, 92 Westwood Blvd., Westwood, NJ 07675; e-mail: ranjini@alum.mit.edu. |