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Congratulations to our new class officers, elected at our 10 year reunion last June and a big Thank-You to our outgoing officers. Here is an update on each of the new officers… President Jahnavi Swamy left Denver last summer and moved back to Cincinnati for a position with Procter & Gamble. She is amazed as much as anyone else is to have been working for the same company and to have kept the same email address for over 10 years. She writes that “It was wonderful to see many of our classmates at the reunion in June. I’m looking forward to seeing even more of you at the next reunion. I’ve volunteered to serve our class as President for the next five years. If you have ideas of what you would like to see from our class or from the Institute, please let me know via e-mail, jahnavi@alum.mit.edu, or by phone 303-249-0700.” Vice-President Babak Azad has returned to Los Angeles after graduating from the Stanford GSB in 2001. His work includes a variety of activities, including corporate development work for Napster (the legal one!) and MBA admissions counseling. He is an active member of the LA Tri Club, currently in training for his second Ironman. Treasurer Diane Hodges Popps has been in Austin, TX since graduating from MIT. While working for Motorola (turned Freescale Semiconductor) she earned her Master’s in Biomedical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. In her free time, Popps enjoys participating in Kuk Sool Won (Korean martial arts) and triathlons, and hanging out with her husband, Donovan, and 2 dogs. She just completed a term as Class Agent prior to becoming Class Treasurer. And lastly, I, Jennifer (Tschudy) Carlstrom, am the new class secretary and webmaster. I have lived in the Bay Area since 1997, with my husband Brian Carlstrom. Brian is in his third year in the Stanford Computer Science PhD program and we welcomed our second son, Daniel William Carlstrom, on 5/05/05. Big brother Michael, age 3.5, and our two black Labs, Bonnie and Clyde, are adjusting well. As part of my duties, our class website has been updated and now includes all of the previous issues of Class Notes, as well as classmate updates received between notes publications. Please check it out at http://alumweb.mit.edu/classes/1995.

Now onto other classmate news… After earning his MAT at UNH in 2001, Chris Siren moved back to Massachusetts and began teaching high school physics. Since 2003, he’s been teaching physics and occasionally chemistry and astronomy at Groton-Dunstable Regional High School. He is now close enough to Boston to play Ultimate Frisbee (badly) on the alumni team at MIT in the spring of 2005. John Rodkin is getting married to Megan Hennessy in January 2006 in New Orleans. After the hurricane, her job as a law clerk to Edith Brown Clement relocated to Virginia for 5 months, but they were extremely fortunate that their apartment in New Orleans suffered no damage and they can have the wedding as planned. They met at the University of Chicago, where Megan was a law student when Rodkin returned to finish his JD/MBA, 8 years after he started. After graduation in June 2005, he returned to San Francisco and started a new software company with Leo Chang ‘94. The company has grown to 15, and their team includes MIT alums Matt Esch ‘97, Jeff Marshall ‘94, Milena Krasteva ‘05 (Sloan) and Sherrett Walker ‘93. Laura Groves is back from New Zealand, now living in Southern Maryland. She will be taking a veterinary acupuncture course in Colorado this winter and is busy un-schooling her 4 year old. Amy Koo started a new job after the 10 year reunion as Production Control Manager for Nektar Therapeutics in San Carlos, CA – Thanks to a nice referral from fellow ‘95er Kevin Walsh! Meanwhile, she also started her own business in the health and wellness industry marketing nutritional and skincare items from USANA Health Sciences. The supplements worked great as she and fiancé Don Long completed their first ever triathlons at Pacific Grove with the Silicon Valley “Team in Training”, raising $8200 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Since Koo and Long were on a fitness kick, they joined classmate Steve Lin in his 12 person relay race that consisted of running 199 miles from Calistoga to Santa Cruz over two days – Yowzers!

 
Amy Koo and fiancé Don Long at the finish of the Pacific Grove Triathlon.

Robert and Sherry (Wu) Lewis are excited and overwhelmed as new parents of twins. They welcomed son Derek and daughter Anna on June 21, 2005, in Rockville, MD. Lewis is planning to return to her consulting position at BearingPoint Inc within a few months. Eric Fitch and wife Filly had triplets on Sept. 26, 2005. Madison, Kyle, and Courtney keep their parents awake in Arlington, MA. Until recently, Fitch worked with Mark Lundstrom ‘92 on a biotech start-up. Now he is in the healthcare software industry. He can be reached at fitch@alum.mit.edu. Kristin and Matt Cutler are happy to announce the arrival of Vaughan Alexander Cutler, born Oct. 25, 2005. Both baby and Kristin are doing great and Quentin is adjusting well to being a big brother. Michelle (Vokac) Lynam just had a second daughter on Sept. 28, 2005. Gabriella Britta Lynam weighed in at 7lbs. and 4oz. Big sister Mirabella is only 21 months older, so Lynam has her hands full. Mirabella is trying to adjust to sharing her mommy. Lynam works part time as an anesthesiologist and her husband Gregg is busy with his plastic surgery office. Her parents live nearby in Richmond, VA, and are a lifesaver when it comes to babysitting.

Thank you to everyone who submitted notes. I look forward to hearing from many of you throughout the next five years. Please remember you can submit updates and photos any time throughout the year to be posted on our class website.

-Jennifer (Tschudy) Carlstrom, secretary, 13045 Alta Tierra Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022; e-mail: jtschudy@alum.mit.edu.