2001

One year of real life down and 01 gatherings abound; this summer was full of them.

Luisa Capasso, Rhea Powell and Casey Bynum 'oo traveled to Pagosa Springs, Colorado, to cheer Marisa Jupiter and her horse on at the Red Ryder Roundup Rodeo, and visit area residents Diana Vernazza and Drew Allport (inspired by Marisa to enter the amateur bull riding event). Pat Leslie joined the group at the Cheyenne Rodeo, wherehighlights included small children on sheep in the "Mutton Busters." Intriguing.

Katie Reichardt met up with Nick Koshnick, Aina Ake ,u, Jeannie Eisberg, Chris Cutul, Melissa Miranda and Pablo Stern in the California Bay area, and had an 'O1 sailing adventure in the Berkeley Bay, complete with crashing waves and water to be bailed. Brad Crevier, Steve De Vecchi, Gusty Swift, Lindsay Macindoe and Melanie Watt '99 explored Phelps Lake in Teton National Park, Wyoming. Unfortunately, I can't include the picture of Steves jump from a 35-foot cliff. Alex Waters and Kelly Finck (living in Geneva) brunched with Eugenia Choi near the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, and had a visit from Jess Webster, on her way home from a summer job in Sevilla, Spain.

Karilyn Saunders and Andrew Heisen represented the 'ois at the Young Alumni Weekend at Moosilauke: "Hiking, green eggs, salty dogging and Dr. Schlitz were the order of the day!"

Cat Zusky and Eric Hogenson, now co-principals of an elementary school in the Marshall Islands, celebrated their August departure in Boston with Tim Carpenter, Chris Tully, Eric Kelley, Lily Mac Lean, John Bullen Jr., Mike Brosnahan, Nick Claassen, Marc Fenigstein, Drew Sheriff, Jeff Davidson and Adam Nemser. Also in the Marshall Islands this year, Tony Luckett is teaching English and science and playing for the Kili basketball team.

On the new teacher front, Alisa Beck is teaching math in Westchester, New York; Alexis Vagianos is teaching social studies in the South Bronx for Teach For America; and Steve De Vecchi is teaching high school in west L.A.

Now in the Boston area, Dominic Germana is working at Abbott Labs in Bedford, Massachusetts, and Michelle Chui is looking for work after a summer doing field research for a public policy research center. Ryan Bouton and his wife, Jenny Bouton 'O2, are in Hanover after a summer in Orlando training with Campus Crusade for Christ. Brian Nealon is in Belleville, Michigan, working as a design engineer on the Mustang for the Ford Motor Cos. Erika Nelson is at a new job at Accenture in Newjersey. Liz Merritt, back from Paris, started Bear Naked Granola with a high school friend. Liz is in Philadelphia for a post-bac pre-med program at Bryn Mawr and her friend is "running Bear Naked solo for a bit." What a fabulous statement.

Off to graduate school, Deirdre Brenner is doing a masters of piano performance at the Royal Academy of Music in London and DaveLatham has started a Ph.D. program in computer science at U.C. Berkeley. Bradford McKeown is returning to the wilds of Oregon for business classes at the University of Oregon in preparation for pursuing an M.B.A. (no more data colmasters thesis on "The Mac Lochlainn High Kingship in Late Pre-Norman Ireland" and LydiaDixon is finishinga masters inenvironmental science at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Andy Pease (at Columbia Teachers College) is the new music director of the Columbia University Wind Ensemble.

Jeremy Ware, Dan Stulac, Lee Roach and Jonah Stulberg were groomsmen in Jim Irwin and Elisabeth Leagues (UNC '01) August 10 wedding in Atlanta. Also in attendance were Louisa Sadler, Dana Parnes, Tripper Tuten, Kathryn Beane, Hillary Robbins and Megan Hitchner. Congratulations to Jim and Elizabeth, as well as to Fred Hurley and Tracy Davis, who will be married in August near her family's home in Marlboro, New York.

Have beautiful falls!

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