2002

I got quite a few responses to my class-wide e-mail for updates, so here goes! Sarah Weiner is working as a food journalist in Bra, Italy, at the international headquarters of Slow Food, an agro/eco/gastronomic nonprofit, reporting on small goat cheese producers in the Italian Alps, the wine harvest in Sicily and food fairs in France. Sarah said that she had a great time periodically visiting Chuki Lord, Brett Quim-by and Daniele Genadry in Rome before Brett was booted out of the country. (On a side note, Brett reports that he is living on St. John, relaxing and working in a kitchen.) When small-town living became too small, Sarah visited Nicolette Krickl in Milan, where she graduated from Marangoni Fashion School before moving to New York City.

Max Crossly reports that he's been living in Pittsburgh with his girlfriend for about half a year now and recently landed a job programming machine learning algorithms with a Pittsburgh company named Body Media.

SPC Blake Ratcliff writes, "I left my position as a corporate paralegal in N.Y.C., and I've joined the Army, having just finished basic training at Ft. Benning in December. I start officer candidate school on January 5 and from there I'm off to military intelligence officer basic at Ft. Huachuca in sunny southern Arizona. Then, who knows where I'll be going, but I hope somewhere exciting and unstable. So far, all my experiences have been positive ones, and, aside from the constant physical abuse at basic, tons of fun. Tossing grenades, firing M16A2s and M249 SAW machine guns sure beats legal work, and it brings a real sense of pride and meaning each day.

Ron June reports that he is pursuing a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at the University of California, Davis. His research is in orthopaedic biomechanics, specifically as it relates to the human knee joint. "I'm going to be doing some exciting computational simulations of knee contact," he said.

Christopher Baldwin was excited to have some news to write in about: 'After working in North Carolina for just over half a year I came back to New England around Thanksgiving looking for work. I just found out that I have been offered a position with Cambridge Associates in their Boston office. I start in April and I can't wait."

Teresa Harings wrote that after a year spent teaching English in a tiny village in the Marshall Islands, she is now working as a corporate paralegal in Manhattan and living in a beautiful yet old and cantankerous brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Erica Close just moved to British Columbia, Canada, to travel, take some classes at the University of Victoria, and move to a small town in the north called Smithers. She is hoping to find a job and a place to live there. Erica Geller e-mailed to say that she has a new job as editor of a hometown newspaper in central New York, north of Syracuse.

Megan Ahem was thrilled to inform us that she was just engaged to fellow Jesuit volunteer Pat Murphy, a Seton Hall alum. The couple is planning an August wedding back in Connecticut. Finally, Anastasia Lambert is living in New Paltz, New York, and wakes up every morning to see the rising sun reflecting off the Gunks cliffs. She's prepping for medical school, with dreams of moving out west next year if she gets an internship with the AIDS Health Project in San Francisco. If you're in the area, give her or Ben Doyle a blitz, they're always looking for climbing partners! That's all for now, keep sending me your updates.

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