2000

Just in case you missed any of the following updates (or are unable to remember), thanks to Hoi Ning Ngai, I am able to report them here: "Reunion was a total and complete blur! The biggest shocker, by far, was finding out that Brigitta Wagner got married on the fly last summer in Denmark! She and her hubby, Per, certainly make a cute couple. I also found out that Pia Chao is starting her own record label with Susan Barbour's sister. And Susan herself may be jetting off to France soon to teach English. Allison Aab is continuing her consulting work in hospitals and Emily Perlman's back in New York after finishing her M.B.A. at Duke. Rob Chen is currently working on his radiology residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, Ivana Chow is starting her orthodontics residency at Columbia, and Aviva Moss is keeping busy with her speech pathology work at the Luvalle School for the Blind. Some folks are sticking closer to the Big Green; Brian Leung just started his orthopedics residency at DHMC!" Thanks for the update, Hoi Ning!

Also, Sigma Nu had a great turnout for both five-and 10-year reunion classes. From the '00s, Ram Akilesh, Adam "Tex" Clayton (and his wife, Sara), Ty Hansen, Dan Kempf, James Lawrie, BenMishkin, Mike Orchowski, Eduardo Rivera, Joe Scott (and his wife, Emily Copeland '99) and Steve Wiesenthal made it back to visit campus and play LOTS of pong. The 2000 directorate of The D had a good number of reunion attendees too, with Jake Elberg, Matt Frucci, Lee Koh, Matt McDonald,Danya Pincavage, Ed Thomas and the aforementioned Joe and Ben all in attendance for free food and gifts from The D.

In non-reunion news, Nicole Dielo graduated from University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine in May. She recently moved to San Diego to start a one-year small animal and exotic internship at VCA Emergency and Referral Center. Eduardo Rivera graduated from law school at Florida State last May and moved to Las Vegas to pursue a career in corporate law. "In the last year I've had many alums visit me, including JamesLawrie, Daniel Kempf, Ben Mishkin, Curtis Dozier,Steven Wiesenthal, Andrew Pierce '02, Nicholas Rinard '02 and many others. Vegas is a great town I wish I'd moved here sooner!" I also heard that Amy Tindell defended her Ph.D. thesis in neuropsychology at the University of Michigan in June and is headed to Boston for law school in the fall, and Joshua Thomas graduated from Union Theological Seminary, New York City, with a master's of divinity degree and will begin a Ph.D. program in religion at Emory University in Atlanta this fall.

Eric Almon has been living in San Francisco for the last two years, working for Genentech, a biotechnology company based just south of the city. Prior to that he had spent a year in France playing hockey and a couple more in New York. "I'm loving northern California though; it's a great place to live. Sean Maduck, Nick Warner, Carlos Escobar and I hang out pretty often and I'm still keeping in touch with Eric Sonis, Ryan Poulton and the rest of those clowns at Heorot."

Karen Miller wrote in: "I was recently engaged to Ryan Moslin, a wonderful guy from Grand Forks, British Columbia, whom I met and fell in love with while working together as graduate students in the chemistry department at MIT. We plan to get married next summer in the Boston area, and I can't wait! I also just completed my Ph.D. in organic chemistry and graduated from MIT in early June. I will shortly be starting a new job as a research investigator in the global discovery chemistry-oncology department of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research here in Cambridge, Massachusetts." Congratulations!

Reunion stories are still welcome (for this column and our newsletter), so keep the news coming my way!

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