2001

I hope by the time you read this (as I type, it is a billion degrees and rising in the Northeast) it will have cooled off enough for you to have picked up the magazine without breaking a sweat!

Sarah Craft, with one year to go in her masters program in vocal performance at the University of North Texas, has recently performed several major roles in a number of operas at the university. Lindsay Maclndoe is on a national tour for her debut album, Small Revolution, and has already played more than 40 shows around the country. More info at www.lindsaymac.com.

This fall Athena Lentini will begin her Ph.D. in school psychology at UConn and Jocelyn Leavitt will be at Columbia Business School. George Spinner, Steve Holmberg, Suzanne Gibbons and Mariha Gibbs will be starting M.B.A. degrees at Harvard Business School; Brian Landry-Wilson will begin his M.B.A. at the University of Chicago. Maribel Florez will be studying technology in education at Harvard.

Adding to the lawyers among us, Kathleen Cabral and Lisa Yoon graduated from Northwestern Law School in the spring.

In May Meredith Kessler graduated from Stanford's School of Education with a master s in policy, organization and leadership studies. She is working in N.Y.C. for the nonprofit New Leaders for New Schools. Matt Derringer received his master's in education policy and management from the Harvard School of Education and will also be working for an educational nonprofit in Boston.

New '01 doctors abound! Laura Fanning (Cornell), Gaurav Mavinkurve (Johns Hopkins), Justin Isariyawongse (Ohio State), Graham VerLee (UVM) and Rob Valet (Vanderbilt) all began their residencies this summer.

Pete Leckerling finished the first year of his masters in Pacific and international affairs at UCSD. Ellen Pfeiffer finished a masters in Russian, East European and Central Asian studies at Harvard. She has moved to D.C. to save Russia or, at the very least, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine.

Alex Schindelar is with the Oxford Business Group in Dubai, where construction has begun on an underwater hotel and there is a re-creation of the world map in the ocean featuring 360 islands. Maybe that's where we should have our fiveyear reunion.

Jenny Alden just finished shooting a comedy film in Utah called Blind Guy, to be released nationally in the winter.

There was a flurry of'ol spring weddings this year. Emily Schoonmaker and Tim Sands were married in Eugene, Oregon. Graham Verlee was married in Portland, Maine, to Katie Nelson (UVM '04). Rob Valet married his Vandy sweetheart, Amy Black, in Tennessee. Mike Gallagher was married on Maui to Mamie Lawrence '99. Robin DeGracia married Siva Sankaranarayanan (Indian Institute of Technology '95) and Catherine Curran married Sean Kelly (Boston College '93) in her hometown of Las Vegas. Laura Brockway and Eric Sirianni were married in San Antonio.

Spring engagements: Ed Bialas and Sarah Kate Moody (Wake Forest '00); Lili Beneda and Brian Murphy (LSU '02); Jorge Miranda and Molly Stutzman '02; Ying Li and Oliver Varban (Penn '01); Ann Bedichek and Dan Braden. Congratulations to everyone!

In closing, I have a message from the reunion committee (me and several other devoted '01s):

WHAT:The class of 2001 fifth-year reunion

WHO: That would be you and your 1,000-plus classmates

WHEN: Mark your calendars! June 16-18, 2006 (that's less than a YEAR away)

WHERE: Hanover. You remember it, right? Snowy, cold, lots of trees?

WHY: Because you want to hear (not read) about all the fascinating things your fellow '01s have been up to.

HOW: Watch your mailboxes (virtual and real) for info on how to register. In the meantime, contact Amy Salomon or Amanda Young with your ideas on how to make our reunion one that can't possibly be missed!

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