Class Notes

1995

Mar/Apr 2011 Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes
Class Notes
1995
Mar/Apr 2011 Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes

Brian Greenberg writes: "Life is great in the Bay Area. Christina and I welcomed our second child, Daniella, almost a year ago. She is a joy and adores her brother Jonah (now 3 1/2). I help run the Envision Schools, a network of four charter schools that sends low-income students to college. Not quite Waiting for Superman but we are trying to do our part. Between the two kids, four schools and trying to get iPhone reception in San Francisco, I'm keeping busy. But no complaints and actually a lot to be thankful for." Katie Davis writes: "I live in the Boston area and am a developmental-behavioral pediatrician at Tufts Medical Center. My husband, Bill Weidman, and I welcomed our son Grant Phillips on August 24, 2010. He is a happy little guy with lots of dimpled smiles and is doted on by his two older sibs Summer (8) and Will (10)."

Thanks to Beth (Wilson) Webster for filling the rest of this column with a flurry of news (enough for two columns, so more next issue!) She writes: "This spring I'll hit my 10-year mark with the Department of State. I joined the Foreign Service in 2001, and I've been stationed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Astana, Kazakhstan; and Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. I also traveled to Tajikistan, where my husband, Mark (married in 2004), served while I was in Astana. I had an opportunity to work at Incirlik Airbase processing evacuees during the 2006 Lebanon evacuation. We've been stationed in D.C. since 2008, living in Falls Church, Virginia. I started out in the visa office and now I'm working on NATORussia policy. It's been an exciting career so far, and we're looking at possibilities for our next overseas posting in a year or so. We have a son, Nathaniel (3) and a daughter, Eleanor (1). We brought them up for reunions and Nathaniel now recognizes pictures of Baker Library and Dartmouth Hall, much to Mark's amusement. Juggling everything leaves not nearly enough time to keep in touch, but a bunch of us have gotten together at least once or twice a year since graduation, which has kept us all sane as we balance the working mom thing.

"My roommate from Dartmouth, Deb (Volland) Achkire, lives in San Francisco with her husband, Younes, and their son Julian (2). After years with large firms in D.C. and San Francisco, Deb moved in-house to practice law with Morgan Stanley. She works with Melissa Maccarone Muehlfeld, a UCSD transfer student who spent a year at Dartmouth and with whom we've stayed in touch. Melissa and her husband, Owen, have a l-year-old daughter Avery."

Also from Beth, Nicole Vines just joined Sterling Publishers, an imprint owned by Barnes and Noble, as director of special sales. She's been in New York since graduation, apart from a few years in San Francisco, and she travels a lot, both for work and pleasure. Jennifer Apgar and her husband, Mike Christopher, live in West Hartford, Connecticut, where they both work in reinsurance. They have two daughters: Riley (3) and Piper (almost 1). Tim and Lori Korpan Hurley live in Mt. Prospect, Illinois, with their three kids Ben, Matt and Ella. Lori is amazing—juggling three kids, while teaching Spanish and doing an unbelievable amount of volunteer work. She just started a master's in library science.

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