2002

2002

2002-2013

Hello, ’02s!

I hope you all have had a nice summer! I received one update at the beginning of the summer, from Arvina Martin, “I am still living in Madison, Wisconsin, with my 15-year-old daughter, Nico. For the last two years I’ve been the executive director of Emerge Wisconsin, an organization that recruits and trains Democratic women on how to run for office. In June I was elected to represent Wisconsin as a member of the Democratic National Committee. I’m hoping to encourage more Native Americans to become actively involved in politics, whether at the local or national level.” Congratulations to Arvina!

Earlier this summer when I was droppingmy 10-year-old twin daughters off at the sleep away camp bus I had a funny “small world” moment with another ’02. To set the stage: Last summer at camp one of my daughters developed a close friendship with one of her bunkmates. During the past yearthey have chatted occasionally and were so excited to see each other again at the bus drop off for this summer’s session. I thought it would be nice to meet her parents as well, but it turned out I already knew one of them—Mike Brown is her father! Mike and his wife, Dana, and I chatted while we waited for the bus to pull away and it was so nice to see our daughters happily reunited for another summer. Mike, Dana, and their three children live in New Jersey.

After that happy coincidence I posted on our class Facebook group asking for more small world stories from ’02s. Caroline Pott shared, “We recently hosted a small group of skilled and hardworking folks from the Papahanaumokuakea Marine Debris Project out at Midway to remove tidal trash from our shores. On this tiny speck of land out in the Pacific, it turns out the president ofthe group is married to Christina Hoe, which really makes all the sense in the world, given what I know of these two lovely people.”

I’m sure there are more small world stories out there, so keep sending them! Happy end of summer.

—Anne Cloudman, 215 W 98th St., Apt. 12C, New York, NY10025; acloudman@gmail.com