The following notes from and about former students are those received at the school from June 1, 2002, through December 6, 2002. Notes and photos received after December 6, 2002, will be published in the next issue of the "Bulletin," on July 1, 2003. We apologize if your note did not make this issue. We have a very busy family of former alumni/ae!
Please note: The Blake School posts Class Notes on its Web site only if the person submitting the note has given permission.
Births
Jeff Dayton '71 - a son, Brenner, November 14, 2001.
Julian Jarvis '84 - a daughter, Matilda Lydia, May 1, 2002.
Robin Bennett Schoenwetter '86 and Charles "C.J." Schoenwetter '86 - a daughter, Elizabeth Bennett, December 15, 2001.
Kelly Morrison '87 - a daughter, Katherine "Kate" Morrison Willoughby, September 27, 2002.
Bill Charette '88 - a daughter, Emily Anne, February 15, 2002.
Charles McQuinn '88 - a daughter, Merriam, July 30, 2002.
Marta Cohen Simpson '88 - a boy, Archer Irving, July 9, 2002.
Grier Arthur '90 - a daughter, Madeline "Maddie" Paige, April 28, 2002.
William McGrath '90 - a son, Russell William, November 10, 2002.
Tim Schock '91 - a son, Jeb, March 21, 2002.
Riley Peterson Moorjani '93 - a daughter, Raina Ashley, May 4, 2002.
Marriages
Anne Peterson '82 and Newell Blake Steele, June 23, 2001.
Julian Jarvis '84 and Francesca Invrea, December 1, 2001.
Libby Gray '88 and John Vonder Haar, September 14, 2002.
Brett Weinberg '89 and Julie Silverman, June 2, 2002.
Elizabeth Andrews '90 and Traver Hutchins '79, June 22, 2002.
Taylor Burke '90 and Julia James, March 23, 2002.
Melanie Skramstad '91 and David Lindblad, April 20, 2002.
Brooke Crosby '92 and Julian Reed, July 6, 2002.
Maite Esteve '93 and Esteve Agusti, August 3, 2002.
Timothy Bretl '95 and Andrea Wolfe, September 28, 2002.
Emily Evans '95 and David Johnson, August 17, 2002.
Keri Greenstein '95 and Keith Greenwald, April 20, 2002.
Katharine Kelly '95 and Butch Roy, August 4, 2001.
1949
Glen W. Gilson, II has retired from the Florida Bar. He and his wife, who have been married more than 40 years, are enjoying traveling around the world. Their three children are happily married and each of them has recently had a child. They are permanently settled in Miami but "miss Minneapolis."
1955
John Wilder is in his fourth year of retirement after 38 years as the last vice president of River Services for Cargo Carriers, a part of Cargill. He now has five grandchildren and hopes to visit three of them in Buenos Aires in August. His retirement hobby is managing and owning rental property. He and his wife, Susan, will celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary and "invite any '55 classmates to come to a ‘cochon de lait' in mid-November."
1957
Walter "Walt" McCarthy writes that he now has four granddaughters. His son, Richard ‘84, and Richard's wife, Katie, have opened a clothes shop in Wayzata, called the Pink Pelican. It carries the Lilly Pulitzer line, among others. Walt's wife, Clara Ueland '56 , won third prize at the Minnesota State Fair Art Exhibition for her etching, "Caravan."
1958
James "Jim" Aust writes that he is happily retired in Grapevine, Texas, "10 minutes from any gate at DFW Airport."
1960
Kent van den Berg is teaching in the law school at Saint Louis University, where his wife, Sara, chairs the English department. His son, David, recently won first prize in a national Inland Press Association competition for investigative reporting.
1964
Ann Proctor McElligott and her husband have returned to the United States after seven years in Australia, as she has been appointed as the dean of the Episcopal Cathedral Church of St. Andrew in Honolulu, Hawaii.
1965
Henry Doerr writes, "I have lived on the same street for 23 years, worked in the same medical practice for 25 years and have been married to the same woman for 28 and, with three children 26, 24 and 20, we each have 70 years of parenting under our belts. I have now taken up golf and have walked the Milford Track three times. The Milford Track is a four-day, 33-mile hike in Fiordland National Park in the South Island and reputed by many to be the best hiking trip in the world. As the only Blake graduate in NZ [New Zealand] (I think), but certainly the only NZ Blake grad who knows Dan Danielson's middle name, I welcome any would-be travelers Down Under. Remember, Auckland is the home of the America's Cup."
1971
Jeff Dayton writes that his son, Brenner Dayton, born November 14, 2001 (three months early at 2 pounds, 6 ounces), is doing fine at home in Brentwood, Tenn., with dad, mom (Kasindra) and sister (Carrie, 15). Jeff is currently on tour as a guitarist/singer with Lee Greenwood and is a staff songwriter/producer for Glen Campbell Music Group in Nashville.
1976
Andrea Eisenberg Michaels writes, "still naming, still writing crosswords, still trying to get on ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire, ' (still living hand to mouth), still in San Francisco — as an homage to Blake, occasionally substitute teaching — after Woolmans' son's beautiful wedding, tempted to move back to Lake Harriet, but then remembered the WINTER!"
1978
Eric Braun writes, "While driving around the twisting streets of Boston, I suddenly saw a ‘familiar' face. I slammed on the brakes and realized that I hadn't really seen that face for 25 years. I opened the window and yelled, ‘Chris!' He stopped and turned to look at me. I said, ‘Are you Chris Smart ['77]?' He said, ‘Yes.' It's funny how we could live in the same city and run into each other after such a long time. Anyway, we had lunch to catch up."
1981
Bill Sternberg writes, "I have joined the Minneapolis Foundation on its development staff. I am creating a new position dedicated to marketing the services of the Foundation to the ‘professional advisor.' Advisors are the Foundation's primary referral source. This includes bankers, financials advisors, attorneys, accountants, etc. Our goal is to better educate the professional advisor as to the capabilities and resources of the Foundation so that they can be better philanthropic stewards with their clients."
1984
Julian Jarvis married Francesca Invrea in Rome, Italy, on December 1, 2001. Their daughter, Matilda Lydia, was born in Rome on May 1, 2002. Julian has left investment banking and has opened two real estate brokerages in London.
Andrea Eve Wallack is the CEO of Night Owl Document Management Services. Mother of Eve, age eight, Blake, age five, and Gabriel, age two-and-a-half, she is "staying busy raising children!"
1985
Catherine Countryman Maes is living in Minnetonka, coaching basketball and attending her children's baseball games. She has started a small business, interior decorative painting, during the school year, and spends time with her children in the summer. In her spare time, she is busy lobbying for Minnesota K–12 funding and reform.
1987
Tawnia Mitchell has been at Green Lake School for five years, where she is the director of choral music and drama as well as a teacher of general music for grades three through six. She and her husband, Jeff, are enjoying their three-year-old daughter and hope to increase their family soon.
1988
Annie and Charles McQuinn had their third daughter, Merriam, on July 30, 2002. She joined Silvia, 18 months, and Lillian, four years. Charles has started his own business adventure in property development. They are still living on Gull Lake, "loving the beauty of year-round Gull Lake life."
1989
Michael Silverson is living in Boston and has just finished a manuscript of his first novel. He writes, "Now if I can only find a publisher … "
Brett Weinberg married Julie Silverman on June 2, 2002, and is a senior associate at Carmichael Lynch Spong Public Relations, where he specializes in media and analyst relations.
1990
Grier Arthur and his wife, Kiersten, have been married and living in Philadelphia for almost eight years. They became the proud parents of Madeline "Maddie" Paige Arthur on April 28, 2002, who is now "ready to crawl at any moment." Grier is continuing his surgical residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, "with aspirations of becoming a pediatric surgeon. The whole family is happy and sends a big hello to all our Blake friends."
Nathaniel "Nate" Jensen graduated from Carleton with a B.A. in English in 1994, served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Estonia from 1995-1997, and received an M.A. in international relations from Boston University in 1999. He then joined the U.S. Foreign Service and served the State Department as vice consul/3rd secretary /acting economic counselor in the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, Syria, from 2000 to 2002. He writes, "We were pressed for staff during the crisis of the Al-Aqsa Intifada which began right after I got there and which became indescribably worse a year later with 9/11, so I wore a lot of different hats throughout my tour there." He is now working on his second State Department assignment in the Office of Northern Gulf Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs in Washington which has responsibility for Iran and Iraq policy. His specific portfolio on the Iraq Desk is to act as liaison with the Iraqi exile community and political opposition in planning for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the reformation of Iraq. He writes, "A very interesting time to be working in the Foreign Service to say the least; I don't get much time off."
Molly McKenna finished her Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Illinois in 2001. She writes, "To celebrate, I headed off to SE Asia and China for four months of solo travel — wild elephants, the Temples of Angkor, The Great Wall … Now I'm happily settling down in Portland, Ore. — starting my own practice and enjoying the Pacific Northwest."
1991
Tim Schock and his wife, Heather, welcomed home their new son, Jeb, on March 21, 2002. In May Tim graduated with his M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He and his wife are now living in Atlanta with their children, Bailie and Jeb, where he is a manager with Accenture in the communications and high tech operating unit.
1992
Matt Crowder completed his first year of law school at the University of Georgia.
Heather Daniels is currently pursuing her master's degree in human resources and industrial relations at the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management. Before going back to school full-time, she was working as the staffing manager at Eaton Corporation.
Mary Page Moulton writes, "Just wanted to let everyone know I moved out of Minneapolis and am attending business school at Notre Dame. I am having a blast! I am concentrating on marketing and international business and will be spending spring semester in London. Even with all the studying my golf game is still coming along! If anyone would like to come and visit or hear about the M.B.A. program please contact me. All the very best!!"
1993
Maite Esteve married Esteve Agusti on August, 3, 2002. She writes, "My host family while I was at Blake, the Linke's, came all to Spain this last summer to attend my wedding. Sam [Linke] '94 was my bridesmaid and Adam [Linke] '93 read in Catalan during the ceremony. After 11 years we all feel like a big international family!! Emilio Gonzalez '93, who I met at Blake, came as well."
Karina Leppik will be spending 2003 at Amundson-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, working with the Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope/Remote Observatory (AST/RO) on polar science education. Her project entails curriculum development with teachers in the United States as well as science education outreach to the general public. She is sorry that she "will not be able to attend the 10th reunion festivities, but would love to hear from everyone via e-mail."
Riley Peterson Moorjani and her husband, Monoj, celebrated the birth of their first child, Raina Ashley, on May 4, 2002. Riley was a substitute teacher in Blake's lower schools during the winter and spring of 2002. She is now staying home in Eden Prairie with her daughter.
1994
Andrew Borene and Britta Lindvall were married in the Bovey Chapel at The Blake School on May 26, 2002. They are currently living in Pensacola, Fla., where Andrew is finishing a U.S. Navy cryptologic officer course. Later in the year, they will be moving to San Diego, where Andrew has been assigned to the 1st Marine Division as an intelligence collections officer.
Trisha Cousins writes that she loves living in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she has been for four years. She is working in public relations with a focus on technology for Sun Microsystems.
Thomas "T.J" Gordon lives in Chicago, where he practices law at Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood.
Dan Moos is in his first year of graduate school at the University of Maryland, after teaching middle school for the last four years in Bethesda, Md. He plans to earn a Ph.D. in educational psychology and to teach at the university level.
Andrew Pennock is in his final year of medical school at the University of Chicago. He recently became engaged to Paige Perry. Their wedding is scheduled for April 5, 2003, in San Diego, Calif.
1995
Timothy Bretl married Andrea Wolfe on September 28, 2002, in Downers Grove, Ill., and took her last name as his middle name, to become Timothy Wolfe Bretl and Andrea Wolfe Bretl. They are now settling into their new apartment on the Stanford University campus, where they will spend at least another two years. Andrea works as an environmental engineer at a consulting firm in the area, Erler & Kalinowski, Inc. Timothy is reading for a Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University, where he has been for three years. He writes, "My work, as part of the ‘Aerospace Robotics Lab' at Stanford, deals with the planning and control of autonomous mobile robots for remote exploration, both on other planets and here on Earth. In particular, recently I have started developing motion planning algorithms for robots that can climb sheer rock faces, potentially enabling a number of exciting, far-out applications. In my spare time, I've been doing a bit of rock climbing myself, and have been thoroughly enjoying the challenge and diversity of rock accessible from the San Francisco Bay Area."
Keri Greenstein married Keith Greenwald of Atlanta, Ga., on April 20, 2002. She writes, "Our friends have been calling us the ‘Green Team' for almost three years now! We are working hard in Atlanta and are planning to stay in the warm weather for a long time. I hope this note finds all of my Blake friends well. Take care."
1996
Elizabeth Erickson received a master's degree in social psychology from Stanford University and is currently working in New York City as a research project manager for the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center of Columbia University.
Emilie Hitch finished another summer as assistant director of the YMCA Camp Warren. She is now working at Blake as a substitute teacher, assistant coach for junior varsity girls' hockey, and as an intern in the Diversity Office, while applying to graduate schools.
1997
Christopher J. Laurey graduated with high honors from Bowdoin College in 2001 and received the Philo Sherman Bennett prize for best honors project in government. He is now in his second year of law school at Wake Forest University School of Law.
Carolyn Moos has returned to the United States to play for the 2002 WNBA, after living and playing basketball professionally in France. She is living near Stanford University, training, working as a sports journalist, as a broadcaster for ABC7/KGO-TV, modeling, and coaching a seventh grade girls' team. She will be featured soon in "Marie Claire" magazine. Further information and updates about Carolyn can be found on her website at www.carolynmoos.com.
Eric Vang writes, "I have been in the process of applying to the Peace Corps for some time now, and this summer and fall the process had accelerated considerably. I have now been informed that I am going to be departing on January 11, 2003, to start my 27-month stint in Uzbekistan!!! For your globe-finding convenience, that is south of Kazakstan and north of Afghanistan. I will have two-three months of training in Tashkent in teaching English as a second language, cultural adaptation, and Uzbek and/or Russian language. After that they decide if they think I can handle it, and put me somewhere with primary-age children for two years. I just learned yesterday that of the three main languages in Uzbekistan, each one comes from a totally unique language family! Russian, Uzbek (a Turkic language), and Tarjik (Persian). I'm going to be very busy!"
1998
Robby Bershow writes, "My mother wishes it known that I graduated this past June from Harvard with High Honors in history, and will be starting medical school at the University of Minnesota this fall. Also, Vanessa Bartram '98 and I are engaged to be engaged!"
John DeNero recently graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in mathematical & computational science and symbolic systems, and an M.A. in philosophy. He was in the fraternity Phi Kappa Psi, and served as an RA (resident assistant) for two years. In January he will begin work at McKinsey & Co., a management consulting firm in San Francisco.
Andrew Kim graduated from Northwestern University with a B.S. in biomedical engineering. He will be working as an R&D engineer in San Francisco for Minnesota-based Medtronic Inc.
Heather Martin graduated in Spring 2002 from the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, Minn.) with a degree in international business, with an emphasis in Spanish. She played varsity women's hockey and softball and was captain of both teams her senior year.
Patrick O'Brien graduated from Brown University with a degree in classics and history and is moving to New York City with former Blake classmate Derek Narendra '98. For the next few months he will be working as an electoral consultant at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. In August he will be a financial analyst in the investment banking division of JP Morgan.
Ben Rouda is teaching English as a Foreign Language in Spain after graduating from Tufts University in international relations, economics and environmental science.
2000
Deb Goodman finished her sophomore year at Wellesley College. She traveled to Cuba this summer through New York University.
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