Class Notes

River Campus Undergraduate: 2000s

2000
Eileen Campbell is proud to report that her car recently hit 200,000 miles. . . . Jana Lacagnina and Christopher Everett were married on October 15, 2005, in Hornell, N.Y. Alumni in attendance included maid of honor Amy Bloom, Heather Peers Poblete ’00N, Laura Gessman, Megan Nykyforchyn, Ashley Riggio, Megan Dearden Alexander, and Justin Alexander ’99. Joe Henderson, a graduate student at the Warner School, also attended. Jana and Christopher live in Dansville, N.Y. . . . Cindy Lutzke and Alan Katz announce their engagement. Alan is working on his M.B.A. at New York University’s Stern School of Business and also works in investor relations, and Cindy is an editor at McGraw-Hill. . . . Renee Weller ’01W (MS) and Yoel Bakas ’01 write, “We are thrilled to announce that after eight years together, we have gotten engaged. We were in the Bahamas and were going through a water slide on an inner tube. We had just finished the fast part of the ride and were going really slowly through the shark tank when Yoel pulled out the ring. He even caught the whole thing on tape! We don’t have a date planned yet, but we couldn’t wait to share the news with all of our old friends from Rochester.”

2001
Yoel Bakas (see ’00). . . . Ashley Harvey received her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California at Davis in December 2005. She is conducting postdoctoral research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. . . . Andrew Locke (see ’02). . . . Monica McCullough is the executive director of the Providence Housing Development Corp. in Rochester. . . . Ajay Trivedi writes that he is doing literacy work in Roxbury, Mass., and that he recently was given an accordion. His e-mail address is ajaytrivedi (at) fastmail (dot) fm.

2002
Jarlath McGuckin (see ’80). . . . Erica Worthington and Andrew Locke ’01 announce their engagement. A September 2007 wedding is planned.

2003
Kenneth Lumb and Kathryn DiDominick were married on August 6, 2005, at Rochester’s Interfaith Chapel. Kenneth is a counselor with Partnership for Results in Auburn, N.Y., and Kathryn is a first-grade teacher at Florentine Hendrick Elementary School in Wolcott, N.Y. They live in Webster. . . . Sean Newhouse, a conductor with the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra in Los Angeles, was one of eight conductors chosen to lead the Manhattan School of Music Orchestra during the Kurt Masur Conducting Seminar last January. Sean also won the Aspen Conducting Prize in 2005 and is the assistant conductor at the Aspen Music Festival and School for the 2006 summer season.

2005
While teaching math in New Orleans last year as part of the Teach for America program, Thomas Hayes volunteered with FEMA after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. He helped hurricane victims fill out applications for federal aid in Baton Rouge.