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2000
Jennifer Chapek Moon and her husband, Jay, announce the birth of their twin sons, Jackson Matthew and Everett James, in March 2009. . . . Samuel Thomas has been appointed assistant professor of chemistry at Tufts University. Samuel received his PhD from MIT in organic chemistry in 2006 and completed his postdoctoral studies at Harvard in 2009.
2002
Joe Quijano and Mike Lesczinski ’04 launched a public relations and campaign consulting company, Meliora Strategies, in Albany in July. Mike writes: “Our experience at Rochester has been important to our development and growth. We felt it appropriate to recognize all the College has done for us by incorporating Meliora in the firm’s name.” . . . . Nick Rollins writes: “On August 24, I successfully defended my master’s thesis, completing the master of science program in medical statistics from the School of Medicine and Dentistry. In October, I started work with Measured Progress, a nonprofit educational testing company in Dover, N.H.”
2003
Brenna Simons received a PhD in microbiology and immunology from Vanderbilt University last May. She was president of Vanderbilt AIDS Outreach, a volunteer organization that provides HIV preventative education to the community, and now works as a research and prevention administrator at Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in Anchorage. . . . Jenna Tyre married Chris Bain last June. She writes: “We were married at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas and now live in Los Angeles. I am a director of brand strategy and promotion for NBC Entertainment and Chris is a manager of sales for AEG, a sports and entertainment company. We had many UR friends make the trip to celebrate with us!” Pictured are: (second row, behind Jenna and Chris, left to right) Colleen Mooney, Judy Quint ’04, Kellena Wilson Kane, Emily Cooper Haven ’02, Emily Burns ’02, Neil Ghoshal, Kaitlin Corkran, Blaise DiBernardo, Liz Usaj, Rachel Hart, and Andrea Kay Stoltz ’02; (third row) Luciana Law, Justin Birzon, Alison Kane, Mike Gestwick, Matt Laudato ’04, Suzy McCormick, Matt Roberts, and Megan Selleck Roberts. Also attending, but not pictured, were Jason Bordenick ’04, Emily Call ’04, Carissa Cama ’04, Stefani Divack ’02, and Scott Morganstein. . . . Jonathan Mahoney and Amy O’Byrne ’04 send a photo from their wedding in August in Buffalo. In the first row, from left to right, are Roseanne Roberts, Eli Cabanas ’04, Yasmin Hilal ’04, Kelly Trendell ’04, Abigail Warner ’04, Matthew Dusel ’04, Rachel LaManna ’04, Neil Ghoshal, Jonathan Black, Jonathan, Amy, and Carissa Cama ’04. In the second row are Jonathan Wilmot ’04, Richard Metz, Raymond Brown, Amy Baughman, Kunal Gulati, Colin Goodrich, Jonathan’s parents Robert ’75 and Laura Cohen Mahoney ’75, Justin Birzon, Alison Kane, Evan Glaberson, Scott Morganstein, and Ellyn Weinstein Black ’00.
2004
Marjorie Waterman Gloff ’08M (MD) writes that she and her husband, Douglas, welcomed a new son, Noah Douglas Gloff, in July. . . . Mike Lesczinski (see ’02). . . . Amy O’Byrne (see ’03). . . . Ryan Aylward (see ’06).
2006
David Lu and Elise Peterson ’07 were married last August in St. Louis. Pictured are (second row) Emily Hickey ’05, Brad Taylor ’07, bridesmaid Becky Phillips ’08, Ben Snitkoff, Rachel Morgan-Wall Butler ’05, Caylynn Lott, Dan Allan ’08, Colin Brown, bridesmaid Jill Warejko ’07, groomsman Rob Rice; (first row) Cortney Jansen, Madeline Woo ’08, Elise, David, and Brian Kim ’04. Attending, but not pictured, was Rochester history professor William Hauser. . . . David Ladon, Jon Dashkoff, and Ryan Aylward ’04 have released their debut CD, Plural Non-Possessive, as part of the foursome, the Doctors Fox. Based in Boston, the Doctors Fox has performed its experimental pop at venues in Boston, Somerville, and Cambridge, Mass., as well as across the northeast.
2007
Dana Tievsky, a member of Kappa Delta, and Matt Koren, a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, announce their engagement. They live in Los Angeles, where Dana attends the University of Southern California School of Dentistry and Matt is a mechanical engineer. They plan an August 2010 wedding. . . . Elise Peterson (see ’06).
2008
Eric Konicki and his wife, Elizabeth, announce their marriage last June in Hamburg, N.Y. The couple lives in Moorestown, N.J., where Eric is a mechanical engineer at Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors and Elizabeth is a graduate student at West Chester University.
2009
Miriam Moody was selected as one of 10 volunteers nationwide to become an American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Jewish Service Corps fellow. In August, Miriam departed for Dnepropetrovsk, the third largest city in Ukraine, and a sister city of the Boston Jewish community. She will spend the year there serving and participating in the local Jewish community.
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