Nov/Dec 2000

Now that the prime wedding season has drawn to a close, there are tons of marriages to report. Here are just a few . . . there are more where these came from!

Deanna D'Arrigo married Geoff Butler, MS C '98, on Aug. 21, '99, and honeymooned in Corsica, France, for two weeks. Attending the wedding were Neeral Shah, Molly Kauffman, Brian Myerholtz, Anne Quistorff, MS I '99, Paul Baranello, Mitsy Lopez, Collin Pieper, Kenn Scott, Liz Wang, Jarek and Aldora Hepel, Stephanie Omokaro, Brian West, Dave Grannis, Steve Kinsey, Alex LePage, and Scott Christensen.

David Tipton (dumps@banet.net) and Donna Paribello, who met freshman year at Mary Donlon, got married at Sage Chapel on Oct. 9, '99. Joan Marchetti was maid of honor and Jill Czarnecki was a bridesmaid; Matt Anello and Adam McClure, DVM '00, were groomsmen. David is an employee relations manager with Coca-Cola Bottling of New York and Donna is an outside plant engineer with Bell Atlantic.

Subha Dhanaraj (subha@justicemail.com) and Josh Norek got married on June 18, '00. Cornellians present included Jay Venkatesan, who served as best man, Dan Mandel '94, Angela Cho, Adam Linden, Mark Harrahy, Seth Kibel '96, Sandy Alexander '96, Genie Cortez '92, Henry Quinn '96, and Mike Pressman '00, BS HE '99. Brian Vance (brivance@juno.com) and Dana Lesniak '98 tied the knot on May 28, '00, in Saratoga Springs. Amy Turgeon and Sharon Malinak '98 were bridesmaids. Other Cornellians in attendance were Eric Maxeiner, Randy Koss, Ben Tsai, Andy Wick, John Heal, Mike Zulla, Shawn Tripp, Jenn Halsey, Sara Kaminski, Craig Hametz '98, Maureen Campion '98, Lori Fromm '98, Cindy Jarom '98, Karen Viechnicki '98, Alicia Pekarsky '98, and Amie Uhrynowski '98. Brian and Dana are living in Norwich, CT, where Brian is a submarine officer on the USS Toledo and Dana is finishing her master's in social work at U. of Connecticut.

Adrienne Selan (Aselan@mail.metopera.com) attended the wedding of Pam Feliciano and Rick Colosimo, JD '97, on July 2, '00. Beth Rubenstein, Yulun Yang, and Erica Siegel '96, MPA '97, were bridesmaids. Others present included Laurie Mandell, Elsie Mao, Kristi Snyder, Shelly Tyler, and Courtney Rubin '96. After a honeymoon in Africa, Pam and Rick returned to Palo Alto, CA.

Roger Hom (rmjh@hotbot.com) is part of D-BOX, an architectural visualization boutique, and has seen fellow AAP alums Eric Schuldenfrei, BArch '99, and James Gibbs '95. In April, Maren Siegel left Ernst & Young Kenneth Leventhal's Hospitality Group to join Credit Lyonnais in New York City, where she works with fellow Hotelies Jason Dean '95 and Jennifer Smith in the Lodging Group. Kim Milligan Thomson (kimberly_thomson@hotmail.com) last year taught school in Colorado and had a baby girl, Lydia May, in May. Shawn Tripp (shawntripp@aol.com) is "loving life" in Whistler, British Columbia, where he spent the winter on the slopes and for the summer took a position as tournament coordinator at Nicklaus North Golf Course to spend the warm months on the links. Heather Huson Cox (odysseyrace@juno.com) and husband Mike traveled throughout New England and Michigan to Ontario last year to qualify for the 2001 International Federation of Sled Dog Sports World Championships. In February, Charlie Pluto (charliepluto@yahoo.com) wrote he had recently left his neuroscience research position at Case Western Reserve U. and moved to Los Angeles, where he was learning to surf and freelancing for an Internet company before starting medical school this fall. Charlie has kept in touch with Brad Jewett, Justin Wills, Rishad Olpadwala, Jade Chang, Pamela Kasdan, David Makharadze, Matt Ruzz '98, Dan Sommer, Dan Vene, Nicola Rizzo, and Hunt Doering, who started Harvard's MBA program this fall.

In March, Grace Kang (gyk@rocketmail.com) said she had recently purchased an apartment in Forest Hills, NY, and was still working at Bloomingdale's as an associate buyer in contemporary sportswear. Andre Sierakowski, ME Ed '99 (ajs16@cornell.edu) finished his MEng at Cornell and joined IBM's Semiconductor Research & Development Center as a staff engineer to work on developing device models for integrated circuit chips. Andre encourages other Cornellians living in the Fishkill/Poughkeepsie area to get in touch. Hotelie Shirlynn Lim (shirlynn.lim@westin.com) has been living in San Francisco for the past two years and is working as front office manager at the Westin St. Francis. Shirlynn saw Francesca Zarb '96 at the wedding of Lisa Chen '92, and keeps in touch with Kin Han, who is working in New York City, and Sara Strachan, who was working for PricewaterhouseCoopers before being transferred to London. Living in San Francisco, Jerad Crave (jjc20@cornell.edu) said he was training for two big races, including the Bay to Breakers, and hoped to place in the top 20 in both. He runs for Ralph Lauren Sport (RLX) and Hoy's Sports. Jerad taught second grade at the Town School last year and coached cross country and basketball; he planned to begin a master's in educational technology at the U. of California-San Francisco this fall. He keeps up with a lot of Cornellians, including Mitsy Lopez, Paul Baranello, Vik Milne, Mijin Cha, Collin Pieper, Elia Zashin, Jonathan Trager, and Vivian Kwok '96, and frequents several "Cornell bars," including Hobson's Choice, Infusion, and Indigo. Neeral Shah (nls4@cornell.edu), who finished his third year at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, visited the gang in San Francisco.

David Jacobs (davidj38@aol.com), living in Los Angeles, was promoted to senior associate at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Inc., an investment research and management company, and in March was studying for Level II of the CFA. Donna Lin Weiss (dweiss@mapsnet.com) was working as a marketing consultant in Boston in May, and was planning a trip to Spain this past summer for a language immersion program. Donna was still living with Katie Perkinson '96 and said she often sees the "122 crew," including Sai Kim, Kristie Johnson, Edina Perng, Jennifer Kunkel, Jennifer Zurkus, Stacie Goldstein, and Lauren Goodman '96.

Michael Tunick (mht1@cornell.edu) finished his first year at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. Susan Rugg (suerugg@aol.com) is pursuing a master's in teaching with a focus on special education. After working as a chef on a charter sailboat in the Bahamas for seven months, she moved to Chicago and served as restaurant manager at The Clubhouse and as store manager of Foodstuffs--a spinoff of Dean and Deluca--before working as a teacher's aide in a Northbrook public school. Jonathan Levine (jlevine@socrates.berkeley.edu) is a doctoral student at UC-Berkeley, where he is studying earth's interaction with its environment in space; more specifically, he's researching physical mechanisms of natural climate change. Jonathan sees Edward Chao, Joshua Steiner, MS I '98, and Lhney Lewis '96, and was in a class with Kyle Dawson '98 and Tom Banks '99. Notes Jonathan, "I think I speak for Kyle and Tom when I say we three really missed our Ithaca dose of snow, cold, and gray in the harsh California winter!"

Did you get a new job or go back to school? Do you have exciting plans for New Year's? Send news.-- Erica Broennle, 425 N. First St., Apt. #1, Charlottesville, VA 22903; e-mail, ejb4@cornell.edu; class website, www.classof97.cornell.edu.