After spending a year on the Oregon coast, John Cassinerio ’80 and his wife, Sandy, have moved back to the Puget Sound, where they now work as independent contractors with Boeing’s Industrial Athlete program. John says: “We are empty-nesters and soon to celebrate 30 years of marital bliss. (Most of the time — she still has to deal with me!) Looking forward to our 40th coming up in 2020! Rock on Class of ’80!”

John Goetz ’80 tells us: “I connected with Tom Bellit ’80 and John Nash ’80 here in Las Vegas this winter — great to see old classmates. I also enjoy living vicariously thru Phil Lamond’s ’80 Facebook posts. If you are in Las Vegas in the winter months, look me up!”

Keith Perry ’86 spent September 2017 in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands responding to hurricane impacts as part of a Department of Health and Human Services Disaster Medical Assistance Team, adding, “It was an experience I will never forget.”

Maria Fadiman ’87, an ethnobotanist and associate professor at Florida Atlantic University, recently spent a year in Bhutan for research. Her essay about overcoming fears in the jungle was published in American Way magazine.

Lindsay (Wilner) Lippincott ’01 and her husband, Hunter, welcomed their first child, Emma Grace, born on September 27, 2017.

In May, Andrea Schulz ’03 received a Master of Science in Human Resources Management from the University of Southern California.

Hannah McCarthy Crowder ’04, and her husband, Matthew, are looking forward to celebrating the first birthday of their daughter, Jane Margaret, on July 1.

Brittany Haas ’05 was nominated for the Instrumentalist of the Year Americana Music Award. The awards will be given out September 12, 2018. A fiddler, Brittany graduated from Princeton University in 2009 and has played with the Dave Rawlings Machine and the house band for the NPR show Live From Here with Chris Thile (formerly called A Prairie Home Companion).

Sabrina Karlin ’14 was selected to receive the New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute’s 2018 Anna and Peter Zenger Award. Each year, the award goes to the Institute’s highest ranking student for excellence in academia and reporting.

Kate Park ’14 has been accepted to Harvard Business School. She is one of about 100 students to receive admission to the school’s 2+2 Program, a deferred admission process in which students work for at least two years before resuming their studies.

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