River Campus Undergraduate: 2000s2000
David Gass ’03W
(MS) writes to announce his graduation from SUNY Buffalo Medical
School and residency in pediatrics at New York University. At his
school’s honors convocation, he received the James Goldinger
Teaching Leadership Award, which goes to the graduating senior who
both shows the most promise to be an academic physician and
demonstrated the most effective teaching during four years of
medical school. David writes, “It was voted on by my peers at
the medical school and then among the nominations, a committee
picked the winner. It was a wonderful honor and I am proud to
continue my love of teaching and medicine as I move onto the next
level in my career.”. . . Meredith
Pelton sends a photo from her August 2006 wedding to
Christopher Clancy. Alumni in attendance included Chetan Gulati ’99, bridesmaid Lauren Michaels Korn, and former Rochester
professor Sam Nelson. The couple lives in Santa Fe, N.M., where
Meredith practices real estate law.
2001
Lisa Olender writes that
she graduated from her master’s program in Boston in May 2006
and has become a physician’s assistant. She works at Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center in neurosurgery. . . Sharon Henrie Shatil writes that she and her
husband, Ohad, who studied abroad through Rochester in 1999,
welcomed their first child, Maya Elena, on February 20, 2007. . . .
John Vernaleo (see ’02).
2002
Beth Goldman sends a
photo to announce her marriage to John
Vernaleo on June 17, 2006, in Long Island. Pictured with
them are maid of honor Kimberly
Griswold and best man Dennis Vernaleo. Alumni in attendance
included Christopher Root,
Monica Snitily, Mike Shulman, Craig
Roberts ’00, K.J. Dziak
’04 (MS), Peter Miller
’01, Greg Schmidt ’01,
and Heidi Mergenthaler ’03. . .
. Sandeep Raghow writes that he has
been accepted into medical school at the University of Tennessee in
Memphis.
2003
Bridget Bemis and her
husband, Ryan Wassink, send a photo of their daughter, Saige Lynne,
born April 27, 2007.
2004
Michael Adelman and
Melinda Morrison ’05 were
married on April 21, 2007, in North Conway, N.H. They send a photo
of Rochester friends at the ceremony: Kaeti
Stoss and Marie Guido
’05 were bridesmaids, Dan Blake
’06 was a groomsman, and George
Flevares ’99 was best man. Richard Schermeyer ’04, Micha Elsner ’05, Gordon Arsenoff ’06, Jessica Schulman ’07, Catherine Krafft ’07, Matthew Bonyak ’07, and Jamie Frank ’09 were also in attendance.
Michael writes, “The picture doesn’t do justice to how
gorgeous the weather was that day, but it does get everyone in the
picture.”
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