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Rochester Review
January-February 2010
Vol. 72, No. 3

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1991

Carolyn Weisberger Mendelson writes that she has been elected board chair of Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Pittsburgh and is serving a one-year term. . . . Tami Kelly Noel ’94W (MS) writes: “I’m living in a suburb of Philadelphia with my family. My husband, Mike ’96 (PhD), is an associate professor and chair of the Bryn Mawr College physics department. I’m working full time as an elementary school counselor and spend my free time volunteering at our children’s school. We have several Rochester alumni in our neighborhood, including Brad ’87 and Amy Williams Hughart ’89. Amy and I were the copresidents of the Home and School Association of our children’s elementary school two years ago and the cochairs of fifth-grade activities last year. We’re grooming our kids to be future Yellowjackets!”

1995

Bridget Klenk ’97 (MA), ’97W (MS) celebrated her wedding to Richard Larrabee on August 15, 2008, in Buffalo. Rochester alumni in attendance were Gretchen Harris Zenner ’02S (MBA), Guillermina Nava Rice ’00M (MD), Elizabeth Bamrick Dougherty, Danielle Sepull Moore, Jill Kress Karn ’98 (PhD), and Yvonne Porter Tolliver ’52E. Rich and Bridget live in Reston, Va., outside of Washington, D.C., where Bridget is an assistant director of the Upper School at Flint Hill School and Rich is a software engineer. . . . Rich Pearson writes that he was elected to the executive board of the New Jersey Earth Science Teachers’ Association and will edit the group’s quarterly journal, OMEGA, which stands for “Oceanography, Meteorology, Environment, Geology, and Astronomy.” He also presented a seminar at the conventions of both the New Jersey Science Teachers’ Association and the Science Teachers’ Association of New York State this fall. . . . Andy and Jill Robinson Spivak send a photo and an update. Andy writes: “Just days after I went into business as an intellectual property attorney for the Mosaic Legal Group, we were elated to welcome our daughter, Claire Josephine Spivak, into our family. Might Claire be U of R Class of 2017?”

1997

Alissa Quinn Haas ’99W (MS) and her husband, Jay, announce the birth of their fourth child, and first daughter, Olivia McKenna, on Easter 2009. She joins her three older brothers, Jayden, 6, Sammy, 4, and Casey, 2, as well as two older half-brothers, Zachary, 17, and Jonathan, 13.

1998

Karrie Dale Goldstein writes that she and her husband, Michael, welcomed a son, Brett Evan Goldstein, last March. Brett joins his big sister, Hallie Nicole. The family lives in Columbia, Md.