Dear Classmate,

Welcome to the inaugural on-line newsletter for the Class of 1996. Since most of us spend a significant amount of time on the Internet, we have decided to put our newsletter on our class website. From this site, you can update your contact information, join the On-Line Community, find other classmates, and submit a newsnote to be published in the next newsletter. We would like to build support and enthusiasm in creating a newsletter that engages our class, updating you about classmates and our alma mater. Through the difficulties of 2001, our connections to each other and to Penn have grown stronger and more important. Newsletters and the class website are a great way for us to all keep in touch.

I want to encourage any and all classmates to take an active role in our class website and newsletter. If you or a classmate you know has some terrific news to share, let us know! Please submit a newsnote about yourself, what you’ve been up to, or how this past year may have affected you. Our goal is to promote communication among classmates by personalizing the newsletters and generating significant interest in future class programming.

Finally, if you haven’t been back to Penn lately, why not return for Homecoming in November? This year Penn will play Brown on November 2nd. For any additional information, please contact the Office of Alumni Relations at (215) 898-7811 or alumni@ben.dev.upenn.edu.

Best regards,

Lenny Chang, W’96
Class President

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Benjamin C. Abrams C’96 received a juris doctor degree from the Dickinson School of Law of Pennsylvania State University in May.

Jeremy Agulnek EAS’96, Mazher Ahmad C’96, Carl Engle W’96 and Evan Raine C’96 graduated from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in June 2002. Jeremy will be staying in Chicago to do valuation consulting work for Standard & Poor's. Mazher will be moving to London to work for Marakon Associates. Carl will be moving out to Los Angeles and returning to work for Monitor Company.

Dr. Eugene L. Anderson C’96 emails, “I received my Ph.D. in education policy from the University of Virginia on May 20, and work as a researcher and policy analyst at the American Council on Education <eugenelanderson@yahoo.com>. My wife of three years, Gasa, and I now live in Silver Spring, Md.; a graduate of the University of Virginia, she begins teaching at Sidwell Friends School this fall.”

Allison Cherner Bender C’96 <agbender@hotmail.com> married Jason Bender in Kohler, Wis. They live in Chicago, where she is a project manager and he is a software engineer.

Karen Berkman C'96 is engaged to Lee Deutsch (George Washington University '94.) Karen is the beauty manager at Cosmopolitan magazine selling advertising space. Lee owns a recruiting company.

Brian Bolten W’96 <brian_bolten@hotmail.com> emails, “In the summer of 2000, I drove over 12,000 miles all over North America to watch a baseball game in all 30 stadiums in just 37 days. I also visited the Hall of Fame and Field of Dreams as well; Rashid Garbadawala W’96 completed the West Coast swing with me. To save on costs and make the tour more personal, I printed up T-shirts with the title of the trip on the front (“They have built it, so I will come”), as well as the itinerary on the back. I used these shirts as thank-you gifts for friends and teams that helped me on the trip with lodging or tickets to the games. I sent one of these shirts to the Hall of Fame to let them know of the trip, as well as my passion and slight insanity for the game. Recently the Hall of Fame announced a traveling exhibit of their museum, called Baseball As America; this includes artifacts about the history of baseball and how it is interwoven into American life, and one of the pieces they will be using is my T-shirt! The tour kicks off at the Museum of Natural History in New York on March 16, and will visit 20 museums over the next four years (www.baseballasamerica.org). Besides going to many baseball games, I will complete my MBA at Duke University in May and am currently looking to advance my career in sports management, hopefully serving for a collegiate athletic department.”

Dana Caldwell Borda C’96 married Gerard Borda in Atlanta. Penn friends Stephanie Reiter EAS/W’96, Jennifer Gers C’96, and Abigail Wise C’96 were there to help celebrate. “We met at a dance class, so there was a lot of dancing at the wedding. I am in my third year of law school at Georgia State University and plan on practicing immigration law next year <danacaldwell@juno.com>. Gerard is director of training for a human-resources company.”

Michelle Kay Brown C'96 and Matt Brown EAS '96 joyfully announce the birth of their son Ethan Tyler Brown on April 16. Michelle and Matt live in Glastonbury, Conn. where Michelle is a senior online strategy consultant and Matt is a consulting civil/environmental engineer.

Gregory B. Buck C’96 received this year’s Alliance for Excellence Award for Technology Innovation and the Autodesk Award for Architect of Distinction. He is completing his first year towards a master’s in architecture at Harvard University.

Linda Cherry Carmony C’96 married Thomas Carmony on August 12. Friends included Michal Obrzut C’97, Jennifer Van Ness C’00, Eddy Park C’96, and Ron Eichler C’98. Linda is currently employed as an HIV-AIDS specialist with Gilead Sciences, a San Francisco-based biotechnology group <lindamcherry@hotmail.com>. Linda and Tom met on campus at St. John’s University where he is a Ph.D. candidate; they live in New York.

Dr. Kevin J. Chang C/W’96, M’00 emails of himself and Dr. Rohini N. Nadgir M’00: “I am delighted to announce our engagement. The question was popped on April 7 in Aruba; the wedding date is still TBA. We both live in Brookline, Mass., and are completing our radiology residencies at Boston University Medical Center.”

“Mike” Hyoson Choi EE’96 emailed that “my younger brother, William H. Choi W’96, will marry Jung Soo Lee in Seoul. William currently lives in Manhattan where he works at Merrill Lynch as a senior research analyst, and his soon-to-be wife is a Japanese professor at a Korean college. They will live in New York, starting in January, 2001. Any classmates can congratulate him at william.choi@verizon.com.”

Sara L. Drucker Cooper C’96 married Jason Cooper in Denver. Karen Murphy C’96 was an essential member of the bridal party as she was the only one who could button Sara’s wedding dress. Guests included Gentry Dick C’96, Sean Davison C’96, Blas Nunez-Neto C’96, David Cautin W’95, Alex Chororos C’95, and Alison Yaffie C’95. The party lasted until the wee hours of the morning and culminated in a private viewing of Sara and Jason’s wedding dance in the hotel lobby. They live in Denver where she is working on her master’s in public health at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and he is part owner of a real estate investment company. They send their love to all of their friends and family who made their wedding so special; they can be reached at sldrucker@qwest.net.

Brad E. Coren C’96 married Elise Ann Bialilew at Bet Shira Congregation in Miami on March 2; Noah Roffman C’96 was a groomsman, and Lori Coren, Brad’s sister, was a bridesmaid. Brad and Elise honeymooned in St. Lucia; they live in Weston, Fla.

Paul Costa C’96 emails, “I graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in May, and now work as an environmental attorney with the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld in Washington, D.C. I’ll be moving back to Philadelphia in August to begin a clerkship at the federal district court. I can be reached at costa_paul@hotmail.com.”

Diallo T. Crenshaw EAS’96 in January joined as an associate Sughrue Mion, PLLC, an intellectual-property law firm with offices in Washington, Silicon Valley, and Tokyo. He graduated from the George Washington University Law Center last year.

Jonathan Cutler C’96 <jonathancutler@kellogg.nwu.edu> began Kellogg’s MBA program (Northwestern University) last September. “I have taken a two-year leave of absence from The Advisory Board Company, a Washington-based health-care think-tank, where I served as director of business development.”

Tamara Davies C’96 a student at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, received a critic’s award at its fall fashion show in November.

Albert N. Dickson C’96 married April J. Richard C’97 in August 1997 at the old Wharton Sinkler estate; Abby Russell C’95 was a bridesmaid. Albert and April have two children and are expecting their third child in December; their daughter, Abigail, is three years old and their son, Isaiah, is almost one. Albert works as a network-security consultant and will begin the Master’s of Divinity program at Mars Hill Graduate School this fall.

Adrian J. Fogle EAS’96 Fermanagh, Pa., a senior project engineer in the structural-engineering unit of Erdman, Anthony and Associates, Inc., based in Mechanicsburg, was named an associate of the firm in June.

Dr. Jana Fox C’96 <phokz74@yahoo.com> graduated from SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine last year. “I am currently in a residency program at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, living in Decatur.”

Sharon Luss Frank EAS’96 married Matthew Frank in Marlboro, N.J. They had met on a blind date, and now live on the Upper East Side in Manhattan. They had a great time at the wedding, and highly recommend Hawaii as a honeymoon destination. The wedding party included Dr. Hanan Luss Gr’73, Alon Luss EAS’93, Ronny Luss EAS’03, Allison Gurey C’96, Susan Maslow Leferman W’96, Judith Levy Nu’96, GNu’98, and Jennifer Lassner Rosenblum C’96. Other alumni attending were Andrea Croll Freeman C’95, Eric Gomberg W’93, Marc Leferman C/W’96, Alan Modlinger C’96, Jennifer Oberstein C’96, and Robyn Allen Reifman C’94.

Seth Frankel C’96 emails, “I have spent the last two years in Buffalo, N.Y., living with my girlfriend, Katrina, and her Cat, Annika, and working as a toy designer for Fisher-Price. This fall I am heading back out West to get a master’s degree in product design from the Art Center in Pasadena, Calif. <seth.frankel@pobox.com>.”

Dr. Cara Rubenstein Gardenswartz C’96 received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at UCLA and is working in a private practice in Santa Monica, Calif. Her husband, Daniel Gardenswartz W’95, is a partner at The Sage Group, an investment bank in Los Angeles which focuses on middle-market mergers and acquisitions and private equity. They would love to hear from alumni at caragarden@hotmail.com and dgardenswartz@sagellc.com.

Becky Givner C’96 <bgivner@uslynx.com> married Andrew Cartine last August, and they took their honeymoon in Italy. They are both computer programmers and Web developers, living and working in New York.

Jane Grodnick Gold C’96 and Amir Gold W’94 have moved to West Orange, N.J., and “are expecting our first child in November, Class of 2022.”

Dr. Benjamin Goldstein C’96 emails “I graduated from the University of Calgary’s medical school last May, and I received my Ph.D. in applied psychology from the University of Toronto last June. Currently I am an intern at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, and will be starting my residency in psychiatry this coming July. For those with whom I’ve lost touch, I can be contacted at benjamin.goldstein@utoronto.ca.”

Daniel Googel EAS/W’96 married Jody Litt at the Pleasantdale Chateau in New Jersey. Alumni at the wedding included Daniel’s father, Dr. Fredric Googel D’70, and Steven Anatro EAS’96, Arnold Beiles W’59, Robert Berger W’96, Darren Bramen WG’99 and Rebecca Simon Bramen Nu’96, GNu’98, Ian Gordon EAS/W’96, Michael Grossman C’99, Michael Hammond W’96, Dr. William Marco D’70, Ravee Mehta EAS/W’97, Jason Pantzer C’93, Evan Raine C’96, Lisa Roth C’95, Dan Vinson C’87, Stephanie Williams EAS’96, and Paul Yook C/W’96. Daniel is attending business school, having worked at Soros Private Equity Partners, and Jody is an attorney at Fischbein, Badillo, Wagner & Harding; they live in New York.

Dr. Stephen Gunn C’96 was awarded the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine last June. He is in an internship at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx.

Shoma Haque W’96 married Joshua Schultz C/W’96 in Houston. Classmates at the wedding included Margarita Alibutod Nu’96, Rakhi Parekh C’96, Aseem Chauhan EAS/W’97, Neeta Rastogi EAS/W’97, Michelle Brawer C’96, Pete High C’96, Karen Cho C’96, Dr. Miriam Shapiro C’96 M’97, Nadav Shelef C’96, Shyamli Saigal W’96, Jim Feldkamp EAS/W’96, Misbah Tahir C’96, Wendy Goodrich W’96, Sophia Chieu Ou W’96, and Ravi Gupta W’96. Shoma and Joshua enjoyed a long honeymoon in Thailand and Vietnam. They currently live in Boston, where she works in non-profit entrepreneurial education at the Center for Women & Enterprise and he co-founded Veritas Medicine, an Internet company that matches patients with clinical trials.

Melissa Connell Hinck C’96 writes “I married Dr. Todd A. Hinck on September 15, 2001 in Heinz Chapel in Pittsburgh, Pa. Michael Friedman CAS '94 attended the wedding. We recently bought our first house in Arlington, Mass. and are busy renovating it! I would love to hear from old classmates.”

Jane Hirschhorn C’96 married Ilan Rosenberg on July 1; she had met him while completing a Fulbright Scholarship in Mexico two years ago. Again, many Penn friends attended, including Kim Davis C’96, Liz Feld C’96 (who sent in this note), Stephanie Kleban Simon C/W’96, Karen Agam Macarah C’96, Liz Albert C’96, Nancy Goldman C’96, L’99, and Lisa Solomon Pivawer C’96.

Jason Hochman W'96 married Jennifer Kaplan in Miami Beach, Fla. on March 2, 2002. Alumni in the wedding party were Ari Zur C/W'96, Jerry Greenberg C'96 and Andrew Monfried C'96. Other Alumni at the wedding were Graeme and Elisa Lemmer EAS/C'97, Andrew Segall C'96, Andrew Meran W'96 and Eddie Klein C'96. Jason is the vice president of Levitt Commercial, a real estate development firm in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Jennifer is a psychologist at Barry University in Miami.

Jeremy Kahn C’96 <jeremy_kahn@fortunemail.com>, a writer at Fortune magazine, was recently named one of the 30 top financial journalists under the age of 30 by TJFR, the media-industry newsletter.

Melissa Kaplan C’96 married Jason Pollack C’96 on April 6 in Eastchester, N.Y. Alumni in the bridal party included Melissa’s sister and maid of honor Nicole Kaplan C’99, Paul LaMonica C’95, Ilena Olster Kasdan C/Nu’97 and Mike Kasdan EE’96, Paula Rutledge Nu’96 and Dr. Andrew Shurman C’96. Other alumni attending included Greer Cheeseman EE’77, Paul Jamison EE’96, Scott Levine EE’98, Bill Napier EAS’98 and Margaret Young Napier W’97, Karyn Peiser C’95, Todd Saxon W’95, Chris Pike G’98, Josh Raha EE’96, Tavia Rutledge EAS’95, Jeremy Soifer EE’96, Niall Ferguson C’96, and Nick Forand C’01.

Nam C. Kim C’96 and Jane Koh C’96 are thrilled to announce they will marry on May 11 in Saratoga, Calif. Alumni in the wedding party will include maid-of-honor, Katherine Lee C’96, and best man Tony Sin C’98. Also in the party will be Charissa Huan, EAS/W’96, William Won EAS’97, By Park C’99, and Elliot Hyun C’96. Nam and Jane are living happily in San Francisco, where he works as director of operations for the non-profit organization Television Race Initiative and she is in her first semester at the Academy of Art College, going for her MFA in advertising.

David Lapter W’96 married Arleziana Szabo in Sighet, Romania. The event marked the first Jewish wedding in over 26 years in this once important Jewish center of Eastern Europe. Alumni attending included Steve Lowenstein C’64, Michael Katz C’96, Tamas Foldesi W’97, and Raphael Rottgen C/W’97. David and Arleziana live in London, where they met almost three years ago. He works for GRP, a technology and software venture-capital firm, and she is a recent graduate of Guildhall University, with degrees in business and international relations; he moved there in 1997 to help establish the London office of The Parthenon Group, a Boston-based strategy-consulting firm. He would love to hear from old classmates and friends at <david.lapter.wh96@wharton.upenn.edu>.

Lauren Lazare C’96 <lbl24@aol.com> is pleased to announce her engagement to Illya Shell on Aug. 4, 2001; the wedding is set for June. She is currently an attorney at the New York City Law Department.

Russell Lee ENG’96 got engaged to Kelly Wright (Clemson '99) during a vacation to Puerto Rico. The wedding is planned for 2003. He is the sales manager for a small company selling equipment to chemical and pharmaceutical companies.

Dr. Heather Lieberman C’96 became engaged to Dr. Noah Zinkin on July 4 “and we plan to wed in September 2002. We met during our medical internship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. I am currently in my second year of residency for radiation oncology at Tufts/Brown and live in Boston.”

Jorie Green Mark C’96 married Dr. Barry J. Mark C’93 at Adath Israel Synagogue in Merion, Pa., on Sept. 2. Ava Dadabhoy C/EAS’96, (Jorie’s roommate at Penn) was the maid of honor and Barry’s brother, Adam Mark C’97, served as best man. Other alumni in the bridal party included Barry’s father, Dr. Louis Mark C’66, bridesmaids Sarah Gardner C’95 and Allison O’Brien C’97 (who is engaged to Adam Mark), and groomsmen Derek Braslow C’93 and John Musero W’93, L’96. Alumni among the wedding guests included Barry’s uncles Gene Hilzenrath W’65 and Louis Arovas W’59, and his cousins Robert Hilzenrath W’88 and Michele Pearson Hilzenrath C’88, Edward Hilzenrath W’91 and Sydney Cutler Hilzenrath C’94, and Dr. Bennett Taff C’67, D’71. Other alumni attending were Robert Fanburg W’56, Erik Sulman C’93 and Dara Less Sulman C’94, John Dunfee C’93 and Tara Andringa Dunfee C’93, Navin Valrani W’93, Dr. Oren Friedman C’92, Thea Diamond Howey G’83, Luke De Cock C’96, Alfred Dolich C’95, and Dr. Brian Lally EAS’93. With so many alumni in the family, Barry’s parents arranged for the a cappella group Penn Pipers to make a surprise appearance at the rehearsal dinner to serenade Jorie and Barry and lead the guests in singing “The Red and The Blue.” After a honeymoon in the Bahamas, Jorie and Barry returned to their home in Baltimore, where he is a second-year resident in internal medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center, having graduated from Thomas Jefferson Medical College in 2000. Jorie, who received a master’s degree in creative writing in 1999 from American University, works in Annapolis as the managing editor of VetCentric.com, an online magazine about pet healthcare. A former editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian, she chronicled the details of her engagement in a bi-monthly column for WeddingChannel.com.

Valynne Maetani-Nagamatsu C’96 and her husband, Grant, are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Keahi Emiko, on March 9. “It was a rough pregnancy, but both mom and baby are doing fine now <valynne.maetani.c96@alumni.upenn.edu>.”

Meha Patel W’96 and Senthil Govindaswamy EE’95, GEE’96 wed on Aug. 19 in Nairobi. Alumni who traveled to Kenya for the wedding, as well as safari, were Alex Fridman C/EAS’95 and Shirley Hwang C’95, Ing Phua EAS’96, GEng’96, Vishal Shah EAS/W’99, and Kalindi Patel Kumar W’94 and Harsh Kumar EAS/W’91. Senthil works for Qualcomm in San Diego and Meha is in the energy industry, after graduating with an MBA from the University of Chicago. They are enjoying the great outdoors in sunny San Diego.

Dana Plansky C’96, WG’01 married Robert Luther WG’03 in Tarrytown, N.Y., on June 24. The maid of honor was Michele Wisch W’96. Other Penn alumni at the wedding included Erica Bazerkanian WG’01, Rachel Berkow C’99, Linda Donoho WG’01, Sheri Gritt WG’01, Lauren Krotzer WG’01, Lisa Neuberger C’95, WG’00, Francine Samuels C’96, Mark Sherman C’95 and Rachel B. G. Sherman C’95, and Rachel Wasserstrom WG’01. Dana recently graduated with an MBA in healthcare management from Wharton, and returned to the strategic-services practice of Accenture. Rob has taken a leave of absence from Deloitte Consulting and began his MBA at Wharton.

Scott Posner C’96 <scottposner@aol.com> emails, “My wife, Michele, and I are proud to announce the birth of our first child, Samuel Isaac, on Feb. 4. I am currently a corporate associate for the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.”

Josh Raha EAS’96 and Paula Rutledge Nu’96 are “excited to announce that we’re engaged to be married. The wedding will be a two-part affair this coming summer, with a Christian ceremony in Philadelphia and a Hindu ceremony in Ottawa. We, however, live in Orlando, Fla. Josh is currently working with a pre-funded startup called Carina Networks and Paula is a traveling nurse, currently working in critical care at the Florida Hospital. For those of you with whom we’ve lost touch, we can be reached at jnraha@yahoo.com or paularut@aol.com.”

Katrina Riddick Reynolds C’96 married Craig Reynolds C’95 on Dec. 15 at Cap Juluca in Anguilla, British West Indies. Celebrating the wedding, and enjoying a fabulous tropical vacation, were Penn friends Ananya Dash C’96, Danielle Gray C’96, L’00 (who sent in this note), Andrew Jankowich L’00, Katherine Perry Penberthy C’96, Patricia McInerney W’96, Cindy Horesh Schnitzer C’96 and Edward Schnitzer C’94, John Koo EAS/W’96, Brian Chacker C’96 and Jung Lee W’96.

Joselly Castrodad-Sanchez C’96 <joselly@hotmail.com> is thrilled to announce that she has recently joined Time Inc.’s People en Español magazine in New York as reporter and researcher in charge of special projects and editions.

Bett Schumacher C’96 joyfully married Ray Rennard on Jan. 4 in Philadelphia. Mandy Racines C’96 was a beautiful bridesmaid, and Bett and Ray were also honored to share the day with Becky Anderko Cornejo C’95 and Luis Cornejo C’96, Judy O’Grady C’96, Jennifer Devers Trigiani C’96, and Alison Zegar Arakelian C’96. Jennifer Borland C’96, delivering a paper in London, was greatly missed. After a relaxing and romantic honeymoon in St. John, Bett and Ray returned to Baltimore and Johns Hopkins University, where she is writing a Ph.D. dissertation in the history of art and he is finishing up his doctorate in philosophy.

Lola Serovskaya C’96 married Andrey Tsetlin in New York. Guests included Yvonne Kanner W’96, Alex Yulman EAS’96, Michael Fox-Rabinovitz W’96, Gary Khusidman W’96, Igor Vidrevich EAS/W’97, Oleg Nusinzon EAS’97, and Sofia Koussis C/W’99. Lola and Andrey live in New York, where she is a senior strategist at Interbrand, an international branding consultancy.

Stephanie Kleban Simon C/W’96 and David Simon W’95, WG’01 were married at Temple Israel on Long Island. Many Penn friends attended, including bridesmaids Karen Agam Macarah C’96, Kim Maxfield C’96, Liz Feld C’96 (who sent in this note), Jane Hirschhorn Rosenberg C’96, and groomsman Jeff Lowe C/W’95.

Jeff Spencer C’96 announces his engagement to Dr. Priti D. Bhansali C’95 on May 19. She recently graduated from the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine and has started a residency in emergency medicine at Brown University. He is a fourth-year at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine <jeffrey_spencer@hotmail.com>.

Amy Stuhlberg C’96 married Gordon Walker Jr. in Sun Valley, Idaho. They live in Chicago, where she is a sales planner for the Microsoft Corporation and he is the worldwide-operations program manager for Knowles Electronics. Megan Stuhlberg C’98 was the maid of honor and Abby Wise C’96 attended the wedding.

Chris Thomas W’96 emails, “I left The Blackstone Group’s private-equity team in 1998 to attend Stanford University, where I earned a MBA and a M.A. in political science, graduating earlier this year after two-and-a-half happy years on the ’Farm.’ I have joined Intel Corporation as director of special projects (a senior management role) in their new optical-networking components division. I live in the small Northern California town of Los Gatos and am fully converted to the West Coast lifestyle. It would be great to hear from any old friends chris.thomas@alumni-gsb.stanford.edu.”

Brooke Bralove Ugel C'96 married Edward Ugel on May 11, 2002 in Washington, D.C. Alumni in attendance were Mara Bralove '93 (sister of the bride), Emily (Topf) Schmidt C'96 (bridesmaid), Tracy Pruzan ASC’00 (bridesmaid), Jocelyn Arsht C'96, Tessie Topol C'95, Dr. Victoria Morehouse C'96, Ali Shapiro C’91 WG’97, Bela Shah C'95, MJ Berman, David Parsky C'93, Courteney Freedman WG’97, and Leonard Shapiro W’64.

Dr. Joshua Wallenstein C’96 and Rachel Bernstone Wallenstein C’98 are delighted to announce the birth of Arielle Jill on Oct. 30. Josh is a resident in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center, and Rachel is a graduate student in child psychology at Montclair State University. The family lives in Englewood, N.J.

Shyanika Wijesinha C’96 married John Rose in Chevy Chase, Md. Alumni attending were Dinusha Wijesinha Dietrich C’92 and John Dietrich C’91, Oren Becher C’96, Dave Levine C’96, and Sonya Choo C’97 who sent in this note <sschoo@yahoo.com>. “The happy couple honeymooned in Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon; they now live in North Carolina.”

Alison Deitch Winslow C’96 G’96 walked down the aisle with Josiah Winslow, on Sept. 8, “after cycling hundreds of miles across Alaska and Montana, finishing the New York, Boston, Las Vegas, and London marathons, and sailing the entire coast of Cape Cod. Friends and family celebrated Cape Cod-style, and Sharone Menczel C’95, L’99, Elyse Epstein C’96, Sherry Stolack W’97, Melissa Studzinski W’98, and Darren Ross C’97 were in the bridal party. Other attendees included Jordan Greenbaum C’97, Rebecca Stewart Nu’97, and Karey Kessler C’96. The newlyweds have settled in the suburbs of Boston.” Sherry (who sent in this note), extends the congratulations of the sisters of Alpha Chi Omega to Alison.

Joseph Yeh EAS'96 and Kari Lyons Yeh C'98 are thrilled to announce that they were married on April 27, 2002, in McKinney, Texas (a suburb of Dallas). The beautiful outdoor ceremony and reception were held at the Stonebridge Country Club. It was cloudy and rainy all morning. Thankfully, the skies cleared and the sun shined a couple of hours prior to the ceremony. Alumni in attendance were Woodrow Anderson C/W'95, Do Kim W'96, Yong Lee EAS'96, GEng'96, Nelson Kuan EAS'96, GEng'97, and Tony Orozco W'96. Amazingly, the bride and groom did not know one another during their time at Penn. They met during a meeting of the Dallas/Fort Worth Penn Alumni Association. Kari is currently a copywriter for the catalog division of JCPenney. This fall, she will be attending the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Joseph is a mechanical engineer with Avaya Inc. Kari and Joseph live in Plano, Texas.