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Cl as s Notes
Habari Gani?
(Swahili for “What’s the News?”)
I hope this winter treats you all well and provides
you with plenty of exciting (or not-so-exciting)
events to report. I look forward to hearing about
them from you!
2005
Danielle Sanzone ’05
147 Pawling Ave.
Troy, NY 12180-4718
518-269-9414
dmsanz01@gmail.com
Next Reunion: 10th, 2015
It was a weird realization for me that it had been a
little over 10 years since the Class of 2005 started
our freshman year of college. This also, unfortu-
nately, coincided with the decade anniversary since
9/11. I guess this also hit a chord with a few other
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are also still very busy with their active lives.
Colin FitzRandolph
wrote, “After working
for six years at Goldman Sachs in NewYork, I left
my job in equity derivative sales at the end of May
and will be attending business school at the Uni-
versity of Cape Town in South Africa beginning in
January of 2012.” He married Maya Pratt at the
end of August and then traveled around Asia for
three months before shipping off to South Africa.
“I lived in Canton for two months last summer and
was around for Reunion, which was really a great
time,” he said.
Molly Ryan
said life has come “full circle” for
her since her family dropped off her little sister at
SLU in the fall. “It really seems like it was just me
my parents were dropping off,” she said. “When
we were freshmen 9/11 happened—now my sis-
ter’s FYP is studying the historical implications of
it—weird.”
Molly and Eric Gadway have been married for
six years and have a beautiful 4-year-old daughter
who just started pre-school, and they are expect-
ing a son this winter. She has been the constituent
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“I am loving it,” she said.“It’s nice to be able to use
my major and do what I love while remaining in
the North Country.” She and Eric took advantage
of the homebuyer’s credit and bought a house at
the end of 2009. They reside in Rouses Point, N.Y.
Steph Shephard Lawless
says life is “so
much different now than it was 10 years ago!” She
married Ryan Lawless ’04 in 2008 and in July 2009
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cently joined in June 2011 by his little brother, Ma-
son. Steph is a medical technologist at Lehigh Val-
ley Hospital in Allentown, Pa., where Ryan is doing
his general surgery residency.They visit the North
Country quite often since Ryan’s grandparents live
in Edwards, about 20 miles from Canton, so they
stop at campus for pub cookies and the like as
often as possible. “It feels like so long ago that we
graduated yet it also feels like I never left when I
set foot on that campus,” she says.
Rachel Arey
married Adam Cook M’08 in En-
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ported,“Three of my bridesmaids were my college
roommates/friends (
Tricia Bacon Raiti
,
Me-
gan Merrihew
and
Jennifer Farrington
)
with some other SLU friends attending. Adam and
I are both teachers and we live in Potsdam, N.Y.”
Laura Jenks
also continued her education af-
I
attended the wedding of
Jes-
sie Davie ’04
(KSP fall ’02)
and Jesse Leff in Maine in
July. KSP alums on hand were
Katie Gauthier ’04
and
Sarah
Ellis ’04
(both fall ’02) and Jes-
sie’s brother
Lincoln Davie ’07
(spring ’06).
Drew Pynchon
(Dickinson
College ’10, KSP fall ’08) is now
assistant director of off-campus
programs at St. Lawrence. As a
KSP student, Drew worked with
the Rwanda Demobilization and
Reintegration Commission. He
returned to Kenya after gradu-
ation to work for the Children of Kibera
Foundation, conducting projects includ-
ing teaching computer training classes, a
campaign to end violence against children,
and application workshops for high school
scholarship students.
As noted in the fall magazine, the
founder of this column,
Amanda Pear-
son ’92
(KSP fall ’90), has been elected
to the St. Lawrence Board of Trustees for
a six-year term. Pearson was a McCurdy-
Sprague Trustee from 2001 through 2005.
This is a position on the Board
designated for young alumni.
Amanda is pursuing a mas-
ter’s degree in public health at
George Washington Universi-
ty and previously was director
of publications at the Weath-
erhead Center for Interna-
tional Affairs at Harvard.
KSP Co-Director
Wairimu
Ndirangu
traveled to Canton in the late
spring for a campus visit and then spent the
summer at the Harvard University School
of Public Health as part of her sabbati-
cal. A number of KSP alums connected
with her before her return to Kenya.
Pat
McLaughlin ’05
(KSP fall ’04) was one of
them, just before heading off for the sum-
mer to lead student expeditions for the Na-
tional Geographic Society in Montana and
New Zealand. In July, she had a visit with
me and my family at our home outside of
Boston
(pictured)
.
Tristan Statler ’04
(KSP fall ’02) and
Abby Rountree ’07 were married in up-
state N.Y. in July. Among those in atten-
dance were KSP alums
Robert DeLong
’03
(Archaeology Summerterm ’02)
and
Michael Hughes ’02
(spring ’01)
and his wife,
Katie Cuiffo Hughes ’02
(fall ’00).
Courtney Babcock ’03
(KSP spring
’02) was in touch from Kinshasa in the
Democratic Republic of the
Congo, where she is a pro-
gram officer with the U.S.
Agency for International De-
velopment “after more than a
year of orientation, rotations,
and intensive French training
in Washington, D.C. I’m en-
joying Kinshasa and am look-
ing forward to diving into the
work here,” she wrote in September.
Alumni and friends of the KSP— if you
have news to share, contact me. Pictures
are welcome. I look forward to hearing
from you.
Tutaonana!
John Linsley ’04
(KSP fall ’02)
169 Perkins Row
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jlinsley@gmail.com
(978) 500-6342
The 40th anniversary of
St. Lawrence’s Kenya Program
will be observed at Reunion
2014. Watch for details.