This will certainly be a time that will be remembered for years to come. It has been an opportunity for families to spend time together, siblings developing their relationships while finding things to do, and parents realizing the balance between work and family. As an education minor and former teacher, this experience also shows clearly the time and efforts that our educators provide to our children; thank you, as you have more patience than I do! Thank you to all our classmates who followed the sciences as doctors, nurses, healthcare workers, and researchers. Thank you to all our classmates who were able to continue working while others could not. While graduations, reunions, and family celebrations are being canceled, postponed, and rescheduled, it has been my family, co-workers, and college friends who have helped me see the brighter side of this. Thank you for keeping in touch—this has impacted all of us. On a lighter note, many classmates responded to my call for news prior to restrictions on travel and social distancing, and, like John Krasinski’s SGN (Some Good News), this is our class’ good news: * Larry Spollen and his wife, Charity, are happy to report that their three-year-old son, Teague, has a new baby brother. Shane Cashel was born Nov. 13, and his family lives in Brooklyn. Larry was recently promoted to supervising attorney at New York County Defender Services, a public defender’s office in Manhattan. * Ali Mian lives in St. Louis with his wife, Elise, and two boys, Noah, 7, and Jonas, 4. Ali is a professor at Washington University’s School of Medicine. They’ve been having fun rock climbing, ordering lots of post mates, and hanging out at the local Top Golf. * Catherine Garland continues to delight in teaching physics and engineering to high school students in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. She also loves nurturing their connection to the outdoors by mentoring the Gardening Club, where students learn how to grow flowers, herbs, and veggies from seed. * Johanna Reardon Prince lives in western Maine and enjoys her role as principal of the local PreK-8 school. She skis at Sugarloaf every weekend and loves running into fellow Mules on the mountain. * Chrissy Barnett Miller, her husband, Kevin, and two daughters, Mai and Aya, still enjoy living overseas in Okinawa, Japan. Chrissy works in marketing, and in her spare time, she enjoys cooking, photography, and traveling. As a family, the Millers have visited more than five countries in the past five years, including Thailand, South Korea, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. They’re trying to also experience as much of Japan as they can as they will likely return to the States sometime in the next year. * Bill Hinton is living the YMCA camp life in western Michigan, just south of Grand Rapids. In late winter, he took a quick trip to Colby and stayed at Brandi and Nahum Meisner’s house. They attended Colby’s final home basketball game on the court they played on as students, and they got to tour of the new athletic facility under construction. Both Nahum and Bill ended on a made shot before they left. * In December John Bishop moved to Manila, Philippines, to take an assignment with the Asian Development Bank. He went on leave from the IMF for a few years to work as an editor at the bank. He brought the whole family, and since arriving they’ve experienced a typhoon and volcanic eruption. * Thank you all for sharing your updates.
Fall 2020