as a drummer, with two bands as of late, Gnatural and Shotgun Curly. They are headed into the studio soon and then will resume performing shows in 2023 in the New York City/Asbury Park, New Jersey/ Black Rock, Connecticut, necks of the woods. Chris hopes his Hopkins classmates will support him at a nearby gig sometime. He would love to reconnect with anyone he missed and asks for classmates to email him. cawilliams77@gmail.com. Adrianna Melnyk joined Commonweal Magazine as Vice President of Advancement during the pandemic. Adrianna is thankful to report that her close family in Ukraine had been able to get out. Prior to her current role, Adrianna had held senior development positions at Maryknoll Lay Missioners, Hospice Care in Westchester and Putnam, and the Orange Circle, a New York–based NGO. She also is the Secretary of Ukrainian Institute of America and is a development volunteer for the Lviv-based Ukrainian Catholic University. 1993 30th Reunion, June 2–3, 2023 Tara Cook-Littman taracook.littman@gmail.com It is impossible to believe that we are just months from our 30th Reunion. I sincerely hope to see many of you there. Make your plans now! I’ve been having a great time reconnecting with Michelle Melson Cella and Jamie Glick Lombardy since we are all back in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Michelle lives in Westport with her two daughters and husband. She recently launched a new business called Styled by Michelle, which isn’t surprising given her fashion sense in high school. Jamie lives in Darien with her two sons, daughter, and husband. She is still working in the finance industry at U.S. Bank Private Wealth Mortgage. Eric Kabakoff : “I can’t believe it’s been 30 years! After 18 years at ABC, last year I moved to New York’s WPIX to head up their audience development in a new specially created role. I’m really enjoying working with the people at such an iconic local TV station in the country’s largest and most diverse media market. My wife and I live on the Upper East Side, a block from Central Park, with our 7-year-old son and
two kittens who just joined our family. Sending regards to all my fellow former Hilltoppers!” Andy Dow is still enjoying the Pacific Northwest and said they are “mountain biking their way into ski season.” Sounds awesome to me! Huge congratulations are in order for Chris Slawsky . He and his wife, Sarah, welcomed a healthy baby boy, Logan Slawsky, in September. “Adding my stepdaughter and stepson, and I’ve gone from longtime bachelor in New York City to Slawsky, party of five, within two years! We’re looking forward to our 30th Reunion in June and hope to see a lot of old classmates come back.” Ted Lundberg has two daughters at Hop! Rosie and Bea are in 10th grade and 8th grade, respectively. Ted says “They’re loving it!” Emma Dickson is living in Manhattan with her husband, Tim, and two-year-old son, Marz. Kristin Harrison lives with her husband and two boys, ages 12 and 7, outside of Annapolis, Maryland. She has been working at Santander Bank, running their Washington, D.C., office for the last six years. “I serve as the U.S. operations’ head lobbyist, and advocate on behalf of the bank before Congress, the Administration, and the regulatory agencies. I have been living in the D.C. area for close to 20 years now, slowly moving further east, and love living on the water.” Huge congratulations also go to Christina Corso , who got married this past July in a small ceremony in the backyard of her parents’ home in Fairfield, Connecticut. “I have relocated from New York City to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area with my husband, who works as an engineer with a defense contractor. I now have two stepsons, ages 13 and 14, so I am learning the joys of parenting teenagers! We love traveling, scuba diving, and pickleball. I am still playing tennis (albeit with some aches and pains).” Some of you may have seen our classmate Yevgeny Bendersky , known as “Sam Bendett” professionally, on CNN International, NBC, DW, and PBS Newshour speaking about the state of the Ukraine war. Yevgeny spoke about “the use of aerial drones and autonomous systems in the conflict.” He is working in Arlington, Virginia, at CNA as a Russian military analyst. Joseph Evenson is still living in Houston, Texas, and is a client manager for a company called Alight. Like so many
ABOVE: Chris Spencer and Ona Alpert, both ’90 in New Haven.
me, Ona Alpert-Josselyn , Chris Spencer and I got caught up over lunch in New Haven. It’s hard to imagine we’ve known each other since first grade! He enjoys coaching fencing at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, even though the kids don’t know what a CD player is, and will occasionally paint Haile Selassie’s face first, before Christ’s, when restoring ecclesiastical paintings in his church restoration business. 1 991 Amy Caplan
avcaplan@gmail.com Suzanne Rutstein suzanne@rutstein.com 1 992 Sam Ozeck samhome@juno.com
Chris Williams was disappointed not to see his classmates and the Class of ’91, but he was playing a can’t-miss show the night of the reunion. Chris reports that he just hit 15 years of New York City civil service as an emergency manager with the NYC Health Department and is currently Director of Emergency Planning and Operations for the Environmental Health Division. He started that position about a year ago. Chris and his wife are living in Pleasantville, New York, and taking care of some feral cats that have chosen to trust them (from a distance) for the winter. He is still gigging
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