Class Notes

I’ve taught fourth grade in Atlanta for five years. My godson is 1, my goddaughter is 6, my niece is 3, and my sweet dog is 7. Where does the time go? Keep me posted about what you’re up to.

Kristin Ruhl Bergstrom and family relocated from Jupiter, Fla., in November 2011 to Highlands Ranch in the Denver area, where snow has kept the kids busy. Meredith Wilcox Thomas and husband Ryan bought a house that needed some TLC in her hometown of Duxbury, Mass., last July, and they’re finally feeling settled. They have sons Noah, born in December, and Evan, 3½. Michelle Dickens- Brown and husband John of Ashland, Ky., had their first son, Altair Phoenix, in December 2011. Nate Pipke and Kate McGinn Pipke ’01 of Alexandria, Va., teach and welcomed their first baby, a son, Garrett, in November. Steve Charnoff works for a Tysons Corner law firm. He and Katie Charnoff ’00 live in Vienna, Va., with their toddler.

Emre Izat of Amsterdam produces documentaries for Off the Fence. Five of his latest – National Geographic Channel’s Lego, Heineken, Guinness, and Speed Rail episodes of Megafactories and TLC’s Obese & Expecting – should be in TV rotation. Alex Panek and wife Michelle welcomed their first daughter, Audrey Elizabeth, in November. He is engagement manager for Blackbaud, a software company specializing in products for nonprofits.

Brian Straight finished his diplomatic assignment in Bogota, Colombia, in 2010 and transferred to his current assignment in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, where he’ll be until April 2013, when he transfers to Sao Paulo, Brazil, for two years. He backpacked around South America and southern Mexico. Abby Cordell Casey married Brett in January 2011, and they expected their first baby, a son, in February. She has been a music, chorus, and drama teacher in Watertown, Mass., for seven years. Ryan Anderson of Maui, Hawaii, teaches math, science, and music at the alternative, progressive Haleakala Waldorf School. He’s married with two children and frequents the ocean. Ryan returns often to Fredericksburg to teach local youth marimba band Marenje Marimba.