CLASS NOTES | FALL/WINTER 2025 | 53 dinarily proud to have a student there. I hope it becomes a Magee family tradition.” In June, Susan Lanter Blank, Dana Susman Klass and Jill (Merriam) Dulitsky flew to Durango, Colo., to visit Kerry (Johnson) Tichi. It was an M&MA3 mini-reunion. They had so much fun sharing stories about their kids and lives—and laughing a ton. They hiked, paddleboarded and enjoyed time together. I FaceTimed them and got to see how much fun they were having and how none of them look a day older than they did at graduation! ’92 Melissa (Gitlin) Jacoby, mgjacoby@ gmail.com; and Rachel (Beck) Diamond, rachelmbeck@ hotmail.com Melissa got to spend a weekend with her college roommates (and husbands) in Montauk. Hosted by Amy (Gold) Blau, they were joined by Alyssa (Greif) Yavner and Rachel (Dubow) Mendelson. Rachel just celebrated 25 years at TIAA, where she is senior managing director, associate general counsel. Rachel’s husband retired from the legal field and is pursuing his passion as a professional photographer. Rachel spent the summer as his right-hand woman, supporting him at numerous art shows from Connecticut to Montauk! Check it out: mendelsonfineart photography.com. Besides being an incredible hostess, Amy works as chief of staff at Fusion Family Wealth, where husband Jon serves as president and CEO. The two have built a successful organization, and it’s awesome to see them working side by side. At the time of publication, Melissa will have completed her 25th Pan-Mass Challenge (www.pmc.org), personally raising over $400K for cancer research and leading a team that has raised $12 million. She also dropped off her youngest son, Ryan, at Tulane University to start his freshman year! Let the empty nest years begin! The only Birkel Avenue roommate missing from the weekend was Lori Heiss Tiplady, and happily, she reached out with an update! Lori recently made a career change from branding and creative direction in TV and fashion to working as COO and in-house counsel for her family business, Strand Finance, a premium finance company based in New Jersey. She is using her law degree for the first time since graduating from Cardozo in 1995. Lori mostly works remotely from her home just outside London, but she and husband Mike are now spending more time in their new second home in West Long Branch, N.J. Kellie Fisher ’88 was her realtor! Lori and Mike love to travel, and she has a goal of visiting 60 countries by the time she’s 60—five years and only eight countries to go! Last year, she climbed to first base camp on Kilimanjaro and did a safari in the Serengeti. Next up is Istanbul in November and then Ethiopia and gorilla trekking in Rwanda in January! If you are reading this, please consider sending an update. Your classmates would love to hear from you, and we hate to scramble for content. ’93 Darren Saks, Dksaksinc@ yahoo.com, 201-310-8460 ’94 Michael B. York, 575 West End Avenue #9A, New York, NY 10024; michael. york@nyplaw.com; (917) 575-9391 As my daughter enters her final year of high school, it feels like just yesterday when we were all applying for college. I know many of you have already gone through this, but boy, is it exhausting. Her high school even recommended hiring someone to help write her essay! You know who wrote my essay? My mom. She did a great job, too. I got off a plane recently and ran into Hilary (Brown) Tabish, husband Doug and the kids. Hilary had recently run into Nicole (Newman) Enslein in an airport in Cartagena. Lehigh sure is a small world. Rachel Cain wrote (finally!) to me about life in LA since she graduated from Georgetown Business School in 2000. She keeps in constant contact with Meredith McGowan, Anne (Cassell) Weibel, Gillian (Wilbur) Stratmann, Michelle (Leonard) Cuddeback and Sara Smith Kenny. Rachel has two boys, Blake (11) and Grant (6), with her husband, Phil, along with three dogs. She has been a private wealth adviser since Georgetown, at Merrill Lynch and now with UBS Financial Services. John Agogliati’s daughter, Ashley, recently graduated from Texas A&M University. His son, John, is a freshman at Lehigh. John and wife Jackie live in New Jersey. He works at Marshall & Stevens, a full-service valuation firm, where he specializes in business valuation for corporate transactions and commercial damages. Sean Denham left Grant Thornton after 20 years to be the COO/CFO of SEI, a publicly traded company in Oaks, Pa. Lee Gold’s oldest son just started his first year at Union College. Jennifer Conway lives in Brooklyn Heights and, after spending 17 years at Kantar, has moved to National Income Life. Jen Long recently married Reid Sterrett, whom she met during the pandemic on a Zoom celebrating the birthday of Dave Mederrick ’95. Their vows were officiated by Al Roker, whom Jen has worked with for many years at the Today Show. Alums in attendance included Dave Mederrick, Alexis (Corr) Davis, Theresa (Doyle) Yerger, Colleen Makosky Broome and Jen Lang Chalfant. The music was all “yacht rock,” and the party ended with a game of Beirut. Nicole (Ferber) Sachs wrote a book called “Mind Your Body.” I heard her speak at the 92nd Street Y, and she was fantastic. Melissa McKay lives in Waterbury Center, Vt., with her husband, Chris McKay (yes, she married someone with the same last name!) and son Jackson. Their daughter is at George Washington University studying biomedical engineering. Melissa works for Keurig/Dr. Pepper as a senior principal engineer doing supply chain strategy. Over the years, I have kept you informed on the legendary ongoings of Andy Frishman. This time, he wrote to me! Rather than paraphrase him, “For 19 years, Dr. Andy Frishman has been the heart (and humor) of Progressive Animal Hospital, where he and his team have cared for everything from dogs and cats to chinchillas, guinea pigs and the occasional ferret escape artist. Andy’s approach to veterinary care is as ethical as it is compassionate. Outside the clinic, he’s a saxophone-slinging rock star at local open mic nights, a proud dad to two amazing kids and three spoiled dogs and an ever-patient husband. He recently completed over 250 Orangetheory classes, proving he can handle cardio and cardio-thoracic cases. Who knew a vet could crush it in both the exam room and the fitness studio?” ’95 Bridget O'Connell, 1840 Sycamore St., Bethlehem, PA 18012. (610) 868-6605 (H); bmo3@lehigh.edu Thanks so much to Alan Verostick for writing a poem for our 30th reunion. Below is an excerpt: “At Goodman Field in ’95 we did matriculate / We hugged and cheered with all our friends— twas time to celebrate! / Though thirty years have come and gone, our roots they still remain / Upon South Mountain’s hilly sides for future ones to gain. “We come to visit when we can, some sites are still the same / Though parking lots host buildings now; our bars all have new names / The Goose is still The Goose, thank God! The Ho it’s still The Ho / We’re glad we see the younger classes have a place to go. “But time it marches on and memories always will remain / We’ll always be the engineers and drive that mighty train!” ’96 Jen (Crimmins) Keen, 17 Windsor Drive, Foxborough, MA 02035. (508) 543-5036; jen@keensense.com
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