CLASS NOTES | SUMMER 2025 | 55 over a decade of combined research, pharma/oncology and business consulting experience, all growing from the amazing multidisciplinary training he received at Lehigh. Sarah Leidy and her husband welcomed their second son, Declan Kelly, in October 2024, and moved into a new house in Encinitas, Calif. Paxton (3) is the best big brother! Kyle Dunleavey shares that he “just got back from Antarctica, my last continent on Earth to visit on my bucket list. Got up close and personal with humpback whales, orca whales, penguins, seals, etc. As well as doing a kayak expedition, hikes, etc.” Also, he recently got into residential solar sales, so please reach out if you would be interested in hearing how you can go green and get solar panels installed. Christine Forwood shares that “I attended the Soaring Together Women’s Summit at Lehigh and enjoyed connecting with new and familiar faces and meeting inspiring women alumni and students.” ’10 Nick Anderson, Nick.Anderson@ alum.lehigh.edu Kay (Murphy) Anderson and Charlie Anderson welcomed Edith Love Anderson in February. Big brother Gordon and big sister Hazel are very excited! Hillary (Stires) Andrews and husband Alex welcomed their son Jordan Foster Andrews in February as well! Ashley (Ruby) Rose was recently promoted within Carenow Urgent Care/HCA Healthcare to the telehealth market medical director, overseeing the telehealth department across the country! As always, keep the updates coming! Stay safe, Nick ’11 Sri Rao, sridevi211@ gmail.com Hello, Class of 2011! This edition was very light, but here are a couple of baby updates from our classmates. Andy Israelson and wife Sarah welcomed their first child, Jack Ross Israelson, into this world on Feb. 2, 2025. Nick Pison and his wife, Ariana, welcomed their first child, Cy, in February 2025. Congratulations to your growing families! Please send me updates throughout the year at sridevi211@gmail.com. ’12 Mary (Haynie) Reardon, 215-687-1624, maryhaynie12@gmail.com Hana (Harrison) Thier’s husband, Jonathan Thier ’08, detailed her love for their dog Tully, international travel (Chile, Argentina, Italy, Switzerland, France, Peru, Ecuador, Galapagos), and plan to visit all the national parks (already at 31/63)! Hana had seven successful years at Amazon as a software developer, using her master’s degree from Lehigh. She left there for a startup (Clay), moved to Twitter and then DropBox. While there, she was certified as a yoga instructor and took on teaching a few classes a week … and in 2024, she left the tech industry altogether and opened her own yoga studio in north Seattle! Hana has really enjoyed creating a welcoming and inclusive studio environment, differentiating her business from “the norm.” Check it out @wovenyoga. Britta Lokting has enjoyed going to the movies, knitting and taking her dog Albert on adventures. She has been writing for The New York Times, and for her latest story, she traveled to Helsinki to try to “hack her way to happiness.” She writes, “Finland has been named the happiest country for eight years running. I wanted to learn from the Finns and try to bring their lessons to America.” She graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and is currently an adjunct assistant professor. Olivia (Gennusa) Fullam is inspiring others in the kitchen and looking to reduce waste and toxicity. Check out her nutritious recipes and resourceful lifestyle tips on her Substack, Instagram: @liv_full_ or YouTube: @liv_full_am. Ashley (Skibicki) Rapp opened her own photography studio in Chesterfield, N.J., if you need any professional photos! Kyra Dragone, Abby Larson, Alli Lehr and Carly (Hankins) Robson started a ladies virtual book club during COVID, and the group just reunited for their second annual spa weekend in New Mexico. Meagan (Patrick) Dejter is thriving in her hometown of St. Michaels, Md., and recently had her fourth baby boy, Heath Hopkins Dejter! ’13 Nicholas Graber, (201) 602-6603 (C) graber.nicholas@gmail. com Lucy Zhang, (978) 4602394 (C); zhang.lucyw@alum. lehigh.edu On January 18, 2025, Haley Miller tied the knot with Martin Black in New Orleans surrounded by family and friends. Wishing the newlyweds a lifetime of love, laughter and adventures together! Nicholas Barr, wife Mariana and their son Harrison (age 3) welcomed baby girl Juliette James Barr to their family this December. Congratulations to the growing family! Congratulations to Jacquelyn Lyons, her husband Stephen Daniels, and their daughter Reese (age 2) in welcoming baby Calvin to their family in October! A congratulations to Alexandra Guccione and Nicholas Walchonski ’15, who welcomed baby Nicholas in August. Little man loves peanut butter, bananas, coffee shops, his family, the swings at the park, watching basketball and going for walks! ’14 Leah (Paulson) Dunmire, leahpaulson22@gmail.com ’15 Kerry Mallett, kerryamallett@ gmail.com I hope everyone is having a great start to 2025, and as this will be published after Reunion, I will preemptively say I enjoyed seeing so many members of our class back at Reunion. Ali (Yeager) Heinrich and Joe Heinrich had their first baby, Calvin, this past September. Congratulations! As always, make sure you’re following @lehigh15reunion on Instagram to get the latest class announcements and info. ’16 Rachel Sholder, rachelsholder@ gmail.com ’17 Robert Hillman, robert.j.hillman1@ gmail.com ’18 Megan Olivola, meolivola@ gmail.com; Dana Pierce, dpierce1011@gmail.com ’19 Alexis Parsells, lex. parsells@gmail.com and Claudia Cohen, claudia cohen10@gmail.com At Lehigh, Bali Connors majored in behavioral neuroscience. Bali began postgraduate life in Philadelphia before moving to Manhattan to become a physician assistant. She enrolled in this program at Cornell University’s Medical College, Weill Cornell Medicine, at the beginning of 2020. Bali graduated with her master’s degree in 2022 and started working at New York Presbyterian Hospital, which was one of her clinical rotations. She has been working in the hospital’s Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation assisting inpatient liver transplants and hepatobiliary procedures. Her day-to-day consists of treating admitted patients right after their liver transplants or patients who have been readmitted due to complications. Although it can be stressful to take on the 13hour shifts in the Intensive Care
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