CLASS NOTES | FALL 2024 | 65 development and the power of perspective, Jules found her life forever altered when her 44-year-old husband Mike suffered a debilitating stroke in 2014. Reimagining a new future and rebuilding a life for herself and her family required her to lean into her belief in the power we possess to embrace, rather than fear, change and find joy, even in difficult circumstances. I couldn’t be prouder of Julie and the results of her hard work. Visit Julie’s website to learn more: trainacoaching.com/ ’90 Michael Lewis, mpl1968@yahoo.com and Dave Tratner, dctsports@gmail.com In April 2024, a group of alumnae got together in Charleston, S.C., including: Liz Rich, Michele Scaringella, Jackie Doherty, Kim (Cashion) Rosendorf, Tia Narciso, Sue (Gartner) Amo, Kris Duhamel Giacobbe, Ann Janik, Cindy (Pensabene) Headen, Mary (Jones) Macri ’89 and Amy Pollock Charendoff ’89. This April weekend marked their 12th Lehigh girls’ trip, and one of the largest turnouts to date! Liz used some of that reunion to gather and share the following updates. Liz left the world of character licensing a few years ago and now licenses consumer electronic brands. While reintroducing the RCA brand, Liz shared her experiences as a guest speaker in Professor Stu Seltzer’s ’87 Lehigh MBA class in the fall of 2023. Michele is taking the time to see the world with Lex Panos ’89 after many years with Viacom/CBS. Michele remains closely tied to Lehigh, serving on the Board of Trustees. LeAnna Leyva (a retired attorney) didn’t make the Charleston gathering but got to watch Kim’s son, Brent Rosendorf ’24, play football for Lehigh alongside Liz, Sue, Jackie and Kim (who is working as a consultant full-time). Sue is head of labeling for Novartis, and Bob Amo works in global marketing at Merck. Jackie pursued her dream of being a journalist and now writes for Yardeni Research, which some of our financial classmates may read. Meanwhile, after 27 years at Prudential and Deloitte, Tia has moved to LBI full-time and is enjoying beach life. Kris lives outside of Princeton with her Navy doctor husband, Dean. Kris is an amazing photographer and has her own studio in N.J. Looking for portraits? She is highly recommended! Ann lives in the Boston area with husband John. After a successful career in retail management and 20 years at Harvard University, Ann retired to travel more and spend time with family. Cindy lives in Detroit. Why? Cindy is currently EVP and chief supply chain officer with Domino’s. This impressive engineer has also worked for Campbell’s and Pepsi. For those who lived in M&M our freshman year, Broadhead our sophomore year, or Lower Cents our junior year—Amy “Gryphon” Pollock Charendoff lives in Philadelphia with her husband, Steve. After working at the University of Pennsylvania, Amy left the world of education to raise a family. Mary, Tony Macri’s wife, works in pharmaceuticals, where she runs clinical trials. A few more updates for those friends of Liz’s who could not join the Liz Rich Reunion Weekend Extravaganza: After 20+ years on the West Coast, Lisa Payne began a new phase and is looking forward to spending less time in sales jobs and more time with her Lehigh friends and traveling. Andrea Bonanno works in Boston as a physical therapist. After almost 25 years at Mass General Hospital, Andrea recently transitioned to Mass General Brigham Home Care. In her spare time, Andrea is a museum teacher at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and a docent with Boston by Foot, leading walking tours in Boston. Wendy Shapss-Herringer is the last one living in NYC. Wendy leads the insurance practice at FTI Consulting. Finally, Gail Katz-Fech spent a few years after Lehigh working in regional theaters around the country and working on TV shows as a script supervisor and producer. Now she lives in Chicago and works as a licensed massage therapist. She has also been a singer in a couple of bands in Chicago. ’91 GUEST COLUMNIST: Andrea Strong, andreastrong157@gmail.com Friends, Diana (Zoller) Perkins, our fearless class columnist, is in Israel now and things are, well, difficult, so she passed this column on to me. I checked on the math (thanks to Stacey Levine for the help on that), and how crazy that here we are in 2024, which is 33 years since we graduated from Lehigh, freshfaced, probably hungover, and marginally confident that life would be wonderful, fruitful, exciting, rewarding, lucrative and satisfying: Everything was at our doorstep! We would find meaningful careers where we were mentored, nurtured and paid what we were worth (even if we were, well, female!). We would embark on mature, mutual, consensual relationships built on something other than Sunrise Cocktails and the ability to run up and down the Hill every day. We would bond with incredibly supportive soulmates who were never going to use the acronym ENM in dating profiles created in year 16 of marriage! Wow, things have just been going great! As for me, I am living in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, where I have two kids (a teen and a tween!) and run a highly successful consulting firm where I ideate with other Brooklyn parents and support them in their search for the right color palette for their second and third bathrooms and, of course, their outdoor kitchens. You’d be surprised how many folks really need my insights and have extra bathrooms and kitchens that need my attention. I often see Stacey Levine, who is still practicing law, but recently won the Powerball and married Chris Hemsworth. She lives in New Jersey, and he lives in LA, and the relationship has not been disclosed yet, but you heard it here first! Now, Stacey Winter and Susan Lanter Blank are still really good friends, and we get together often at restaurants I choose (I tend to go to the bathroom when the check comes). Stacey is running a nonprofit working with marathon runners who are advocating for better post-run goody bags. Her main project is trying to get those local apples replaced with adaptive mushroom cookies and that gross Gatorade switched out for premium canned wine. Susan, well, she’s raised her twin girls and finally has 6-10 minutes of free time every day. She devotes all of it to helping her neighbors on the Upper West Side discover bagels that truly match their star signs. It’s a lot, but she’s committed. But no one really can get over Dana Susman Klass! She is really making waves in Park Slope. She’s been a partner at her law firm 5EVAH, but now she’s decided to chart a new course and has switched careers to become a holistic health consultant. She has introduced a new macrobiotic wellness plan to Brooklyn’s most beloved zip code, where she examines ingredient labels for families and gives them a thumbs up or down. She’s pretty much the Well-
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