68 | LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN | CLASS NOTES wrote that he is still living in NYC with wife Christine and always busy keeping up with their three boys. Andrew Goldberg provided an update that he is in his third season as chief marketing officer of the New York Mets. He resides in Weston, Conn., and has a 17-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter. He wrote that last spring they started touring colleges and loved going back to look at Lehigh! Michelle (Katz) Beck wrote that Alpha Chi Omega held a ’97 reunion in NYC in March 2024. She was in attendance along with Libby Keller, Jodi Mandarino, Mandana (Mohebbi) Beckman, Keri (Leo) Rubinstein, Dawn (Lotito) Capobianco, Christina (Lotito) Lieberman, Sherri Binstock, Amy (Sobotkin) Gare, Mariela (Obregon) Pietrzak and Megann (Polaha) Hedgecock. ’98 Gregory Kuklinski, gjk4@alum.lehigh.edu I hope that everyone had a great summer and is getting ready for the 159th Lehigh-Lafayette football game! I will post more information about the game and tailgating on our Class of 1998 FB page. If you are at the game, please stop by our class tailgating tent and let us know how you are doing. Brian Aronson writes that he brought Christie’s International Real Estate to Puerto Rico as their exclusive affiliate. His team specializes in luxury residential real estate rentals and sales, covering the island. Kudos to Jon McMillan for speaking to the Martindale Student Associates Honors Program, providing insights to the students into the Taiwanese health care system, his career path and his Lehigh-Asia connections as part of the Taiwan sessions. Great job, Jon! Anjali Taneja MD MPH is a family doctor, DJ and the executive director of Casa de Salud, a clinic serving the unique health care needs of uninsured New Mexicans, immigrants, people with addictions and queer/transgender community members, with a concentration on anti-racism and community engagement. She also works in the emergency room of a rural hospital in Navajo Nation. She helped lead and pass legislation including a bill to ensure addictions treatment in prisons; the Health Care Affordability Fund; the Patient Debt Collections Protections Act; and Medicaid Forward—while also being active in local and global fights for social justice and liberation. Anjali is proud to be running for the New Mexico House of Representatives, District 18, in a hotly contested race! Her website is anjalifornm.com and her social media is @losanjalis (personal) and @anjalifornm (campaign). Please continue to share your news, and I will make sure that it makes our class column. Class of 1998 Facebook Page: facebook.com/groups/ Lehigh98/ My Lehigh (Class of 1998): mylehigh.lehigh.edu ’99 Karen (Smith) Fischer, kms5lehigh@gmail.com I hope everyone is well and enjoyed a wonderful summer! Speaking of wonderful, it was fantastic to catch up with some fellow ’99ers at our 25th reunion! I spent a great evening with Ethan Biery, Steve Claves and Steve Rittler—and enjoyed seeing Amanda Fraser-Bizorik and meeting Tannashae Perrine and Britton Baine as well! I missed catching up with Colleen (Griggs) Marshall, Taryn (Filo) Gall and Joe Gnall—and maybe others—but hope they all had a great time! Ethan said he feels very fortunate to continue to live in the Lehigh Valley and frequently see the Lehigh football team play at Goodman Stadium, even if the last few seasons have been a bit rough to watch. He has enjoyed working the last 24 years at Lutron Electronics, and recently started a role there in product management. His oldest son, Evan, is starting to look at colleges in advance of his senior year (perhaps Lehigh??), and his daughter Clara will be starting high school. To his fellow Lehigh friends, he hopes to see you at a future event on campus! Steve Claves and his family are doing well, and when we spoke at reunion, he was about to start a new job. He was also kind to provide updates on Ed Gorzkowski, who was just named a fellow of the American Ceramic Society; Bryan McEnerney, who changed jobs a few years ago from JPL to NASA, and is a “for-real rocket scientist”; and John Shabaker, whose recent travels included the thrilling England EuroCup match in Germany. Thanks, Steve! And Ed, Bryan and John—please reach out to me with more details! I hope to hear from you soon, and I hope to see many more of you back at Lehigh in five years, so mark your calendars now for early June 2029! All the best! ’00 Corina Fisher, (732) 688-3671 (C); corina_fisher@yahoo.com Greetings, Class of 2000! I hope all of you and your families are healthy, happy and prospering. Kelly Height checked in with some very exciting updates. She currently serves as the director of curriculum and instruction at Monmouth County Vocational School District and is completing her doctoral studies at Kean University. She also started her own business, HeightenED Curriculum Consulting, LLC. Kelly is living in Monmouth County, N.J., with her two “fur babies.” Please take a few moments to contact me with an update about yourself or about a friend in our class. Feel free to send me an email or a text or check out our Facebook page. I look forward to hearing from you soon! ’01 Abby Dawes Columbo, abbywdawes@gmail.com Class of 2001, summer is in full swing, and I would love for you to share some of your adventures with us! Recently, my son and I jumped off the Jaws Bridge in Edgartown, Mass. It was scary and then it was over, and now we can’t stop talking about it. I feel like that is true of so many things in life. I recently heard from Derek Doeschner. “After graduation, I was fortunate enough to engage in several occupations; the most important of which became my career, a teacher. I was a NYC public school teacher for 15 years. I also lived and taught English in Japan for a few years. Additionally, I was a college adjunct professor for a semester. As much as I enjoyed the education career, I resigned in 2022. My family and I now work in social media; my wife and I created, developed, marketed, etc., our channel, A Life Less Scripted. This channel is both on Facebook and YouTube and has grown to over three million viewers. Check it out!” ’02 Laura (Schwamb) Carino, lcarino@att.net Greetings, Class of 2002 alumni! Here’s an update on Mike Rinkunas, who was recently named as director of the Lehigh Ventures Lab. The Ventures Lab is part of the newly created Office of Entrepreneurship (OoE). With a diverse background spanning academia, startups, corporate settings and venture capital, Mike is poised to drive entrepreneurial innovation and build strategic partnerships. Congratulations, Mike! I’ll be sharing more updates in the next issue, and I’d love to hear what’s new with you! Feel free to reach out to me
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