CLASS NOTES | SPRING 2023 | 71 ’16 Rachel Sholder, rachelsholder@ gmail.com After five trip cancellations due to COVID, I finally traveled to Peru with Samantha Kay. We spent a day in Lima, five days in and around Cusco (including Machu Picchu) and three days in the Amazon. I also recently traveled to Jamaica with Matthew Bay. Tiel Hardwick and Evyn Tarvydas met in 2014 at Lehigh. After a year as friends, they began dating in their junior year. Six years later, Evyn proposed on the ice-skating rink at Bryant Park, surrounded by family and some of their closest friends from Lehigh. They tied the knot on April 9, 2022, in New Jersey. For seven months after that, they explored the U.S. coast to coast, camping out of the back of their car, stopping along the way for concerts, friends, good eats, 30 national parks and seven international parks and spending the summer eating, drinking and exploring their way through Europe with five of their friends from Lehigh joining along the way. Allie Stevens currently lives in Maui, Hawaii, and works as a naturalist at the nonprofit Hawaii Wildlife Fund. She educates tourists on Hawaiian wildlife, conservation and the problem of plastic pollution in the oceans. She also takes part in conservation projects like beach cleanups, sea turtle nesting watches, native taro planting and invasive species removal. Additionally, she works as a deckhand on Gemini Sailing Charters, a 64-foot sailing catamaran that does whale watch and snorkel tours. Later in 2023, she plans to get a working holiday visa in New Zealand to work on a regenerative ocean farm in Coromandel, helping to establish a seaweed farming supply chain in New Zealand. She loved seeing many Lehigh friends at Ani Nahapetian and Gibby McHugh’s ’17 wedding in September 2022 and is excited to have a group of Lehigh friends visit Maui in January 2023. ’17 Robert Hillman, robert.j.hillman1@ gmail.com Happy 2023, Class of ’17! It is incredible to think that it has been six years since we were all together for graduation at Goodman Stadium. For most of us, the time since being at Lehigh has caught up or surpassed the time we spent there as students. If you stayed and did a graduate program at Lehigh, get in touch. I’d love to share your perspective on your time after undergrad. It has been a while since my last update, full of wedding announcements and reunion weekend news. Well, the weddings continued: Congratulations to Elliot Frisch and Jess Ronan! They had an incredible ceremony with family, friends and Lehigh alumni in Cedar Grove, N.J., on Oct. 23, 2022. Elliot was a chemical and biomolecular engineering major, a brother in Tau Beta Pi and Kappa Kappa Psi and a member of several music ensembles at Lehigh. He and Jess have been together for 10 years! It was incredible to be with them on this special day! To end 2022, we had a great time kicking off the holidays by joining the Lehigh-Lafayette watch party in New York City! Thanks to Evan Choy ’20 and the Lehigh Alumni Relations department, who set up this viewing party at Legends on West 33rd Street. We coordinated a group to attend and met other alumni from graduating classes in the ’80s. We had a group of Marching 97 alumni present and even managed to convince someone at the game in Easton to livestream the current 97’s halftime show to us in the bar. Shout-out to those in attendance: Jon Wood, Elliot Frisch, Jess Ronan, Patch Kroll, Andrew Hutcheson, Evan Choy, Maria Karagias ’19, Sarah Cohen ’19 and Daniel Beadle ’18. We also met Ohen Afriyie ’05, several alumni from the ’80s and a young alumna from the Class of ’21 who was there with another party of work colleagues after a flag football game. I hope we get to meet more alumni at these events in the future! Get in touch with me about your accomplishments and updates! Share them with me to share with our classmates. We would love to hear from you! Email me at robert.j.hillman1@gmail.com or find me on social media: FB, IG, TTYL, HTTPS, etc. ’18 Megan Olivola, mcolivola@gmail. com Congratulations to Ian McCartney, who married his high school sweetheart, Amanda, this past October in Plymouth, Mass. Joining him on his wedding day were Daniel Norris, Andres Binotto and John St. Pierre. They were all floormates in M&M their freshman year at Lehigh and have remained close friends. Congratulations, also, to Hannah Cwienkala and Andrew Newman, who got engaged July 1, 2022. The pair met at Lehigh their freshman year and started dating senior year. They are planning a wedding at Packer Memorial Church in October 2023. ’19 Alexis Parsells, aparsells@elp-inc. com and Claudia Cohen, claudiacohen10@gmail.com Congratulations to all our classmates who received a J.D. and have passed their state bar examinations! Kylie DeMaria, J.D., graduated from Lehigh with a B.S. in economics and was a member of the Women in Business club and a part of the Tri-Alpha Honors Society. She just graduated cum laude from Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law in May 2022. She is practicing in the real estate group at Troutman Pepper and just passed the Pennsylvania Bar Exam. She is thriving in Philadelphia, Pa. Sarah Horne is graduating from Rutgers School of Dental Medicine in 2023. She will be attending University of Pennsylvania Orthodontics as part of the Class of 2025. She is excited for her next chapter! Sam Bencheghib is co-founder of Make A Change World, a media outlet and environmental organization dedicated to promoting sustainability as well as solutions and innovations to plastic pollution. He is also co-founder of Sungai Watch, an environmental organization with operations throughout Bali and in Java, Indonesia. From July 26, 2019, to Feb. 1, 2020, Sam completed his run across America to raise awareness about plastic pollution. While on this journey, he met with as many people as possible, including school students, business owners, small town mayors and state governors, to educate on this issue. This year, he was recognized as the 2022 Young Alumni Award honoree as part of Lehigh’s Distinguished Alumni Awards. Since graduating from Lehigh, Kevyn McConlogue has had many great experiences. She had the opportunity to serve as a youth development specialist with the Peace Corps in Morocco from September 2019 until March 2020, when her service was cut short due to COVID-19. After returning to the States, Kevyn buckled down and studied for the LSAT and pursued a paralegal certification in hopes of gaining experience in the field. After receiving her certificate, she worked as a paralegal at a law firm in Philadelphia for the year prior to starting law school. During her time at the firm, Kevyn got to serve clients in need of representation in areas of personal injury, asbestos, medical malpractice, mass tort and product liability. In August 2022, Kevyn
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