FA L L 2 0 2 2 | 6 9 N O T E S from her world travels! She is now working in the Big Apple with Marc Mechanic at Meadow Partners in construction/ real estate. Lacrosse players Leigh Ann (Torcivia) Fantoni and Dante Fantoni ’13 were married in 2018. The pair moved to New Jersey and welcomed two children, Luca and Tessa. ’13Bea Dizon, 203524-4659, beadizn@gmail.com ’14Mike Ronan, michaelronan214@ gmail.com; Leah Paulson, leahpaulson22@gmail. com Hi, everyone! Leah Paulson and Mike Ronan here. Leah attended the wedding celebration of dear friend Aymée Suárez-O’Donnell ’13 and her husband, Colin O’Donnell, in May 2022 (who have legally been married since fall 2020) and got to reunite with some wonderful Lehigh friends in the Boston area. Sami Qadah and Samantha Frangos had a destination wedding on the European island nation of Cyprus in July 2022, bringing many Lehigh alumni along for the trip! Samantha and Sami met at Lehigh in 2013 but did not start dating until they bumped into each other on a serendipitous night out in NYC a few years later. Samantha is a researcher at New York University, studying plant genetics. Sami, a former president of the Lehigh Accounting Club, is currently a senior manager at PWC. They live in Astoria, N.Y. Post-graduation, Tyler Willis worked at a real estate development frm in San Francisco doing projects in Silicon Valley. Since the beginning of 2022, he has been doing artwork full time, and in addition to independent work, he has done promotional work with AmazonMusic. Feel free to email either of us anytime (leahpaulson22@ gmail.comandmichaelronan214@gmail.com) with your updates. We hope you are well! ’15KerryMallett, kerryamallett@ gmail.com It may have been two years delayed, but our ffth reunion was well worth it. It was so great to reconnect with classmates, plus lots of friends from 2016 and 2017! We have lots of class updates from the last few months with new jobs, moves and other accomplishments. Emily Drabik-Stevens moved back to her home state of Georgia and is now living in Augusta. Sarafna (Huck) Klopfer is running the NYCMarathon in November and fundraising for the National Brain Tumor Society with a goal of $10,000. She is also working as a project manager in commercial and corporate sectors forMGAC, where she oversees the construction and renovation of sensitive compartmented information facilities (SCIF) for a government defense contractor, completing 10major projects in the last two-and-ahalf years. She was also recently featured on theMGAC Impact Blog for her exceptional work. Dana Gallant got married to her husband, Taylor, in May. I was lucky to attend along with a few other Alpha Gam friends, and it was wonderful to celebrate. She and Taylor also moved to Philadelphia in July in preparation for Dana to start a Ph.D. program in sociology at Temple this fall. Ryan Bobbitt has started a new role as senior metallurgist at United Aluminum, a North Haven, Conn.-based manufacturer of cold-rolled aluminum sheet, supplying various industries including automotive, aerospace and EV development. Shannon Varcoe started a new position as VP of facilitation programming at Voltage Control, a consulting agency that helps leaders and teams thrive through change. Jessica Scott has made associate partner with IBM Consulting, taking on a new role as global sustainable supply chain executive. She will be leading the capability area globally and cross-industry to help clients accelerate their ESG impact. ’16Rachel Sholder, rachelsholder@ gmail.com Our class had a great time at our five-year reunion (really, six-year reunion since it was delayed a year) with about 50 members of our class. Sydney Bagley volunteered many hours to help organize and plan events for our class as well as run our class Instagram. We had people come from all over. Jose Alejandro Sierra and Matthew Bay traveled the farthest in our class to get to campus, from Scotland and San Francisco, respectively. Amanda Derby became engaged to Jeffrey Linehan on New Year’s Day. The proposal was romantic and private. They plan to get married in the fall of 2023 (with Samantha Kay and me as bridesmaids). Laura McCann got engaged in June to John DeAngelo, a Muhlenberg alumnus. He proposed at a local park where they had one of their first dates playing basketball—something they both love to do. They will be married on Aug. 26, 2023, in Gilbertsville, Pa., surrounded by family and friends. ’17Robert Hillman, robert.j.hillman1@ gmail.com Hello, Class of ’17! I have so much to share with you all and only so much space! To start, the weekend of June 10-12 was the Reunion. I am sure that many of the articles in this edition are also talking about it. Give them a read if you want to hear about what a great time it was! I attended and got to see so many Class of ’17 alumni back to celebrate fve years since graduation. But our class was not alone celebrating. We celebrated fve years alongside fellow alumni from the classes of ’15 and ’16 as well. Every cohort that attended were in similar situations, with the classes two years surrounding them, too, resulting in the largest gathering of alumni classes to attend a Lehigh Alumni Reunion weekend! I will absolutely share more fun activities of what happened at this event in future articles because there was a lot to say, but most importantly, I want to invite everyone to the next Reunion. I posted some photos from the weekend, and a few classmates reached out saying they did not know that they had missed this reunion. My goal is to make sure everyone knows about the next big reunion. (And I realize that means I am locking myself into a fve-year long promise to you all, but I want everyone to be there if you can!) Everyone deserves to come and have this kind of experience on campus in the beautiful spring weather with friends, food and fun. I got to connect with so many people, including Rachel Sholder ’16 ’17G (who writes the article above this one), fellow Marching 97 alumni and KKPsi brother Evan Choy ’20 (brand new correspondent for his class!) and incoming president of the Lehigh University Young Alumni Council Allison Starer (congrats!), as well as so many more people I want to list. More about Reunion weekend in the next edition, but we have couples to congratulate! After talking about a few weddings in my last article,
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