N O T E S baby girl, Lana, in May 2021. Jenn (McCusker) Baer and her husband, Ethan Baer ’11, had another baby boy, Blake, in March 2022. He joins big brother Wes. Matt Fullam’s band, The Upsides, released its frst EP, “Patterns,” with debut song “Gold Rush.” Check out The Upsides’ surf rock vibes on your streaming platform of choice, and keep an ear out for more music to come later this year! Congratulations, all! ’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. We have lots of fun updates from our wonderful classmates. Abigail Gendler married Collin Lafey ’11 on Sept. 18 in Philadelphia. It was great to celebrate with so many Lehigh friends! I, Leah, am excited to marry my best pal, Ben Dunmire ’16, in 2022 and celebrate with many Lehigh friends, including fve who are in our wedding party: Aymée Suárez-O’Donnell ’13, Oma Anidi ’15, Corey Johnson ’15, Max DeZarn ’16 and Logan Hodges ’16. We love them to pieces, and what better way to memorialize that love than to put it in print? Elle Sander moved to Ireland after Lehigh to pursue graduate studies at National University of Ireland Galway. Beginning in research on implantable polymers for cardiovascular disease, Elle is now the co-founder and CEO of Lifelet Medical, a company she formed with an interventional cardiologist to develop a more sustainable synthetic heart valve replacement that can be delivered to patients without the need for open heart surgery. Last year Elle participated in the world’s largest medical device accelerator, MedTech Innovator, and is now based between Houston and Galway as part of TMC Innovation’s HealthTech program. Lifelet is raising a seed round and recruiting, so please reach out if you’re interested in getting involved. Ekom Uko currently works as a transformation program manager in marketing at Dell Technologies, but her career didn’t start out in marketing. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and worked in the lighting and manufacturing industry at Lutron Electronics for seven years before her big transition. At Lutron, she rotated through a variety of roles, including engineering, HR and product management. Actually, while she was in HR, she had the pleasure of returning to Lehigh to recruit students, so you might have spotted her on campus during career fair seasons. As a result of her rotations, she realized her growing interest in management. In 2020, Ekom decided it was time for a change. She hopped on the Great Resignation wagon, quit her job and drove down to Austin, Texas. After a much-needed three-month break, she started at Dell and is now enjoying her new role and exploring a new city. Feel free to email either of us any time (leahpaulson22@ gmail.com and michaelronan214@gmail.com) with your updates. We hope you are staying well! ’15KerryMallett, kerryamallett@ gmail.com I hope everyone has had a good spring, and I am excited to see so many classmates at the Reunion this June! Two members of our class, Caroline Terry and Nick Demosthenes, got engaged in Philadelphia recently. I remember when they started dating junior year at Lehigh and am so excited for both of them. As always, please email me with your life updates at kerryamallett@gmail.com so I can include them in our column. ’16Rachel Sholder, rachelsholder@ gmail.com I traveled to San Francisco in early March and reunited with one of my college friends, Christopher Hunt ’19. Kaylynn Johnson and Dylan Friedgen-Veitch got married on May 15, 2021, celebrating with a micro-wedding due to COVID. They planned to celebrate their original plans with a larger celebration on July 9, 2022. Soon after, they moved to Madison, Wis., for Kaylynn’s residency in veterinary radiology. At Lehigh, Kaylynn studied chemical engineering, and Dylan studied environmental engineering. Stephanie Piscopo bought a home in Hazlet, N.J., and adopted a Labrador puppy named Nova. She is currently working as an assistant resident engineer at The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. ’17Robert Hillman, robert.j.hillman1@ gmail.com ’18Megan Olivola, meolivola@gmail. com ’19Alexis Parsells, aparsells@elp-inc. com and Claudia Cohen, claudiacohen10@gmail. com Annaliese Fernandez graduated from Lehigh with a bachelor of science in civil engineering, concentrating in construction management. From course work to holding internships in New York City, Annaliese knew she was looking for a future in general contractor work post-graduation. Her experience in the construction industry started at Enclos, where she assisted the project controls team. During her internship, she gained experience by putting together labor tracking and status reports. She worked on designing a 3-D model of a full building facade for use in installation planning and tracking. Upon graduating, Annaliese wanted to try a market outside of New York City, the city where she grew up and interned. If she stayed in New York City, she predicted that she would continue working with skyscrapers and curtain walls, stuf she had already seen. She started looking for cities where there would be more fexibility and diversity within the designs and types of projects. Luckily, she found what she was looking for in Washington, D.C. through her connections with Enclos. By August of 2019, she was moved down to her studio in D.C., starting her role as a project engineer at James G. Davis Construction. Davis is a reputable company made up of about 400 employees and strong client relationships that takes on projects in the D.C., Maryland and Virginia areas. The corporate education program at Davis allowed her to start and fnish out two projects in two years. Those projects consisted of “boots on the ground” work, managing construction teams and sequences. Further, she managed client expectations and feld team schedules and presented status reports. She ensured compliance with approvals and kept track of submitting drawing documentation. Daily life at Davis looked like dealing with exactly what was going on at the construction site and capturing the progress. Outside of work, life was continuing on through an S UMM E R 2 0 2 2 | 6 1
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