Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Amber Gets Married; Broomicorns Defeated in Overtime


AMBER (Wedges) BERRY married Adam Berry ’09 on Saturday, August 13, 2011 at their church in Bedford Hills, NY.  They were blessed to celebrate with many Princeton friends: CHRISTINE GALIB and Samara Penn ’07 were bridesmaids; Brian Anderson ’09, Barry Newell ’09 and Trey Peacock ’11 were groomsmen; FRANCINE SAUNDERS was a scripture reader and Danny Scotton ’10 was their reception DJ.  Other ’08 classmates pictured include ALICE ABROKWA, KAREN BAILEY, BRYANT BLOUNT, JOHN “JT” TRAVIS and SEAN HAMMER.   ’09ers pictured include Veneka Chagwedera, Veronica Demtchouk, Tom Hurley, Matt Koch, Jonathan Lee, Bianca Love, Tom Methvin, Rachel Okunubi, Steve Sims and Will Thanheiser.

The couple honeymooned in Jamaica and then settled in their new home in New York on the Upper West Side.  Amber is the Assistant Department Chair of World Language and a middle school French teacher at an independent school in Connecticut and Adam works in finance in the city.

In August, DAN PALL amassed a broomball team full of Princetonians and friends from Washington, DC.  These upstart "Broomicorns" attended the inaugural running of the First State Broomball Invitational - a six-team, coed tournament held at the University of Delaware.  Despite showing up wholly unprepared and lacking in equipment, experience, and knowledge of many of the rules of broomball, the Broomicorns soared majestically to the tournament finals, where they defeated a travel team from Washington, DC in a thrilling overtime battle.  The Broomicorns included Dave Stopher, KATIE LAWRENCE, TOMMY CURRY, DAN PALL, Andrew Boddorff, Greg Esser, NATE MORRISON, Matt Morrison, Jason Leo, GORDON FRANKEN, Joe Ulerich, CARY MACRAE, and Holly Mcgarvie '09.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Hiking to Machu Picchu


AMRUTA NORI-SARMA finished her Masters in Environmental Health Policy from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health in December 2011, and plans to stay at Columbia as a Research Assistant. Amruta's research focuses on climate change impacts on air pollution and cardiovascular mortality. She recently co-wrote a paper on Environmental Justice and current air pollution regulations with the Director of Columbia's Climate and Health program.  The paper was published by the Joint Center for Economic and Political Studies, and a copy of the paper is available at http://www.jointcenter.org/research/white-paper-health-and-economic-benefits-of-clean-air-regulations. Amruta also enjoys her volunteer efforts through the New York Junior League, where she has been a member since last June.

KRISTEN MOLLOY recently moved to NYC after living in Chicago for three years.  In Chicago, she worked on supporting and evaluating charter schools at the Office of New Schools, where she was placed as a Project 55 Public Interest fellow.  Kristen then traveled in Europe and South America and ran several half marathons. Her favorite travel experience was hiking the trail to Machu Picchu, where she and Amruta are pictured. Kristen also loved hiking the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland, seeing the Gaudi architecture in Barcelona, and tasting the cuisine in each region she visited.  Kristen is now working in the education sector in New York City.