June 2004

Mary Frances Sabo let me know that Charlotte Gerstein recently moved from California to Vermont. Charlotte is a stay-at-home mother of two beautiful children, and her husband is a professor at Castleton State College in Vermont. Earlier this year, Paul Adornato joined Maxcor Financial, Inc. in its Institutional Equity Group and will co-manage the firm’s the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) research efforts. Prior to this, Paul founded Cobblestone Research, an independent REIT research firm in New York. From 1993 – 2000, Paul served in a variety of roles in both the buy-side and sell-side, including co-portfolio manage with Aeltus Investment Management, and senior real estate analyst with Paine Webber’s REIT research team. Paul is a CFA and has a masters degree in Real Estate from MIT. Maryly Culpepper lives in Stamford, CT and recently received her doctoral degree from USC School of Music in LA. She also has a master’s degree in music from Yale. Maryly is a principal flute of the Danbury Hat City Opera and is on the faculty of the Music Source in Greenwich. She also performs with the Bridgeport Symphony and the New Rochelle Opera. Prior to that, Maryly was a principal flute with the Portugal Philharmonic, and has played piccolo with the New World Symphony. She was a New World Symphony Finalist and accepted to the Spoleto Festival. Caroline Diamond Harrison is carrying on her father’s legacy as publisher of the Staten Island Advance. She began her career at the Advance in 1984 as a college intern, working in the Lifestyle Department. Two years later, she joined the Times-Picayune as an executive-in-training. Caroline has also served as general manager of the Advance as well as the Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot-News. She was reelected to a two-year term on the board of directors of the Newspaper Association of America, which represents 2,000 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. On Staten Island, Caroline is on the board of trustees of Staten Island Academy, her high school alma mater, Staten Island Children’s Museum and the Richmond County Savings Foundation. John Lonnquist joined Piper Jaffray’s technology investment banking practice as a principal in the firm’s Minneapolis office. He will focus on the business services sector. He was previously with Deutsche Bank (Alex. Brown) for nine years in the U.S. and London, where he most recently lead its European Business Services effort. John earned his MBA from Harvard. I had sent out a call for Freshman Trip stories on behalf of the magazine. Melissa Baten Caswell wrote: On the second to last scheduled afternoon of our trip, a subgroup went off from our camp with one of our two leaders to try out some rapids. When the group did not return to the campsite by sundown the rest of us panicked and started flashing SOS signals with our flashlights. A fisherman in a motorboat saw the signals and found the "Rapids" riders – a wet, cold, scared and hungry bunch. Unbeknownst to them, the power company had opened the dam so the waters were running much faster than they could handle. They had been thrown from their canoes, and the canoes were ruined by the wild pounding of the rocks in the rapids. Luckily no one was really hurt. However, our trip was cut short, and we were shipped to Moosilauke a day early. When we arrived, our group was separated from the rest of the Freshmen, and we were told that we might not be allowed to matriculate as we had already endangered lives and destroyed school property. We were horrified.”

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