Class Notes

I’m currently in Boston pursuing an MBA at MIT Sloan before returning to Bain & Co. I’m also taking flying lessons and just did my first solo!

I moved from Santa Monica, California, to my hometown of Grants Pass, Oregon about a year ago. Started a marketing business, Bells & Whistles Agency. In my spare time I help the animal shelters and volunteer at various community events. Four grown children and six grandchildren, all very busy! Hoping to travel this summer.
 

After a career in marketing and community development, I am currently a freelance writer in Nashville, Tennessee. I’m enjoying reconnecting with classmate Valerie Samuels ’78 (at center in photo), who recently moved to the area.

In the fall of 2025, Hannah Huston married Daniel Marshall. Five of Hannah’s bridesmaids were OES classmates: Sara Eaton ’13 (MOH), Erica Massaro ’13, Anastasiya Chevtchenko ’13, Hannah Rudoff ’13, and Anna Rischitelli ’13. In attendance were multiple other OES friends, including Hannah's brother (Reed Huston ’17), Zoe Rischitelli (OES middle school ’13), Sam LeFeber ’13, Rachael Nedrow ’13, and former OES instructor Coleen Davis.

Since my last update, in 2023, quite a bit has happened! I got married on August 6, 2023 to my wife Amna Ali, who is from Toronto. OES alumni, including my cousin Imran Ahmad ’00, along with Will Meade ’00, Devin Huseby ’00, and the one and only Father Corbet Clark and his wife, Myra, attended the reception in Salem! Over Thanksgiving, we moved into our first home, in the greater Seattle area in Covington, WA. I’m now 3+ years into my life as a family physician for Optum and enjoying it greatly!

I have lived in many places since I left St. Helens Hall. I now live in the small town of Schertz, Texas. It is close to Randolph Air Force Base and San Antonio.

I miss living near the West Coast. When I lived in Boise, Idaho I met a former SHH boarder. We attended the same church and by fate we discovered we were at the Hall at the same time. I was in the Upper School and she was in the Lower School. We were both boarders. Small world!

Four friends from the class of 2020 joined together in New York City last month to celebrate Isabelle Torch '20, who competed in the 2025 New York City Marathon. They even made a sign recollecting when Isabelle chose to walk the OES Middle School mile!

Left to right: Alexa Tsai '20, who works in San Francisco and was in New York for business; Isabelle Torch '20, who works in New York City; Harper Hummelt '20, who is attending grad school in New York; and Sophie Chen '20, who also works in New York City.

Hello, fellow OESians! Have you ever wanted to taste figgy pudding? I can help! I started a small business that makes Figgy Pudding Baking Kits. These kits make great gifts and the pudding is absolutely delicious.

Please check out my business at figgypuddingkit.com. I hope these kits will find their way into many families’ homes and create special holiday memories.

Chandler Hatton ’02 just hit the one-year mark as CTO of Fairphone, a consumer electronics company committed to fighting planned obsolescence with repairable, long-lasting smartphones and headphones. Since 2023 she’s also been serving as non-executive director at Refuels, a renewable bio-methane supplier for the UK’s commercial truck fleets. Chandler has been living in the Netherlands since 2006 and is based in Rotterdam with her partner and their two children.

I got married to my husband, James, in August in Tuscany, Italy. Angela Chou (’10) and her husband were also in attendance. We live in Toronto, Canada with our two dogs.

A number of OES former faculty got together at a reunion at the home of Jack and Cathy O’Brien to honor former Head of Upper School (1993-98) Anne Cass and her husband, Dick Cass, who came west from Maine to visit friends.

• Back row: Reed Clarke, Corbet Clark, Jon von Behren, Jack O’Brien, Kris Van Hatcher, Dick Cass
• Middle row: David Streight, Myra Clark, Cynthia Doran, Debby Schauffler, Pamela Vohnson
• Front row: Sue Jensen, Lynne Sadler, Cathy O’Brien, Pat Freeman, Anne Cass, Sue Knight

Dana Lewis organized the event but was unable to attend. At the party, but missed the photo: Nancy Rubovits, Charyl Cathey
 

Nathalie and her husband Sarvesh were delighted to welcome their third child at Thanksgiving and are enjoying their first year as a family of five!

Eight alumnae from the class of '73 gathered in Portland recently to trade stories about dorm life, day-student life and all the life that has happened since we graduated. The group included (pictured, from left): Kitty Church, Anne Ellis, Sally James, Martha (Bullwinkle) Dorrell, Leann Correa, Evelyne (Griswold) Moyo, Mimi Ku and Nancy Bogue. We met at the wonderful Italian restaurant, Ernesto's, which is actually quite close to campus. People traveled from Arizona, San Francisco, Seattle, and Bend, among other places.

Viewing the 1970s through today's turmoil was a fresh take. If you weren't there, let's just remind you that we entered St. Helen's Hall as freshmen wearing uniforms and attending female-only classes with even lunch separate from the boys in Bishop Dagwell Hall. We graduated in co-ed classes, wearing jeans with a designated smoking area, called the Gazebo, on our campus. It was four years of incredible accelerated social changes and political upheaval.

A wonderful day was spent on the links at McMenamins Edgefield in Troutdale with friends, followed by dinner, as we celebrated the birthday and recent retirement of Dan McMurtry on May 25, 2025. Pictured left to right: Jim (friend of the McMurtrys), Jeff Honeyman ’73, John Sanford ’73, Chris McMurtry '75, Dan McMurtry ’73,and John Poss ’77.

Mikaelah matched into the ophthalmology residency program at Stanford–Byer’s Eye Institute. She will graduate from the University of Michigan Medical School in May 2025.

Celebrating my 50th birthday in Bora Bora, my favorite place. My husband John and I married 11 years ago and will celebrate 28 years together in February. As someone who grew up in Oregon, I’m amazed that I fell in love with Los Angeles and have lived in California since graduating from OES. Three years ago, I started my own company, Bright Triangle. We provide process improvement, business intelligence, and presentation services. I enjoyed seeing my classmates at our reunion, and I hope to see more of you in ’28.

I recently sold my home in Henderson, Nevada and have moved to an independent/assisted living facility in Sisters, Oregon. I am closer to family members, all of whom live here in Oregon. I am also closer to OES, thus enabling me to perhaps attend some events as they occur.

Laurie Huang ’10, Roong Wongsmith ’10, Cynthia Lu ’10, Joshua Hou ’10, and Mark Chou ’12 recently reunited in Taipei for Mark’s sister Angela Chou’10's wedding to her husband and fellow Stanford alumni Joshua Wong. Angela and Joshua now live in London!

I’m in my second year at Northeastern University, where I’m studying environmental and sustainability sciences with a minor in data science. I studied abroad in Thessaloniki, Greece for the first semester of my freshman year, and I joined the Northeastern Club Basketball team this past semester. I recently began an internship at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, where I’ll be working in the Automated Aquatic Facility Lab (AAF) until mid-May. I’m very excited about the chance to test and improve entirely unique systems focusing on marine invertebrate husbandry and research, as there are no systems similar to the ones used in the AAF at any other lab in the world.

I'm also looking forward to conducting my own independent research on environmental health in relation to tropical coral morphology with help from the other researchers in the lab, which could ideally be published by the end of my internship period.

I recently wrapped up my internship at Taiwan Mobile as an IT intern. Those 12 weeks were quite the journey and provided a valuable learning experience!

I had the opportunity to build a file management tool using Java and PostgreSQL, which led to a significant increase in document management efficiency. This experience taught me the importance of creating adaptable code and the value of learning new programming languages and software to develop impactful company tools.

One of the most valuable lessons I learned was the importance of effective communication. I regularly explained my progress and asked questions in Chinese and English, presented a tool demo in Chinese to the IT department, and learned the importance of understanding, listening, and adapting when working in a second language. 

My mentor, Jason Wang, and my colleagues in the IT Department gave me guidance and support that was invaluable in shaping my experience and I extend them my heartfelt thanks.