Message from the President

Fellow alumni, I'm excited to be writing to you in order to share the many great things happening at the Alumni Association in the first half of 2010.

First and foremost, we've set the date for our 2nd annual "Alumni Day" and the major reunion classes have agreed to hold their events that weekend - which will most likely make Alumni Day 2010 the largest alumni event in our history. Set your calendar for July 31st, 2010!

And of course that means reunions, reunions and more reunions. So if you are in the class of 2005, 2000, 1995 or 1990, it's your time! Read on below for information on how you can help plan your class reunion.

This spring will mark our 4th annual career education day at TJ during 8th period. If you would like to to participate in this great event at the school, by sharing your professional experiences with students, please let us know!

This spring we're planning on dusting off our National's gear for another tailgate party! The date and details have not been set, so stay tuned for more info. Tickets will go on sale soon.

I'm very excited to share with you the Partnership Fund's Alumni Capital Campaign. They have set a goal of raising $250,000.00 and I know we can do it! We had several alumni donors last year during reunions and I'm certain there are many more alumni out there that care about TJ as much as we do! Please consider making a donation, large or small, every cent counts. The best way to make a donation is directly to the Partnership Fund and you may do so by visiting their web site: http://tjpartnershipfund.org/. The Partnership's Alumni Advisory Board is looking for a few volunteers to help track down lost alums. If you have a few spare hours, please contact them to lend a hand (and a computer).

Until next time, enjoy all the snow!

Dan Soschin
Class of 1995

NEWS

Back By Popular Demand: 4th Annual Alumni Career Education Fair

Friday, April 23rd, 1:00 p.m. at TJ

Back by overwhelmingly popular demand from alumni, students, parents and TJ faculty.... Come share your professional or graduate-level success with TJ students at the FOURTH ANNUAL Alumni Career Education Fair!

The Career Education Fair provides a unique opportunity for alumni to connect with students one-on-one in a booth-style format, to share with students about the path you took toward getting to your current job or industry field (e.g. what did you major in? Where did you go to college? What do you do at your job on a daily basis? How did your TJ background help?).

TJ students will sign-up for an 8th period block (juniors/seniors in one block, underclassmen in another) to walk around the career fair, picking up information and speaking with alumni at each booth.

We seek your participation!

• We are looking for alumni from a diverse base of career fields and disciplines (including, but not limited to: medicine, science, technology, business, entrepreneurship, journalism, liberal arts, education, government, law, etc.)
• We are targeting alumni from ALL classes (1990s, 2000s) to help TJ put on an even larger and more successful fair this year!

Please e-mail Rachana Bhide (rbhide@tjhsstalumni.org) no later than February 28th if you are able to participate.

A volunteer packet will be sent to you with additional information about the event, including a cover letter to provide to your employer/graduate school informing them of your participation.

Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to once again connect with students and make a difference!

TJHSST Partnership Fund

Since it was founded in 1999, the TJ Partnership Fund has focused on fundraising from parents and corporations to fill the gap between the funds TJ receives as a Fairfax County Public School and the budget required to run a school as unique as TJ. In 2009, the Partnership Fund raised over $600,000—an impressive figure, but not enough to close this year's funding gap of $750,000.

Last year, the Partnership Fund established an Alumni Advisory Board to focus on alumni fundraising. The Alumni Advisory Board is now comprised of 15 TJ parents and alumni who have a passion for this cause:

The Alumni Advisory Board needs your help initiating the first annual TJ Alumni Fundraising Campaign with a goal of raising $250,000!

Please consider contributing a few hours a week for 2 - 4 months to find or validate contact information for 9,000 TJ alumni. Volunteers will work with an online search service, for which training will be provided. All searching can be done from home!

To get involved in this important activity, please contact Nancy Carter, Alumni Advisory Board Chair at: alumni.JeffersonPartnershipFund@tjhsst.edu.

Engrave a Brick in TJ's Millennium Courtyard

Bricks are still available in TJ's Millennium Courtyard! Proceeds support the Athletic Boosters.

Order from Athletic Boosters >

TJ-Themed 2010 Calendars, in Memory of Sebastian Hamilton ('11)

Sebastian Hamilton ('11) passed away on Sept 26th, 2009 after a three year battle with cancer. In his memory and to benefit his classmates, his mother, Trish Hamilton, created a TJ-themed 2010 calendar to raise funds for the Class of 2011.

All proceeds from calendar sales will go to TJHSST Class of 2011 to help Sebastian's friends have a grand Graduation, Prom, and ANGP!

Order online >

REUNION UPDATES

Jefferson Alumni Day: In Celebration of TJHSST's 25th Anniversary

Save the date: Saturday July 31st at TJ

Our biggest Alumni Day ever will mark 25 years of TJHSST and we welcome all Alumni to join the celebration! The school will be open to Alumni and their families to bring back those special TJ memories. There will be tech lab tours and updates on the latest going on with your #1 Nationally ranked school. Special gatherings will happen for the classes marking their upcoming Anniversaries:

• Class of 1990: 20 year reunion
• Class of 1995: 15 year reunion
• Class of 2000: 10 year reunion
• Class of 2005: 5 year reunion (Note: final reunion date not affirmed for Class of 2005 yet)

These classes are also looking for volunteers to help plan their reunions. Please see the reunions section of the TJHSST Alumni website for contact information.

So turn on that iphone or blackberry and save the date! Detailed information on this special 25th Anniversary Alumni Day will be available later this year.

Class of 1999 10-Year Reunion Recap

The Class of 1999 held their 10-year reunion Thanksgiving weekend (November 27th-28th, 2009) complete with unparalleled attendance and revelry!

Over 60% of the class showed up to three amazing events including:

• A private bar night with a special performance from the rock band, ReRee, featuring Andy DeMartino '99, Matt Hoffman '99, Conor Lastowka '99, Andrew Kilpatrick '99*, and John Walgren!
• A potluck picnic at TJ with special guests Ms. Gecan, Ms. Gullickson, and others!
• A catered, formal reception at the Westin Arlington Gateway that lasted until the wee hours of the night!

Needless to say, great times were had by all! In fact, attendance was so high, we were able to make a healthy donation to the TJ Partnership Fund and TJ Alumni Association! Check out all the details on the class webpage http://tjhsstalumni.org/classpages/99.

Special thanks to the Reunion Committee for all their help:
Aaron Zafran, Ben Grosz, Christine Lee, Billy Meyers, Matt Osborne, Chris Ouk, Kristi Sims, Cecilia Marshall, Micah Boster, Tim Dumm, Leslie Braitsch, Ginny Yang, David Wadden, Maggie Sullivan, Sam Davies, Sam Fraser, Leah Luck, Juliana Beauvais, Sarah Bowman, Ben Shuman, Danielle Gebhard

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

Jason Hintz Llopis '89

High school hobbies/activities: Student Government, Newspaper, Football

Undergraduate education: University of Virginia

Current job:

• Producer at Disney Research. Currently working on projects to enhance experiences for guests at the Disney Theme Parks and figure out a way to share Disney stories with "The Bottom Billion" around the world (that term inspired by the book: 'The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It').
• Production Manager at Walt Disney Animation Studios (recently completed "Bolt" November 2008 release).

Current hobbies/activities:

• Coaching my 2nd grade daughter in soccer, refereeing soccer, watching soccer - basically lots of soccer!
• Cheering for the L.A. Dodgers!
• Volunteer advocacy for equal rights for same gender families. This ranges from occasional visits to congressional offices to annoying people with my political facebook posts.
• Being a big Obama fan!

TJ student, teacher, staff member, or experience that had the most positive influence on you: Mr. Dale Rumberger who ironically has stepped out of retirement temporarily to be back as Director of Student Activities!

Current short-term goals:

• Just joined the Alumni Association to pass on the successful 20th reunion the first class of 1989 had to future classes.
• We are also in the process of adopting one or two more kids through Los Angeles County. If you are looking to adopt, check your local backyard first. There are kids around you that need a family and it sometimes is less red tape and you know more about the child's background than going overseas (that said, anyone willing to take in a child anywhere, especially from Haiti, should be applauded!).

Current long-term goals: To try to leave the world a little better off for our children. Or, at least not hand them a more polluted and globally warmed-up place!

Aparna Nancherla '00

anancherla@gmail.com
http://innerlimits.blogspot.com

High school hobbies/activities: Cross country, Indoor/Outdoor Track, AIKYA, Spanish Honor Society (I can't believe this was real), Learn to Relax (This was definitely real!).

When you were in high school, you envisioned your 2009 job to be: Beyond imagination.

Undergraduate education: Amherst College

Current job: Associate Editor, American Society for Training & Development

Current hobbies/activities: Stand up Comedy, Improv Comedy

Interesting/notable post-TJ professional experiences: NBC Stand Up for Diversity Finalist 2007, Last Comic Standing 2008

Interesting/notable post-TJ personal experiences: Dancing with my Bollywood troupe Dhoonya Dance Performance Company at the 2007 AIDS Gala in front of Sonny Bono and Ashley Judd, Getting jaw surgery.

TJ student, teacher, staff member, or experience that had the most positive influence on you: Not going to name names, but wouldn't change any of the awkwardness. *Wink*

Current short-term goals: Survive jaw surgery.

Current long-term goals: Pursue comedy to some sort of legitimate end, whatever that may be.

Should we spotlight you or someone you know? Please email mjones@tjhsstalumni.org to let us know!

ALUMNI UPDATES

Class of 1989

Ryan Early '89 and his wife Leila welcomed son Connor Ryan into the world on October 29, 2009.

Amy Corner Erwin '89 and husband Geoff Erwin welcomed daughter Margaret Avy Erwin in October 2009. She joins brother William, born February 2007.

Christina Cox Wagner '89 and her husband, Jason Wagner, welcomed their first child, Lucy Abigail Wagner, on December 10th, 2009.

Class of 1990

Sheryl Mitchell Johnson '90 has been hired by Radford University to direct the summer residential Governor's School for Humanities and Visual & Performing Arts. Radford has just recently been named the new summer host of the program for 2010.

Kassie (Dove) McMahon '90 and her husband, Matt, celebrated son Matthew Taylor's first birthday in October 2009. Kassie will be starting back to work at a new job with CACI in Fairfax, VA in February, 2010.

Class of 1991

Lisa Chapman '91 is currently living in Washington DC. In 2009, she quit her job at the Corporate Executive Board to work full time in her own business, Lisa Chapman Learning, doing training design consulting and public speaking coaching. With more freedom and control over her future, life is better than ever. When she's not working, she's traveling to see friends and family, riding her motorcycle, or studying a new topic of interest. Her life is full, beautiful, and filled with blessings - for which she is very grateful to God.

Tamara (Raubitschek) Pringle '91 and Dan Pringle '89 are enjoying their three silly kids and trying to balance life!

Nisha (Jain) Shendrikar '91 just got married on August 22, 2009 to Atul Shendrikar, a clinical trials representative.

Class of 1993

Brenda Jean (McEldowney) Foley '93 lives in NYC. She recently founded a theatre company, the CockEyed Optimists, who have been regularly producing shows. She also wrote and performed her first cabaret this fall (that may have life again in the winter) called "Then Comes Marriage." And last but certainly not least she and husband Brian are expecting their first child, a baby girl, in February.

Stacy McMahon '93 lives with his wife Louise and daughter Addison in Chantilly. Stacy helps the government keep its network running smoothly, and Louise keeps the home fires roaring. They are preparing to welcome baby Daniel in January.

Jeff Raubitschek '93 is enjoying life in Cali and working at Google.

Myles Roberts '93 left his role as a corporate lawyer four years after graduating from Virginia and returned to DC to accept a position with the FAA Office of Security where, among other things, he constantly recruits network professionals, system administrators, and programmers.

Vicky Sawyer '93 and her fiancé, Ryan Somma, are computer programmers living in a low income neighborhood in Elizabeth City, NC, where they've transformed their house from an informal computer lab for neighborhood kids to the home of an official Computer Literacy Program. Their pilot run started in November with 12 students. They bought refurbished Dells on eBay and conducted 12 classes that included hands on activities like live action bubble sorts, a computer dissection, and a defragging demonstration that used out of order comic books. The kids authored their first web pages and edited a JavaScript function. After a final test on December 17, each child's laptop became theirs to keep! Vicky and Ryan begin another session in the spring. Their current goal is to educate 100 kids and give away 100 laptops in Elizabeth City. To learn more about the program, visit the blog or view photos of the classes.

Erin (Kennedy) Weinland '93, husband, Stephan, and big brother, Baxter, welcomed another boy to the family. Tristan Robert Weinland was born on June 12, 2009 and weighed 6 lbs. 5 oz. In addition, after 11 years with BASES, Erin took a new position as a Research Director at M/A/R/C Research in Greensboro, NC in August.

Class of 1994

Lauren Hale '94 married her sweetheart Matthew Aibel at Temple Beth El in Closter, NJ on October 11, 2009. Her brother Ben Hale '90 and Jennifer Saslaw '94 attended. As Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Lauren studies social disparities in sleep and sleep disorders. Matt is a psychotherapist in private practice in Manhattan and Stony Brook, NY (www.mattaibel.com).

Courtney Shelton '94 welcomed her first baby, son Everett Miles Tillman, on November 19, 2009. Courtney and her husband live in the Washington DC area.

Class of 1995

Jonathan Betz '95 joined Yext in November. Yext is a startup founded by Howard Lerman '98 and Brent Metz '98. Jonathan also works with Sean MacIsaac '98, Ilia Mirken '01, and Kevin Caffrey '02. He's still living outside Manhattan with his wife Lisa, and two kids, Charlotte (age 5) and Jeremy (age 3).

Nirav Desai '95 and his wife, Meera, welcomed their baby girl Saiya in August, 2009. Nirav, Meera, and Saiya live in Alexandria, and Nirav recently moved to the law firm of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox in D.C., where he practices patent litigation.

Barbara Opal McCluer '95 and her husband Randy McCluer had twins on August 12, 2009. Alexander Ellis and Cecilia Charlotte McCluer are happy and healthy! They currently reside in Dallas, TX, where Barbara is a sales manager for IBM.

Steve McIrvin '95 will finish his MBA at Indiana in March and will then start working at Amazon.com. In June, they'll be having their 3rd child! Steve would love to get back in touch with alums who are living in or passing through Seattle.

Amy (Rosinski) Novak '95 welcomed a son, Nicholas, with husband David Novak in April. Amy works at Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, DC as a Naval Architect and resides in Ashburn.

Kenneth Patricio '95 is still in the midwest, telecommuting as a Recruiter for jobs primarily in DC, but now moved to Springfield, IL, where his wife Kalia is working at University of Illinois-Springfield.

Drew Polly '95 is in his fourth year as a Professor in the Elementary Education Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. In the past year, he was awarded $2.6 million dollars worth of grants from the state Department of Education to work with hundreds of elementary school teachers in the Charlotte area on improving their mathematics teaching. In his free time, Drew coaches youth soccer and is involved with local mission projects through his church.

Taylor Rowlett '95 and wife Beth celebrated the birth of their son, Harrison Cooper, in August 2009.

Class of 1996

Jennifer Adler '96 was married to Rolland Mathers in Washington DC on August 23, 2009. Dan Milstein '96 was in attendance and showed Rolland the best strip clubs in town. Rolland and Jen live in Oakland, CA, where she splits her day between botany, habitat restoration, and playing cello gigs.

Judith Lee (Chaisiri) Chi '96 founded an independent admissions and career counseling business, Scholar Strategies, and launched a program for international students interested in US university study, The Summer Scholars Program. Judith and Thomas Chi wed on October 3 and currently live in San Francisco. Several TJ alums joined them for the festivities - Meenu Bindal '96, June Liang '96, Wendy (Kwan) Bosworth '95, Adam Reese '97, Sarah Ziegler '00.

Philip Larson '96 is finishing his MBA at the University of Chicago in June at which point he will finally be capable of administering business like a true master.

Jennifer Connor Naylor '96 and Jeff Naylor got married in June at the University of Notre Dame. They met in social work school at Boston College. Two of the bridesmaids were Jefferson alumnae, Cassie Gyuricza '96 and Kristen Ankerbrandt '96. Also in attendance were Allison Fairley '96 and Kirin Surpless '96. Jennifer is working as a Child and Adolescent Therapist at a domestic violence agency outside of Boston and her husband does community organizing around family homelessness in the state of Massachusetts. They got a puppy in August and named him Lenny =)

Rob Starling '96 is living in Silicon Valley and recently left his job at Microsoft to build http://harmonious.ly/, a website to help private music teachers and students find each other.

Class of 1997

Bryan Guido Hassin '97 has returned from two years in Switzerland to lead a cleantech startup in Houston, TX. Smart Office Energy Solutions reduces office energy consumption 30% with a suite of cool technology products that affect not only the equipment they manage but also the behavior of office employees. Although the software platform is not built on Karel the Robot, Bryan hopes that his TJHSST CS teachers would be proud anyway.

Amna Nawaz '97 is still producing and reporting for NBC News, based in the network's Washington DC bureau, and just returned from a 6-week reporting trip to Pakistan. Reporting trips will go on hold in March 2010, when Paul Werdel (a fellow journalist) and she get married in downtown DC. They plan on staying in the capital city until the next adventure comes along.

Rosie Skelly '97 joined the U.S. Foreign Service in July of 2008 after 6 great years at the Department of Justice and is currently posted to the US Embassy Mexico City as a vice-consul. She's enjoying the year-round spring weather and has survived (so far) the swine flu outbreak, several earthquakes, and Mexico City's rush hour traffic. [We also hear that she will be getting married to Manuel Mendoza in November 2010 in Cartagena, Colombia!]

Class of 1998

Sandra Beasley '98 won the Barnard Women Poets Prize for her second collection of poetry, I WAS THE JUKEBOX, which will be published by W. W. Norton this April. She lives in Washington, DC, where she was awarded a 2010 Individual Artist Fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Mark Feghali '98 completed work on a History-of-TJHSST blog for TJ's Creative Writing/Yearbook teacher, Mrs. Stegall. It's wonderful to see her so happy about the whole project, so check it out! Be the first to blog your memories of TJ to preserve them for all time: http://historyblog.tjhsst.edu.

Seth Panzer '98 immigrated to Israel in 2003. He married Debora Lugarini, an immigrant from Italy, in 2006 in the Old City of Jerusalem with Michael Stevens '98, Melissa Strausberg '00, and Jonathan Mizrachi '03 in attendance. Their first daughter Eden Yahav was born in January 2008, and their second daughter Lehava Hodaya Tekhelet was born in December 2009. Seth studies and teaches traditional Hebrew and Aramaic texts and does English-language communications for Jewish non-profits, particularly Bar-Ilan University, Israel's largest and fastest-growing university.

Sarah (Young) Pinkley '98 and her husband Dale Pinkley Jr., would like to announce the birth of their first son, Isaac Makanalani Pinkley, Feb. 5th, 2009. They continue to reside in Keaau, HI.

Ashley (Hall) Shoemaker '98 and her husband Ben have moved to Nashville, TN. Ashley is a pediatric endocrinology fellow at Vanderbilt. Their daughter, Emma Grace, turns one year old in January.

Graves Tompkins '98 was married to Colleen Dixon in Santa Barbara, CA, on May 24, 2009. TJ classmates Allison Kotzin '98, James Tysse '98, and Kathleen (Coyle) Tysse '98 were on hand to celebrate with the couple, who met in graduate school at Harvard. Graves currently resides in New York and works at General Atlantic, investing in traditional and alternative energy.

Kimberly ("Kimi") White '98 married Shawn Fedinatz on March 28, 2009; the ceremony was held in Haymarket, Virginia. She also completed her law degree from George Mason University in 2009 and works for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as an attorney in Bankruptcy and Environmental Law.

Class of 1999

Ben Byer '99 is now living in San Jose, CA with his wife of a year and working as a software engineer. He spends most of his spare time antagonizing Nintendo.

Andrew De Martino '99 recently became engaged to be married to Ryan Anne Zubiaurre of Washington Township, NJ. The wedding will be held in Long Beach Island, NJ in September 2011.

Ben Grosz '99 married Emily Talley on October 3rd in Richmond, VA. A number of TJ alums joined in the celebration, including: Matt O'Donnell '99 and Cristian Vidrascu '99 (groomsmen), as well as Michael McElroy '96, Stephen Huey '99, Arvind Kannan '99, Meg Khavari '99, Derek Moore '99, and Aashoo Tandon '99. The new couple rung in the new year in Costa Rica on their honeymoon.

Class of 2000

Amy (Zimmerman) Alvarez '00 married Christopher Alvarez last year. They welcomed their first daughter, Kathryn Michelle Alvarez, on May 25, 2009. She is a joy!

Allison Crow '00 is a 2L at Berkeley Law School and is currently interning for a federal judge in San Francisco, CA.

Wes Freeman '00 married Ethel Maqueda in March 2008 (Mexico City). He is currently working at NASA Goddard as a software engineer.

Sheena (Taneja) Gill '00 and her husband Malkit Gill welcomed their first daughter, Bani Gill on July 6, 2009. Sheena has been a practicing attorney since 2006.

Cliff Hyra '00 celebrated the birth of his daughter Cheyenne on November 20 and the first anniversary of his intellectual property law firm, Hyra IP, PLC on December 22.

Rahul Singh '00 moved to Georgetown this year and is learning to play the guitar. Invites anyone passing through the village or the District to contact him for a cup of coffee.

Ted Zagraniski '00 just completed his first combat deployment with the US Army. From January 2009 to December 23, 2009, Ted's company of 175 people provided bulk ammunition resupply to more than 100 customer units throughout the southern half of Iraq. He is scheduled to attend the Army Logistics University at Fort Lee, VA, starting in early April.

Class of 2001

Amy Deal '01 defended her PhD in linguistics at UMass - Amherst and accepted a tenure-track position in the linguistics department at Harvard.

Julie Napear-Wichern '01 owns her own wedding and portrait photography business, Julie Napear Photography. Her work was recently featured on the front page of the Harrisonburg Daily News Record after shooting a wedding during the December 2009 snowfall. She and her husband Erik Wichern '00 live in the Shenandoah Valley of VA.

Jessica Phillippi '01 moved to Glasgow, Scotland, where she is working on her master's in acting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. This January, she will be doing an intensive course at Shakespeare's Globe in London.

Class of 2002

Jack Jiaqi Chen '02 recently graduated from Cornell Law School and passed the New York State bar exam. He will begin his career as an associate at the law firm Ropes & Gray LLP in New York City at the beginning of 2010.

Brian Johnson '02 is wrapping up his MDiv at Duke and will start being a full time preacher this summer.

Nick Saldivar '02 is marrying Carson Whitehead in August with Chris Hanemann '02 and Scott Breunig '02 in the wedding party and a lot of "other lunch group" TJ alums in attendance.

Beth (Gramlich) Turner '02 and her husband, Barrett, have lived in St. Louis, Missouri for the last three years and welcomed their first son, Symeon Hamilton Turner, on May 31, 2009. Beth works as a paralegal for a small law firm and Barrett will graduate from Covenant Seminary in May of 2010.

Rebecca Weber '02 will wed Arkaitz Ruiz Alvarez on September 3rd, 2010 in the basque country of Spain. Rebecca and Arkaitz currently reside in Charlottesville while Arkaitz works on his PhD in computer science at UVA.

Andy Wright '02 quit his job and will be spending six months volunteering in Uganda with his girlfriend Michelle.

Class of 2003

Julie Miller '03 just finished a year in Kuwait where she coordinated Emergency Management programs for the Army, Navy, and Air Force. She returns to Fort Lewis, WA to finish out her Army commitment.

Class of 2004

Julie Congress '04 is Co-Artistic Director of No.11 Productions, a non-profit theatre company in New York City dedicated to creating Theatre of the Unexpected. Go to www.no11productions.com for more information or watch a trailer for No.11's upcoming production of Medea.

Lauren Inouye '04 married Aaron Purcell this past summer. They're moving to Palo Alto, CA to start jobs with Deloitte (Lauren) and Citigroup (Aaron) in 2010.

Emre Ruhi '04 and Ralph Otto '04 started a t-shirt company, Teesey Tees (http://www.teesey.com), in 2009. They also play lots of Call of Duty, amongst other things, and they own at it.

Bo Zhang '04 is officially launching his photography company, Bo & Bro LLC in January with a focus on fashion and portrait photography. Over the past year working up and down the east coast, Bo has established himself as one of the leading fashion photographers in the DC metropolitan area. Bo & Bro LLC offers a variety of services for designers, models, brides. and corporate professionals. Please check out the website: www.boandbro.com.

Class of 2005

Tim Smith '05 graduated from Olin College of Engineering, outside Boston, in December. He's ringing in the new year with a new job in a new country at Boreal Genomics in Vancouver, BC. He would love to hear from any TJ sleeper cells in the Pac NW at tim@tim-smith.us.

Class of 2006

Boone Adkins '06 is a 4th year undergrad at the University of Virginia. He's majoring in electrical engineering and computer engineering and is looking for a job in the space industry. Swing dancing (lindy hop!) is his main extracurricular.

Devraj Dasgupta '06 was recently elected as Student Body President for George Mason University. He recently hosted a townhall meeting on the H1N1 virus with two of President Obama's Cabinet members: the Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and the Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Footage can be seen here: http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/289066-1.

Lauren Gilchrist '06 will marry Alex Chapin on July 24 in Charlottesville. They met at the Wesley Foundation at UVA.

John Jarvis '06 will graduate from the University of Edinburgh this June and plans to study for a degree in law at Cambridge University starting in October 2010.

Gina Siddiqui '06 is moving to Philadelphia to develop a diabetes health education program for low-income immigrant populations. She's traveling this summer and plans to start medical school in the fall. She'd love for any alum visiting Philly between now and May to drop her a line.

Class of 2007

Phil Arevalo '07 was recently elected president of Brown University's chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi Society, a coeducational literary society.

Elias Clizbe '07 has yet to meet another TJ grad who enlisted in the Army! His entry to Service was August 21st, 2009. He completed Basic and Infantry Training on December 4th and graduated Airborne School on the 18th. First stationing is at Ft. Stewart, Georgia, with the Third Infantry Division.

James Komen '07 graduated USC's film school in 2.5 years on December 18th, 2009, and is getting married on January 2nd, 2010. He is currently producing Belly Dance performance and instructional videos professionally.

Joshua Travis (Yoosin) Kim '07 is a Technical Operational Engineer at mindSHIFT technologies, an IT company that outsources IT services for small to medium size businesses. After some ups and downs, he's happily getting used to having a steady career in an interesting field!

Class of 2008

Amanda Herring '08 will be studying abroad at the University of Haifa in Israel next semester studying international relations and politics.

Your classmates want to know what you're up to! Please e-mail mjones@tjhsstalumni.org with updates for the Web site and upcoming newsletter.