Class Correspondent

Elisa Beth Helman has lived in Israel for 13 years. Her growing balloon décor business, Elisa in Balloonland, supplies and educates Israeli balloon artists, as well as raises the level of balloon art in Israel.

Stephen DeBoer
and his wife, Lauren, had a baby girl, Caitlin Elizabeth, on April 24, 2010, in Attleboro, Mass. Julie Swanson was married on July 12, 2008, and had a baby, Elizabeth Rose, on June 7, 2010.

Becky Sternberg Aronchick
is a stay-at-home mom with three kids — Henry (3), Alice (3) and Sally (5 months).

Garen Corbett married Stacey Stein ’99 in December 2010 in Sausalito, Calif. Garen moved to Northern California in 2009.

Matthew Ohlson teaches at the Florida Virtual School and serves as director of Camp Gator at the University of Florida. His wife, Tiffany, is finishing a doctorate. They have three sons — Gabe (6), Brady (3) and Nate (6 months).

Josh Kaplan moved from New York to Los Angeles with his wife, Joanna Kasirer, and their son, Henry, in late 2009. Josh was recently admitted to the California bar and in November 2010 he opened the Law Office of Joshua D. Kaplan, a practice focused on the health care and medical sectors.

Paula Szuchman is a page-one editor at the Wall Street Journal, where she has worked for the past eight years. She writes, “In February, Random House published my first book, which I co-authored with Jenny Anderson, a New York Times reporter. It’s called ‘Spousonomics: Using Economics to Master Love, Marriage & Dirty Dishes,’ and it’s a fun, counterintuitive approach to solving marriage’s most intractable problems by applying some basic economic principles.”

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