Class of 1999
Class Correspondent
- Brooke Levinson Bregman
- 1999notes@lists.brandeis.edu
20th Reunion
May 31-June 2, 2019
Hello, classmates! My trip is booked for our 20th Reunion, which will be held May 31 through June 2. Looking forward to seeing you all there.
Los Angeles resident Debbie Adler is head of sector for creative and media at the U.K. Department for International Trade. She is a member of the board for the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies program at Brandeis. Rachel Asarnow is in the second year of a Folk Arts Apprenticeship grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Through the grant, she has learned about creating traditional Jewish papercut art. Rachael Grad is a vice president at Hilton. This spring, she is showing her artwork in several shows in Toronto, where she lives with her husband and three children. Last fall, Laura (Hacker) Greenwald was one of a group of dental professionals who went on a mission to help underserved kids in Ecuador. They treated nearly 500 kids in five days. Elana (Gross) Lebolt and David Lebolt celebrated the b’nei mitzvot of their twins, Molly and Jesse, in Israel in December and in New York in January. A. David Lewis is program coordinator for the Master of Health Science degree at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Susan (Francis) Munz is a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve. She and her family, including her three children, recently moved to Nairobi, Kenya, where she will teach chemistry at a private international high school. She welcomes visitors to Nairobi to contact her at smunz44@yahoo.com. Several works by composer Rachel Peters will première this season, including “Steve” at Boston Opera Collaborative, “No Ladies in the Lady’s Book” at Utah Opera and a full production of “Companionship” at Fort Worth Opera. Stacey Stein, Heller MBA’05, and her husband, Garen Corbett ’96, welcomed their second daughter, Phoebe Skye, on July 9. Big sister Zoey is 5. The family lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Samara Taher, a family-practice physician in Chicago, has established the Dessa Taher David Preeclampsia Research Fund to honor the memory of her infant daughter Dessa, whose life was shortened by premature birth caused by preeclampsia in 2018. To date, the fund has secured more than $30,000 toward its $50,000 goal. The money goes toward research conducted by Northwestern Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. For more information, go to bit.ly/2G1WDGu.
Submit a Class NoteMay 31-June 2, 2019
Hello, classmates! My trip is booked for our 20th Reunion, which will be held May 31 through June 2. Looking forward to seeing you all there.
Los Angeles resident Debbie Adler is head of sector for creative and media at the U.K. Department for International Trade. She is a member of the board for the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies program at Brandeis. Rachel Asarnow is in the second year of a Folk Arts Apprenticeship grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Through the grant, she has learned about creating traditional Jewish papercut art. Rachael Grad is a vice president at Hilton. This spring, she is showing her artwork in several shows in Toronto, where she lives with her husband and three children. Last fall, Laura (Hacker) Greenwald was one of a group of dental professionals who went on a mission to help underserved kids in Ecuador. They treated nearly 500 kids in five days. Elana (Gross) Lebolt and David Lebolt celebrated the b’nei mitzvot of their twins, Molly and Jesse, in Israel in December and in New York in January. A. David Lewis is program coordinator for the Master of Health Science degree at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Susan (Francis) Munz is a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve. She and her family, including her three children, recently moved to Nairobi, Kenya, where she will teach chemistry at a private international high school. She welcomes visitors to Nairobi to contact her at smunz44@yahoo.com. Several works by composer Rachel Peters will première this season, including “Steve” at Boston Opera Collaborative, “No Ladies in the Lady’s Book” at Utah Opera and a full production of “Companionship” at Fort Worth Opera. Stacey Stein, Heller MBA’05, and her husband, Garen Corbett ’96, welcomed their second daughter, Phoebe Skye, on July 9. Big sister Zoey is 5. The family lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Samara Taher, a family-practice physician in Chicago, has established the Dessa Taher David Preeclampsia Research Fund to honor the memory of her infant daughter Dessa, whose life was shortened by premature birth caused by preeclampsia in 2018. To date, the fund has secured more than $30,000 toward its $50,000 goal. The money goes toward research conducted by Northwestern Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. For more information, go to bit.ly/2G1WDGu.