RE Log - Spring 2024

62 Ransom Everglades LOG SPRING 2024 Class Notes 2015 Class Ambassadors: Tatiana Balabanis (tatianabalabanis@gmail. com), Cole McWilliams (colecola8@ gmail.com ), Carter Shoer (cartershoer@gmail.com ) The Miami Sousa Band, a professional- level concert band, presented its fifth anniversary concert on Sept. 22 at the First United Methodist Church of Coral Gables. Antonio Urrutia Mendoza (oboe), was a member of the ensemble, performing alongside his middle school band director, Cathi Leibinger, who remains an RE faculty stalwart (French horn). 2016 Class Ambassadors: Dimitri Godur (dimitrigodur@yahoo.com ), Alyssa Lloret (alyssalloret@gmail.com ), Ahan Malhotra (ahan.tm@gmail.com ), Mariana Sanchez-Medina (marianasmiley@gmail.com ), Owen Zighelboim (owen.zighelboim@gmail.com) 2017 Class Ambassadors: Franklin Civantos (fcivantos10@gmail.com ), Michael Colonna (mcolonna101@gmail.com) , Jaret Dan (jaret@danconsulting.com ), Giovanna Parra (gigip777@gmail.com ), Harrison Tandy (harrisontandy@gmail.com ), Mya Wright (Wrigh23m@mtholyoke.edu ), Laura Zaidenberg (lauzaidenberg@hotmail.com ) Katarine Birnberg and Caroline Pryor visited campus in late January 2018 REUNION NOVEMBER 2024 Class Ambassadors: Erin Bakes ( embakes@gmail.com) , Ava Dimond ( avadimond@gmail.com) , Florence Hawkins ( florencehawkins99@gmail.com) Kathleen Hutchinson ( kathleenhutch99@gmail.com ), Catherine Kolski (ckolski22@gmail.com) , Paulina Pages (PIP11@miami.edu) , Benjamin Rosenthal (ben@brosenth.al ), Ryan Sears (ryanvsears@gmail.com ) 2019 Class Ambassadors: Wesley Cusack ( wescusack5@gmail.com) , Gregori Estime (gregestime@icloud.com) , Aliya Hollub (aliyahollub@gmail.com ), Lily Karson (lilykarson@gmail.com ), Maggie McDowell (maggiemcdow3@gmail.com ), Alex Mendelson (alexjmendelson@ gmail.com ), Anderson Murphy (acm06@me.com ), Abigail Roberts (abbierobe@comcast.net ), Jake Schwartz (jakeschwartz222@icloud.com ), Calliste Skouras (callisteskouras@mac.com ) Sofia Andrade is a features intern at The Washington Post . Before starting at the Post, she was a fellow at Harvard Magazine and at The Nation , where she focused on young people in the 2022 midterm elections. Previously, she was arts chair of The Harvard Crimson . Her work has been featured in Slate, el Nuevo Herald, Popular Mechanics, the Miami New Times and elsewhere. 2020 Class Ambassadors: Olivia Byrd (ojbyrd@icloud.com) , Diego Duckenfield-Lopez (dduckenfield19@gmail.com ), Preston Edmunds (edmundspreston95@gmail.com ), Becca Fisher (beccafisher26@gmail.com) , Jack Fitzpatrick (jackfitzmia@gmail.com ), Meredith Hutchinson (meredithhutch5@gmail.com) Dozens of alumni from the Classes of 2020 through 2023 returned to Ransom Everglades for lunch with students and faculty at La Brisa on January 11, a high-spirited reunion that took place after the Young Alumni College Panel for RE’s junior class. That panel discussion on the college process and college life featured thoughtful advice and reminiscences from six alumni: Julia Buckner (Wellesley), Lucia Rose Dahn ’23 (Brown), Alex Dray ’21 (Duke), Jack Fitzpatrick (Wake Forest), Ana Gonzalez ’23 (Princeton) and Yuhan Liu ’21 (University of Pennsylvania).