Alumni Class Notes

Please enjoy reading the following news from the Horace Mann School alumni community, and be sure to share your own updates – or news of classmates – by writing to alumni@horacemann.org.

At age 88, Alan Patricof '52 was the oldest finisher of the 2022 New York City Marathon on November 6th. His momentous accomplishment raised more than half a million dollars for his charity, Caring Kind, a New York City organization that supports families and individuals dealing with Alzheimer’s and dementia. Alan's wife Susan passed away last January from Alzheimer's.

Roy Goldfinger ’67 appeared in a political comedy in September and October 2022 called “The Outsider” at the Way Off Broadway Theater, housed at the Cultural Arts Center in Prattsville, Alabama. The production was perfectly timed – just in time for midterm elections – and brought a hilarious look at candidates and elections.

Phil Hirschkorn ’85, lead political reporter at WMTW News in Portland, Maine, profiled Republican newcomer Ed Thelander, who is opposing seven-term Democratic incumbent Chellie Pingree in the race for the First Congressional District of Maine. You can view Hirschkorn’s report here:  https://tinyurl.com/Hirschkornreport

Bill Beer ‘89 and Greg Medow ‘90 didn’t let the rain dampen an opportunity to show off their farming skills at Ken Grouf’s ‘89 olive harvest in Sonoma County. Send us some olive oil please. 

Karen (Rosenthal) Vorschirm ’94 and husband Eric welcomed daughter Riley Faith on June 3, 2022.

Wesley LePatner ’99, Blackstone’s Global Chief Operating Officer-Core+ and Chief Operating Officer of Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust (BREIT), was recently named to Yahoo Finance’s Top 100 Women Executives list.

Lauren Tetenbaum ’03 recently donated postpartum care packages to refugee new moms and their babies via the New Neighbors Partnership with the help of I Am More Scarsdale, Scarsdale Moms, family, friends, neighbors, and even internet strangers! As she reflected on LinkedIn, “Being a new mama can feel extremely isolating — imagine that in addition to having an infant, you had to flee your home country and the life you knew to escape persecution. I am a child of a refugee, a former immigration attorney, a mother, and a social worker who works with hundreds of postpartum women, so this cause is especially close to my heart. Thank you for your support!”

Anand Bhatia ’06 recently announced that the Bhatia Development Organization and Cleghorn Capital have formed a joint-venture partnership to acquire Carolanne Terrace, a 112-unit multifamily property in Virginia Beach, Virginia for $18M.

Max Thompson ’06 has started a position as managing director and group head of the Healthcare Services Group at Synovus.

Kirsten Paige ’07 finished her Ph.D. in Music History at UC Berkeley in 2018, and, after serving as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University for three years, is now an assistant teaching professor in musicology at North Carolina State University. Her first book, Richard Wagner's Political Ecology, is under contract with the University of Chicago Press. 

Max Troop ’07 and his wife Elizabeth welcomes their first child, a son, Wesley Thomas Troop, on October 7, 2022, at a healthy eight pounds and 11 ounces. Wesley is the first grandchild of longtime Horace Mann School faculty member and coach, Rawlins Troop.

Lauren Fels Center ’09 and her husband, Jared, welcomed a daughter, Chloe Rose Center, on July 29, 2021. This past September, she was the flower girl in the wedding of Lauren’s classmate and  dear friend Jenna Wolf Grill ‘09 to Steven Grill. The group celebrated with other HM alums from the classes of ‘08 and ‘09. 

Finn Vineland ’10, a transportation planner, announced that his employer, Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning, is looking to hire transportation planners and data scientists of all experience levels. The company is looking for people passionate about expanding access to transit and helping cities strengthen their existing transit networks. Apply via the following link:   https://tinyurl.com/Foursquarejob

Nicole Dalessandro '11, a product manager, is working for fellow HM Lion Nick Gerard '10, co-founder of Norby, on a major product update, new look, and official public launch after only on year in beta. As Nicole stated, "If someone told me 15 years ago that the time I spent on the student newspaper at Horace Mann School with Nick Gerard would lead me here... I wouldn't have known what to think!"

Reporter Taylor Hatmaker of TechCrunch sums up Norby's concept as follows: "Norby's big idea is to combine services like LinkTree, Eventbrite and MailChimp into a single, affordable, subscription-based service, offering anyone who handles an online community a single solution rather than an expensive patchwork of services that have to be individually set up and managed. Norby is ideal for small brands and solo entrepreneurs, and most of its customers run less than 10-person operations. The creator tool suite is purely subscription-based and won't collect any fees like Eventbrite and other popular services." Your can check out Norby's new site here: https://lnkd.in/eY7MQuX4

Liana Mack ’11 is an award-winning writer. Her nonfiction and poetry has appeared in publications including The Cut (New York Magazine), Heroine, Dream Boy Book Club, and dirt child. She’s traveled to residencies at Atlantic Center for the Arts with Eileen Myles in Florida, the inaugural Edith Wharton/Straw Dog Writer’s Guild residency at The Mount in the Berkshires, and GilsfjodurArts in the Westfjords of Iceland. She is running away from New York City for now and looks forward to international residencies including Arteles in Haukijärvi, Finland, Gullkistan in Laugarvatn, Iceland, and SARUYA AiR in Funiyoshida, Japan. She has an erotic short story about a laid-off professional princess coming in Fall 2022 from Triangle House.

Hillary Winnick ’12 has started a new job as digital strategy and analytics manager for North America wholesale at Ralph Lauren.

Rachel Lander ’13 started a new position as a full stack software engineer at Matike, Inc.

Jesse Roth ’13 married Kelsey Wiseman of Montreal on September 4, 2022. Kelsey is an associate attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell. Jesse is the Chief Business Officer of Float Financial.

Karen Jiang ’17 has joined the growth strategy team at Charlie Health, the largest provider of virtual IOP treatment programs for teens, young adults, and families navigating mental health challenges. She shared that Charlie Health is hiring and writes, “If you're interested in joining our team, please feel free to reach out and check out our careers page:  https://lnkd.in/efjRWGGm

Jonathan Cohen ’18 has started a new position as investment analyst at Octagon Credit Investors.

In May 2022, Lauren Smith ’18 graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Kenyon College. She received the Psychology Award for Outstanding Service and highest honors for her honors thesis, “The Effect of Social Support from Parents, Friends, and Professors on College Students’ Perceptions of Academic Success.” She also received distinction for her senior comprehensive exercise, “The Effect of Social Support in Moderating Alcohol-Related Consequences in Male and Female College Students.” Lauren is now pursuing her doctoral candidacy at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology’s Combined School - Clinical Child Psychology Program.

Eric Suh ’18 was promoted to investment banking analyst at UBS.

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