From Aaron Winters

From Aaron Winters:

[I've been] married since ’96 to Courtney Winters. Two kids, both girls: Seandra (7) and Quinlyn (4). I live up near the beach in Ventura, been there since 2000. I’m a scientist at Amgen, working in Research. I play drums in 3 bands and still surf as much as possible.

That’s it in a super-brief nutshell. Attached is a picture of the family from a recent trip to Santa Cruz island.

Looking forward to seeing you all next month!

Jennifer (Fearing) Mueller’s update

Well, the reunion is getting closer and closer so I figured it’s time to send in my update. After highschool I went to UCSD. I studied in Costa Rica duirng my Junior year and then graduated with a BA in Sociology in 1992.

After college, I drove across country with a college friend to Holyoke, Massachusetts. I served as a VISTA volunteer in a multi-service agency for teen mothers for about a year and a half. I then moved to Princeton, New Jersey to live closer to the man who was to become my husband. We spent 5 years there while he finsihed graduate school. I worked in social services and then in social policy research.

In March of 2000 we moved to our current location, Cincinnati, OH. We were married on December 29, 2000 and welcomed our first child, Cassandra, on December 29th, 2002.

We are expecting our second child on October 10th. For this reason, I will not be attending the reunion.

I had been looking forward to catching up with old friends and acquaintances. If there’s anyone who wants to say hello after all these years feel free to contact me at jennifer.fearing@fuse.net.

For those of you who will attend, I hope you have a wonderful time at the reunion!

Catching up with…Noel Britton

I laughed so hard when I read the part in Gabbi’s blog about “over-sharing.” I definitely have the tendency to do the same thing so I’ll do my best to keep it relatively concise.

Let’s see…I don’t think too many people would remember me from high school. I was a drama geek and way too shy but I do have many fond memories of good ol’ Chami. Among the highlights were Mrs. Rhode and Drama class, the Spring Musicals…oh, and lunch on the Senior Lawn with the other Chaminade “thespians”.

Since 1988? Well, I’ve trained in way too many colleges and acting schools, and held way too many “day” jobs for less than 5 minutes to recall (insert book here), but theatre has been great to me. I’ve been working as a resident director, choreographer, and musical theatre instructor for a mid-size theatre in the area for the last 11 years as well as being a part of a touring female musical group called The Chantilly Sisters.

I always kinda thought I’d live my life doing that, but 5 years ago I met a truly inspiring guy and within the last year, we got married, traveled through Europe on our honeymoon, and I gave birth to our daughter Violet, the most beautiful little girl in the world (in my completely unbiased opinion).

I keep in touch with Catherine Woillard and Ingrid (von Berger) Hummel from high school. They are two of my closest friends and in fact they were both “maids of honor” in my wedding. Here we are…

I’m definitely looking forward to the reunion. I’ve become sort of addicted to the blog and Facebook. I like reading up on who’s doing what and who has kept in touch with whom. Since having my daughter, the concept of time is way more relevant. I’m looking forward to seeing people and catching up with their lives…and of course reminiscing about how high and permed our hair was back in ’88, and how much fun it was to dance in big circles (with our shoes and purses in the middle) to “White Lines” in the Bob Hope Center.

From Gabrielle (Beimforde) Samuels

Well, it’s official, I’m coming to the reunion! I’ve just sent in my RSVP (better late than never).

Aah, my 1988 classmates, there’s so much I could tell you about the past 20 years, but Anna (Suarez) Tulino warned me about “over-sharing”. When I asked her if I should write about _______ or _________, she demurely responded, “I don’t think you need to tell people that.” So I won’t. I will tell you that I’m married with three kids. That was unexpected. Not that the kids were unexpected, but that I would get married and actually want kids. We live in Los Angeles in an area called Hancock Park. I studied acting at UC Irvine and really gave it my all in Hollywood for a long time, but never really got the satisfaction that I was looking for. I met my husband and got married in 1998. We have Cooper (7), Greer (5), and Chase (a girl - 21 months).

We own Wonderland Treatment Center, a drug and alcohol treatment center. Ironic, considering most of my fondest Chaminade memories include drugs and alcohol! Who knows, maybe some of you will want to come for a visit after the reunion! I’ll give you the alumni rate!

But seriously, I’m really excited to see you all, having not had the guts to go to any of the other reunions. I still keep in touch with a few of the gals, and every summer I’ve been getting together with Anna, Sybille (Canthal) Walther, Kris (Denzler) Bruce, Jessica (Krekorian) Voelker, and Tracy (Sunderland) Lagasse and all of our kids. The past two years Zettie, Monica Dimitri, Jenny (Cannon) Richter, Suzi (Hendricks) Sandoval and Jeni (Birgel) Snee joined our summer-with-kids-insanity- mini-reunion.

To be honest, I have thought about high school a lot over the years (although the Chaminade alumni crew never received a check) and I truly cherished my time there.

See you all soon,

Gabrielle Beimforde Samuels
(aka Gabbi)

From Jen (Gregory) Brey

WOW! So neat to see so many updates on all the former Class of ‘88 crew! Have had many changes since the 10-year reunion. I am a proud mom of 2 great boys - Christopher age 10 and Alexander age 7. I still keep in touch with a few Chami grad’s including Leigh (Kennedy) Bague, Tanya Mallean, Suzanne Bernel, Kelly (Fleury) Reichenberger and Jill (Durham) Stultz.

This picture is from a BBQ at Tanya’s with all our adorable kids included!

I graduated with a BA in Business Economics from UCSB and am currently working in the commercial real estate field in Signal Hill, CA.

Looking forward to a fun weekend with everyone!

Hugs
Jen