Alumni Updates
Check below for updates from your fellow Alumni and see what everyone
is up to. If you would like to add your own information and/or pictures,
please send it to Meghan Houlihan at mhoulihan@jhu.edu.
Class of 1987
Bill Lyons is Director of the Center for Conflict
Management and is also an Associate Professor of Political Science
at the University of Akron. This year he has two publications coming
out: Crime and Justice (Dartmouth-Ashegate, 2006) and Punishing
Schools: Fear and Citizenship in American Education (University
of Michigan Press, 2006). He has two sons in college and is happily
married to their mother. The family lives in Akron with their dog
Annie.
Huaizheng (Henry) Cai works as a Senior Consultant
with Computer Science Corporation in Atlanta, Georgia.
Patrick Cranley and his wife and kids have resided
for the past decade in Shanghai, where he is managing director of
AsiaMedia Ltd., a marketing and communications consulting firm.
Patrick served for five years on the board of the American Chamber
of Commerce in Shanghai and co-founded the Shanghai Historic House
Association in 1998. He is searching for a copy of "The Adverntures
of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the Eigth Dimension" to screen at
our forthcoming 20th reunion...
Ping Chu works as an IT Senior Manager in Capital
One Financial (Virginia, USA).
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Class of 1988
Beth Notar
has a new book coming out with the University of Hawaii Press, Displacing
Desire: Travel and Popular Culture in China. She plans to be
in China next year with her husband Joshua and twin boys doing research
on China's emerging car culture. She looks forward to seeing and
hearing from lao tongxue, hopefully at the reunion!
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Class of 1989
James Glucksman has finally
moved back to China on a permanent basis with his dogs and everything.
He is working on a consulting assignment at Beijing United Family
Hospital.
Peter Bagley
celebrated the birth of his daughter, Fiona, 8 months ago and is
enjoying his time with her.
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Class of 1990
Gus Conroy is still working with ExxonMobil in
the "glamorous" lubricant marketing industry. His two
sons, Kiffa (Chang Neng) and Kaizen (Chang Zhi) are 11 and 8 and
excelling in both sports (like their Dad) and academics (like their
Mom). They have finally adjusted to life in the surburbs of Fairfax,
Virginia, although they discuss options in the furture which would
enable them to get back to Asia.
Dennis V. Hickey is pleased to report that my
new book, Foreign Policy Making in Taiwan: From Principle to Pragmatism
has just been published by Routledge Publishers (London: 2007).
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Class of 1991
Amy Parke Cantilina, along with her husband Tom
and her two children, Jared (9) and Anna (6), currently resides
near Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. They recently completed 3 1/2
years at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, where Tom worked as chief medical
staff in the base hospital. While Amy enjoyed the chance to travel
throughout Turkey and learn Turkish, Chinese is still her favorite
language! Amy is enjoying her days taking care of the kids and volunteering
her time in the community, and hopes to eventually return to professional
employment in the China field. She welcomes visitors any time!
Guanglei Hong is an Assistant Professor at the
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of
Toronto. He recently recieved a National Academy of Education/Spencer
Postdoctoral Fellowship. He will spend this upcoming academic year
as a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago's Sociology Department.
Noah Kupferman recently joined Merrill Lynch and
moved to Montclair, NJ. He has three children: Ben (8), Leo (5),
and Anna (2) and the family is settling into their new home.
Yin Ming is a manager of Dalian Import and Export
Co. of Yingkou Jinji garments MFG Groups.
Heather (Vierbicher) Mehta married Rahul Mehta
in India in July 2003 and they settled in the San Francisco area.
Their daughter, Anika, is a happy and active 20-month old.
Zhaomin (James) Zhong is Chairman of Eastern-bay
Investment Management Co. Ltd., Shenzhen, China, a company that
focuses on long term equity investment. They view Warren E. Buffett
as their benchmark. Last year they received more than 35% annual
return on the capital they had managed during the last three years.
Anyone interested can reach James by email at efm001@yahoo.com.cn
or zhongzm@ebay-invest.com
or by calling 86-755-88267666.
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Class of 1992
There is currently no news.
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Class of 1993
Yanzhong Huang was recently
appointed a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Among
the 75 newly elected term members in the nation, he was the only
scholar appointed from the New York area.
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Class of 1994
Tim Evans was featured in the following Baltimore
Sun article,
which explains Tim's love of Cal Ripken Jr.
Paula M. Miller has worked at the US-China Business
Council (USCBC) in Washington, DC, for the last five years. She
is senior manager in USCBC's Publications Department and associate
editor for the China Business Review, the magazine of the USCBC.
She has lived and worked in Washington since 1998, when she completed
her MA in China Studies at the University of Michigan. In her spare
time, Paula also illustrates and is creating a new comic.
Shen Hong is currently working as Shanghai Bureau
Chief of Dow Jones Newswires. He lives in Shanghai with his wife
and two-year-old daughter. He moved back to Shanghai from Singapore
in February 2006 after spending ten years on the tropical island.
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Class of 1995
Abbey Newman is Executive
Director of the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University.
In November 2005, she wed Corey Jakubowicz, who proposed to her
on the Great Wall during a trip to China.
Beiming Liu
currently lives in Philadelphia and works at the accounting firm
Ernst & Young. He has a 2 year old son and is expecting his
second son any minute!
Dennis Nguyen is the Chairman of New Asia Partners,
a Shanghai and Hong Kong-based investment firm focused on assisting
Chinese companies access the international capital markets. Mr.
Nguyen is also the vice chairman of China Huiyin Group Limited,
a Jiangsu-based household appliance and consumer electronics retail
chain store operator, and director of Wuyi International Pharmaceutical
Holdings Ltd, a Fujian-based manufacturer of speciality pharmaceutical
products. He was formerly a director of Sino Environmental Technology
Group Ltd, a China-based environmental waste management company
listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange (stock code: Y62.SI), and
M Dream China Holdings Ltd, which is the second largest mobile games
software developer in China. He is a member of the Johns Hopkins
University/Nanjing University Advisory Council. He currently lives
in Shanghai with his wife and two children.
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Class of 1996
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Class of 1997
Brock Wilson recently joined the Foreign Service
as an Economics Officer. He and his family have been assigned to
Taipei and in the summer of 2007 they will move to Hong Kong. Max
(5) and Sydney (2 1/2) are in a Chinese school and doing great.
Erin Owen is thrilled to announce the birth of
her son, Ian Christopher Owen-Riggan. He is adorable and (thankfully)
already showing the signs of being a good sleep and eater!
Matt Hill and Tiange Gao are
living in Shanghai with their son, Oliver (2 1/2). Second child
due in June 07. Matt is working for GE Healthcare as Regional Manager
- Service, Greater China. Tiange is working for ZOU Marketing, an
American sports marketing firm, as Operations Director.
Yanping (Helen) Ming
has recently joined Merrill Lynch as a Financial Advisor. She helps
high net-worth individuals and small business owners achieve their
financial objectives.
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Class of 1998
Marcie (Wakefield) Ashford has recently relocated
to the Hartford, CT area.
Scott Waldron is a Research Fellow at the China
Agricultural Economics Group at the University of Queensland, Australia.
For details see www.nrsm.uq.edu.au/caeg.
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Class of 1999
Laura Lipscomb has just accepted an Economist
position in the Policy Development Review Department of the International
Monetary Fund in Washington, DC. She will be moving to DC in mid-September
2006.
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Class of 2000
Jon Garrison
will marry Darcy Eckman on October 14, 2006 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Between Jon and Darcy, they have four children: Darcy's are Sydney
(8), Stockton (4), and Nicholas (1) and Jon's is Lucy (3).
Wang Tao
and his wife (Qiao Lei) had their first baby, Allen Wang. He is
entering his fourth year of graduate study in Sino-American relations
at Georgetown University.
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Class of 2001
Floor Perquin still lives in the Netherlands and
is working for a Chinese Language Institute. She is involved with
the teaching materials and hopes to develop more translation activities
over the next year. Next year she plans to visit China.
The years-long rommance of Kelly Kong and her
boyfriend Adam Rogers culminated in a happy marriage in May 2006.
HNC classmates Kristen Loring, Feng Wang,
and Xian Zheng (1999-2000) joined in the wedding
festivities held at the Farmington Club, Connecticut.
John Robinson recently joined Deloitte Consulting
LLP in Chicago, where he is working in the global expansion optimization
practice. The position takes him back to China on a regular basis.
Wang Lei married Shen Yin this summer, who has
just graduated from the Ph.D. program in Neuroscience at Fudan University
in Spetember and will come to the U.S. in a couple of months for
her postdoctoral research at Albert Einstein School of Medicine
in New York. Wang Lei has been doing my dissertation research in
Urban Planning at Columbia University and they will probably move
to the Bronx to facilitate Shen Yin's transition to the United States.
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Class of 2002
Kris Kvols was married to Jasmine Hong Liu of
Nanjing in May of this year. In June, they moved to the Washington
DC area, where Kris was recently sworn-in as a Foreign Service Officer.
They will leave for their first post, Seoul, in May 2007. In the
meantime, Kris will spend a short time in the Office for Korean
Affairs at the State Department, followed by several months of Korean
language training.
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Class of 2003
There is currently no news.
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Class of 2004
Chen Hao is currently pursuing his LL.M. degree
at Harvard Law School.
Liza Davis married Daniel Tobin on September 30,
2006. They met in the China Studies Department at SAIS and currently
live and work in Washington DC.
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Class of 2005
Lu Zhijuan is currently working with Dow Jones
& Company as a financial news translator.
Rena Sasaki, after traveling around Europe, East
Asia, and the US, has relocated to London where she will be pursuing
a training contract with Clifford Chance. They will be sponsoring
her through two years of law school and two years of legal training
before she qualifies as a lawyer in 2010. She will therefore be
in London for a while, so if anyone is interested in visiting Rena-
please let know!
Travis Sevy has welcomed a new edition to his
family this spring. Asher is now 5 months and almost the same size
as his big sister Mayah. Travis is starting his second year at the
Yale-China Association directing the Yale-China Teaching Fellowship
and loves all the chances he has to work with Chinese scholars and
NGO leaders. Lindsay is busy working on Mayah's Chinese, art, and
potty skills, and is also teaching piano lessons and leading a women's
service organization in New Haven.
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Class of 2006
Meghan Houlihan has moved
to Washington DC and is working for the Hopkins-Nanjing Center as
Alumni and Program Coordinator. She is very excited about her position
and looks forward to meeting all HNC Alumni.
Tabitha Mallory is
enrolled at SAIS in the China Studies Department. She is enjoying
her studies, especially Economics, and is spending her free time
as an HNC intern.
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