CLASS NOTES

1977

James Taylor ’77 has retired from teaching but is kept quite busy with his artistic endeavors and travel. Jim is working on his art full-time and just completed an exhibition of his work in Palm Springs, California. Three of Jim’s sculptures and one of his paintings from that exhibition are pictured here. Jim is also playing guitar with local jazz ensembles in Palm Springs. Last summer, Jim and his wife Brooke were in Portugal, Spain, and Italy. While in Italy, Jim was part of an artists’ residency in Corciano. Next up are Greece, Croatia, and the Czech Republic.

1982

Jeff Harrison ’76 recently published a fascinating essay in the magazine The Common telling the story of the Harrison family’s connection to Marcel Duchamp, the 20th century avant-garde artist – Jeff’s great-aunt (his grandmother’s sister) was married to Duchamp – and recounting the journey of one of Duchamp’s works from its gifting to Jeff’s grandparents through its restoration and donation to the Cincinnati Art Museum. “The Story of a Box” is available online at thecommononline.org and contains hyperlinks to works by Duchamp and other artists and a very old film clip of Henri Matisse at work, taken by Jeff’s great-grandmother.

Jeff, a member of the CCDS Arts Hall of Fame (Class of 2022), is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Between Lakes. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize volumes, and many magazines, including The Common

1994

After 20 years of service around the world in the Air Force, Charles Edwards ’94 has come back to Ohio. In October 2022, Charles took over as the chief enlisted manager and Major Command enlisted intelligence functional manager at Air Force Material Command Headquarters at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. In this position, Charles oversees enlisted intelligence manning and utilization for 13 bases while also shaping the future of the entire enlisted intelligence force (representing thousands of Airmen). This new position caps a career serving in Illinois, Alabama, Texas, Germany, Arizona, Hawaii, and California, and including years of combat operations in the Middle East and African theaters. Here, Charles is shown in his current Air Force picture and receiving an award on deployment in 2012.

Jessica Taylor Neary ’82 and Betsy Stix ’82 got together recently in Ojai, California, where Betsy is serving her second twoyear term as the town’s mayor. Stix defeated Anson Williams – best known for his role as Potsie Weber in the 1970s sit-com Happy Days – to retain her office.

Andy Magenheim ’82 shares that he has recently taken on the role of board president of the Hamilton County Board of Developmental Disabilities.

1998

Tricia Knowles Brown ’98 and Marc Brown welcomed their son Luke Knowles Brown on March 28, 2023. Jack ’35 is thrilled to be an older brother.

2009

Jesse Deane ’09 and Marshall Deane welcomed Edward “Irby” Deane on February 1, 2023.

2011

Greg Dick ’11 and Sarah Ross were married early in 2022, and they welcomed their son, David, on March 18, 2023. Greg, Sarah, and David live in the Columbus, Ohio area, where Greg practices law with Carpenter Lipps and Sarah teaches English at Westerville Central High School.

2012

Nathan Adams ’12 and Caileen Tallant-Adams welcomed their son, Forrest on September 9, 2022. Nate and Caileen met at Trinity University (San Antonio), where Nate earned a bachelor’s degree in geoscience with a minor in urban studies and Caileen majored in music composition and chemistry.

Nate earned a master’s degree in landscape architecture from UC (DAAP) in 2019 and is currently a landscape designer at Viox & Viox. Nate and Caileen own a music school in Ft. Thomas, Kentucky: Tallant Music School. Caileen runs the school’s daily operations, overseeing a faculty of 10 teaching more than 200 students.

2012

Katie Slovacek (Leonard) ’12 and Steven Slovacek welcomed Maximus Theodore on March 7, 2023. Pictured with big sister Hailey ’32

2013

Shashank Jejurikar ’13 and Alyssa Marino were engaged just before Christmas 2022 after a four-year courtship. Shortly thereafter, Shashank received his master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University, with a concentration in international economic policy. Shashank is a fellow at The Cohen Group, a strategic advisory firm based in Washington, D.C., where he advises multinational clients in global business development, market-entry, and regulatory affairs.

2016

Siddarth Jejurikar ’16 has just finished his first year at Harvard Law School and will be interning this summer in the Washington, D.C. office of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a non-profit litigation group focusing on racial justice issues and civil rights. Sidd expects his work will focus on the group’s housing and community development project, where he will write legal research memoranda, help with litigation, and work on regulatory advocacy.

2020

Eashwar Kantemneni ’20 just finished his third year at the University of Pennsylvania where he is majoring in neuroscience and preparing to apply to medical school. At Penn, Eashwar has been conducting research into traumatic brain injury; he will continue that work this summer.