The Alumni Magazine for Worcester Polytechnic Institute. (WPI)
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classnotes Brooke (Buchholz) Tropf '04 recently started a new job with Omitron, working at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center. Brooke is on the Flight Operations Team for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. She continues enjoying life in Maryland with her husband, Zach. Erica Abrahamsen '05 married Michael Sabia July 7, 2012, on the shores of St. Lucia. Maid of honor was Lauren Abrahamsen '02. The happy couple resides in Springfield, Mass. Matthew Black '05 earned his PhD in chemical engineering at U.C. Santa Barbara in November 2011. William Caulway '05 (MS OIT) says, "After 20 years at EMC Corp. as senior portfolio manager, and four years at Clark University as IT deployment manager, I am currently working in the UMass systems office in Shrewsbury, Mass., as a service performance analyst. I have two daughters (junior and freshman honor students at Assumption College) and a 19 son at Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School. I worked with the Red Cross delivering aid during Katrina in New Orleans, and I'm currently active with the Appalachian Mountain Club, maintaining the Midstate Trail." 19 Greg Krane '05 married Farleigh Layfield in Newport, 20 R.I., in August 2012, with many fellow members of WPI's Sigma Pi Chapter present. After returning from their Hawaiian honeymoon, they moved to Westerly, R.I. Greg works as the medical director at VCA Turco Animal Hospital in Westerly, and Farleigh works as an associate veterinarian at VCA New London Animal Hospital in Waterford, Conn. They look forward to meeting other WPI alumni in southern New England. Front row, Matt Eaton '06, Sean Scheriff '06, Farleigh and Greg Krane, Doug Alexander '95, Melissa Alexander, Samantha Shields '06; back, Frank Gerratanna '04, David Carchedi '04, Sigma Pi chefs Billy Dolan and SueAnne Dolan, and Patrick Shields '05. 20 Mary Schubert '05, '10 (MS MFE), (second from left), Cristal Chan '10, Elizabeth McCoskrie '07, and Amy Cochis '91, were swift enough to earn medals in the 14th Annual Pratt & Whitney Runway 5K Run and Walk, where 100 percent of the proceeds go to support the United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut Community Investment fund. Congrats to all on well representing both your company and your school for a good cause! Patrick Spencer '05 is serving in the United States Peace Corps while attending Michigan Technological University as a Peace Corps Master's International graduate student studying environmental engineering. He is serving in Madagascar with his wife, Raegan, who is completing research on applied natural resource economics. His close of service is expected in 2014. Winter 2013 89