The Alumni Magazine for Worcester Polytechnic Institute. (WPI)
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62 Fall 2014 class notes Amy Jackson competed in the US Rowing Masters Nationals in Grand Rapid, Mich. "It was an amazing experience and it is great to be on a team with other WPI alums!" she writes. (See group photo on page 58). Justin and Katrina (Van de Berg) Mattern welcomed their daughter, Evelyn Grace, to the world on Jan. 13, 2013, weighing 8 pounds, 12 ounces and measuring 19.5 inches long. She is the granddaughter of Hans Renier Van de Berg '79 and niece of Rebecca Mattern '10. 2007 Sam Feller, aka "The Awkward Engineer," announces a new product—the Model AWK-105 Analog Voltmeter Clock, a desk clock with 1950s retro appeal. Sam says, "It features dual analog meters to tell time (one for hours and one for minutes), powder-coated sheet metal construction (no cheap plastic!) and knob selector switches to set and adjust time. See it and sign up for product updates at awkwardengineer.com." 2008 Mary Kate Toomey walked the 26.2-mile Jimmy Fund Marathon, which benefts the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. "I moved to Newton this summer," she reports. "Only two more classes until I fnish my MBA at UMass Amherst! In July I completed my frst full year at Consigli Construction Co." 2009 Vineet Barot is a fow analysis engineer at Hydro-Thermal Corp. in the Madison, Wisc., area. Steph Carlyle lives in Bellingham, Mass., and works for Intertek Group, PLC. Paul Kassebaum ('12 PhD PH) was elected to the board of directors of the Artisan's Asylum in Somerville, where he organized a robotics competition as part of the 2014 Cambridge Science Festival. 2010 Katya (Mayboroda) Moran writes, "This summer Paul Moran '08 ('10 MS EVE) and I celebrated six blessed years of marriage and the birth of our baby girl, Alina. Paul is enjoying his work as a project engineer at Tighe & Bond. I taught math and science at a junior high school for 2.5 years, and now tutor from home. We settled in Springfeld, Mass., in a charming 'gingerbread' house, close to my family. We have been youth group leaders in our church in West Hartford for three years. Life is full and exciting!" '07 Lauren (MacMath) '07 and John Beckos '02 got married on Aug. 2, 2014, on the top of Winter Park Ski Resort in Colorado. They were both members of the WPI Ski Team, and their shared love of skiing brought them both to Colorado. They got engaged while mountain biking in May of 2013. They have maintained many of their friendships made while at WPI and were excited that so many alumni were able to attend, including '07 classmates Joseph Guzman, Nicholas LaBue, Ashley (Mossa) Michael Lalli, Albert LaValley, Ashley (Mossa) Lindeman. Also attending were Jeremy Parker '98, Josef Scherpa '98, Justin Bourgette '02, Justyn Garon '02, Gina (Colangelo) Aquilano '03, David Deroche '03, Robert Kilgus '05, Jeremey Lindeman '05, Jonathan Longabucco '06, Courtney (Nowill) Pennington '06, Tiffany (Wong) Smith '06, Julie Buffam '08, and Michael Brown '08. Send your class note to classnotes@wpi.edu. Images welcome!