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Andrew Brennan WG96 (front, crouching in blue shirt) shares: “On October 16, my partner, Louise McAlpin, and I summited Mount Kilimanjaro. During our eight days on the mountain, we ran into a group of about 20 Wharton MBA students who were part of the Wharton Outdoors Club. They were following a similar route, so we saw them on multiple occasions. What a wonderful advertisement they were for the School: a team supporting each other in a physically and mentally challenging endeavor and doing it with such grace and positivity. They certainly helped lift my spirits!”
Raimundo Martinez WG09 (left, hand and two fingers raised) recently celebrated his 60th birthday in true Wharton fashion. Festivities kicked off in Madrid with a crew of WG08 and WG09 friends, hosted by Daniela Gelleni WG09. The celebration then moved to Méribel, where Aymeric Gerin WG09 and his wife, Vero, hosted a large group of WG09s and loved ones. There, everyone enjoyed five days of partying, skiing, and more. They rented a mountain refuge for the main party and then all went skiing on Saturday wearing onesies with each person’s animal of choice.
The holidays brought some WEMBA 26s (WG02) together in New York: from left, Lieven Nuyttens, Jason Segal, Rahul Sondhi, Joanna Gordon Martin, Jennifer (Baliotti) LaForce, JP Paquin, and Joe Mecane. Another gathering in the new year included Izzy Dawood and Akiva Elias as well.
Jay Klein WG87 (third from left) writes: “Happy to report that I got married this past September. Cynthia was also widowed and had lost her spouse 17 days before I lost mine. We did travel with a group of Wharts this past July to Norway. The same group gets together every year and has done so since graduation.”
WG86 classmates reunited in New York for an unforgettable weekend in November. Clockwise from top left: Friday dinner at Orsay; Angela Nesbitt and Leslie Brooks Solomon ride the subway during a Saturday outing; Amy Allison, Carolyn Rogers, Cynthia Hall-Domine, and Glenn Rieger pose for a photo during the outing; New York Athletic Club event on Saturday evening (Photos: WG86's Doug Hyde)
Tony Larino WG94 (left) writes: “In September, Annie Thomas [WG94, floral dress] and I visited Celine and Pierre Gallix [WG94] at their new house in Menorca, Spain. It’s a lovely cottage perched above a small village harbor. You can walk ‘downstairs’ straight into the Mediterranean. I’ve been all over Spain but never before to Menorca, and I highly recommend it!”
Daphne Dickens-King WG89, Donald King WG90, and their three sons — “all four years apart, guaranteeing 12 years straight of college tuition payments!” writes Daphne.
Oliver Chen WG06 (right) writes: “I remain in New York City, where I lead a research team and work as a top-ranked retail and luxury equity research analyst at TD Cowen Securities. Alongside my research work, I’ve completed my fifth year teaching as a professor at Columbia Business School, where I lead a popular course called New Frontiers in Retail. I also lecture annually at Wharton.”
Massimo Armanini WG91 (back row, second from left) writes: “This August, Craig and Kathy Stine [WG91], Patty and John Orr [WG91], Karla Perez [WG91], Santiago Perez [WG91], Elena, and I went for our annual trip together, this year to Greece on a catamaran, cruising north of Kos. We spent long hours recharging batteries in the blue water and discussing geopolitics till early morning. Everybody is in good shape and in a good mood!”
Recently retired Francisco Martinez-Davis WG92 (back row, fifth from left) wrote in from Spain, having returned from “truffle weekend” in Alba, organized by Wharton Club of Italy leaders Paolo Alberoni WG92 and Juliet Sjoborg EE85 WG92. There were 25 friends tasting Barbaresco wine at the Castello di Neive — plus truffle hunting (and dining) despite a snowstorm!
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