1999 ANNA BLESSING KINDER After a year of photographing small farms throughout the Midwest and hanging out with farmers, I finished writing my book, Locally Grown: Portraits of Artisanal Farmers from America’s Heartland, which was published last summer. My current project, Locally Brewed, has taken me to craft breweries across the Great Lakes states. Look for it this fall! When I’m not visiting farms and breweries, I’m in Chicago with my husband, Shawn Kinder, and our 3-year-old daughter, Lucia. You can contact me at anna.h.blessing@gmail.com.


Kenny Gundle ’01 and Megan Tyler


TREY KNOLLMAN Trey recently moved to Seattle from San Francisco and continues to work in sales for Essen BioScience, a biotech company based out of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Trey and his girlfriend Nikki try to make the most of their time on the road and find themselves often on the slopes at Tahoe, cycling around Washington, and traveling.


2001 KENNY GUNDLE Kenny Gundle ’01 wed Megan Tyler last September, happily surrounded by family and friends that included many OESians. Brothers Jeff ’99 and Michael ’10 along with Adam Hewitt ’01 served as groomsmen. Honored guests included ’01 classmates (actual and honorary) Sarah King, David Westlund, Alex Ames, Jake Sunshine and Tyler Lewis. The newlyweds are living in Seattle, where Kenny is more than halfway through a residency in orthopaedic surgery.


2002 SARAH BRUMBLE Sarah Brumble is a writer and photographer for atlasobscura.com and also manages their Tumblr site.


MIKE FISH


On September 29, 2012, I married Eleanor Clagett at Silver Falls State Park. My sister, Natalie Fish, officiated a lovely outdoor ceremony. OESians in attendance were Megan Peters ’02, Luana McKinley ’02, Grant Curry ’02, Derrick Chan ’02, Baker Lyon ’02, and Jimmy Nelson ’02, who was also my best man. We were and continue to be thankful for the loving support of our family and friends!


MONICA KEMPSELL SEARS


I recently graduated with my PhD from Rochester Institute of Technology in microsystems engineering, supported by an NSF Fellowship that financed my experimental work in Leuven, Belgium. My husband, Tom, and I (married 2010) were excited to move back to the Portland area


after living in Rochester for four years. I am now working at Intel as a resolution enhancement techniques engineer. I walked at the graduation ceremony in May, which included my brother, James Kempsell ’08, earning his BS and MS in computer engineering. (PHOTO next page)


2003 HANK HIRSCH Hank graduated from Temple University School of Medicine in May and is starting a general surgery residency at Lankenau Medical Center near Philadelphia. Here we go for five more years.


MICHAEL LI I’m graduating with a PhD in applied mathematics and mathematical engineering from Princeton, and I’m jumping into the big wide world of Big Data as a data scientist at Foursquare.


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