GS Class of 2012
Emily Dellenbaugh and Kyle Droniak were married on Sept. 7 in Guilford, Conn. Emily was on the Brown sailing team, many members of which were there to celebrate, as well as alumni friends and family, including Fariha Ali ’10, James Barry ’16, Susan Scavone Benz, Brad Dellenbaugh ’76, Elizabeth Gordon Dellenbaugh ’87, Spencer Dellenbaugh ’24, Sally Evans ’11, Victoria Wilson Foster, Lauren Bosso Kowall, Nate Myers ’08, Ashley Noble ’13, Nikolas Osvalds ’11, ’12 ScM, Megan Grapengeter Rudnick ’17, Yoojin Rhee, Cecilia Strömbeck ’11, and Elizabeth Barry Swanson ’11
Niki Osvalds ’12 ScM and Heather Myatt were married on Sept. 9 in Montreal, Canada. Heather and Niki were introduced through Brown Sailing friends Emily Dellenbaugh ’12 and Elizabeth Barry after Heather, Emily, and Elizabeth met training together during a campaign for the 2016 Olympics for sailing in the 49erFX. Emily and Elizabeth were there to celebrate along with Tucker Adams, Pan Chaudhury, Ashley Noble ’13, Sam Speroni, Fred Strammer, Max Straus, Mark Towill, Amy Walker ’16 MD, Mike Yanagisawa ’13.
Samuel Franklin’s ’12 AM, ’16 PhD book, The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History, was published in April 2023. The book is substantially based on his Brown dissertation on American Studies.
Katherine Burgess ’09 ScM, ’12 PhD, has been awarded the Heinrich Award from the Microanalysis Society for her distinguished technical contributions to the field of microanalysis. A geologist with the U.S. Naval Research Lab, she is currently the lead investigator for a NASA Apollo next-generation sample analysis program.
Anna Watkins Fisher ’09 AM, ’12 PhD, an assistant professor of American culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and coeditor of the second edition of New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader, published The Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance. Acknowledging the difficulty for artists in the twenty-first century to effectively critique systems of power, she theorizes parasitism—a form of resistance in which artists comply with dominant structures as a tool for practicing resistance from within.
Christine Baumgarthuber ’09 AM, ’12 PhD wrote Fermented Foods: The History and Science of a Microbiological Wonder, which will be coming out March 15, 2021, from Reaktion Books.
Nate Wardwell married Jared Misner in November. Adam Katz officiated, while Joshua Linden and Timothy Parsons ’15 ScM were groomsmen. Also in attendance were Brook Achterhof ’15; Duane Barksdale ’17 Jeffrey Baum ’15; Natalie Diacovo; Drew Hansen ’15; Margaret Hanson; Dara Illowsky; Ryan Joudeh ’16, ’17 AM; Raghava Kamalesh; Russyan Mabeza ’15; Noah Prestwich; Derek Shay ’16; and Ben Simon ’11,’12 ScM.
Obituaries
Christopher M. Collins ’12 MPP, of Stamford, Conn.; Jan. 29, unexpectedly, in the American Airlines Washington, D.C., plane crash. After earning his bachelor of science in education degree from UMass Dartmouth, he taught middle school in North Attleboro, Mass. With a passion to influence education policy at a broader scale, he earned his master’s in public policy at Brown, then worked at New York City’s Office of Management and Budget. He then worked as an analyst at Moody’s Investors Service, focusing on how public money could be used to support higher education. He eventually became a senior analyst and vice president. He enjoyed the outdoors and had a lifelong affection for animals. He especially enjoyed walking the dogs at Lucky Dog Refuge in Stamford, Conn. He is survived by his wife, Jennifer Thomas; his parents; a brother; a niece and nephew; his mother and father-in-law; and aunts, uncles, and cousins.
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