2006 November Harker Alumni by The Harker School

NOVEMBER 2006 (VOL. 13, NO. 2)

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Updates on Harker Alumni Peter Fischer, Manny Frank, Paul Krueger, Shannon Otis and Heather Remmers. “Heck, I’d like to hear from ever yone!” he added. So check in with the alumni ofﬁce to get reconnected with your former classmate.

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The HAA is working hard to reconnect with lost alumni and have had some success using Google and Classmates.com to track down alumni who have no current address information in our database. If you are interested in spending some time trying to ﬁnd lost alumni and getting updates on their lives since Harker, please contact the alumni ofﬁce for more information. (This summer, alumni director Terry Walsh tracked down some of the alumni with notes in this edition.)

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Dawn Ratner Hakim was found via Classmates.com and responded with, “I’d love to reconnect with the Harker crowd.” She attended Harker for Gr. 7-8 and also had four siblings who attended the school – Mimi Ratner ‘79, Missy Ratner ’79, Morris Ratner ‘80 and Julie Ratner ’88.

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Celia de Benedetti has added “Harker Parent” to her Harker connections.

Kristin Marlow Quintin is the proud mother of Emma Jonette Quintin, born on 7/24/06. Marlow Quintin lives in Livermore and is a purchasing supervisor for Intevac.

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Keil Albert and Tyrone Easter met up in Las Vegas where Albert was attending a bowling tournament and Easter was working on a Supplied by Celia de Benedetti

Harker’s ONLINE BUSINESS DIRECTORY Alumni Welcome!

Harker’s new ser vice is designed to make Harker families aware of the various business interests and talents of our community. Listings are provided by Harker students, parents, faculty, staff, alumni and event sponsors/adver tisers. To view available businesses, go to www.harker.org and click on the “Online Business Director y” link. If you are interested in posting your business in the director y, please contact the alumni director, Terry Walsh, at terryw@harker.org.

since the birth of her children, Paul (5), Russell (3) and Adella (4 months). She lives four blocks from her sister Tracey Vandeweghe ’86 and is in close contact with Beth Anderson ‘83 and Sara Lundgaard Slocum ’83.

Her son Jay Warmke ’19 started kindergarten at Harker this fall.

Greg Schramm graduated from UC Davis in 1997 and spent six years in the U.S. Navy on a nuclear submarine. He is married, the father of Nea and Porter, lives in Portland and works as a project manager for a Web development company. He gets to ride his bike to work and enjoys home brewing, home construction/ remodeling, gardening, cycling and listening to music. He noted in his e-mail message that he would like to hear from classmates

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construction project. Albert said, “We had two nights to hang out and catch up. It was fun.” Tiffany Vandeweghe was found through Google and replied through e-mail with an update. She attended college at Wellesley, received her M.A. in Paciﬁc international affairs from UC San Diego, and was hired to start the Chinese language program at The Bishop’s School in La Jolla nine

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Rebecca Armstrong Cattedra was found via Classmates.com. She attended Harker Academy for Gr. 7-8. She received her B.S. in psychology from Santa Clara University, and is currently living in Monterey, working at a small civil engineering ﬁrm as a drafter/ designer/surveyor. She is very interested to hear what her former classmates are up to.

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years ago. She is currently working part time teaching at Bishop’s Supplied by Tiffany Vendeweghe

Kerry Beane ran across the alumni Web site in association with her work as the sales coordinator for ComSites West, a company that develops, owns and operates wireless communications sites in Northern California. She attended Harker Day School in Palo Alto from kindergarten through Gr. 2 and returned to the Saratoga Harker Academy for Gr. 4-6. “I really loved Major Nichols and his big dogs. To my memory there were many great things about the old school in Palo Alto, both in terms of the location and landscape and the staff who are still in my memory to this day. I am sure Harker has carried on that “Gold and Green” spirit and the high standards I remember, even as you’ve moved, grown and expanded,” said Beane.

Kelly Robinson was found via Google. She received her degree from UC San Diego and is living and working in San Francisco as the founder and principal instructor at Infusion Pilates. She was happy to be contacted by Harker and would love to be involved with Harker alumni and get updates on her former classmates. She had brief updates on her alumni siblings: Robbie Robinson ’82 owns a custom car design shop in Santa Clara, Jason Robinson ’84 lives in Los Angeles

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