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----- From January 2009 AALFNY Newsletter -----

Avis de Décès: Marie-Laure (Mlingui) Koré ('87) informed us that her sister Simone (Mlingui) Tchimou passed away on June 27, 2007.

----- From July 2008 AALFNY Newsletter -----

● For news on Amelie (Fabienne) Nothomb, click on link below.

● For news on Claudia (Strage) Castaybert, see Andre Castaybert's message under class of 1982.

----- From December 2007 AALFNY Newsletter -----

Halimatou Youssoufou wrote: "I live in Abidjan with my husband, Daniel and our three children: Tamibé Eliakim (12 years), Salamatou (9 years), and Iahlii Oumarou (5 years). For those who knew my father, I would like to let you know he passed away on october 24th 2007 in Abidjan after a long battle with kidney cancer. I am a gynaecologist and I practice in many clinics in Abidjan."

● "Christina Hardt is an award winning photographer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles....[She] produced, directed, wrote and shot Death in El Valle, an investigation of her grandfather’s political murder in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.....In 1995, [she] received a Distinguished Achievement Award from The Educational Press Association of America for ‘Poverty in America’. In 1994, she received a Merit Award in Journalism from the Society of Publication Designers for ‘Condition Critical: America's Health Care System in Crisis.’....[She] was raised in NYC by her mother and grandmother, Spanish exiles who fled the Franco dictatorship. She studied at the Lycée Français de NY where she graduated with a Baccalaureate in Philosophy and Mathematics. She then attended Connecticut College where she earned a B.A. with Honors in English and Theater. Hardt also attended the School of Visual Arts." (From: http://www.cmhardt.com/about/biography.htm)
Click on links below for Christina’s website, and for her film’s website.

----- From June 2007 AALFNY Newsletter -----

● "Prior to founding Vinci Capital, Dr. Christian Waldvogel was a Partner with Viventures in Paris. He has also been an Investment Director with Intel Capital as part of the 'founding' team of Intel Capital Europe. Dr. Waldvogel has been actively investing in Europe with a focus on France, Germany and Switzerland. His technical expertise is focused on the telecom, security, broadcasting and semi-conductor industries. Dr. Waldvogel has also occupied management positions in business development and strategic marketing at Intel Corporation in Munich and at the European Telecommunications Satellite Organization (EUTELSAT) in Paris. Mr. Waldvogel holds a Ph.D. in Cryptography and a Master’s Degree in Telecommunications from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. He also holds a Bachelor of Science and Engineering from Princeton University (US) and a Corporate Finance Seminar Certificate from INSEAD (Paris)." (From: Vinci Capital, http://www.vincicapital.ch/)

Nadine Pantano Ph.D., is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History, University College of London, University of London.

----- From December 2006 AALFNY Newsletter -----

Avis de Décès: Adel Pakzad (See Milestones/In Memoriam section for further details, or click on link below.)

Geneviève Bax-Mejia "stopped working for the Echo Foundation last March to start a new carreer as VP at Bank of America, in Charlotte."

● "Marc de Saint Phalle and his wife Karen had a fun reunion dinner with Georges de Laire ('85) this summer in NYC. Also this fall, Marc and Karen and their children, Claire and Remy, got together one weekend in the country with Frederic Duby ('84), his wife Suzana, and their two children, Sophia and Nicholas."

------- From February 2006 AALFNY Newsletter -------

Geneviève Bax-Mejia wrote: "My husband and I have left New York City last November for Charlotte,NC. I now work for the Echo Foundation as Project Manager, where I organize large events / functions for the high Executives from Charlotte as well as for the Mecklenburg County High Schools, for International humanitarian laureates. If you ever come down south please write me."

------ From June 2005 AALFNY Newsletter ------

Frederic Giauque, '84 has a new daughter, Ariana Giauque, born in NYC on 12/23/04.

------- From November 2004 AALFNY Newsletter -------

Geneviève Bax-Mejia nous ecrit: "Apres tant d'annees, je crois que je vais finalement revoir Frederic Giauque, Phavie Leang et Frederic Duby... J'espere qu'a la prochaine reunion de mon annee je serai la, car j'aimerais vraiment renouer les contacts avec certains copains jusqu'a maintenant 'perdus de vue'!"

Christophe Dupont wrote: "As of last September, I've been appointed Director, Renault Design Barcelona, and as my new title suggests, have relocated to Barcelona with wife and three children...anyone living in Barcelona is welcome to contact me." [His email address is available upon request from the LFNY Alumni Association]

------- From Winter 2003-2004 AALFNY Newsletter -------

Jessica Stephens lives in Paris and is a lecturer at the University of Angers specializing in XXth century poetry. She also teaches at Sciences-Po. She writes: “I went to the French Lycée in New York after having lived for a very long time in London (I was also at the Lycée there). I spent a year in NY, in Première from 1982 to 1983, and then went back to Paris where I took the bac, registered at the Sorbonne, decided I wanted to become a university teacher passed the Agrégation and then did my thèse. (It was more difficult than it sounds!) My field is XXth century poetry (my PhD was on Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney) more specifically I'm interested in language. I became a fully-fledged lecturer three / four years ago, got a position at the University of Angers - even though I live in Paris; I went back to the States, to Rhode Island for a semester two years ago and I taught English. I also work at Sciences-Po, in Paris, and have done several other things - translations mostly - for advertising companies or in the medical field. So I try to keep busy and travel often to in London! On and off I've seen a few classmates in Paris; I am regularly in touch with Claude Schenck who wasn't in my class but whom I've known for a long time now and I went on seeing Karine Causse whose mother taught at the Lycée for a long time. I still keep in touch with the family fairly regularly. The first few years in Paris a number of friends from the Lycée came to visit - Nadine Pantano, Claudia Strage and Cornelia Messing. Then everyone went their own way. To finish, I'd say that I really spent a wonderful, exceptional, year in NY; I only spent a year there but it taught me a lot of things!”

Gabriele Piperno writes: “Moved back to the U.S. after 16 years. Integrating with my wife and three kids in the Cowboy State [Texas]…Very different from NYC!”

------- From March/April 2002 AALFNY Newsletter -------

Emma (Skoble) Bonnet writes: “I moved to Paris 7 years ago after working in Mexico, and am taking a parental leave from my marketing job to take care of my two kids, a son, Max-Antoine, who is almost 3, and a daughter, Emily, 9 months old.”

Cornelia Messing forwarded us the following message: «We at UNIS received the sad news of the passing of one of our classmates Helene Nguyen - Ommont ‘84 in Paris on December 17, 2001. Helene leaves a spouse and a 9-year-old son, Arthur who attends the Ecole Bilingue in Paris like several other children of former UNIS-ites. Helene was the daughter of Andree Nguyen, former UNIS Faculty.»

Décès: Helene (Nguyen) Ommont passed away in Paris on December 17, 2001

------- From February/March 2001 AALFNY Newsletter -------

Frederic Giauque DDS is a dentist practicing in Manhattan. He is looking for old classmates

------- From March 2000 AALFNY Newsletter -------

Marc de Saint Phalle is engaged to be married this May. Our best wishes to him & his fiancée.

Philippe Reddan works for ING Group in Paris as an International Coordinator. He has a son- 3 yrs, and daughter-2 yrs. He is in contact with Georges McAuliffe, Francois Picard (Paris) and Christopher Pelletier (Miami). His sister Caroline Reddan ’81, a lawyer, lives in Paris; 2 children.

Karl Haspil habite la Floride et maintient son cabinet d’avocat à Miami.

Marc de Saint Phalle is V.P. and equity portfolio manager and international client account manager at Bessemer Trust Co; He is engaged to be married in May, and Father Georges de Laire ’85 will perform the ceremony
From November/December 2000 AALFNY Newsletter:

Henri Mensah now resides in Silver Springs, MD.







TOP: Emma (Skoble) Bonnet '84 (left), President of AALFNY-France, and Alessandra Gagliardi '86, President of AALFNY-USA, at a reunion
TOP: Emma (Skoble) Bonnet '84 (left), President of AALFNY-France, and Alessandra Gagliardi '86, President of AALFNY-USA, at a reunion

TOP: Véronique Jaeger ('84) with brother Frédéric Jaeger ('78) --co-Directors of Gallerie Jeanne-Bucher in Paris-- and father Jean-François Jaeger
TOP: Véronique Jaeger ('84) with brother Frédéric Jaeger ('78) --co-Directors of Gallerie Jeanne-Bucher in Paris-- and father Jean-François Jaeger
Top to bottom: Brigitte Nguyen Xuan Hop ('84), Fruzsina Keehn ('84), Christian Waldvogel ('84)
Top to bottom: Brigitte Nguyen Xuan Hop ('84), Fruzsina Keehn ('84), Christian Waldvogel ('84)
Christina Hardt ('84) and her documentary
Christina Hardt ('84) and her documentary
TOP: Amelie (Fabienne) Nothomb ('84); BOTTOM: Mostafa El Abbadi ('84)
TOP: Amelie (Fabienne) Nothomb ('84); BOTTOM: Mostafa El Abbadi ('84)