Class Notes Anne Goldman celebrated the birth of their daughter, Molly Susan Goldman, on August 5, 2014. n Katherine Ogren Lott and Stephen Lott were married October 25, 2014, in Indianapolis. They were joined by fellow Obies J. Daniel Ogren ’75, Anne C. Geddes Ogren ’76, Nicholas D. Ogren ’05, Mark Knee ’05, and Jackelyn Golden. 2009 Dragon Dreams, the first album by Emmy Brockman, has earned a Parents’ Choice Award, presented to the year’s best albums of children’s music. The album, which consists mostly of original songs—including “The Hoity-Toity Tortoise” and “Dinosaurs are for Roaring”—was made with the help of fellow Obies Alli Cynthia Guggenheim and Rachel Colwell ’10. [w] emmybrockman.com n Sarah Moon married Brent Stamey on November 29, 2014, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Toledo, Ohio. The couple met in the organ depart- ment at Indiana University while pursuing graduate degrees in music. Sarah is an administrator at Indiana University, and Brent is principal organist of St. Meinrad Archabbey. Obies in attendance included Nina Zhou ’08 and Clayton Marcinak. 2010s 2010 Rebecca Witheridge was one of 11 students at Loyola University in Chicago to be awarded the President’s Medallion for leadership, scholarship, and service in a ceremony at Navy Pier on November 14, 2014. The medallion recognizes the university’s “most outstanding students...who excel not only in Lott ‘08 (left); Goldman ‘08 Far left: Barnett ‘08; above: Moon ‘09; left: Brockman ‘09 the classroom, but also in the world, and are dedicated to helping those around them.” 2013 Carter Sligh earned a year-long choral scholarship at York Minster in England, where he will pursue a master’s degree in solo voice ensemble singing at the University of York, studying with Robert Hollingworth of I Fagiolini. Carter will be joined on the program by Lily Manshel, Matthew Benenson, and Seth Nachimson, all ’14. 2014 In her senior year at Oberlin, Elena Makansi published her first book, The Sowing. In October 2014, she followed it with the second volume in her Seeds Trilogy, The Reaping. Elena describes the series as a “hard science fiction dystopian adventure set in the futuristic, post-apocalyptic world of Okaria.” She is coauthoring the books with her mother, Kristina, and her sister, Amira. [w] theseedstrilogy.com CLASS NOTES are prepared from a variety of sources, including news media articles, press releases, notes sent to us, and TAPPAN, the online alumni community. We now include class notes in the online version of Oberlin Alumni Magazine. E-mail notes (including attachments such as photographs) to alum.mag@oberlin.edu. Send notes to Class Notes/Oberlin Alumni Magazine, 247 West Lorain Street, Suite C, Oberlin, Ohio 44074. 40