Sharon Karlsberg ’92

Hello fellow Toads! After 15 years with my firm, ZS Associates, I decided to create my own sabbatical program to spend the summer with family. And what a summer it was! In 5 weeks, Craig, Zachary (age 11), Wyatt (age 8), and I covered over 5,200 miles in our 1990 VW Westfalia camper van. We […]

Katie Ballou Calhoun ’83

I will soon raise a glass to 15 years at Calhoun & Company Communications — a PR, marketing and digital media agency for the wine and spirits industry. While my kids are old enough to mix cocktails with, they have chosen their own careers. Natalie is the Environmental Manager of King’s Canyon and Sequoia National […]

Dawn Murray ’89

I was invited to the Kingdom of Bhutan as a professor in the BSc Environmental Science and Management Program at The Royal Thimpu College (RTC). I took a leave from my job as Chair of the Undergraduate Program at Antioch University Santa Barbara and my sons, 13 and 11 years old, and I have been […]

Karl Kroeber ’67

I have a new granddaughter, Noa, now 21 months, who is, of course, brilliant and beautiful, walking and talking up a storm, and absolutely terrific, except that she lives in St. Louis, which means a long slog every couple of months when the overwhelming need to “see that little girl” hits us. Amazing and wonderful. […]

Sarina Patel ’10

I’m in my last semester now at Middlebury College–due to graduate in February. Last spring, I completed a year-long geology thesis on the magmatic history of a volcano in New Zealand (where I studied abroad), and I will be presenting my research at a conference in October. Last summer, I spent a fantastic three months […]