June 30, 2010
Some of you may know that we gained two new teammates-Chris Weiss and Matt Pittinger. And we gained a “teammate-in-law”-Lori married Alex McIlvaine, her high school sweetheart of Wadsworth, Ohio. So that means she has a new name and email address: lori.mcilvaine@saluddelsol.org. Since the wedding, she has been enjoying her new job as an environmental engineering consultant with Tetra Tech, Inc. in Lexington, KY, where she does a variety of things, including assisting companies and other organizations to meet EPA regulations. This is her first time living in a “big city”-or at least big compared to Wadsworth, Ohio!
Lauren also recently started a new job, as an Auditor with Rotary International in Evanston, IL. She’s excited about the possible networking opportunities this will bring! The new job meant a quick, crazy move, from which she is still recovering ever so gracefully, all while still taking care of our finances here at Salud del Sol. She was crucial in our filing for non-profit status, and she also did a lot to facilitate the Wadsworth Rotary Club’s recent trip to Nicaragua.
Daniel continues his education in Europe, where he is loving playing Ultimate Frisbee, hiking, and touring the areas around Liverpool. He is doing well in his Aerospace and Materials courses, and he’s starting a dissertation project investigating airwakes created by frigate ships. He didn’t leave his volunteer-spirit behind when he went, as he has recently became involved in a charity called Link Community Development (LCD) in Liverpool, an organization devoted to raising educational standards for underprivileged children in many African nations.
Anna has been busy busy busy in Boston, working as an R&D Officer at the Innovations in International Health (IIH) program at MIT and serving as a research mentor for undergrads in the D-Lab Health class there. She also has been traveling, participating in an Executive Education program through GIFT (Global Institute For Tomorrow) in Hong Kong and Indonesia, learning about social enterprises and collaborating with other young professionals to write a business plan for cocoa farmers in Aceh, Indonesia. She also traveled with MIT undergraduate students to Ecuador as a trip leader, disseminating different appropriate technologies. AND she made time to run the Disney Marathon in January with the Distance 4 Dreams group from UD, in support of a child from A Special Wish Foundation and in memory of fellow UD graduate Dan Hauber.
Chris has been working as a Mechanical Design Engineer at ACS Industries in Ohio, working on construction equipment attachments. He loves having the chance to use his creativity to design products that meet the customer’s needs. He also recently passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Exam, making him officially an “Engineer in Training.” Outside of work, he has been training diligently to hike part of the Buckeye Trail.
Matt spent months volunteering and climbing around the Red River Gorge, Kentucky-our token team “wanderer”-whether he was climbing because he happened to be volunteering there, or volunteering there so that he could climb, we’ll never know. Since then, he has been working for Clough Harbour and Associates as an energy engineer. He especially likes the fieldwork, where he is able to go into buildings and identify opportunities for energy savings.
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