The Latest on Bloomrose

Lt. Mike Bloomrose, JAGC, USN '02 has been working for the Multi-National Force Iraq, Task Force 134 - Detainee Operations since mid-October. Mike is the Special Release Attorney for TF-134 Legal. As the Special Release Attorney, Mike reviews requests to specially release Coalition Forces security detainees. Mike works at Camp Victory just outside of Baghdad, Iraq. He will return to the United States at the end of the Spring.

Star Tribune Hires Quintanilla

After two consecutive internships, Matt Quintanilla was recently hired by the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as a news designer.
He's already in the rotation of A1 designers but has done plenty of work in the local section, business, features and even a few stints at Vita.mn, a free entertainment weekly produced by the Star Tribune.
This is Matt's first job and he looks forward to being part of the coverage of the Republican National Convention in September. Matt worked at The Ithacan for four years in a number of positions — design editor, editor of The Ithacan Online, editor/lead designer of Year In Review and opinion editor.

Louison in the Times

Cole Louison ’00, who has been working for GQ in New York for quite a while now (he recently interviewed Ted Nugent for them) has just had his first story published in the New York Times. "Tangled Up in Blue" ran in the Times on December 2. Check it out.

Familiar Faces

The fall semester meeting of the Park Scholar Alumni Advisory Board brought a bunch of recent alums to town this weekend. In addition to being able to spend some time with Joe and Brenda (Ludwig) Geraghty (class of ’04 and ”03, respectively) and Michelle (Theis) Cuthrell ’05, I was also able to say hello to Kate Sheppard ’06, Katie Borges Farnham ’03, Brad Bisbing ’01 and Brian Dashew ’06.
Then when I was at Mass on Sunday morning, who turns up but James Sigman’98, who was in town with Anthony Iaffaldano ’99, Mike Cagnazzi ’98 and others celebrating Anthony’s 30th birthday at Maxie’s. Happy Birthday, Anthony!