Janis Nelson N. I received an A. I married Tom Nelson in and divorced in No kids. Kept the name. I married Jim Ruxin in We live in Los Angeles. We have 3 children: Julia, 25, and twins David, 22 and Liz, As of the date of our reunion, Liz will have graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans on May 20th with a degree in Communications with a minor in Psychology and David will have graduated from the University of Virginia In Charlottesville on May 21st with a degree in Leadership and Public Policy.
We are somehow managing to attend both graduations. Julia has been working in NYC for a start up tech company called Unified and as of the date of our reunion she will have transferred to their Los Angeles office. As of the date of our reunion the likelihood is that we will have gone from empty nest back to full house. I opened their LA office in and am based in Beverly Hills.
I am also currently doing some consulting with the Sundance Institute. I get a great deal of satisfaction from working with all these organizations and am very proud of what they do. Remarkably or maybe obviously among my closest friends and colleagues in LA are classmates Doris Abrahams and Maia Danziger. Doris, Bill Clarkson, Maia and her soon to be husband Michael Pressman are all very dear to me and Jim, and we love having them in our lives. We also remain in close touch with classmate and lifelong friend Ruth Katz, with whom I traveled quite literally from preschool through college.
And through Judy Gruber I became reconnected with classmate Myrna Margulies Breitbart, her husband Billy and their children, whose friendship we have enjoyed over the years. Joe recently retired from his position as policy advisor at Kaiser Permanente, where Chris still works.
I treasure the memory of our friendship every day. I really, really, really miss her. I confess that last summer and fall I was giddy with anticipation, thinking about our reunion, the remarkable path we have been traveling since , missing those we have lost but looking at all we would have to celebrate.
