1993 Class News

Darcia Kunkel ’91 released both paperback and kindle versions of her debut book, 40-Something and Fried in April. With humor and honesty, Darcia documents the ups and downs of a 40-something mother of three, wife, author, and editor. A former military spouse, she writes on topics including motherhood, Christian inspiration, military spouse transition, practical cooking, and the struggles of perfectionism.

You can find this and more in the Spring 2017 edition of the Illinois Wesleyan University Magazine – the excerpt above was on page 32. 

Darcia asked to share this on our class page as she has many ties to the Class of 1993!

Heléna Klumpp recently joined the law firm Ivins, Phillips & Barker as a partner in its Washington, D.C. office. Heléna, who has over 20 years of experience as a tax lawyer, is now a member of the firm’s corporate tax and tax policy practice groups. She and her husband, Bill Emery, and their children, Catherine and Joseph Emery, relocated to Vienna, Virginia from Evanston, Illinois, where Heléna had been serving as VP-Tax for Baxter International Inc.

Fox News Oscar Expert Tariq Khan was the top-scoring pundit predicting the Academy Award winners on the website Gold Derby. Khan tied for first place out of 30 of Hollywood’s best-known Oscar experts from major media outlets, including Entertainment Weekly, Fandango, Rolling Stone, USA Today and Vanity Fair. Unfortunately, his predictions failed to help his classmate Dean Jukovich win his office Oscar pool.

 A link to the story is below.

http://www.goldderby.com/article/2017/oscars-2017-joyce-eng-tv-guide-tariq-khan-fox-news-michael-musto-out-com-top-all-experts-predicting-winners/

Marie Tarbell Zahorick ’93 finished her Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing in 2015 and is attending Purdue University-Northwest graduate school for her Family Nurse Practitioner Master’s degree.  She will graduate in summer 2018. She also recertified with her 10-year International Board Certified Lactation Consultant exam in 2015.

David Priess PhD ’93, a former analyst and daily intelligence briefer at the CIA, wrote a Washington Post feature in response to the great public interest in 2016-17 in the intelligence briefings that the president and president-elect get:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-presidents-daily-brief/2016/12/29/eeb4bbec-c862-11e6-8bee-54e800ef2a63_story.html?utm_term=.8e6bb1f654b3

Priess also was interviewed by Public Radio International.

http://www.pri.org/stories/2017-01-04/trump-s-public-disagreement-intelligence-community-unprecedented-and-adversarial