Justin Collings

Wow, ten years since high school and still no prospect of my being employed any time soon. After the PHS wonder years I went to BYU, where I majored in English (not having learned my native language in four years at our illustrious alma mater) and Italian (nor having learned that language in two years as a missionary in and around Milan). In 2003, I married the former Lia Suttner, and we are the overwheeningly proud parents of three world-historically adorable little girls: Julia (6), Elisabeth (4), and Katharine (18 months). I graduated from BYU in 2006, after which we loaded our belongings into a make-shift trailer and slouched across the country toward old New England. For the last four years, we have lived in Connecticut, where I graduated from law school last month (see picture; the magnificent ladies in red are all mine, the older folks my grandparents-in-law) and am also working on a PhD in history. In a distant day, I hope to seek employment, somewhere, as a law professor. My long-suffering wife hopes the day is not too distant. Twenty-three hundred miles and my madcap scramble to prepare for PhD comprehensive exams in September will keep us away from the reunion next month. We will miss you. If the world lasts, I hope to be on hand for the next round of festivities in 2020.