Welcome Back, Wren Rogers!

Wren Rogers writes: I'm sorry that I won't be able to make it to the upcoming reunion, but you asked what I've been doing-- so here it is:

I graduated from Yale with a degree in architecture and headed out to Rice University to pursue a Masters. However, before I finished my studies I ran off to Bogota, Colombia, with my former husband, Mario Noriega, a Colombian architect and urban planner. I lived there for 24 very exciting years. During that time my husband and I started what continues to be a successful design and planning firm. I also became a professor at the University of Los Andes, a wonderful, magical school high on the slopes of the Andes. I taught design and the history of architecture there for several years, and then moved on to be the Curator of Architecture at the Bogota Museum of Modern Art. I returned to Los Andes as Dean of the School of Architecture and Design in 1996. In 2000 I came back to the United States with my sons, Thomas and David Noriega. I got a PhD in the History of Architecture from Binghamton University (SUNY) in 2005, and then moved briefly to New Mexico as a resident scholar at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center. In 2007 I moved to Alabama, where I am now Associate Dean at the College of Architecture, Design and Construction at Auburn University. My son Thomas graduated from Harvard in 2006 and is now in San Francisco pursuing a doctorate in biochemistry at USF. David graduated from Brown in 2007 and is in Manhattan working for the Civilian Complaint Review Board of the City of New York; he plans to start law school next fall.

That's it in a nutshell. I'm happy as a sand clam in Alabama, where I live in a house with a world-class back porch and a huge, venerable white oak in the back yard. I am privileged to work at a wonderful school surrounded by remarkable, accomplished colleagues and smart, creative young men and women. My sons are awesome. All in all, very satisfactory.