In September Meg Houston Maker stepped down as executive editor of a wine magazine to become consumer marketing director for Bonny Doon Vineyard in Santa Cruz, California. She writes: “I continue to live in New Hampshire with my husband, Steve Maker, who’s an exec at a medical software company, but I travel to Santa Cruz one week a month. Additionally, I’m finishing my M.A. thesis (through Dartmouth), writing a memoir of sorts about that place we call home. I hope to graduate next June.”


Our Kansas correspondent writes: “Brad Hoopes here in Lawrence, living with wife Linda and kids Ben and Annelise. Colin Mahoney lives in town with his wife, Lisa, and twin boys. This summer Colin hosted a Moonrocks reunion. Ben Moynihan came from Boston, Tim Malcolm came from L.A. and John Nason came from Olympia, Washington. We had a blast hanging out with our families, recorded a bit of music, shot off a bunch of fireworks and had a generally great time. We’re kind of looking forward to doing it again next summer, in preparation for the 25th reunion the following summer, where we’re aiming to play at the Bema!”


Skip and Nicole (Penfield) Kodak are enjoying life in Simsbury, Connecticut. Their oldest daughter Samantha attends Boston College, studying to be a bilingual teacher in South America. Madeline is in junior high school and Sophia fourth grade. Skip is a senior vice president for LEGO. His family fully supports his work! Nicole is preparing the family as they are in the process of adopting siblings from Africa. They also have two sloppy black Labs.


Peter Kobsa is married to Lyn Salsgiver ’88. They have two kids, Jessica and Alex. He works for WebMD as vice president of marketing, business intelligence. They live in Connecticut and he works in N.Y.C. 


Elliot Harvey is a high school teacher (Spanish and mathematics) at the Winchendon School in Winchendon, Massachusetts. He is also the director of its summer semester program. He is married and has three daughters. 


Ross Koller lives in Geneva. His two younger kids are at the International School and the eldest is at Wycombe Abbey School near London. They had a great summer, full of travels, camps and adventures, from the United States to Europe to Mongolia. He says, “We traveled to the USA to do some college tours. We met up with our good friends from Dartmouth Greg and Colleen (Mason) Zittel and Andy and Eileen Horne in Boston and New Hampshire. I am still trading oil, amongst other projects.”


Nancy Davis Lyness writes that she has “moved the family (two kids, three cats, two dogs) to Pleasanton, California, in June 2007 and have since adopted two rescued cats. I still work full time as a lawyer in a N.Y.C. firm, so I travel east frequently. When I am not in N.Y.C. my office is my kitchen table and my family room couch and wherever else I need to be with my kids (I’m known as ‘Laptop Mom’). I am in very close touch with Stevie Losee and Marie Trexler, who both live in San Francisco with their spouses, children and pets. My daughters and I are very active volunteers with our town’s Humane Society—we spend much of our free time biking, hiking, skating, swimming and just generally being active and outdoors. I also play on my temple softball team.”


After six years at John Snow Inc. James Robertson has moved from Boston to take up a new post with the International HIV/AIDS Alliance as the India country director, based in New Delhi.


—Wendy Becker, 2 Kensington Gate, London, England, W8 5NA; wendy.becker.87@alum.dartmouth.org; Melissa Wallshein Smith, 77 Benedict Hill Road, New Canaan, CT 06840; melissaj@optonline.net