Beware, people—DAM gets read far and wide. I received the following message from Susie Lee after I put out a somewhat embarrassing note about her behavior during freshman trip in a past column: “My mom gets the alumni magazine and came over last weekend with the Sept/Oct 2010 issue asking me if I stood on tables and sang songs at Dartmouth. The thing I remember most about the freshman trip is that our trip leader killing a chipmunk that had the misfortune of running into our cabin. Then he skinned it and ate it amidst much screaming and yelling. When we all got back to Moosilauke our group reenacted the incident in a play with the remnants of the actual chipmunk carcass attached to a string. (He had dried out the skin over the cabin sink).”


Susie kindly also sent in an update. It seems after graduating from Dartmouth she attended Cornell for graduate school and also spent some time living in Japan. She finished her Ph.D. in history at Cornell in 2004 and is happy to be away from those cold Ithaca winters. Currently she is an assistant professor of history at St. John’s University in balmier New York City climes. She is also writing a social history of J.P. Morgan & Co. before the Second World War. Somewhere along the way she also married a Yalie, Greg Pak, and together they have a son, Wyatt, who recently turned 3. If we can coordinate over the increasingly crazy holiday season, I’m hoping we can get the boys together for a mini-North Mass reunion soon. 


I also received an update from Jenny (Kim) Voelker, who has returned to the States after living in London for three years with her husband, Marty, and two children Tommy and Brooke. They have resettled in Darien, Connecticut, and are looking forward to taking their children up to Hanover soon. “I see lots of Dartmouth hats and shirts worn by passersby in this town. And as such I have dug out my own Dartmouth sweatshirt (the same one that I had in college) and started wearing it again too. Green pride still lives here!”


Dawn Urbont, who lives in Los Angeles, gave birth to her second son, Sebastian Miller Corman, this past August. She wrote—to a mother of two boys—“The reality of life with two boys hasn’t hit me yet.” Take a deep breath, Dawn, it seems to only get crazier. Dawn also recently sold a TV pitch to Teen Nick, so she is one busy lady right about now.


I also received details on Michelle Serlin’s new little one; Michelle and husband Adam Hittelman welcomed son Daniel last July in New Haven, Connecticut. Congrats!


My warmest wishes for a happy and healthy holiday season and New Year to you all.


—Suzie Fromer, 26 Irving Ave., Tarrytown, NY 10591; suzanne.fromer@alum.dartmouth.org