Class Note 1994

I’ve got lots of happy news to report this summer, but I’ll start by breaking the news that our very own People’s Most Eligible Bachelor Sam von Trapp is officially off the market. He was married to Elisa Maya Sepulveda this past May in a chapel on the grounds of the von Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont. The happy couple will be living at the property, where Sam is working on mountain bike trails and snowmaking and the Trapp Hill Brewery. 


In new-baby news I’m happy to report that Diem (Do) Bloom gave birth to Minh Walter Bloom on April 2. Andrew and I had the pleasure of attending the baby shower in N.Y.C. in February, when we got to visit with Diem and her husband, Dave, as well as meet her parents and many brothers and sisters, which was a lot of fun. Diem is returning to work soon as production manager for the law division at Oxford University Press, where she has been working for the past four years. 


Also in April Lexie Riley Bonitatibus and her husband, Peter, welcomed their second daughter, Isabella Alessandra Bonitatibus. She joins older sister Lira Atalanta, who is 19 months old. Writes Lexie, “We can’t wait to bring Isabella and Lira to Dartmouth for our class reunion next year. We still live in our log home in Saratoga Springs, New York, a great place for our kids to grow up loving the outdoors. Peter and I work at GE and I took a promotion last summer at GE Energy in cost control. We love being parents and look forward to teaching our kids all sorts of things through the years.”


And speaking of teaching all sorts of things, Robert Bordone reported that he was recently promoted to the rank of full clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School. Bordone, who is the founding director of the school’s negotiation and mediation clinical program, is now the Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard, where he teaches courses in dispute resolution and negotiation.


Which leads me to my last bit of news, poached from Facebook. Shoshana Leis recently posted the following as her status update and it caught my eye: “MSU [major status update]: Ben and I are in the final stages of negotiating our contract to be the rabbinic team of Congregation Har Shalom in Fort Collins, Colorado. We plan to leave in the end of July. Goodbye, N.Y.C. beat. Hello, Rocky Mountain high.”


Mazel tov and congratulations to everyone for all the happy news and worthy accomplishments.


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