It was thrilling watching the Winter Olympics and knowing that there were Dartmouth alumni and students among the remarkable competitors. You may not know that we have an Olympian in our own ranks. Rachel Rochat competed in Torino on the Swiss women’s hockey team. She loved cheering on former teammates as they secured the bronze in Sochi: “It was great seeing them win and also to see how far women’s hockey has come in the past few years. There had been talk of dropping women’s hockey from the Olympics but, fortunately, that no longer seems to be the case.” 


Rachel lives in Boston where she works at a startup focused mainly on economic development in American cities. She writes: “I do keep in touch with some Dartmouth friends. We recently had a women’s hockey alumnae weekend in Hanover, so I had a chance to hang out with former teammates there. I saw Erica Puccio a few months ago and just saw my freshman-year roommate Marieke Ott a few weeks ago. She and her husband, Jose, have a rink in their back yard so I had a chance to skate with Jose and their kids (we were also joined briefly by two ’94s: Jason Fortier and Dave Shaff).


Walker Richmond, his wife, Hallie, and their sons Joseph (4) and Tucker (2) live in Charlottesville, Virginia. Walker teaches sixth-grade history at St. Anne’s-Belfield School and coaches the middle school soccer team. His favorite pastimes are gardening, taking walks with his wife and playing tag with his sons.


Any aspiring authors out there? Give Michelle Wolfson a call! She says hello from New York City, where she lives with her husband, whom she met at NYU business school, and their two kids (8 and 5). “I bounced around a lot career-wise after college, but I’ve been a literary agent now for more than 10 years, with my own agency for just more than six, and I really love it. I love helping authors get their books published and helping them manage their careers in an industry that’s facing a lot of changes and challenges. I also hear from Dartmouth writers sometimes. I can’t remember how it happened, but one recently said something that led me to tell her what year I was and it turned out she knows Kiyoe Hashimoto. Small world—how have you been? You always report on everyone else but we never hear about you!”


Thanks for asking, Michelle! Life is treating me well in the suburbs of Boston. I have two daughters, Elise (6) and Kristi (4). My husband, Dan, and I will celebrate our eighth anniversary in May. To the amusement of many who have known me a long time, we met playing softball on a church league in Boston (I should have become a jock years earlier—who knew?). I work in fundraising at WGBH and still sing quite a bit, though in recent months my steady gig has been for a pajama-clad audience nightly around 8 p.m. 


Before I close, a couple of dates for your calendars. First, the 208th meeting of the Alumni Council takes place in Hanover May 15-17. If you have any questions or concerns you’d like our councilor Joe Santos to address, please contact him at ajsantos2000@gmail.com. Second, it’s time to save the date for our—brace yourselves—20th reunion. June 19-21, 2015, we will gather in Hanover to celebrate, reminisce and reconnect. If you’d like to help get this party started, please contact our reunion chair Rebecca Slisz at rebeccaslisz@lycos.com and thanks in advance for volunteering.


Keep your news coming!


—Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes, 2 Bishops Lane, Hingham, MA, 02043; kaja@alum.dartmouth.org