Class Note 1995
More class news courtesy of Beth (Wilson) Webster: “Cristy (Nguyen) Humer and her husband, Kristian, recently moved back to New York after a few years living in London. After Dartmouth Cristy got her M.P.H. at Yale, then worked in Atlanta at the Centers for Disease Control. After a stint working in healthcare consulting in D.C., she got her M.B.A. from Duke, where she met Kristian.
“Becky Lamm Lepage, her husband, Matt, and their daughter Grace live in Wilton, Connecticut. Becky works in a private pediatrics practice, where she’s run into a few Dartmouth folks among her patients’ parents. Becky and Matt met at her sister’s marriage to his college roommate. In a wonderful twist of fate Grace was born Thanksgiving Day 2010, the same day as Christina Miyake Monkmeyer’s daughter Halle. Becky and Christina were both Tri-Delts, both went to medical school at Georgetown and both went into pediatrics.
“Christina and Bob met during her residency in Boston (he’s not in medicine and alas he didn’t go to Dartmouth so Christina has to make up for it by buying Halle more Dartmouth gear to cover up the Yale and Stanford outfits he buys her—he’s Yale undergrad, Stanford business and law). Last year Christina and Bob moved to California, where she took a position as a pediatric electrophysiologist at Stanford. She lives minutes away from Jamie and Laurie (Stucker) Halligan. Laurie was one of Christina’s bridesmaids and Halle loves playing with their daughter Paige. Jamie is an orthopedic surgeon.
“Lynae (Striker) and Hector Canales are living in Corpus Christi, Texas, with their three boys Andrew, Samuel and Benjamin. Lynae is a pediatrician in private practice and Hector is a lawyer. Deb (Healy) Gilmore, her husband Tom Gilmore ’96, and their boys Andrew and Jack are in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where they run a company called Vacation Home Rentals (www.homeaway.com)—a great website to checkout if you are interested in renting a place for vacation.
“Alison (Paris) Posner is married to Steve Posner ’91. Steve is a vascular surgeon working in Orange County, California. They have kids Maddy (5), Ethan (3 1/2) and Caleb (1 1/2). Ali got her Ph.D. at Michigan, where she met Steve, who was in his residency there. She does consulting on how children learn and develop.”
Thanks for all the great updates, Beth! A quick correction from the last issue: Nicole Vines is now director of special markets for Sterling Publishing, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble.
In other exciting news Adriana (McGrath) Clancy writes: “Mike and I are thrilled to announce the arrival of Ella “Ellie” Florence Clancy on October 30, 2010. She is a fighter already, having survived her mom’s emergency appendectomy while in utero as well as a Dartmouth reunion. Thanks to many friends she already has a solid Dartmouth jockwear wardrobe!”
I will attend my last Alumni Council session for our class in May. If there are any issues or questions you’d like me to raise, please drop me a line (and while you’re at it, feel free to include some news for this column!) This fall Joe Santos will join the council for a three-year term as our representative. Joe is doing some very cool work in New York. Pursuing his dream of making his own handcrafted spirits, he has launched Brooklyn Gin. As Joe writes on his website: “I cut, pulp and peel all of my citrus fruits. I crack open my juniper berries by hand. After we distill we fill, cork and label the bottles by hand. I go door-to-door to local bars and liquor stores to sample my gin and hand deliver every bottle.” Sounds amazing—good luck, Joe!
—Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes, 345 Commonwealth Ave., No. 8, Boston, MA 02115; kaja@alum.dartmouth.org
