In August 2010 Hareesh Khurana and his wife, Catlin Converse Khurana, welcomed their little girl Neena Ruby to the world in Boston. “She’s been a great joy to our life and we are cherishing our time together. We’re living in Medford, Massachusetts, and I’m working in technology, most recently on a mobile application startup. We try to see Mike Kim and Liz Larsen ’97 and their two kids, and Chris Nichols and his family as often as possible (which is never enough.)” Jason Duty is also a new daddy! He and his wife, Catrina, celebrated the birth of Jayla Isabelle on October 25, 2011, in San Francisco. Congratulations!


I’ve been thinking a lot about how it’s been 20 years since we were freshmen at Dartmouth: taking our freshman trips, hanging out in ‘’shmobs,’ running around the bonfire at Homecoming and, right about now, celebrating our first Winter Carnival. I spent many memorable, chilly hours working on that Grinch statue with Tamara Busch, Carol Gilchrist and other classmates and friends. In the spirit of nostalgia, I reached out to my undergraduate advisors group (go, second-floor Wheeler!) and my fellow freshman trippies (section H intermediate hiking, what was I thinking?!) for some news about what they are up to, 20 years later.

Jeff Olson and Kim (Worboys) Olson met on our freshman trip and the rest, as they say, is history. They are now living in St. Paul, Minnesota, with their three sons: Charlie and Chris (twins), 8, and Henry, 5. Jeff is a cardiologist in private practice in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Kim is a general internist at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs medical center. Kim writes: “Several times a year someone asks us how we met and we get to tell the story of how we were trip mates on the same freshman trip. We usually make our way to Hanover once a year to meet up with college friends and to visit friends from our years of residency/fellowship training at DHMC.” 


Our fellow hiker Brett Reece also went into medicine and works at the University of Colorado as a cardiothoracic surgeon. He writes: “In my surgery training I had the opportunity to work with Peter Ellman as well as Lynne Thacker ’97. Peter is now doing cardiothoracic surgery in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Lynne is still finishing up her surgery training. A little strange for us because none of us get a real job until our mid-30s.” Brett lives in Denver with his wife, Leena, and three sons: Riley, Canon and Travis. He looks forward to having them all up on snowboards in the coming months. “I continue to be amazed by the number of Dartmouth people there are out here. I feel like I see someone from Dartmouth almost every time I go up to the mountains.”


My next-door neighbor in Wheeler, Kevin Rogers is head of the science department and teaches chemistry at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut. His wife, Julie Sweeney ’93, also works at Choate, where she splits her time between the development office and admissions. They have three children: Austen, 11, Hadley, 8, and Nathaniel, 6. Thinking back on our freshman year, Kevin writes: “I don’t know if I have one memory that sticks out more than another from our freshman fall—it’s more of a jumble of football games, time in the study rooms, going to the Tower Room and trekking to Thayer Dining Hall over the frozen and ice-riddled Green.” 


The Green is certainly ice-riddled right now. Stay warm everyone, and keep your news coming!


—Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes, 345 Commonwealth Ave., No. 8, Boston, MA 02115; kaja@alum.dartmouth.org