Class Note 1995
First, a shout out to some new buds on the ’95 family tree! Rachel (Wasserstrom) Scheer writes: “My husband and I planned on going to our Dartmouth reunion, but we missed it for a good reason! We welcomed our daughter Lauren Julianna Scheer on June 8. She is delicate and delicious and we are thrilled to be blessed with such a wonderfully sweet baby. I am currently on maternity leave from my position as executive administrator of obstetrics and gynecology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Most days Lauren and I are hanging out at our home in Weston, Massachusetts, enjoying life together.” Brandi (Jones) Salomone writes: “My husband and I are enjoying the birth of our fourth child, Patrick Jones Salomone, on July 17. He joins older sister Riley and brothers Gavin and Brandon. We’re trying to stay cool during the hot Florida summer. I am having a terrific time on maternity leave but plan to return to the clinical practice of endocrinology in October.”
Alyse (Kornfeld) Streicher, Sara (Wasserbauer) Carlson and Linda (Blumberg) Smith also found themselves busy with newborns around our reunion. Alyse’s son Lev Perry was born May 28, weighing 6 pounds, 12 ounces, and measuring 18.5 inches long. He joined big sisters Lilly and Maya and the expanding Streicher family has moved out of New York City (adios Upper East Side, hello big yard!) Sara welcomed her second son Casimir “Caz” Winston on June 16, at a healthy 8 pounds, 13 ounces, and 21.25 inches long. The Carlson Family lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Sara has an expanding hair restoration practice. (Check out Sara doing an eyelash transplant on national television at The Doctors website. Very cool!) And Linda writes from Alaska: “Talia joined our family in April. So far Hatcher is a great big brother and very helpful. We expect that to end any minute now!”
I’ll take the opportunity of my first column to update you on a few of our new class officers. Lou Spelios, our fantastic reunion chair, is now our class president. He works at Bryan Cave in Atlanta, where he was named one of Georgia’s 2010 “Super Lawyers and Rising Stars.” Lou joined Alumni Council this fall and is also involved with the Atlanta alumni club. Alex (Morgan) Mareiniss lives in Baltimore with her husband, Darren P. Mareiniss ’94, their 2-year-old son Marty and basset mix Winthorpe. She’s looking forward to serving as class newsletter editor, “though how to juggle that with raising a toddler is still a mystery.” Rebecca Slisz will chair our 20th reunion and is already thinking about how to top our 15th (a tough assignment)! Rebecca and her husband, Steve Blank ’89, live in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has worked at 3M for almost six years but started a new role in August as a new products marketer in the infection prevention division of 3M’s healthcare business. Outside of work Rebecca and Steve like biking, running, cooking/eating and traveling.
Finally, Laurel Shanks writes: “I haven’t written in 15 years so I guess I should start with a quick note. I’ve been living in the Washington, D.C., area pretty much since 1995. I’m an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice. My husband, Mark Wegner, and I have two wonderful and fun daughters, Daphne (5) and Amelia (1). We’ve done a lot of fun traveling over the past 15 years, including more recently baby-backpacking around Vietnam and hiking in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego with Daphne in tow (all before Thing 2’s arrival). I’m afraid we might be slowing down now, though.”
—Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes, 345 Commonwealth Ave., No. 8, Boston, MA 02115; kaja@alum.dartmouth.org
