Class Note 1995
Drum roll, please: It’s official, we have our first ’95 baby heading to Dartmouth as a first-year student this fall! Ashleigh Brady, daughter of Evelyn Brady and Dr. Drew Brady ’96, has been accepted in the class of 2021. She plans to study a combination of art and engineering and has been an avid volleyball player through high school. Congratulations!
While on the subject of ’95 babies, we have a new one in the family. Congratulations to Kristen Foord and her husband, Peter on the birth of their daughter, Mia Caroline Capozzoli, in March. There are other ’95 babies on their way, so stay tuned for more updates as our class family continues to grow. Ashleigh, you can look forward to babysitting opportunities in 2020 at our next reunion if you’re interested!
In other congratulations, a belated one for Rabbi Owen Gottlieb, who married Abby Bellows of Vienna, Virginia, in the company of many Dartmouth friends in October 2015. Owen is assistant professor of interactive games and media at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he is also the founder and lead researcher of the initiative of religion, culture and policy for the institute’s research laboratory and game studio, the Magic Center. In 2010 Owen founded ConverJent: Jewish Games for Learning. Owen’s mobile augmented reality game, Jewish Time Jump: New Yorkwas nominated for “Most Innovative Game” at the 10th Annual Games for Change Festival in 2013.
Alyse (Kornfeld) Streicher gets a shout-out for her new job as CEO of Romemu, a Jewish community in New York that, according to its website, is “a welcoming, experiential, irreverently pious, intergenerational Jewish community that elevates and transforms individuals and communities into more compassionate human beings.” Sounds like a perfect fit for our senior class president! Alyse is also president-elect of the board of the Junior League of Central Westchester and actively involved with Dartmouth’s Alumni Council.
I’ve been on an advice kick lately (midlife soul-searching perhaps?). As we mark 25 years since the end of our freshman year, I wonder what advice we’d give our 19-year-old selves if we could. Kathryn Ross would say: “Don’t take astronomy. No matter how pretty the telescope looks, this is not the class for you!” while Jennifer Lien would advise her younger self not to take an unchallenging class: “I ended up getting a C my freshman fall for math I had done before, thinking it would be easy (and thus checking out). Big lesson for me!”
Zobediah Gonzalez has lots of counsel that still rings true today: “Don’t waste time trying to become who you think others want you to be or trying to live up to other people’s expectations. Have the courage to find the things you love to do and pursue them, no matter how impractical they seem. The time to be practical will come, this is the time to take risks. Don’t be afraid to go after what you want because you fear failure. Everyone’s definition of success is different. Decide what yours looks like and let that be your compass.”
And Linda (Albers) Serotta shared the following reflection: “When I was in law school I had tickets to meet Roy Lichtenstein at Ohio State University. I did not go because the coursework weighed down on me like a ton of bricks. Roy died shortly and suddenly afterward. I have spent 20 years chasing his paintings around the country. My advice is to meet Roy Lichtenstein. There will never be another chance. There’s a time to leave the library and to experience life.”
Keep your news coming!
—Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes, 2 Bishops Lane, Hingham, MA 02043; kaja.k.fickes.95@dartmouth.edu; Natalie Herring, 1911 Rex Ave., #41, Joplin, MO 64801; (417) 553-7419; 1995dcn@gmail.com
