Class Note 1995
Issue
November-December 2022
Well, with our 25th reunion finally in the books, our 25th reunion book is now complete. I hope you enjoy perusing the digital pages and seeing what our classmates are up to and what they remember most affectionately from our time at Dartmouth. Remember, you can also use it to search out our classmates, so whether you want to find your fellow lacrosse players or see who else works in marketing, the reunion book is a great resource. Here are a few stories from its pages.
Josh Stein lives in Menlo Park, California, with partner Jenny and his two kids, Jackson and Charlotte. Josh has been in venture capital since 2004 and leads a company called Threshold Ventures, an active investor at the Series A stage with five funds under management. His favorite college memories? “Great friends, long walks from the River Cluster to, well, really anywhere was a long walk from the River Cluster. Zeta Psi from sophomore to senior year. Great games of Magic: The Gathering with Naval Ravikant late into the night. Teaching snowboarding at the Dartmouth Skiway.”
Nadia Bowers fondly remembers “taking African dance classes at Collis, rowing and rugby (briefly), being a part of the Untamed Shrews, foreign study program to France, my Tucker fellowship at Rosie’s Place in Boston, lots of dancing, stellar friends, getting deep in nature within minutes, working at Rosie’s coffee shop, discovering my love for theater.” She is a professional actor, working mostly in theater, with some television and film. She’s also a writer and her piece, “Dear Dealer” was featured on This American Life in 2018.
Davis and Katie (Woodcock) Kitchel still live in the Upper Valley, where they are raising their three boys, Owen, Liam, and Sebastian, who are busy with theater, speed skating, mountain biking, Nordic skiing, music, and rowing. Davis is a cofounder of Strava (strava.com), an online network where runners and cyclists can record their activities, compare performance, and compete with their community. He wrote the prototype while in Hanover and Provence, France. Davis’ favorite memory of college is rowing, “specifically winning Eastern Sprints twice and trips to Royal Henley Regatta with the team.”
Rowing also ranks high among Hillary (Agnew) Cecil’s college memories, particularly rowing on the Connecticut River at dawn. She also enjoyed running around Occom Pond, volleyball and basketball games with her Kappa Kappa Gamma sisters, and her study sessions (and naps) in the Tower Room and Sanborn. Soon after graduation Hilary moved to Denver and never left. “After teaching middle school English for several years, I moved into publishing and then went to business school for my M.B.A., where I met my husband, Adam. We have four amazing kids ages 9-16, two Bernedoodles, and a travel trailer, which we took on two separate six-week sabbaticals through many of the national parks when the kids were little. Still enjoying increasingly crowded Colorado and all our friends here, although we fantasize about a slower pace and easier access to all things outdoors in my home state of Montana. Maybe someday. For now, life is good!”
Shameem Abassy and her husband, Imtiaz Javed, live in Edgewater, Illinois, with their two children, Aydin and Zarah. Shameem’s favorite memories are “from my time spent in Berlin and London during my two foreign study programs. I also remember fondly the excitement of making lifelong friends my freshman year. I spent countless hours senior year in the basement of the Hop’s practice rooms at all hours of the day and night.”
Find more at dartmouth.bright.crowd.com/1995. Keep your news coming!
—Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes, 2 Bishops Lane, Hingham, MA 02043; kaja.k.fickes.95@dartmouth.edu
Josh Stein lives in Menlo Park, California, with partner Jenny and his two kids, Jackson and Charlotte. Josh has been in venture capital since 2004 and leads a company called Threshold Ventures, an active investor at the Series A stage with five funds under management. His favorite college memories? “Great friends, long walks from the River Cluster to, well, really anywhere was a long walk from the River Cluster. Zeta Psi from sophomore to senior year. Great games of Magic: The Gathering with Naval Ravikant late into the night. Teaching snowboarding at the Dartmouth Skiway.”
Nadia Bowers fondly remembers “taking African dance classes at Collis, rowing and rugby (briefly), being a part of the Untamed Shrews, foreign study program to France, my Tucker fellowship at Rosie’s Place in Boston, lots of dancing, stellar friends, getting deep in nature within minutes, working at Rosie’s coffee shop, discovering my love for theater.” She is a professional actor, working mostly in theater, with some television and film. She’s also a writer and her piece, “Dear Dealer” was featured on This American Life in 2018.
Davis and Katie (Woodcock) Kitchel still live in the Upper Valley, where they are raising their three boys, Owen, Liam, and Sebastian, who are busy with theater, speed skating, mountain biking, Nordic skiing, music, and rowing. Davis is a cofounder of Strava (strava.com), an online network where runners and cyclists can record their activities, compare performance, and compete with their community. He wrote the prototype while in Hanover and Provence, France. Davis’ favorite memory of college is rowing, “specifically winning Eastern Sprints twice and trips to Royal Henley Regatta with the team.”
Rowing also ranks high among Hillary (Agnew) Cecil’s college memories, particularly rowing on the Connecticut River at dawn. She also enjoyed running around Occom Pond, volleyball and basketball games with her Kappa Kappa Gamma sisters, and her study sessions (and naps) in the Tower Room and Sanborn. Soon after graduation Hilary moved to Denver and never left. “After teaching middle school English for several years, I moved into publishing and then went to business school for my M.B.A., where I met my husband, Adam. We have four amazing kids ages 9-16, two Bernedoodles, and a travel trailer, which we took on two separate six-week sabbaticals through many of the national parks when the kids were little. Still enjoying increasingly crowded Colorado and all our friends here, although we fantasize about a slower pace and easier access to all things outdoors in my home state of Montana. Maybe someday. For now, life is good!”
Shameem Abassy and her husband, Imtiaz Javed, live in Edgewater, Illinois, with their two children, Aydin and Zarah. Shameem’s favorite memories are “from my time spent in Berlin and London during my two foreign study programs. I also remember fondly the excitement of making lifelong friends my freshman year. I spent countless hours senior year in the basement of the Hop’s practice rooms at all hours of the day and night.”
Find more at dartmouth.bright.crowd.com/1995. Keep your news coming!
—Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes, 2 Bishops Lane, Hingham, MA 02043; kaja.k.fickes.95@dartmouth.edu