Starting things off this month, Erin (Rath) Moos checked in back in January with an update. After 10 years working on Capitol Hill for former N.H. Sen. Judd Gregg, Erin has for the last six years been in Minneapolis with her husband, Dan, and daughters Casey and Annie. Erin works at Target’s main headquarters, helping lead the company’s reputation management team. At the time we traded messages Erin was eagerly anticipating the upcoming women’s hockey alumni weekend in Hanover in late January, where she was expecting to see, among others, Jen (Lane) Lockwood, Emilie (Schnitman) Liebhoff and Jessica (Clark) Harney. Now all we need is an update and some good stories from that weekend!


Jessica (Clark) Harney wrote to me separately to pass along her well wishes. Jessica has lived in the Washington, D.C., area for the last 10 years and she presently is the upper school dean of students for the National Cathedral School. Along with her husband, Mike, Jessica lives with son Jack and the newest addition to the family, daughter Caitlyn, who was born in June 2013. Like so many of us in the Northeast Jessica’s son Jack has been making the most of this long, snowy winter with plenty of sledding.


And while I didn’t get a chance to formally catch up with Emilie (Schnitman) Liebhoff or Jen (Lane) Lockwood, I do note that they each share an affiliation with Moms as Mentors, a leadership and self-esteem program for mothers and daughters, where Emilie is the founder and executive director and Jen is the director of programs. 


I also recently had the chance to catch up with Grant Chang, who was proud to pass along the news that as of last year, he is the lead animator of Irrational Games, and thus has made significant contributions to the BioShock series of highly successful video games. According to Grant, the BioShock series, including the most recent installment, BioShock Infinite, is one of the most highly rated first-person shooter video games of all time. 


Congratulations to my good friend Ben Cooperberg and his wife, Jordana, who late last year welcomed their fourth child, Noam. Ben lives outside Philadelphia, where he is an endocrinologist and clinical assistant professor of medicine, affiliated with Penn Medicine.


And last, but by no means least, Unai Montes-Irueste checked in with the good news of his marriage this past February to Sara Ceballos. Unai and Sarah were married in Los Angeles, and among the many Dartmouth attendees were several ’98s, including Nicole Ostrowski, Uju Anya, Khalid Osbourne Roberts, Betsy (Lewis) Roberts and Rodrigo Byerly.


A very sincere congratulations to Unai as well as any of our other classmates who have recently celebrated marriages, the birth of children or other important milestones. And please don’t keep these milestones to yourselves—reach out and let me know about them so that I, in turn, can let our fellow ’98s and indeed the whole Dartmouth family know about them. I hope everyone had a wonderful winter and is enjoying the unfolding spring.


My best, as always.


—Jeffrey Beyer, 25 Aspen Way, Morristown, NJ 07960; (973) 267-6914; jeffrey.beyer@gmail.com