Class Note 1998
Issue
May-June 2023
Daniel Jo was named partner by the Connecticut-based trial law firm Silver Golub & Teitell LLP. Daniel wrote that after graduating law school, he worked in N.Y.C. for seven years as a corporate litigator before marriage brought him to Connecticut and he switched over to representing individuals in plaintiffs’ litigation. Daniel has served as the president of the Connecticut Asian Pacific American Bar Association and currently serves as the president of its affiliated educational foundation. Daniel and his wife have two kids, ages 7 and 9.
I heard about Brent Laffoon’s remarkable career journey a couple years back on the Dartmouth 98 Shorts podcast. It was great to hear from Brent recently by email. About 12 years ago he began his unexpected career as a yoga teacher. At the time he thought it would be something he did for a few months until he got his screenwriting career back on track. But life had other plans. The more he taught the more he loved it, and now here he is. Two years ago he started a nonprofit (the Association of Yoga Professionals) to help raise the standards for how yoga is taught around the world. This year he will be leading retreats to Mexico, Sicily, Iceland, and Morocco. It has been a wild ride that has proven to be more fulfilling and enlightening than he ever could have imagined.
Justin Littlefield caught up with classmates Aaron Klein and Chad Trexler at their annual Phish New Year’s run at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Justin and his wife, Emily (MacDougal) Littlefield ’99, have 14-year-old twin boys and spend time these days split between the high school basketball circuit and their new Vermont home in the Mad River Valley.
Kudos to Rachel Federman for tracking down updates from a couple of her friends. Rachel first apprised me of Morning Washburn. After an exciting and intense two years serving as the U.S. Small Business Administration’s director of strategic alliances during the pandemic, Morning needed a better work-life balance. So she joined the U.S. Government Accountability Office in May 2022 as director of domestic relations. Morning is still busy, but says it is nice to have more time for her three kids (6, 11, and 14) even if it is just tutoring her high schooler in logarithms and running her younger kids to soccer and hip-hop classes. Second, Neeta (Raghavan) Vora works at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as a maternal fetal medicine-clinical geneticist taking care of pregnancies with babies with birth defects while raising two boys, ages 11 and 13.
As I write this, our milestone 25th reunion is finally starting to feel real. I look forward to seeing you. I want to note that I am organizing an event to remember and to pay tribute to our classmates who are no longer with us: Allison Price Groff, Jeannette Lee, Joseph Nagraj, J. Mulei Nthenge, Suzanne Michels Obenshain, Jun-Kyu Park, David Pichler, Walter Rodriguez, and Nicole Wiley. If you have memories, such as stories, pictures, etc., that you would like to share, please send them my way. Thank you.
—Gabe Galletti, 4000 Utah Ave., Nashville, TN 37209; galletti@gmail.com
I heard about Brent Laffoon’s remarkable career journey a couple years back on the Dartmouth 98 Shorts podcast. It was great to hear from Brent recently by email. About 12 years ago he began his unexpected career as a yoga teacher. At the time he thought it would be something he did for a few months until he got his screenwriting career back on track. But life had other plans. The more he taught the more he loved it, and now here he is. Two years ago he started a nonprofit (the Association of Yoga Professionals) to help raise the standards for how yoga is taught around the world. This year he will be leading retreats to Mexico, Sicily, Iceland, and Morocco. It has been a wild ride that has proven to be more fulfilling and enlightening than he ever could have imagined.
Justin Littlefield caught up with classmates Aaron Klein and Chad Trexler at their annual Phish New Year’s run at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Justin and his wife, Emily (MacDougal) Littlefield ’99, have 14-year-old twin boys and spend time these days split between the high school basketball circuit and their new Vermont home in the Mad River Valley.
Kudos to Rachel Federman for tracking down updates from a couple of her friends. Rachel first apprised me of Morning Washburn. After an exciting and intense two years serving as the U.S. Small Business Administration’s director of strategic alliances during the pandemic, Morning needed a better work-life balance. So she joined the U.S. Government Accountability Office in May 2022 as director of domestic relations. Morning is still busy, but says it is nice to have more time for her three kids (6, 11, and 14) even if it is just tutoring her high schooler in logarithms and running her younger kids to soccer and hip-hop classes. Second, Neeta (Raghavan) Vora works at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as a maternal fetal medicine-clinical geneticist taking care of pregnancies with babies with birth defects while raising two boys, ages 11 and 13.
As I write this, our milestone 25th reunion is finally starting to feel real. I look forward to seeing you. I want to note that I am organizing an event to remember and to pay tribute to our classmates who are no longer with us: Allison Price Groff, Jeannette Lee, Joseph Nagraj, J. Mulei Nthenge, Suzanne Michels Obenshain, Jun-Kyu Park, David Pichler, Walter Rodriguez, and Nicole Wiley. If you have memories, such as stories, pictures, etc., that you would like to share, please send them my way. Thank you.
—Gabe Galletti, 4000 Utah Ave., Nashville, TN 37209; galletti@gmail.com