Class Note 1998
Mary Hollendoner reports that she and her husband, John Stanfield, had a beautiful baby girl last July named Lillian after Mary’s grandmother. Mary says, “I was lucky enough to get six months off from work to spend with her which was great, but now I am back at work (at Google). We got to take her on a few trips to Yosemite (our favorite place) as well as to Washington (where my husband is from) and Costa Rica during Christmas time. We are really enjoying our time with her and are eager for her to start running around playing with us!” Mary and John met when they were both living and working in Yosemite, California, and now they live in Mountain View, California. Congratulations, guys!
Also in the Bay Area, Carrie Langsdorf Weinstein and her husband, Drew, welcomed baby Theodore Myers Weinstein on November 7, 2011. “Seven pounds, one ounce of perfection!” Carrie, Drew, baby Teddy and big brother Charlie live in San Francisco. Congratulations, Carrie!
Peter Lanfer and his wife, Sarah, welcomed son Micah Emmanuel Lanfer on January 18. Micah weighed in at 7 pounds, 4 ounces, and was 19 inches long. Pete reports that everyone’s doing great. The Lanfers live in Los Angeles. Pete will be returning to Dartmouth to teach this spring and will be doing the bicoastal commute to visit Sarah and Micah. Not only that, Pete expects his first book to be coming out with Oxford University Press in July! Busy guy! Pete, don’t forget to give us all the details when the book is published. Congrats!
Ginger Kreitler Pingree, her husband, Brennen, and big brother Bear celebrated the birth of Hawken Kreitler Pingree on February 24. Hawken was 7 pounds, 15 ounces, and 20 inches long. Congratulations to the Pingrees!
I also heard from Roger Griesmeyer, who read the last column and “was inspired to write in after a busy year.” (I love hearing that!) Roger married Lindsay McGrath on September 10, 2011, at Stratton Mountain, Vermont. Pankaj Gupta and his wife were even there when Roger popped the question! Lindsay does business development for Shearman & Sterling in New York and Roger works at the law firm he formed in Manhattan in 2008 after leaving Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz. His firm, the LaSasso Griesmeyer Law Group PLLC, has grown from two lawyers to 10, and Roger says they run into Dartmouth folks all the time. “Just pitched an ’88 at his private equity fund a couple weeks ago! We offer special rates for Dartmouth alums, so all are welcome.”
Tons of Dartmouth folk attended Roger and Lindsay’s wedding, even in spite of nine babies being born to their Dartmouth friends within a couple months of the wedding! The wedding party included Pankaj Gupta, Brian Mosley, Charlie Fiordalis, and Josh Oberman ’99. Roger wrote, “Since I gave the toast at all three of the ’98 weddings, you can only imagine what the rehearsal dinner and wedding party were like. There were definitely some Dartmouth and Chi Gam traditions observed and I think we did the College proud (or, as proud as a bunch of mid-30s can do these days).” Other ’98s in attendance included “Wes Maclaggan (who recently had first child Charlotte), Spiros Maliagros (who just had his third child, son Leo), Brian Wachob (who just had his second son, Aaron), John Maldonado, Eric Walania, R. Gregory Webster, Chris Ott, Hugh Pfabe and Dave Ellingrud.” And that doesn’t even list all the folks from other classes! Thanks for all the news, Roger, and congratulations on everything!
—Jo Golub, 851 Indian Rock Ave., Berkeley, CA 94707; jgolub@kvn.com
