Hello, ’99s!


Winter is breathing its last as the brighter days of spring take hold. As I prepare these notes, I was surprised to hear that time has brought another change that affects us all: The Blitzmail we know so well has been replaced by a new Dartmouth email address that points to another address such as Gmail or Hotmail. With Blitzmail laid to rest, I will from now on be emailing you requests for updates using my new Dartmouth address, which is tony.j.perry.99@dartmouth.edu. In the meantime, there’s lots of news to share! 


I’ll first start with a marathon of weddings.


First, Karen Mangold writes that she married Zachary Cook (Williams ’96) on August 17 in Rochester, New York. Karen and Zach live in Chicago, right next to Wrigley Field, and are hoping that the Cubs will some day actually win a game. Ruchi Kaul attended the wedding with her husband and stepson and Jeff Fine attended the reception in Chicago. Karen is an attending physician in paediatric emergency medicine at Lurie Children’s Hospital in downtown Chicago and Zach teaches political science at DePaul.


Ruchi Kaul herself had wedding news to report. Ruchi married Matt Laurita (Clarkson ’97) last May. All is off to a great start for the happy couple; they bought a new home in Ridgewood, New Jersey, in December and are expecting a baby in March! Karen Mangold and Ruchi’s first-year roommate Katie Robb both flew out to New York to celebrate the big day. 


Katie had a wedding of her own just a week before. Katie married Bill Davis in Denver, where they both serve as Presbyterian ministers. Ruchi was in attendance, along with several alums who were at Dartmouth with her late father, Bill Robb ’67. Kate and Bill honeymooned in Taos, New Mexico, before flying out to New York for Ruchi’s wedding.


Catherine (McCarthy) Hutasuhut writes that Aiyana Thompson married Eric Jackson in a beautiful ceremony in Detroit with several Dartmouth alums in attendance including Catherine, Jen Anderson, Jen Lee ’00, Willy Wong, Jing Wang, Melissa Kho and Grace Eboigbe. 


Congratulations to all of the happy couples!


Finally, Stephanie (Nearpass) Gonzalez made news of her own when she won the Women’s Masters Road National Championships in September, just six months after taking up cycling as a sport. Stephanie’s athletic prowess from the moment she arrived in Hanover. She started her time at Dartmouth as a cross-country runner and left as a hammer thrower—a change that’s almost unheard of. Stephanie was a triathlete for two years before taking up cycling. Well done, Stephanie!


That’s all the news for now. I hope all of you are having a great 2014 and I look forward to sharing more updates with you soon! In the meantime, if you haven’t already, you might also update your Dartmouth email address. More information can be found here at www.dartmouth.edu/comp/about/initiatives/alum.


—Tony Perry, 38 Halton Wood Road, Wendover, Buckinghamshire, HP22 5QJ, United Kingdom; tony.j.perry.99@dartmouth.edu