Class Note 1999
Hello, ’99s!
I hope you are all well. Thank you for sharing updates on your lives. It is great to hear from both old friends and classmates I haven’t yet met. I have been sending out emails and messages to connect, but it will take a while to make it through our class lists. Don’t hesitate to connect with me first. I know our classmates have been enjoying reading your updates!
Ben Guaraldi writes with some wonderful news. “My wife, Rachel (Earlham ’07), and I had our second child, Galilee, this August. She’s an adorable snuggle bear who sounds more feline than our cat. Her almost-3-year old brother, Gideon, is adjusting well to the change, frequently declaring how much he loves his sister.
“I am now managing the team of developers that supports data for accountability, transparency, and impact, the installation of open-source health management information system software District Health Information System 2, which collects information for the U.S. president’s emergency plan for AIDS relief, about U.S. government-funded AIDS interventions around the world. My wife left her work as a chaplain at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center to be home with our two kids.
“Life in the Upper Valley has been great—our house is lovely and we added a garage and a solar tracker. We see a lot of Marc Kutolowsky, his wife, Lisa (Eastern University ’09), Meg (Funke) Novello, and Mikey Novello, as well as new Upper Valley resident Marty Vona, who just moved here from Pasadena, California. I also run Valley Improv (www.valleyimprov.com), where I get to do improv comedy shows all around New Hampshire and Vermont with a great troupe that includes Belinda Chiu ’98—it’s great fun!”
Congratulations, Ben, and thanks for the update from the Upper Valley. With so many of our classmates residing there these days, it makes me wonder if we should put a Homecoming mini-reunion on the books sometime soon?
For those of you living in or visiting the New York City area this fall in celebration of Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary and the 150th anniversary of the first college football game, Yankee Stadium will be hosting the Dartmouth vs. Princeton game on Saturday, November 9. You can purchase tickets at www.tickets.dartmouth.edu. Until next time.
—Jackie Rioux Gladstone, 21 Westwood Circle, Dover, NH 03820; (603) 834-0517; jackie.dartmouth99@gmail.com
