Class Note 2000
Congratulations are in order for Joe LaBracio, who was recently named to The Hollywood Reporter’s Next Generation 2010 35 Under 35 list. Joe was one of six agents recognized as part of the annual report that recognizes top talent in the entertainment industry. Joe is an agent in the alternative television department at UTA, where, according to The Hollywood Reporter, “he has tripled the business the firm does in the cable world, packaging a diverse lineup of reality shows such as Police Women and The Great Food Truck Race.” Joe and his wife, Melanie, live in Los Angeles with their son Milo. “Melanie writes with her younger brother and they are currently writing a 3D animated movie for Dreamworks Animation based on the popular troll dolls from the 1990s. You know, the ones with the crazy and colorful hair? Milo turned 2 in November, and he plays for a living.”
On the writing and directing front, Rashaad Ernesto Green (“Seen & Heard,” Apr/Mar issue) was recognized by theroot.com as one of “Seven Up-and-Coming Black Directors that You Should Know.” From theroot.com: “Gun Hill Road is a film about a Latino man who returns home from a three-year prison stint to find that things have changed. Like the actual street that runs through the Bronx, New York, Gun Hill Road is a metaphor for the bumpy road that life can sometimes be, which can either divide or unite a family. Gun Hill Road debuted at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and landed a seven-figure distribution deal from the Motion Film Group. The film will be released this summer.” Congratulations!
Congratulations are also in order for Colin Greenspon, who married Rachel Laitala (Georgetown ’02) on December 4. “We had a fabulous wedding in N.Y.C. with the ceremony at St. James’ Episcopal Church and the reception at the University Club. Extremely embarrassing dance moves were shown off late into the night by a Dartmouth contingent that included ’00s Mike and Debbie Rand, Ned Dybvig, Errik Anderson, Brent Edwards, Jake Elberg, Chris Coleon, Ryan Sheehan, Jonathan Taylor, Ryan Jones, Watt Boone, Teddy Rice and Dan Huddleston, ’99 Scot Berg, ’01s C. Sharpe, Sujan Patel and Dan Mahoney and ’02s Mike Holick and Drew Lambert. After our wedding we spent two glorious weeks on Taha’a and Bora Bora in French Polynesia.”
I was able to catch up with John Finley: “My seven-year Boston era is coming to a close. I am finishing my cardiology fellowship at Tufts and am getting married in the Philadelphia suburbs on June 25 to Jennifer Nansteel (Duke ’00, M.D. at Jefferson ’07). We grew up less than two miles apart in Pennsylvania but had to live more than 300 miles away in Boston to meet. We are headed back to the City of Brotherly Love in July and I am starting a one-year (yes, one more final year of training) at Jefferson in interventional cardiology while Jennifer joins her father’s internal medicine practice. I have a special dispensation to be at reunion the weekend before the wedding, but I will be on my best behavior!”
Lastly, Jeremy Joseph and Abigail Marsh ’99 welcomed their daughter Aven Ilana Joseph into the world on January 25, 2010. Jeremy is an associate at the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, D.C. Abby is a professor of psychology and cognitive neuroscience at Georgetown University.
Our 10th reunion is right around the corner. Stay informed at dartmouth2000.wordpress.com. See you in June!
—Kelly Heaps, 3666 Willowlea Court, Unit B, Cincinnati, OH 45208; kellyheaps@gmail.com
