Class Note 2000
I heard from Max Gross that he got married this past Labor Day. “My beloved bride is named Jane Wexler (she is a Penn alum!) and the wedding took place at Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, New York. The best man at the wedding was Noah Phillips, and Alex McCormick and David Levi served as groomsmen. The only other 2000 in attendance was Caitlin Bronner, but we had a lot of other Dartmouthites at the ceremony, including Sarah Charles Phillips ’02 (wife of Noah), Lili Beneda ’01, Angharad Wilson ’01 and Daniel, Th’03, and Elisabeth ’97 (Barbiero) Bilar. And speaking of Caitlin, I owe this match to Caitlin’s brother Greg and sister-in-law Nellie. Greg and Nellie were out at dinner one night and began eavesdropping on the table next to theirs, where they heard a beautiful young woman unloading on her best friend all about the travails of dating, law school and life in New York City. Greg and Nellie struck up a conversation and after a few minutes Greg said, ‘I think I have a guy for you.’ ‘Max Gross?’ asked Nellie, unprompted. E-mail addresses were exchanged and the rest is history. Of course, my nuptials have been the big news in my life of late, but the update from me is simply that I’m living in Manhattan, writing about food and real estate for the New York Post, and working on my second book. My wife is a third-year student at Columbia Law School who will start as an associate in the intellectual property department at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel next fall.”
In August Kamie (Twomey) Kennedy, Anne (Murray) Emert, Liz Martin, Ainsley (Ryan) Showalter and Paige (Perry) Pennock rented a lake house in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, with their husbands and families and spent a few days catching up. “Ainsley and her three kids came from Zimbabwe—yes! Zimbabwe! (And actually not only to see us. Ainsley did return to America to give birth to her son Henry a few months ago and stayed on for our little trip.) The Showalters have been in Africa for the last two years for Showy’s work. Ainsley also managed to do pretty much all the meal planning and cooking for the whole household during our trip. Liz and her husband, Dan, and their two little girls came from Seattle, where Dan is an ER doc and Liz is doing pediatric anesthesia. Anne came from Lawrence, Kansas, where she is an attorney at a Kansas City law firm and has 18-month-old little boy Sam, who hung out in Boston with her husband, Mark, while we drank wine by the lake. Kamie brought her two little boys—13 months apart!—and her husband, John, from Boulder, Colorado, where they have been since Kamie finished business school at Stanford. (Check out Kamie’s latest side business, nogginbethere.com!) Andy and I came from San Diego without our three children—ahhh—and spent every morning sleeping in. Our trip included kayaking, waterskiing, hiking, making s’mores, sitting around on the dock and a visit from Courtney Banghart (who is, incidentally, crushing it as head women’s basketball coach at Princeton).” Sounds like a great weekend ladies!
Also crushing it is Melissa Doft, who is a plastic surgeon in N.Y.C. “Two years ago I introduced a novel device to the pediatric community at New York Hospital for children born with ear deformities: the Earwell by Becon Medical. Approximately 15 percent of newborns are born with some type of ear deformity. The Earwell infant corrective system is a new FDA-approved adhesive appliance that attaches to the child’s skin to mold the ear into a more anatomical shape. Studies have shown that the device corrects 90 to 95 percent of all infant deformities.” This work was been presented at both national and international meetings, including the Academy of Pediatrics.
—Kelly Heaps, 3666 Willowlea Court, Unit B, Cincinnati, OH 45208; heaps.k@pg.com
