Class Note 2000
Hello, all! Hope this finds you and your families happy and healthy. With this column I have officially caught up with all the class news (over a year’s worth!). Please let me know if I’ve missed anything and send any new updates my way.
Starting off, Brian Laibow and his wife, Galit, celebrated the birth of their daughter Sivan Hadari Laibow on September 12, 2008. Brian, Galit and Sivan are enjoying sleepless nights in Los Angeles, where Brian is a vice president in distressed debt at Oaktree Capital Management.
At the end of January some former Dartmouth volleyball players got together at the home of Emily (Hallenbeck) Maxey ’99 in Dana Point, California. “We managed to collect 11 girls from all over the country: Janna (Merryfield) Annest from Seattle, Ali (McKinley) Jefferson ’99 from Oakland, Emily Ramee from Miami, Jess Wirth ’01 from Boston, Latia Curry ’99 from New York, Stasia (Bochnowski) Muhlner ’98 from Boston, Anne (Murray) Emert from Kansas, Paige (Perry) Pennock from San Diego, Ashley Dean ’02 from Long Beach, and Maria (Stutsman y Marquez) Murrieta ’98 from New Mexico. Cameos by Chris and Lulu Hallenbeck, Matt Maxey and the adorable baby Mia Mazey added to the fun times. We got lucky with pretty weather and got to enjoy the beach, but mostly we just hung around Emily’s house and laughed over old pictures. Some highlights were a delicious lunch at Javier’s, margaritas and a beautiful sunset, our traditional “Secret Pal” gift exchange and a serious discussion about the Seven jean revolution. Danra (Kazenski) Courtemanche ’99, who couldn’t make the trip from Montreal, even shipped in a DVD of college pictures and newspaper clippings from The Dartmouth. The effort made by everyone to get together was awesome!”
Yale Dieckmann was married to Andrea Box (Michigan ’00) on New Year’s Eve. “We met during our first year at Kellogg in 2004 and we’ve been together ever since. We tied the knot in Denver with an evening ceremony followed by an all-night party. We had quite a few Dartmouth alums in attendance to help us celebrate, including Adam Siegel, Tim Reynolds, Conor Kearney and Brian Nickerson; Mark Tomaszewski ’02; ’99s Andy Cohen, Chris Chang, Erich Shigley, Brian Fleming, Mike Conway, Ron Friedman, Jeremy McCormick, Zach Lewis, Scott Milne and Ben Bawden; and ’98s Wes MacLaggan, John Maldonado, Brian Wachob and Brian Mosley. I regret to report that said alums were entirely too well behaved, and thus there are no scandalous reports to print. Andrea and I have settled in Chicago.”
Kermit Cook and Libby Jones ’02 were married at the Stanford Memorial Church on October 4, 2008. “We met at business school at Stanford in 2005 and we now live in San Francisco. The wedding weekend was a great Dartmouth reunion (even if we were on the wrong coast): Ned Hall and Ryan Samuel were both in the wedding, and Darmouth folks in attendance included Chris Carney, Ben Nastou, Lucas Braun, Frank Thorn, Drew Mowery, Sarah Jones, Wook Kim, Alex Sapoznikov, Mike Schwab, John White, Dave Hoverman ’98, Katie Miller ’01, Adam Wright ’01, Amy Coe ’01 and Aki Naito ’01.”
Allison Aab was married on June 28, 2008, to a French-Canadian, Marc Perras. “Since the wedding (after more than four years of New York-Montreal long-distance dating!) I’ve been living in Montreal, where I am in an M.B.A. program at McGill.”
Lastly, thanks for your patience as I worked my way through all the updates! Keep the new ones coming!
—Kelly Heaps, 3666 Willowlea Court, Unit B, Cincinnati, OH 45208; heaps@alum.dartmouth.org
