Class Note 2000
Issue
Mar - Apr 2017
Greetings, ’00s! Lots of great news this month—keep the updates coming.
Ben Patch and his wife, Julia Chmaj, moved back to Brooklyn after five years in Chattanooga, Tennsessee. Julia is working with Susannah Drake ’86 at her renowned landscape architecture firm, dLand Studio. Ben is continuing work with his family’s green energy business, Enerfit, and resuming IT consulting projects in New York. At the end of 2015 he wrote and released an album on iTunes, Near Fatal Memory Error. Playing almost all of the instruments himself, he produced the music as part of his rehabilitation from a near-fatal fall and resulting brain injury that occurred in 2013. After a lot of hard work, he has made a complete recovery.
Kristin (Veley) Markovich published her second book, Kids & Pups: Play Days in Central Park. Using the pen name Kristin Arden, she collaborated with a photographer to document the love, friendship and humor that result when children frolic with their dogs in the park.
Marcia (Yablon) Zug recently published her first book, Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches. Drawing on a forgotten trove of colorful mail-order marriage court cases, Marcia explores the complex legal issues associated with these arranged marriages and ultimately argues that they do not entirely deserve their unfavorable reputation. Marcia is a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, where she teaches family law. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina, with her husband, Geordie, and daughters Willa (8) and Lucy (5).
Steven Fox is the conductor and artistic director of the New York-based Clarion Orchestra, a period instrument performance society. Its Passion Week recording was nominated for a Grammy for Best Choral Performance this year. (For more information on Steven’s work, see his profile in the January/February issue of this magazine).
Anne Mullins was named Teacher of the Year at the University of North Dakota School of Law. She teaches legal research and writing and trial advocacy there. Anne lives in Grand Forks, North Dakota, with her husband, Tim Kelley, and their 1-year-old son, Seamus.
In December Kate (Christiaanse) Fenwick and her husband, John, welcomed their first child, daughter Alice Quinn. They live in San Francisco, where Kate is the vice president of partner strategy at Liftopia, a startup that uses dynamic pricing to optimize lift ticket sales. She is hoping to be back on the slopes in time for spring skiing this year!
Laura (Adams) Young and husband Dave were joined by daughter Caroline at the end of June and made a move to the suburbs shortly thereafter. The trio is loving life in Marin County, California—the redwoods, the views, the air and Perry’s restaurant right down the street (a favorite Dartmouth alum-owned establishment).
—Kate Ryan Stowe, 849 26th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94121; dartmouth2000secretary@gmail.com
Ben Patch and his wife, Julia Chmaj, moved back to Brooklyn after five years in Chattanooga, Tennsessee. Julia is working with Susannah Drake ’86 at her renowned landscape architecture firm, dLand Studio. Ben is continuing work with his family’s green energy business, Enerfit, and resuming IT consulting projects in New York. At the end of 2015 he wrote and released an album on iTunes, Near Fatal Memory Error. Playing almost all of the instruments himself, he produced the music as part of his rehabilitation from a near-fatal fall and resulting brain injury that occurred in 2013. After a lot of hard work, he has made a complete recovery.
Kristin (Veley) Markovich published her second book, Kids & Pups: Play Days in Central Park. Using the pen name Kristin Arden, she collaborated with a photographer to document the love, friendship and humor that result when children frolic with their dogs in the park.
Marcia (Yablon) Zug recently published her first book, Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches. Drawing on a forgotten trove of colorful mail-order marriage court cases, Marcia explores the complex legal issues associated with these arranged marriages and ultimately argues that they do not entirely deserve their unfavorable reputation. Marcia is a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, where she teaches family law. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina, with her husband, Geordie, and daughters Willa (8) and Lucy (5).
Steven Fox is the conductor and artistic director of the New York-based Clarion Orchestra, a period instrument performance society. Its Passion Week recording was nominated for a Grammy for Best Choral Performance this year. (For more information on Steven’s work, see his profile in the January/February issue of this magazine).
Anne Mullins was named Teacher of the Year at the University of North Dakota School of Law. She teaches legal research and writing and trial advocacy there. Anne lives in Grand Forks, North Dakota, with her husband, Tim Kelley, and their 1-year-old son, Seamus.
In December Kate (Christiaanse) Fenwick and her husband, John, welcomed their first child, daughter Alice Quinn. They live in San Francisco, where Kate is the vice president of partner strategy at Liftopia, a startup that uses dynamic pricing to optimize lift ticket sales. She is hoping to be back on the slopes in time for spring skiing this year!
Laura (Adams) Young and husband Dave were joined by daughter Caroline at the end of June and made a move to the suburbs shortly thereafter. The trio is loving life in Marin County, California—the redwoods, the views, the air and Perry’s restaurant right down the street (a favorite Dartmouth alum-owned establishment).
—Kate Ryan Stowe, 849 26th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94121; dartmouth2000secretary@gmail.com