I hope everyone has recovered from reunion weekend in Hanover! What a great weekend to catch up with friends and their ever-growing families! A huge thank-you goes out to the reunion committee for their endless hard work, especially our fearless leaders Susi Kandel and Jeff Eldridge, and their dream team of Jennifer (Viele) Mahon, Hoi Ning Ngai, Kate (Weiss) Rubenstein (whose daughter was a dancing machine!), Shannon Marimon, Hollis von Summer, Monique Roy and Kristen (Leadbeater) Ashford. Thanks for all your hard work! Also, during reunion, we elected a new slate of class officers and our new officers are Susi Kandel (president), Adam Siegel (vice president), Jennifer (Viele) Mahon (treasurer) and I’ll be staying on as secretary. I’d like to thank Jay and Elizabeth (Pollina) Cormier, our outgoing president and treasurer, respectively, for their service during the past five years and congratulate them on the arrival of their second son, James, on May 31, which kept them away from Hanover for reunion weekend. Also, thank you to outgoing VP Kristen Veley. 


While the stories from reunion are great, there is one in particular that is quite special, as Douglas Fenton ’02 kicked off the weekend right, proposing to Jessica Margolin on a moonlit night on the Green a day before the reunion festivities began. They enjoyed celebrating with old friends over the reunion weekend and then hung around New Hampshire to do some hiking in the White Mountains. Congratulations!


Emily and Ben Berk win the award for bringing the youngest child to reunion! “Oliver Hoffman Berk was born April 26, and joins Simon (3) and Annabel (6) in our home in Chicago. I’m a principal now at BCG—focused primarily in value-based healthcare and informatics.” I’m thrilled that Oliver now has a name because his reunion nametag said “Bumble Berk,” since he was registered before he was actually born!


Now on to our non-reunion news: I heard from Todd Piro that he’s the anchor for the morning news at KPSP Local 2 in Palm Springs, California, his show was just nominated for an Emmy! As some will remember, Todd was very active with WDCR/WFRD radio while in Hanover and had multiple internships in N.Y.C., but moved into the legal industry after he got his J.D. from UCLA School of Law and practiced in a Wall Street law firm. But Todd made his way back to TV and now has a very early daily wake-up call!


Julia and Eli Burakian are working on a new project that has them hiking, mapping, photographing and filming their journey along the Janapar trail, which is a newly created trail in Nagorno-Karabakh, a self-proclaimed autonomous region between Armenia and Azerbaijan. “We will be creating a guidebook and map set to this trail and exhibiting large photographic prints at a number of shows around the Northeast starting this fall. We will also be creating a 20-minute slideshow-documentary exploring the trail and the region as a whole, which has undergone a turbulent recent history. We would love your support and if you want to learn more, please send us an e-mail!”


Lastly, congratulations are in order for Laura Mills, who will marry Jared Moore (Duke ’03) in September. We look forward to hearing all about the Dartmouth folks who make the trip to Columbus, Ohio, for the wedding.


—Kelly Heaps, 3666 Willowlea Court, Unit B, Cincinnati, OH 45208; kellyheaps@gmail.com