Class Note 2000
Issue
May-June 2023
Hello, ’00s!
Brian Feldman here, guest columnist for this issue. My middle child, Jonah, a 9-year-old boy, thinks it’s hilarious that his dad is writing this DAM column.
For those interested in a higher level of humor, join me in listening to the podcast produced by classmates Eric Buchman and Benjamin Oren, Fake Presidents. Eric describes himself as a “former political consultant turned TV writer” and Ben is a “former journalist, sometimes speechwriter, and all-the-time TV producer.” The podcast boasts a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts, including one from someone named “Big Green Dad,” who just might be one of you!
Speaking of Big Green dads, Nils Ericson had his third (and last, he claims) kiddo, a little boy named Sonnie. Nils reports: “We are still (somehow) in Portland, Oregon. I had a chance to reconnect with Matt Hood here in town, along with Mary Ellis Arnold and Ben Arnold in San Francisco. I’m still traveling and making photographs of all sorts of things—the North Shore of Hawaii for the Billabong Pipeline Masters most recently.”
I ran into Erica (Blachman) Hitchings of the Whistleblower Law Collaborative, along with Jake Shields ’99, at a Federal Bar Association conference. Erica reports that she moved back to the Boston area with her husband, Seth Hitchings, in 2018. Erica now represents whistleblowers in fraud and other cases, which has given her many opportunities to collaborate with fellow Dartmouth alums in the field, including Melanie Kay, who is serving as director of the University of Colorado Law Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative, as well as Matt Benedetto, Michael Ronickher ’03, and Edward Baker ’89.
In medical news, New Hampshire Magazine listed Sarah Taylor-Black as a top allergy and immunology doctor, Matthew Babineau as a top emergency medicine doctor, and Marcus Coe as a top orthopedic surgeon in its 2023 rankings. Sarah works at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and runs into Erica Wygonik when their paths cross in the world of kids’ soccer.
Moving west with the doctor theme, Cheryl (Shannon) Pirozzi and Michael Pirozzi live in Salt Lake City, Utah, where Cheryl is a pulmonologist at the University of Utah and Mike is a hospitalist and administrator at Intermountain Healthcare. They report: “We are enjoying the climbing, biking, skiing, and canyoneering in Utah, and we love adventuring with our daughters Rosie (13), Juniper (10), and Sylvie (7).”
Out on the West Coast, another doctor, Sunil Verma, is an otolaryngology-head and neck surgeon. Sunil is assistant dean for clinical affairs at the University of California-Irvine’s School of Medicine, where he is also a professor and the director of the university’s voice and swallowing center. You can watch him in action on an episode of The Doctors, where he visualizes vocal cords by placing a camera through the nose of a classically trained singer. Sunil and his wife, Rakhee, a radiologist, have three kids: Akshay (14), Avi (10), and Reva (6).
Back east, and in the world of dentistry, Richard Dickinson, D.M.D., is practicing in his hometown of St. Albans, Vermont. Rich ran into Kelly Heaps, a vice president at Crest & Oral-B Professional Oral Health, at a conference in Boston in late January. Rich was on the tradeshow floor to help his spouse, Tasha (Sakaguchi) Dickinson ’05, who founded a managed services provider for dental practices called Siligent. Rich would love to connect with other ’00s who went into dentistry. Rich and Tasha live in northwestern Vermont with kids Damien (13), Rilen (10), and Genevieve (7).
Thanks to all, from Brian! Please send updates to Kate Stowe at dartmouth2000secretary@gmail.com.
—Kate (Ryan) Stowe, 91 Waterman Place, St. Louis, MO 63112; dartmouth2000secretary@gmail.com
Brian Feldman here, guest columnist for this issue. My middle child, Jonah, a 9-year-old boy, thinks it’s hilarious that his dad is writing this DAM column.
For those interested in a higher level of humor, join me in listening to the podcast produced by classmates Eric Buchman and Benjamin Oren, Fake Presidents. Eric describes himself as a “former political consultant turned TV writer” and Ben is a “former journalist, sometimes speechwriter, and all-the-time TV producer.” The podcast boasts a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts, including one from someone named “Big Green Dad,” who just might be one of you!
Speaking of Big Green dads, Nils Ericson had his third (and last, he claims) kiddo, a little boy named Sonnie. Nils reports: “We are still (somehow) in Portland, Oregon. I had a chance to reconnect with Matt Hood here in town, along with Mary Ellis Arnold and Ben Arnold in San Francisco. I’m still traveling and making photographs of all sorts of things—the North Shore of Hawaii for the Billabong Pipeline Masters most recently.”
I ran into Erica (Blachman) Hitchings of the Whistleblower Law Collaborative, along with Jake Shields ’99, at a Federal Bar Association conference. Erica reports that she moved back to the Boston area with her husband, Seth Hitchings, in 2018. Erica now represents whistleblowers in fraud and other cases, which has given her many opportunities to collaborate with fellow Dartmouth alums in the field, including Melanie Kay, who is serving as director of the University of Colorado Law Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative, as well as Matt Benedetto, Michael Ronickher ’03, and Edward Baker ’89.
In medical news, New Hampshire Magazine listed Sarah Taylor-Black as a top allergy and immunology doctor, Matthew Babineau as a top emergency medicine doctor, and Marcus Coe as a top orthopedic surgeon in its 2023 rankings. Sarah works at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and runs into Erica Wygonik when their paths cross in the world of kids’ soccer.
Moving west with the doctor theme, Cheryl (Shannon) Pirozzi and Michael Pirozzi live in Salt Lake City, Utah, where Cheryl is a pulmonologist at the University of Utah and Mike is a hospitalist and administrator at Intermountain Healthcare. They report: “We are enjoying the climbing, biking, skiing, and canyoneering in Utah, and we love adventuring with our daughters Rosie (13), Juniper (10), and Sylvie (7).”
Out on the West Coast, another doctor, Sunil Verma, is an otolaryngology-head and neck surgeon. Sunil is assistant dean for clinical affairs at the University of California-Irvine’s School of Medicine, where he is also a professor and the director of the university’s voice and swallowing center. You can watch him in action on an episode of The Doctors, where he visualizes vocal cords by placing a camera through the nose of a classically trained singer. Sunil and his wife, Rakhee, a radiologist, have three kids: Akshay (14), Avi (10), and Reva (6).
Back east, and in the world of dentistry, Richard Dickinson, D.M.D., is practicing in his hometown of St. Albans, Vermont. Rich ran into Kelly Heaps, a vice president at Crest & Oral-B Professional Oral Health, at a conference in Boston in late January. Rich was on the tradeshow floor to help his spouse, Tasha (Sakaguchi) Dickinson ’05, who founded a managed services provider for dental practices called Siligent. Rich would love to connect with other ’00s who went into dentistry. Rich and Tasha live in northwestern Vermont with kids Damien (13), Rilen (10), and Genevieve (7).
Thanks to all, from Brian! Please send updates to Kate Stowe at dartmouth2000secretary@gmail.com.
—Kate (Ryan) Stowe, 91 Waterman Place, St. Louis, MO 63112; dartmouth2000secretary@gmail.com