Before 2011 becomes history, we have one last batch of memorable updates. 


Ali Rashid completed his internship and is enjoying life as an anesthesiology resident in Richmond, Virginia. He had a great time seeing so many classmates at our reunion and made plans to visit Dartmouth again in November for La Unidad Latina’s Noche Dorada. He and his brother Omar Rashid ’00 even invited their parents. 


Ryan Garcia sends good news from Pasadena, California. In addition to serving as a principal at CIBA Real Estate, he is hitting the books as a part-time M.B.A. student at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. In October he took a serious study break, meeting up in Chicago with then-girlfriend Ani Khatchadourian, who is working on her doctorate in psychology from Pepperdine University and currently at Johns Hopkins for an internship. He planned their trip under the guise of attending the USC/Notre Dame game and surprised her with a marriage proposal. Congratulations, Ryan and Ani! 


Anna Rudberg spent a year with fiancé Pete Speiser in Bratislava, Slovakia, interning as a Lutheran pastor for the Bratislava International Church. The couple returned in August and married on September 24 near her family’s farm in Nebraska. She says, “It was so wonderful to share that special moment surrounded by people we love. Now we’ve moved to southwest Minnesota, where Pete is doing his internship. We’re loving life surrounded by cornfields, open prairie, and our new puppy dog, Bryndza. If you find yourself in southern Minnesota, please look us up!” Elizabeth Walter writes, “My exciting news this summer is two-fold: I married Dave Shelly (Whitman ’00) in an outdoor ceremony this September in the hills near Palo Alto, California. Dave is a seismologist for the U.S. Geological Survey out here and we met while I was a postdoc in psychiatry at Stanford. In attendance at the wedding were Aki Naito and Jay Schneekloth, as well as my new uncle-in-law Jim Tilden ’72. I also just made the leap out of academics to start life as a user experience researcher with AnswerLab, a small company in San Francisco. So far things are goin’ well!” Best wishes to the newlyweds! 


Kudos, too, to Andrew Heisen, who will be an ordained pastor by the time you read this. He will serve a Lutheran congregation in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. 


Finally, congratulations to the proud parents of new babies! Last spring Christopher Miranda and wife Ashley had a baby girl, Madison Ashley. Travis Meek and wife Katie, along with big brother Colvin, welcomed Rosemary Elizabeth on July 22. Ellen Pfeiffer and her husband, Erdin, had a baby girl, Maria Boinay Beshimov, on July 30. Sarah Lodewick and husband Rian Laub welcomed their daughter Nora Madison Laub on August 18. Elizabeth Kleinerman and wife Allison had their baby boy Marshall Blecker Kleinerman on August 29. On September 25 Jeremy Ware and wife Christina welcomed Jonathan Atticus Ware. Susan (Feakins) Masry and husband Avi welcomed their second son, Robert, in October; their first-born, Benjamin, turns 2 this month and is excited to be a big brother! Steven Hsu and wife Laura (Fraser) Hsu ’04 had a baby girl, Amelia Juliet, on October 2. And after seven years in San Francisco, Lindsey (Bishop) Anderson and her husband moved back east to Westchester County, New York, just in time for the arrival of daughter Colby on October 17. She joins big sister Reese, 2. 


I hope the new year brings you and yours good health and lots of happiness! 


—Kristina Panettiere, 20 Great Rock Road, Sherborn, MA 01770; dartmouth2001notes@gmail.com