Class Note 2001
Hi, ’01s! Hope everyone’s having a great summer. Lots to report from our classmates:
Erika Doody married Dr. Leif Bohman in Ridgefield, Connecticut, on June 20. The wedding party was full of Dartmouth alums, including Alissa Golden, Jane Serene Limmer, Megan Anderson Macintosh, James Macintosh and Austin Williams. Jordana Phillips married David Allen ’97 in June. Meg Fuchs got married to Aaron Hastings on July 4th; the couple lives in Arlington, Massachusetts. Athena Lentini graduated with her Ph.D. in special education from the University of Connecticut; she’s planning a spring 2010 wedding to John McAlenney. Steve Hallowell got engaged to Johanna Visuri and is planning a wedding in December in northern New Hampshire. Steve is currently attending Tuck Business School and is heading to Hyderabad, India, in the fall on an exchange program to the Indian School of Business. Tara Dairman and Andy Cahill were married in Walpole, New Hampshire, on June 6. Anna Rudberg officiated the wedding and there were lots of Dartmouth alums in attendance: Kristina Duran, Jenn Tlumak, Sabrina Hepburn, Betsy Timbers, Jeff Birk, Jeremy Fineman, Jessica Webster, Nate Russo, Brian Maloney and wife Alice Gomstyn ’03, Mike Bern, Evelyn Chen, Allison (Murray) Brennan, Bill Burgess, Rachel Roth ’02, Nate Sabel ’02, Amy Pogoriler ’00 and Alice Hagens ’02. Andy and Tara are leaving on an 18-month round-the-world trip; you can follow their travels at andyandtarasworld.blogspot.com.
Pat Leslie traveled to Bangkok after finishing his M.B.A. at the University of Washington; he’ll be working for a large power utility in Seattle. Pat sees Nicho Dankers nearly daily and they recently skied Mt. Rainier. Michael Friesner received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania and will be working at Université du Québec à Montréal.
Tai Antoine graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Jim Noonan’s theater company, Fabulous Productions, had a very successful run of Figgy Saves! It’s a fabulous drag cabaret show directed by Jim McNicholas as well as conceived by, written by and starring the two of them. Andrew Trief was released from the Israeli Army after more than a year of combat service; he is now preparing to sail from Israel to America during the course of five months. Corrie Francis is in New Zealand for the southern winter, working as a freelance animator and photographer. Sean Richardson is headed to the University of Pennsylvania Wharton M.B.A. program. Melanie Ellis Starks and her husband, Christopher Starks ’02, are living outside New Haven, Connecticut, and plan to celebrate Melanie’s 30th birthday with a group of Dartmouth friends, including Tiffany Gooden, InSung Cho, Joan Marc and Aviva Moss ’00. Joe McKnight recently purchased a home in Stratford, Connecticut, and has been working for Pfizer Inc. for the past two years. Bayard Russell lives in Manhattan working at Google and is a member of two rock bands—Negative Ken (negativeken.com) and The Botz (www.thebotz.com). He still hangs out with fellow Amarna alums Justin Bow, Dan Kotler, Elizabeth Licata ’02 and Nick Vogt ’00.
Sarah Craft and James Lawrie ’00 are thrilled to report the arrival of their first child, Theo Harold Lawrie, who was born in November 2008. Eric Shoemaker and his wife, Kathryn Shoemaker ’04, are thrilled to announce the arrival of their second daughter, Michaela, who was born earlier this year. Betsy Parks-Stamm and her husband, Ben, welcomed daughter Pauline (Polly) Altz Parks-Stamm in February. Additionally, Betsy finished her Ph.D. in social psychology at New York University. Kevin Stanhope and his wife, Katie, welcomed their son Asher James Stanhope into the world in April.
Please send news.
—Kerry Blum, 298 Mulberry St., Apt 3J, New York, NY 10012; kerry.blum@alum.dartmouth.org
