Class Note 2001

Hi, ’01s! I hope we’ve all been having a happy holiday season and best wishes to everyone for 2010! Now, on to the news.


Congrats to all of our new parents! Adam Nemser and Kim (Taylor) Nemser ’02 are thrilled to announce the arrival of their daughter Millie Margaret Nemser, born October 3. Ryan Heiberg and his wife, Suzanne, are overjoyed with the arrival of their son Dorian Paul Heiberg, born September 2009, just a little over a month early—the little guy just couldn’t wait to meet Mom and Dad! Gusty Swift and her husband, Ethan Beck, are thrilled to announce the arrival of their son Thatcher Hoyt Beck; Gusty also opened a medical practice in Portland, Oregon. John Leyba is proud to announce he got married in December 2008 and is expecting his first child in December 2009. Erika (Nelson) Smith and Kyle Smith moved to Salt Lake City; they are expecting another baby girl in February to join sister Olivia, who is now two and a half years old. Lindsay (Bishop) Anderson and her husband, Nathan, welcomed their daughter Reese Bishop Anderson in September 2009. Tom Driscoll and his wife, Gina, welcomed their daughter Lily Caroline, in November 2008 and are expecting their second child in April; Tom also recently joined the law firm Bifferato LLC in Wilmington, Delaware.


Brooke Lierman and Eben Hansel were married in southern Maryland on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay on September 19; many of their Dartmouth friends were able to join for the celebration! Valeria Guerrero is engaged to Stephen Lewis; they plan to marry in 2010. Chris Miranda married his fiancée, Ashley Weaver, in August 2009 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the couple currently lives with their two King Charles spaniels.


Tai Antoine graduated in May 2009 with a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law adding to the M.P.H. she earned from Dartmouth Medical School in 2005. Jenny Alden started a new Web site (www. dessertdarling.com), where she is the “sweet tooth with the sweet truth,” who rates and reviews desserts. Anna Rudberg finished her masters at Harvard Divinity School and her residency in chaplaincy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is now headed for her final year of schooling at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. After finishing his M.B.A. at the Kellogg School of Management, Sean Alpert took a short trip through Japan, Vietnam and Cambodia before traveling Amtrak up the east coast to visit many of his Dartmouth friends; he is now settled in San Francisco. 


Please send news.


—Kerry Blum, 298 Mulberry St., Apt 3J, New York, NY 10012; kerry.blum@alum.dartmouth.org