Class Note 2001
Issue
Hi ’01s, hope everyone has been enjoying the summer!
Congratulations to all of our new parents! Roxanne (Stahl) O’Hara and Chris O’Hara welcomed their son Jackson Forrest O’Hara on June 3—big sister Madeline is (mostly) thrilled about the family’s new addition! Gretchen (Bell) Biggins, husband Tom and daughter Abigail are excited to announce the arrival of the newest member of the family, Samantha Ann Biggins, born April 2. Spencer Meyer and his wife, Joanna Lisker Meyer ’02, had their first child, Andrew Francis, in February. They’ve been enjoying the summer of “firsts” with Andrew at their home in Maine.
Leah Threatte married John Bojnowski (Rutgers ’02) on April 2 in Albany, New York. Lonnie Threatte ’02, Vanessa Long ’00 and Mary Anne Mendenhall ’02 were in the wedding. Ben Mandelker, Katie Stewart, Eleanor Leahy, Julie Calderon, Pamela Cogut ’02 and Summer Craig ’97 were also there! Katie Stewart married William Sanford on June 5 in Middletown, New York. Everyone enjoyed celebrating with the couple, including Leah Threatte Bojnowksi, Brooke Lierman, Eben Hansel, Jason Hamilton, Judy Huang and Amanda Taplett. Peter Leckerling is engaged to his girlfriend, Grace Zheng, and is planning a wedding in Madison, Connecticut, in June 2011. His retail consulting business has gathered steam over the past few years and recently added another Dartmouth alum, Imani Payne ’99, to the company.
Kristin Luckenbill is in her last season of professional soccer, playing for Sky Blue FC in New Jersey. She is attending UVA’s Darden School of Business in the fall. Jessica Marshall is returning to Chicago after teaching for the last four years in the Bronx. She is also getting married in Davenport, Iowa, to Meredith Bawden, sister of Ben Bawden ’99 and sister-in-law to Allison Brugg Bawden ’99. Xander Meise is living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where is he is clerking for the extraordinary chambers of the courts of Cambodia. He plans to return in the fall to New Hampshire, where he’ll spend the following year clerking for a judge on the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals. Negarra Kudumu is still working at The Hague at a Dutch foundation focusing on globalization and international law. In her spare time she writes on her blog, wanderlustlive.wordpress.com, is a member of a wine club and is planning mini-adventures in Europe and its environs. Isaac Edson graduated from New England Law with a J.D. on May 28. Rafael Rosengarten completed his Ph.D. in molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale this spring and has relocated to the Bay Area for a postdoctoral fellowship. Weekends are full of hiking, climbing, camping and wine tasting in the company of Alexis Jhamb ’03. Marissa Wong moved back to New York in March to begin a job as director of strategy at Saks Fifth Avenue. She spent time in Boston after finishing her M.B.A. at Columbia Business School in 2009. Sasha Kraev will be finishing a general surgery residency this year and starting a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at Yale University next year.
Please continue to send me updates!
—Kerry Blum, 298 Mulberry St., Apt 3J, New York, NY 10012; kerry.blum@alum.dartmouth.org
Sept - Oct 2010
Hi ’01s, hope everyone has been enjoying the summer!
Congratulations to all of our new parents! Roxanne (Stahl) O’Hara and Chris O’Hara welcomed their son Jackson Forrest O’Hara on June 3—big sister Madeline is (mostly) thrilled about the family’s new addition! Gretchen (Bell) Biggins, husband Tom and daughter Abigail are excited to announce the arrival of the newest member of the family, Samantha Ann Biggins, born April 2. Spencer Meyer and his wife, Joanna Lisker Meyer ’02, had their first child, Andrew Francis, in February. They’ve been enjoying the summer of “firsts” with Andrew at their home in Maine.
Leah Threatte married John Bojnowski (Rutgers ’02) on April 2 in Albany, New York. Lonnie Threatte ’02, Vanessa Long ’00 and Mary Anne Mendenhall ’02 were in the wedding. Ben Mandelker, Katie Stewart, Eleanor Leahy, Julie Calderon, Pamela Cogut ’02 and Summer Craig ’97 were also there! Katie Stewart married William Sanford on June 5 in Middletown, New York. Everyone enjoyed celebrating with the couple, including Leah Threatte Bojnowksi, Brooke Lierman, Eben Hansel, Jason Hamilton, Judy Huang and Amanda Taplett. Peter Leckerling is engaged to his girlfriend, Grace Zheng, and is planning a wedding in Madison, Connecticut, in June 2011. His retail consulting business has gathered steam over the past few years and recently added another Dartmouth alum, Imani Payne ’99, to the company.
Kristin Luckenbill is in her last season of professional soccer, playing for Sky Blue FC in New Jersey. She is attending UVA’s Darden School of Business in the fall. Jessica Marshall is returning to Chicago after teaching for the last four years in the Bronx. She is also getting married in Davenport, Iowa, to Meredith Bawden, sister of Ben Bawden ’99 and sister-in-law to Allison Brugg Bawden ’99. Xander Meise is living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where is he is clerking for the extraordinary chambers of the courts of Cambodia. He plans to return in the fall to New Hampshire, where he’ll spend the following year clerking for a judge on the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals. Negarra Kudumu is still working at The Hague at a Dutch foundation focusing on globalization and international law. In her spare time she writes on her blog, wanderlustlive.wordpress.com, is a member of a wine club and is planning mini-adventures in Europe and its environs. Isaac Edson graduated from New England Law with a J.D. on May 28. Rafael Rosengarten completed his Ph.D. in molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale this spring and has relocated to the Bay Area for a postdoctoral fellowship. Weekends are full of hiking, climbing, camping and wine tasting in the company of Alexis Jhamb ’03. Marissa Wong moved back to New York in March to begin a job as director of strategy at Saks Fifth Avenue. She spent time in Boston after finishing her M.B.A. at Columbia Business School in 2009. Sasha Kraev will be finishing a general surgery residency this year and starting a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at Yale University next year.
Please continue to send me updates!
—Kerry Blum, 298 Mulberry St., Apt 3J, New York, NY 10012; kerry.blum@alum.dartmouth.org