It’s a big summer for Tara Dairman: Her first novel, All Four Stars, was published by Putnam/Penguin on July 10. “It’s about an 11-year-old girl who secretly becomes a restaurant critic for a big newspaper in New York. People can find out more about it at taradairman.com/books.” She isn’t the only one celebrating lately! After working as a nurse for five years Christina (Glastris) Greisler completed her master’s in nursing at UConn and began working as a family nurse practitioner in July. She said, “Hoping to do my part to make some sense out of our crazy healthcare system.” Joining her in the medical field are Brian Graner and his fiancée, Kelly Carlberg, who both matched in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the Medical College of Wisconsin to begin their fellowships in July 2015. Chris Miranda is in this camp, too: He was recently accepted into the 2018 class for the Ohio University College of Medicine’s location in Dublin. Chris recently retired from a career in retail merchandising and began his first year as a medical student on July 7. As if that’s not enough excitement, he and wife Ashley had their second child, a healthy baby boy, last year. Welcome, Cruz! Rounding out the crowd is Sasha Kraev. He and his family moved to Yellowstone County (big sky country) in Montana, where Sasha practices cardiothoracic surgery at the Billings Clinic. 


Kristina Klebe recently played a lead in the feature film Proxy, which premiered at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival and will soon be available on DVD. Variety gave her performance a good shout-out. She also had a two-episode arc on The Following and is using her NYU grad film directing degree to develop some of her own projects. Regarding other ’01s, she told me, “I recently saw Sope Ogunyemi, Ben Mandelker and Jeet Sohal at my birthday party in Los Angeles and also frequently see Lubna Ammar and Hilary Prentice. I also had the great luxury to recently be shown around (by that I mean camping, climbing and rafting) Anchorage, Alaska, by none other than Ian Laing, Alaskan extraordinaire himself.” 


Jessica Marshall wrote in with a double dose of updates: “My family continues to grow as our twin boys Isaac and Theo joined 2-year-old Levi in rounding out the family! In other news, I recently left classroom teaching after eight years to assume the position of manager of civic engagement and service learning for the Chicago public schools.” Elizabeth Sullivan and husband Sandro Pasquali had a daughter on January 18. “Julianna Teodora Pasquali weighed in at 6 pounds, 12 ounces and has been stealing hearts since her arrival.” Elizabeth continues coaching young dancers and their parents in her wellness practice, The Dancer’s Toolkit. Darby Green and husband Jason Davis (Brandeis ’00), who live in New York City, welcomed daughter Piper Jemma Davis on May 23. Everyone is doing well, including big brother Lawson, 3. 


Luisa (Capasso) Robinson’s second son, Leo, turned 1 in June and her older son will attend preschool this fall. Still at WhiteWave, she recently moved over to brand manager of innovation on the Horizon Organic brand. In the spring she attended a barbeque hosted by Erin Roeder, who’s relatively new to the Colorado area. Luisa is “looking forward to going to Seattle to celebrate Kate Knights’s August nuptials with fellow ’01s Rhea Powell, Ellen Hur, Jocelyn Leavitt and Ki Mae Heussner.”


Finally, J. Edward Kim was one of many ’01s in attendance at James Yoo’s wedding. 


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