Hey, ’01s! Great updates again. Enjoy! 


Let’s all send good wishes to Amelia Kahl, as she and Alan Green are newly engaged! The couple and their daughter live in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and she works as the Coordinator of Academic Programming at Dartmouth’s Hood Museum of Art. And hearty congratulations to Ivan Cestero, who married Katie Hillier on August 2 in Julian, California. Christopher Taylor was there to celebrate with the happy couple and wrote in with this tidbit, as well as a fantastic picture I wish I could include here. In addition to Christopher ’01 guests included Andy Trief, Jon Mingle, Mike Gallagher, Minh Le, Craig Davis, Jocelyn Leavitt and KiMae Heussner. 


Kerri and Josh Holman live in Denver, where Josh works in the benefits administration industry for Businessolver and Kerri is a nurse for Craig Hospital, which specializes exclusively in spinal cord injury and brain injury rehabilitation and research. The couple and daughter Piper (2 1/2) were expecting a baby sister as this column went to print. I look forward to including a birth announcement in this space next time! Meanwhile, we can give a warm welcome to Josephine Marie Horst, born to Adam Horst ’00 and Kelly (Keene) Horst on July 31. Kelly said, “She looks just like her sister Rebecca, who just turned 2. She weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces and was 19.5 inches long. Adam is now comptroller of IU Health and I’m a pediatric radiologist here in my hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana. We are very blessed.” And congrats to Jackie (Lippe) Berecz, too! She wrote, “My husband, Steve, and I welcomed our son, Ryan Robert, and daughter, Bethany Gertrude, on July 2. Bethany was a peanut weighing in at 4 pounds, 11 ounces and Ryan was 6 pounds, 8 ounces. They were born at 34 weeks but spent only four days in the hospital!” I’ve seen photos and am pleased to report they are beautiful! 


Ellie Leahy and family have exciting relocation news: “After a decade living and working in N.Y.C. my husband, Eric, 18-month-old daughter Evelyn and I made the big move out of Brooklyn to Cleveland, Ohio. Love being part of the Cleveland renaissance—it’s really happening, people! I continue to work in the education world, now for TNTP. Would love to hear from any ’01s with northeast Ohio connections.” If you’re in or from that area, please get in touch with Ellie. If need be, I can connect you. Also beginning new adventures in a new spot is Corrie Francis Parks. “The news from me is I’ve moved to Maryland and am starting a new job this month as assistant professor of animation at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.” Corrie is “looking forward to reconnecting with East Coast friends again and living within striking distance of Hanover.” Xander Kerr Meise has no immediate plans to move, but would love return to New Hampshire where, she points out, it would be much easier to follow her beloved Red Sox. In the interim Xander lives in Washington, D.C., and travels to Africa often for work. We recently caught up via Facebook and I learned her role is “to teach companies and countries how to develop their natural resources mindfully and with respect for international human rights standards and treaty obligations.” How cool is that? She’ll likely be back in east Africa or central or southern Africa soon and would love to know if any other alums are living or working in the region. 


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