Class Note 2001
Issue
Sept - Oct 2015
Hi, ’01s!
Anna Rudberg Speiser and her husband, Pete, “love living in an 1890s farmhouse on my family’s farm in northeast Nebraska, keeping horses, raising chickens and starting up some beehives. Pete is working as a Lutheran pastor in a neighboring town and I’m a pastor and chaplain at a hospital in nearby Sioux City, Iowa. And our most exciting news is we had our first child, Ingrid Linnea, last July. Inga’s 10 months old now and such a joy! We enjoy seeing Dartmouth friends on occasion, most recently Jennifer Tlumak Westerholm and Christine Percheski, and only wish we weren’t all so spread out.” Happy belated birthday to Inga!
Jay Bregman raised $2.5 million for Verifly, his new venture aimed at putting trust and safety into drones. He is actively hiring in New York City; Dublin, Ireland; San Francisco, California; and Xiamen, China. Ramon Zertuche joined Ford Motor Co. recently as manager of international government affairs for the Americas (Canada, Mexico and South America). He previously served as minority staff director for the Western Hemisphere subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Michael Holmes wrote to say he’ll “be enrolling in the master’s program in English literature at University of Vermont, Montpelier, and also serving as a graduate teaching assistant in charge of sections of the introductory freshman writing course. He already has one essay, about Henry James’ The Golden Bowl, flagged by a professor—Daniel Mark Fogel, who happens to be founder of The Henry James Review!—as literary journal material, so with any luck it’ll one day see publication.”
Jen Feltner shared, “My update is that I’ve made a major career shift during the past few years from Chinese language and literature (my major at Dartmouth) and international relations to wildlife biology. I’m now getting my Ph.D. in wildlife biology at N.C. State, but my research is based in the southern greater Yellowstone ecosystem, where I’ll be working with Panthera and a number of state and federal agencies on cougar ecology and their interactions with wolves and grizzly bears and their ungulate prey, such as elk and bighorn sheep.” She’s looking forward to visitors, including twin sister Molly Feltner, while living in the Grand Teton, Wyoming, area.
In February Gloriana (Gallegos) Trujillo began working in Stanford University’s office of the vice provost for teaching and learning as a science, technology, engineering and mathematics associate director. She works with the campus community to think about teaching and learning, and she’d love to connect with ’01s on or near campus in different capacities. Across the country Amy Briesch received tenure at Northeastern University in the spring. She’s been teaching graduate students and conducting research in school psychology for the past six years and truly enjoys her work.
Natalie Reese will marry Kleon Diamantopoulos on September 1. Kleon was born and raised in Greece, where the two will wed, but he and Natalie spend most of their time in N.Y.C. these days. She started her own coaching and consulting business a few years ago and loves doing what she does. Jeremy Robin married his longtime girlfriend, Annie Valente, at a small ceremony in Big Sur, California, on May 16. Class of ’01s in attendance included Patrick Burleigh, Drew Allport and Hannah Kenah. Adam Kipp ’03 and Nader and Allison Akhnoukh ’99 were also there to celebrate.
David Tatkow and his wife welcomed a son, their second child, in June. Congratulations!
—Kristina Panettiere, 20 Great Rock Road, Sherborn, MA 01770; dartmouth2001notes@gmail.com
Anna Rudberg Speiser and her husband, Pete, “love living in an 1890s farmhouse on my family’s farm in northeast Nebraska, keeping horses, raising chickens and starting up some beehives. Pete is working as a Lutheran pastor in a neighboring town and I’m a pastor and chaplain at a hospital in nearby Sioux City, Iowa. And our most exciting news is we had our first child, Ingrid Linnea, last July. Inga’s 10 months old now and such a joy! We enjoy seeing Dartmouth friends on occasion, most recently Jennifer Tlumak Westerholm and Christine Percheski, and only wish we weren’t all so spread out.” Happy belated birthday to Inga!
Jay Bregman raised $2.5 million for Verifly, his new venture aimed at putting trust and safety into drones. He is actively hiring in New York City; Dublin, Ireland; San Francisco, California; and Xiamen, China. Ramon Zertuche joined Ford Motor Co. recently as manager of international government affairs for the Americas (Canada, Mexico and South America). He previously served as minority staff director for the Western Hemisphere subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Michael Holmes wrote to say he’ll “be enrolling in the master’s program in English literature at University of Vermont, Montpelier, and also serving as a graduate teaching assistant in charge of sections of the introductory freshman writing course. He already has one essay, about Henry James’ The Golden Bowl, flagged by a professor—Daniel Mark Fogel, who happens to be founder of The Henry James Review!—as literary journal material, so with any luck it’ll one day see publication.”
Jen Feltner shared, “My update is that I’ve made a major career shift during the past few years from Chinese language and literature (my major at Dartmouth) and international relations to wildlife biology. I’m now getting my Ph.D. in wildlife biology at N.C. State, but my research is based in the southern greater Yellowstone ecosystem, where I’ll be working with Panthera and a number of state and federal agencies on cougar ecology and their interactions with wolves and grizzly bears and their ungulate prey, such as elk and bighorn sheep.” She’s looking forward to visitors, including twin sister Molly Feltner, while living in the Grand Teton, Wyoming, area.
In February Gloriana (Gallegos) Trujillo began working in Stanford University’s office of the vice provost for teaching and learning as a science, technology, engineering and mathematics associate director. She works with the campus community to think about teaching and learning, and she’d love to connect with ’01s on or near campus in different capacities. Across the country Amy Briesch received tenure at Northeastern University in the spring. She’s been teaching graduate students and conducting research in school psychology for the past six years and truly enjoys her work.
Natalie Reese will marry Kleon Diamantopoulos on September 1. Kleon was born and raised in Greece, where the two will wed, but he and Natalie spend most of their time in N.Y.C. these days. She started her own coaching and consulting business a few years ago and loves doing what she does. Jeremy Robin married his longtime girlfriend, Annie Valente, at a small ceremony in Big Sur, California, on May 16. Class of ’01s in attendance included Patrick Burleigh, Drew Allport and Hannah Kenah. Adam Kipp ’03 and Nader and Allison Akhnoukh ’99 were also there to celebrate.
David Tatkow and his wife welcomed a son, their second child, in June. Congratulations!
—Kristina Panettiere, 20 Great Rock Road, Sherborn, MA 01770; dartmouth2001notes@gmail.com