Class Note 2001
Issue
Jul - Aug 2016
By the time this column reaches you, many of us will be heading off to or just returning (and perhaps recovering) from reunion. I hope the festivities inspire lots of you to write in with news or memories!
Elenor Mak wrote earlier this spring to share some gorgeous photos of Caroline Chang’s wedding, which was “an early Dartmouth ’01 reunion in Malibu, [California].” Other classmates in attendance included Kim Vu, Candice Ling, Annie (Chung) ’03 and Ricky Wong and Soon Hyouk Lee.
Several ’01s sent word of new babies, too. I owe Rochelle Bourgault a prize for emailing me the same day her daughter was born! She and her husband, James Gotz (University of Michigan ’91), welcomed Margaret Rachel Gotz on April 25. Rochelle still plans to attend the reunion, which will give her a chance to stop at the Coop for Margaret’s first Dartmouth onesie.
Louisa Sadler Gauthier and her husband, Michael, welcomed a baby boy this March. Andrew Fuller joined big brother Henry (age 2). Louisa noted, and many will agree, “The days are long but the years are short!”
Dean Krishna and wife Reena announced the arrival of their third child, Ellora, who joined big sister Asha (age 4) and double big brother Veer (age 6).
And Emily (Nielsten) White welcomed a daughter, Nora, on April 12. “Our son, Owen (who is almost 2), is excited to be a big brother. While we’ll enjoy our beach community here in California this summer, we are sorry that we can’t make it to Dartmouth reunion.”
Finally, I received an entertaining update from Nicho Dankers: “As part of the early alumni retirement program here in the Upper Valley, the trumpeted report is that Aliette Karina Frank ’00 and I are—indeed—gettin’ married (at a spontaneous place and time somewhere between Balch Hill and New Year’s Day, 2017). Please forgive me if this update sounds potentially epic.
“Since graduation I learned that my great-grandmother, Bertha Whittaker, was a house mother for the Tri-Kap fraternity (after my great-grandfather, William, passed away during the Great Depression and my great-uncle, Lyle, could afford tuition through writing a fraternal house history). Suffice to say it stoked my affections for the College on the landscape that shaped my life. Currently Aliette is pursuing a post-doc in anthropology while I’m working locally part time with an artistic arborist and finishing up my urban-growth forestry thesis for the University of Washington School of Environmental and Forest Sciences.” He also forwarded an email he’d just sent to safety and security in which he hilariously recounted and confessed to a number of on-campus transgressions between the years of 1998 and 2003. Nicho, I hope they share your good sense of humor. If not, as you pointed out, the statute of limitations has passed.
Have a wonderful summer, everyone!
—Kristina Panettiere, 20 Great Rock Road, Sherborn, MA 01770; dartmouth2001notes@gmail.com
Elenor Mak wrote earlier this spring to share some gorgeous photos of Caroline Chang’s wedding, which was “an early Dartmouth ’01 reunion in Malibu, [California].” Other classmates in attendance included Kim Vu, Candice Ling, Annie (Chung) ’03 and Ricky Wong and Soon Hyouk Lee.
Several ’01s sent word of new babies, too. I owe Rochelle Bourgault a prize for emailing me the same day her daughter was born! She and her husband, James Gotz (University of Michigan ’91), welcomed Margaret Rachel Gotz on April 25. Rochelle still plans to attend the reunion, which will give her a chance to stop at the Coop for Margaret’s first Dartmouth onesie.
Louisa Sadler Gauthier and her husband, Michael, welcomed a baby boy this March. Andrew Fuller joined big brother Henry (age 2). Louisa noted, and many will agree, “The days are long but the years are short!”
Dean Krishna and wife Reena announced the arrival of their third child, Ellora, who joined big sister Asha (age 4) and double big brother Veer (age 6).
And Emily (Nielsten) White welcomed a daughter, Nora, on April 12. “Our son, Owen (who is almost 2), is excited to be a big brother. While we’ll enjoy our beach community here in California this summer, we are sorry that we can’t make it to Dartmouth reunion.”
Finally, I received an entertaining update from Nicho Dankers: “As part of the early alumni retirement program here in the Upper Valley, the trumpeted report is that Aliette Karina Frank ’00 and I are—indeed—gettin’ married (at a spontaneous place and time somewhere between Balch Hill and New Year’s Day, 2017). Please forgive me if this update sounds potentially epic.
“Since graduation I learned that my great-grandmother, Bertha Whittaker, was a house mother for the Tri-Kap fraternity (after my great-grandfather, William, passed away during the Great Depression and my great-uncle, Lyle, could afford tuition through writing a fraternal house history). Suffice to say it stoked my affections for the College on the landscape that shaped my life. Currently Aliette is pursuing a post-doc in anthropology while I’m working locally part time with an artistic arborist and finishing up my urban-growth forestry thesis for the University of Washington School of Environmental and Forest Sciences.” He also forwarded an email he’d just sent to safety and security in which he hilariously recounted and confessed to a number of on-campus transgressions between the years of 1998 and 2003. Nicho, I hope they share your good sense of humor. If not, as you pointed out, the statute of limitations has passed.
Have a wonderful summer, everyone!
—Kristina Panettiere, 20 Great Rock Road, Sherborn, MA 01770; dartmouth2001notes@gmail.com