Hello, ’01s! Thank you to Kristina Duran Panettiere for keeping us all up to date during the past five years. I look forward to following in her footsteps in the years to come.

Our classmates continue to provide us with good reads. Corrie Francis Parks published her first book, Fluid Frames: Experimental Animation with Sand, Clay, Paint, and Pixels (Focal Press), this spring and is in her third year of teaching animation at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. As she reports, “After pounding away on the manuscript for two years I am very happy to get back in the camera room making animated shorts!” Tara Dairman hit the road in July and August to promote Stars So Sweet (Putnam/Penguin), the final novel in her foodie middle-grade series. Classmates Jeff Birk, Bill Burgess, Jessica Grabarz, Melissa (Singh) Merchant and Katie Wade all came out to bookstore events to help celebrate.

We also have some classmates on the move. Jennifer Feltner is currently living in Jackson, Wyoming, where, as part of her Ph.D. work in wildlife biology, she is researching mountain lions and other large mammals in Yellowstone National Park. She will be transferring to the University of Montana this fall and would love to meet other Dartmouth alums living in or around Missoula. Tom Campbell and his wife, Meghan Palmer (Holyoke ’01), spent their first summer in their new floating home on Lake Union in Seattle, Washington. Amanda Cook and her husband, Zak Mazeika, have left London to spend a year in Hong Kong. They would love to connect with any alums passing through. Andrew “Natan” Trief became the rabbi of Beth Shalom Synagogue in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this summer. Natan shared that the president of the synagogue is a fellow Alpha Chi Alpha, Mark Hausmann ’83. Just after Natan stepped into his new rabbinate, Baton Rouge was hit by devastating floods. Anyone interested in helping his congregants and the city recover can visit bethshalomsynagogue.org to learn more.

We have two weddings to report. Lynne Grossman wrote in to share some great news: “I got married on April 23 in Charleston, South Carolina, to Vern Bond (Williams ’03). We had an amazing weekend with our friends and family—and many Dartmouth alumni celebrated with us, including the groom’s aunt and uncle, Marianne and Bob Price ’78, and many friends (in no particular order): Kerry (Blum) Palladino, Kate Mattern McGee, Conner McGee ’02, Katie Codey ’02, Kristin (Verdiani) Rowe, Patrick Rowe, Meghann (Ganey) Carroll, Alissa Golden, Roxanne (Stahl) O’Hara, Chris O’Hara and Lindsay (Reich) Jerutis. We recently moved from N.Y.C. to Connecticut and are enjoying married life in the suburbs.” Adrian Loehwing tied the knot to Patrick Carroll in New York two weeks after our reunion. Numerous ’01s were in attendance, including Kara (House) and Mike Bayer, Kristin Delaney, Nazanin Dana, Kelly Hsieh, Lauren Emerson, Jennifer (Taylor) Veneris, Jess Webster and Shelley (Sandell) Allen.

Finally, on June 27 Rob Costello and his wife, Julianne, welcomed their first child, a baby boy named Robert Joseph Costello IV. The couple was pleasantly surprised to have their baby delivered into the world (and into the Dartmouth fold) by fellow ’01and Boston obstetrician and gynecologist Joan Hier.

—Rachel Sondheimer, 143 Branchville Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877; (203) 645-693; rachel.sondheimer@gmail.com