Class Note 2001
Issue
May - Jun 2019
There is a lot going on in the ’01 world right now. In addition to many 40th birthday celebrations, people are on the move in all sorts of ways. After winning a 2018 Grammy Award for Bluegrass Album of the Year, Chris Pandolfi is gearing up for a big year with his band, The Infamous Stringdusters. Patrick Burleigh, Jeremy Robin, and Chris O’Connell ’04 recently joined him at the beach in Mexico for Strings & Sol, a music festival featuring the Stringdusters. Matt Shaffer wrote in to say that all is well in Chicago, where he continues to work in private clinical practice in the mental health field. He is staying busy chasing around his 4-year-old daughter, Reba, and gets to see Mike Levy and Jim Sitar from time to time.
We have some career changes afoot. Bradford McKeown recently started a job at Morgan Stanley as a financial advisor in the firm’s Portland, Oregon, office. Sasha Kraev started a new position as the chair of cardiac, thoracic, and vascular surgery at Billings Clinic in Montana and just had her first child. Paul Biggs has passed the one-year mark in Berlin. Paul reports, “My wife, Paige, and our two boys, Crosby, 4, and Hugo, 1 (and born in Berlin), moved to Germany from Portland, Oregon, last year, and have been enjoying every second of it. I’m working for a software startup based here, and we make it a point to travel somewhere new at least once a month (just got back from Mallorca). While it takes most expats a while to get used to the rampant nudity, especially on the East German side of town, turns out my years of streaking the Green prepared me well for this chapter of life!”
The ’01 class has a lot going on in the world of academics. Boulat Bash left Raytheon BBN Technologies last spring and moved to the warmer climes of the Southwest to work as an assistant professor at the electrical and computer engineering department in the University of Arizona. Jason Kelly recently took a new job as an assistant professor at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, after finishing up a postdoc at the Harvard Kennedy School. Jason, his wife, Rebecca, and daughter Abigail are loving their new digs in Jamestown, Rhode Island, right across the bay from Newport, and are spending lots of time outdoors, enjoying the beaches and exploring the local playground circuit: “I am happy to report that I recently wrapped up five weeks serving as the acting dean of the U.S. Military Academy and will be returning to my role as the vice dean for academic affairs at West Point. I am sure that Sylvanus Thayer would be very happy to know that the Dartmouth-U.S. Military Academy connection continues to this day.”
Have a great summer, ’01s near and far!
—Rachel Milstein Sondheimer, 143 Branchville Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877; (203) 645-693; rachel.sondheimer@gmail.com
We have some career changes afoot. Bradford McKeown recently started a job at Morgan Stanley as a financial advisor in the firm’s Portland, Oregon, office. Sasha Kraev started a new position as the chair of cardiac, thoracic, and vascular surgery at Billings Clinic in Montana and just had her first child. Paul Biggs has passed the one-year mark in Berlin. Paul reports, “My wife, Paige, and our two boys, Crosby, 4, and Hugo, 1 (and born in Berlin), moved to Germany from Portland, Oregon, last year, and have been enjoying every second of it. I’m working for a software startup based here, and we make it a point to travel somewhere new at least once a month (just got back from Mallorca). While it takes most expats a while to get used to the rampant nudity, especially on the East German side of town, turns out my years of streaking the Green prepared me well for this chapter of life!”
The ’01 class has a lot going on in the world of academics. Boulat Bash left Raytheon BBN Technologies last spring and moved to the warmer climes of the Southwest to work as an assistant professor at the electrical and computer engineering department in the University of Arizona. Jason Kelly recently took a new job as an assistant professor at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, after finishing up a postdoc at the Harvard Kennedy School. Jason, his wife, Rebecca, and daughter Abigail are loving their new digs in Jamestown, Rhode Island, right across the bay from Newport, and are spending lots of time outdoors, enjoying the beaches and exploring the local playground circuit: “I am happy to report that I recently wrapped up five weeks serving as the acting dean of the U.S. Military Academy and will be returning to my role as the vice dean for academic affairs at West Point. I am sure that Sylvanus Thayer would be very happy to know that the Dartmouth-U.S. Military Academy connection continues to this day.”
Have a great summer, ’01s near and far!
—Rachel Milstein Sondheimer, 143 Branchville Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877; (203) 645-693; rachel.sondheimer@gmail.com