Happy 2020, ’01 family. For this column I asked people to share their new endeavors for 2020. Andrea Glover Paez wrote in to say that she and her husband, Jason, became parents with the birth of their son, Xavier Malcolm Douglas Paez, in West Palm Beach, Florida. Tom Campbell started a new job with Amazon, helping to build drones, and moved out of a floating home on Lake Union onto stable land in Fremont, Washington. Welcome to dry land, Tom. Rochelle Bourgault wrote that after years of wishing to be back in her home state, her family of four moved to Portland, Maine, this past summer. They are acclimating well to the abundance of good food and coffee, a lovely farmers’ market, and being in a beautifully walkable city. Tara Dairman and Andy Cahill visited in August, and all their kids loved playing together, taking wagon rides in the garden, and eating their weight in Holy Donuts. (Author’s note: I recently had one of these Maine potato donuts and they are, indeed, delicious.) Although this is not quite a new activity, I promised Miriam Ingber to report that Miriam and I—along with her husband, Peter Vassilev ’00; my husband, Joe Sondheimer; Suzanne (DeVries) Decker and her husband, Adam; and Alissa (Abbey) Stoltz—managed to have dinner together without our combined 10 children on a lovely night in September. These types of reunions can be done. Try it and report back for the next issue!

For our last column I asked you to write in with some of your community endeavors and the responses keep coming in. Katie (Reichardt) Bishop, her husband, Jim, and their two sons, Ben (10) and Jason (8), recently traveled to Juarez, Mexico, to build homes alongside the locals, providing solid foundations, walls, and roofs for families in need. Katie also volunteers for Reading Partners locally in Denver and has been a mentor and speaker to various young women’s groups in the area. Katie also shared some exciting personal news. Paceline Power, a book she coauthored with her dad, will be published and available for your reading pleasure in the coming months. It is a business book written in novel form with a cycling theme about the importance and power of your relationships. Check it out at www.PacelinePower.com.

As part of the “Call to Lead,” Dartmouth undertook the “Call to Serve” this past year. Evelyn Chen, our Alumni Council representative, says that ’01s logged more than 400 service hours, contributing to Dartmouth’s goal of more than 250,000 total hours in 2019. Nice work, everyone, and thanks for helping out with this initiative.

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