Class Note 2001
Issue
March-April 2020
Greetings, ’01 family. In the spirit of brutal honesty, I completely forgot about writing this column until a few hours ago. It is due tomorrow. My family and I are on vacation. I left my computer at home. We were in a car driving from San Francisco to visit family in Napa when Joe Sondheimer innocently called out from the backseat, “Hey, Rach, this calendar alert says you have a Dartmouth Notes column due tomorrow.” I am usually on top of things, but this one slipped through the cracks. So now I am sitting in our hotel lounge with a borrowed computer, getting it done. All I can say is thank goodness for Google Calendar, Netflix to occupy the kids, and some of you for sending me updates after the last issue’s October deadline. It takes a village.
Emily Nytko-Lutz and John Lutz are currently (or at least as of October) living in London and “recently” welcomed their first baby, Mia Catherine Lutz. Peter Leckerling and his wife, Yaqing, had their second daughter, Mina Yaqing Leckerling, in September. Mina is named after a student Peter and his brother taught during their time volunteering in Nangi, Nepal, the summer after Peter’s junior year at Dartmouth. Mina, whose name roughly translates to “jewel,” was introduced to a trio of Dartmouth alums, Imani Payne ’99, Nahoko Kawakyu-O’Connor ’99, and Don Kawakyu-O’Connor ’98, in utero and is now looking forward to meeting many more.
Michelle Chui and her husband, Justin Sarma, were honored to attend the New York City wedding of Tim Waligore and Katie Unger. It was a Dartmouth-heavy crowd, with Athena Waligore, Laura (Dellatorre) Basford ’03, Richard Jay Nussbaum ’03, Alice Keefe ’80, and Bill Keefe ’76 also in attendance. Michelle hopes that Tim and Laura “live long and prosper.” Also spotted on the streets of New York: Miriam Ingber, Peter Vassilev ’00, and Tammy (Gargas) and Pete Ferris met up in Central Park to carbo load with Hamilton (Fryer) Reavey and Kevin Reavey ’02 before Hamilton ran the New York City Marathon the next day. There is little doubt that this group, along with their combined eight children in tow, downed a lot of pasta to get Hamilton ready for the big race.
I can derive at least two morals from this tale of close deadlines: Set calendar alerts; and please send me updates, even if you think it is too late!
—Rachel Milstein Sondheimer, 143 Branchville Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877; (203) 645-693; rachel. sondheimer@gmail.com
Emily Nytko-Lutz and John Lutz are currently (or at least as of October) living in London and “recently” welcomed their first baby, Mia Catherine Lutz. Peter Leckerling and his wife, Yaqing, had their second daughter, Mina Yaqing Leckerling, in September. Mina is named after a student Peter and his brother taught during their time volunteering in Nangi, Nepal, the summer after Peter’s junior year at Dartmouth. Mina, whose name roughly translates to “jewel,” was introduced to a trio of Dartmouth alums, Imani Payne ’99, Nahoko Kawakyu-O’Connor ’99, and Don Kawakyu-O’Connor ’98, in utero and is now looking forward to meeting many more.
Michelle Chui and her husband, Justin Sarma, were honored to attend the New York City wedding of Tim Waligore and Katie Unger. It was a Dartmouth-heavy crowd, with Athena Waligore, Laura (Dellatorre) Basford ’03, Richard Jay Nussbaum ’03, Alice Keefe ’80, and Bill Keefe ’76 also in attendance. Michelle hopes that Tim and Laura “live long and prosper.” Also spotted on the streets of New York: Miriam Ingber, Peter Vassilev ’00, and Tammy (Gargas) and Pete Ferris met up in Central Park to carbo load with Hamilton (Fryer) Reavey and Kevin Reavey ’02 before Hamilton ran the New York City Marathon the next day. There is little doubt that this group, along with their combined eight children in tow, downed a lot of pasta to get Hamilton ready for the big race.
I can derive at least two morals from this tale of close deadlines: Set calendar alerts; and please send me updates, even if you think it is too late!
—Rachel Milstein Sondheimer, 143 Branchville Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877; (203) 645-693; rachel. sondheimer@gmail.com