Class Note 2002
I for one am counting down the days until many of us will head back to the granite of New Hampshire for our 10-year reunion, celebrated nine years after graduation with the ’01s and ’00s. I hope a trip to Hanover is on your calendar for June 17-19! I have no doubt it’s going to be an awesome weekend. What I do doubt at this point in a very snowy winter is that spring will ever hit New York again—here’s hoping that will change by the time this issue lands in your mailboxes.
One new baby to report this time around! Abby (Faulkner) Jones and her husband, Chris Roser Jones, welcomed daughter Juliet Elizabeth Roser Jones on October 2, 2010, and Abby reports that so far Juliet seems to be enjoying the life of a law school baby!
The first Good Food Awards, brainchild of Sarah Weiner, were held on January 14 in San Francisco. I checked out its website (www.goodfoodawards.org) and the awards seem very cool—they honor those who create “tasty, authentic and responsibly produced” beer, charcuterie, cheese, chocolate, pickles and preserves. Sarah is the executive director of Seedling Projects, which organizes the awards, and has also worked as the director of communication for the Slow Food International headquarters in Italy, the assistant to Alice Waters of Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California, and the content director at Slow Food Nation.
Vangie Wiles is finishing her first year of business school at Wharton. She will spend this summer in South Africa, working at Bain Consulting in Johannesburg.
Tracy Kim wrote in to report that she got married in October 2010 to Michael Horn (Yale ’02). They had a great Dartmouth crew in attendance and in their wedding party, and I happen to have spied on Facebook an amazing surprise choreographed dance to “Thriller” at the reception. She added: “In December we hosted a holiday housewarming party also with a strong Dartmouth showing—Emily and Shuja Khan (with their adorable son Nas), Sarah Webb and husband Sid Venkatesan (Cornell ’99), Lauren and Alex Rolfe, recent San Francisco Bay Area transplant Wendy Yu, Masahi Kiyomine ’01 and Aki Naito ’01. Love the Dartmouth presence in the Bay Area!”
Kate Duff and Paul Devlin (University of Western Australia) were married on December 11, 2010, at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. Kate and Paul live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Kirsten Hassert married Dan Guill (Davidson ’97) at the Central Park Boathouse in New York City on a snowy January 29. The couple met at Harvard Business School, where Dan sat behind Kirsten in their first class. They honeymooned in Rome, Austria and Aspen, Colorado, where Kirsten skied in her wedding dress. Now they are happily back in San Francisco, where Kirsten works at the Westin St. Francis.
Vicki McGrane and Dave Scannell got engaged in August 2010 while vacationing on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. They are planning an October wedding. Vicki and Dave live in Washington, D.C., where Dave is an associate with Morrison & Foerster’s litigation department and Vicki is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau, covering banking regulation.
Finally, Riley Lochridge proposed to Jill Schwartz (University of Michigan ’00) during the holidays while in Florida with family. Their wedding is planned for the end of August in the Bay Area, before Riley goes back for his third year at University of Chicago. The couple met at Accenture in San Francisco, where Jill still works and does human resources consulting.
See you very soon on the Green!
—J.T. Leaird, 202 Baltic St., Apt. 4, Brooklyn, NY 11201; jt.leaird@gmail.com
