Class Note 2002
Hello, ’02s. There was quite a bit of news this time around—keep it coming!
Andreas Stavropoulos writes from San Francisco: “My longtime friend and colleague Patricia and I recently opened the doors of BASE Landscape Architecture with several great projects, leading the site design of Children’s Museum of Sonoma, California, crafting a 1-acre edible landscape in Atherton, California, and designing a mobile trailhead for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Please show your love or curiosity and check out our shiny new website at baselandscape.com or find us on Facebook. I also really enjoyed the recent Dartmouth alumni event here in San Francisco—great to see the support and community of Bay Area alumni on that scale, and with that, many cheese platters.”
Allen Fromherz announced the publication of his latest book: Qatar, A Modern History (Georgetown University Press, 2012). It is the first scholarly history of Qatar since 1979 and is based on his research and teaching at Qatar University from 2007 to 2008. Qatar is home to Al-Jazeera and located on a strategic peninsula between Saudi Arabia and Iran and Qataris have the highest per capita income in the world. Allen is an associate professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean history at Georgia State University.
Mark Riley ’64 wrote to fill me in on his grandson’s birth. Nathaniel Riley and his wife, Manjula, welcomed a baby boy on March 1, 2011. Mark reports that Brennan Riley is already wearing green.
Michael Gratch shared his exciting news as well, writing, “I recently got engaged to the beautiful Megan Smith (Texas Christian University ’07) and we are looking to tie the knot in Napa, California, next year. In addition I founded a company, Legacy Heart Care Inc., back in 2003, shortly after we graduated. It’s a healthcare facility that specializes in a non-surgical treatment option called enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP) for patients still having cardiac symptoms after invasive options have been utilized. More recently we are excited about the opening of our third location in Dallas. I started in Fort Worth, Texas, before opening in Austin, Texas, and now we are the second largest provider of EECP in the country, improving people’s lives every day.”
Lastly, I had the pleasure of attending a surprise birthday party for Andrew Langworthy this past spring. Andrew’s fiancée Melinda Moore hosted an excellent fete with plenty of Dartmouth classmates in attendance. Allan Klinge, Charlie Trumbull, Sam Short and Lauren Lafaro came in from out of town for the festivities, joining local friends Allison (Stuntz) Schulte, Molly Johnson, Mary Anne Mendenhall, Connor Price, Mike Bergen, Chuki Lord, Lindsay Hoffman ’03 and myself. The surprise was a success and a few of us participated in a cheerfully sloppy performance of “Blame It on the Boogie.”
Happy 10-year anniversary, ’02s!
—Anne Cloudman, 30 W 90th St., Apt. 3D, New York, NY 10024; acloudman@gmail.com
