Class Note 2002
It makes me happy to know that despite the intense amount of snow outside my apartment right now (and my super, who, strangely, is watering the snow bank with a hose to reveal the large pile of garbage underneath), by the time you all are reading this column it will be spring! I hope that there are great things going on in all your lives and that you’ll write in to tell me about your summer plans. Nathaniel Riley was married in June 2009 to Manjula Rao. They met in San Francisco, where both were working. They moved to Chicago, where Nathaniel received his M.B.A. from Chicago-Booth in June 2009. Two weeks later they were married in Raleigh, North Carolina, the home of the bride’s parents. The couple is now back in Chicago.
In December Sam Rothenberg and his wife, Lindsey (University of Florida ’05), welcomed a baby boy named Asher. They are moving to Bogota, Colombia, with the State Department and would love to hear from old friends at sam.rothenberg@gmail.com.
There was a great reunion of ’02s in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in February as Kate Murphy was married to Charles Voltz in her hometown. I was there with Kate (Knowles) and Matt Frankel, Rebecca (Eley) Weeks, Christian Weeks ’05, Elizabeth Badger, John Nichols ’01, Tucker (Ballard) Mahoney, Dan Mahoney ’01, Abigail Clark, Emily Wood, Liz (Balanda) Baldwin, Allyson Terpsma, Craig Lund, Matt Drossos and Katie (Baines) Drossos ’04. The couple lives in New York City, where Kate graduated from Brooklyn Law School last spring and works in real estate finance and Charles teaches high school. Bagpipers led the newlyweds out of the church, the band was called Celtic Cross and an Irish step-dancing performance followed the father-daughter dance—but we also ate shrimp and grits, a shout out to Charles’ Alabama roots. A week later Kate and Charles, Abigail and I went down to Washington, D.C., for a joint birthday party celebrating Elizabeth Badger, John Nichols and Matt Drossos. There we got to catch up with Phil Mone, fresh from what I understand was a very successful Dartmouth charity pong tournament to support scholarships for D.C. students, Jared Geller and Jill Buhler ’03.
Allison Stuntz, Mara Buchbinder, Melinda Moore, Molly Johnson, Kara Buckley and Anne Cloudman gathered in Vail, Colorado, for Kristin Shigley’s bachelorette party at the end of February. Kristin lived in Vail for a few years after graduation and now lives in Boston, where she is doing an orthopedic surgery residency. She is getting married in June to Alex Livingston, whom she met while living in San Francisco during medical school.
I’ve long threatened to get my information from Facebook to avoid sadly short ’02 columns, and the time has come—going in alphabetic order of folks I don’t remember including in the column recently, Alex Berger got married and created the animated Nickelodeon TV show Glenn Martin, DDS. Allison Huggins seems to be in Africa. Audrey (Campbell) Elias is a physical therapist in Montana and frequently sees bald eagles in trees on her way to work. Dan Almeida is a career counselor at Loyola Marymount University. Elizabeth (Kavanaugh) Murphy has two really adorable kids. Jennifer Butcher is an ear-nose-throat resident at Southern Illinois University and is engaged! If any of you guys want to send details or clarifications on any of those news items, please write in! And I only made it through J, so watch out, second half of the alphabet. Of course we could avoid this entirely if more of you guys just wrote in with your updates. Hope all is well!
—J.T. Leaird, 229 East 21st St., Apt. 16, New York, NY 10010; jt.leaird@gmail.com
