Hello, ’02s!

Nicole Wanzer-Serrano and her husband, Darrel (University of Puget Sound), welcomed their first child, Carlos Jesus “C.J.,” into the world on May 15. A 24-week micropreemie, C.J. gained social media fame for his stunning good looks and overall scrappiness. After a 148-day stay in the neonatal intensive care unit at the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital, C.J. is now home starting work on his Dartmouth application for the class of 2038. The happy family lives in the Iowa City area, where Nicole is the director of development for the National Speech & Debate Association.

In 2009 Sarah Sommerfield and Justin Poitras got married. In 2010 Sarah was diagnosed with a very rare, incurable lung disease called lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM). One of the things that has helped them cope with the diagnosis has been their love of travel, and for a while they considered taking a break from their normal lives to travel full-time. This June they did just that. They quit their jobs and left their comfortable apartment in Brooklyn, New York, to set off for a year to explore the world and raise awareness of LAM. Working with the LAM Foundation, Sarah is serving as its global LAM liaison to meet members of the international LAM community (patients, clinicians and researchers) to further the connections among the community and the search for a cure. They are documenting their journey at www.travelbreatherepeat.com. And they would love to meet up with Dartmouth alums too, so if you live abroad and would like to connect, email them at sarahpoitras@gmail.com or justinpoitras@gmail.com.

Lynnie Rudner was happy to accept a fellowship offer in pediatric anesthesia at the University of Rochester. It will start in the summer of 2017 and lasts one year. Lynnie is very excited to stay in Rochester, New York, and specialize in her training even more.

The DAM learned of Hillary Miller’snewly published book, Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York from Northwestern University Press. The book investigates theater and performance during the 1970s fiscal crisis in New York. Hillary is currently an assistant professor of theater at California State University, Northridge.

Happy New Year, ’02s!

—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com