Happy New Year, ’04s! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. On to the updates.


Kristin Burdge will be spending January through May in Amman, Jordan, working with the World Health Organization to improve the social worker training curriculum in its new and improved mental healthcare system. 


Johanna Willer is in her second year at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. She will be spending six weeks in Melbourne, Australia, this spring on a study abroad program and working for Accenture Consulting next fall. 


Erik Dambach completed his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering at Purdue University. He is moving to Los Angeles to work for SpaceX.


Rebecca Ehrlichman became engaged to Grant Blume (University of Oregon ’01), whom she met during graduate school at the University of Washington, where they each received a master’s in public administration. She is now working in development at the Seattle YWCA and Grant is pursuing a Ph.D. in public policy and management at the University of Washington. The couple will be married in July.


Stephanie Feldman married Chris Annear in Sonoma County, California, on October 10, 2010.


Lea Kiefer and Rob Bialas were married in Ocean City, New Jersey on September 12, 2010. 


Becky MacDonnell-Yimaz married Tay Yilmaz, who graduated from Fordham University in 2004 and earned his master’s in public health at Dartmouth in 2008. They were married at Sugarbush Resort in Vermont. Gina Ferrie, Lauren Wondolowski, and Kate (Muse) Zeitler ’05 were among the bridesmaids, and other alums joining in the celebration were Tim Fallon, Andrea Lauerman ’06, Evan Golden, and Lavan Khandan. Becky is in her third year at Stony Brook University School of Medicine and Tay is a graduate student. 


Finally, Catherine McManus wrote in with the following: “Brain Walter (Haverford College ’97) and I got married this summer in an un-air-conditioned Quaker meeting house in the middle of an unseasonably ‘hot-’n’-humid’ June day. There was much merriment and a bunch of friends from the Big Green were in attendance, including Jen Mygatt, Freya Sachs, Jamie Perencevich, Kacy Gordon ’06, Diana Sanderson ’05 and various other Dartmouth alums of a different kind of family: Buck Scott ’51, Caroline (Scott) McIlhenny ’78, Bill Scott ’82. Brian and I are still living in downtown Philadelphia and enjoying every minute of it! Anyone who wants to get a worm’s eye tour of the city, feel free to get in touch when you’re in town. I am still working at undergrad admissions at the University of Pennsylvania and it’s busy, but I did get to travel to Hanover (part of my region) this fall. For those of you who haven’t been back recently, Lou’s breakfast is just as good as ever and Hanover is just as enchanting. Fond thoughts to all the ’04s and their families!”


Please continue to send your updates to me.


—Jess Leinwand, 1440 S St., NW, Apt. 2, Washington, DC 20009; jess.leinwand@gmail.com