Hey, ’04s, I hope you are all having a great spring. The number of you who wrote in to tell me you were canceling your subscription to Rolling Stone magazine was too many to print, so I’ll just move on to the more substantive updates.


Jordynn Hagar writes: “After living in West Virginia for five years while my husband completed medical school, we are now living in Connecticut, which we are very excited about. We bought a house here almost a year ago and in December we had a baby girl, Cameron Grace Hagar! I am still working as a child and adolescent therapist, though now I am working part time since having the baby. I also just had a book published titled “At Least You’ll Be Married To A Doctor”: Managing Your Intimate Relationship Through Medical School. It addresses just what it says—managing a relationship when one member is in medical school. It’s now available for purchase through amazon.com.”


Heather (Tatarski) Wininger and her husband, Jim, welcomed twin boys Bennett James and William Joseph on January 27. Heather reports that the babies are adorable and healthy and that everyone is doing well.


Leigh Vissens is set to defend her dissertation on April 25 and will be getting her Ph.D. (at the University of Wisconsin-Madison) in May. Leigh will be moving out to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in August to start a job as assistant professor of philosophy at Augustana College. 


DeAnna Fernandez O’Reilly (who lives in Washington, D.C., where she works for the Department of the Treasury) reported that she had the honor to serve as a maid of honor in Laura Berzak Hopkins’ gorgeous Santa Fe wedding last year. According to DeAnna, “Laura married handsome southern gentleman and Princeton grad Adam Hopkins in an intimate ceremony last June. The wedding was also attended by Dartmouth alums Reena Dutta and Nate Ferraro ’02. In addition to planning her wedding Dr. Berzak also earned a Ph.D. in plasma physics from Princeton and will move to San Francisco with her husband later this year.”


Julian Saltman recently went skiing in Winter Park, Colorado, with Evan Lapinsky, Charles Light and Jonny Web. Jonny is a resident at Johns Hopkins, Evan just finished medical school at the University of Virginia and Charley works for Bain Consulting in Boston. 


I noticed on Facebook that Alex Talcott will be teaching at Yale University Summer Institute for the Gifted this summer. He will be teaching two sections each of “International Relations” and “College Preparation.” Congrats, Alex! 


As you can see, I am starving for news. Please continue to update me on your (or any of your classmates’) job transitions, weddings, children and reunions. Looking forward to hearing from you. 


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