Class Note 2004
Hey, ’04s, it has definitely been a busy fall for many of you!
Ben Wade graduated from Columbia Business School in the spring and started working at the Boston Consulting Group’s New York office in August.
Janos Marton is currently practicing civil rights law in New York and will be going to Liberia in February to work for its Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.
Aimee Barnes recently moved to London, where she is working for the United Kingdom government’s department of energy and climate change.
Tyra Olstad spent the summer working for the U.S. Forest Service in Alaska and is working on a Ph.D. in geography at Kansas State University.
Caz Liske finished five years of acting studies at the Moscow Art Theater School (with a Reynolds Fellowship from Dartmouth). He was one of the first two Americans to graduate from the Russian-language acting conservatory and is now a professional actor in Moscow.
Susana Guajardo just returned from Iraq, where she was a consultant for a government contractor. She now lives in Washington, D.C., with her new roommate Paul Bozzello, who graduated from Harvard Law School in May and is a lawyer for Cleary Gottlieb.
Christina Palmer is starting her fourth year of medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. She spent the past two months working in a hospital in Botswana and runs a research study examining the effectiveness of yoga in breast cancer survivors.
Ryan Rosston and Claire Chandler were married on September 12, 2009, at Bogus Basin Mountain in Boise, Idaho. More than 30 Dartmouth alums, spanning the classes of ’73 to ’06, attended.
Lindsay Geimer married Sean Carroll in September. Ben Wade, Susan Edwards, Johanna Willer and Rachel Holmes were all in attendance.
Joseph Pechter and Christine Reinhold ’06 were married at Dartmouth on July 12, 2009. Katherine Lawson ’06 served as maid of honor and William Pechter served as best man. Also in the wedding party were Ruwan Kiringoda, William Young ’03 (who flew in from China), Kevin Fournier ’03, Ian Sarr ’05 and Diana Pechter ’12.
Frederica Ghesquiere and John Helmstadter ’05 were married over Labor Day weekend at a summer camp in Lyman, New Hampshire. More than 40 Dartmouth alums were in attendance, including David Anderson, Lauren Endicott, Cat Crandall, Pete Sokol-Hessner, Brad Bate, Ben Wade, John Kupiec, Jon Kling, James Lamb, Hillary Critchley, Erik Jacobson, Rufus Lusk and Jackie Chamberlain. Freddie is finishing a joint degree in forestry and divinity at Yale, where John is finishing his M.Div.
Greg Klein and his wife, Mariah, were married in July 2008 in Glover, Vermont, and are expecting their first child this December. Greg is an assistant principal at United for Success Academy, a small public middle school in Oakland, California, where he was a founding teacher.
Nic Duquette and Joanna Hurrell ’05 were married September 5 in Port Clinton, Ohio. The wedding party included Heather Lapin (maid of honor), Chris Plehal and Matt Kemp.
Charlie Gardner and Kathy Birchall were married this past August in Woodstock, Vermont. Their photographer was Rob Strong, who comes highly recommended!
Jenny Sharfstein was engaged to Andy Kane (Princeton ’03) while on a family vacation in Maine. They plan to get married next fall.
Nikita Dubrovsky and his wife, Annelise, just had a new baby girl, whom they named Amelia. Congratulations!
Katie Theoharides was married September 12 to Stephen Caldwell (Harvard ’01) in Whately, Massachusetts. Kristina Garcia Wade was one of her bridesmaids and Roy Wade, DMS’06, Asa Tapley ’02 and Adam Tapley ’03 attended.
—Jess Leinwald, 1440 S St., NW, Apt. 2, Washington, DC 20009; jess.leinwand@gmail.com
