Class Note 2004
Hello, ’04s! I apologize for the lack of class updates in the last two issues of the magazine—the gap was due to the transition between class officers. But we are back and have plenty to report on our fellow classmates.
Thomas Crafts reports that his wife, Liz (Wilson) Crafts, recently received her M.D. with Alpha Omega Alpha honors from the University of Rochester Medical School. Thomas and Liz moved to Durham, North Carolina, where Liz will begin her residency in anesthesiology at Duke University.
Liz Farenbach graduated from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine in June and has began her residency in dermatology at Cook County Hospital in Chicago.
Julian Kelly and Chris O’Connell have started a creative Web site, www.yourdigitalrecord.com, for digital music distribution. The site went live in June and Michael Martinez, Matt Stevenson and Geoff Vitt helped with its development. Please check it out!
Emily Pearl graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design with a master’s of architecture in May and recently completed teaching in their summer program.
Leigh (Heeter) Fiske will be attending Haas Business School starting this fall in Berkeley, California.
Catherine Buck moved from Seattle to Toronto to work for Microsoft Canada. She had been working at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, since December 2006, supporting Canadian advertisers as a search advertising account manager.
Sonia Tarantolo is leaving for her first assignment with the Foreign Service in mid-September, working as a political-economic advisor at the U.S. consulate in Milan.
Danielle Howard just returned from a two-year tour with the Peace Corps in Peru. She will be attending Kellogg business school at Northwestern University as of September.
Laura Ferrell got engaged last November to Grant Riedesel, whom she met at University of Michigan Law School. Molly Jenkins is also engaged—her fiancé, Pem Huddleston, proposed in March.
Lauren Kingsley was married in September to Ryan Dunn, Th’04. The wedding was in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and Julia Brant and Rebecca Aledort were among her bridesmaids. Lauren and Ryan are currently living in Charlottesville, Virginia, where Lauren is completing her M.D./Ph.D. at the University of Virginia and Ryan owns his own business.
Kaitlin Yaremchuk and Darren Gastrock were married on September 5 in Osterville, Massachusetts. The wedding party included fellow ’04s Ally Basak Russell, Danielle Luber, Mike Turner and Brian Van Abel. Kait and Darren are currently living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Kait recently completed her master of public policy at Brown University and Darren is working in commercial banking.
Blair Dickinson married Ryan Schroeder in Killington, Vermont, in early June. Jaclyn Murphy was the maid of Honor and Liz Bultman officiated. Cliff Campbell, Dara Adams, Kristin Hayden ’03 and I were all in attendance. Blair graduated from Drexel Medical School this May and began her residency in pediatrics in Philadelphia.
Eleanor Pessin married Ben Correa in August of this year. Many Dartmouth alumni attended, including Robin Deliso, Katie and Fred Yarger, Daniel Colvard, Curtis Leitner, Valerie Silverman, Elizabeth Leonard, Chad Butt, Dave Philips, Jaclyn Strife, Caryn Karo, Julie and Cal Newport, Paul Bozzello, Lindsay Reither, Carolyn Kirchner, Evan Lapinsky, Sabrina Singh ’05, Jean Bredeche ’03, Mark Bubriski ’02, Erin Fifield ’05, Dan Correa ’05 and Fred Skillern ’73.
Sam Stein and I were also married in Woodstock, Vermont, on September 6. Thank you to all of our close Dartmouth friends in attendance!
Finally, our class president Kyle Smith and his wife, Mary Marshall Smith, will be having twins in January—congratulations!
I am thrilled to be your class secretary for the next five years—please send me future updates.
—Jess Leinwand, 1440 S St., NW, Apt. 2, Washington, DC 20009; jess.leinwand@gmail.com
