Though my plea for additional updates did not generate the wave of responses I had hoped for, there is a fair amount of news to report in this issue. Here are the updates from your classmates:


Eric Winn was accepted into Tuck Business School and is thrilled to be returning to Dartmouth for what he is calling “Hanover 2.0.” Eric is currently a senior director for the supply chain innovation division at C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc. 


Jessica Lawson, co-founder and associate director of the Mariposa DR Foundation, received Dartmouth’s Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Award for her work assisting girls and women facing poverty in the Dominican Republic. Jessica was honored at a reception in Hanover on January 27. 


John Polga-Hecimovich married Rebeca Omaña in Peribeca, Venezuela, in August. John reports that, “Ryan McElroy, Jeanette Soares ’02 and Joe Cloyd ’02 all made the long journey, and only Joe was strip-searched by the Venezuelan National Guard. Josh Osgood and Lavinia Weizel joined us for our reception in Minnesota the following week, during the Minnesota State Fair. I am currently working on my Ph.D. in comparative politics at the University of Pittsburgh.”


Kathy (Birchall) Gardner and Charlie Gardner welcomed their first baby, Charlie B. Gardner, to the world in February. 


Jordan Cooper’s startup company, Hyperpublic, was acquired by Groupon this past January. Hyperpublic builds databases of local information and makes them freely available to developers. The company started as a site where people could submit listings of items, such as apartments for rent and goods for sale, tagged with their location. It then became a service offering data to startups, including a database of locations and daily deals. Amazing news, Jordan! 


Elisheva Hirshman Finston married Steve Finston at a beautiful and fun reception on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in February. Sam Stein and I had a great time celebrating the happy couple and catching up with Sarah Stoller, Margot Langsdorf ’05 and Nina Edelman ’05. 


Finally, Elliot Olshansky wrote in with three exciting updates: First, Elliot proposed to Eliza Zipper (University of Maryland ’04) this past July, and the couple will be getting married on Long Island this coming September. In addition, Elliot started Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business in September, and is pursuing a double concentration in communications and media management and marketing. He expects to graduate in 2014, as he is pursuing his M.B.A. on a part-time basis while also working as a freelance writer and pursuing full-time employment. Finally, Elliot’s first novel, Robert’s Rules of Karaoke, will be published as an e-book this spring by the Write Deal (www.thewritedeal.org). Set mostly in New York during the period from September 2007 to August 2008, the book tells the story of Rob Olson, an assistant producer on a local evening newscast, and his best friend, Chuck Dalton. As Elliot detailed, “The two close friends can often be found at their favorite karaoke bar—much to the annoyance of Chuck’s girlfriend, Gia. There, in between impressing their fellow patrons, Rob and Chuck expound on the do’s and don’ts of their pastime, codifying them into a set of rules. Unfortunately, Rob’s fixation with rules proves less than rewarding in his personal life—as his mother constantly reminds him—until he meets Liz, who soon has Rob rethinking his rules...with and without the microphone.”


Please continue to send your news to me.


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