Class Note 2004
Blair Dickinson is in her second year of residency in pediatrics at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. She has been selected to serve as chief resident after the completion of her training. Her husband, Ryan, a family medicine resident in Abington, Pennsylvania, will be the chief resident for his program as well.
Robin Deliso graduated from business school at Georgetown last spring and moved to Arkansas to work for Walmart marketing. Robin works on communicating the company’s sustainability work, its efforts to fight hunger and the Walmart brand to customers.
Laura Berzak reported the following: “I’m thrilled to write in about the beautiful wedding of DeAnna Fernandez to the charming British gentleman Neil O’Reilly. The wedding was held in incredible Peckforton Castle in the north of England this past August. The castle was truly a fairytale location, and lots of alumni hopped across the pond to celebrate the special occasion with DeAnna and Neil, including myself, Sarah Ries, Tina Low ’03, Laura (Fraser) Hsu, Steve Hsu ’02, Gina Ferrie and Erik Dambach. It was an amazing occasion and so much fun to get together. DeAnna and Neil are loving their new married life together while living and working in Washington, D.C.”
Janos Marton has been working at the law firm of Hogan Lovells in New York. Janos invites old friends to check out his website, livingthedream.org.
Christine Devane is starting a pie-baking business in Chicago: www.wedgepies.com. You can become a fan on Facebook as well. Christine writes, “We don’t ship, but I’ll happily deliver to local Dartmouth alums!”
Jenny Sharfstein married Andrew Kane (Princeton ’03) on November 13, 2010, in N.Y.C. Alex Friedman and Sarah Stoller were bridesmaids and other class of 2004 guests included Anne Hunt, Amy (Price) Markwort, Ross Markwort, Lindsay Hirsch, Abby Johnson and Danielle Howard. A lot of other Dartmouth alumni were there, including Jenny’s father, Howard Sharfstein ’67, her sister Ann Sharfstein ’99 and husband Dan Mielcarz ’99, Jim Peck ’67, Tom Thompson ’67, Pamela Cogut ’02 and David Edelson ’81.
Abiel Acosta lives in Ventura, California, and owns a financial planning business. He recently visited Lisa Volpe in Santa Barbara, California. According to Abiel, he and Lisa “had this crazy idea to dress up as characters from Michael Jackson videos for Halloween and visit Neverland Ranch. We ended up doing an impromptu dance off with Michael Jackson moves and Lisa ended up winning. Someone took pictures and thanked us for remembering the good part of Michael.” Abiel recently visited Jonathan Webster, who just graduated from Stanford Medical School, as well as Sam Valverde, Ryan Abraham, David Turnbull, Paul Bozzello and Carl Gierginger, all of whom live and work in Washington, D.C.
Last but certainly not least, Jess Van Garsse produced a film, Killing in the Name, which has been nominated for an Oscar in the best short documentary category. Jess worked on the film with producer Jed Rothstein for almost a year—and spent most of that time in the Middle East. The film itself focuses on a young man, Ashraf, who was celebrating his wedding at a hotel in Amman, Jordan, when a suicide bomber walked in and killed his father and 26 family members. From a recruiter for Al-Qaeda, to an Islamic militant behind one of the world’s worst terrorist attacks, to a madrassa filled with young boys ready to fulfill the duty of jihad, Ashraf takes us on a harrowing journey around the world to see if one man can speak truth to terror. For more information, please visit www.facebook.com/pages/ Killing-In-The-Name/106906082693879—and a huge congratulations to Jess!
—Jess Leinwand, 1440 S St., NW, Apt. 2, Washington, DC 20009; jess.leinwand@gmail.com
