Hello, classmates! Sorry it’s been awhile since you’ve read of our collective exploits in the pages of the alumni magazine. I wish I could say that it’s all my fault, but I received exactly zero submissions for a string of several months back there. Was it the cold, dark winter that kept you from your computers and e-mail? Oh, no wait, that makes no sense—if the winters were cold and dark, you’d be by your computers. But I digress. Let’s get to some news!


Our fearless and peerless James Barkley and his wife, Jen, are now the proud parents to beautiful baby girl Ayla Jaclyn Barkley, whom they welcomed into the world on May 26! A warm congratulations to James and his family. Hope you enjoyed all those lazy sleep-ins back in College! 


Also in the news are several engagements and weddings! Gregory Harkay, Th’08, proposed to Cici Cruz-Uribe by skiing down on one knee in Mont Sainte-Anne, Quebec, this past January. A daredevil proposal if there ever was one! The happy couple will be having a snowy winter wedding next year. Also soon to ring wedding bells is Shawn Zhou,who got engaged to Elaine Lee ’08 in April. Congratulations to both happy couples! Other classmates who are recently engaged include Chris Leach and Peter Morgenstern, who got engaged this past winter and spring, respectively.


And what would a notes column be without some professional and academic news? Movers and shakers in that area include Carlo Ordonez, who was recently awarded the D.R. Ostberg Award from Northern Illinois University for academic achievement. Also achieving academically are a few recently minted M.B.A.s, including Adam Slutsky (Kellogg), Hank Alexander (Harvard Business School), Brittany Mantell (Harvard Business School), Jen Peterson Holland (Tuck), and no doubt many others who either haven’t written in or haven’t friended me on Facebook so I can creep on them for notes-taking purposes!


Finally, a very exciting piece of news from John Schriffen, who has recently been promoted to on-air live reporter with ABC’s Good Morning America and the ABC Evening News. For those who remember, John used to broadcast the Dartmouth games and was a sportswriter for The D. Ahh, how far he’s gone! Congratulations, John.


Please send in your notes, folks, or I don’t have anything to write about! To reiterate, you can find me at jessica.e.tory@gmail.com. Send away!


—Jess Tory, Schwab Residential Center, 680 Serra St., Stanford, CA 94305; (310) 210-2391; jessica.e.tory@gmail.com