Class Note 2006

Hi ’06s.

I write this column after our 06/06 Day class celebration. We had great turnout in Boston, Chicago, New York City, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., on June 6. Additionally, ’06s celebrated early in Paris when Alex Stein, Jesse Gero, Echo Brown, and Sonia Bojanowska-Cantor got together in May. Ben Schwartz and Greg Pence also had an ad hoc 06/06 Day event in Seoul, South Korea. They caught up and discussed life, Dartmouth, and education. Thank you to everyone who came out for 06/06 Day events, and we look forward to continued class engagement and future mini-reunions.

On to other updates from classmates. John Huelskamp and Jessica Shumway were married in Westlake Village, California, on May 11. The event was heavily attended by Dartmouth alumni, a large number of ’06s, and the alma mater was sung.

In March Jose Gonzalez and his wife, Shaina Landau ’07, welcomed their firstborn, Owen Landau Gonzalez. Shaina and Jose met at Dartmouth when they were next-door neighbors in the New Hamp dormitory. Crawford and Adair Arnold welcomed their third child, daughter Maison (May) Reed Arnold on May 8. Mom, baby, dad, and siblings are all doing well and are very excited. Danielle Mohilef Rudner and her husband, Jonathan, welcomed their third baby, Ashton Michael Mohilef-Rudner, on May 14. Ashton joins big sister Olivia (5) and big brother Dylan (3). The Rudners are loving their little circus and couldn’t be happier.

My spring travels took me to Charlotte, North Carolina, where I visited Jonathan and Stephanie Landsberg and their 8-month-old son, Henry. Henry had just started rolling around and got his first tooth. After the trip he also received many comments on and off social media as the “cutest baby ever.”

Joy Huntington was recently named one of Native Business Magazine’s top 50 entrepreneurs. Joy launched Uqaqti Consulting in 2011, and the main business lines are planning and facilitating community meetings, coordinating communications and marketing strategies, and government relations. Her services are sought after in Alaska, where she is recognized for her cultural ties, knowledge of tribal protocols, and overall effectiveness and pleasant working nature.

After nearly eight years as the grassroots director of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) in Washington, D.C., Sarah Hackney took the helm as coalition director in July. The organizational council of the NSAC voted unanimously for Sarah and cited her strong track record of commitment to the NSAC’s membership-led model for policy advocacy and grassroots organizing.

This fall Sarah Emel will be working as an assistant professor in the department of biology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she will continue her research in conservation genomics as well as teach courses in ecology and evolution. She looks forward to catching up with ’06s in the Pittsburgh area.

And I always love ending a column with a pong recap: In May Mike Stroup and I played in the Chicago Club of Dartmouth’s annual pong tournament.True to form, Mike carried the team and hit every single cup. I had one throw save to my name.

Thanks to everyone who shared news for this update. To see photos with these updates, visit our class website for the Class Notes online at 2006.dartmouth.org/classnotes. I look forward to hearing from you again soon!

—Cindy Tsai, Synchrony Financial, 222 W Adams St., 27th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606; cindaaay@gmail.com