Class Note 2006
Hello, class of 2006! I’m sure many of you have wondered where our Class Notes disappeared to in the last issue. To that I say, we need to make a collective effort to submit news and notes on each other’s behalf! I know you’re out there doing great things—so please share them with me so that I don’t need to be a creeper and use Facebook to generate news. With that warning, time for some news.
To kick things off, we have a few very happy pieces of wedding news! A belated congratulations to Cary Telander Fortin, who married Cam Fortin ’05 in Big Sur, California, on September 10, 2011! In attendance were many Dartmouth classmates, including Hank Alexander, Edy Wilson, Kaethe Henning, Katie Wolf, Paul Durkee, Patty Olszynski and many others. Also newly betrothed is Alex Payne, who married Mary Gugliotta, whom he met while working at Goldman Sachs, on January 14 in New Jersey. And who says investment banking is bad for your love life? In attendance for Alex and Mary’s happy day were classmates Dan Kovler (a groomsman), Mike Rabil, Alex Tonelli, Rich Walton, Ryan Fuselier, Vince Carey and Anthony Gargiulo. For future nuptials, it looks like Brittany Mantell is yet another of our soon-to-be-wed classmates! Brittany is engaged to her fellow Harvard Business School (HBS) classmate Matt Berner, and the two will be graduating this year from HBS. Congrats!
Although the wedding news keeps flowing, so too does exciting professional news! In that category we have many items, including one about the aforementioned Kaethe Henning, who is pursuing her dream of becoming an opera singer. Kaethe is close to completing her master’s in vocal performance at the University of Northern Iowa. Congrats, Kaethe! Also graduating from a master’s program this year is Katie Jaxheimer, who is finishing up a dual degree at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) and the Stanford School of Education. Katie will be returning to Parthenon in San Francisco upon graduation, joining the hordes of ’06ers currently in the Bay Area, including Erica Steger, Justin Neiman, Angela Broad and Mike Rosenzweig.Speaking of the Stanford GSB, imagine my pleasant surprise when I arrived in September to discover several Dartmouth ’06s in my class. I am joined here by Aubrey Burnett, Alex Gelman and Maryanna Quigless. We’ve even tried our best to bring Dartmouth-style pong to Stanford (with varying degrees of success). Among other M.B.A.s, Justin Blesy will be graduating from Chicago Booth this year, and will be joining the western migration as he heads to Orange County, California, to start work for Pimco. Julia Drury will be joining Justin in Newport Beach, California, this summer as she finishes up her veterinary studies at Cornell University next year.
Well, that’s it for now! Please continue to send news my way or I will do what I did to generate news for most of this column: creepily stalk Facebook. Thank you, Mark Zuckerberg, for minting many Facebook millionaires and making the job of class secretary a lot easier!
Secretary out.
—Jess Tory, Schwab Residential Center, 680 Serra St., Stanford, CA 94305; (310) 210-2391; jessica.e.tory@gmail.com
