Hi, ’06s! Congratulations to Bob Blake and Katie Collins, who were married in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 25. They are currently living in Alexandria, Virginia. Katie is a consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton and Bob is an engineer for BriarTek Inc. Charlotte Lord and Nic Chu, who were also married in 2010, were able to celebrate with Bob and Katie. Also in attendance at the wedding were Stacy Kourlis and Elyssa Gelmann. Stacy started law school at Stanford this past fall. Elyssa is in her last year of graduate school at Yale and will be graduating in May with two master’s, in public health and environmental management. 


Congratulations also to Lauren Balukjian and Sean Offers, who were married on August 1 in Newport, Rhode Island. Sean and Lauren live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Lauren works in marketing for Autonomy, a software technology company, and Sean works in commercial real estate for Lee & Associates. Among the Dartmouth alumni in attendance at the wedding were Courtney You, Christine Tsu, Jessica Saraceno and Louis Odette. Courtney is in the third year of a clinical psychology doctoral program, specializing in the treatment of anxiety disorders and depression in children and adolescents. Courtney was married in May to Jon Slaughter; the couple lives in New York. Jon is an emergency room psychiatrist and has a private practice in Union Square. Jessica graduated from Seton Hall University School of Law in May, took and passed the N.Y. and N.J. bar exams in July and is clerking for the Hon. Stephan C. Hansbury in New Jersey. After her clerkship she will begin as an associate at McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter. She is also engaged and planning an August wedding to Brendan Carroll. Jessica and Brendan met in law school and he is now an associate at Coughlin Duffy in Morristown, New Jersey. Louis lives in San Francisco and he started a new job a few months ago, doing equity research (small/mid-cap strategy) at Citigroup. 


After spending last fall teaching Spanish at an American school in Switzerland Julie Fairchild moved back to her hometown of Kansas City, Kansas. She is working in commercial real estate consulting and recently got engaged to Lant Fogarty. The couple is planning a June 2012 wedding in Kansas City. 


Nathan Ruegger was officially selected to screen his short film Another Life at the Big Easy International Film Festival in New Orleans. Another Life, a suspense thriller about a young female veteran tapped for the daunting task of assassinating a fellow soldier, also won the Award of Merit at the Accolade Competition and screened at the Temecula Valley International Film Festival and the Mountain Madness Film Festival. Currently Nathan is working as an executive assistant for a boutique production company and writing a feature screenplay assignment.


I look forward to seeing many of you in June for our reunion!


—Heidi Immesberger, 225 Delmar St., Philadelphia, PA 19128; (215) 482-3769; heidiimmes@gmail.com