Hello, ’07s! By the time you read this winter will be over, your lives will have defrosted and you’ll, I hope, be greedily soaking up warmth and happiness. And then you’ll write me Class Notes updates and tell me all about it, okay? Just a few updates this time: here we go!


Joe Scola writes in, “My 2015 has started out with change. I just finished up my second year coaching football at the University of Kentucky. However, before I got my third year started I took a new job coaching for the San Francisco 49ers and moved out here to the Bay Area in February. I hope I will be able to connect with some Dartmouth alums in the area. Hope all is well!”


Kristina Guild Douglass and her husband, Scott Douglass, welcomed Percy, their first child, on January 20. Kristina is finishing up her Ph.D. in archaeology at Yale and Scott teaches music in Hamden, Connecticut, just north of New Haven. Scott regularly gets together to play music with Brad Fierstein ’06, who also lives in New Haven.


Beily Pan shares, “I’m engaged and moving to N.Y.C.! After 17 months at Sony Electronics in San Diego I will be joining Mag+ in a strategy and operations role. But most importantly I won’t be doing cross-country long distance anymore.”


Jacques P. Hebert recently moved back home to New Orleans to take a job as communications director with the National Audubon Society’s Restore the Mississippi River Delta campaign based there, aiming to raise awareness and support for much-needed coastal restoration efforts. Prior to leaving the Bay Area Jacques married his partner, Graham Gremore, in a private ceremony atop Ring Mountain Open Space Preserve in Tiburon, California, on New Year’s Eve. 


Hannah McCullar writes in to share that Kristin (Lieske) Bryan and her husband, Dan Bryan ’05, were thrilled to meet their beautiful baby girl, Elizabeth Anne, on January 21. Mom and baby are doing great!


Finally, a rare update from yours truly: Jesse Shaw moved to Barbados at the end of December 2014 to begin his two-year posting as a consular officer at the U.S. embassy to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States. He misses home but feels comforted when classmates send him life updates for Class Notes. He is unashamed of dropping heavy-handed hints.


Finally, Laura Flannery’s name was misspelled in the last column, in the mention of her August wedding to Colin Masters. Apologies for the error.


Hope all of you are well!


—Jesse Shaw, Unit 3120, #9, DPO, AA 34055-9997; jesseashaw@gmail.com