Class Note 2007
Issue
Nov - Dec 2015
Happy fall, ’07s! Jam-packed notes as usual.
Michelle Shortsleeve and husband Brian Dowling celebrated their one-year anniversary on July 12. They married in New Haven, Connecticut, while Michelle was at Yale and Brian worked as a journalist. Michelle has been teaching 10th-grade history in New Haven for five years but will be starting at Boston University Law School with a focus on housing law, while Brian will write for the Boston Herald.
Continuing in their tradition of doing everything together in matching outfits, Severina Ostrovsky and Christina Luccio both got engaged earlier this year to Chicago lawyers, whom they will wed in February 2016 and September 2016, respectively. “While neither Michael Skopets nor David Sargent is a Dartmouth graduate, we have already coached them in pong and are proud to say they can hold table in the best of basements. Cheers!”
Will Suto married Elizabeth Bloder in Hawaii on July 29. The happy couple currently lives in San Diego.
Sofia Faruqi married Erik Desrosiers, whom she met at Wharton, during the July 4th weekend. In attendance were Andreas Baum, Ashley (Henry) Musser, Lance Labun, Phuong Luong and sister Sonia Faruqi.
Jonathan Beilin moved to N.Y.C. to start an M.F.A. at Parsons and is looking to reconnect with alums in the N.Y.C. area.
Meredith Wilson Chang is now national security council director for Iraq. “If there are any other alums working for the White House, I would love to reconnect. It’s a challenging time for Iraq and I am excited to have the opportunity to shape our policy there after working on this issue since graduation.”
After eight years in New York Kristin (Lieske) Bryan, Dan Bryan ’05 and Elizabeth Bryan (class of 2037) are relocating to Bay Village, Ohio. Kristin will be working as a litigation associate at Squire Patton in Cleveland.
Holly McClelland (University of Vermont at Montpelier ’08) and Peter Kenseth were married on July 11 at the top of Killington Peak, Vermont. Henry Whitehead, Ben Wilson, Laura Sides-Wilson, Anna (Richardson) Muth, Baird Hull and Cordelia Ross were in attendance.
Rob Esposito joined Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP’s corporate and securities practice group in the firm’s New York office in September.
Matthew Pech writes, “I’ve finally finished my Ph.D. in cancer biology at Stanford. I’m off to do more research on the intersection of cancer biology and aging at Calico, a research institute funded by Google.”
Derrick Smith has left Dartmouth and is now the associate director of young alumni programs at the University of Pennsylvania annual fund.
Amie Sugarman recently moved with her husband from New York City to Los Angeles. She is working in strategy at a charter school network downtown, where she hears the hipsters live. Amie is enjoying the L.A. sunshine, kale and gridlock and loves being able to spend time with Martie Kutscher, Sahiba (Sarna) Krieger and Joanna (Zimelis) Goldblatt.
Celeste Griffin-Churchill graduated from Northwestern Law and Kellogg School of Management’s J.D.-M.B.A. program this past June and now has moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, to work for NASCAR in strategic development. “Any ’07s who are interested in checking out a race should get in touch! Classmate Alex Cushman ’08 and I taught about 25 of our friends how to play pong during graduation weekend—but we obviously held table.”
In July Annie Bennett and Shane Colegrove got married in Girdwood, Alaska, surrounded by mountains and trees. They were joined by Patrick Handler, Kristen Lingley, Brandon Carballo, Jenny Wang, Alix (Cody) FitzGerald, Linzi Sheldon, Kate Davison, Rob Esposito, Seb Ruiz ’06, Lisa Caldeira, Heather (Strack) McCutcheon, Sean Garren, Will DeKrey ’08, Andy Reynolds ’09, John Crowther and Moira Sullivan.
—Jesse Shaw, Unit 3120 #9, DPO, AA 34055-9997; jesseashaw@gmail.com
Michelle Shortsleeve and husband Brian Dowling celebrated their one-year anniversary on July 12. They married in New Haven, Connecticut, while Michelle was at Yale and Brian worked as a journalist. Michelle has been teaching 10th-grade history in New Haven for five years but will be starting at Boston University Law School with a focus on housing law, while Brian will write for the Boston Herald.
Continuing in their tradition of doing everything together in matching outfits, Severina Ostrovsky and Christina Luccio both got engaged earlier this year to Chicago lawyers, whom they will wed in February 2016 and September 2016, respectively. “While neither Michael Skopets nor David Sargent is a Dartmouth graduate, we have already coached them in pong and are proud to say they can hold table in the best of basements. Cheers!”
Will Suto married Elizabeth Bloder in Hawaii on July 29. The happy couple currently lives in San Diego.
Sofia Faruqi married Erik Desrosiers, whom she met at Wharton, during the July 4th weekend. In attendance were Andreas Baum, Ashley (Henry) Musser, Lance Labun, Phuong Luong and sister Sonia Faruqi.
Jonathan Beilin moved to N.Y.C. to start an M.F.A. at Parsons and is looking to reconnect with alums in the N.Y.C. area.
Meredith Wilson Chang is now national security council director for Iraq. “If there are any other alums working for the White House, I would love to reconnect. It’s a challenging time for Iraq and I am excited to have the opportunity to shape our policy there after working on this issue since graduation.”
After eight years in New York Kristin (Lieske) Bryan, Dan Bryan ’05 and Elizabeth Bryan (class of 2037) are relocating to Bay Village, Ohio. Kristin will be working as a litigation associate at Squire Patton in Cleveland.
Holly McClelland (University of Vermont at Montpelier ’08) and Peter Kenseth were married on July 11 at the top of Killington Peak, Vermont. Henry Whitehead, Ben Wilson, Laura Sides-Wilson, Anna (Richardson) Muth, Baird Hull and Cordelia Ross were in attendance.
Rob Esposito joined Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP’s corporate and securities practice group in the firm’s New York office in September.
Matthew Pech writes, “I’ve finally finished my Ph.D. in cancer biology at Stanford. I’m off to do more research on the intersection of cancer biology and aging at Calico, a research institute funded by Google.”
Derrick Smith has left Dartmouth and is now the associate director of young alumni programs at the University of Pennsylvania annual fund.
Amie Sugarman recently moved with her husband from New York City to Los Angeles. She is working in strategy at a charter school network downtown, where she hears the hipsters live. Amie is enjoying the L.A. sunshine, kale and gridlock and loves being able to spend time with Martie Kutscher, Sahiba (Sarna) Krieger and Joanna (Zimelis) Goldblatt.
Celeste Griffin-Churchill graduated from Northwestern Law and Kellogg School of Management’s J.D.-M.B.A. program this past June and now has moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, to work for NASCAR in strategic development. “Any ’07s who are interested in checking out a race should get in touch! Classmate Alex Cushman ’08 and I taught about 25 of our friends how to play pong during graduation weekend—but we obviously held table.”
In July Annie Bennett and Shane Colegrove got married in Girdwood, Alaska, surrounded by mountains and trees. They were joined by Patrick Handler, Kristen Lingley, Brandon Carballo, Jenny Wang, Alix (Cody) FitzGerald, Linzi Sheldon, Kate Davison, Rob Esposito, Seb Ruiz ’06, Lisa Caldeira, Heather (Strack) McCutcheon, Sean Garren, Will DeKrey ’08, Andy Reynolds ’09, John Crowther and Moira Sullivan.
—Jesse Shaw, Unit 3120 #9, DPO, AA 34055-9997; jesseashaw@gmail.com