Class Note 2007

Babies, babies, babies, rockin’ everywhere. Join me in welcoming some of the newest members to our extended Dartmouth family.

Marlene Labastida and her husband, Matt Johnson (UCSD ’08, Princeton ’13), welcomed their son, Santiago, this past summer. They are enjoying being new parents in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Christina (Luccio) Sargent and her husband, Dave, welcomed their first baby, a daughter named Selena Grace, on August 22, 2018. Selena has loved meeting a few daughters and sons of Dartmouth already, and she is hoping to make a trip to Hanover very soon!

I know it’s a busy time in our lives, with all of us juggling careers, families, social, and personal lives. Sarah Szefi has taken it to the next level though: She set a Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon while juggling (female) at the Chicago Marathon in October 2018. For those in the back, that’s running 26.2 miles…while constantly juggling three balls in the air. And she did it all with a smile on her face! You have to see it to believe it, so (insert shameless plug) make sure to check out the photos on our Instagram account!

As for social lives, it never gets any better than a reunion with the Dartmouth besties, right?

Sam Routhier shares that he had a great time in November doing a quick reunion with his best ’07 buds—Nate Raines, Charlie Guthrie, Pete Cooch—as well as Tommy Dickie ’05, in and around the tennis courts of Darien, Connecticut. He writes, “Nate is starting his nephrology fellowship in Boston, Charlie is working in tech in San Francisco, and Pete is working in pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, primarily focusing on Latin American community health. I’m going strong in year nine of teaching world history with KIPP-NYC charter schools.”

Paul Durkee ’06, Mikey Sinnott, Danny Hundert, Petie Anderson ’06, Bing Knight ’05, G. Owen Cadwalader, Spencer Lawley ’06, Kristina Trygstad-Saari ’06, Killarney Loufek, Cameron Houser, and James Austin V met on March 2 for a showdown at the Montucky Derby, this year’s Yellowstone Rendezvous 50k Nordic ski race. “After teasing the ‘nordorks’ for years about their foolish snow sport, we find ourselves forsaking ski lifts and coming out, spandex-clad, to go for glory. Mikey is going down.”

Until next time.

—Jaime Padgett, 1837 W. Patterson Ave, #109, Chicago, IL 60613; dartmouth2007s@gmail.com