Class Note 2007
Issue
May-June 2023
For the ninth year in a row, Sarah Hughes and Rachel Karpf did the Coney Island New Year’s Day Polar Bear Plunge with friends and family, including spouses Alex Tilney and Brent Reidy ’05, and Sarah’s 21-month-old Owen, who remained onshore watching intently. They report that previous Dartmouth participants include ’07s Mirelle Phillips, Katherine Akiko Day, Liz McDonnell, and Lauren Chow, Kate Budney ’21, and Owen O’Leary ’19. Their annual tradition follows a screaming run into the Atlantic with several hours of saunas, steam rooms, beer, and pierogi at a Brighton Beach bathhouse, plus delicious BBQ at one of Brooklyn’s many fine establishments. Sarah credits her 2004 participation in the Occom Pond Polar Bear Plunge for her continued commitment to this insanity. All fellow brave and crazy souls are welcome to join in future years!
Sticking with Sarah Hughes, she was back on campus in Hanover this winter directing the MainStage production, an adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron. Sarah reflected, “This process has been a fun and wild adventure! We’re staging the piece site-specifically in a classroom in Sudikoff, where the theater department has relocated due to Hop renovations. The students have been brilliant and we’ve had a great time figuring out how to turn 900 pages of medieval Italian bawdy folktales into a compelling performance. It’s unlike anything the department has done before and I’m excited to bring my experimental theater background (and my work with the Displaced Theater Company back when I was a student) into the leadership of this project.”
Michael Amico and his husband, Conrad Winslow, have a home back in the United States after about six years of living exclusively abroad. It’s a house near the water in Waldoboro, Maine. They would love to connect with any Dartmouth alums and friends in the midcoast Maine area. They will still be in Berlin, too!
Naomi Heindel moved back home to Vermont in March, bringing along husband Jordan Nobler and two little kids, Asa (almost 5) and Sylvia (almost 2). She started a new gig as the executive director at North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier, Vermont. She’d love to know if there are any other ’07s in central Vermont—come swing by the nature center any time!
Amanda Carye is so grateful to get to be a part of the ’07 Uplifters, our class’ compassion committee, sending quilts to classmates and their loved ones across the country (if you’d like to get involved, email dartmouth2007s@gmail.com). Speaking of quilts, she has also just released her first book, Quilt Your Own Adventure, a “choose your own adventure” style quilt block book, with 30 blocks, a handful of quilt top layouts, and all the math for all the possible layouts included (imagine painting-by-numbers, but with quilt blocks). If this seems like a gift you or a loved one would enjoy, check out her website www.broadclothstudio.com for all the details.
Kristin (Lieske) Bryan writes, “I was recognized as a ‘Law360 2022 MVP in Privacy and Cybersecurity,’ a designation reserved each year for the five most elite practitioners at any law firm nationwide. My husband, Dan, and my girls, Elizabeth and Meghan, are doing well and I am Elizabeth’s Girl Scout troop leader this year. We send everyone greetings from Cleveland; Dan and I had a great time connecting with people over reunion!”
Kate Davison writes, “My husband, Seth Cohen, Adv’17, and I welcomed our son, Ari, into the world on August 10. He’s already enjoyed a few hikes with us and can’t wait to go on adventures with his Dartmouth buddies.”
—Sam Routhier, 543 W 122nd St., Apt. 25B, New York, NY 10027; samrouthier@gmail.com
Sticking with Sarah Hughes, she was back on campus in Hanover this winter directing the MainStage production, an adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron. Sarah reflected, “This process has been a fun and wild adventure! We’re staging the piece site-specifically in a classroom in Sudikoff, where the theater department has relocated due to Hop renovations. The students have been brilliant and we’ve had a great time figuring out how to turn 900 pages of medieval Italian bawdy folktales into a compelling performance. It’s unlike anything the department has done before and I’m excited to bring my experimental theater background (and my work with the Displaced Theater Company back when I was a student) into the leadership of this project.”
Michael Amico and his husband, Conrad Winslow, have a home back in the United States after about six years of living exclusively abroad. It’s a house near the water in Waldoboro, Maine. They would love to connect with any Dartmouth alums and friends in the midcoast Maine area. They will still be in Berlin, too!
Naomi Heindel moved back home to Vermont in March, bringing along husband Jordan Nobler and two little kids, Asa (almost 5) and Sylvia (almost 2). She started a new gig as the executive director at North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier, Vermont. She’d love to know if there are any other ’07s in central Vermont—come swing by the nature center any time!
Amanda Carye is so grateful to get to be a part of the ’07 Uplifters, our class’ compassion committee, sending quilts to classmates and their loved ones across the country (if you’d like to get involved, email dartmouth2007s@gmail.com). Speaking of quilts, she has also just released her first book, Quilt Your Own Adventure, a “choose your own adventure” style quilt block book, with 30 blocks, a handful of quilt top layouts, and all the math for all the possible layouts included (imagine painting-by-numbers, but with quilt blocks). If this seems like a gift you or a loved one would enjoy, check out her website www.broadclothstudio.com for all the details.
Kristin (Lieske) Bryan writes, “I was recognized as a ‘Law360 2022 MVP in Privacy and Cybersecurity,’ a designation reserved each year for the five most elite practitioners at any law firm nationwide. My husband, Dan, and my girls, Elizabeth and Meghan, are doing well and I am Elizabeth’s Girl Scout troop leader this year. We send everyone greetings from Cleveland; Dan and I had a great time connecting with people over reunion!”
Kate Davison writes, “My husband, Seth Cohen, Adv’17, and I welcomed our son, Ari, into the world on August 10. He’s already enjoyed a few hikes with us and can’t wait to go on adventures with his Dartmouth buddies.”
—Sam Routhier, 543 W 122nd St., Apt. 25B, New York, NY 10027; samrouthier@gmail.com