A short and sweet update as the class of 2008 heads into hibernation for the winter.

Over a beautiful Labor Day weekend in Burlington, Vermont, Ali Frizell married Nate Ward, so she’s Ali Frizell Ward these days. Many ’08s were in attendance, including John Beardsley, Adam Platz, Aly Guillet, Nora Johnson, Anna Payne Fife, Meg Whicker, Elsa Sargent, Laura Nielsen Lammers, Lauren Smith and myself. There was dancing, merrymaking, boogie blaming and the ceremonial transfer of a pilfered animatronic creature.

While we’re on the marriage front, Chris Crawford got engaged and will be getting married in Atlanta in the summer of 2018. Congratulations, Chris!

And a correction from last issue’s notes: Kiersten Hallquist and her partner, Mike, are not in fact married. But they did just adopt a puppy! Even more reason to visit them in Vermont!

Finally, a couple of new locations for our classmates. Owen Zidar moved to New York and Princeton University in August. And Liz Spence lives in Minneapolis now, so she hangs out with me and fellow Minneapolitan Anna Tobin, when Tobin decides to answer her text messages.

Happy holidays, happy new year and here’s to a great 2018.

—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; cbarthrun@gmail.com