Class Note 2008
Hello, ’08s! Thanks to everyone who sent in updates. As promised, here they are, free of charge.
In June Ashley Mas married Mike Hearn in Grafton, Vermont. Guests included Charlie Stoebe, Dave Lamb, Jess (Ogden) Lamb, Dana (Cushing) Olverson, Devin Fallon, Jon Hopper, Zach Deane-Mayer, Lindsay Deane-Mayer, and many more. Congrats to team Full Service Gas!
Also in June Mita Sharma married Manish Dave in Princeton, New Jersey. Lots of Dartmouth alumni were in attendance, including Sravya Venguswamy, Ashia (Sheikh) Dearwester, JeanCarlos Bonilla, Mitalee (Patil) Christman, Nora (Ward) Graham, Stephanie St. Louis, Mike Dearwester ’10, Nick Christman, Marie-Louise Meng ’06, and Irene Shyu. Mita and Manish moved to Westchester county in New York, so let them know if you’re in the area.
Tim Shen and Aimy Tran got engaged. He also started his fellowship in pulmonology and critical care medicine at Cedars-Sinai in July. Congrats to both!
Ani Liu started a job as a design director in WeWork’s new concepts studio and would love to connect with any other alums in the WeWork family. As you’ve likely read in this very magazine, Ani’s own art practice is also flourishing. She recently won the Biological Art & Design Award and is exhibiting in four different countries and a the Queens Biennial this year. Ani has also moved back home to N.Y.C. and would love to see any ’08 faces.
Portia Lombardo has been busy! Within the past year she received her Ph.D. in molecular biology from the Salk Institute-UC San Diego, had beautiful baby daughter Imogen, moved across the country to Boston with the baby, her husband, and their two dogs, and started work at a biotech company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Katherine Scovner finished up an internal medicine residency at Brown last July and is a year into her subspecialty training in nephrology (that’s kidneys) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital-Massachusetts General Hospital. She’d be pumped to find more alums in Boston.
Elliot Dial is currently working at Loomis Chaffee in Windsor, Connecticut, entering his eighth year at the school (and second as the head football coach). His girlfriend of two years is moving in this fall, and they are on the hunt for a puppy to add to the house. He recently saw “the infamous” Erica Jones in Hartford, Connecticut. If you’re around the Hartford area yourself, or making your way up I-91, let him know!
Chris Smith is making moves. In August he moved to Los Angeles to work in the film and TV industry. He’d love to meet up with anyone in the city who wants to catch up or give him a job.
Joe Malchow has launched Hanover Partners, a new technology investment fund located in Menlo Park, California. Elise Krieger writes in with some updates from the past few years. In 2016 she graduated from Kellogg School of Management. In the summer of 2017 she married Brent Bowen, with Dartmouth friends in tow: Frances (Samolowicz) Lazarow, Jonathan Lazarow ’05, Hayley Steplyk, Katie Frett ’05, and Akay Tuncak ’06. These days Elise and Brent are settled in Columbus, Ohio. She says they may not get enough sleep but are entirely in love with their newborn son, Otto Krieger Bowen.
Fernando Orta and Maura Pennington had their third annual get-together in Mexico City in March. Maura graduated from UCLA School of Law in May and is moving to work in Orange County for Jones Day. She plans to take one surf lesson and see how it goes. Craig Breslawski visited Kevin Pfieffer ’09 in London and missed his flight back in the morning. Whoops!
Until next time.
—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; cbarthrun@gmail.com
