Class Note 2008
Issue
Nov - Dec 2018
Happy fall! As is the trend, this issue’s update is full of ’08s crushing life, getting hitched, and making babies.
Greg Haines married Melanie Schorr ’06 in Stratton, Vermont, in July with around 20 Dartmouth track and cross-country alumni in attendance, including best man Grant Allen and the couple responsible for the set up, Harry Norton and Megan (Olds) Norton ’06.
On July 21 Gerard DiPippo and Laura Szarmach got married in Washington, D.C. Zane Thayer was unable to come down from Hanover because she just had a baby girl, but Gerard forgives her.
Zack Chestnut is set to marry Ali Sutherland-Brown (Princeton ’08) in Ottawa on November 17. Phil Salinger, Charlie Volanakis, Doug Raicek, Ben Davis, and Jon Simpson will be among Zack’s groomsmen, and a number of other classmates will be in attendance for the celebration.
On the progeny front, Zach and Lindsay Deane-Mayer welcomed daughter Sienna on May 14. She’s doing great and has already attended her first Dartmouth wedding.
Xiao Ding and Kim Ding welcomed their first child, Charlotte Anne, in June.
Rachel Hochman had a baby girl named Van on August 10. Rachel and her husband, Chris, are thrilled! They’re hoping they can bring her to the next reunion for her first trip to Dartmouth.
Robin (McKechnie) Brown and her husband, Will Brown ’07, had a baby girl, Abigail Rachel Brown, on February 9. Class of 2040 here we come!
Ephraim Froehlich and his partner welcomed their son, Oromo, in January. Unfortunately, the first person outside of immediate family Oromo met was his creepy uncle Matthew Siegfried (Oromo is still in recovery from that early trauma). In June the family packed up from D.C. after a near-decade in the area and moved to Juneau, Alaska. If anybody is adventuring up north, drop Ephraim a line—he promises the Alaskan pong table should be up and running shortly.
Jessica Long started her second year of obstetrics/gynecology residency at the University of Chicago. She’s been hanging out with Taylor Whitten, Erin Johnson, and Margaret Ochoa ’10, and says it’s been awesome reconnecting with Dartmouth folk in Chi-city!
Jenny Fisher has moved to Rhode Island, bought a house, got a puppy, and is living the dream! She’s always looking for two more for pong, so if anyone’s in Rhode Island, let her know. It’s a small state, so you’re probably close.
Leo Gong recently started as a director of product at Apartment List in San Francisco, joining Chris Brouwer ’09.
Jon Scherr is also in San Francisco, which “continues to be a cloudy and gloomy contrast to Hanover in the summer.” He married Kat Stillman ’10 in July. Besides a summer full of weddings, Jon has been building a systematic investing strategy for the private markets at CircleUp and has spent recent months looking into the real estate technology space on the side.
Caitlin Crowe , who is in finance in Portland, Maine, recently launched a side venture called Topo Pino. It is a tranquil oasis in the White Mountains of New Hampshire for outdoor weddings, glamping, getaways, and yoga.
And finally, Hannah Rossman and Jesse Dudley are enduring a very dry summer in rural southwestern Colorado. Jesse is now a wild land firefighter for the Bureau of Land Management on an engine in Norwood. Needless to say, it was a busy summer! Things are going well with Blue Grouse Bread, the wholesale artisan bread bakery Hannah owns and operates with cousin Ben Rossman ’12. Thankfully, people still eat bread in a drought!
Congratulations to all, and keep up the great work!
—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; cbarthrun@gmail.com
Greg Haines married Melanie Schorr ’06 in Stratton, Vermont, in July with around 20 Dartmouth track and cross-country alumni in attendance, including best man Grant Allen and the couple responsible for the set up, Harry Norton and Megan (Olds) Norton ’06.
On July 21 Gerard DiPippo and Laura Szarmach got married in Washington, D.C. Zane Thayer was unable to come down from Hanover because she just had a baby girl, but Gerard forgives her.
Zack Chestnut is set to marry Ali Sutherland-Brown (Princeton ’08) in Ottawa on November 17. Phil Salinger, Charlie Volanakis, Doug Raicek, Ben Davis, and Jon Simpson will be among Zack’s groomsmen, and a number of other classmates will be in attendance for the celebration.
On the progeny front, Zach and Lindsay Deane-Mayer welcomed daughter Sienna on May 14. She’s doing great and has already attended her first Dartmouth wedding.
Xiao Ding and Kim Ding welcomed their first child, Charlotte Anne, in June.
Rachel Hochman had a baby girl named Van on August 10. Rachel and her husband, Chris, are thrilled! They’re hoping they can bring her to the next reunion for her first trip to Dartmouth.
Robin (McKechnie) Brown and her husband, Will Brown ’07, had a baby girl, Abigail Rachel Brown, on February 9. Class of 2040 here we come!
Ephraim Froehlich and his partner welcomed their son, Oromo, in January. Unfortunately, the first person outside of immediate family Oromo met was his creepy uncle Matthew Siegfried (Oromo is still in recovery from that early trauma). In June the family packed up from D.C. after a near-decade in the area and moved to Juneau, Alaska. If anybody is adventuring up north, drop Ephraim a line—he promises the Alaskan pong table should be up and running shortly.
Jessica Long started her second year of obstetrics/gynecology residency at the University of Chicago. She’s been hanging out with Taylor Whitten, Erin Johnson, and Margaret Ochoa ’10, and says it’s been awesome reconnecting with Dartmouth folk in Chi-city!
Jenny Fisher has moved to Rhode Island, bought a house, got a puppy, and is living the dream! She’s always looking for two more for pong, so if anyone’s in Rhode Island, let her know. It’s a small state, so you’re probably close.
Leo Gong recently started as a director of product at Apartment List in San Francisco, joining Chris Brouwer ’09.
Jon Scherr is also in San Francisco, which “continues to be a cloudy and gloomy contrast to Hanover in the summer.” He married Kat Stillman ’10 in July. Besides a summer full of weddings, Jon has been building a systematic investing strategy for the private markets at CircleUp and has spent recent months looking into the real estate technology space on the side.
Caitlin Crowe , who is in finance in Portland, Maine, recently launched a side venture called Topo Pino. It is a tranquil oasis in the White Mountains of New Hampshire for outdoor weddings, glamping, getaways, and yoga.
And finally, Hannah Rossman and Jesse Dudley are enduring a very dry summer in rural southwestern Colorado. Jesse is now a wild land firefighter for the Bureau of Land Management on an engine in Norwood. Needless to say, it was a busy summer! Things are going well with Blue Grouse Bread, the wholesale artisan bread bakery Hannah owns and operates with cousin Ben Rossman ’12. Thankfully, people still eat bread in a drought!
Congratulations to all, and keep up the great work!
—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; cbarthrun@gmail.com