Class Note 2008
Issue
May-June 2020
Thanks, as always, to everyone who responded to the call for updates. For anyone who didn’t but wants to know the punchline, the difference between a hippo and zippo is that one is really heavy and the other is a little lighter. Onto the updates!
The former author of this very column, Jon Hopper, finally popped the question to Dominic Pepper and they are set to be married later this year. Jon recently started a new role at Google in New York. He was thrilled that one of the first people to welcome him was fellow ’08 Elise (Waxenberg) Callery.
Erika Schneider moved from Alaska to the Upper Valley. And Laura Young and Phillip Bracikowski moved to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, for Laura’s first job after training as a minimally invasive gynecologic surgeon at Northwest Specialty Hospital. If you have pelvic pain (ladies only) or are passing through the area, give them a shout!
Idan Ariel has published his book, Addiction: Is It Right for You?, which is available on Kindle. He also moved to Portugal, where he hopes to dodge World War III.
After living abroad in Singapore and London for more than six years, Alix Toothman and her husband moved back to New York City in March of 2018. In January of last year she joined advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy to lead creative strategy on Ford. Most excitingly, Alix and her husband welcomed their first child, a little girl, at the end of October 2019.
We have a few other babies to announce as well. Diane Ellis Scalisi and her husband, Paul Scalisi, welcomed their son and future Dartmouth ’41, Benjamin Paul Scalisi, to the family in August. In February Benjamin really hit it off with Cat Shellito, the daughter of Haley Bolin Shellito and John Bolin Shellito ’07, at a mini reunion in San Francisco.
Adria Buchanan gave birth to a baby boy named Otto in August. Lena Martinez-Wolfinger and Abe Holland have already visited. Adria is happy to connect with other alumni in the Tacoma, Washington, area, where she has been executive director at the Fair Housing Center of Washington since April of 2019.
John Manning and his wife, Erin ’11, would like to announce the arrival of their son and first child, John “Jack” Forrest Manning. Jack is happy and healthy and enjoyed a sunny southern California winter while his dad completed his last year of orthopedic surgery training at USC.
Elsewhere, Dexter Mackie is still in D.C. running his tutoring business—this January made seven successful years. On the other hand, he says, “I’m still single and looking. So there’s that.” Joe Malchow announced the second Hanover technology investment fund and was elected to the board of Enphase, a NASDAQ-traded energy technology company in Silicon Valley.And Khadijah Enoh has been accepted into medical school! She lives in Wisconsin, loving on her family and “getting prepared for academic war” in June.
Jenna Sherman shares that she and the 13 School Street girls (Laura Rodriguez Assis, Sheila Dunning, Yasmin Mandviwala Kothari, Stephanie Zamorano, Alexandra Mesa Wentzell) had a much-needed reunion in Miami in December.
David O. Smith is currently plugging away at artwork as a career. His new website, DavidOSmithArtist.com, has a huge collection of his work, including some sketchbooks from his time at Dartmouth. David lives and works in Seattle. “It’s exciting to finally be pursuing what I’m most passionate about to make a living,” he says. “And I also can’t seem to quit rowing just yet. This is my final go at training toward an ambitious goal, but I’ve said that before.”
Congratulations to all!
—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; cbarthrun@gmail.com
The former author of this very column, Jon Hopper, finally popped the question to Dominic Pepper and they are set to be married later this year. Jon recently started a new role at Google in New York. He was thrilled that one of the first people to welcome him was fellow ’08 Elise (Waxenberg) Callery.
Erika Schneider moved from Alaska to the Upper Valley. And Laura Young and Phillip Bracikowski moved to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, for Laura’s first job after training as a minimally invasive gynecologic surgeon at Northwest Specialty Hospital. If you have pelvic pain (ladies only) or are passing through the area, give them a shout!
Idan Ariel has published his book, Addiction: Is It Right for You?, which is available on Kindle. He also moved to Portugal, where he hopes to dodge World War III.
After living abroad in Singapore and London for more than six years, Alix Toothman and her husband moved back to New York City in March of 2018. In January of last year she joined advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy to lead creative strategy on Ford. Most excitingly, Alix and her husband welcomed their first child, a little girl, at the end of October 2019.
We have a few other babies to announce as well. Diane Ellis Scalisi and her husband, Paul Scalisi, welcomed their son and future Dartmouth ’41, Benjamin Paul Scalisi, to the family in August. In February Benjamin really hit it off with Cat Shellito, the daughter of Haley Bolin Shellito and John Bolin Shellito ’07, at a mini reunion in San Francisco.
Adria Buchanan gave birth to a baby boy named Otto in August. Lena Martinez-Wolfinger and Abe Holland have already visited. Adria is happy to connect with other alumni in the Tacoma, Washington, area, where she has been executive director at the Fair Housing Center of Washington since April of 2019.
John Manning and his wife, Erin ’11, would like to announce the arrival of their son and first child, John “Jack” Forrest Manning. Jack is happy and healthy and enjoyed a sunny southern California winter while his dad completed his last year of orthopedic surgery training at USC.
Elsewhere, Dexter Mackie is still in D.C. running his tutoring business—this January made seven successful years. On the other hand, he says, “I’m still single and looking. So there’s that.” Joe Malchow announced the second Hanover technology investment fund and was elected to the board of Enphase, a NASDAQ-traded energy technology company in Silicon Valley.And Khadijah Enoh has been accepted into medical school! She lives in Wisconsin, loving on her family and “getting prepared for academic war” in June.
Jenna Sherman shares that she and the 13 School Street girls (Laura Rodriguez Assis, Sheila Dunning, Yasmin Mandviwala Kothari, Stephanie Zamorano, Alexandra Mesa Wentzell) had a much-needed reunion in Miami in December.
David O. Smith is currently plugging away at artwork as a career. His new website, DavidOSmithArtist.com, has a huge collection of his work, including some sketchbooks from his time at Dartmouth. David lives and works in Seattle. “It’s exciting to finally be pursuing what I’m most passionate about to make a living,” he says. “And I also can’t seem to quit rowing just yet. This is my final go at training toward an ambitious goal, but I’ve said that before.”
Congratulations to all!
—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; cbarthrun@gmail.com