Greetings, classmates! Did you guys ever notice that the clock face on Baker Tower is actually a lovely shade of lavender? It is! You can see for yourself when we all reunite in Hanover for our fifth-year reunion next June. Snuck up on you, didn’t it?


Lots of nuptial news to report!


Andrew Jean-Louis married Brittney Smith ’11. “Now to find a way to include pong in the reception….”


Katy Whisenhunt married Bruce Townsend, a dental student at East Carolina University, on August 10 in Asheville, North Carolina. She is now living in Greenville, North Carolina, so any ’09s in the Wake County or Pitt County area should get in touch.


Alex East and Oleg Seletsky were married in Berkeley, California, in early September.


Maxwell Copello married Jenny Cooke on August 31. They spent their honeymoon in Bora Bora. 


Marcy Van Arnam and Alexander Abate were married at the DOC house on Occom Pond on June 29.


Amber Gott was married on August 3 to Andrew Steel (UVa ’08) in Charlottesville, Virginia. Courtney Otto, Devin O’Connor, Brenna Jenny, Lauren Indvik and Janie Scull joined them in celebrating and dancing the night away!


Emma Virginia and Tate Preston were married on July 13 in Rollins Chapel, followed by a reception at the Hanover Inn that was packed with fellow ’09s and young alums. The wedding party included Heather Luther, Maura Tappen, Daniela Vasquez, Andrew Lane, Andrew Son and Dylan Thomas.


Dylan Nelson and Allie Landers are now engaged! 


Connor Shields and Katie Gray are engaged as well!


Emily Eberle and her boyfriend Mikey Levine (University of Washington ’08) are moving to Berlin, Germany, for a year of work and travel before grad school. If you’re in the area they would love to meet up!


Nell Pascall is studying mining engineering in Kalgoorlie, western Australia: “Essentially learning to dig holes and blow stuff up.”


Britni Stinson is currently completing the ProInspire Fellowship and managing a $1.3-billion school budget for an entire city.


Andrew Han is interning with NPR’s Science Friday.


Hannah Simon is now a medical student at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey.


Sean Nelson is currently living in New York and working at KKR in the client and partner group.


Sophie Hood is living in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and finishing the final year of her M.F.A. in costume production.


Brendan Anderson received his M.S. in geology from the University of Kansas and is now pursuing a Ph.D. at Cornell University. “My wife, Katie, and daughter Eliana are both enjoying Ithaca.”


Carina Serreze is living in Sydney, Australia, which “remains a fabulous place to live. Visitors are always welcome!”


Case Hathaway-Zepeda finished her M.F.A. at Tufts/the School at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, moved back to the Upper Valley with boyfriend Dan Olson ’04, Th’11, and launched a new jewelry line at www.FlameandFile.com. “This year I will also be the artist-in-residence for Dartmouth’s Claflin Jewelry Studio.”


That’s all for now. Class of ’09 love!


—Peter Rothbard, 2490 Purdue Ave., #7, Los Angeles, CA 90064; (407) 421-4676; peter.s.rothbard.09@alum.dartmouth.org