Class Note 2009
Issue
Nov - Dec 2015
Happy holidays! I’m happy to report we’re ending the year with some fun ’09 reunions, many engagements and marriages, a few new jobs and even two new babies. Lieng Karageorge hosted a wonderful mini-reunion at a gorgeous beach house in Nags Head, North Carolina, with Zinnia Amaya, Erica Anhalt, Alaina Smith, Udit Banerjea, Raymond Rodriguez, Dexter Mackie ’08 and their significant others.
Julia DeWahl and Dan Romero are engaged! They met in Boston in late 2011 and moved to San Francisco together in 2013. They are getting married next summer. Timothy Kim got married to Hyojin Yoon in Seoul, South Korea, in July. He also entered Emory Law School’s J.D. program in August as part of the class of 2018. Kareem Niazi is in his second year of medical residency at North Shore-LIJ in Long Island and recently became engaged to Nadia Tariq. They will marry next May. Jeremy Seidling and Linnea Johnson were married on October 17 in Kansas City, Missouri. They celebrated with family and friends, many from Dartmouth, at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Brian Scullin married Shannon Desmond in Tempe, Arizona, on September 5. He wrote, “We were blessed to be joined by a great crew from Dartmouth: Hudson Smythe, Alex Czarnecki, Josh Speicher, Brittany Agee, Julia Bronson, Andrew Ching ’10, Dan Volgenau ’10 and Sarah Klassen ’10. Shannon was a valedictorian in college and a Big East soccer star so I’m definitely marrying up!” Emily Esfahani Smith got married in Hanover during the summer to Charlie Dameron ’11 and they moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan. If you’re in the area or passing through, let her know emilyesfahanismith@gmail.com.
Tom McDermott started working at Adobe in San Jose, California, in August. Lilian Mehrel started as a resident storyteller for Portals, a global public art project by Shared Studios that connects people across the world through large, golden boxes with immersive audio-video technology. People enter the Portals to talk to someone across the world. They opened this fall in New York City, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Vanderbilt University and will be connected to Portals in Tehran, Iran, Havana, Cuba, Herat, Iran, El Progreso, Honduras, and Mexico City, Mexico. Cinnamon Spear, a public affairs specialist for Indian Health Service in Washington, D.C., has been promoted and transferred to the Phoenix Indian Medical Center in Arizona. She continues to screen her film Pride & Basketball, share her publications from the Off the Path anthology series and serve as a motivational speaker for Native youth across the country. Also, Molson Hart wrote that he “changed his name to Mike for Tinder.”
Margaret (Sullivan) ’08 and Matthew (Lashof-Regas) Lashof-Sullivan celebrated the arrival of their daughter, Cora, on June 19. Franklin Ordonez married Mirian Ruiz in January and they welcomed their son, Pablo Santiago Ordonez, on August 9.
Lastly, I moved to southern Nevada. Come visit if you’re near Las Vegas, and please feel free to send updates to my new address below. Keep a look out for mini-reunions in your area and follow ’09s on Facebook (Dartmouth College Class of 2009), Twitter (@Dartmouth09), and Instagram (@dartmouth09). Share a picture with the class via dartmouthsocial@gmail.com.
—Liz Doolittle Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com
Julia DeWahl and Dan Romero are engaged! They met in Boston in late 2011 and moved to San Francisco together in 2013. They are getting married next summer. Timothy Kim got married to Hyojin Yoon in Seoul, South Korea, in July. He also entered Emory Law School’s J.D. program in August as part of the class of 2018. Kareem Niazi is in his second year of medical residency at North Shore-LIJ in Long Island and recently became engaged to Nadia Tariq. They will marry next May. Jeremy Seidling and Linnea Johnson were married on October 17 in Kansas City, Missouri. They celebrated with family and friends, many from Dartmouth, at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Brian Scullin married Shannon Desmond in Tempe, Arizona, on September 5. He wrote, “We were blessed to be joined by a great crew from Dartmouth: Hudson Smythe, Alex Czarnecki, Josh Speicher, Brittany Agee, Julia Bronson, Andrew Ching ’10, Dan Volgenau ’10 and Sarah Klassen ’10. Shannon was a valedictorian in college and a Big East soccer star so I’m definitely marrying up!” Emily Esfahani Smith got married in Hanover during the summer to Charlie Dameron ’11 and they moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan. If you’re in the area or passing through, let her know emilyesfahanismith@gmail.com.
Tom McDermott started working at Adobe in San Jose, California, in August. Lilian Mehrel started as a resident storyteller for Portals, a global public art project by Shared Studios that connects people across the world through large, golden boxes with immersive audio-video technology. People enter the Portals to talk to someone across the world. They opened this fall in New York City, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Vanderbilt University and will be connected to Portals in Tehran, Iran, Havana, Cuba, Herat, Iran, El Progreso, Honduras, and Mexico City, Mexico. Cinnamon Spear, a public affairs specialist for Indian Health Service in Washington, D.C., has been promoted and transferred to the Phoenix Indian Medical Center in Arizona. She continues to screen her film Pride & Basketball, share her publications from the Off the Path anthology series and serve as a motivational speaker for Native youth across the country. Also, Molson Hart wrote that he “changed his name to Mike for Tinder.”
Margaret (Sullivan) ’08 and Matthew (Lashof-Regas) Lashof-Sullivan celebrated the arrival of their daughter, Cora, on June 19. Franklin Ordonez married Mirian Ruiz in January and they welcomed their son, Pablo Santiago Ordonez, on August 9.
Lastly, I moved to southern Nevada. Come visit if you’re near Las Vegas, and please feel free to send updates to my new address below. Keep a look out for mini-reunions in your area and follow ’09s on Facebook (Dartmouth College Class of 2009), Twitter (@Dartmouth09), and Instagram (@dartmouth09). Share a picture with the class via dartmouthsocial@gmail.com.
—Liz Doolittle Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com