Class Note 2009
More weddings, new projects, new babies and a Jeopardy appearance in the ’09 class.
Rebecca Armistead eloped over Christmas with partner Joseph Fillmore, now Joseph Armistead. They married on December 28 overlooking the beautiful Lago Maggiore in northern Italy. Andrew Ballentine got engaged to Courtney Seamans, a fellow Hoosier, on January 23! He moved to Geneva, Switzerland, in March to continue trading corn. Noah Levinson writes, “I am getting married to Alexandra Miller in May in Philadelphia! We’ve been dating for a while now and it was time to seal the deal.”
Scott Decker is launching a new startup for people using Team Foundation Server/visual studio team services. It is called Visual Team Status and you can learn more at visualteamstatus.com. Casey Diehl and his wife, Karen, Tu’13, bought a late 1800s Victorian home in Jamaica Plain, a few miles from downtown Boston. He wrote that the house is definitely in need of some love, but they are looking forward to projects and excited to finally have some space. Diana Dinescu applied for clinical internship this year as part of her clinical psychology Ph.D. and she matched at the Kennedy Krieger Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She will be there for 12 months starting on July 1. Katie Dutko continues to live in Guatemala, where she has taken a new job as director of education programs in Guatemala for Teachers2Teachers International.
Elyse George moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, where she works as special projects coordinator and social media manager in the mayor’s office. She also got engaged to Zachary Jones in February. He proposed surrounded by the red rocks of southern Utah. Following the proposal, they celebrated with her family in Las Vegas. They will marry on June 28 in the Provo City Center Temple with receptions to follow in both Utah and Oregon. Johanna Hauer matched into a residency program in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Connecticut.
Lilian Mehrel made a short virtual reality film that she exhibited in April, one of the first forays into narrative live-action virtual reality. She would love to talk to any other alumni interested in virtual reality. Jordan Sedlacek graduates from Colorado State University as a doctor of veterinary medicine on May 13. He begins his internship at the Fort Collins (Colorado) Veterinary Emergency and Rehabilitation Hospital at the end of May. His interests are in small animal pain management, rehabilitation and emergency care.
Katie (Gray) Shields wrote that, “Connor Shields and I are expecting our first Big Green baby on March 30!” Haley Wauson and her husband received an amazing gift on Christmas Eve, their son, Phoenix Muhammed. Haley’s company Cimation was acquired by Accenture around the same time, and she assumed a new marketing role in the energy division of their assets and operations services group. They’re still based out of Houston and would love to meet up with anyone also in the area.
Lastly, Udit Banerjea appeared on Jeopardy on April 4!
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
