Class Note 2009
Diana Dinescu got engaged last November and will marry in May 2017. Elyse George changed her wedding date to July 28 to accommodate more family. David Okun and wife Megan welcomed Nora Emmeline on April 5. George Panos wed Kerry O’Brien ’10 June 11, nine years after meeting on her DOC trip. The reception was at the Yale (i.e., Dartmouth) Club in Manhattan. Mike Russell and wife Angela had their first, Colin B. Russell, on April 22. Melinda Wilson married Sean Fuller May 29 and best friend Gaby Davila was maid of honor.
Marissa Alert starts her psychology pre-doctoral internship at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University in July. Zinnia Amaya and May-Lieng Karageorge traveled to Mexico in April to catch up with friends. They saw Sunny Park in Mexico City, where Sunny works for the U.S. embassy. They traveled to a small town outside of Guadalajara to attend the wedding of Kimberly Kruge and Alexis Lopez. Julie Delphin, Tessa Murphy, Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Miesha Smith and Fiona Lundie attended and helped put together the gorgeous ceremony and reception. Brian Bensch left Google after five years, learned to code and founded a new startup in San Francisco called CitizenDebate.org, which aims to bring civility back to American political discourse. Allen Buansi, a recent graduate from the University of North Carolina School of Law, works as the research and policy director on the campaign of Josh Stein ’88, the Democratic nominee for the attorney general office in North Carolina. Robert Cousins started a new job as a critical care paramedic with the U.S. State Department. Scott Decker lives in Denver, looks forward to hitting the mountains this summer and seeks beta testers for a new product available at visualteamstatus.com. Katie Dutko was offered a fellowship with Catholic Relief Services in Niger, West Africa. She is excited for new adventures there! Agatha Erickson was accepted to Columbia Law School and moves from Anchorage, Alaska, to N.Y.C. in August. Quinton Klabon wrote that he partnered with the College and Wisconsin alumni to immerse seven inner-city Milwaukee eighth-graders in Dartmouth life. By observing classes and talking to professors and current students, St. Marcus students left focused for high school and ready to beat the odds. Casey Lauderdale has been living his dream working as a planner for the City of Fresno. He moves to Minneapolis this August to begin a master’s program in urban and regional planning at the University of Minnesota. Suzanne Lehrer and Elana Karp run the culinary team at Plated, a cook-at-home dinner service, delivering hundreds of thousands of meals across the country every week. Their cookbook, Plated: Weeknight Dinners, Weekend Feasts, and Everything in Between, was published by Clarkson Potter on May 17. Johannes Lohmann wraps up his first year in the master in public administration in international development program at the Harvard Kennedy School and will spend the summer working with the Africa Governance Initiative in Liberia. Neelima Marupudi finished her pediatrics residency at Emory in June and moves to San Francisco to start a pediatric intensive care unit fellowship at UCSF. Lilian Mehrel’s short virtual reality film, haunt, premiered in the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival in the interactive playground section. Milo Rodriguez graduated from Wharton in May and moved back to N.Y.C. to do investment banking at Barclays. Brian Scullin and his wife, Shannon, move to Arlington, Virginia, in June and are excited to settle in with their new puppy, Tempe!
—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com
