Class Note 2009
Happy holidays, ’09s! Lots of weddings, graduations and new jobs, along with some additions to the class of ’35.
Brian Koch married on October 1 in Baltimore. His wife, Laura Taylor, went to James Madison University. Martin Bernstein, Tim McVeigh, Will Boardman ’08, Tyler McIntyre ’08 and Marc Ayala ’08 were all in the wedding party. Rayna Levine ’10 and Steve Reinitz married on October 9 in West Orange, New Jersey. Dartmouth was represented by Rayna’s dad, Jerry Levine ’74, Mike Morton ’80, Doug Van Citters ’99, Kathryn (Boucher) Bi, Richard Bi, Th’08, Bernadette Durr, Sam Raybin, Th’10, Kaite Yang and Dan O’Brien. Harshil Shah married Namita Sekhar.
Clare and Kyle Fortune-Lad moved to Haverhill, Massachusetts, this fall. Clare started a new job as the director of religious education at the Unitarian Universalist Church, coordinating curriculum about multiculturalism and social justice for all ages. Clare also wanted to shout from the rooftops that Kimberly Wade got engaged to her adorable boyfriend, Laurence Lieber, under an umbrella overlooking the Hudson in September. Thomas Kern graduated from Cornell with a Ph.D. in mathematics last spring and is currently a visiting assistant professor at Cornell. His dissertation was on the intersection of model theory and automata theory. Marley McMillan co-hosts the Donna & Marley talk radio show on myTalk 107.1 FM in the Twin Cities discussing “everything entertainment.” She plays ice hockey for the Minnesota Whitecaps, an elite women’s team that competes against professional and college teams in an effort to further establish the women’s game on a professional level in North America. She was thrilled to sing the national anthem for more than 10,000 people at a recent WNBA Minnesota Lynx game! Lilian Mehrel performed improv at UCB’s East Village theater in N.Y.C. for the first time and was invited to speak at the Canadian Film Centre about storytelling and virtual reality (VR). Her VR films have now played in festivals from Tribeca, Toronto, Seattle, and Tacoma, Washington. Now she is back in Brooklyn, New York, where she is continuing to write comedy TV. Liza Wiley just finished her Ph.D. program at Columbia Business School and is moving to the Bay Area in January! William Winkelman will be finishing his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at University of California, San Francisco, and returns to Boston for a fellowship in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery at Harvard starting in July.
Scott Decker is expecting his second kiddo in March, and he is working to build up a subscription base of at least 2,000 people for visualteamstatus.com before the baby comes. Eleanor Hicks and her husband, Jon, welcomed their fourth child (third boy), Robert Andrew, at the end of August. He is nice and healthy and the other kids all love their new baby brother. She has also started writing for AmReading.com, a website for book lovers. Sarah (Van Dyke) Hochtl and Kevin Hochtl welcomed baby boy Mattias Anton into their family on September 20. Colin Treseler and his wife, Malin, welcomed Leo John Treseler into their family on September 8.
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
