Class Note 2009
Straight into the news! Rebecca Armistead and her husband, Joseph, are expecting their first little one any day now. She started a new role at HubSpot as a business systems analyst but has taken a step back as she is on maternity leave for the next seven months. The year 2019 has seen them move to a new house in Dublin, Ireland, and both have been promoted into new roles. Rich Cummings married Michele McCauley, whom he met in N.Y.C., in June in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Ruslan “DJ Ruckus” Tolbulatov spun and Andrew Dete officiated while Tony Bates and Taylor Babcock were groomsmen. Malcolm Freberg, Alex Rapp, Josh Speicher, Phil Galligan, Erik Estabrook, Alex Nomitch, Annie Rittgers, Bridget Diprisco, Ravi Segal, and Nate Servis attended, along with Matt Dratch ’08, Joe Battaglia ’08, Michael O’Flynn ’91, and Phil Lee ’01. After spending the past year independently developing online educational interactives, Tom Kern will be starting in the fall as an assistant professor in math at Landmark College in Vermont. Carmen Kilpatrick graduated from medical school at Brown and is moving to San Francisco to start a psychiatry residency at the University of California, San Francisco, this summer. Anne Megargel and her husband, Matt, had a baby, a girl! Tilghman “Tillie” Virginia Arnold was born on January 4. She weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces and was 19 inches long. John Storella ’77 wrote to share that, “the class of 1977 commissioned your classmate, Will Raymer, to compose a choral work in celebration of Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary. Will’s composition, ‘Lone Pine Prayer,’ will be premiered by the Aires and the Decibelles at the Alumni Council meeting on May 16 at 5:45 p.m. in Hanover.” Molly Roy and her boyfriend will be moving to Brussels, Belgium, in June! After working at the U.S. Department of Energy in D.C. for seven years, they are going to head overseas, probably for a year or two, and just see how it goes. If any alums are passing through, let her know if you want to grab some fries or a beer! Gabrielle Santa-Donato shared that two years ago she jump-started and currently runs a program out of Stanford called the Life Design Studio—a training program and community bringing life design (how you can creatively and intentionally design your future) to universities around the world. After this June they will have trained more than 125 universities globally. Dartmouth was one of the first 14 to come to the training! Natalie Todd-Zebell graduated with an M.D./M.P.H. and is moving with her husband and daughter to Phoenix in June to start a residency in pediatrics. They’re looking forward to meeting lots of new people there (especially others with 2-year-olds). Julia Tse moved from Boston to the San Francisco Bay Area to continue her career in family medicine and looks forward to reconnecting with Dartmouth alumni there!
—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com
