With regret, I inform you of the passing of our dear classmate Katherine Karas, who died on April 4. Please see Katherine’s obituary posted online at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com. 


Molly Davis writes, “Nick Foukal and I (we met when we were on the same DOC trip together!) got engaged in December and are planning a wedding for spring 2015.”


Stephanie Siegmund writes, “Hi, everybody from New York City! I moved here a year after graduation and I’m loving it! The first year out of college I had a Fulbright and worked at the Max Planck Institute in Jena, Germany, for a Dartmouth ’81, who got me connected here. That was an amazing experience, tons of work but also tons of fun traveling around Germany and Europe! I also had some free time for running, and ran my first marathon in Dresden (wore my Dartmouth 10 T-shirt). The next year I moved to N.Y.C. and started my M.D.-Ph.D. at Columbia, where I’ve been ever since (and will probably be until 2019—yikes). After growing up on a tree farm in Virginia and after Dartmouth the city has been an adjustment but an amazing one. In all of that free time they give us in med school I’ve been exploring and going to shows and taking advantage of the Columbia discounts. Ran the Long Island Marathon and now my sights are set for my hometown marathon in Richmond, Virginia. I’m always up for visitors if anybody is in the city and wants to trek up to Washington Heights (the upper, upper west side). “


Sarah JaneIrving is a member of the Tuck class of 2014. Following graduation in June Sarah will return to Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, to work in the family business, Irving Oil.


James (Keng-Lou) Hung is a doctoral student in UC San Diego’s division of biological sciences. His work was recently picked up by the UC San Diego’s new media department. I would highly recommend reading about James’ work, it is so cool! Look up UC San Diego, “Lord of the Bees.” In case my words do not convince you, here is an excerpt: “James Hung has collected more than 17,000 wild bees from coastal, desert and mountain areas of San Diego County. Since he began his thesis research project three years ago to determine the impact of development and habitat fragmentation on San Diego’s native bee populations—one of the most diverse in the world—the 25-year-old grad student has amassed one of the most complete collections of these little-known but ecologically important insects from one of the world’s hotspots of bee diversity. It’s a collection so important to biologists that the San Diego Natural History Museum is now collaborating with Hung—who has become the go-to-guy on the region’s native bees—to develop a complete inventory of all the bees in San Diego County.”


Peter Boldt writes, “I’m trading in my job as a restaurant designer here in New York to begin a three-year master’s in architecture at UCLA. Really looking forward to life on the West Coast and am hoping to connect with as many Dartmouth alumni as I can when I move out in September.” 


Kathleen Behan writes, “On May 3 I’m getting married to Justin Ketterer in LaSalle, Ontario, where I’ll be moving, and am working as an attorney for the Legal Aid and Defender Association in Detroit.”


—Victoria Stockman, 9 1/2 Jane St., New York City, NY 10014; vbstockman@gmail.com