Class Note 2011
Issue
January-February 2022
No one sent in Class Notes updates in the last two months, so I went around soliciting some, and this is what I got in response! For context, a decent amount of the following conversations occurred in a group text among the class officers.
Yan Fan is entering her fifth year in Tokyo, where she spends most of her time petting her French bulldog Potato and stress-exercising. She would like to let everyone know that living in Tokyo is awesome. Yan told me that I am the only Microsoft Word user she knows who is under 50, but such is life as an attorney, and I said Thomas Lane is even more pro at Word since he is an engineer and they love their documentation.
Adam J. Reed says: “Thirty-two-year-old divorced male sees doctor for first time since Dartmouth. Doctor tells him he’s fat and lazy.” Katie Paxton (class president) says, “He’s a sweet guy.” I agree!
James Khun (class treasurer) moved to San Francisco in March of 2020, and when people ask what he does for a living, his response is, “Cry.” Brandon Aiono (class vice president) confirms, “He really does cry a lot.”
Brandon was in Irvine, California, during the last week of October, when I happened to be visiting Big Bear Lake, California. (I got super carsick on the way up. I do not recommend the car ride to Big Bear, but the 40-to-60-degree weather was a huge improvement over the 90-degree heatwave in Orange County.) Brandon was a groomsman and emcee at his cousin’s wedding, and he says it was the “best night of my life.” Brandon being in Irvine reminded me that David Gomez lives in Orange County too (apparently Thomasand I have been living practically next to him since we moved in January 2020), and Brandon insisted, “David Gomez was objectively the best-looking ’11 by far. Quote me.” Brandon also says that Maya Granit got married. Congratulations, Maya!
Brandon, James, and Katiethen discussed the origins of the “one-full-two-halves” reference from our college days, which apparently involved Stephen Greif. (I had never heard of the reference before, and on that note, send us your stories from undergrad for discussion in Class Notes! James suggests we can do “a redemption story on real-world two-halves-one-full dilemmas.”) Katie also says she has a photo of “some ’11s going up for Homecoming,” but she did not say who these classmates were. But Katie did play pong while visiting Dartmouth with this group of ’11s!
That’s a wrap! Now please send us some college stories for discussion and inclusion in future Class Notes! Oh, and per Brandon, Sydney Ribot is our bequest chair, “So if you’re making a will, check in with her.”
—Hillary S. Cheng, 26611 La Roda, Mission Viejo, CA 92691; (603) 546-8452; hillary.s.cheng@dartmouth.edu
Yan Fan is entering her fifth year in Tokyo, where she spends most of her time petting her French bulldog Potato and stress-exercising. She would like to let everyone know that living in Tokyo is awesome. Yan told me that I am the only Microsoft Word user she knows who is under 50, but such is life as an attorney, and I said Thomas Lane is even more pro at Word since he is an engineer and they love their documentation.
Adam J. Reed says: “Thirty-two-year-old divorced male sees doctor for first time since Dartmouth. Doctor tells him he’s fat and lazy.” Katie Paxton (class president) says, “He’s a sweet guy.” I agree!
James Khun (class treasurer) moved to San Francisco in March of 2020, and when people ask what he does for a living, his response is, “Cry.” Brandon Aiono (class vice president) confirms, “He really does cry a lot.”
Brandon was in Irvine, California, during the last week of October, when I happened to be visiting Big Bear Lake, California. (I got super carsick on the way up. I do not recommend the car ride to Big Bear, but the 40-to-60-degree weather was a huge improvement over the 90-degree heatwave in Orange County.) Brandon was a groomsman and emcee at his cousin’s wedding, and he says it was the “best night of my life.” Brandon being in Irvine reminded me that David Gomez lives in Orange County too (apparently Thomasand I have been living practically next to him since we moved in January 2020), and Brandon insisted, “David Gomez was objectively the best-looking ’11 by far. Quote me.” Brandon also says that Maya Granit got married. Congratulations, Maya!
Brandon, James, and Katiethen discussed the origins of the “one-full-two-halves” reference from our college days, which apparently involved Stephen Greif. (I had never heard of the reference before, and on that note, send us your stories from undergrad for discussion in Class Notes! James suggests we can do “a redemption story on real-world two-halves-one-full dilemmas.”) Katie also says she has a photo of “some ’11s going up for Homecoming,” but she did not say who these classmates were. But Katie did play pong while visiting Dartmouth with this group of ’11s!
That’s a wrap! Now please send us some college stories for discussion and inclusion in future Class Notes! Oh, and per Brandon, Sydney Ribot is our bequest chair, “So if you’re making a will, check in with her.”
—Hillary S. Cheng, 26611 La Roda, Mission Viejo, CA 92691; (603) 546-8452; hillary.s.cheng@dartmouth.edu