Class Note 2014
Hi, ’14s.
Guess I will start off my first notes with the most important news of the summer: I, George Helding, am your new 2014 class secretary. Democracy has spoken and you are now stuck with me. Thank you to all those who chose to start my write-in campaign for this position as class secretary. You took the campaign to Instagram and it could not be stopped. Unfortunately.
In order to make these notes more efficient, I will be including a new section each issue titled “Weddings, Engagements, & Other Romantic Activities.” In the inaugural edition, we have a long list of engagements that I am sure are a huge surprise for us all. First, we have Andrew Roberts and Maddie Garcia, who got engaged at the Grand Canyon this summer after first meeting during the fall of 2010 and dating ever since then. Another one we didn’t see coming: Alesy Iturrey and David Lerner got engaged this summer. Alesy also started business school at Columbia a few weeks ago. Another good ol’ Dartmouth couple, Claire Stewart and Alex Brown, got engaged a few months back at the Grand Canyon. Seems like a popular spot. In Boston and the Upper Valley area, Michael Zhu got engaged to Abiah Pritchard ’17. Yet, winning the competition for longest-time-dating-before engagement, we have John Zahka and his fiancée, Lindsay, who have been dating since high school. Congratulations, everyone!
Our class has also been busy on the wedding front. Mila Sheeline got married to Ryan Huff in Hillsborough, California, this past July. The bridal party included many of our classmates, such as Caroline (Steffen) Suydam, Gaby Stern, Katherine Hickey, Hilary Campbell, and Amelia Acosta. Meanwhile, on the other side of the country down in Florida, Alex Welton and Alexa Dixon ’15 got married in a beautiful ceremony on the beach. Traveling up north, John Daniels and Allie Taikowski tied the knot amidst a picturesque fog in Vermont. Staying in the Green Mountain State, Janna (Wandzilak) Collucci got married to her fiancé, John. Moving back south, Alex Wolf and Stephen Praetorius ’12 got married in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. And further south yet, Andrew Shanahan and Nancy Seem married in Princeton, New Jersey. Needless to say, there were Dartmouth graduates in attendance.
Moving on to other activities, Victor Hollenberg is a second-year law student at the University of Chicago and spent the summer working for the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago. He enjoys wearing baseball caps and walking around with a sense of urgency while holding a copy of The New Yorker in one hand and a liter of orange juice in the other. He is a now devout convert to Chicago and will proselytize the benefits of the city to anyone within a 10-mile radius.
Looks like the “Romantic Activities” section is going to dominate this issue of alumni notes. Either people need to slow down on the rate of this whole marriage thing or send me more interesting things to write about because I’ve already hit my word limit. Send me whatever you have for future issues and I will be happy to report it!
—George Helding, 1216 W. Addison St., Apt. 2, Chicago, IL 60613; georgehelding92@gmail.com
