Lots to report!


Nirav Kapadia wrote in with some exciting news he wanted to share. “After Hanover I went on to medical school at Johns Hopkins (’08), where I met my wife, Alison Payne-Reid Kapadia (Stanford ’03, Hopkins Med ’09). We had a small wedding in our front yard on an old farm just outside Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2009, and afterwards honeymooned and hiked the Presidentials—which introduced the area to my wife, who immediately fell in love with its grandeur. We are both finishing up our chief resident years at the University of Michigan (me in radiation oncology and Alison in emergency medicine). What has us so excited and why I am finally writing in is that we both just accepted faculty positions at DMS/DHMC and will be moving up to Hanover with our two big dogs in tow, starting work late next summer. Former Dartmouth President Freedman once remarked, ‘Dartmouth men spend four years trying to leave Hanover and a lifetime trying to return.’ I am grateful for the good fortune that has allowed me to return so soon and hope that no one hesitates to look me up when in town.”


I also heard from Saad Hasan, who writes, “Since graduating I’ve been moving around, working in Karachi, New York, Johannesburg and San Francisco in various roles. I then went back to school and completed my M.B.A. (Stanford ’11) and moved to Boston, where I am working for Berkshire Partners in their public equity fund. I got married to Psyche Philips (Smith ’05) in Karachi in December 2011 and had a U.S. wedding reception in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in May 2012. Lots of Dartmouth folks were in attendance at the celebrations, including Milan Ranka, Justin Walsh, Faris Rahman ’04, Imran Sharih ’04, Derrick Chu ’04, Jonathan Schroeder, Rajiv Dhar ’06, Mary Mei ’04, Alex Taylor ’04, Ted Knudsen ’04 and M.J. Maloof ’04. Looking forward to the 10-year reunion shenanigans back up in Hanover soon!”


Tina Catania sent the following update: “On January 7, 2012, I married Arthur Urbano (Brown ’95). We had a Catholic Mass in Italian and English and were so fortunate to be surrounded by our family and friends as we received the sacrament of marriage. Other Dartmouth alumni in attendance were Darlene (Hilburn) Mauldin, Emily (Brown) Lewis, Matthew Lewis, Adv’06, and Carolyn Steele. I am in the geography Ph.D. program at Syracuse University (where I received my master’s in 2010) and Arthur is a theology professor at Providence College.”


Finally a little birdie sent the following bit. “From Hanover to Silicon Alley: Jack Downey and Melissa Penn Post have gone into business together! In November they launched weeSpring, a Facebook-integrated social website for new and expecting parents to share trusted advice about essential baby products. When Jack first brought the idea to Melissa and her husband, Fred Post (who were expecting twin girls), it was just to hear what they thought, but instead of becoming some of the site’s first users, they became partners instead! So, if you know someone who is expecting, or has a baby or young child please encourage her to check out weeSpring (www.weespring.com), and help support a great company with Dartmouth roots! Jack and his wife, Allyson (Colby ’01), have a 1 1/2-year-old son Logan, and Melissa and Fred welcomed their girls Dylan and Ally into the world this past summer.”


—Jill Haltigan, 3537-4 Hunters Woods Blvd., New Castle, PA 16105; jill.haltigan@gmail.com