Class Note 2003
Issue
September-October 2022
Happy fall, ’03s.
I’ll soon be headed up to Hanover for the biannual Dartmouth College Fund committee meeting and, as always, I’m eager to spend some time in these gorgeous months on the Green. Have you been back recently? We are gaining on our 20th reunion if you haven’t been able to get to Hanover for other reasons.
I heard from Michael Sinha with a life update. Michael is joining the faculty at St. Louis University School of Law as an assistant professor of law in its center for health law studies. After completing his M.D. and J.D. in 2012 and his M.P.H. in 2015, Michael went to Boston to do postdoctoral research with several Harvard-affiliated programs, including the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science. Later he taught health and patent law at Northeastern University School of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Michael’s wife, Kristina (University of Central Florida ’03), holds several roles, including director of the University of Washington Center for Leadership and Innovation in Medical Education, so the couple will split time between St. Louis, Missouri, and Seattle, Washington. Michael would love to connect with any ’03s in either city. Congratulations on the new position, Michael!
Yungsheng Wang reports in that he has finally achieved a life goal of appearing on Jeopardy! His episode was to air July 4; I’ll have an update for you in my next column. Yungsheng says he decided to apply in the early days of the pandemic and made it to the final contestant pool in January 2021 but did not hear back until April of this year. He crash-studied (late nights in Baker-Berry anyone?) Shakespeare, opera, poetry, etc., to prepare and taped his episode in May. He thinks it was fate when one of the clues required him to produce the name of Dartmouth’s own Mindy Kaling ’01. Looking forward to seeing the results, Yungsheng!
Michael Vidmar (our former class president!) writes in with happy news of his own. Mike recently married Elizabeth VanderLaan (Michigan State ’07) in Lemont, Illinois. Fellow alums Luke Caffey, Nirav Kapadia, Jim Sitar ’01, and Reed Webster ’83 attended the festivities. Mike and Elizabeth live in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago with their dog, Sherman, while planning their honeymoon for the summer in Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia. Congratulations on the nuptials, Mike!
Our class held our first mini-reunion since before the pandemic in N.Y.C. on June 2. A great group of ’03s gathered at the Rooftop at City Vineyard led by our president, Tatiana (Fernandez) Amlin. Rain tried to put a damper on the event, but our classmates persevered and had a great time. Heather Boldt, Amy Catlin, Sarah Hong, Kate Reibel, David Tepperman, and John Piermont joined in for laughs and a beautiful sunset over the Hudson River. Look for more mini-reunions to come. If you’d like to host one, please reach out.
As I perused various news sources, I came across bits of ’03 news recently. Karim Marshall was featured in a Washington Post article regarding his candidacy for an at-large seat on the D.C. council (the equivalent of a state legislative body, if D.C. were a state). Good luck, Karim! In VermontBiz I discovered that Christena Cleveland led the baccalaureate multi-faith, multicultural ceremony at graduation this year. What a cool honor, Christena!
Finally, in early June in Savannah, Georgia, Meredith (Schwartz) Beuchaw, Sonja (Tonnesen) Davies, Lindsay (Hirschfeld) Guzowski, me (Megan [Riley] Kenney), and Sarah (Murray) Sliva gathered to celebrate Sonja’s 40th birthday. We took in a Savannah Bananas game, made menaces of ourselves on Segways, and chilled poolside. A little break from reality and a good dose of time with my Dartmouth friends boosts my mood every time. Grateful for the endurance of 20-plus-year friendships.
Send me news at the email below!
—Megan (Riley) Kenney, 3408 Quebec St. NW, Washington, DC 20016; dartmouth2003notes@gmail.com
I’ll soon be headed up to Hanover for the biannual Dartmouth College Fund committee meeting and, as always, I’m eager to spend some time in these gorgeous months on the Green. Have you been back recently? We are gaining on our 20th reunion if you haven’t been able to get to Hanover for other reasons.
I heard from Michael Sinha with a life update. Michael is joining the faculty at St. Louis University School of Law as an assistant professor of law in its center for health law studies. After completing his M.D. and J.D. in 2012 and his M.P.H. in 2015, Michael went to Boston to do postdoctoral research with several Harvard-affiliated programs, including the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science. Later he taught health and patent law at Northeastern University School of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Michael’s wife, Kristina (University of Central Florida ’03), holds several roles, including director of the University of Washington Center for Leadership and Innovation in Medical Education, so the couple will split time between St. Louis, Missouri, and Seattle, Washington. Michael would love to connect with any ’03s in either city. Congratulations on the new position, Michael!
Yungsheng Wang reports in that he has finally achieved a life goal of appearing on Jeopardy! His episode was to air July 4; I’ll have an update for you in my next column. Yungsheng says he decided to apply in the early days of the pandemic and made it to the final contestant pool in January 2021 but did not hear back until April of this year. He crash-studied (late nights in Baker-Berry anyone?) Shakespeare, opera, poetry, etc., to prepare and taped his episode in May. He thinks it was fate when one of the clues required him to produce the name of Dartmouth’s own Mindy Kaling ’01. Looking forward to seeing the results, Yungsheng!
Michael Vidmar (our former class president!) writes in with happy news of his own. Mike recently married Elizabeth VanderLaan (Michigan State ’07) in Lemont, Illinois. Fellow alums Luke Caffey, Nirav Kapadia, Jim Sitar ’01, and Reed Webster ’83 attended the festivities. Mike and Elizabeth live in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago with their dog, Sherman, while planning their honeymoon for the summer in Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia. Congratulations on the nuptials, Mike!
Our class held our first mini-reunion since before the pandemic in N.Y.C. on June 2. A great group of ’03s gathered at the Rooftop at City Vineyard led by our president, Tatiana (Fernandez) Amlin. Rain tried to put a damper on the event, but our classmates persevered and had a great time. Heather Boldt, Amy Catlin, Sarah Hong, Kate Reibel, David Tepperman, and John Piermont joined in for laughs and a beautiful sunset over the Hudson River. Look for more mini-reunions to come. If you’d like to host one, please reach out.
As I perused various news sources, I came across bits of ’03 news recently. Karim Marshall was featured in a Washington Post article regarding his candidacy for an at-large seat on the D.C. council (the equivalent of a state legislative body, if D.C. were a state). Good luck, Karim! In VermontBiz I discovered that Christena Cleveland led the baccalaureate multi-faith, multicultural ceremony at graduation this year. What a cool honor, Christena!
Finally, in early June in Savannah, Georgia, Meredith (Schwartz) Beuchaw, Sonja (Tonnesen) Davies, Lindsay (Hirschfeld) Guzowski, me (Megan [Riley] Kenney), and Sarah (Murray) Sliva gathered to celebrate Sonja’s 40th birthday. We took in a Savannah Bananas game, made menaces of ourselves on Segways, and chilled poolside. A little break from reality and a good dose of time with my Dartmouth friends boosts my mood every time. Grateful for the endurance of 20-plus-year friendships.
Send me news at the email below!
—Megan (Riley) Kenney, 3408 Quebec St. NW, Washington, DC 20016; dartmouth2003notes@gmail.com