Class Note 2011
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May-June 2026
Class Note 2011. Mia Song wrote in January to say that she and her husband, Brandon Trainor, welcomed their son Nolan into the world recently: “The three of us and our greyhound named Rocket are settling into new family life very well. I missed our recent reunion because I was well into my pregnancy, but we are hoping to make New England our first family trip together this summer. We currently live in Philly!” It was Mia’s first update for Class Notes since we graduated. Mia was one of the first people I met at Dartmouth since we were on Section A of DOC first-year trips together, almost 20 years ago now! I also learned that the Boston Arts Academy Foundation (BAAF) named Dylan Leavitt, founder of the multimedia production company Studio Dylan, to its board. The foundation supports Boston’s only public school for the performing arts by advancing comprehensive fundraising efforts that sustain scholarships and other student needs.
AI has made great strides in the past year, so I decided to see what it could do for Class Notes submissions, and I was pleasantly surprised! It was not great at discerning whether it had pulled the most recent information for someone and when the information was relevant, so here’s the AI-inspired, human-researched version of one of the paragraphs it provided.
Some of our classmates are working on important social issues. Vera M. Bergengruen is a national security reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Previously, she worked as a senior correspondent and Washington, D.C., correspondent for Time magazine, covering topics such as how new technology such as computers and AI can affect our country’s safety. Jaclyn K. Wypler is a researcher who works to make farming fair for everyone. She studies how to help farmers who aren’t usually seen or heard so that our food system works better for everyone. In the legal world, David R. Friedman did important work as an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, where he recently led the section that handles criminal appeals, and he has since returned to being counsel at Wilkinson Stekloff, a D.C.- and New York-based litigation boutique firm founded in 2016.
—Hillary S. Cheng, 26611 La Roda, Mission Viejo, CA 92691; (603) 546-8452; hillary.s.cheng@dartmouth.edu
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AI has made great strides in the past year, so I decided to see what it could do for Class Notes submissions, and I was pleasantly surprised! It was not great at discerning whether it had pulled the most recent information for someone and when the information was relevant, so here’s the AI-inspired, human-researched version of one of the paragraphs it provided.
Some of our classmates are working on important social issues. Vera M. Bergengruen is a national security reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Previously, she worked as a senior correspondent and Washington, D.C., correspondent for Time magazine, covering topics such as how new technology such as computers and AI can affect our country’s safety. Jaclyn K. Wypler is a researcher who works to make farming fair for everyone. She studies how to help farmers who aren’t usually seen or heard so that our food system works better for everyone. In the legal world, David R. Friedman did important work as an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, where he recently led the section that handles criminal appeals, and he has since returned to being counsel at Wilkinson Stekloff, a D.C.- and New York-based litigation boutique firm founded in 2016.
—Hillary S. Cheng, 26611 La Roda, Mission Viejo, CA 92691; (603) 546-8452; hillary.s.cheng@dartmouth.edu