Hope you all are having a great summer! Sparse but very exciting news to report.
Ed Lucas was called up by the Marlins in May! Ed is the first Dartmouth alum to appear in the Major Leagues since Mike Remlinger in 2006. He is the 27th player ever from Dartmouth to make it to the Majors. In addition, Ed is the fourth Ivy Leaguer to play in the big leagues this season. Moreover, thanks to the incredible detective-work of my father-in-law and Dartmouth sports fan Steve Stein ’63, I learned that Ed has been kicking butt! He leads the Marlins with a .313 average in 80 at-bats. He made an initial splash, going four for four against the Mets. According to the Miami Herald, Ed “has been a breath of fresh air on a team that could use a heavy dose of it. I mean, the Marlins have been winning in his presence.”
In addition, Elliot Oshansky wrote in with two exciting updates: “I’m pleased to announce that I started this week at CNBC, where I am an associate producer on The Kudlow Report. It’s a very exciting move for me as I move into TV production after several years on the digital side at other media outlets, and it dovetails nicely with my M.B.A. work at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business, where I’m on track to graduate in December with a dual concentration in communications and media management and marketing. I was inducted in to Fordham’s chapter of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society this past March. Also this past weekend I completed my fifth Out of the Darkness overnight walk for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). I was one of more than 1,700 walkers who raised money and awareness for AFSP by walking 16 miles in Washington, D.C., on June 1 and 2. I walked, as always, in memory of our classmate Daryl Richmond. I’m pleased to report that I had my best fundraising year since I started doing the walk in 2007, and that the vast majority of my donations came from fellow Dartmouth alums. Altogether the walk raised more than $2.6 million for suicide prevention research, education and advocacy.”
Finally, thanks to Adrienne (Draper) Olson for the following:“Stephanie (Feldman) Annear and her husband, Chris, just welcomed a new baby boy, Gannon, on May 11! They are living in Geneva, New York, and both are working for Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Several of us got together in N.Y.C. in February to celebrate Steph and their pending new addition—including Brittany (Copenhaver) Dobi, Lea (Kiefer) Bialis, Janet Light, Chelsea Morgan, Danielle Polebaum, Laura Thompson, Laura Schleicher and Lindsey Sheffield. Also, I just heard from Lindsay Sheffield that she and Kevin Turner are engaged! He proposed in the Rodin Garden in Paris on their trip to Europe.”
—Jess Leinwand, 1440 S St., NW, Apt. 2, Washington, DC 20009; jess.leinwand@gmail.com
