Class Note 1997
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This column is about ’97s keeping it all in the family with news from two ’97 couples and one ’97 married to the brother of another ’97. So without further ado…Congratulations to Jonathan Selva and Antonia (Golianopoulos) Selva on the birth of their son Luke Forrest. He arrived on April 19, 2009, which Jonathan noted was Greek Easter, and weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces, and measured 20 inches.
Kelly Roda Taliaferro, who is married to Hank Taliaferro, wrote in with a long overdue update: “Greetings from Albuquerque, New Mexico! I thought I would give your column a little update on our family since we have never written in and much has happened since graduation. Hank recently opened up MD Urgent Care (www.mdurgentcare.com) with two fellow board-certified emergency medicine doctors. After being open a year and a half they are already planning on expanding. He also works in many of the local hospital emergency rooms. Since moving to New Mexico for his residency in 2002 Hank has really gotten into big game hunting (as well as bird hunting, which he has done since he was little). He harvested his first elk with a bow in September 2006 and got me out on a successful elk hunt with a rifle this past October. I am a residential Realtor (www.luckydogrealty.com) and also overlook our investment properties. I am still running and playing soccer recreationally. We have two wonderful boys: Henry is 4 1/2 years old and Matthew is 19 months. Between work, kids and our two German shorthaired pointers we are a busy family! We love New Mexico and would be happy to host any classmates who are wandering through.”
Mollie Greves Grow also sent in an update: “I’ve been meaning to write for ages, as it’s been a full couple of years. I got married on May 25, 2008, to Joel Grow. We met on match.com and discovered on our first date that Joel’s sister is Sarah Grow, and she and I had last seen each other at Georgia Reid’s wedding in 2002. Sarah was able to attend our wedding between her stints with the Foreign Service in Mumbai and Istanbul. We had a great Dartmouth reunion with the East Coast contingent including Kelley Hart, Kristin Canavan Wilson, Tom Caputo ’96, Sarah Lenczner Caputo, Carolyn Abruzzo Campion and our local buddies Abby Klingbeil and David Zipkin.
“Joel and I welcomed our daughter Eleanor ‘Ellie’ Margaret on March 21, 2009, and got to take her to visit her Aunt Sarah in Istanbul at 5 months of age. We called her our little ambassador as she loved meeting the Turkish people. We hope she inherits her Aunt Sarah’s language skills (I think Sarah’s latest count is seven-plus languages). Ellie is also buddies with Abby and David’s daughter Julia who is three months younger. After finally finishing training in 2008 I have a real job as a pediatric faculty at the University of Washington in general pediatrics and love being humbled by trying my hand at parenting.”
Please keep sending me your news. Take care.
—Jason Casell, 9209 Donner Lane, Austin, TX 78749; jcasell@aol.com
May - June 2010
This column is about ’97s keeping it all in the family with news from two ’97 couples and one ’97 married to the brother of another ’97. So without further ado…Congratulations to Jonathan Selva and Antonia (Golianopoulos) Selva on the birth of their son Luke Forrest. He arrived on April 19, 2009, which Jonathan noted was Greek Easter, and weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces, and measured 20 inches.
Kelly Roda Taliaferro, who is married to Hank Taliaferro, wrote in with a long overdue update: “Greetings from Albuquerque, New Mexico! I thought I would give your column a little update on our family since we have never written in and much has happened since graduation. Hank recently opened up MD Urgent Care (www.mdurgentcare.com) with two fellow board-certified emergency medicine doctors. After being open a year and a half they are already planning on expanding. He also works in many of the local hospital emergency rooms. Since moving to New Mexico for his residency in 2002 Hank has really gotten into big game hunting (as well as bird hunting, which he has done since he was little). He harvested his first elk with a bow in September 2006 and got me out on a successful elk hunt with a rifle this past October. I am a residential Realtor (www.luckydogrealty.com) and also overlook our investment properties. I am still running and playing soccer recreationally. We have two wonderful boys: Henry is 4 1/2 years old and Matthew is 19 months. Between work, kids and our two German shorthaired pointers we are a busy family! We love New Mexico and would be happy to host any classmates who are wandering through.”
Mollie Greves Grow also sent in an update: “I’ve been meaning to write for ages, as it’s been a full couple of years. I got married on May 25, 2008, to Joel Grow. We met on match.com and discovered on our first date that Joel’s sister is Sarah Grow, and she and I had last seen each other at Georgia Reid’s wedding in 2002. Sarah was able to attend our wedding between her stints with the Foreign Service in Mumbai and Istanbul. We had a great Dartmouth reunion with the East Coast contingent including Kelley Hart, Kristin Canavan Wilson, Tom Caputo ’96, Sarah Lenczner Caputo, Carolyn Abruzzo Campion and our local buddies Abby Klingbeil and David Zipkin.
“Joel and I welcomed our daughter Eleanor ‘Ellie’ Margaret on March 21, 2009, and got to take her to visit her Aunt Sarah in Istanbul at 5 months of age. We called her our little ambassador as she loved meeting the Turkish people. We hope she inherits her Aunt Sarah’s language skills (I think Sarah’s latest count is seven-plus languages). Ellie is also buddies with Abby and David’s daughter Julia who is three months younger. After finally finishing training in 2008 I have a real job as a pediatric faculty at the University of Washington in general pediatrics and love being humbled by trying my hand at parenting.”
Please keep sending me your news. Take care.
—Jason Casell, 9209 Donner Lane, Austin, TX 78749; jcasell@aol.com