Happy New Year, ’99s! 


I hope you all enjoyed the holiday season and are ready for the fresh start that the new year brings us. It’s hard to believe that 20 years will have passed in 2015 since we first set foot in Hanover as Dartmouth students. 


I’m happy to write that our Dartmouth family has grown since I last wrote. First, Jackie Rioux Gladstone and husband Daryn welcomed daughter Maven Ellery Gladstone to the family on Tuesday, August 26. Maven weighed in at 9 pounds, 12 ounces, and was 22 inches tall. Their 2.5-year-old daughter Embry is excited about her new role as a big sister. Jackie adds: “While it’s tough getting used to Round 2 of sleep deprivation, we are all having a lot of fun.” 


Ann (DeBord) Smith also had exciting news to share. Ann and husband Evan Smith became the proud parents of twin boys on July 5. Alanson Bryon Smith was 6 pounds, 4 ounces, and 19 inches tall and Emerson Donald Smith was 6 pounds, 12 ounces, and 20 inches tall. Ann and her family live in Lexington, Massachusetts, where Ann is doing a surgery residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She finished her master’s in public health in May at the Harvard School of Public Health during the research phase of her residency. Ann continues to pursue her research. In October she presented findings from a study on vascular surgery to the American College of Surgeons and is running a small clinical trial in collaboration with MIT’s media lab on how technology can support early detection of vascular disease. 


Congratulations, Jackie and Ann!


That’s all the news for now. I wish you all a happy and fulfilling 2015 and look forward to sharing more updates with you soon!


—Tony Perry, 38 Halton Wood Road, Wendover, Buckinghamshire, HP22 5QJ, United Kingdom; tony.j.perry.99@dartmouth.edu