Class Notes 2002

Hello, ’02s! Derek Hansen shared an update: “My wife, Bonnie, and I are celebrating our beautiful son Landyn Allen’s seven months of life! He is a healthy little explorer, already climbing the furniture and sucking on all the pillow tags. Landyn’s middle name honors his grandfather (Capt. Allen R. Hansen, Navy ’73), who passed away tragically just two weeks before Landyn’s birth. We also lost our shepherd-mix Toby during the summer and then Bonnie’s father, Randy, earlier last fall. It was a challenging time.

“I am managing a nonprofit in Austin, Texas, called Ghisallo Cycling Initiative, while building trails and coaching adults and teens in mountain biking on the side. I owe gratitude to my brother, Patrick ’97, for the specialized Rockhopper he gifted me for my high school graduation, Ian Laing ’01 for leading my mountain biking freshman orientation trip, and Al Lam ’01 for an awesome mountain biking fitness class at Dartmouth. Al’s coast-to-coast bike ride postgraduation, my parents’ cross-country escapades on a tandem, and my future wife’s Austin-to-Nicaragua bikepacking adventure would all inspire me to ride from Chihuahua, Mexico, to Banff, Canada, in the spring and summer of 2011.

“Coincidentally, I ran into Kate Siber in Big Bend, Texas, on that trip, figured out we knew each other from college (we were campsite neighbors and decided to go for a hike and hot springs dip), and then couch-surfed at her place when I passed through Durango, Colorado, later that spring. Big congrats to you, Kate, on your new book and for kicking cancer! Seeing your class note inspired me to reach out and share a life update.”

I also heard from Caroline Pott: “As a respite from my distant island, I spent most of October near Washington, D.C., and was able to see a number of ’02s. Hilary Schrenell, Rachel Roth, and I had a nice autumnal walk around Rachel’s neighborhood and dinner at Hilary’s apartment with a view. I saw Phil Mone and his kids for a couple of very nice evenings and a late night around his Victorian-style fire pit. Joe Cloyd’s family hosted me for a homemade Indian-ish dinner.”

Page Kyle sent an update on his adventures: “Last summer I climbed the Cassin Ridge on Denali, but got frostbite about halfway up, and after we got back I spent a few weeks at the Salt Lake City hospital getting 17 finger phalanges and all toes amputated. So much for the other six summits! One silver lining was reconnecting with lots of our ’02 classmates—I saw Jim Hotaling almost every day as he works at that hospital (though not at the saw!) and had calls with Will Whitney, Bart Paull, Dave Asmussen, Lauren Weldon, David Cohen, Sergio Paluch, Adam Sepulveda, Ethan Richards, Asa Tapley, and Fred Wilkinson. Once I got out and the docs said it was okay, Tim Bartholomaus and Ken Gillingham took me river rafting with each of our 4- and 5-year-old kids—a great experience all around, mostly because our kids liked each other! Everything with the recovery has gone as well as possible, though as expected I am finding that human fingers and toes do not regenerate.”

Jason Spitalnick recently started a podcast about Jewish culture. It’s called Recognizably Jewish and is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you listen to podcasts. Early episodes include the history of bagels, the story of recognizably Jewish last names, and an explanation of how the Star of David came to be the best-known visual symbol of Jewish community.

I hope you all are having a nice winter. Keep sending your updates!

—Anne Cloudman, 215 W 98th St., Apt. 12C, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s. I didn’t hear any from any classmates in the last couple months so after you read this, send me your update!

—Anne Cloudman, 215 W 98th St., Apt. 12C, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s!

This first update appeared on my television screen one night when I was watching Disney Plus with my kids. We had just started watching Explorer: Lake of Fire, a National Geographic documentary about a remote volcano in the far southern Atlantic ocean, when Freddie Wilkinson appeared on screen!

Freddie was a climbing guide on the mission to explore the remote volcano Mount Michael on Saunders Island in the uninhabited South Sandwich archipelago. The documentary features Freddie leading volcanologists to the edge of and into Mount Michael to determine if the volcano has an active lava lake. Both the television documentary and the companion article Freddie authored in the November 2023 issue of National Geographic magazine are fascinating and worth checking out!

I reached out to Freddie and he replied, “Needless to say, it was an honor to work with such a talented crew and have the opportunity to explore a completely unique landscape. Otherwise, I’m doing good living in the White Mountains of New Hampshire with my wife, Janet, and our kids, Casey and Oscar. Our climbing gym business Salt Pump Climbing Co. has locations in Scarborough, Maine, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire—stop by and say hi!”

Kristin (Shigley) Livingston and I met up in Essex, New York, with our families for the total solar eclipse on April 8. In between a couple of muddy hikes and prepping eclipse glasses and a pinhole camera we had a chance to stop by Jen (LaBerge) Hutchins’ house to say hello. The morning of the eclipse was a beautiful, clear day and we were in the very small village center at the local café getting ice cream for our kids when we bumped into Laura Grey, who was in Essex visiting her in-laws. Luckily, the line for ice cream was long, so the four of us had time to chat and reconnect before heading our separate ways to observe the truly spectacular natural phenomenon of the total solar eclipse. Three minutes of stunning totality and then—light, warmth, and back to reality.

Happy summer, ’02s!

—Anne Cloudman, 215 W 98th St., Apt. 12C, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s!

Lauren Lafaro and her husband, Travis Elmer, recently moved back to the United States from Tokyo, Japan, where she served at the U.S. embassy as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear advisor. She will be leaving DOE after 15 years to take a job at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she will oversee the arms control and nonproliferation work. Lauren is looking forward to trading sake for California wine and being back in the United States after more than seven years overseas.

Mary Anne Mendenhall and her husband, Gordon Watson, welcomed a son, Rafe Taegun Watson, on October 26. He joins his two brothers and the dog they got two weeks before they learned of him, when they felt clear a third wasn’t in the cards! The happy family lives in sunny Encinitas, California.

—Anne Cloudman, 215 W 98th St., Apt. 12C, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s!

I heard from Nina Markey about her recent reunion with Dartmouth friends: “A bunch of us had an amazing time at Moosilauke and on campus in August. Me, Kristin (Bellanca) Pauker, Caroline Newman, Jo Edwards, Megan Harrison, Yanni Liu, Jana Schaich Borg, and Pam Piccola Fales ’03 and our families enjoyed hiking Moosilauke, meals at the Lodge, pillow fights, breakfast at Lou’s, and many games of football on the Green.”

Jeanette Soares shared, “In July I unexpectedly encountered Marcy Muzykewicz on São Miguel island in the Azores while we were both vacationing there. It was great catching up with her!”

Cheers to ’02 reunions near and far!

—Anne Cloudman, 215 W 98th St., Apt. 12C, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s!

Congratulations are in order to several of our classmates!

I heard from Katie Simon Boshoff, “Adam and I (and our 4-year-old Max) welcomed baby Olivia Margaret in March 2022 to the family—she is a feisty, energetic, opinionated little creature who is keeping us on our toes. Max is loving being a big brother and can’t wait to teach her how to ride a motorcycle (much to this pediatrician mom’s chagrin!). We are still in Lilongwe, Malawi, where I’m in my 11th year working for Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation-Malawi as the medical director of our Tingathe outreach program. We have a guest wing ready and waiting for visitors who want to see the lake or go on safari!”

Jason Spitalnick writes, “I’ve been living in Denver for almost six years with my wife and daughter Elia and son Levi. After 15 years practicing at two different law firms, I recently joined the U.S. Securities and Exchange Council as counsel in the enforcement division in the Denver regional office.”

Jess (McIsaac) Petersen shared a personal triumph, “This year I achieved something that I honestly did not think was possible; I ran my first sub-three-hour marathon in Mesa, Arizona, in February, then went on to run a sub-2:55 lifetime personal best at the Boston Marathon in April. I didn’t become an athlete until well after college, so being able to compete at this level in my 40s really blows my mind and brings me so much joy. Hope you are all happy and healthy, class of ’02!”

Our current Alumni Council representative Kendra Quincy (Kemp) Knauf also had some exciting news, “I had a baby! Her name is Samantha Blair Knauf. She is so interactive and curious about the world. I brought her with me to the Alumni Council meeting in the fall for our first mother-daughter overnight trip and am looking forward to future visits to campus together. She turns 1 in June.”

Five of the seven ’02s in the Dartmouth Cords were back in Hanover in April for a make-up “25th” anniversary weekend for the a cappella group, which was founded in 1996. Aaron Fiske, Adam Green, Allan Mabardy, Conner McGee, and Jeff Hafner caught up with more than 30 Dartmouth Cords alumni and a great group of current students who did a perfect job humoring and indulging the “old” guys. Mike Breen and Ben Barnes were missed (next time!).

I loved all these updates! Keep them coming, if you’re reading this right now and have never sent in an update before—now is the time! Submit your updates on our class website, 2002.dartmouth.org, or send me an email.

—Anne Cloudman, 215 W 98th St., Apt. 12C, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s!

I received several updates from our classmates recently.

Jamie (Merriman) Hanulec wrote, “In July Mike Hanulec and I got married in Kingston, New York. We were thrilled to have a lot of Dartmouth friends there, with Sylvie (Liberman) Vernick, Vanessa (Green) Sinders, Molly (Stutzman) Miranda, Jorge Miranda ’01, Adam Ziegfeld, Rohin Dhar and Allison Sydlaske ’03 helping us celebrate! We’re now living in Seattle and would love to connect with anyone in the Pacific Northwest.”

Cara Kinsey has been keeping up with Dartmouth alums from the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s: “I’m looking forward to New Year’s in Las Vegas with Heather Spiegel after spending Halloween with some ’12s in Portland, Maine; Veterans Day weekend with Kristin Fitzsimmons in Walla Walla, Washington; and Thanksgiving in N.Y.C. with a bunch of mid-’90s alums. While I’m happy for more of these in-person opportunities, I’m still enjoying regular zooming to connect with friends around the world, so reach out if you’re in the mood to connect.”

Dallas Alexander shared some exciting professional news, “This past fall sports season the Big East Conference invited me to take a step in a new direction with Division I athletics (building from previous experiences coaching and officiating field hockey) to serve as broadcast analyst for its field hockey conference tournament semi-finals streamed on the Big East Digital Network then the national FoxSports1 broadcast of the conference championship game! It was a phenomenal experience that opened the door to serve as game analyst a couple weeks later for one of the Division II NCAA national tournament quarterfinal games as well.”

Lynnie Rudner Correll moved this past summer to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where she’s taken a new position as a staff anesthesiologist at the British Columbia Children’s Hospital and a faculty position at the University of British Columbia in the department of anesthesiology, pharmacology, and therapeutics.

Congratulations to all! Happy almost-spring, ’02s. Keep sending your news and notes!

—Anne Cloudman, 215 W 98th St., Apt. 12C, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s!

Charlotte (Baxter) Maines and Stanton Maines welcomed son Weston Robert on May 23; he joins brother Ryker, age 4. The new family of four lives in Seattle, where Charlotte is a director at Amazon overseeing the Fire TV business, including sales, engagement, monetization and advertising products, and engineering.

I also heard from first-time contributor Emily Gomez-Hayes: “Hello, fellow ’02s! I’ve never actually sent an update. I’ve been practicing law in Pittsburgh since graduating from George Washington University Law School in 2007 and passing the Pennsylvania Bar. Before law school I took some time to travel the world a bit. After landing in Pittsburgh I met and married my husband, Eric (University of Pittsburgh ’91), in 2014 (with Catherine Kemp in attendance!) and welcomed our son, Evan, in December 2015 and our son, Elliott, in January 2018. Life is very full these days between solo practice and Cub Scout meetings. If you’re ever in Pittsburgh, reach out! It would be great to catch up.”

Amanda Potter wrote, “I’m happy to share that I’ve begun a new position as Putnam assistant director of learning and community engagement at Vassar College Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (where, in a small-world moment, the director is Bart Thurber, who was a curator at the Hood Museum for many years). Jeff Vardaro and I are very excited to explore the Hudson Valley, New York, together with our daughter, Ellie.”

Jorge Montalvo shared a couple of exciting updates, “Professionally, I will be profiled in Crain’s New York Business in its annual list of ‘Notable Hispanic Leaders.’ I’m also going to be ranked somewhere in City and State Magazine’s annual ‘Power List of the 100 Latino Leaders in New York State.’ Personally, I had the pleasure of attending Kevin Allen’s wedding, hosted at Mike Payette’s home. Additional Dartmouth folks in attendance were Christopher Allen, Melissa McDaniel ’01, Blake Ratcliff, and Niegel Smith (whose Flea Theater in Lower Manhattan is going through a revival this year) as well as their associated families and children. Earlier in the quarter Frank Yoshida joined the group for the bachelor party.”

Thanks for all the great news! Visit us at 2002.dartmouth.org to submit an update of your own.

—Anne Cloudman, 215 W 98th St., Apt. 12C, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s!

I heard from J.T. (Leaird) Schiltz about her happy news, “On February 25 we welcomed Rose Shirley Jacqueline Schiltz into the world. She joins big brother Peter (3) and big sister Magnolia (5) in our very full, loud house in Queens, New York. We look to getting the whole crew to Hanover someday soon.”

It’s been 20 years since we walked across the stage on the Hanover Green. We missed celebrating our reunion together last year but I’m sure there have been plenty of Dartmouth classmate gatherings. Send in an update about your latest Dartmouth get-together!

—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hi, ’02s!

Francine Rubin writes,“My husband, Pierre, and I welcomed our daughter, Anna, this past summer. She joins big brother Alex, who is 2. We live in Arlington, Massachusetts, and would be excited to connect with alums in the Boston area. Alex and Anna are always up for exploring new parks and playgrounds—a favorite pandemic activity.”

We’re approaching the 20th anniversary of our graduation. Send me your favorite graduation memories or new memories you’ve made with classmates during the past two decades.

—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s!

Yvette Nameth sent me a quick update: “I started a job at Stripe as an engineering manager in May 2020. A year later, I haven’t been to the office, don’t have a badge, and haven’t met my employees in person. Thankfully, because of the Covid vaccine, I did get to have a lovely dinner with Eli Diament with our partners when they were passing through Seattle in July!”

I also heard from Deanna (Kasperski) Hill: “Seth and I still live in San Diego and work at UCSD. Seth is a professor of political science and I am an academic internist. We welcomed our third child in May. Oliver joins proud older sisters Abby and Madelyn, and we are enjoying being a family of five!”

It’s been 20 years since Homecoming weekend our senior fall (2001) and 10 years since the end of BlitzMail. What other milestones are you marking?

I hope you all are well and keep sending in your updates!

—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s!

Julie (Cumming) Higgins sent me a lovely update: “I thought I would write to give an update for the Class Notes, I haven’t done so in a very long time, but was inspired recently by my grandfather, who was a ’39. Quite randomly, I came across some letters that he wrote during WW II that are archived at the Rauner Library. They are letters he wrote to his Dartmouth class secretary while serving in the Navy during the war. He diligently wrote every single year, with updates on his life and any classmates he had come across. It was crazy to read about his life during this time (1943-45), including learning that he was at sea during my dad’s birth. Since my last update we have had another child—Alice Higgins was born in 2018, joining her big brother and sister, Jack and Molly. We are still living in Boston and I get to see Rose (Kraemer) Carpenter, Mel Seymour, Sara Donahue, and Annie (Nash) Bing quite frequently, at least in non-pandemic times. We also just bought a vacation home in the Upper Valley and are really excited to spend more time up there!”

Mara Buchbinder reports that her book, Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America, was published by the University of California Press Series in Public Anthropology in May. The book tells the story of what happened after Vermont legalized medical aid in dying in 2013. Mara says that the best part of her research was dragging her family to Vermont for several summers and frequently visiting Hanover.

Ty Roy-Garland and his husband, Brian, welcomed their son, Leo Sebastian, to Denver through surrogacy on March 3. It’s a little late for this season, but they’re already excited to get him on skis next year.

I hope you all are well and keep sending in your updates!

—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s!

Tasha Francis Gerasimow was named partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where she practices intellectual property law. She and her husband, David, welcomed their first child, a girl, in early 2020. Tasha and David recently enjoyed a quick weekend visit to Dartmouth to see the campus again in the fall.

Molly Johnson and her husband, Jeff Hawkins, and two children moved from New York City to Vancouver, Canada, in July. The family loves beautiful Vancouver and they’re enjoying a life of more outside adventures and pandemic skiing.

Charlie Trumbull, wife Hannah, and daughter Havana moved to Geneva, Switzerland, in August on a three-year assignment. Charlie is the deputy legal advisor at the U.S. mission to the United Nations in Geneva.

Jeff McDaniel wrote, “Meghan and I welcomed our second daughter, Jane Traveler McDaniel, to the world on September 4. Her big sister, Anne (8), has been amazing and we’ve already completed our first family trip to Tangalooma (Moreton Island off the coast of Australia). Can’t wait to be able to bring the girls back to the United States to visit the grandparents and aunts, uncles, and cousins.”

Mary Anne Mendenhall and her husband, Gordon Watson, welcomed their second son, Cary, on October 21. Cary joins brother Oscar, 19 months his senior. Mary Anne added, “Someone recently said that raising small kids isn’t the worst way to spend this strange year and I totally agree.”

I hope you all are well and keep sending in your updates!

—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s!

There are some bright spots in an otherwise difficult year for many—three new members of the extended ’02 family!

Nathan Fidel wrote, “My partner, Sarah Hicks, and I are pleased to announce the birth of our second child, Clara Belle Fidel, on July 30 in Phoenix. We feel fortunate to be healthy and our 2.5-year-old, Clementine, seems to be loving sisterhood.”

Ashley Dean-Gulbranson and Alison (Keller) Muraszewski both welcomed new sons in May. Ashley and her wife, Errikka Dean-Gulbranson, and their son, Deacon, live north of Los Angeles near Alison and her husband, Eric Muraszewski, and twin sons Abbott and Levi, age 4, and their new son, Nolan. The baby boys “met” in August and have become fast friends!

Come visit us on the new improved ’02 Instagram account @dartmouth2002, which will feature stories from classmates.

—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hi, ’02s.

This is the year many of us turn 40, so I expect there will be many trips and celebrations with old friends from college—send me your best adventure stories and heartwarming moments.

“Many of the ladies who spent senior year together at 7 Maple Street celebrated our 40th birthdays in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, at the end of January. J.T. (Leaird) Schiltz, Tucker (Ballard) Mahoney, Elizabeth Badger, Kate (Murphy) Voltz, Kate (Knowles) Frankel, Liz (Balanda) Baldwin,and Rebecca (Eley) Weeks rented a villa up in the hills over Mislamoya beach and spent four days realizing how little (thankfully) has changed since we met in 1998, despite having 16 kids between us (who stayed home with amazing grandparents) and no longer spending our time at crew practice. We can still talk for hours, count on each other to show up whenever one of us needs the others, and find time for pong tournaments, but now those happen overlooking the ocean. Five of the seven husbands with us were also Dartmouth grads: Dan Mahoney ’01, John Nichols ’01, Matt Frankel, Chris Baldwin, and Christian Weeks ’05.”

In February I traveled to Playa del Carmen with Allison (Stuntz) Schulte, Kristin (Shigley) Livingston, Mara Buchbinder,and Molly Johnson for a 40th birthday year celebration. We snorkeled in cenotes, dined on delicious local cuisine, floated around in the ocean waves, and generally spent four days talking nonstop. One evening was spent reminiscing with digitized photos from our time at Dartmouth and we realized how glad we are that smartphones and social media didn’t exist back then!

Time with old friends is always a treat, so everyone mark your calendars for our 20th reunion in Hanover on June 18-20, 2021—a bit more than a year away. Planning officially begins this July, but we are starting to get the word out and asking around about who may be interested in helping plan. We’d like to have a 20th reunion planning committee in place by July. Please email dartmouthclassof2002@gmail.com if you are interested.

—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Happy holidays, ’02s!

Lars Lynch had happy news to share: “Our daughter, Astrid, was just born in September, to the delight of her sisters, Sarai and Mayka, and brother Gael. I’ve been living in Spain since graduating from Dartmouth 17 years ago and currently live just outside Barcelona and work in information technology consulting. My wife, Joke Deschouwer, and I would love to meet up with any visitors traveling through Barcelona.”

I heard from Caroline Pott about some stateside adventures: “I made a pilgrimage to the new Moosilauke Lodge in October to escape the heat of the Caribbean. Erica Mintzer graciously hosted me in Boston, and I saw Amy Schnitzer before she moved to the suburbs. At the new (and improved!) lodge, I also saw Rory Gawler ’05, who is still working magic at the DOC.” Caroline’s meager government biologist salary hasn’t put her in a position where she has an “estate” but she recently revised her IRA beneficiaries to include Dartmouth as a contingent beneficiary. She recommends it as a very painless way to include Dartmouth in your gift planning, even if you are of modest means.

Amy Partridge was married to Saajan Chana at Mount Washington on October 13, 2019. There were tons of alums in attendance to enjoy the beautiful wedding and gorgeous fall foliage: Eli Diament, Sarah Finck, Russell King-Jones, Heidy Abreu ’04, Erin (Kinney) Dikmanis, Sushila Dalal, Rob Jensen, Amy Pogoriler ’00, Janice Kim, Deanna (Kasperski) Hill, and Yvette Nameth.

Cara Kinsey shared her news: “I recently bought a house in Springfield, Oregon. I feel like such an adult! I’m working as the teen services librarian at Springfield Public Library. I enjoy seeing Dartmouth friends in Seattle and Portland, and would love to see people in the greater Eugene-Springfield area. Let me know if you live here or are passing through!”

Happy New Year! I hope you all have a wonderful 2020. Keep sending your updates.

—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello again, ’02s!

I heard from Megan Wheeler about her new position as the executive director of the Schmidt Science Fellows (www.schmidtsciencefellows.org). The organization is a nonprofit focused on developing the next generation of science leaders to transcend disciplines, advance discovery, and solve the world’s most pressing problems.

Tracy Kim Horn launched a new business last year, Parfait—a modern version of the ice cream truck. “I make soft serve and paletas (Mexican-style ice pops featuring fruit) from scratch with mostly local ingredients and all-natural sweeteners (local honey, Vermont maple syrup, and organic dates). And for the parents who buy these treats for their kids, I have nitro coffee and kombucha on tap too. My engineering degree came in handy while designing the retrofitting of an old U.S. Postal Service mail truck that I got at auction and converted into a board of health-approved mobile food facility. You can follow the truck on Instagram @parfaitplease to follow the fun and crazy adventures of a new food truck.”

After nearly two decades in and around city and state government in New York, Jorge Montalvo has taken a new job as the new chief operating officer for the Physician Affiliate Group of New York, which employs the doctors and allied health professions in most of the city public hospitals and clinics as well as on Rikers Island. Jorge added, “I also recently joined the Agitators advisory committee for Niegel Smith’s Flea Theater, so don’t be surprised if I start hitting people up more for seeing shows at their new, beautiful facility in lower Manhattan.”

Anne Delaney is living in Seattle and working at a wealth management company. Last September she married Brad Bashaw, with classmates Maxine Goldstein Hynes and Sylvie Liberman Vernick in attendance at the wedding. Brad and Anne took a lovely honeymoon boat trip through the San Juan Islands and Canadian Gulf Islands. And on April 21 they welcomed a son, Henry Spencer Bashaw.

Ryker Claflin Maines, son (and first child) of Charlotte Baxter and Stanton Maines, is almost 1 year old (born September 2018). “We waited to submit to Class Notes to be sure we wanted to keep him, but he’s pretty cute.”

Mary Anne Mendenhall and husband Gordon Watson welcomed son Oscar Thomas Watson on March 1 in New York City. The family lives in Brooklyn and Mary Anne is in her 11th year at the Bronx Defenders, where she will return this fall after spending her maternity leave in San Diego.

Mark your calendars for Dartmouth Homecoming Weekend this fall, October 11 and 12!

—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s!

From February 22 to 24 the fifth annual Niseko Green (Niseko-green.com) was held in Niseko Hokkaido, Japan. With the support of Dartmouth alumni relations and the Dartmouth clubs of Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, and China, Niseko Green seeks to bring together alumni from across Asia and across the globe to network, enjoy, educate and stay connected to Hanover in that quintessential Dartmouth way: frolicking in the snow. Organized by Roy Ogura and Cliff Bernstein ’89, the event was attended by 31 alumni, family and guests ranging from the class of ’83 to the class of ’23 (two students matriculating this fall), including Tanya Hsu. The event was a success, and they look forward to holding it again in 2020. Roy lives in Menlo Park, California, with his wife and two daughters and recently cofounded a luxury custom winter travel company specializing in Japan.

Robin Globus Veldman’s first book, The Gospel of Climate Skepticism: Why Evangelical Christians Oppose Action on Climate Change, will be published in October. Robin recently moved to College Station, Texas, where she is an assistant professor of religious studies at Texas A&M University. She is slowly and somewhat reluctantly getting used to life in Aggieland.

Wishing you all a happy spring!

—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s!

Leyla (Kamalick) King and her husband, Ben, welcomed their third (and final!) child on June 27. Tobias “Toby” Joseph joins big brother Fred (7) and sister Beatrice (3 1/2). They live in rural Tennessee at the University of the South in Sewanee (about 50 miles north of Chattanooga), where Leyla teaches beginning Arabic in addition to her work as a priest at Thankful Memorial Episcopal Church in Chattanooga. She would love to see any Dartmouth alums who happen to be passing through!

Sarah Weiner sent me an update about her recent move and classmates that she’s seen recently: “I’m moving to Portland in October, and have reconnected with Andreas Stavrapolous, staying with him, his lovely wife, and their 6-month-old daughter, Sybil, on my house-hunting trips. I’d love to meet up with any Portland-area ’02s. I am still running the Good Food Foundation and recently traveled to Italy with Alice Waters, an honorary ’04, for a big Slow Food gathering. I have been collaborating with Sue AnderBois ’05, now Rhode Island’s director of food strategy. This summer in New York I saw Michael Rozas, her husband, Bruno Carvalho ’04, and their smiley baby, Lola. They were getting ready to move to Boston, where Bruno has taken a tenured position at Harvard. Michael is an architect (working on some of the Harvard buildings!) and glowing new mom. Last year I also stopped in to Denver to see Nicolette Krickl and her gorgeous and hilarious mini-me, Naia Indigo Rose, who is about 4.”

Congratulations to all!

—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s! I have lots of happy news to share this time around.

In May Caroline Newman Phillips and her husband, Jacob Phillips (LSU ’05), welcomed their second son, Beau Newman Phillips. It makes for a very rambunctious household, with 3-year-old Tyler and Cookie, the dog that never seems to age or lose energy. The whole family is enjoying life in Austin, Texas. Caroline continues to work in the field of educational equity by raising money for Austin’s public schools through a nonprofit, Austin Ed Fund.

I heard from Molly (Stutzman) Miranda: “Jorge and I welcomed Theodore “Theo” Armando Miranda on May 14; he joins big sister Eloise Frances (3.5) and big brother Oliver Lincoln (1.75). We are looking forward to getting to know Theo and to settling in as a family of five. We’ve been living in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2010 and in Alameda (East Bay) specifically since 2015. I work in people operations for Google, where I’ve been for nearly five years now.”

Lynnie (Rudner) Correll updated me on her recent graduation: “I graduated from the pediatric anesthesiology fellowship, and my training is finally over! I’m excited to have taken a job as a pediatric anesthesiologist at the University of Rochester in upstate New York.”

Asa Tapley also recently completed his medical training: “This month I completed my internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore. I’ve moved to Brookline, Massachusetts, and starting in July I will be an academic hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and faculty at Harvard Medical School. I hope my Boston-area friends reach out—I’d love to reconnect with people!”

Our class representative to the Alumni Council, Lauren (Smalkowski) Klentak, filled me in on her busy spring: “In April I enjoyed a fun-filled girls weekend with Lindsay (Jernigan) Bateman, Carla (Giugliano) Oddy, Melanie (Schechter) Posner, Kristen von Minden, and Kate (Douglas) Parkin ’03. Everyone flew in from coast to coast for a mini-reunion in Nashville, Tennessee, where many laughs were shared over our favorite country music songs.

“In May I attended the 216th Alumni Council meeting in Hanover and got well-informed about the Call to Lead Campaign while catching a glimpse of my first Green Key Weekend since graduation. The ’02 class was well represented at council events, with Cherie Comeau, Jeff Hafner, and Alex Roberts all in attendance. As your class representative I am always happy to raise your questions or concerns to College leadership.

“Finally, in June I launched my own independent college counseling business, Ignite College and Career Consulting, to assist students and their families in both the admissions process and in career development in college and beyond. I’m looking forward to continuing my involvement in higher education with this new venture!”

Congratulations to our classmates on their new family members and new jobs!

—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s! I received no classmate submissions this time so I’m dipping into the information that has been forwarded by the alumni magazine staff. Please send along your updates—you know you enjoy reading about your classmates here, so send me a line about yourself so others can enjoy too!

Following a national search, Beth Onofry was named executive director of Breakthrough New York (BTNY), a New York City-based college success nonprofit. “BTNY transforms the lives of talented kids from low-income backgrounds by providing educational support from middle school through college and into careers. The organization also inspires talented young people to enter careers in education through its unique students-teaching-students model.” After working in admissions at Dartmouth after graduation, Beth has spent the last 11 years at the TEAK Fellowship, a college access and success nonprofit in New York City that helps bright and motivated students from low-income families. “I am delighted to join such a caring and dedicated community of BTNY students, staff, families, board members and school partners to help more talented students achieve their potential, break the cycle of poverty and effect positive change in the world around them,” she said.

Kate Siber has written a large-format, illustrated children’s book for children ages 6 to 9 about our beautiful National Parks. “Discover the beauty and diversity of America’s great outdoors in this tour of its most iconic national parks. Explore Florida’s river-laced Everglades, travel down the white-water rapids of the Grand Canyon, trek across the deserts of Death Valley and scale the soaring summits of the Rocky Mountains with this book that brings you up close to nature’s greatest adventures. Packed with maps and fascinating facts about the flora and fauna unique to each park, this fully illustrated coast-to-coast journey documents the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places—and shows why they should be preserved for future generations to enjoy.” The book features amazing Works Progress Administration-style illustrations. Check it out when it goes on sale in July: www.amazon.com/National-Parks-USA-Kate-Siber/dp/1847809766.

—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s. At this time 20 years ago 420 of us were celebrating our early-decision acceptance to Dartmouth and the remaining 700 or so were putting the finishing touches on our applications. We’ve all changed a lot since then and I continue to hear great news from our classmates.

Rachel A. Ciprotti filled me in on some big changes in her life, “This spring my boyfriend got a wonderful new job and we have moved from my beloved hometown of Atlanta to a new home in Seattle. I continue to work in the arts and started a job in July as the director of education and operations for the Seattle Chamber Music Society. It’s been great to catch up with old college friends who live out here, including Shreeram Akilesh ’00, Frank Yoshida and Sylvie (Liberman) Vernick. I’ve also been tapped to be the treasurer of the Dartmouth Club of Western Washington.”

Julia Levy and Ari Edelson (Yale ’98) welcomed their second son, Leo Edmond Edelson, on August 14.

Lauren Levin-Epstein sent an update about her recent career move, “I’ve joined Gladstone Place Partners as partner and chief operating officer. It’s a New York-based strategic and financial communications firm. I hope our classmates will check us out at www.gladstoneplace.com.”

Liz McKeon was married to Nathan Paoletta (Brandeis ’06) on Saturday, September 9, in a beautiful ceremony at Mayo Beach on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The Dartmouth contingent was strong, including Brooke (Derham) Smith, Caroline (Newman) Phillips, Jana Schaich Borg, Nina Markey, Joanna Edwards with husband Jonathan Hummel ’99, Pam Piccola-Fales ’03, Ashley Nowygrod ’03, Kendra Quincy Knauf, Sky Kalkman, Frank Yoshida, Kevin Allen and Matt Yurgelun. Dinner was a delicious clambake and they danced the “Salty Dog Rag” and “Blame it on the Boogie” multiple times!

Conner McGee shared an update, “My wife, Kate (Mattern) ’01, and I moved with our three kids and two labradoodles from New York City to New Canaan, Connecticut, this summer. We are loving the ’burbs and have had the pleasure of seeing several Dartmouth grads around town, including grabbing dinner with Kate (Laswell) Mako and her husband, Jeremy. We are expecting kid No. 4 in January, which has thrown a wrench in our plans to do things like have a life apart from our kids, but it’s all good. Really!”

Happy almost 2018! Keep sending your updates.

—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s!

Erin Donahue sent me her family’s update, “Bridget Emmaline joined the extended Dartmouth family this spring on May 16 and was lovingly welcomed by big sisters Katie (7), Elizabeth (4.5) and Jane (2.5). We will be supplying the equestrian team with riders for the better part of the 2030s! So far little Bridget, at 10 days old, seems to be pretty relaxed about the mayhem that surrounds her. In our spare time (ha) Kevin is the chair of our town school board and I have earned a literacy specialist license and am learning to speak French in an attempt to keep up with Katie, who is in a French immersion program for first grade.”

Kate Cochrane has been picked to participate in the Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices this summer. She’ll be in the genre program to work on her young adult writing. Kate lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, with her wife, Jennifer Koch, and their two kids and works as a law librarian at the Boston University School of Law.

Lynnie Rudner Correll graduated from her anesthesiology residency this spring and is starting her pediatric anesthesiology fellowship this summer.

The summer is drawing to a close and another class of Dartmouth students will soon embark on their DOC trips. Send me a DOC trip memory or a new story from your lives this past summer.

—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s!

J.T. (Leaird) Schiltz and her husband, Joe (Fordham ’04), welcomed their first child on December 7. Magnolia Alice Kay Schiltz was 6 pounds, 5 ounces and 20 1/4 inches. Maggie is happy, healthy and enjoying life as a New Yorker in Forest Hills, Queens!

Jorge I. Montalvo filled me in on his recent good news, “I got engaged to Jessica J. Sleater, a partner at the law firm of Andersen Sleater LLC. No date yet, but planning has begun. I asked Jessica to marry me at Federal Hall in Lower Manhattan on the 233rd anniversary of the day the British were pushed out of New York. A few days later we took what we are calling our engagement-moon trip to Costa Rica for a week of adventuring through the rain forest.”

If you haven’t read it yet, check out the fall 2016 issue of our class newsletter, available on our class website at 2002.dartmouth.org. The newsletter includes a reunion recap, reunion pictures, a profile of new class vice president Eric Powers, a profile of distinguished ’02 award winner Nik Steinberg, a memorial piece for Alexander Harrison, a profile of Sarah (Sommerfield) Poitras and Justin Poitras, an update about Class Officers Weekend and our class project and more! You can also submit updates for our next newsletter or this Class Notes column from our class website.

—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s!

Kim Jenkin Munoz and her husband, Justin (University of California, Santa Barbara ’03), just moved to Anacortes, Washington, with their 2-year-old son, Jack. The couple is very excited to be there and can’t wait to start exploring their new home. If there are any other ’02s in the area, reach out!

In July Tracy Keller was named head of school at Green Mountain Valley School in Waitsfield, Vermont. Tracy was captain of the alpine ski team at Dartmouth and has worked for Sugar Bowl Ski Team and Academy for the past 14 years. According to the press release, she will assume her head of school position officially on July 1, saying, “I am thrilled to be returning to my home state and to be leading such a well-established and reputable school.”

Molly (Stutzman) Miranda and her husband, Jorge ’01, welcomed a son, Oliver Lincoln Miranda, on July 14. Oliver joins Eloise, who will be 2 in October, and they are all enjoying life as a family of four. They live in Alameda, California, just outside of San Francisco. Molly will soon have her third anniversary working in people operations at Google.

Molly Johnson and her husband, Jeff, also welcomed a son, Hartley Charles Hawkins, on August 5. The family, along with daughter Georgia, age 2, lives in New York City.

—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s! I received no submissions this time around so I had to go digging in the proverbial mailbag (i.e., news that the alumni magazine forwards me).

Bill Meyer recently authored a middle-grade historical adventure series, Horace j. Edwards and the Time Keepers. The first book in the series, The Secret of the Scarab Beetle, was released on April 1 and tells the story of an 11-year-old boy who finds himself transported to ancient Egypt. Bill currently lives with his wife in New York, where he is completing his Ph.D. at New York University and teaching his high school students about the mysteries of Ancient Egypt. For more information about his book series, visit www.horaceandthetimekeepers.com.

Flinder Boyd tracked down baseball great Rafael Palmeiro and interviewed him for a long-form piece published by Fox Sports. According to his bio, “Flinder is a former European professional basketball player turned writer. His features have appeared at Newsweek, SBNation Longform, and the BBC, among others. On Twitter he can be found @FlinderBoyd.”

The Bangor Daily News published an update about Jenny Rottmann. “Jenny Rottmann has joined the Genesis Community Loan Fund as director of finance and administration, bringing more than a decade of experience in both nonprofit management and community-based work. Rottmann of Portland, Maine, will manage internal financial and operational systems for the Genesis Fund, a community development financial institution serving the state of Maine. Previously, she worked as managing director at the Environmental Health Strategy Center, organizing director at Maine People’s Alliance and a staff person at the Center for Community Change. She also has served as treasurer or finance committee member on several nonprofit boards.”

The Boston Globe interviewed Alexandra Roberts about her research on tagmarks—when companies claim trademarks on hashtags. She also recently published a BuzzFeed article that distills her research for general consumption. Alexandra is a University of New Hampshire law professor and tweets @lexlanham.

Send along your reunion stories or, for those who couldn’t attend, the news you wish you could have shared. Follow our class Twitter account @Dartmouth2002 for retweets and class news!

—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s. Hope everyone had a happy holiday season.

Kristin Wright sent along happy news, “We’ve been a little behind on the updating but wanted to share that we welcomed a new little boy, Kettler, last March! His big brother, Logan, has enjoyed having another playmate. We hope to see everyone in Hanover in June!”

I also heard from Sarah Hughes: “I recently moved from New York City to Austin, Texas, to be closer to my family—particularly my twin. My job is the same, working for Deloitte Consulting in the strategy and operations practice. Austin folks, look me up!”

Now that her youngest child is 2, Allyson Wendt decided it was a good time to start a business. So she launched Warp Weft, purveyors of fine sewn goods. Her feature product is a hand-waxed canvas bag with leather handles. Find her on Etsy under “Warp Weft Fiber Arts.”

Jeff Deck had a busy 2015. He married his long-time girlfriend, Jane Connolly (Smith ’05), on April Fools’ Day. He became a trustee for the New Hampshire Writers’ Project, a nonprofit organization promoting writers and literature in the Granite State. And he indie-published two novels as e-books on Amazon: Player Choice, a sci-fi gaming adventure, and The Pseudo-Chronicles of Mark Huntley, a serialized horror novel in blog format. He also reports that in 2015 Benjamin D. Herson graduated from the Epicodus school of programming in Portland, Oregon, and soon after landed a job as a web developer. Congratulations to Benjamin for his hard work and success in a new career.

One bit of class business: Tickets go on sale soon for our 15th (14th) reunion this June 17-19 in Hanover. Reunion registration information will be in your mailbox in early March and check out our class website for details: 2002.dartmouth.org. Hope to see you all there!

—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello ‘02s! Our extended ’02 family is getting bigger. Heather Wyckoff and her husband, Greg Carbo (Princeton ’99), became an instant family of five when they welcomed their triplets to the world on June 18. The babies—a girl (Waverly Plum) and two boys (Beckett Finn and Harrison Tate)—are home, healthy and growing like crazy. The family lives in New York City.

Nicholas Rinard Keene and his wife, Ashleigh, are expecting their third child in November. Nick, Ashleigh and children Arledge and Marian live in Madison, Wisconsin.

I also heard from Jeff McDaniel, our chair for gift planning and the Bartlett Tower Society. Jeff writes, “I’ve just returned to Australia following a visit to New England and a quick stop at Dartmouth. My visit has me very excited for our upcoming reunion next June and I would like to encourage all ’02s to join Dartmouth’s Bartlett Tower Society! The easiest way is via your 401k or life insurance—both of which can be accomplished easily online. Visit our class website for more information. Five ’02s are already Bartlett Tower Society members. Let’s try to get 15 members by our 15th reunion!”

Keep sending your updates. Visit our class website at 2002.dartmouth.org for a submission form or send me an email.

—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

Hello, ’02s. I heard from Laura Grey about a new addition to her family: “My husband, Robert Honstein, and I welcomed our son, Henry Reuben Honstein, on March 17. We have been loving getting to know him and are living in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. I’m an assistant professor of graphic design at Boston University and we are happy to be in Boston now, when it is finally spring!”


Allison (Stuntz) Schulte and her husband, Ben, welcomed their son, Alfred “Alfie” Mayo, on March 7. Ben, Ali and big sister Audrey are overjoyed!


Asa Tapley let me know that he’s finally graduating University of California San Francisco Medical School in May and, six years in the Bay Area and two degrees later, he’ll be relocating to Baltimore in June to start a residency in internal medicine at one of the Johns Hopkins hospitals.


Lastly, Scott Brown shared his happy news, “On March 7 Alisha Mahoney and I celebrated our marriage at Manhattan Penthouse in New York City. It was an incredible night surrounded by friends and family from all across the country. We were married at a small family ceremony in Rye, New York, and enjoyed an adventure-packed honeymoon in Belize.”


Great news all around. Keep sending your updates. Just a quick reminder to mark your calendars for our 15th reunion in Hanover next June (17-19) with the ’00s and ’01s. If you’re interested in helping to plan the reunion, please contact us at dartmouth.class.of.2002@gmail.com.


—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com


Hello, ’02s. Sadly, in early December I was notified about the death of one of our classmates. Matthew Cooper passed away peacefully on November 30, 2014, at Yale-New Haven Hospital from complications following emergency surgery. Matt grew up in East Lyme, Connecticut, and at Dartmouth he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He was a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and a dedicated attorney with the firm Day Pitney LLP in Stamford, Connecticut. Matt is survived by his wife, Michelle Mauro Cooper, parents Bruce’74 and Kristi, brother Jonathan and wife Katherine and grandparents, including Milton ’46, DMS’45. Classmates remember Matt as a loyal friend who was quick to laugh and full of love for life. His full obituary can be read online on the DAM website, where you can also share remembrances. 


Katie (Escherich) Morison and her husband, Mark, welcomed a son, William Francis Morison, on April 10. William joins big sister Juliet, 3, and the family is moving soon to a new home in Rye, New York. Katie is still working at Microsoft as an editor for MSN News.


Michelle (Gauvain) Walker filled me in on her recent marriage. “In July I married an amazing woman, Crista (Leahy) Morrow (Princeton ’96) and together we have four children (ages 5, 6, 8, 9). They have been friends for years and are pretty much like full-fledged siblings at this point. On a professional note, I am principal of a new K-4 public school, the Cove School in Corte Madera, California. The school design is different than traditional schools with learning suites, breakout rooms and outdoor learning spaces for small groups. This school has a focus on creativity and innovation, collaboration, critical thinking and communication. We have a most amazing group of teachers who see themselves as lead learners (love their growth mindset!). It’s been a busy couple of years!”


Molly (Stutzman) Miranda and her husband, Jorge Miranda ’01, welcomed daughter Eloise Frances Miranda on October 11. Eloise joined the world at 8 pounds, 1 ounce, and 20 inches in length. Molly, Jorge and Eloise are doing well and settling in to life as a family of three (well, five if you include the two cats).


Sam (Burdman) Weigand has had an exciting year as well: “The past 12 months have been a whirlwind, to say the least. In December my husband and I packed up the dog and the toddler to move from Washington, D.C., to Vashon, Washington, where we bought the only bakery in town. Not so crazy, considering I have spent the past 10 years as a pastry chef, but the timing was interesting. I took over the bakery in January 2014 and closed in March to renovate and have a baby. Xavier joined big sister Carmen on March 14, 2014! We reopened in May as Vashon Island Baking Co. and have been going strong since. Any alums in the Seattle-Tacoma area should definitely drop by to say hi!”


That’s all the news for now. Keep sending your updates!


—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York City, NY 10025


Hello, ’02s! I received some happy news from our class vice president Jeff Hafner. Jeff and Elizabeth Roberts ’00 welcomed baby No. 2, a sweet baby girl named Denney, on July 27. She joins 2-year-old brother Jack, and Jeff says that the man-to-man defense is in full effect. Jeff is living in Wilder, Vermont, and working at the Dartmouth College Fund with young alumni classes and the senior class gift.


The mailbag has been close to empty the past two months so if you’ve ever thought about sending in a note—now is the time! It doesn’t have to be about a major life event, though I am always happy to receive that news. Your submission could just be about what your life is like on a day-to-day basis and I’d love to hear from a larger group of our classmates as I’m sure my friends and acquaintances are weary of being regularly featured on these pages. Perhaps some of you went to Homecoming this year and have a story to tell?


—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York City, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com


Hello, ’02s! There’s not much news this time around so when you finish reading this column, take the time to send me an update. 


Drew Lambert wrote me about his engagement to Christina Beale (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ’03). The couple met sailing in Westport, Connecticut, and were engaged in Bermuda this spring. As anyone who knows him would expect, Drew designed the ring himself and had it handmade. Drew is living in Connecticut and still heading up the state chapter of Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network. 


The only other piece of news is the birth of my twin girls! My husband, Ori Schnaps, and I welcomed fraternal twin girls Willa Maclean Schnaps and Eve Cloudman Schnaps on April 12. Willa and Eve were 4 pounds, 10 ounces, and 4 pounds, 9 ounces, respectively, and spent their first week in incubators in the hospital. Now both babies are home and healthy and doing well. 


Last, but not least, I want to mention that our class executive committee is always happy to have new members and volunteers for our class projects. Specifically, at the time of this writing, we need a new vice president and are also interested in expanding our presence on social media such as Facebook and Twitter. If you’re reading this and are interested in participating in any way, don’t hesitate to contact us at dartmouth.class.of.2002@gmail.com. 


That’s all the news for now. Keep sending your updates.  


—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York City, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com


This time around I definitely wish the column were due just one week later, as I’m eagerly anticipating a European summer extravaganza, the highlight of which will undoubtedly be the wedding of Elizabeth Badger and John Nichols ’01 in Barcelona, Spain, on July 4, and I am quite sure I’ll be full of Dartmouth updates after that. But deadlines are what they are and I don’t yet have details of the lightweight rowers touring Barcelona by bike or catching up with classmates over bacon-wrapped figs, so here is a short but sweet update on our class.


May was a big, wonderful month for ’02 babies! On May 22 Rebecca (Eley) Weeks and Christian Weeks ’05 welcomed daughter Virginia Broeksmit Weeks at 6:05 a.m. She weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces, and I can report that in addition to Rebecca and Christian being over the moon with her healthy arrival, Virginia can trust that all of her mom’s old 7 Maple roommates are incredibly excited about our littlest Maple. Aly Rahim wrote in to report that his wife, Zaileen, gave birth to their first child, a daughter named Inaya Zaileen Rahim, on May 23. The whole family is doing great and preparing to move back to Washington, D.C., in August after three and a half years in Ottawa, Ontario. Aly will be rejoining the World Bank group at the Washington, D.C., headquarters. Finally, Emily Quetone Khan and Shuja Khan welcomed their first son, Tucker Nasir Khan, on May 28 at 3:18 p.m. in San Francisco. “Nas” arrived with a very full head of hair and was 6 pounds, 12 ounces. Emily reports that he is growing fast and does a stellar Blue Steel impression.


Lynnie Rudner got engaged to Andy Correll in Utah in April and they spent the weekend hiking slot canyons in the Grand Staircase Escalante, an excursion Lynnie highly recommends. Kendra Quincy Kemp wrote in to say that Alexandra Roberts married Dr. Eric Goralnick (U.S. Naval Academy ’95) on May 31 in Cape Cod. Kendra was one of her bridesmaids, and other Dartmouth alums there for the celebration included Vickie Potterton Zalkin, Jenny Thomas ’03, Noah Shamosh ’04 and Adam Grossman ’94. Alex and Eric left the next day for their honeymoon in Greece. Congratulations, all!


By the time you read this summer will be ending and you should have plenty to share in the column—please send that news either to me or to Lonnie Threatte (lonnie.threatte@gmail.com), whose debut as guest columnist will be coming up in the next issue. Also let me know if you might want to try your hand as guest columnist after Lonnie, as I can definitely (and happily) make that happen!


—J.T. Leaird, 229 East 21st St., Apt. 16, New York, NY 10010; jt.leaird@gmail.com


Hey, ’02s, this is Lonnie Threatte writing as a guest columnist for J.T. this month, and I have two pieces of news to start with. Sadly, Leah Horowitz passed away following a multi-fatality car accident on the Ghanaian coast on May 23. Her friends say the void created by her loss is as big as the wonderment of having known her. She is very sorely missed. The June 30 edition of The Dartmouth online includes an article on Leah’s life and there is an obituary in this issue of the Alumni Magazine in celebration of her memory.


Elizabeth Wilder Young received the Class of 2002 Distinguished Service Award through her professional and public service activities for child welfare in the United States and in Africa. Anyone seeking to make nominations for 2010 should look for more details on the ’02 class Facebook page or in the class newsletter.


That’s the only real news I have—everything else I got off of harassing our classmates on Facebook. Adrian Bell wrote that Desmond Nation just re-graduated from Dartmouth (Tu’09) and is moving to Minneapolis, Minnesota, to start a new job. Jaison Freeman got engaged to Vanessa Frierson and is moving to College Park, Maryland, also to start a new job. Eli Diament moved to Sydney, Australia, to begin work for McKinsey.


The iconic ’02 Jen Tutak recently relocated from Hawaii to start an M.B.A. program at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Tamara Cooke just finished her M.B.A. at Harvard and will start work with the Boston Consulting Group.


Meanwhile, Leyla Kamalick graduated from Harvard Divinity and joined in holy matrimony with another priest, Ben King. Her former roommate Maya Martin has moved on to become the dean of scholar enrollment and placement of Center City Charter Schools in Washington, D.C.


Entrice and Marcus Rowe live in Jacksonville, Florida, and had their second child, Courtney Analeigh Rowe, born 7 pounds, 12 ounces.


Justin Smith misses college, Erin Mckay misses Justin Smith, Amanda Gilliam misses Michael Jackson.


Brett Quimby lives in Idaho with his uncle and is training for midwifery in the town of East Demarcus. 


Thea Ellis has been living in Los Angeles as an entertainment publicist. She says that she “will celebrate her fourth year in the City of Angels by joining Weight Watchers and kicking off the official Hunt for a Husband.” She thanks you, in advance, for any and all male referrals.


Raj Chowdury is living in San Francisco and has recently started a nonprofit organization called Kismot: Art Supporting Communities in Need. 


Tom Allason lives in London, recently bought a flat and is now onto a second (legal) tech startup. Tom entertains visitors with his pong table, of which the regulars include Dr. Nigel D’Souza (based in Oxford), Daniele Genadry (currently has a show in Beirut) and plenty of other members of the Dartmouth diaspora.


Roy Ogura writes that Byoung Ko, Soon Lee and Tanya Hsu all hung out at the Ivy Ball in Hong Kong, got up on stage and sung the alma mater. Aires concert…it probably was not.


And Luis Barrera acts like his phone is broken.


Liz McKeon served as an interim associate managing director of ImprovBoston and is a founding cast member of their sketch troupe The Latchkey Kids. She also volunteered to be the next guest columnist for the ’02 Class Notes, so send her some news! You can also always submit news to J.T., who will be sure to get it to the columnist of the month.


—J.T. Leaird, 229 East 21st St., Apt. 16, New York, NY 10010, jt.leaird@gmail.com


It makes me happy to know that despite the intense amount of snow outside my apartment right now (and my super, who, strangely, is watering the snow bank with a hose to reveal the large pile of garbage underneath), by the time you all are reading this column it will be spring! I hope that there are great things going on in all your lives and that you’ll write in to tell me about your summer plans.
Nathaniel Riley was married in June 2009 to Manjula Rao. They met in San Francisco, where both were working. They moved to Chicago, where Nathaniel received his M.B.A. from Chicago-Booth in June 2009. Two weeks later they were married in Raleigh, North Carolina, the home of the bride’s parents. The couple is now back in Chicago.


In December Sam Rothenberg and his wife, Lindsey (University of Florida ’05), welcomed a baby boy named Asher. They are moving to Bogota, Colombia, with the State Department and would love to hear from old friends at sam.rothenberg@gmail.com.


There was a great reunion of ’02s in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in February as Kate Murphy was married to Charles Voltz in her hometown. I was there with Kate (Knowles) and Matt Frankel, Rebecca (Eley) Weeks, Christian Weeks ’05, Elizabeth Badger, John Nichols ’01, Tucker (Ballard) Mahoney, Dan Mahoney ’01, Abigail Clark, Emily Wood, Liz (Balanda) Baldwin, Allyson Terpsma, Craig Lund, Matt Drossos and Katie (Baines) Drossos ’04. The couple lives in New York City, where Kate graduated from Brooklyn Law School last spring and works in real estate finance and Charles teaches high school. Bagpipers led the newlyweds out of the church, the band was called Celtic Cross and an Irish step-dancing performance followed the father-daughter dance—but we also ate shrimp and grits, a shout out to Charles’ Alabama roots. A week later Kate and Charles, Abigail and I went down to Washington, D.C., for a joint birthday party celebrating Elizabeth Badger, John Nichols and Matt Drossos. There we got to catch up with Phil Mone, fresh from what I understand was a very successful Dartmouth charity pong tournament to support scholarships for D.C. students, Jared Geller and Jill Buhler ’03.


Allison Stuntz, Mara Buchbinder, Melinda Moore, Molly Johnson, Kara Buckley and Anne Cloudman gathered in Vail, Colorado, for Kristin Shigley’s bachelorette party at the end of February. Kristin lived in Vail for a few years after graduation and now lives in Boston, where she is doing an orthopedic surgery residency. She is getting married in June to Alex Livingston, whom she met while living in San Francisco during medical school.


I’ve long threatened to get my information from Facebook to avoid sadly short ’02 columns, and the time has come—going in alphabetic order of folks I don’t remember including in the column recently, Alex Berger got married and created the animated Nickelodeon TV show Glenn Martin, DDS. Allison Huggins seems to be in Africa. Audrey (Campbell) Elias is a physical therapist in Montana and frequently sees bald eagles in trees on her way to work. Dan Almeida is a career counselor at Loyola Marymount University. Elizabeth (Kavanaugh) Murphy has two really adorable kids. Jennifer Butcher is an ear-nose-throat resident at Southern Illinois University and is engaged! If any of you guys want to send details or clarifications on any of those news items, please write in! And I only made it through J, so watch out, second half of the alphabet. Of course we could avoid this entirely if more of you guys just wrote in with your updates. Hope all is well!


—J.T. Leaird, 229 East 21st St., Apt. 16, New York, NY 10010; jt.leaird@gmail.com

Hope this finds you savoring the end of a really great summer. Lots of news this time around so I’ll jump right in!


Katie Escherich married Mark Morison, a Georgetown graduate, on May 15 in Katie’s hometown of Bronxville, New York. Dartmouth was definitely well represented! Katie’s father, Frederic Escherich ’74, walked her down the aisle and the bridal party included Erika (Clementi) VanDam, Kristin (Cuccia) McClelland, Tori Miner, Megan (Escherich) Evans ’05 and John Escherich ’08. Also in attendance were Simone (Manwar) Piraino, Joe and Harley (Carroll) Simeone, Mike Salice, Pete and Ariel (Vega) Stern, Pam Cogut and Julie Hasson. Katie and Mark both work for ABC News and live in Queens. 


Jon Block wrote in to say he married Jennifer Berylson (Williams ’01) on June 26 at her family home in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The wedding party included J.R. Lederer, Oliver Kramer, Shihwan Chung, Ryan Mahoney and Pete Schmidt. Other Dartmouth attendees included Jesse Argon, Scott Shechtman, Tom Denniston and Ariel Diaz. Jon works at Philips Healthcare doing strategy and business development and Jen is a lawyer at Goodwin Procter in Boston. They live in the Back Bay and have an enormous St. Bernard named Leo.


June 26 was a big day for ’02 Cape Cod weddings! Sarah (Myers) Pingree and Tracey Wilson both wrote in to tell us about Lizzy Carroll’s wedding that they attended on the same day. Lizzy married James Jenkins, a Davidson grad. They are moving to Knoxville, Tennessee, where Lizzy will do her six-month internship for the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s urban superintendent’s program. Dartmouth folks at the wedding included Elizabeth Badger and John Nichols ’01, Sean and Katie (Cuneo) O’Mara, Tori Miner and Merrielle Macleod.


Vanessa Sinders wrote in with this news: “I started a new job in March in D.C. and am no longer working for Sen. Gregg from New Hampshire. I am now Sen. Scott Brown’s legislative director. Being from Massachusetts, it is a perfect fit!”


Phil Mone writes: “On June 5, just off the beach in Cape May, New Jersey, Brett Quimby presided over the marriage of Eli Jorne to Becca Schneider (UVA ’02). As newlyweds Eli and Becca first danced to Tom Petty’s ‘Angel Dream’ sung by Evan Rieder ’00. Eli later serenaded his wife to ‘Jersey Girl’ by The Boss, while somehow also managing to dance with her at the same time. Attendees, including a sizable crew of Dartmouth alums spanning at least ’98 through ’05, celebrated late into a night that will not soon be forgotten. Class of ’02s in attendance included Stevie Nichols, Matt and Kate (Knowles) Frankel, Shuja and Emily (Quetone) Khan, Tim Miller, Chris Masone, Jeff Withers and (my secret crush) Maryanne Mendenhall.”


Molly (Stutzman) Miranda received her M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management and will be moving to San Francisco this fall to work as a consultant for Deloitte.


Gabe Brooks wrote in to say that he and his wife, Jessica, will be moving to Boston from Denver, Colorado, where they have lived for the last four years. Gabe will be starting a fellowship in oncology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and they will be living in Jamaica Plain. They look forward to reconnecting with some Boston people.


Kevin and Erin (McCarthy) Donahue welcomed their daughter, Katherine Parker Donahue, on April 28. They say: “She’s adorable and has us wrapped around her little fingers already! And much to our relief, Dave Abramson, she does not look anything like the composite photo you made with Photoshop freshman year using our DID photos.”


Finally, a quick reminder to mark your calendars for our 10-year reunion (really our ninth) coming up June 17-19, 2011, in Hanover! Please e-mail dartmouth.02@alum.dartmouth. org to express interest in volunteering to help plan the events.


—J.T. Leaird, 229 East 21st Street, Apt. 16, New York, NY 10010; jt.leaird@gmail.com


Hello, ’02s! There is more happy news from our classmates to report. 


Vivian (Mills) Storm writes, “Chris Storm and I welcomed our second daughter, Marisol Elizabeth Storm, on December 6 at 11:11 a.m. Marisol was born at home and weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces. Our older daughter Charlotte is 3 and is adjusting well to her new role as a big sister. Chris also recently became the chair of the math and computer science department at Adelphi University. I am on maternity leave from my position as an associate at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP.” 


Kristi (Esmiol) James and Mike James are also proud new parents. Kai George James was born on September 9, 2013, at 8 pounds, 8 ounces, and 22 inches long. He was a big boy despite being 10 days early and Kristi had a successful natural birth. Kai continues to grow like crazy at six months old and his parents love him very much!


Heather (Stocks) Pixley writes that after (finally!) leaving her position at Dartmouth, and taking a year off to care for her grandmother in Duxbury, Massachusetts, she’s back in action as an institutional review board administrator at Harvard University. Right now she is commuting from Duxbury every day but has a beach (and guest room) and is always looking to meet up for lunch, dinner or drinks in the Cambridge, Boston, South or North Shore area.


That’s all the news for now. Keep sending your updates.


—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York City, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com


There is lots of baby news this time around! As of August 17 Sam Short and his wife, Meghan, are the proud parents of twins. Cormac James Short and Maeve Kennedy Short are happy and healthy and Sam reports that he and Meghan are actually getting some sleep. On August 18 Chris Baldwin and Liz (Balanda) Baldwin welcomed their third child, Jillian Iris, to the world. Chris and Liz also recently moved back to Boston, where Liz started a new job. Chris writes, “We figured it is best to tackle as many major life events at one time as possible!”


Keep sending your updates!


—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York City, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com


Hello, ’02s! I have a few weddings and some new careers to report on. 


Cullen Knights sent word of his March wedding to Sarah Telemberg. The wedding was held in Florianópolis, Brazil, where Sarah grew up and where her family still lives. A number of Dartmouth alumni and their spouses made the long journey and helped Cullen and Sarah celebrate, including G.W. Watts and wife Sara, Jared Craft and wife Kristen, Carl Desjardins and wife Bettina, Dan Sanner and wife Kimberly, Kirsten Hassert Guill and husband Dan, Jonathan Altman and wife Ann, Paul Killebrew ’67 and wife Joyce and Knud Eric Engelsted ’78.


Eric Powers filled me in on another ’02 wedding, writing, “Bill Jaeger married Charis Donnelly (Washington University ’00) in early June. The wedding was at the Koenig Alumni Center in Boulder, Colorado, where the couple lives. Attendees included Lauren Levin-Epstein, Alex Oren, Brettan Schweizer and me. Unfortunately Alex Oren’s child did not make the trip. Perhaps most shocking of all, however, Robby Middleton came out of hiding to attend the wedding. Good times were had by all, but alas, Bill did not repeat his infamous Zoolander-esque dance-off performance from Brettan’s wedding in 2006.”


Molly Blair Miranda sent in the following wedding news, “Rohin Dhar got married to Michelle Ruettinger earlier this month in a beautiful ceremony at the Stanford Alpine Chalet in Tahoe, California. Rohin’s brother Rajiv Dhar ’06 was the officiant. In attendance were Adam Ziegfeld, Sylvie Liberman, Jon Sussman, Priam Dutta, Dave Abramson, Jamie Merriman, me, Aki Naito ’01 and Jorge Miranda ’01. It was a gorgeous day filled with lots of love and laughter!”


On the career front, Dan Almeida shared that he will be starting a Ph.D. program in urban education policy, concentrating on higher education, at University of Southern California in the fall. His research will be focusing on first-generation college students. Dan currently lives in Los Angeles and is excited to be there for another four years at least. 


Alex Roberts shared that she just left her law firm job and will be teaching full-time this year as a visiting assistant professor at Boston University School of Law.


Lynnie Rudner Correll was happy to report that she finally graduated from her M.D./Ph.D. program at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She said it seemed like it would never happen—but it did! Lynnie is now starting pediatrics residency in Rochester, New York, and is glad to be closer to home.


Last but not least, Drew Lambert has recently accepted the nomination to head up the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network chapter in Connecticut. If there are any alumni in the Connecticut area who are interested in entrepreneurial venture, or just good networking, get in touch with Drew. 


That’s all the news for now. Please keep sending along your updates. 


—Anne Cloudman, 30 W 90th St., Apt. 3D, New York, NY 10024; acloudman@gmail.com


As has become the custom, this month we have lots of baby news! 


First I heard from Sam Reisner.Sam and his wife,Mariah (Wesleyan ’04), welcomed their daughter Aviva Cadenza Reisner on May 16.


Julie (Cumming) Higgins and her husband, Rob, announced the birth of their son John “Jack” Cushman Higgins on June 24. Jack is named after their two grandfathers, both of whom went to Dartmouth, so he already has green blood! The family is doing well and Julie has been enjoying her summer on maternity leave.


Jesse Singer and his wife, Alyssa, celebrated the arrival of Declan Brice Singer on August 26—the couple’s fifth wedding anniversary.


Allan Klinge and his wife, Sarah, traveled to Korea in August to bring home their beautiful boy Carsten Jae Klinge.


In other news Heidi (Ellenbecker) Trimarco and her husband, Tom Trimarco ’01, just moved back to the Upper Valley with their two daughters, Anna (3) and Cecilia (18 months). The family is living in Lyme, New Hampshire, and Tommy is working at DHMC as an attending in the emergency department. 


Heidi also filled me in on Mel Broad’s August wedding to Martin Seymour. “Mel and Martin got married in Groton, Massachusetts, with many Dartmouth alums there including ’02s Christine (Walker) Lyons, Rose (Kraemer) Carpenter, Julie (Cumming) Higgins, Katie Codey, Sara Donahue, Kate Paolino, Jen (LaBerge) Hutchins, Annie (Nash) Bing and Kendra Tupper, plus Tim Carpenter ’01, Bill Bing ’01, Emily Turner ’03, Anne Bernard ’04, Mel’s sister Angela Broad ’06, Tommy and myself. It was a great wedding and Mel was a gorgeous bride.”


Last but not least I heard from Jorge Montalvo about a new project he’s working on: “I’m creating an agency of state government for Governor Cuomo called the New York State Office for New Americans, which will help immigrants fully participate in New York’s civic and economic life. Ford Motor Co. recently gave me a Latino Leaders Award for the innovative service delivery model we’re pioneering to teach English and help people naturalize, as well as the work we’re doing to help DREAMers take full advantage of the recent change in federal immigration policy without getting scammed.”


That’s all the news for now. Please keep sending along your updates. 


—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com


Hello, ’02s. There is lots of happy news to report this issue. 


Vickie and Austin Zalkin welcomed a baby girl in November, Lenore Louise Zalkin (“Lulu” for short). Vickie wrote that they are having a great time getting to know her and being new parents. Life these days includes lots of long walks in Central Park and spending time with friends and family.


Mara Buchbinder and her husband, Jesse Summers, also welcomed a baby this winter. “We are thrilled to announce the birth of our son Simon Joseph Summers. Simon was born at 10:36 p.m. on February 21 at 7 pounds and 19.5 inches. Simon is named for our maternal grandfathers, Simeon Joseph Bogin and Joseph John Audley.” 


Mara also recently had her first book published, Saving Babies? The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening. The publisher, University of Chicago Press, writes, “In Saving Babies? Stefan Timmermans and Mara Buchbinder evaluate the consequences and benefits of state-mandated newborn screening—and the larger policy questions they raise about the inherent inequalities in American medical care that limit the effectiveness of this potentially lifesaving technology.” Certainly sounds like some food for thought for all the new parents or soon-to-be new parents in our class!


Last but not least, Mike Bergen became engaged to Heidi Lawrence (BU ’01) on January 10 while vacationing on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. 


That’s all the news for now. Keep sending your updates!


—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York City, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com


I for one am counting down the days until many of us will head back to the granite of New Hampshire for our 10-year reunion, celebrated nine years after graduation with the ’01s and ’00s. I hope a trip to Hanover is on your calendar for June 17-19! I have no doubt it’s going to be an awesome weekend. What I do doubt at this point in a very snowy winter is that spring will ever hit New York again—here’s hoping that will change by the time this issue lands in your mailboxes. 


One new baby to report this time around! Abby (Faulkner) Jones and her husband, Chris Roser Jones, welcomed daughter Juliet Elizabeth Roser Jones on October 2, 2010, and Abby reports that so far Juliet seems to be enjoying the life of a law school baby!


The first Good Food Awards, brainchild of Sarah Weiner, were held on January 14 in San Francisco. I checked out its website (www.goodfoodawards.org) and the awards seem very cool—they honor those who create “tasty, authentic and responsibly produced” beer, charcuterie, cheese, chocolate, pickles and preserves. Sarah is the executive director of Seedling Projects, which organizes the awards, and has also worked as the director of communication for the Slow Food International headquarters in Italy, the assistant to Alice Waters of Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California, and the content director at Slow Food Nation.


Vangie Wiles is finishing her first year of business school at Wharton. She will spend this summer in South Africa, working at Bain Consulting in Johannesburg.


Tracy Kim wrote in to report that she got married in October 2010 to Michael Horn (Yale ’02). They had a great Dartmouth crew in attendance and in their wedding party, and I happen to have spied on Facebook an amazing surprise choreographed dance to “Thriller” at the reception. She added: “In December we hosted a holiday housewarming party also with a strong Dartmouth showing—Emily and Shuja Khan (with their adorable son Nas), Sarah Webb and husband Sid Venkatesan (Cornell ’99), Lauren and Alex Rolfe, recent San Francisco Bay Area transplant Wendy Yu, Masahi Kiyomine ’01 and Aki Naito ’01. Love the Dartmouth presence in the Bay Area!” 


Kate Duff and Paul Devlin (University of Western Australia) were married on December 11, 2010, at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. Kate and Paul live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.


Kirsten Hassert married Dan Guill (Davidson ’97) at the Central Park Boathouse in New York City on a snowy January 29. The couple met at Harvard Business School, where Dan sat behind Kirsten in their first class. They honeymooned in Rome, Austria and Aspen, Colorado, where Kirsten skied in her wedding dress. Now they are happily back in San Francisco, where Kirsten works at the Westin St. Francis. 


Vicki McGrane and Dave Scannell got engaged in August 2010 while vacationing on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. They are planning an October wedding. Vicki and Dave live in Washington, D.C., where Dave is an associate with Morrison & Foerster’s litigation department and Vicki is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau, covering banking regulation. 


Finally, Riley Lochridge proposed to Jill Schwartz (University of Michigan ’00) during the holidays while in Florida with family. Their wedding is planned for the end of August in the Bay Area, before Riley goes back for his third year at University of Chicago. The couple met at Accenture in San Francisco, where Jill still works and does human resources consulting.


See you very soon on the Green!


—J.T. Leaird, 202 Baltic St., Apt. 4, Brooklyn, NY 11201; jt.leaird@gmail.com


This issue’s news falls into two categories: babies and art. First we’ll do the baby news. 


On September 21 K.J. (Hennessey) Hill and Greg Hill welcomed the birth of their daughter Louisa. The couple lives in West Hartford, Connecticut. Greg graduated this past spring from the MALS program at Dartmouth with a degree in creative writing and K.J. is currently an obstetrics/gynecology resident at the University of Connecticut. 


In October I heard from Brian Jacobs: “My partner, Hervé Pierini, and I wanted to announce the birth of our twins Emma and Noah on June 6, 2011. I’m taking the year off from finishing up my Ph.D. at Princeton to take care of them and it’s been so wonderful so far.”


Now, on to the art news. Kathy Grayson wrote to fill me in about the contemporary art gallery that she opened in New York City this past summer. The gallery is called The Hole and is located at 312 Bowery. Every five to six weeks Kathy opens a new exhibition there and hosts parties, concerts, lectures and events. The gallery also has a shop in the front with art books, ’zines and artist-made products. Kathy mentioned that if alums want to be on the mailing list, contact her at kathy@theholenyc.com.


Finally, I hope you read the article in the next issue about the 50th anniversary of the Hopkins Center—and notice classmate Drew Lambert’s story. Drew has been working on two furniture companies that are an extension of the work that he did at the Hop as a student. I’ve personally seen some of Drew’s furniture and he’s quite talented. Check out his work at www.drewlambertdesigns.com or www.brokenlinedesign.com. 


The news was a little light this cycle so if you’re reading this and have an update, send it along! 


—Anne Cloudman, 30 W 90th St., Apt. 3D, New York, NY 10024; acloudman@gmail.com


Hello, ’02s. We have just one update this time around. 


Gabe Brooks wrote, “My wife, Jessica, and I are happy to report the birth of a son, Gus. Also, 11 years after graduating from Dartmouth I will finally finish my formal medical training this spring. I will stay on as a medical oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, where I will be working with Matt Yurgelun.”


Keep sending your updates!


—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York City, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com


Hello, class of 2002! I hope as you read this your bag is half-packed for Hanover. Looking forward to seeing you at reunion!


I have gotten to report some very happy baby news over my four years of writing this column, but this time around I have the biggest ’02 family yet to tell you about—or at least news of the couple that grew into a big family most quickly! On March 31 Tucker (Ballard) Mahoney and Dan Mahoney ’01 welcomed triplets! Son Lee Ballard and daughters Katherine “Kay” Kyle and Boyd Harrison came a little earlier than expected, but all are doing very well in Atlanta. Tucker wrote in that she and Dan are sorry to miss the reunion but look forward to introducing their children to Hanover soon. In other news, Tucker reports that Rebecca (Eley) Weeks saw Kay’s wingspan in a photo and observed she will be good at pong! What could be more important?! Continuing the baby news, Shannon (Stoval) Winn and Eric Winn ’04 had son Jackson Alexander in March. The family lives in Keene, New Hampshire.


Allyson Terpsma just moved from New York to Michigan, where she will start at Michigan Law this spring. She likes to claim she is now in the “fourth generation” of Michigan Law students, following in the footsteps of fellow ’02s Dave “Hotfoot” Tarr, Alex Sakin and Emily Fedman.


Scott MacArthur wrote in with this unique update: “This past month my Rhodesian ridgeback Mowgli Jibboo took home the blue ribbon at the Southern California Ridgeback Show. With his placing, we have become the odds-on favorite to be in this year’s Westminster. Much of my time as a fountain designer has been cut into, but I can assure you it’s worth it. I also recently saw Rob Huntington and he is doing okay.”


Allen Fromherz, now an assistant professor at Georgia State University, published two books last year—Ibn Khaldun, Life and Times and The Almohads: Rise of an Isalmic Empire. Allen also spoke, with several other alumni, at a conference titled “Dartmouth Middle East Connection” in honor of professor Gene Garthwaite in April.


Paul Gulezian successfully defended his Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he has been studying invasive plants and urban ecology for the last six years. He adds: “I am also happy to report that I am getting married to Veronica Kott, my girlfriend of more than seven years, in September in a big, old barn in Grayslake, Illinois.” Congratulations on both fronts, Paul!


And finally, more wedding news! Ashley Dean married Erikka Gulbranson on October 9, 2010, in a small, family affair in Newport Beach, California. Ashley and Erikka live in Houston, Texas. Aaron Pumerantz married Christa Arkebauer (John Carroll University ’07) on December 11, 2010, in Toledo, Ohio. After a honeymoon in Cozumel, Mexico, they returned to their Silver Spring, Maryland, home. Aaron is finishing his internal medicine residency at nearby Walter Reed Army Medical Center as a captain in the U.S. Army. Karen Blanchard got married to Michael Lowe on April 16 at the Inn at Serenbe in Palmetto, Georgia. Vicki McGrane, Dave Scannell, Emily Fedman and Allyson Terpsma attended their wedding. Karen and Mike live in Atlanta, where they are both doctors. 


This is my final column as secretary—I’ll be passing the reins to someone new at reunion! I look forward to hearing more of your tales in columns in the future—find the new secretary on the Green during reunion and pass along your news immediately.


—J.T. Leaird, 202 Baltic St., Apt. 4, Brooklyn, NY 11201, jt.leaird@gmail.com


Hello, ’02s! Before we get to the news, please excuse me for taking this opportunity to encourage you to pay your class dues. Class dues cover the cost of your subscription to this award-winning alumni magazine. Visit www.dartmouth.org/classes/2002/dues.php to pay your dues. Enough business, on to the updates.


On August 27, in the middle of Hurricane Irene, Shelley de Alth got married to Andrew Leonard (Emory ’02) at a summer camp in the Poconos. The hurricane held off and it was the perfect camp wedding, complete with a bonfire, color war and swimming and boating on the lake. In attendance were Daniele Genadry, Jill Garrido, Nate Anderson, Austin (Williams) Sibley, Julie (Cumming) Higgins, Halia (Barnes) Evans, Abby Corcoran and Mike “Roney” Ronickher.


Katie (Escherich) Morison wrote to fill me in on the birth of her daughter Juliet. Katie and her husband, Mark, welcomed Juliet Allerton Morison on May 24. Katie commented that, “A newborn baby was the only thing that could have kept me away from our reunion! I was so sad to miss it but we’re loving parenthood and can’t wait to bring Juliet to Hanover for a visit.” The couple lives in Forest Hills, New York, and both work at ABC News.


Similar news arrived from Gabe Brooks. He and his wife, Jessica, were thrilled with the July 4th arrival of Bear Jonah Brooks. Bear’s arrival prevented Gabe and Jessica from attending the wedding of their Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, neighbors Erin Morrissey and Pierre Vanden Borre (Colby ’02). I’m told it was a fantastic wedding.


I received word of one of our classmates in the national news. Molly Redmond is the lead author on a paper reporting on the microbes that are “eating” the oil from the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Molly and one of her colleagues, both geochemists from the University of California at Santa Barbara, published their research in early October in the “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.” The research is credited with helping scientists better understand how to respond to marine oil spills. 


Lastly, I also heard from Shirley Lin about her recent professional accomplishments. Shirley recently completed a clerkship with Judge Denny Chin of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. She then started as a Skadden Fellow at the Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund, to represent low-wage immigrant workers and support their organizing efforts. In between her clerkship and new position at Skadden she decided to finally give up one bit of native-New Yorker stubbornness and get a driver’s license, saying, “I’m sure I’ll need all the advice I can get on parallel parking in Manhattan!”


That’s all the news for now. Please keep sending along your updates. 


—Anne Cloudman, 30 W 90th St., Apt. 3D, New York, NY 10024; acloudman@gmail.com