Class Notes 2007

For this issue I wanted to profile the life and work of Al (Williams) Asante-Facey (he/they), whose efforts caught my eye through our class Instagram page, @dartmouth2007s. Al is a tireless advocate for LGBT+ opportunities and dignity in New York City, and it was an honor to get to know them better and hear their reflections on how Dartmouth shaped their adult life and career.

Al reflects, “I have been working as a physician assistant in New York City for the past 15 years, where I live with my partner and two children. I care for patients with gynecologic cancers as well as provide LGBT+ inclusive general gynecologic care.

“Although I have been out in the LGBT+ community for two decades, my experiences changed dramatically when I came out as transmasculine and genderqueer. The most notable for me was the change in my treatment in healthcare, both as a provider and as a patient. Suddenly, people were uncomfortable with how to address me and my medical care. Spaces in which I had once felt welcome became unsafe. This motivated me to get more involved in advancing LGBT+ health equity to help others and empower myself.

“The healthcare system must change to explicitly include transgender and gender-nonconforming people. To this end I teach LGBT+ cultural humility as part of orientation at my hospital. I am part of the leadership team of our 700-plus member LGBT+ employee resource group for the health system I work for, and I teach LGBT+ inclusivity to physician assistant students. I also help with changes in healthcare operations, such as ensuring that someone’s chosen name is displayed instead of their legal name. A career highlight for me was the development of Welcoming Spaces, a webinar created in collaboration with the Society of Gynecologic Oncology and LGBT Cancer Network to teach LGBT+ cultural humility to those practicing in gynecology and gynecologic oncology.

“When I look back on the beginnings of my advocacy for the transgender community, Dartmouth is ever-present. Being involved in the Directing through Recreation, Education, Adventure, and Mentoring (DREAM) program taught me how rewarding volunteering can be. The first LGBT+ event I ever spoke at was at Dartmouth; I learned the value of sharing my personal experiences to create change. My life has been shaped by the lifelong friendships I made at Dartmouth. Victor Glazer ’06 showed me the joy that comes after transition. Susie Fox taught me that people can only tell you ‘no’ if you let them. Amanda Rosenblum always knows the mix of laughter and introspection needed to solve a problem. Laura Erickson-Schroth, DMS ’09, lent their clinical expertise in transgender health and introduced me to folks who made my gynecology practice possible.

“Advocating within healthcare for change can be as draining as it is rewarding, so I balance it with direct community work. I am proud to be on the board of directors for New York Transgender Advocacy Group (NYTAG, @nytransadvocacygroup). NYTAG advocates for inclusive gender-based policies in New York by working with politicians and supporting the transgender and gender-nonconforming community by nurturing local leaders.One of my favorite programs at NYTAG is its youth advocacy fellowship, a six-month training program to develop personal and advocacy skills, including interning for community organizations. Please check them out and consider supporting the mission!”

Thank you, Al, for representing our class so well! We are grateful to be part of a community of such energy, inclusion, vision, and love. Check out our Instagram page for some further photos of Al’s life and work.

—Sam Routhier, 543 W 122nd St., Apt. 25B, New York, NY 10027; samrouthier@gmail.com

Hello from Kathryn (Funderburk) Kumf! I’ve had such a great spring reconnecting with my senior year roomies that I offered to guest write this edition’s Class Notes for Sam. Here are some exciting updates.

Lauren Betzing resides in Austin, Texas, with her husband, Jon, and their two boys, Parker (9) and Owen (6). They are both active entrepreneurs, launching their latest venture at the intersection of technology, consciousness, and human potential. They enjoy spending lots of time outdoors exploring and hiking in the North Carolina mountains, especially when it’s time to escape the Texas heat!

Lauren Edgar and her husband, Victor, recently wed in San Diego, and the wedding was a Dartmouth lovefest. Among her many mind-blowing professional pursuits, Lauren is a lead investigator on NASA’s Artemis III geology team, and she spent this winter hunting meteorites in Antarctica. She continues to train astronauts and operate Mars rovers. Hit her up if you’re planning to visit San Diego (or the moon). Despite her out-of-this-world success, she still accepts my kids’ FaceTimes with “pressing” questions about space. We heart you, Dr. Lauren.

Dylan Gee and Dave Anderson ’04 live in Fairfield, Connecticut, with their children, Parker (8) and Olivia (5). Dylan runs a crazy impressive neuroscience lab (Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience and Development Lab) as a tenured professor at Yale and has a mountain of professional accolades but somehow finds time to dedicate to social causes. She’s written influential articles about the mental health of children and parents separated at the border. She also helped secure victory in a landmark N.H. case that helped victims of childhood physical and sexual abuse. She’s saving the world one kid at a time.

Killarney Loufek and Michael Sinnott live near Sun Valley, Idaho. They have two adorable children, Evie (3) and Rhodes (2). When she’s not crushing life on the slopes, Killarney is either working as project manager at The Picket Fence interior design firm or throwing good vibes around like confetti to all who are lucky enough to live in her orbit.

Kelly (McLaughlin) Nolan is back home in Minneapolis with her husband, Matt, and their two daughters (6 and 2). Kelly’s an attorney-turned-time management strategist who works with professional women. She’s been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, and Parents.com, and she shares bite-sized strategies via Instagram and her podcast.

Jessie Richard and her husband, Joel, live in Bethesda, Maryland, with Layla (9), Val (7), and Ben (5) and many fur-babies. If you’ve been wondering why Jessie keeps showing up in pics with cool musicians, it’s not her Sheba background. Jessie’s the senior vice president for federal public policy at the Recording Industry Association of America. She advises on a broad range of policy issues with the potential to affect the music industry, focusing primarily on intellectual property and technology policy.

We most recently reunited in N.Y.C. to celebrate C. Tasha Sterling’swedding to her French beau, Alex. Dozens of Dartmouth alums descended on The Big Apple and much fun was had by all. Tasha works in global marketing procurement at Coca-Cola, but my favorite attribute of hers is her adventurous spirit. Follow her around the world @ASterlingView.

Although those are tough acts to follow, I’m happy to report I’m on a career pause after 15 years in finance. My husband, Brian, and I live in Rye, New York, where I’ve reconnected with many Dartmouth alums. (Find me if you’re ever nearby!) We have children Cooper (6), Brady (4), and Charlie Grace (2), who keep me on the move, but I’m also a devoted hype-woman for my brilliant friends who continue to crush it personally and professionally.

—Sam Routhier, 543 W 122nd St., Apt. 25B, New York, NY 10027; samrouthier@gmail.com

Ashley Satterfield wrote in from Memphis, Tennessee: “After practicing employment law for 13 years I recently started my own consulting business, ClearWork Consulting, focused on providing human resources compliance services to startups, nonprofits, and small businesses. I live in Memphis with my 10-year-old son and spend most of my time driving him around to baseball and basketball practices but am looking forward to a getaway trip with Whitney Cunningham, Sherry Marrs, and Amanda Brown that should rival spring break 2005. Would love to connect with any classmates and if you’re ever in Memphis, please let me know! Oh and I recently started doing standup comedy!”

Jacques Hebert chimed in from Minneapolis, where he currently lives with his husband, Graham, and 4-year-old chow chow Winifred Pearl. Jacques leads communications and public affairs for the McKnight Foundation, a Minnesota-based family foundation that advances a more just, creative, and abundant future where people and planet thrive. The foundation supports work on equitable communities, a clean energy economy, global food systems, artists and culture bearers, and innovative neuroscience research. Jacques has enjoyed building his own community in Minnesota, playing team sports, and spending time outdoors.

He shared that the closest he’s come to a Dartmouth reunion is when Amanda Greenberg popped up on his screen thanks to his company using the Balloon software, but he has loved staying in touch with folks such as John Valdez, Jesse Shaw, Derrick Smith, and other wonderful alums!

I caught up with Celeste Griffin-Churchill,who shared some awesome Dartmouth connections. She writes, “I am starting my fifth year in Dallas, which is much hotter and flatter than the New Hampshire mountains! It was fun to reconnect with another ’07 Dallas-ite, Derek Hernandez, who was a good friend in the Choates our freshman year. He had some fond memories to recall of Sandi Beutler, Skye Zeller, Dan Cook, Michael Presti, Christine Terada, Lauren Blum, and Jen Crombie—and said to say hi to our class! I moved here in 2019 for a private equity role (and in the process, also reconnected with Russ D’Souza because the investment focus area was tangent to the amazing business he and Jack Groetzinger have built at SeatGeek!). I left to go to a fin-tech startup in 2023. We are building a financial exchange that bridges Web2 and Web3 and are ramping up hiring if any classmates are interested in that space.”

Nicole (Mahr) Cannizzaro shared, “I had a blast on the Breckenridge ski slopes with Blair (Burgreen) Chan, Ludi Chow, and Sarah Markus. We had perfect weather and great conditions for skiing, and a great time was had by all!”

Finally, Rudy Chounone wrote from D.C., where he works as general legal counsel for the D.C. fire and EMS departments: “Hello from D.C., where I live with my wife, Megan, and our two children, who are 5 and 18 months—both of whom love their Dartmouth swag and can’t wait to crash our next reunion! Recently I had a couple of impromptu Big Green gatherings here—the first was in December with Amanda Brown Lierman, Ashley Satterfield, and Jordan Page. The second was with Milan Williams ’09, Jonathan ‘J.’ Lesesne, and Jordan again. Also, while my 5-year-old was on a playdate with her dear friend, whose dad happens to be an ’06, I ran into one of my trippees, Laura Glickman, and it was wonderful catching up with her. Other upcoming D.C. ’07 mini-reunions will include Jon Meyers and Michelle Davis—I love my Dartmouth family.”

—Sam Routhier, 543 W 122nd St., Apt. 25B, New York, NY 10027; samrouthier@gmail.com

Great updates in store and a nod to our Instagram page—just keep reading!

Sean Garren DeKrey and Will DeKrey ’08 welcomed a new family member, Rowan Tyler DeKrey. Rowan was a real community effort, as Sean’s best friend from high school, Emily Tyler, carried him for the nine months of pregnancy. The three DeKreys are basking in joy at their home in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. They’ve already had Dartmouth visitors, including ’08s Chris Knape and Jon Hopper, and they expect many more! When not taking care of his own son, Sean is harnessing the sun to deliver progress on climate and energy justice at Vote Solar, a nonprofit that advocates for smart and just energy policy and regulation in states across the country. Sean works as its chief program officer. Congrats, Sean and Will!

Andrew Eastman wrote in from St. Louis, Missouri, that he and his wife, Emily, welcomed their firstborn, Charlotte Leigh Eastman, on July 25! Sebastian Restrepo is Charlotte’s godfather. Congratulations, Andrew and Emily!

Luke Antal shared during the summer, “Lots of fun Dartmouth connections recently in the Antal household. Our boys are ages 8, 5, and 3, and I think I’m ready for no more diapers! I recently took my two older boys up to the Second College Grant for a weekend of outdoor adventuring and fishing. We met up with Adam Platz ’08 and saw three moose and a black bear. This fall we headed to the Ravine Lodge for a big D family reunion that Whitney (Flynn) MacFadyen and Andrew Flynn hosted. My fam and I live around Manchester, New Hampshire, where my company, Alumni Ventures, is headquartered. I cofounded the company in 2014 and we have become one of the most active venture capital firms in the world and the largest serving individual investors.”

Katherine (Akiko) Day wrote in, “It’s been a keystone year for me with an immense amount of self-discovery and growth. In order to survive and thrive following an episode with depression and anxiety, I found many useful tools including internal family systems therapy, acupuncture, Alexander technique, mindfulness-based stress reduction, and yoga nidra meditation. The journey is never-ending, but a year later I have never felt more authentically myself! Along the way I have continued to create the podcast I co-host with my childhood best friend, Malasa Jois Kahn. Our podcast, Midnight (R)evolution, highlights the stories of our friends who are moving through the world with vulnerability, passion, courage, and purpose—including episodes featuring fellow ’07s and dear friends Mirelle Phillips and Lorraine Buhannic.” Check out our Instagram page this month for a longer feature highlighting Katherine’s podcast work!

Emily (Tracy) Glass and husband Tanner Glass shared a great update, full of ’07 reunions. “Our family just returned from an incredible trip to Italy’s Amalfi Coast alongside our close friends Dan and Laura Shribman and their four children. Witnessing our two boys forge lifelong friendships with our best friends’ children was such a joy! Now, back in Woodinville, Washington, we are busy running our respective businesses and chauffeuring our boys to all of their sports. Tanner currently works in the front office for the New York Rangers as a player development coach and recently launched Star Academy, Seattle’s first education-based hockey program. I also started my own business, True Potential College Admissions Consulting, helping students and families navigate the college admissions process. We love staying connected to our Dartmouth family, and I am looking forward to our annual Yellow House reunion with Alex Bowie, Alex Fucigna, Elizabeth Culvahouse, Jen Crombie, Jess Kelly, and Whitney Douthett.”

—Sam Routhier, 543 W 122nd St., Apt. 25B, New York, NY 10027; samrouthier@gmail.com

Hey, ’07s! I’m writing these as we come off a successful N.Y.C. mini-reunion on June 4. It was great to connect with classmates, many of whom brought kids, to our Brooklyn gathering. It’s such a joy to stay connected and I hope these notes continue to satisfy! Please reach out to me if you have any updates; I would love to get more voices in this column as 2024 approaches.

Derrick Smith, who I caught up with in Philly in April, writes, “After taking about 10 months off work I started my new role as director of development for National Medical Fellowships. It is a little-known nonprofit that has been deploying need- and merit-based scholarships and grant funding for Black, Indigenous, and people of color medical school students and researchers for more than 75 years! I’m excited to address health inequities people like me experience in our nation’s healthcare system and to stay in Philadelphia and in the world of financial development in the nonprofit sector.”

Jennifer (Ty) Kohan and her husband, Gabriel, welcomed a baby boy, Noah Joshua Kohan, into their family on April 12, 2022. Their other son, Ethan (2), has been a great big brother. The four of them and their dog, Olivia, live in Bethesda, Maryland, and would love to catch up with any Dartmouth alums in the D.C. area!

Dave Stanek shared a slew of life updates around the turn of 2023: “I just got back from Hawaii, where I proposed to my girlfriend (now fiancée) Rachel Switzer! A couple days later we flew to upstate New York and celebrated Dan Racic’s wedding. A couple days after that I joined Kirkland & Ellis LLP as a partner. It’s been a busy few weeks!”

Arielle (Rodman) Langer writes, “I am still living in the Boston suburbs and working as a hematologist at Dana Farber/Brigham and Women’s Hospital as well as being core faculty in the Harvard Medical School hematology course. It’s a fun mix of things, but all on pause for maternity leave as we just welcomed our daughter, Miranda, in August. Luckily her big brothers Theodore and Thomas consider her the best toy they’ve ever been given. We got to spend July 4th with Chris and Blair (Burgreen) Chan and their kids before our new baby came and just got to introduce all three kids to Mitch Pet when he was in town for a medical conference.”

Darren Sturges shared, “I’m living in Berlin, Germany, where my wife and I are expecting our second child any day now. I’m grateful for the Dartmouth network in northern Europe and have reconnected with Kenny Brown-Klinger,one of my first friends at Dartmouth. In August our families will meet again in Copenhagen. Meanwhile, Michael Amico and I are participating in the robust English language comedy scene in Berlin. It’s a fantastic and unique city with so much culture and, of course, history. Another way I enjoy staying connected to Dartmouth is via the admissions ambassador program, interviewing students from my hometown Miami and Europe. The applicants get more impressive each year!”

—Sam Routhier, 543 W 122nd St., Apt. 25B, New York, NY 10027; samrouthier@gmail.com

For the ninth year in a row, Sarah Hughes and Rachel Karpf did the Coney Island New Year’s Day Polar Bear Plunge with friends and family, including spouses Alex Tilney and Brent Reidy ’05, and Sarah’s 21-month-old Owen, who remained onshore watching intently. They report that previous Dartmouth participants include ’07s Mirelle Phillips, Katherine Akiko Day, Liz McDonnell, and Lauren Chow, Kate Budney ’21, and Owen O’Leary ’19. Their annual tradition follows a screaming run into the Atlantic with several hours of saunas, steam rooms, beer, and pierogi at a Brighton Beach bathhouse, plus delicious BBQ at one of Brooklyn’s many fine establishments. Sarah credits her 2004 participation in the Occom Pond Polar Bear Plunge for her continued commitment to this insanity. All fellow brave and crazy souls are welcome to join in future years!

Sticking with Sarah Hughes, she was back on campus in Hanover this winter directing the MainStage production, an adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron. Sarah reflected, “This process has been a fun and wild adventure! We’re staging the piece site-specifically in a classroom in Sudikoff, where the theater department has relocated due to Hop renovations. The students have been brilliant and we’ve had a great time figuring out how to turn 900 pages of medieval Italian bawdy folktales into a compelling performance. It’s unlike anything the department has done before and I’m excited to bring my experimental theater background (and my work with the Displaced Theater Company back when I was a student) into the leadership of this project.”

Michael Amico and his husband, Conrad Winslow, have a home back in the United States after about six years of living exclusively abroad. It’s a house near the water in Waldoboro, Maine. They would love to connect with any Dartmouth alums and friends in the midcoast Maine area. They will still be in Berlin, too!

Naomi Heindel moved back home to Vermont in March, bringing along husband Jordan Nobler and two little kids, Asa (almost 5) and Sylvia (almost 2). She started a new gig as the executive director at North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier, Vermont. She’d love to know if there are any other ’07s in central Vermont—come swing by the nature center any time!

Amanda Carye is so grateful to get to be a part of the ’07 Uplifters, our class’ compassion committee, sending quilts to classmates and their loved ones across the country (if you’d like to get involved, email dartmouth2007s@gmail.com). Speaking of quilts, she has also just released her first book, Quilt Your Own Adventure, a “choose your own adventure” style quilt block book, with 30 blocks, a handful of quilt top layouts, and all the math for all the possible layouts included (imagine painting-by-numbers, but with quilt blocks). If this seems like a gift you or a loved one would enjoy, check out her website www.broadclothstudio.com for all the details.

Kristin (Lieske) Bryan writes, “I was recognized as a ‘Law360 2022 MVP in Privacy and Cybersecurity,’ a designation reserved each year for the five most elite practitioners at any law firm nationwide. My husband, Dan, and my girls, Elizabeth and Meghan, are doing well and I am Elizabeth’s Girl Scout troop leader this year. We send everyone greetings from Cleveland; Dan and I had a great time connecting with people over reunion!”

Kate Davison writes, “My husband, Seth Cohen, Adv’17, and I welcomed our son, Ari, into the world on August 10. He’s already enjoyed a few hikes with us and can’t wait to go on adventures with his Dartmouth buddies.”

—Sam Routhier, 543 W 122nd St., Apt. 25B, New York, NY 10027; samrouthier@gmail.com

Greetings from N.Y.C., ’07s! It was an honor and joy to put these notes together and I’m psyched to keep the energy flowing from our reunion last June. Some great updates in store.

Brent Butler shares, “In September I ran into an old ’07 friend while attending the Creative Arts Emmys. I was there for Norm Macdonald’s Nothing Special—which, it turns out, is very special, and not only because it is his last. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s on Netflix and your mom will forgive you messing up her queue for this one. Norm is and will always be the greatest. So I’m at the Emmys and who do I see at the table next to me? Producer, director, and English major Alice Mathias, whose show, I Think You Should Leave, is pound for pound the funniest sketch show going. It was a magical night and if memory serves, we each lost to either the Super Bowl halftime show or Adele, both tremendous comedies. (Bonus congratulations to ‘Casual Thursday’ ’08, Owen Parsons, for his writing win on Last Week Tonight.)”

Jonathan “J.” Lesesne shared that “On September 27 about 17 Black Dartmouth alumni were able to gather at our first post-pandemic new normal Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association (BADA) event. To say that the last 30 months (yes—two and a half years!) have been taxing on a global and personal level, particularly with respect to the complex social aspects of humanity, would be the understatement of the decade! Nevertheless, Brian P. Sylvester ’05 and I were able to resume our pre-pandemic roles as BADA representatives for the Washington, D.C.-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) region. The event, ‘Cocktails and Conversations,’ took place on the terrace of Brian’s law firm with food and beverages for all the attendees to leisurely enjoy. This event was truly a great opportunity to share war stories about everyone’s individual experiences since March 13, 2020. It even drew in some surprises, as a couple of alumni had recently moved to the DMV area from elsewhere and were able to reconnect with classmates not seen in 14 years. With the classes of 2005 and 2007 at the BADA DMV helm again, we look forward to enjoying new tales of Hanover and beyond at future events. Stay tuned.”

Yuki Kondo-Shah chimed in from the foreign service life: “My family and I moved to London in August. I’ll be working as the deputy spokesperson at the U.S. embassy until 2025. I’m so excited my older daughter attends the American School, where Erica Jones ’08 is in a leadership role. We arrived just in time to attend the Dartmouth ‘Give a Rouse’ event at the British Museum with current foreign study program [FSP] students, alumni, and Professor Wohlforth. Was so wonderful to think about the 2005 London FSP!”

Eric Trautmann married Yoanna Pumpalova in Ithaca, New York. Class of ’07s in attendance included James Austin, Owen Cadwalader, Danny Hundert, Linden Mallory, Mikey Sinnott, Jeff Bate, Jen Swanda, Nate Raines, Charlie Guthrie, Pete Cooch, and Giancarlo Nucci,and that doesn’t include the wide swath of alumni from ’04 to ’08 because it would exceed my word limit! Attendees took a hike through Ithaca’s gorges, a run through Cornell campus, and had a ceremony and reception at the beautiful rustic farmers market and a post-wedding dip in the river behind Eric’s childhood home. Congratulations, Eric and Yoanna!

—Sam Routhier, 543 W 122nd St., Apt. 25B, New York, NY 10027; samrouthier@gmail.com

Sam Beattie and his wife, Julie Beattie, welcomed their daughter (and first child), Sophie Taylor Beattie, on Christmas Eve. Congratulations! Sam nonchalantly mentions that “2022 has been adjusting to being new parents but otherwise things have stayed relatively the same. I am working for an electronic arts game studio in Sacramento, California, while living in Seattle. So I’m officially working from home for the foreseeable future, which has been a huge help with a baby in the house.”

Julia Bernstein and her husband, Robert Schwartz, welcomed Ethan Bennett Schwartz on January 6. Baby Ethan, big sister Mirielle, and their parents recently moved to Scarsdale, New York, where they look forward to playdates with other Dartmouth babies in the N.Y.C. area.

Kristin (Lieske) Bryan, a data privacy and cybersecurity litigator at Squire Patton Boggs LLP, was elected to the firm’s partnership effective January 1. She reports that she and husband, Daniel Bryan ’05, are doing well and are looking forward to the reunion in June and seeing old friends.

Moira (Sullivan) Gallagher had a baby boy! Eagan Frederick Gallagher was born on August 6, 2021, and joins big brother George, who is ecstatic to have a baby around. The family continues to make Anchorage, Alaska, home.

George Oh has begun marching with the Atlanta Freedom Band, a group of LGBTQ+ bands. The group participated in a small Mardi Gras parade, which George shares “was lots of fun. The concert band is gearing up for a performance in a couple of weeks so I’m rehearsing for that too.”

Yours truly, Jaime Padgett, was elevated to senior counsel, high exposure at Uber Technologies Inc., where I now manage the company’s portfolio of high-exposure claims and litigation for the eastern United States.

Maryanna Quigless and her partner had a baby, Mason Vincent Pooler-Quigless! He was born last year (March 14) in Oakland, California. (She sent in pictures and let me tell you: He is adorable.)

Christina Vilaseca writes in for the first time ever (!) with all the news. She shares that she has been working as a civil rights attorney for the County of San Diego since 2013; she and her husband welcomed son Miles in July 2018 and daughter Sloane in October 2020; and this summer they will be moving to Paris, France, where her husband has accepted a job opportunity with EDF Renouvelables. Christina is planning to pursue attorney contract work and hoping to learn a bit about the wine industry out there, which has piqued my curiosity.

Like reading these updates? Imagine what it would be like to…wait for it…get them in person, straight from the source! Come join your ’07 classmates, along with the ’06 and ’08 classes, at our 15-year cluster reunion in Hanover June 17-19.

—Jaime Padgett, 1837 W. Patterson Ave, #109, Chicago, IL 60613; (574) 303-6944; dartmouth2007s@gmail.com

Christina (Douglas) and Rashid Galadanci had a daughter during the pandemic, and she turned 1 this summer. Amidst parenting, Christina also won two Emmy awards for the Netflix series she created, Tiny Creatures, which won “Outstanding Travel, Adventure, and Nature Program” and “Outstanding Cinematography!”

Daniel Racic moved back home to Chicago with his fiancée, Gabby Costas. “We’re madly in love and excited to be starting this new phase of our lives together!” The couple recently held an engagement party joined by friends and family, including Dave Stanek. Dan will be taking on a new role at the New Teacher Center as the director of technology, innovation, and strategy!

On October 9 Nate Raines married Sarah Knapp at his family’s house in Virginia. In attendance were Charlie Guthrie, Chris Cahill, Pete Cooch, Eric Trautmann, and Sam Routhier. Behind the D.J. booth was Trey Roy ’09, who dusted off his scratching muscles to recall his days in college as “D.J. Enzo.”

Sarah Overton and her husband, David, welcomed Henry “Hank” Overton Duncan on March 8, 2021. “Big sister Adelaide and Ike the dog have welcomed him with open arms and paws and in April we celebrated by moving to a new house in Eaglemont, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. It’s been a long couple of years with restrictions related to Covid-19. Thankfully, Australia’s international borders are set to reopen soon, and we would welcome any Big Green friends who make it down this way.”

On September 5 Thierri Callier married Keiko Fukuda (Brown ’10) in Napa Valley, California. In attendance were numerous Dartmouth alums, including John Malanga, Diana Dai Phan, Nick Martin, Lyndsey Moran, Yusuf Artam, Andy Sloan ’09, and Jude Chiy ’10. Abdallah “Bootz” Chammas was best man and Adam Patinkin was the officiant.

Annie Bennett and Shane Colegrove welcomed a baby boy, Quinn Bennett Colegrove, on August 9. They are busy enjoying life in Seattle as a family of three!

Kale Bongers and his wife just had their second kiddo, Ada, in July. Big brother Everett is still trying to figure out this whole sharing-mom-and-dad-with-his-sister thing, but it has been great so far! Kale is finishing up his fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Michigan and will be starting as faculty in January!

Kristina Douglass was named a Carnegie fellow for her project recording oral histories of climate change and integrating these with archaeology and paleoclimate reconstruction in southwest Madagascar. She also published a study in the “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” on how people as early as 18,000 years ago may have been harvesting cassowary eggs to rear cassowary chicks in New Guinea. The study was covered by several international media outlets, including The New York Times.

After joining Archaea Energy LLC as its general counsel and fifth employee three years ago, Andrew Eastman helped grow the company into a nationwide energy developer and advised it during its $347-million acquisition by a public entity before accepting a position as senior counsel in the corporate group of national law firm Husch Blackwell LLP.

This summer Kate Hacker Gessner completed her urology residency at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and started fellowship in urologic oncology. She and her husband, Ryan, also welcomed daughter Abigail on August 4. Her big sister, Margaret, couldn’t be a more helpful, loving sister!

Rebecca (Cummins) Downey got married this summer at Crystal Cove State Park in Laguna Beach, California, with Jaime Padgett next to her as maid of honor. “There wasn’t a Keystone in sight,” just lots of smiles.

—Jaime Padgett, 1837 W. Patterson Ave, #109, Chicago, IL 60613; (574) 303-6944; dartmouth2007s@gmail.com

“Ain’t nothin’ gonna break our stride. No pandemic gonna slow us down. Oh no, we got to keep on moving.” Indeed! Y’all have been bus-sy!

Julien Almonte has been living in Philadelphia for the past two and a half years and became a licensed psychologist this year (hooray!). He has been managing the pandemic by facetiming frequently with Abby DeBellis, who lives in Seattle. “We reminisce about our Dartmouth days all the time and can’t wait to meet up again!”

Alex Barnett was elected partner at Alston & Bird LLP! She defends employers in state and federal actions, conducts internal investigations, and advises on employment-related issues in corporate transactions.

Jennifer (Ty) Kohan and her husband, Gabriel, welcomed their first child, Ethan David Kohan, on October 10! They moved with their dog, Olivia, to the suburbs (Bethesda, Maryland)!

Clare Louise Masters joined Laura Flannery Masters’ family on June 13, 2020. “She has been a bright light during this year and my husband, Colin, and I have been so grateful for her health and spunky spirit. She and her big brother, Henry, help remind us of what is truly important (as well as keep us quite busy)!”

George Oh has been playing virtual Dungeons and Dragons weekly with Joe Wytrzes, Zack Pierce ’06, Nick Connizzo ’06, and Ryan Lee ’06. In true George fashion, he says, “Oh shoot, I also got promoted to senior chemist.” Once the pandemic ends, he and Matt Garner are going to take a long vacation, with Matt wearing silly hats the entire time.

Carrie Bradshaw sends an update: Derrick Smith is now the chief development officer for Nemours Children Health in Delaware. With all the balls he’s juggling—new job, new boys, and new toys—I couldn’t help but wonder, are all eyes on him in the center of the ring just like a circus? As Jacques Hebert is planning his move from New Orleans to Minnesota, I asked myself, does he really want to go from the Big Easy to the Big Freezy? With Jesse Shaw’s recent engagement to a Canadian and planned move to Brussels for the U.S. State Department, I wondered, is the state of diplomacy really getting to the state of his heart? Finally, as John Valdez plans to move into the home of his late grandparents in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood with his husband, Chris Abrecht ’08, I thought, this Johnny didn’t fall too far from the block.

Dax Tejera and his wife welcomed their firstborn, Sofia Melffi, on November 30! He shares quite the labor story: One evening after returning home from producing ABC’s This Week he suggested Veronica turn on the Christmas tree lights. Right as she stood up to do that, her water broke! Sofia was born a few hours later on the same day as her uncle and godfather, Dax’s brother.

Liz (Keenan) Tichenor published her first book, The Night Lake: A Young Priest Maps the Topography of Grief. She’s serving as the rector of an Episcopal church in the Bay Area and adventuring there with her husband, Jesse Tichenor ’06, their kids, and pandemic puppy.

Pooja Viswanath has been “thinking back to how lucky I was to have celebrated my bachelorette weekend in Scottsdale, Arizona, with Ione Curva, Susie (Chung) Criscimagna, Natalie Kim, Augusta Niles, Lyndsey Moran,and Ashley (Halpin) Karr just a few weeks before the world shut down. My wedding, supposed to happen a few weeks later, was postponed. Luckily, I was still able to marry my dear husband, Joseph Alberts (Rice ’07, UT Law ’12), in front of a local judge and our immediate families!”

—Jaime Padgett, 1837 W. Patterson Ave, #109, Chicago, IL 60613; (574) 303-6944; dartmouth2007s@gmail.com

Shiny happy people holding hands…or at least that’s how I envision you all by the time this column comes out.

This will be the first published column of the new year and by then we’re going to have a vaccine, packed restaurants, full suitcases, justice, order, some semblance of normality and sanity, and lots of hugs from family and friends, right? Right?!

Well, in the meantime, we at least have some classmates’ updates:

Alison Riep married the love of her life, Charlie Kinzie, during Labor Day Weekend in Lexington, Massachusetts. It wasn’t quite the wedding they’d originally planned, but they felt incredibly lucky to be able to celebrate with immediate family, including their adored fur-child, Luna. They will (they hope) have the big party—which will include some close Dartmouth friends—next year!

Andreas Baum and his wife, Ingrid, welcomed their third daughter, Annika, on July 23. Her older sisters, Astrid (4) and Linnea (2), are over the moon and love to help take care of her. They also moved out of N.Y.C. and into the suburbs (Westchester County), where their children and dog have lots of room to run around.

Danny Hundert shares that Cameron Houser and James Austin V moved to Canada. Apparently, they are adapting to life in the Great White North well with a new puppy and James shooting her first elk!

And some exciting news to come: Luis-Alejandro Dinnella-Borrego shares that he “will be getting married to Maria Virginia Deliz (Florida International University ’07) in Miami on December 27, 2020—the Feast of the Holy Family. We are incredibly happy and excited to start this new chapter in our lives. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers.” Pics or it didn’t happen, Luis!

Last but not least some words of encouragement from Rebecca Cunmins: “We didn’t survive warm Keystone and expired Boone’s Farm to succumb to a virus named after a crap beer.”

To 2021!

—Jaime Padgett, 1837 W. Patterson Ave, #109, Chicago, IL 60613; (574) 303-6944; dartmouth2007s@gmail.com

Hi there, Austin Lewis here from Los Angeles. Jaime Padgett asked me to guest write this edition of Class Notes. I jumped at the chance to take a break from my never-ending game of online Scrabble (coronavirus has made my life infinitely more interesting) to share news and updates from our class. Stay safe, everyone!

Yasemin Elci moved from Istanbul, Turkey, to Luxembourg last year with her husband. Yasemin works as an art writer and hosts a radio show about art. She also is an art consultant on independent projects. Elci says Luxembourg reminds her of Dartmouth a lot because there are more trees than people. She and her husband often go hiking in the woods.

Katherine Kalaris is starting a doctor of philosophy program in evidence-based healthcare at Oxford University in Oxford, England, this fall. She will study clinical and operational interventions to improve neonatal outcomes in Kenya.

Amanda Greenberg and her husband, Noah, welcomed a second baby boy on April 2. His name is Range Morris Greenberg. He’s cute and cuddly and has a message for you—wear a mask so he can meet his grandparents soon. Congratulations, Amanda!

Beata Lobel married Daniel Scholfield in a tiny, socially distant wedding in Hartford, Connecticut, on June 21. Cara Foster Karim was at the small ceremony. Beata and Daniel combined their names and now answer to “Dr. and Mr. Belfield.” The newlyweds plan to move to Syracuse, New York, this fall. Any ’07s in Syracuse? If so, please reach out to Beata. Beata will start her work as a minimally invasive general surgeon at St. Joseph’s Hospital.

Jaime here. That was fun, right? As I have been your class secretary for more than three years now(!), I thought you may enjoy hearing from some new voices. Interested in guest writing? Let me know! And, as always, we all hope to hear from you soon!

—Jaime Padgett, 1837 W. Patterson Ave, #109, Chicago, IL 60613; (574) 303-6944; dartmouth2007s@gmail.com

Charlie and Lisa Kircher moved more into the suburbs of Cincinnati and Charlie is now an attending physician at University of Cincinnati in emergency medicine and neurocritical care!

Dave Faherty is happy to share that he and his wife moved back to Chicago in September. He is working at the National Immigrant Justice Center as a staff attorney on the Detention Project, representing immigrants in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention.

Eric Ma started a new job as a proposal manager at Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Co., back in his home state of Connecticut! He says, “My job primarily consists of writing sales proposals for the Black Hawk helicopter, so I spend most of my days looking at pictures of helicopters, talking about helicopters, and writing about helicopters. My life has not changed much from when I was 5, except now I get paid to do that stuff.” They do say growing up is a trap.

Sarah (Uhl) Smith and her husband welcomed their second son, Tuckerman, in February! An early celebration brought together Caitlin Potratz, Laura Glickman, and Kate Schuerman ’06. Sarah says, “We hope Tuckerman will become a skier! And, as always, those passing through Portsmouth, New Hampshire, are encouraged to visit!” A baby on skis? Ya, I think you’ll get a few visitors to see that adorable sight!

Sara Studebaker-Hall started a new job in February. She left the coaching and program management role at Soldier Hollow Nordic Center in Midway, Utah, to become the new director of operations for the U.S. Biathlon Association! She’ll be staying in Utah, working remotely. She says, “I’m really looking forward to my new role and working alongside some other Dartmouth alums already in the organization!”

Sam Routhier and his wife, Katy, welcomed their daughter, Kirin, on November 18! How adorable is this? Her first ’07 meet-up came when Nate Raines visited on February 17, although she loves facetiming with Charlie Guthrie and his new baby girl, Rae, born in August.

Yuki Kondo-Shah is still a public affairs officer at the U.S. consulate in Fukuoka, Japan! She shares, “We’re gearing up for the summer Olympics! My husband, Philip, will serve in the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, for a year starting this summer, so we’re hanging in there as a geographically separated family. My daughters, Sayuri (3.5) and Aya (1.5), are having a blast at the Japanese daycare they attend! Let me know if you want to visit Kyushu, Japan (where Fukuoka is located), which was in CNN’s 2020 Top 20 destinations!”

Sahiba (Sarna) Krieger and her husband, Keith (Duke ’07), welcomed their second son, Connor, on December 7! He joins his 3-year-old brother, Thomas. Congrats!

Ali Husain wed Lauren Gambier at the Bronx Zoo in August. Dartmouth alumni attending the wedding included Will Bashelor, Connie Rankins, Courtland Smith, Chris Wilt, Allison Wilson, Gabe Holiway, Meaghan Ferrick, Jessica Rawlins, Davida Kornreich, and Angela Libby ’08. What a crowd! 

Frances Cha’s first novel, If I Had Your Face, will be published on April 21 by Random House, and follows the lives of four young women in modern Korea! She shares, “It was inspired by topics I covered for CNN as an editor in Seoul.”

—Jaime Padgett, 1837 W. Patterson Ave, #109, Chicago, IL 60613; (574) 303-6944; dartmouth2007s@gmail.com

Admit it: You flip straight to the Class Notes as soon as you get your Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Now you don’t have to wait until the next issue to get the updates you want! Follow our class Instagram, @dartmouth2007s, today for more updates (big and small!) and the opportunity to see all of your favorites’ faces!

William Blomstedt published a book, Foraging Afar! It recounts his experience working with commercial beekeepers during a decade of global travel to more than 50 countries, capturing moments of tragedy and comedy, like when his hives toppled off of the truck in the middle of a Texas city! He is currently living and, of course, keeping bees in Slovenia, the beekeeping capital of the world.

In October Kate Davison met up with John Shellito, Haley Bolin Shellito ’08, and their two kids; Laura Sheinkopf and her husband, Mark Petersen; and Sean Garren for a fun mini-reunion on Squam Lake in New Hampshire. Later that month Kate raced at the Head of the Charles in the Dartmouth alumnae eight. Her crew—which spanned the classes of ’07 to ’18—placed second, their highest finish yet! All around it was a great Head of the Charles weekend for Dartmouth rowing. Congrats, Kate and Co.!

Paul DuPuy and Britta Wunderlich got married in February in Sonoma, California! They had a great contingent of Dartmouth friends attend, including Kelsey Helland, Greg Kreisher, Jeff Camhi, Weizhan Tan, Ryan Chesley ’06, James Seidman ’06, and Paul’s dad, Ric DuPuy ’64!

Justin Martini ’05 and Allie (Boyles) Martini welcomed baby No. 3, Quinn Hanover Martini, on Labor Day. Big sibs Hayden and Charlie are obsessed with their new baby sister. “We didn’t make it to Homecoming this year, but we’re happy to ‘come home to Hanover’ in our own way. We’re going on three years in Darien, Connecticut, and spreading the Dartmouth love—our next door neighbor’s oldest son just started as a ’23!”

I’m happy to report that Sandra Sidi advises that life is back to normal! She is now 11 months post-stem cell transplant, which you may recall our class played a critical role in making happen. She walks several miles a day and, ever the optimist, jokes that she even has a decent haircut again! On a professional front, Sandra had her first piece, “Get A Weapon,” about her time in Baghdad in 2007 and 2008, published in The Atlantic in the October 2019 issue! Good news all around!

—Jaime Padgett, 1837 W. Patterson Ave, #109, Chicago, IL 60613; dartmouth2007s@gmail.com

On June 17, Kristin (Lieske) Bryan and Daniel Bryan ’05 welcomed Meghan Rachel Bryan to the family. Everyone is doing well and big sister Elizabeth is thrilled.

Nicole Cannizzaro writes, “I’m switching industries…gulp! I’ve worked in student-facing roles in education for all of my professional life and will be transitioning to a tech company in the Washington, D.C., area, where I’ll step into the role of learning programs specialist. Would love to connect with anyone who’s also switched industries and learn any tips you might have!”

Andrew Eastman recently accepted a position as general counsel to Archaea Energy, a national developer of renewable natural gas projects, working alongside Nick Stork ’06 and Rich Walton ’06.

Shaina Landau and Jose Gonzalez ’06 announce the birth of their son, Owen Landau Gonzalez, on March 7. They say, “He is the light of our sleepless world!”

Amanda Brown Lierman and her husband, Kyle, welcomed a daughter, Leia Brown Lierman, on June 27. She was born at 1:07 a.m., weighing in at 8 pounds and 12 ounces and with a full head of hair! In a very touching tribute, they named her in memory of Meleia Willis-Starbuck.

Melissa Machaj and her husband, Scott McAuley, just grew their family! “I had our daughter, Briar McAuley, on June 14 and all is great. We plan on hanging out this summer as a little family of three here in the Hamilton [New York] area just doing the local thing and enjoying the recent Toronto Raptors win.”

—Jaime Padgett, 1837 W. Patterson Ave, #109, Chicago, IL 60613; dartmouth2007s@gmail.com

Babies, babies, babies, rockin’ everywhere. Join me in welcoming some of the newest members to our extended Dartmouth family.

Marlene Labastida and her husband, Matt Johnson (UCSD ’08, Princeton ’13), welcomed their son, Santiago, this past summer. They are enjoying being new parents in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Christina (Luccio) Sargent and her husband, Dave, welcomed their first baby, a daughter named Selena Grace, on August 22, 2018. Selena has loved meeting a few daughters and sons of Dartmouth already, and she is hoping to make a trip to Hanover very soon!

I know it’s a busy time in our lives, with all of us juggling careers, families, social, and personal lives. Sarah Szefi has taken it to the next level though: She set a Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon while juggling (female) at the Chicago Marathon in October 2018. For those in the back, that’s running 26.2 miles…while constantly juggling three balls in the air. And she did it all with a smile on her face! You have to see it to believe it, so (insert shameless plug) make sure to check out the photos on our Instagram account!

As for social lives, it never gets any better than a reunion with the Dartmouth besties, right?

Sam Routhier shares that he had a great time in November doing a quick reunion with his best ’07 buds—Nate Raines, Charlie Guthrie, Pete Cooch—as well as Tommy Dickie ’05, in and around the tennis courts of Darien, Connecticut. He writes, “Nate is starting his nephrology fellowship in Boston, Charlie is working in tech in San Francisco, and Pete is working in pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, primarily focusing on Latin American community health. I’m going strong in year nine of teaching world history with KIPP-NYC charter schools.”

Paul Durkee ’06, Mikey Sinnott, Danny Hundert, Petie Anderson ’06, Bing Knight ’05, G. Owen Cadwalader, Spencer Lawley ’06, Kristina Trygstad-Saari ’06, Killarney Loufek, Cameron Houser, and James Austin V met on March 2 for a showdown at the Montucky Derby, this year’s Yellowstone Rendezvous 50k Nordic ski race. “After teasing the ‘nordorks’ for years about their foolish snow sport, we find ourselves forsaking ski lifts and coming out, spandex-clad, to go for glory. Mikey is going down.”

Until next time.

—Jaime Padgett, 1837 W. Patterson Ave, #109, Chicago, IL 60613; dartmouth2007s@gmail.com

From the first crunch of freshly fallen leaves under our feet that fall when we arrived on campus, our time at Dartmouth made an enduring impact on each of us. Since then, we’ve carried those lessons, friendships, and traditions with us, sometimes hilariously.

Like George Oh, who recounts, “When I go to a new diner that looks like it has the ingredients, I will ask them to make me a Billy Bob Jr., eggs over medium, and the kitchen will usually oblige. It’s never as good.” Just another example of the Dartmouth difference, I guess.

Karen (Heighes) Perez shares, “The bells used to play the alma mater on campus every day at 6 p.m. It’s one of my favorite memories, linking up arms and singing with a friend on our way to dinner. Here at our house, 6 o’clock is as chaotic as you’d expect a house with little kids, so we don’t maintain quite the same tradition. But we do play the Aires’ version nearly every day. My 5-year-old has our alma mater memorized!”

As the last class to celebrate Tubestock, sadly, one of the old traditions did, well, fail on our watch. (Shout out to the Save Tubestock committee though!) While Dan Linsalata confesses, “Mostly, I just miss a time in my life when I enjoyed the taste of Keystone,” many of you wrote in to share memories and traditions that you fondly recall.

They include Sarah Overton’s memories hiking “the 50” from Hanover to Moosilauke and canoeing on the Trip to the Sea and Hannah (Burzynski) McCullar’s recollection of DOC trips (“I love that the Dartmouth community gives incoming students such a unique and wholehearted welcome. The happy memories of sleeping in a cabin, swimming in an icy-cold river, and watching the incredible Lodge Crew show will stay with me forever”). Plus, Blair (Burgreen) Chan’s favorite tradition teaching the incoming freshmen how to do the “Salty Dog Rag” before those trips and Peter Kenseth’s love of Winter Carnival 2005, A Dartmouth Neverland: “The Winter Carnival snow sculptures were always amazing, but the life-sized pirate ship from A Dartmouth Neverland was truly epic.”

Our short time at Dartmouth changed each of us and our lives forever. As she celebrates her 250th anniversary, we are proud to count ourselves among her sons and daughters and will bleed green forever.

—Jaime Padgett, 1837 W. Patterson Ave, #109, Chicago, IL 60613; dartmouth2007s@gmail.com

The class of 2007 is renowned across the College as officially the best class ever, but these updates take it to the next level. The bonfire may not be, but we are certainly lit! Derrick Smith has been selected as Beyonce’s new lead backup vocalist. He beat out all the single ladies in the auditions, and Beyonce was heard saying that he was irreplaceable and she was crazy in love with his voice.

John Wilson has started a course teaching the perfect Southern accent to actors and actresses. Jacob Crumbine was the first to sign up. Christina Luccio Sargeant is helming a new HGTV show based on the Chicago rental apartment scene. Joanna Gaines called to offer Chip’s assistance.

Moira (Sullivan) Gallagher has moved to Ireland to join a tribe of leprechauns. It was in George’s best interest after all. After reaching all of the adult milestones, Nicole (Mahr) Cannizzarro has decided that she is, in fact, a kid at heart, and has run away to Neverland, where she is frolicking in her favorite items of flare, namely her tutu and sequined dress.

Ariel Eckstein has decided to leave his banking career to pursue his love of ultimate Frisbee. He’s trading suits and dress shoes for jerseys and cleats, paychecks for discs, and fine china for Frisbees. Daniela D’Osorio is nowhere to be found because she changed her name again. Kevin Hudak has become a Dartmouth board of trustees member. They didn’t even bother holding an election.

Skye Zeller is pursuing yet another degree. (Insert random degree program here.) Ashley Henry Musser, Courtney Henry Bhatt, and Brittany Henry have all had identical triplet babies. Dartmouth has already decided that they will all room together freshman year. A.J. Chammas took over Avicii’s DJ residency in Ibiza this summer! Harris Chung, Yusuf Artam, and Theirri Callier took sabbaticals to spend the summer with him.

Jaime Padgett has left her job as a trial attorney to pursue her longtime goal of living out The Sound of Music in a countryside far, far away. Her daily routine includes extensive twirling practice and light yodeling. Russell D’Souza is launching a lifestyle brand. He describes it as “Richard Branson-like, but younger and with less hair.”

Wes Milks has finally admitted that he was an original member of *NSYNC and shares that he is reuniting the group! We all want you back, *NSYNC, so thanks, Wes!

After a vacancy in the Idaho Senate opened up due to the northern senator getting run over by a small herd of bison, Johannes Thum ran for the seat and was elected in a special election! Our first ’07 senator! (Don’t worry; the previous guy is fine, but without going into detail, he can no longer work effectively as a public servant.)

Dax Tejera has revealed that he’s been a member of MI6 since college. He’s writing a memoir about his experiences and has an exclusive interview airing soon on ABC.

Danny Hundert is living in a cabin in the middle of the woods in Colorado without any connection to the outside world. He is focused on trying to breed a new genetic strain of ducks that are hardy enough for mountain life, yet mellow enough to be tame. In his limited free time he is entertaining himself by driving tiny tractors around (he reports that he has amassed quite the valuable collection at this point). He invites classmates to swing by for a ride if they’re in the area!

This is what happens when you hoard the details of your fabulous lives and accomplishments, rather than sending in updates—we’re left only imagining what you’ve been doing.

—Jaime Padgett, 1837 W. Patterson Ave, #109, Chicago, IL 60613; dartmouth2007s@gmail.com

Hello! Wow. It’s been a busy few months! Not only for your ’07 executive committee, but also apparently for all of you! By now I hope you’ve completed our class survey sent to you recently by email. We’re looking forward to being able to use your feedback from that to build out our next five years’ goals, priorities and activities. As a reminder, you are welcome to join us in our efforts! We have a number of different ways you can get involved and always welcome your ideas! Reach out to us anytime at our class email listed below. Now, without further ado, on to the juicy stuff for which you all actually read this column.

Lucius Joel Alexander and Jameka Byrd Alexander welcomed baby Lucius James Alexander on November 15, 2017.

Fellow Alaskan Moira (Sullivan) Gallagher toots Lisa Caldeira’s horn for being named one of Alaska Journal of Commerce’s “Top 40 Under 40” for 2018! Lisa was selected for her work as the director of the Brother Francis Shelter, an emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness in Anchorage.

Nicole Cameli married Sarah (Rivera) Cameli (U.S. Army) on October 28, 2017, at Liberty Station in San Diego, with several Dartmouth ’07s by her side. Bridesmaids (and “bridesman”) included Roxy (Davis) O’Conner, Colleen Kelly, Kristen (Blanchette) Roy and Stephen Spiess, Adv’07. Other Dartmouth guests in attendance included Alyssa Scott, Ryan O’Connor, Carolyn Wendell ’08, Monica Martin de Bustamante ’08 and Michelle (Dunn) Martin de Bustamante ’09. Sarah and Nicole have been living in Atlanta for almost two years and share that they love hosting friends so, if you find yourself in town you should let them know.

Kevin Chithran and Salinda Phanitsiri were married in September at the Castle Hotel in Tarrytown, New York. They were thrilled to celebrate with so many Dartmouth friends on the big day, including those in the wedding party: Jessica Chen, Khiet Chhu ’08, Dave Coen, Mike Dovidio,Nicole Hwang ’08, Debra Liu, Alex Ou, Matt Pallone, Sandeep Ramesh ’05, Sheila Chithran Ramesh ’05, Sebastian Restrepo, Kevin Shen, Jeannie Wong ’09 and Shawn Zhou ’06.

Kristina (Guild) Douglass writes to update us that she “had a great trip up to Dartmouth at the beginning of February to give a guest lecture in the anthropology department seminar series. It was great to see faculty mentors from the anthropology, classics and environmental studies departments! It also connected me to other Dartmouth alums who are also professional archaeologists! Lots of green in the future of archaeology!”

David and Whitney (Dickerson) Gerkin welcomed baby Julia to their family just in time for the holidays. Big brother Will wanted to name her “dump truck” in honor of his favorite toy. (And on that note, hi to Todd Wood!)

Rachel Karpf continues to produce theater in New York, recently serving as executive producer of the off-Broadway play Stuffed, starring comedian Lisa Lampanelli and Marsha Stephanie Blake ’96. In June she will begin a new job as artistic producer at WP Theater.

Arielle (Rodman) Langer and her husband, Nathaniel Langer (Middlebury ’05), welcomed their son, Teddy, this February. They are still in New York for the time being while Arielle finishes her hematology-oncology fellowship.

Lindsay Zahradka Milne was recently elected a shareholder at Bernstein Shur, one of northern New England’s largest law firms, where she is a member of the business, restructuring and insolvency practice group.

Aziz Sayigh married Amanda Young ’09 on July 8, 2017, in Stanford, California.

Donny Zimmanck got married last October to Melissa Staffanou (Sonoma State University ’11). “It was an absolute blast, with lots of ’07s in attendance, including Chris Allen, A.J. LeGaye, Giancarlo Nucci and Eric Trautmann as well as Drew Wenzel ’08.” Apparently a blast was truly had by all, as he and Melissa are expecting a baby girl early July, which Donny slyly points out is “exactly nine months after our wedding.”

—Jaime Padgett, 1837 W Patterson Ave., #109, Chicago, IL 60613; dartmouth2007s@gmail.com

Ludi Chow married David Driscoll (Grinnell College ’08) in May! Dartmouth had a strong showing on the dance floor, including ’07s Christine Mandell Abely, Brett Carr, Sean Garren, Bernice Kuang, Beata Lobel, Sarah Markus and Devlin Su; ’08s Pete Bonanno, Will Dekrey, Sam Haynor and Matt Mackey; as well as Art Vilassakdanont ’06, Eric Benson ’04 and Noah Shamosh ’04. “I also shamelessly used the wedding as an opportunity to fulfill my longtime dream of owning a (proper Dartmouth regulation-sized) pong table—now signed by all of our guests! We are excited to continue living in Oakland, California.”

Kristen (Grauer) Kittur got married this summer to Gaurav Kittur (Cornell ’99). In March Kristen also changed jobs, joining the Manhattan district attorney’s office as a prosecutor in trial bureau 30.

Joseph Hilgard is now an assistant professor of social psychology at Illinois State University. He writes that, “I’m having a lot of fun studying aggression, how to detect fraud and how to pool results across several scientific papers.” He’s also engaged to Nancy Chen (University of Virginia ’09) and planning to get married in mid-2018.

Brett Carr got married this summer to Kristen Bennett (UCLA ’11)! Brett writes that, “We had an awesome ceremony in Flagstaff, Arizona (where we’re currently living). Lots of Dartmouth alumni were in attendance: Sarah Markus, Mike Zargham, Ludi Chow, Lauren Edgar (who is actually our neighbor in Flagstaff—small world!), Peter Bonanno ’08, Vicki Allen ’06 and Eric Benson ’04. Kristen and I met while working on our Ph.D.s in geology at Arizona State University. I will be moving to New York in January to start a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University.”

Sonia Faruqi has published her second book, The Oyster Thief, the world’s first underwater fantasy book!

Moira (Sullivan) Gallagher married Greg Gallagher (CMC ’07) in Girdwood, Alaska, in July! They were delighted to be joined by many ’07s as they celebrated under the Midnight Sun. They will continue to live in Anchorage, where Moira serves as the social chair of the Dartmouth Alumni Club of Alaska and encourages everyone to come visit! 

Sara Segall announces that she is the founder and CEO of Orsden, a high-performance skiwear line with “ski club” and “après-ski” graphics that transition from lodge life into everyday life.

In July Allan Reynolds married Lauren Caracciola ’09 in Huntington, New York. There were many Big Greens in attendance, including Allan’s best man, Matthew DeMarco.

Mike Greene and Kerry Snow announce the birth of their baby girl, Valerie Lynn Greene, on August 13!

Heather Luntz got married! “My husband, Michael Crain, and I had spent nine months planning a wine country wedding, but given the Napa wildfires, we had to move our wedding to the city last minute. We planned a brand-new wedding in eight days in San Francisco, and Plan B turned out to be even better than Plan A. All part of the adventure! Twenty-five proud Dartmouth alums joined in the celebration.”

Tom Carney, Th’10, and Lisa (Warren) Carney are happy to announce the birth of their daughter, Claire Josephine Carney (class of 2039), on July 31 in Rockville, Maryland. 

Sam Routhier got married in September at the 1 Hotel in Brooklyn Bridge Park to Katy Brewster (Stanford ’10). Charlie Guthrie, Pete Cooch, Nate Raines and Liz Yepsen represented the ’07 class. They had a lovely singing of the alma mater just off the dance floor and did some salty-dogging to top it all off.

—Jaime Padgett, 1837 W Patterson Ave, #109, Chicago, IL 60613; jaime.padgett@gmail.com

Happy spring, ’07s!

Dax Tejera writes, “Moving to D.C. to join ABC News as its senior producer overseeing coverage of the Trump administration. It’s been a great four years in hometown Miami helping to build Fusion and traveling the world with Jorge Ramos. I’ve gotten to work with the team at ABC (which partnered to launch Fusion) over the years, and they gave me an opportunity to cover what are fast becoming some of the most fascinating stories of our lifetimes. I’m looking forward to getting to know the stellar D.C. alumni group and being that much closer to Hanover!”

Sahiba (Sarna) Krieger announces, “My husband, Keith Krieger (Duke ’07), and I had a baby boy named Thomas Sarna Krieger on January 4!”

Sara Studebaker-Hall shares, “My husband, Zachary Hall ’06, and I are moving from Anchorage, Alaska, to Midway, Utah, in May! I’ll be taking over the local junior Nordic team as head coach of Team Soldier Hollow and Zach will be managing and coaching biathlon at the same venue (Soldier Hollow is the 2002 Olympic venue for Nordic and biathlon). We’ll be about 20 minutes from Park City and 45 from Salt Lake City, so look forward to getting to know alums in the area and welcoming anyone coming to enjoy all that Utah has to offer!”

Yuki Kondo-Shah is wrapping up her second tour as a foreign service officer at the U.S. embassy in Beijing, China, and returning to D.C. in September. Her husband, 8-month-old baby Sayuri and Yuki will be back in the district for two years before departing for her next tour in Fukuoka, Japan! She’s looking forward to catching up with old friends in America!

Dan Racic and Deborah Wassel got married this past July! Nik Nartowicz officiated in a beautiful outdoor ceremony in Quechee, Vermont. Among those in attendance were groomsmen Ray Cheng and Dave Stanek and bridesmaid Meghan Hill ’05, as well as Allison Wilson, Christina Divoll, Sri Batchu, Donny Zimmanck, Amit Padukone ’06, Corey Chu ’08, Steph Zamorano ’08 and Peter Cunningham ’04. It was an incredible day filled with laughter and love (and pie…so much pie)!

Andreas Baum and his wife, Ingrid Scholze, welcomed their first child, Astrid Elisabeth Baum (Dartmouth class of 2038?), in July 2016. Andreas is still working as a lawyer in New York City, specializing in international arbitration, including investor-state disputes. They moved to Brooklyn last year and—in true Dartmouth tradition—go cross-country skiing in Prospect Park (snow conditions permitting).

Evan Sparks enthuses, “2016 was a big year for me. I earned my Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley and my wife, Katie, and I welcomed our daughter, Charlotte, to the world in June. I am currently an entrepreneur-in-residence with Amplify Partners and am planning to launch a company in the large-scale machine intelligence space. We are based in Berkeley.”

Kristina Douglass reports, “Scott Douglass and I are both doing well. I am a postdoctoral fellow in archeology at the Smithsonian and Scott is the orchestra director at St. John’s College High School in northwest D.C. We will soon be moving to State College, Pennsylvania, where I am joining Penn State’s anthropology department faculty as an assistant professor in archeology in the fall. Our son, Percy, just turned 2 and is doing all of the fun things toddlers do!”

Rachel (Bloch) Wolf and husband Michael celebrated the birth of baby girl Abigail Jacqueline on December 28, to the delight of her big sister, Eliana. “We are now in Pittsburgh working through training programs at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and welcome visitors any time.”

Hoping you’re all well.

—Jesse Shaw, Unit 3120 #9, DPO, AA 34055; jesseashaw@gmail.com

Hello, ’07s! By the time you read this it will pretty much be 2017. You know what that means: 10-year reunion! How did that happen?

Anyway, with the 10-year comes a new, class-wide election for class executive committee for the positions of president, vice president, secretary and treasurer. If you’re looking for a way to engage and lead the class, consider running for one of these positions! Look out for more information coming soon. Now onto the notes!

Ansley (Watson) Burnett had a baby born September 8 named Audrey Julianna Burnett!

Christina Luccio married David Sargent on September 24 at the Chicago Cultural Center in Chicago. Severina Ostrovsky Skopets, Erika Ruberry, Lauren Hassouni and Jordan (Kutcher) Grant stood by her side and many close friends surrounded her, including Ali Amrhein ’06, Sahiba (Sarna) Krieger, Laura (Flannery) Masters, David Faherty, Sean Garren, Will DeKrey ’08, Adam Goldfarb ’08, Kate Davison and Mat Ackerman ’05. Christina and David will continue to reside in Chicago.

Caitlin K. Potratz: “I raced my first Ironman at Mont Tremblant, Canada, this August. Still trying to decide if another one’s in my future!”

Vaughn Booker: “I completed my Ph.D. in religion at Princeton University this summer. I am currently a research associate at Dartmouth and I will become assistant professor of religion and African and African American studies here beginning in the 2017-18 academic year.”

Sam Beattie: “Good news for the fall! My stretch of ‘fun-employment’ is over and I’ve started a new job as a game designer at PopCap Games, in downtown Seattle, working on Plants vs. Zombies 2. With both Julie and I now employed, we’re finally feeling settled in Seattle. We’ve also attended several of the Dartmouth Club of Seattle get-togethers, so we’re keeping in touch with other alums!”

Sara (Huneke) Segall: “I’ve started a skiwear company, Orsden. Our debut collection features ski jackets for men and women. They’re perfect for skiing in New England, so look out for them on the slopes this winter (or check out orsden.com).”

Finally, our fearless leader/queen bee John Valdez and “he’s a doctah!” Chris Abrecht ’08 married in San Francisco with flowers in their hair. They were surrounded and serenaded by dear friends, including Carolyn Kylstra ’08, Lisa Moon ’08, Julia Jacobsen ’08, Jacques Hebert, Derrick Smith and Jesse Shaw. Ya-ya!

That’s it for now, folks. See you in a few short months at the reunion!

Cheers!

—Jesse Shaw, Unit 3120 #9, DPO, AA 34055; jesseashaw@gmail.com

Hello, ’07s! We’re about 10 months away from our 10-year reunion—crazy! Onto the notes.

John Valdez celebrated his bachelorette party in New Orleans with his best yaya-maids.

Deborah Wassel shares, “After doing appellate work for the past four years, I recently briefed, argued and won my first case in the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in New York. (Dan Racic came with me to Albany to watch me argue in front of the panel of seven judges!) It was definitely intense, but I was grateful to be able to do it since it’s an opportunity that very few attorneys have. The best part is that it creates new law for the entire state!”

Yuki Kondo Shah writes, “My husband, Phil, and I welcomed baby Sayuri, our daughter, on June 18! We’re resting in Arizona before gearing up to go back to Beijing.”

Amy (Rolfvondenbaumen) Dance announces, “My husband and I welcomed our baby girl Leah Estelle Dance to the world on May 24!”

Christine Huggins is running her nonprofit and explains, “June is Aphasia Awareness Month! Please consider donating to Aphasia Recovery Connection. Thanks for your donations, Katie Nunan, Christina Luccio, Allison Wilson, Julia Bernstein and Amanda Greenberg.”

Charlie Cunningham and Allison Citro-Cunningham got married in Northampton, Massachusetts, on May 29. They were accompanied by groomsman Matthew Pallone, groomsman Kevin Shen and bridesmaid Grace Chua. Also in attendance were Nicolai Buhr, Matthew Maccani and George Oh, as well as a decade of Dartmouth alumni ranging from the class of ’99 to the class of ’09. Allison and Charlie now live in Falmouth, Maine, with their two cats, Beansprout and Spot. After getting his Ph.D. at Tufts in 2015, Charlie is teaching mathematics at Bowdoin College, while Allison just graduated from Boston University with her M.P.H. in epidemiology. “Everyone should come visit Maine!”

David Zubricki reports, “After a tremendous two and a half years I am leaving Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago to start at Centerview Partners in N.Y.C.! So I’m changing cities and shifting from law to investment banking, but I’ll still focus primarily on distressed businesses, special situations investments and restructuring generally. My fiancée, Catherine Cabrera (UTexas ’09), will come join me in N.Y.C. later this fall or winter after she wraps up her M.B.A. at Chicago Booth.”

This summer Rebecca Hoyte is finishing some prerequisite courses before student teaching in the fall and otherwise hanging around Mystic County, Connecticut.

That’s it for now, ’07s! Hope you’re enjoying the last few weeks of summer!

—Jesse Shaw, Unit 3120 #9, DPO, AA 34055; jesseashaw@gmail.com

Happy spring, ’07s! Moira Sullivan writes, “I’m moving to Anchorage, Alaska, in January to start a new job at the Anchorage Economic Development Corp. Looking forward to being back in my hometown and catching up with other ’07s in Alaska!” Sonia Faruqi shares, “I will be speaking at Dartmouth in an event organized by the Rockefeller Center on Thursday, April 14 from 4 to 6:30 p.m.” After house hunting for almost a year, Amy (Do) Bender and her husband have purchased a home in the Bay Area and are excited to move in this summer.

Sam Beattie announces, “Julie and I are all moved into our new place in Seattle, and while the job hunt is ongoing, we’re loving our new neighborhood in Ballard. Looking forward to seeing more Dartmouth people in the area!” Luis Dinnella-Borrego relates, “I am currently working as an adjunct professor of history at Union County College in Cranford, New Jersey. My book The Risen Phoenix: Black Politics in the Post-Civil War South will be published on July 15. My book will focus on the lives and careers of six black congressmen after the Civil War and the ways in which they navigated the difficult political climate of the American South in order to articulate and defend the rights of their embattled and newly freed constituents.”

Christine (Terada) Schuricht writes in, “My husband, Keith Schuricht ’05, and I welcomed our son, River Kohsei Schuricht, to the world in December. We can’t wait to show River his namesake, the Connecticut River, where we had our first date!”

Whitney (MacFadyen) Flynn graduated from Tuck in June. “Andrew Flynn and I have decided to stay in the Upper Valley! Looking forward to seeing Dartmouth friends when they are in town.”

Finally, on a personal note, Jesse Shaw received his onward assignment—a consular tour at the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip—our mission to the Palestinian territories. Looking forward to seeing friends in the region come September 2017!

Hope you’re all well! Cheers.

—Jesse Shaw, Unit 3120 #9, DPO, AA 34055-9997; jesseashaw@gmail.com

Each issue so packed

Leaving 12 words for intro

Only form: haiku.

David Waslen got married in September to Martha Crotty (Duke ’06). He also cofounded and launched a private equity firm called Chrysalis Acquisition Fund this summer, based in Calgary, Alberta, where the couple resides.

Ansley (Watson) Burnett writes, “In August I accepted an offer to become the vice president of operations for Happy Tree, an N.Y.C.-based beverage startup that makes Maple Water. I’m really excited about this new position!”

Sarah Uhl: “I recently took on a new role at Clean Air Task Force, directing our program to reduce emissions of potent, short-lived climate pollutants, including black carbon and methane. When not traveling around I am thrilled to be back in the beautiful Granite State, living with my husband, Zachary Smith, in a 225-year-old house we just purchased near downtown Portsmouth. Visitors welcome! No ghost sightings yet.”

Tom Bonamici moved from Brooklyn to Eugene, Oregon, where he’ll be teaching product design at the university and doing custom furniture and building. “If anyone wants a timber-frame sauna, give a shout!”

Amanda Brown married Kyle Lierman in September in Washington, D.C. Amanda shares, “He’s not a Dartmouth person, but his older sister and brother-in-law are both ’01s. He was very quick to tell my mom that the first time they met. In his vows his first promise was that our children can go to Dartmouth.”

Sarah Overton: “I was married on September 19 to a brilliant Aussie, David Duncan. The ceremony was in my hometown, Jacksonville, Florida, and we were delighted to share the day with Elizabeth Terry, Sarah Hughes, Caroline Barker, John Bair ’05, Marina McClure ’04, Jesse Roisin ’05 and Matt Fay ’05. David and I continue to live in Melbourne, Australia, and would love to connect with alums Down Under.”

Dan Linsalata: “I got married to Donna Schaller (Lehigh ’04) back in September. We had a good crowd of Dartmouth representation, including John Wilson, Neil Hartz, Erin (Emery) Hartz ’06, Mike Greene, Kerry Snow, Mark Henle, Dan Weinberg ’05, Dax Tejera, Eric Crawford ’08, Max Copello ’09, Jeff Cooperman ’06 and Dan Villone. The wedding was in Boston, where Donna and I are currently living in Charlestown and trying to avoid growing up and moving out to the ’burbs.”

Jean Hamlin: “I graduated from the University of Rochester’s family medicine residency in Rochester, New York, this year, and I am now in the National Health Service Corps and practicing medicine in Milo, Maine—where I grew up. I graduated from medical school at Dartmouth back in 2012 and it is great to be a licensed, board-certified M.D.!”

Victoria Solbert recently moved to London to start a job with Dalberg Global Development Advisors. “Would love to meet up with any Dartmouth folk in the area! U.K. Thanksgiving, anyone?”

Amy Do celebrated four years of being Amy Bender this year. She and her husband are in the process of buying their first home in the San Francisco Bay Area. Amy also celebrated eight years of being a googler this summer and started a new role as a global product expert at Google’s Mountain View headquarters.

Paul Wright married Liz Vaughan ’08 in Seal Cove, Maine, surrounded by loved ones, including a huge contingent of Dartmouth friends. (Picture in newsletter!)

Finally, Ali Levine Nuger: “My husband, Jon, and I welcomed a baby boy, Andrew Henry Nuger, to the world on October 23. Andrew weighed in at 6 pounds, 9 ounces and is doing great! Mom and dad are in awe. Andrew already can’t wait for his first trip up to Hanover.”

Happy 2016, dear ’07s!

—Jesse Shaw, Unit 3120 #9, DPO, AA 34055; jesseashaw@gmail.com

Jam-packed, had to cut, straight to notes.

Sam Routhier: “Mike Amico visited my history classes to get a sense of what the school’s about. The kids were so interested in his dissertation, a book about two soldiers who become lovers in the American Civil War. He added great energy to the class and it was wonderful to reconnect with him.”

Whitney Gerkin: “My husband, David, and I welcomed a baby boy (Will) to our family in May. We are thrilled!”

Charlie Guthrie: “I just left The New York Times and I’m now working at R/GA, an ad agency. I’ll be traveling in India in August, attending Burning Man in September and then going back to NYU for a master’s in data science. From there I’ll be looking for ways to improve education with data science and technology.”

Grace Chua: “Jimmy Bramante ’09 and I have produced a tiny, adorable human. Our son Darren (’36?) is a champion pooper and thumb-sucker extraordinaire who enjoys sunshine and naps. We are currently based in Boston, where Jimmy is doing a Ph.D. in marine geophysics and I am a freelance science journalist.”

Lindsey Larson: “Vivian Chung married Rena Fried ’08 on a vineyard bluff overlooking the ocean in Greenport, New York. In attendance to celebrate were Michelle Davis, Taica Hsu ’06, Karima Hamamsy ’08, Will McMahan ’08, Jenna Hasenkampf ’06 and Anton Hasenkampf ’06.

Katie (Amato) and Samuel Morales welcomed their son, Alessandro Salvatore, into the world on June 3. All three are enjoying their last summer in Boulder, Colorado, before moving back to Chicago, where Katie will start as an assistant professor of anthropology at Northwestern University in September.

Sara Studebaker and Zachary Hall ’06 married in Stanley, Idaho, on June 27. They were so excited to celebrate with so many fellow alums, including Whitney (MacFadyen) Flynn, Bart Butler ’06, Ruchita Dhawan, Susan Dunklee ’08, Mike Sinnott, Hannah Dreissigacker ’09 and Matthew Weatherly-White ’86. Sara and Zach will continue living in Anchorage, Alaska, after the wedding.

Sonia Faruqi: “My book Project Animal Farm has just been released. The book has received more than 20 endorsements and is garnering media attention far and wide. I am speaking in the United States and Canada.”

Hannah McCullar: “On May 9 Maia (Fedyszyn) Crawford and her husband, Andy, welcomed a beautiful baby boy, Elliott Thomas, to their family. The family is doing great!”

Patricia (Inman) Taratuta: “This year my husband of three years and I bought our very first home in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, and are hoping to start a family soon!”

Anna Sian: “I’m still in N.Y.C. now working as brand marketing manager at Visual Supply Co., an art and technology company. Looking forward to hearing what people are up to these days!”

Yuki Kondo-Shah and her husband, Phil, are wrapping up their first tour with the U.S. Department of State in embassy La Paz, Bolivia, and will be working at embassy Beijing, China, from September. They will be in Arizona, California, Hawaii and D.C. this summer and look forward to catching up with friends in America! “Come visit us in China!”

Clara Aranovich: “A short film I wrote and directed, Primrose, premiered in official competition at this year’s SXSW Film Festival. It was picked up by Nowness.com for distribution and selected as a Vimeo staff pick, which is exciting and means anyone can view it now!”

Luke Antal (after sending me a YouTube link announcing he’s had a baby boy, Linden Muir Antal): “We are back living in Boston and would love to connect with any other new parents in the area!”

Two notes cut off for next issue! Love you all.

—Jesse Shaw, Unit 3120, #9, DPO, AA 34055-9997; jesseashaw@gmail.com

Hello, ’07s! By the time you read this winter will be over, your lives will have defrosted and you’ll, I hope, be greedily soaking up warmth and happiness. And then you’ll write me Class Notes updates and tell me all about it, okay? Just a few updates this time: here we go!


Joe Scola writes in, “My 2015 has started out with change. I just finished up my second year coaching football at the University of Kentucky. However, before I got my third year started I took a new job coaching for the San Francisco 49ers and moved out here to the Bay Area in February. I hope I will be able to connect with some Dartmouth alums in the area. Hope all is well!”


Kristina Guild Douglass and her husband, Scott Douglass, welcomed Percy, their first child, on January 20. Kristina is finishing up her Ph.D. in archaeology at Yale and Scott teaches music in Hamden, Connecticut, just north of New Haven. Scott regularly gets together to play music with Brad Fierstein ’06, who also lives in New Haven.


Beily Pan shares, “I’m engaged and moving to N.Y.C.! After 17 months at Sony Electronics in San Diego I will be joining Mag+ in a strategy and operations role. But most importantly I won’t be doing cross-country long distance anymore.”


Jacques P. Hebert recently moved back home to New Orleans to take a job as communications director with the National Audubon Society’s Restore the Mississippi River Delta campaign based there, aiming to raise awareness and support for much-needed coastal restoration efforts. Prior to leaving the Bay Area Jacques married his partner, Graham Gremore, in a private ceremony atop Ring Mountain Open Space Preserve in Tiburon, California, on New Year’s Eve. 


Hannah McCullar writes in to share that Kristin (Lieske) Bryan and her husband, Dan Bryan ’05, were thrilled to meet their beautiful baby girl, Elizabeth Anne, on January 21. Mom and baby are doing great!


Finally, a rare update from yours truly: Jesse Shaw moved to Barbados at the end of December 2014 to begin his two-year posting as a consular officer at the U.S. embassy to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States. He misses home but feels comforted when classmates send him life updates for Class Notes. He is unashamed of dropping heavy-handed hints.


Finally, Laura Flannery’s name was misspelled in the last column, in the mention of her August wedding to Colin Masters. Apologies for the error.


Hope all of you are well!


—Jesse Shaw, Unit 3120, #9, DPO, AA 34055-9997; jesseashaw@gmail.com


Happy New Year, ’07s! Here we go!


Luis Dinnella-Borrego writes in, “Over the summer I traveled along with my seminary on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land from August 5 through August 28. We visited many places over those three weeks—going throughout Galilee to the Sinai Desert in Egypt, into Jordan, where we saw the site of Christ’s baptism, and spent considerable time in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. It was truly an eye-opening experience.”


Sonia Faruqi shares, “My book will be published in July 2015. The title is Project Animal Farm: An Accidental Journey into the Secret World of Farming and the Truth about our Food. It’s already available for pre-order on Amazon. I also got married to Aamer Hasham on June 22, 2014, in the Toronto area. Several Dartmouth alumni were in attendance, including Sofia Faruqi, Samantha Wu, Duberliz Anaya, Shamara Baidoobonso ’06, Phuong Luong, Ashley Henry and Thomas Van Dyke Musser ’05.


Vera Sticker was awarded her master’s in early childhood special education this summer and now works for the office of specialized instruction at D.C. public schools. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, has a weekly trivia team with three other Dartmouth alums and would love to hear from more! “Find me on Facebook or LinkedIn, fellow ’07s!”


Sam Routhier reports that he had a great time going out to dinner with college friends Charlie Guthrie and Nate Raines in New York City in October. Nate is now in his fourth year of medical school and getting ready to be a doctor in internal medicine, while Charlie is working hard to balance a new data science master’s at NYU with his job in data visualization at The New York Times. 


Arielle (Rodman) Langer writes, “I got married to Nathaniel Langer, a Middlebury grad, in September. Elizabeth Yepsen was our officiant and Melina Marmarelis, Milene Kennedy Crispin and Blair (Burgreen) Chan were bridesmaids. There was a big Dartmouth crew, including my new cousin Lucas Schulz ’08, Th’09, Chris Chan, newlyweds Ashley Thorfinnson and Chris Barth ’08 and Rachel (Karpf) Reidy and Brent Reidy ’05.”


Kristina Trygstad-Saari says, “I recently took the head Nordic ski coach position at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, where I’m working with fellow Dartmouth alums Karl Johnson ’06 and Kevin Francis ’06. Dartmouth skiing has invaded MSU!”


Tegan (Vay) Palma and Chris Palma welcomed their son, Avery William, at 12:24 a.m. on October 12. They were planning a visit that weekend with Lucy (Whidden) Hampton and Jon Hampton ’05 and when Avery decided to make his appearance a bit earlier than expected were thrilled to introduce him to his Dartmouth family when he was just minutes old.


Jenna Farleigh married Todd Yezefski ’04 (“also known as hot cycling coach to many Kappa Delta Epsilons”) on August 23 at Alderbrook Resort and Spa in Union, Washington. “Many amazing Dartmouth alums were in attendance, including Lindsay Mann, Courtney Calise Temple, Kristina Trygstad-Saari, Linden Mallory, Mikey Sinnott, Hannes Thum, Moira Sullivan and Esther Perman.”


And finally, La Von Morgan-Mejia and Rafael Mejia ’06 welcomed a little girl, Audrey Belle, on September 16!


A big congratulations to all of you! And to all my ’07s, may 2015 bring you peace, love and happiness.


—Jesse Shaw, 1919 Clarendon Blvd., #509, Arlington, VA 22201; jesseashaw@gmail.com


Hello, ’07s! Hope your summer was beautiful and memorable and that you got a chance to attend a mini-reunion in July!


Ryan O’Connor writes, “At the end of July I will be relocating from Long Island to Seattle and starting my teaching career anew in Lake Washington High School. Roxy Davis and I are in the process of finding a place to live but as soon as we do all are welcome. I’ve heard the weather takes a turn for the worse starting in October and stays that way until June, so try to come in the summers, when the sun makes an appearance.”


Martyna Lopaczynska shares, “I’m heading to the Fuqua School of Business this fall at Duke University, focusing on health sector management. Would love to connect with any alums in the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, area!”


Amy Rolf got engaged in May in Mauritius to a lovely British gentleman named Adam.


Jordan Kutcher married Justin Grant on May 24 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in D.C. “Afterward we enjoyed a honeymoon in South Africa and Zimbabwe, where we rode an elephant and saw lions!”


Rachel (Bloch) Wolf and husband Michael welcomed a beautiful baby girl, Eliana, on May 17. “She was a peanut at 5 pounds, 13 ounces but is growing fast and we love being new parents!” Rachel returned to medical school at Vanderbilt in August and will graduate in May 2015.


Beata Lobel writes, “I earned my Mb BCh CAO (Irish version of M.D.) from the University College Dublin and am starting residency at UConn on July 1! I will miss Europe but am excited to be learning surgery and be back in the Northeast.”


Yulie Ding and Inga Caldwell congratulate Sharon Man on her upcoming nuptials. Sharon will be marrying Terry Tai on July 25 in New York City. “Best wishes to the happy couple!”


Jenny Wang just finished school at Wharton and is moving to San Francisco in July to work at Google as a product marketing manager.


Miles Yourman graduated from Columbia Business School and moved back to Newport Beach, California—“this time for good.”


Melissa Matulich just finished her intern year of obstetrics/gynecology residency at Northwestern in Chicago. “If anyone is ever passing through the city they should hit me up!”


Gwen Rudie was married on April 26 in Pasadena, California, to Andrew Newman, a Ph.D. classmate of Gwen from Caltech whom she met in 2006 in La Serena, Chile, during her off-term from Dartmouth. “Several Dartmouth alums made the trip to California to help us celebrate, including Christina Behrend, Chelsea Minkler, Stephen Secules, Priya Patel and Erin Demien, as well as Matt Schenker ’09 and Mark Christman ’06. Also in attendance was my undergraduate research advisor from Dartmouth, professor Rob Fesen. It was wonderful to see everyone and to celebrate with such wonderful friends.”


Sofia Faruqi writes of her sister: “Sonia Faruqi married Aamer Hasham on a beautiful summer day in Toronto on June 22. There was great Dartmouth representation, including Duberliz Anaya, Samantha Wu, Phuong Luong, Ashley Henry and Thomas Musser ’05. The bride and groom are enjoying their honeymoon in Nova Scotia.”


Congrats, everyone! Y’all are the best are keeping connected and giving each other shout-outs. Keep it up! ’Til next time,


—Jesse Shaw, 733 Amsterdam Ave., #15H, New York City, NY 10025; jesseashaw@gmail.com


Hello, ’07s! Ten years ago we would’ve just finished our first term at Dartmouth. Wow. Anyway, here we go!
Beily Pan just completed her M.B.A. from Kellogg this past June and started working in a rotational program with Sony Electronics based in San Diego. Her second rotation is in New Jersey starting from September, so she hopes to catch up with Dartmouth alums in the Tri-State Area soon. 
Yuki Kondo-Shah moved to La Paz, Bolivia, to work as the assistant cultural affairs officer in the U.S. embassy, doing youth and indigenous outreach. She also got engaged to Phillip Chamberlain, who was a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia from 2006 to 2008. “We’re always happy to host visitors so please come visit!”
Allan Reynolds moved to Amsterdam at the end of September with First Annapolis Consulting: “Would be great to see some familiar Dartmouth faces if anyone finds themselves in the Netherlands or nearby.”
Alexandra Garrison Barnett married Norman Barnett on April 27, 2013. Jessica Harris was maid of honor and ’07s in attendance included Dana Berry, Cristina Churchill, Melody Dai, Selina Davis, Fatima Kamara, Yuki Kondo-Shah, Esther Perman and Natalya Shulga. 
Rashid Galadanci and Christina Douglas were married in May in Southampton, New York, and were overjoyed to have ’07s present, including Linda Okoye, Celeste Griffin-Churchill, Ben Selznick, Billy Accomando, best man Pooneet Kant, Anoop Rathod, Kapil Kale, John Ballard and Scott and Kristina (Guild) Douglass. 
Victoria Solbert started at UC Berkeley this past fall for the master’s in development practice program. “I’m sure there are some other ’07s at Berkeley and would love to meet up!”
Sandra (Beutler) Sidi and her husband, Ram, welcomed their second son, Ethan Avner Sidi, on July 26, 2013. Their son Joseph Mark Sidi is turning 3 this October and loves his baby brother. When Sandi is not running after a toddler or a newborn she is working on finishing her first novel!
Ari Bezman writes, “After four years in N.Y.C. and two in Europe (Zurich, Paris) as a product manager at Google, I’m moving on to another gig at the company, this time in Singapore to work on getting people in emerging markets online. Wandering the world continues to be fun, and one of the joys of all this has been crossing paths with Dartmouth alums wherever I go.”
Laura Pearlstein Mills shares: “In June I officially went native after five years in London and married Hywel Mills (Cambridge ’07). We’re still happily living across the pond, but don’t be surprised if you run into us in New York in 2014, once the green card comes through!”
Michelle Davis announces that, “The ever-awesome Vivian Chung and Rena Fried ’08 are engaged, and I was able to attend their engagement party this summer with Meli Garber ’08 and my husband. They are also both in their first year at Wharton. I am so happy for them and just wanted to put it on blast!”
Melody Jones had an adorable baby boy August 15: “He is seriously the most adorable baby boy ever! Baby shower thrown by Samantha Ferguson, and our first Dartmouth visitor was Christina Luccio. His favorite hat is his Dartmoose hat, and it fits him well!”
Sri Batchu finished his M.B.A. at Harvard Business School in May and is currently living in Santa Monica, California, working for Universal Music co-managing a corporate venture capital fund as well as managing mergers and acquisitions transactions. He also shares that Andrew Seal and his wife, Samantha, just had a baby boy named Frederick a month ago!
Sofia Faruqi got engaged to Erik Desrosiers. They met in the M.B.A. program at Wharton and “will make a trip to Hanover soon so that Erik can see how wonderful Dartmouth is!”
Again, congrats to everyone! 
—Jesse Shaw, 733 Amsterdam Ave., #15H, New York City, NY 10025; jesseashaw@gmail.com



As we begin the New Year the wedding bells keep ringing in the ’07 class. Meredith Wilson—now Meredith Wilson Chang—married Welton Chang ’05 on May 16, with Marlene Labastida, Katie Racicot ’06, Amanda Morris ’06 and Kate Vanderhoof ’05 as bridesmaids; DJ Wolff served as a groomsman and Andrew Seal gave a reading. Many Dartmouth alums were in attendance, with particularly good showings from the Fencing Club, Casque & Gauntlet, the Free Press and Dartmouth ROTC. It was definitely a Big Green wedding!


Lisa Melvin and Charlie Kircher were married at a historic mansion outside St. Louis, Missouri, in July. Their wedding was attended by more than a dozen Dartmouth alumni, including ’07s Julie Dempewolf, Abby DeBellis, Emily Serrell, Ben Taylor, Sri Batchu, Dave Prout and Kevin Hudak. Lisa and Charlie began their relationship our freshman year through the Marching Band and as a tribute to their Dartmouth beginnings, the ‘Alma Mater’ was one of the final songs played at the reception. 


Katherine Day, who is finishing up her master of fine arts in set design at Yale University, was recognized for her incredible costume designs in a glowing New York Times review of the Yale Repertory Theater’s production of The Master Builder. You can read the article here: www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/nyregion/27theaterct.html.


Deborah Wassel is in her third (and final!) year at Fordham Law. She spent the summer working at the Westchester district attorney’s office in special prosecutions, which she says was absolutely incredible.


Joseph Kutney had a fantastic school year in 2008-09 as a seventh-grade math teacher at the East Bronx Academy of the Future. He was named Teacher of the Year, as voted by the entire school, staff and parents! During his hard-earned vacations he swam with sea lions in Uruguay with Nancy Zhao, learned how to kite surf in the Dominican Republic and surfed in San Diego. Dan Racic is well into his third year as an elementary technology teacher at P.S. 42 in the Bronx. He just completed his master’s in education.


ChiChi Aguoji has begun her M.B.A. at MIT Sloan. Alex Leonard is now living in the United Kingdom and beginning grad school at the London School of Economics. She would love to be in touch with any ’07s or other Dartmouth alums in the area. Sri Batchu is moving halfway around the world to Mumbai to start a new job. 


Francesca Gazzaniga is a graduate student at the University of California at San Francisco. She is working in the laboratory of Elizabeth Blackburn, one of the three recent winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine. 


Will Rollins worked for California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger from June of 2007 through July of 2009, first as special assistant to the deputy chief of staff, then as assistant press secretary in Sacramento and later as deputy director of media operations in Los Angeles. He is now a first-year law student at the University of Southern California.


It was great to hear from all of you! Keep the updates coming.


Cheers.


—John Valdez, 329 E. 94th St., Apt. 1, New York, NY 10128; (415) 264-4908; jev@alum.dartmouth.org


Hello everyone! From your updates, it sounds as if many of you are starting off the year with exciting new adventures. 


Ivy Pruss recently moved to L.A. and is enjoying living in Los Feliz. She is in her first year of the M.F.A. program in writing for the screen and television at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. She will be interning at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment in the spring semester. Clara Aranovich, Alice Mathias and Nathan Ruegger ’06 are students in the M.F.A. in production at USC.


Natalie Koch finished her geography M.A. and is getting underway with her Ph.D. research on Kazakhstan. Thanks to a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship she has more time to race bikes!


Sarah Hughes, Preston Copley and Rachel Karpf spent the fall directing (Sarah), starring in (Preston), and producing (Rachel) Neptune, a new play from young theater collective Superhero Clubhouse. With the help of people such as Katie Farley ’09, Adam Frank ’09 and Marina McClure ’04, they transformed an abandoned New York City factory into a sold-out play about water, love, whales and the destruction of the world. When not making plays in factories Sarah is the stage manager for the international touring company Elevator Repair Service, Preston helps run the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and Rachel is the associate producer for the playwrights’ group 13P. Their next project is coming soon. N.Y.C. folks, stay tuned.


Congratulations to Amanda Greenberg for marrying her high school sweetheart, Noah Bornstein, on November 28 in Oxford, Ohio. Rachel Ruiz and Lindsey Larson were bridesmaids, and other ’07s in attendance included Dave Zubricki, Jacques Hebert and Ben Zimmerman.


It was great to hear from you. Take care and keep the updates coming!


Cheers.


—John Valdez, 329 E. 94th St., Apt. 1, New York, NY 10128; (415) 264-4908; jev@alum.dartmouth.org


¡Hola a todos! I’m usually one to have a generous slice of humble pie, but as a shameless plug for myself, I recently finished my second year as a middle school Spanish teacher in the Bronx with the New York City Teaching Fellows program. I’ve aged in dog years, but now that the summer is here I am ready to enjoy a throwback to Sophomore Summer by finding somewhere with air conditioning and doing absolutely nothing. Of course there are other throwback activities that can be enjoyed and I’ll be bothering you to hang out with me. I hope that you can appreciate the warmer weather, too, especially if you live someplace where you’ve had to withstand the winter. Moving on to the other exciting things that our classmates are doing….


Joe Scola has been coaching football at Dartmouth since graduation, and at the beginning of March he began coaching the Seminoles at Florida State University.


Jessica Zepeda got married on May 15 to a Princeton hockey player. Among her bridesmaids were classmates Margo Duke, Molly Feldmann, Monique Lemus and Lindsay Mann.


Katherine Day earned high praise from The New York Times for her magical set design for the Yale Repertory’s The Servant of Two Masters. Lisa Caldeira and Kirsten Murray met up with Katherine in New Haven, Connecticut, to catch the play, which was spectacularly hilarious. You can check out the article here: www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/nyregion/21theaterct.html.


Lauren Hassouni is graduating from Fordham Law School this spring and is moving to Washington, D.C. 


Yuki Kondo-Shah is a 2010 Rangel Fellow, so the U.S. Department of State is training her to become a Foreign Service officer. She’ll attend the Kennedy School at Harvard for her master’s in public policy, and when she graduates in 2012 she will train to become a diplomat. This summer, she’ll do a congressional internship in D.C. and then move to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in August.


Julie Chang, a reporter for The News Herald in Morganton, North Carolina, received the first-place award for best multimedia project, division D (daily newspapers under 15,000 circulation) from the North Carolina Press Association in 2009.


John Ballard now lives in South Africa and enjoys his weekends with activities like kitesurfing and sandboarding.


Finally, Courtney (Calise) Temple recently had a baby! His name is Peak, which is very appropriate because she and her husband, Tom Temple ’03, were both on the Dartmouth ski team. Congratulations!


It was great hearing from all of you, and keep those updates coming. 


Cheers,


—John Valdez, 329 E. 94th St., Apt. 1, New York, NY 10128; (415) 264-4908; jev@alum.dartmouth.org


Hello, ’07s. Since most of us have or will turn 25 this year it occurred to me that this is the time when we should be in the throes of our quarter-life crises. I hope we can take a cue from the disgruntled Jetblue flight attendant Steven Slater and express our frustrations with flare. Or, embarking on spontaneous travels a la Eat, Pray, Love is entirely acceptable, too. Remember, no carbs left behind!


In any case, I’ll start with mine. At the beginning of the summer I quit my job as a teacher in New York City, sold my stuff on Craigslist, bought a one-way ticket to Los Angeles and couch hopped for a little while. I finally went into a temp agency (because they were the only ones that responded to me) and had them put me to work. I’m sure I’ll figure everything else out, but I was just looking for a little sunshine and adventure. After The Hills series finale I had to channel my inner Lauren Conrad and feel the rain on my skin. Word on the street is that Jacques Hebert is auditioning for the part of Heidi Montag.


It is great to hear that you are also starting exciting new journeys. Linzi Sheldon has left WHEC-TV in Rochester after two years for WSOC-TV, Charlotte, North Carolina’s top-ranked ABC affiliate—according to its website. So if you are in Charlotte, Channel 9 is where you want to get your news.


Pooja Viswanatha and Natalie Kim graduated from law school in the spring and will spend a year in Honolulu, Hawaii, clerking for judges. They’d love visitors! Dave Zubricki started Northwestern Law School this fall.


Jarrett Cato was featured in Time Out magazine for his new job as a music supervisor at a music firm. Dax Tejera took a new job as a producer at MSNBC.


After three long years of traveling and working (very) odd jobs Tom Bonamici will be moving to Brooklyn and attending the Pratt Institute to get his master’s in industrial design. He’ll be living with Ritchie King ’06; any Brooklyn-bound alums should get in touch!


Lauren Hassouni just graduated from Fordham Law School and was recently published in the foremost bankruptcy journal on important issues and recent developments in bankruptcy law—Norton Bankruptcy Law Advisor—in the July issue (No. 7). Her article is titled “The Nuts, Bolts, Carrots and Sticks of the Mortgage and Foreclosure Crisis; and a Suggested Solution.”


Hayley Coleman is moving to London for the second part of her master’s in urban planning


Chrissy Huggins is engaged, and Allie Boyles married Justin Martini ’05 in late July.


Thank you for sending me your updates and please share with me your quarter-life crises so I can write about them in the next DAM Class Notes. 


Cheers!


—John Valdez, 2711 Glendale Blvd. Apt. 1, Los Angeles, CA 90039; (415) 264-4908; jev@alum.dartmouth.org


Happy 2014, dear ’07s! We finally can fit in one column!


Michael Amico co-wrote “You Can Tell Just By Looking”: And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People with Dartmouth professor Michael Bronski (and Ann Pellegrini of NYU). Mike shares that, “Reviews have ranged from ‘rigorous,’ ‘groundbreaking’ and ‘stirring’ to—even better—‘false, insulting and dangerous.’ ”


Sonia Faruqi writes that she is continuing to live in Toronto and is working on her investigative book about animal agriculture. “I have also just written an article for The Atlantic titled, ‘Agriculture Needs More Women.’ The article argues that food will be safer and animals will live better if more women work in animal agriculture.”


Christina Luccio shares that Erika Ruberry and Adam Goldfarb ’08 were married in Seattle on September 14, 2013. The festivities all took place on the beautiful University of Washington campus, where Erika is pursuing her Ph.D. in clinical psychology. “There were more than 20 Dartmouth grads in attendance and, while no Phi Delt batch was thrown, we did all sing a glorious rendition of the alma mater.”


Ruchita Dhawan and Bart Butler ’06 got married on September 1, 2013, in Maryland and live in Menlo Park, California. Zach Hall ’06, Bea Hahn ’06, Anjali Deshmukh and Justin Zalkin were in attendance at the wedding. They met at Dartmouth in September of 2003.


Yuki Kondo-Shah married Philip Chamberlain in San Francisco City Hall December 19. “Thanks to Cara Yang and Connor Shepherd for being there! We’re back in Bolivia now but will move to Beijing fall of 2015 for our next Foreign Service tour!”


In 2013 Deborah Newburg moved to Brooklyn (from Manhattan) and in 2014 will be continuing her work developing affordable housing at a new position with Dunn Development Corp. “Also, I’ll be running the Boston Marathon again this year in Dartmouth gear—I’d love to hear a ‘Go Big Green!’ ” She also wants to congratulate Margi Smith and Hayley Stevens on their recent engagements!


Kazi Ahmed wishes to congratulate Jeremy Schneider, who got engaged to Rachel Shamash in San Francisco, and Kwabena Badu-Nkansah, who moved to North Carolina to do a Ph.D. at Duke.


Ione Curva is several months in working as a deputy attorney general for the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office. She also recently got engaged to Dan Hayden, who she went to law school with at Rutgers School of Law in Newark. Dan is a lawyer with JP Morgan Chase. “We haven’t started planning yet but are thinking of getting married sometime in the spring of 2015.”


Lance Labun has been postdocing at National Taiwan University for the last year, during which he had papers published on what happens when two neutron stars collide and how the Higgs particle (discovered last year at the Large Hadron Collider) can reveal the existence of new, so-far undiscovered particles. In July he married Ou Zhang, who is finishing her Ph.D. in physics at the University of Arizona, where they met three years ago. She studies the substructure of the proton and related high-mass particles. They had a pseudo-honeymoon working together for seven weeks at the theory division in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Lance hopes that a new postdoc in the coming year will cut his 14-hour trans-Pacific odyssey to see her to at most four hours.


Hearty congratulations to all, and here’s to wishing all of you many more odysseys, short or long, in 2014!


Cheers!


—Jesse Shaw, 733 Amsterdam Ave., #15H, New York City, NY 10025; jesseashaw@gmail.com


Literally so many responses I cannot spare a single word this time. Congrats to everyone, okay?


Hannah McCullar and husband Casey, Tu’07, welcomed their beautiful daughter Ava Celeste McCullar to the world. Mom and baby are both doing great!


Maryanna Quigless shares that she, Aziz Sayigh and Jess Tory ’06 graduated from Stanford Graduate School of Business.


Dave Zubricki studied for the bar exam and traveled throughout Europe and Africa this summer.


Michael Schowalter graduated Jefferson Medical College, moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and started his dermatology residency at Cleveland Clinic. He also got married in Chicago to Katie Boyne, who is also in Cleveland training to be a pediatrician.


Luke Antal and his wife, Athena, will be celebrating the summer by heading out for a three-week camping and fishing trip in Portland and Bend, Oregon, Tetons and Yellowstone. Shout out to Tom Runcie and Laurel Runcie ’06 for getting Luke hooked on fly fishing senior year!


Vera Sticker returned to the United States this summer after three years in Japan as a member of the Japan Exchange Teaching Program. She is now pursuing her master’s in special education at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.


Amie Sugarman married Nathan Kaplan (Princeton ’07) in New York in June. Fellow ’07s Alexandra (Cody) FitzGerald, Martie Kutscher, Alisha (Levine) Nuger and Heather Strack were among the bridesmaids. Amie and her new husband are spending the summer honeymooning around Japan, Hong Kong and Thailand. Amie also gradated in May from Yale with her M.B.A. and will be working as a program director at Uncommon Schools, a charter school network in New York City.


Alex FitzGerald married Phil FitzGerald (Cornell ’98) on June 1 in North Salem, New York, and was surrounded by Dartmouth alums including bridesmaids Ali Nuger, Amie Sugarman, Hayley Coleman, Heather Strack and Joanna Zimelis and guests Jenny Wang, Annie Bennett, Shane Colegrove, Leslie Pearl, Lorraine Buhannic, Kate Lyon ’05 and Samantha Ceppos ’06.


Sarah Overton finished a master’s in marketing, with a graduate certificate in wine business, in 2011 and is currently selling wine across Australia. She and her dog Mac would love to see any ’07s who are headed Down Under, especially to Adelaide.


Karan Danthi and his wife, Ishna, graduated from Harvard Business School and will be moving to Hong Kong in August.


Gwen Rudie and Lauren Edgar just graduated from Caltech with a Ph.D. in astrophysics and a Ph.D. in geology, respectively.


Sharon Man congratulates Yuni Yan (UPenn Law ’10) and David Sobel (Brown’04/UPenn Law ’10) on their marriage on June 22 in Los Angeles! Also congrats to Inga Caldwell on passing the NY and NH bar.


Robert Esposito moved to New York City in August to be the Jacobson Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship at NYU Law School.


Stephen Secules has worked as an acoustical engineering consultant for five years in London and the Bay Area. He will now be at the University of Maryland College Park to begin a Ph.D. in science and engineering education research.


Janelle Braverman starts business school this fall at USC Marshall.


Nik Nartowicz, Christina Divoll, Dan Racic and Deb Wassel held their first off-season reunion in N.Y.C. and it was a smashing success! 


Sonia Faruqi recently found a literary agent for her book. It traces her often-undercover journey investigating animal farms around the world. It will discuss agribusiness on an international scale. She is setting up a website for the book soon and looks forward to sharing it with the class when completed.


Manida Wungjiranirun writes, “Nina Rostanski was just accepted and will start at CUNY Hunter in its M.P.H. program. And Sarah Chaudhry just graduated from Columbia Law School. I am so proud of them!”


I had to cut so much. I appreciate all your contributions: Thank you! ’Til next time.


—Jesse Shaw, 733 Amsterdam Ave., #15H, New York City, NY 10025; jesseashaw@gmail.com


Linden Mallory reached the summit of Mount Everest. Enough said!


—John Valdez, 97 Maynard St., San Francisco, CA 94112; (415) 264-4908, jev@alum.dartmouth.org


Class of ’07s, reunion fever is in the air! Save the date (June 15-17, 2012) for the five-year reunion in Hanover. Planning is under way, so please stay tuned for more details to come.


As we gear up for our return to Dartmouth, many ’07s are continuing to give back to the College in big ways. Derrick Smith was recently hired as the next assistant director of class activities for Dartmouth. He will be working with the senior class and classes five years out, including the ’07s as we plan for our five-year reunion! Dax Tejera was just elected VP of the Dartmouth Club of New York, and he is hoping that a lot of young alums in the city will turn out and run for the board now, too.


Luke Antal has moved to Washington, D.C., and works as the operations manager at LivingSocial Adventures (formerly Urban Escapes). If you live in D.C. give him a shout and grab a beer!


Christina Behrend has been living in Durham, North Carolina, for the past two years working toward an M.D./Ph.D. at Duke. She is in her third year now, about to start her Ph.D. Christina says, “I ran into Andrew Rand, who is a first-year pathology intern at Duke, a month ago. Just last week was out in San Francisco visiting Stephen Secules and Erin Demien while traveling around northern California. Looking forward to reunion next year!” Nadia Dawn now lives in the Bronx and just started her internal medicine residency at Montefiore Medical Center.


Eric Trautmann joins the growing Bay Area crowd this fall as he starts a Ph.D. program in engineering at Stanford. 


Sam Beattie just got a new job as a game designer at Zynga Boston. Now you can blame him directly for your Facebook addiction.


Raina Hammel married longtime boyfriend and fellow Dartmouth alumnus Richard Segal ’05. They were married with many Dartmouth friends present outside Raina’s hometown of Girdwood, Alaska. John Paul Lewicke also recently got married to Katrina Tree Bernstein. Ashley Taylor and Jason Meyer ’06 are engaged! They will be married in 2012. 


Finally, Linzi Sheldon is starting to make waves at ABC news. She made primetime coverage, which we hope is a great taste of what is to come in the future: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/flash-floods-north-carolina- 14243719.


Again, please share the excitement for the five-year reunion! I hope to see you all there!


—John Valdez, 97 Maynard St., San Francisco, CA 94112; (415) 264-4908; jev@alum.dartmouth.org


Hello all, here are a few quick updates!


Lance Labun received his Ph.D. in physics in December from the University of Arizona. His mentor was Dr. Johann Rafelski, with whom he studied quantum effects in strong electromagnetic fields. They made new insights into spontaneous decay of electromagnetic fields into electron-positron pairs, the motion of charged particles in strong fields and the characteristics of quantum vacuum fluctuations in strong fields. He will work with Dr. Rafelski for several more months, finishing projects and improving further understanding of the quantum vacuum.


Dax Tejera took the plunge and bought an apartment in New York City. Oddly enough, right when he moved in NBC started sending him around the country for the presidential election, so he’s never in it! New address is 166 E 35 St., Apt. 6F, NYC 10016.


After two years in Boston managing Android content operations for Google, Amit Padukone is moving to Dublin, Ireland, in April. He’ll be the regional manager for contact center operations in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, and his teams will be responsible for supporting Google’s suite of paid and free consumer products, including YouTube, Android, books, offers and Wallet. He’ll finally be better positioned to handle all the Google product questions from fellow alums that have been coming his way all these years!


Luke Antal got engaged to Athena Bogs (Tufts ’07) in February. The two met in Boston in February 2010 at a Starbucks. Luke is working at a startup in N.Y.C. and Athena is a labor and delivery nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.


And don’t forget to mark the fifth-year reunion on your calendars—June 15-17!


—John Valdez, 97 Maynard St., San Francisco, CA 94112; (415) 264-4908; jev@alum.dartmouth.org


Happy 2013, my dear ’07s! We’ve survived the reindeer uprising of 2012! And that Mayan thing! Here’s to another year of marking milestones and celebrating each other!


Charlie and Lisa Kircher welcomed Theodore Miles Kircher into the world on December 21, 2012. “He was born at 9 pounds, 5 ounces, and 20 inches long. He’ll be going by Teddy, and we think he might be the first double ’07 baby. Both mom and baby are doing quite well.” A big congrats, Charlie and Lisa!


Katie Morales (Amato) writes that she will be in Mexico City with her husband through March and then in the Chicago area writing her dissertation for her Ph.D. in ecology, evolution and conservation biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign until May, when she graduates. “Please let us know if you are passing through. We’d love to have a mini-reunion in Mexico!” 


Todd Wood and James Crandell spent President’s Day Weekend ripping waist-deep powder in Revelstoke, British Columbia!


Chris Allen shares, “I’ve been working on developing an iPhone app with two ’09s that finally launched in December. It’s called PetDuel, and basically all it does is present two pets for people to vote on the cuter one. You can also upload photos of your own pets to compete! Here is our website to learn more: www.petduel.com. And people can download the app directly from the iTunes App Store!” 


And Daniel Obaseki just finished his first term in business school at MIT and spent the holidays and all of January in Nigeria and Ghana working on his startup, which is focused on online entertainment distribution of Pan-African entertainment content to the diaspora. “If anyone is in Boston it would be great to link up!”


Congrats to both Chris and Daniel for keeping up the ’07 entrepreneurial streak!


And finally, “The Temples (Courtney Calise Temple, Tom Temple ’03 and son Peak) are psyched to have welcomed son Kepler Maxwell (March 19) and to have moved to Colorado in 2012! Cheers to an adventurous 2013!” 


I couldn’t agree more. Cheers to a year of adventure, ’07s!


—Jesse Shaw, 733 Amsterdam Ave. #15H, New York, NY 10025; jesseashaw@gmail.com


Jazz hands, step clap, step ball change, and shuffle off to Buffalo.


I’d really like to perform this for you because, for one thing, Swan Lake is too difficult. Thank you, Natalie Portman, for getting up a young dreamer’s hopes. But more importantly, as a veteran of high school theater and casual follower of Glee, I know that a good ol’ song and dance number is always a nice distraction. In any case, no updates came in this month.


I know that means you are out and busy, doing your thing, so keep on keeping on and drop a line when you can, especially since we don’t want another repeat of the amateur hour.


Take care and I hope you are having a wonderful beginning to the New Year.


Cheers.


—John Valdez, 2711 Glendale Blvd., Apt. 1, Los Angeles, CA 90039; (415) 264-4908; jev@alum.dartmouth.org


Hello, ’07s. By the time you get this issue of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine our fifth-year reunion will have passed. Not to make everyone reflect on how old we’re getting but, you guys: We just had our fifth-year reunion. Think on that for like, two hot seconds. Now go look in a mirror and give yourself a thumbs-up because, damn, girls and boys, you still have “it”!


Okay, back? How do I know you still have it? Because I’ve gotten the opportunity to keep up with all of you lovely, beautiful people during these past five years. You’re all such amazing, inspiring, talented and just downright rad folks. We have witnessed incredible achievements and lifetime milestones in such a short time: advanced degrees, job promotions, world travel, humanitarian work, entrepreneurial endeavors, wild adventures, marriages, children and more!


I can’t wait to read about your life stories during the next five years. We’re just getting started, and the best is still ahead!


Warmest regards.


—John Valdez, 97 Maynard St., San Francisco, CA 94112; (415) 264-4908; jev@alum.dartmouth.org


Hello, class of 2007! Thank you for the overwhelming number of stories submitted for Class Notes last issue: Keep ’em coming! I wish you all a happy New Year, full of more stories of success, happiness and love!


First, Luke Antal married Athena Bogis (Tufts ’07) on October 6 in Framingham, Massachusetts. Foliage was in full swing and there were many Dartmouth folks in attendance. Athena and Luke are living in Norwalk, Connecticut, where Athena is a labor and delivery nurse and Luke is working at his premium entertainment ticketing startup, www.pavelife.com. Everyone, be sure to check out the link!


Sarah Uhl writes in to say that in September she moved to D.C. for a presidential management fellowship at the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters, where she focuses on protecting human health and the environment from toxic chemicals. She also says, “I’m enjoying reconnecting with Dartmouth friends here in the city, including my housemate Caitlin Potratz. Looking forward to more mini-reunions in the near future!”


Adlin Tuya is in her third year of law school at Stetson Law School and says that anyone visiting St. Petersburg, Florida, should get in touch with her!


Yuki Kondo-Shah just finished A-100 (orientation for incoming Foreign Service officers) and found out her first posting—as public diplomacy officer in the embassy in La Paz, Bolivia! Congrats, Yuki!


After moving to Brooklyn, New York, earlier this year, Jarrett Cato has jumped into the N.Y.C. live music circuit, performing his original tracks at venues including Tammany Hall and SOBs. He continues to serve as product director for a new social network designed to help people express their interests and connect with others who share them.


Dylan Gee recently married Dave Anderson ’04 at the Round Barn Farm in Vermont. Among the Dartmouth attendees were ’07s Jessie Stoll, Lauren Edgar, Kathryn Funderburk, Lauren Betzing, Killarney Loufek, Tasha Sterling, Kelly McLaughlin, Mirelle Phillips, Quig Bruning, Abe Clayman, Jeremy Feldman and Shamir Kapadia. “It was a wonderful time and a great excuse for a reunion!”


Daniel Joseph shares, “I graduated from med school last year. Right now I’m a resident physician in emergency medicine at L.A. County/USC Medical Center, which has been awesome. It’s a pretty amazing place: The military sends its trauma surgeons and combat medics here for training because of the amount of craziness we see, so it should be an intense but very cool couple of years. I also got married last year to my wife, Melissa, also an ER resident. We live in Los Angeles. Unfortunately I had to miss our 5th year because of orientation, but I can’t wait to get back to Hanover.”


Lastly, Lisa Kircher writes, “Kevin Hudak came out to St. Louis, Missouri, to visit me while Charlie Kircher was doing an away rotation in Denver. We went to Columbia, Missouri, to visit Scott Glabe ’06 and his wife, Mindy, for their son’s first birthday. Kevin also got some great BBQ while in St. Louis! While in Denver Charlie stayed with Greg Boynton’s parents. Greg and his wife, Jen, welcomed baby girl Diana while Charlie was out there, and Charlie also met up with Heather Strack while out there. My buddy Abberley Debellis recently moved to the Bay Area and started work at Google. She was working for Mercedes, technically Daimler Chrysler, in New Jersey in the five years since graduation.” Now that is a Dartmouth-connected story!


That’s it for now. Hope to hear from you all soon!


—Jesse Shaw, 500 Riverside Dr., #906, New York City, NY 10027; jesseashaw@gmail.com