Class Notes 2009

Here’s the news from our classmates. A.J. Fox was married in Berkeley, California, where he lives with his wife, Riana Hensel. They were married in a small Quaker ceremony at the Berkeley Friends Meeting House, followed by a larger secular ceremony held at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (which happens to be his employer). The guest list featured some beloved friends he met through the Dartmouth Film Society, including Tyson Kubota ’07, Caroline McKenzie ’07, and Tim Sun ’06. Ayla Glass recently worked as a writer on the upcoming animated TV adaptation of the Among Us video game for CBS Studios. Carl Sciacchitano’s graphic memoir The Heart That Fed was released on June 4, and he also had a piece run in The New York Times’ “Modern Love” column on June 14. Ry Sullivan reports, “Thomas Donahoe wants to send you a haiku. Send him an email with subject line ‘haiku’ and await your personalized 17 syllables of bliss.”

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 39 Tierra Monte Drive NE, Albuquerque, NM 87122; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

Hey, ’09s! It’s hard to believe it’s been 15 years since we graduated. Hoping to see you all next year for our reunion on campus!

In the meantime, here is some news from our class. Hakim Al-Amin has been promoted to assistant head of school at the Bishop Walker School—a premier private school for boys in Washington, D.C., and he’s launching a tutoring company, Al-Amin Education.

Carli Bekkering wrote to share that she and her husband welcomed daughter Nya Kelly January 8 (to join big brother Lukas, who just turned 2).

Elyssa Benedikt had her third child, Caleb Raphael Benedikt, in October. He was welcomed by older children Lilah (3) and Aden (6). Elyssa is now living in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and had a great time recently seeing Julio Gomez in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Daniel Hilsinger is out in Sweden playing music, raising money for Cancerfonden (a cancer research nonprofit), and tracking down his long-lost relatives after being on a Swedish ancestry reality TV show!

Tom Kern published a year-long lecture series on YouTube on the connections between automata theory and formal logic called “Regular Languages and Model Theory.”

On January 13 Aaron Sims reunited with Pete Sabori and Paige Anderson for a memorable lunch in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Post-feast Aaron led them on an expedition to showcase his office. Unfortunately, Aaron forgot his keys. To this day Pete and Paige aren’t sure if Aaron works there. The mystery endures.

Ry Sullivan and Amber Sullivan welcomed a son in December 2023 after a four-and-a-half-year fertility journey. They couldn’t be happier to see their family grow in San Francisco! He also wanted to share that despite rumors to the contrary, Thomas Donahoe has not joined N’Sync Tour 2024 as a backup dancer.

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 39 Tierra Monte Drive NE, Albuquerque, NM 87122; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

Happy holidays! In September, Robert Cousins became the 23rd U.S. Correspondence Chess Champion. His next goal is to enter the World Championship cycle. Molson Hart has two kids, Zealand and York, with his wife in Austin, Texas. Carmen Kilpatrick is an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. Ravi (Segal) LaBua completed her clinical psychology Ph.D. a few years ago and currently runs a private therapy practice with a focus area in psychedelic medicine. She recently moved to Hudson, New York, and is expecting her first child in late November. She would love to connect with other alums in the Hudson Valley area and wishes everyone well! Vanessa Magro graduated from the University of Denver with a Psy.D. in clinical psychology and is providing psychological services in the Denver, Colorado, metro area at Front Range Psychological Services. She bought a house with her partner and is loving her new neighborhood. Jenna Newgard along with her husband, Nate Abbott, welcomed Rilo Oberlin Abbott in April. He joins big sister Roxy. Franklin Ordonez would like to share that he has started a home improvement and housecleaning business in Westchester County, New York. Gabrielle Santa-Donato is experimenting with starting her own design firm—and starting off with an of-the-moment, action-oriented, and delightful life design coaching group. It all lives on the new GSDDesign.co. There’s a range of offerings to explore to strengthen your life and career and the culture and impact of your teams, all with a creative flair. Brian Scullin and his wife, Shannon, who live in the Phoenix, Arizona, area, welcomed their third child, a beautiful girl named Bayley, in July 2023. Sister Delaney and brother Finnian couldn’t be more excited to have someone new to boss around. Boris Vabson married Lucy Ren in October in a smallish ceremony combining Chinese and Jewish elements in Honolulu, Hawaii. Boris and Lucy are based in New York but also take full advantage of the semi-remote nature of their jobs and often travel to see beautiful places as well as close family and friends. Their lives are likely to become substantially less nomadic once kids enter the picture! After getting a Ph.D. in health economics, Boris has pursued a hybrid of academic research, policy work, health tech, and entrepreneurship (all at once and not necessarily all well). Boris is excited to reconnect with old Dartmouth friends, especially after all the pandemic disruption and isolation!

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 180 Big Horn Ridge Drive NE, Albuquerque, NM 87122; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

Hello, ’09s! I hope you’re enjoying the end of the summer. Just a few updates to share this month. Jimmy Bramante and Grace Chua ’07 are moving their family to Minneapolis in August. Kareem Niazi will be moving to Dix Hills on Long Island, New York, in October to join Summit Health/CityMD. He is looking forward to moving back to New York and connecting with old friends. During the past year Owen Roberts bought a home in Brooklyn, New York, made partner at his law firm (Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP), married his now-wife Ainslee Burns-Roberts, and they had their first daughter, Elodie Brooke Roberts. He wrote, “Parenthood’s been great and learning from all of my fellow ’09 dads and moms has been invaluable.”

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane,180 Big Horn Ridge Drive NE, Albuquerque, NM 87122; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

Hello, ’09s! I hope you’re enjoying the spring and some warmer weather. Here is some news from our classmates. Jillian (Hamma) Chingos, Tim Chingos ’08, and their daughter, Emma, moved from California to London. They love the exciting places (and playgrounds) in the city and are keen on exploring Europe. Daniel Hilsinger wrote in with some news, “I would love to share that I’m releasing my debut album, Everlasting, March 23. Music came out of my experience getting diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare, potentially fatal cancer. I started learning guitar in the hospital and singing in the stairwells. I was always too afraid to try before! If you told me I’d be playing music in front of strangers, let alone write, record, and produce my own album, I’m not sure if I would have believed you! Sending all the love to everyone. We all walk through our own unique challenges in life, and I hope the best for everyone.” Raymond Rodriguez has taken on a new role as the communications director for Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.), based in Washington, D.C. In the last year Molly Roy got married. Samantha Kaplan, Elsa Rodriguez, and Miesha Smith were all in the wedding party and lots of other ’09s were in attendance and invited, including Owen Roberts, Jesse Silberberg, Dermott McHugh, Katie Nash, Mandy Lobel, Aulden Kaye, Anna Krigel, Dai Lin. Other Dartmouth alums included Emma Frankel ’12, Ian Engler ’12, Ben Weiner ’10, Dan Yi ’06, John Agan ’05, Alex “Dutchy” Ghesquiere ’99. Molly bought a house in Arlington, Virginia, last fall and is pregnant with her first child, due in August! Lots of milestones in the last year, and she is very happy to get any baby-related hand-me-downs from alums in or passing through the area. Shortly after moving to Harrison, New York, Bret Tenenhaus and Jenna Pfeffer ’12 welcomed their second child into the world in fall 2022.

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane,180 Big Horn Ridge Drive NE, Albuquerque, NM 87122; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

Happy New Year, ’09s! Lots of updates to share from our classmates. Art Baron ’07 and Liz (Ellison) Baron welcomed a baby boy, Chester Shea Baron, on September 7. He joins big brother Calvin, who is his No. 1 fan. Floyd Buen and his wife, Kirsten, welcomed their beautiful baby daughter, Adelene, in October. Floyd and his family are enjoying parenthood while living in Irvine, California. Johannes Lehman has joined Pollination Group, a global climate and nature advisory and investment firm, as executive director in London. Daniel Leung wrote, “After more than a decade since graduation I have cleared my teaching credential, a goal I have had since graduating from Dartmouth. In August 2022 I won the award for best exemplifying the value of feedback from Caliber Public Schools and have been entering students to compete in Science Olympiad, MathCounts, and the California State Scholastic Chess Championship. I am excited for the next part of my career as I embark on my journey to become an osteopathic physician. I have finally received my first acceptance back into an osteopathic medical school (in Kentucky) after dropping out of Touro University California’s program. My mom and I were so happy to get the news from the dean at Kentucky. I also want to thank my dad for teaching me to persevere. My dad passed away from an atypical presentation of severe gallstone-induced pancreatitis on Christmas Eve 2018. The best doctors in the North Bay Area met to discuss his case at a meeting. I saw the best that medicine has to offer, but still he couldn’t be saved. I have learned to trust in God through all of these hardships and that God has the right timing and reason for what happens. I feel truly blessed.” Aaron Sims saw Samuel Kohn at a meeting at the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on October 18. They laughed and said they should report this to the alumni magazine, so here they are. Emily Trentacoste and her husband, Clayton Cope, welcomed their first child, Avi Kai Trentacope, on October 8, 2022. All are doing well and can’t wait to introduce baby boy to Hanover! Taylor (Dryman) Wilmer welcomed her second child, daughter Averett (“Avery”), in September. She, husband Harry, and new big brother Wyatt are over the moon! After her maternity leave Taylor will return to her new position as director of therapy at InStride Health, a company that provides virtual mental health services for children, adolescents, and their families. She would love to connect with other ’09s in the D.C. area! Kaite Yang and Dan O’Brien are very excited to announce the birth of their daughter, Lilia Yang O’Brien. She was born on September 29, 2022, at Pennsylvania Hospital, the country’s first hospital, and weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces. They are so excited for her to explore and roam ’round the girdled earth!

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 180 Big Horn Ridge Drive NE, Albuquerque, NM 87122; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

Hello, classmates! I hope you’re enjoying the end of your summer. Here is some news from the ’09s. Johanna Hauer graduated from residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery! She is happily moving back to Boston this summer and looking forward to reconnecting with other alumni in the area.

Daniel Hilsinger wrote, “This summer was amazing! First time playing with a full band and toured through Oregon and Washington state. My debut record will be coming out this fall so please keep a lookout on my website! I’d love to hear what y’all think at DanielRayHilsinger.com.”

This June Jessica Lane graduated from her seven-year neurosurgery residency at Penn State. Her family is moving out west, and she will be spending the year at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles getting some additional training in pediatric neurosurgery. She would love to reconnect with anyone in SoCal!

Jon H. Zehner ’79 wrote to share that Zack Zehner and Emma Gorwood were married on April 16 outside of Winchester, England. Both Zack and Emma are British Army majors. Dartmouth graduates in attendance at their wedding were Zack’s brothers, Carl ’11, Nicholas ’15, and Callum ’21; uncle Mark Zehner ’81; Harrison Davies, Daniel Lein ’19, Gerry Widdicombe ’78, and Jon Zehner ’79. In a few months Zack will be posted to Beijing as the United Kingdom’s assistant military attaché to China.

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 1023 Park Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70806; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

Hi, ’09s!

Here’s the news this month: Karen Bell has two kids now! Evelyn June was born last May. Big sister Allie is 3, and they are all healthy and surviving in the Washington, D.C., area!

Dan Hilsinger wrote to share, “I’ve had an intense journey the past five years and am so grateful to be doing well now. I was diagnosed with bone cancer in 2016 and that is when I decided to start learning guitar, something I always wanted to do but never made time for. I also started singing then. I’m fortunate to still be here and to have discovered something I love to do so much! I’ll be recording some songs this winter and look forward to sharing them with the Dartmouth community. Meanwhile, if anyone wants to check out the new version of my existence or get in contact my website is danielrayhilsinger.com and my email is danielrayhilsinger@gmail.com!”

Bailey Shen recently moved to Loma Linda, California, and started a job as an assistant professor of ophthalmology at Loma Linda University. He would love to catch up with any classmates in the southern California area.

Katie (Miller) and Jeff Wiltsey welcomed their second child, a girl, Phoebe, on December 5, 2021. By the time the update reaches print, she’ll be almost 6 months old and they will be moving back to El Paso, Texas, and Fort Bliss for the next few years. Have a great summer!

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 1023 Park Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70806; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

Hello, ’09s! Happy holidays and best wishes for the beginning of 2022. Julia DeWahl moved from San Francisco to Venice in Los Angeles after taking a new job at SpaceX working on Starlink. She also had a baby boy named Torkild (“Tor” for short, named after her Danish grandfather) in May. Clare and Kyle Fortune-Lad welcomed their second son, Robin Gregory Fortune-Lad, in October. She wrote, “Rory is as sweet as daddy, as strong as mommy, and as fluffy as big brother Benton.” Elise (Hogan) Goldberg and her husband, Jasper Goldberg, had a daughter, Jane Hogan Goldberg, on July 21, 2021. After five years in London Kate (Schmidt) McPherson moved back to New York City with her husband and is looking forward to catching up with everyone stateside. Anne Megargel and her husband, Matt, welcomed a second baby, Penelope Gillette Arnold on October 2. She joins big sister Tillie, age 2.5, who’s adjusting pretty well! Work-wise, for the first time in 12 years, Anne is not in the classroom. She took a new position as the instructional support teacher for English language acquisition at her school. Her goal is to start the first bilingual education program in her county! Claire (McConnell) Noel and Chris Noel ’08 welcomed a son, Conor Quinton Noel, on February 4, 2021. Tyler Putnam will be singing with Opera Tampa this winter: Luther in The Tales of Hoffmann February 11 and 13 and The Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance March 11 and 13. Ry Sullivan married Amber Freeman near his hometown in West Virginia after postponing the wedding multiple times due to the pandemic. Dartmouth was well represented on the guest list and during the ceremony, including Thomas Donahoe (best man), Ruslan Tovbulatov (officiant), and Jordan Rose (groomsman) and Mike Knapp (groomsman). Sen Zhang and Alexandra Ortego welcomed a baby boy, Joseph Theodore, in June.

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 1023 Park Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70806; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

Hello, ’09 classmates! I hope you’re enjoying the summer. I have some exciting updates from our classmates to highlight. Julia DeWahl wanted to share that after seven years in the Bay Area, she and her husband moved to Los Angeles and had a baby boy, Torkild, in May! Arran Forbes was named an Alaska “Top 40 Under 40” for young professionals and community leaders. Arran works in the neonatal intensive care unit, but this award was for her volunteer nonprofit work as president of Arctic Entries, an organization that hosts live storytelling events around the state featuring true stories from everyday Alaskans. She wrote, “It started as a wacky event in the basement of a brewery but has grown to a 2,000-seat concert hall with national broadcasting on public radio. Ticket sales go to teen support programs in Alaska, with nearly a half million dollars donated. People seem to thirst for stories and human connection outside of a screen, and it’s been a wild ride to watch this little show explode into a major production.” This month Arran also published a magical realism novel, Pluto Cove, set in the north gulf of Alaska. She shared that she wrote it after her daughter was born in 2018, while traversing the alien landscape of postpartum, then finished rewrites and edits between shifts at the neonatal ICU. Outside of bookstores in Alaska, you can find e-reader and hardcopy versions on Amazon. Andy Han married Harmony Barker in a pandemic prequel wedding on April 24! Oliver Townsend officiated and Chris Han ‘11 was best man. It was essentially family only, but he can’t wait to get that Dartmouth banner picture in a year when they get to celebrate with friends. Britni Jackson and Samuel Jackson ’06 were married at Dartmouth in June 2020 and are expecting their first child this August. Quinton Klabon completed his master’s at Harvard University and made sure to wear his Dartmouth hoodie on Zoom constantly in defiance. He now advances education policy for a U.S. House of Representatives member, though he is able to remain in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He continues to mentor students from his former workplace, Saint Marcus Lutheran School and is excited to resume visits with them to Dartmouth. Marley McMillan just graduated with an M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University and will be starting as a consultant at Deloitte in October in Austin, Texas. Kareem Niazi will be moving to Richmond, Virginia, this July with his wife and two daughters to join a private practice as an interventional cardiologist. He looks forward to exploring the area and meeting nearby alumni! Kimia Shahi completed a Ph.D. in art history at Princeton University in June and started as an assistant professor in the art history department at the University of Southern California in August. She will be on leave from 2021-23 while completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Center for the Environment. Kimia looks forward to connecting with fellow ’09s in the Cambridge and Boston area and (eventually) on the West Coast as well! Emily Esfahani Smith is expecting a baby boy in September and is in the second year of a clinical psychology Ph.D. program. She is still writing articles and is working on a new book. Jesse Victor and his wife, Daniela, are finishing their two-year assignment at the U.S. embassy in Vientiane, Laos, and will be back in New England for a few months before starting a three-year assignment at the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, around October 1. They would love to connect with any Dartmouth alums in New England or Latin America or who might be interested in visiting Honduras!

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 1023 Park Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70806; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

Hello, ’09s! I hope the issue this month finds you staying well and enjoying some warmer weather. I’ll miss seeing everyone in Hanover this summer but look forward to when we can all be together again. In the meantime, here are some updates from our classmates. Nanette Cedeno moved to northern Virginia from Denver. Diane Cheney is finishing up her radiology residency at the Texas A&M University Veterinary School and will be moving to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, this summer with her menagerie. Zephyr (her Lab mix from senior year and the former SigEp mascot) is very excited to retire back in her home state! In May Katie Dutko will be leaving her job as education program manager for CRS in Iraq and starting a new job as head of programs for CRS in Egypt, where she will oversee education, livelihoods, and peacebuilding programs. She and her husband, Ben, are excited to move to Cairo and will look forward to visitors after the pandemic! Johannes Lohmann is locked down in London and is now working as the Behavioural Insights team’s head of work and finance, working with partners across government and the private sector to integrate behavioral insights into policies. Denton King wanted to let us know of the birth of William “Will” Denton King on January 19. Denton wrote that Will’s older siblings, Wesley and McKell, are over the moon excited and keep calling him a “cutie patootie.” Now with three, they have to learn how to go from man-to-man to zone defense! Raymond Rodriguez is now living in Washington, D.C., and working as communications director for freshman U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres representing the South Bronx, New York. It’s been a lifelong dream of his to work on Capitol Hill and now he’s there! Nell Mackenzie is still in St. Andrews, Scotland, three years and two kids later! They are wishing they could come out of lockdown (who isn’t?) but doing what they can to enjoy life with their little ones. They’ll be there at least through January 2022, so hope they’ll have more chances to explore Scotland properly. Molly Roy is back in the Washington, D.C., area, about to start again at the U.S. Department of Energy and volunteering at a vaccine clinic in the meantime! Lizzie Teague and Eric Klem ’08 welcomed their second daughter, Abigail Neelands Klem, on November 30, 2020, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They’re doing well and looking forward to introducing Abby to others soon.

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 1023 Park Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70806; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

Hi, ’09s! I hope this note finds you doing well as we head into 2021. A short and sweet column this month.

Alex Abate and his wife will be moving to O’ahu, Hawaii, in January; they welcome Big Green visitors! Rebecca Armistead and Joseph Armistead welcomed their second child, Albert Victor Armistead, into the family on September 3. Jessica Lane and her husband, Max, welcomed daughter Emma Charlotte on September 21. Jessica wrote, “she’s glad she didn’t miss the ’09 11- now 12-year reunion because she hears there’s a pretty good class of babies to meet!” Kimia Shahi sends her best wishes to the inspiring class of ’09 and hopes everyone and their loved ones are keeping safe and well in these challenging times. Kimia is currently working on completing her Ph.D. dissertation in art history at Princeton University, where she studies art and visual culture of the United States with a focus on landscape, science, and the environment in the 19th century. This year she’s splitting her time between Alabama, where her partner currently teaches at Auburn University, and Washington, D.C., where she is the Wyeth predoctoral fellow at the National Gallery of Art Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. She’d welcome the chance to catch up with fellow ’09s in either location!

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 1023 Park Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70806; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

I hope everyone is healthy and doing well. I missed having the chance to catch up with everyone at the reunion but hope we all have the chance to see each other soon.

I have a few updates from our classmates and some sad news to share. Ellen (Pettigrew) Cousins ’08 and Robert Cousins welcomed a daughter, Adelyn Sophia, on May 11. She was born at DHMC and her car ride home began with a trip around the Green. Johannes Lohmann moved to London with his wife and is now the head of employment and organizational behavior at the Behavioural Insights Team, where he works on solutions to social challenges based on behavioral economics. Let him know if you are in London or happen to come through.

Taylor (Dryman) Wilmer is excited to share that she and her husband, Harry, welcomed son Wyatt on May 30. They look forward to introducing him to the class of ’09 at next year’s rescheduled reunion! On March 14 Laura Romain married Neil Templeton in Jersey City, New Jersey. Bridesmaids were Elizabeth Teague and Whitney Buckholz (in absentia). I’m deeply saddened to share that our classmate and friend Whitney Buckholz passed away on June 5 at her home in Brooklyn after a brave battle with metastatic breast cancer. You can read more about her and her many contributions to our community in the magazine online. I’m so sorry for the loss to our community, and my condolences to her many loved ones.

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 1023 Park Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70806; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

Hello, ’09s! As you’re reading this, you may be getting ready to head to Hanover for our 10-year reunion. It’s hard to believe it’s been 11 years since we graduated. Until we can all catch up in person, here are some updates. Udit Banerjea and Alaina Smith married back in November 2019. Andrew Han got engaged to Harmony Barker. Katie Herman married Patrick Murphy in Atlanta on January 25. Lindsay Maitland Hunt’s new book came out on April 28, Help Yourself: A Guide to Gut Health for People Who Love Delicious Food (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Like her first cookbook, Healthyish, Help Yourself has more than 125 recipes, but this book also covers her personal story, the science of gut health, and a new way to think about eating with all this in mind.In June Sarah Lawson will be graduating from Northwestern University with an M.S. in speech, language, and learning and beginning a career in speech language pathology. Johannes Lohmann has moved to London with his wife and is now the head of employment and organizational behavior at the Behavioural Insights Team, where he works on solutions to social challenges based on behavioral economics. Let him know if you are in London or happen to come through. Ray Padgett and his wife are having their first kid, a daughter, in early June (she might be the youngest reunion attendee) and his second book, about tribute albums and Leonard Cohen, is out in September. Diana Punko is finishing her psychiatry residency in New York City in June and will be moving to Boston for a fellowship in consultation-liaison psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital in July. She would love to reconnect with any ’09s in the area. Molly Roy has been traveling in Europe for the last year with her boyfriend and plans to come back to the United States in May. Then her plan is to head out West to either Arizona or Colorado to work on a campaign through the November election. By the time this is published she should (she hopes) know which campaign (national/state level, etc.). Federico Sequeda and his wife moved to Washington, D.C. from Boston. Work took him there so he can be more in touch with international economics and policy spheres. He is super looking forward to seeing more of the Washington, D.C., Dartmouth crowd. Peter Shellito has moved a lot in the last four years but is now in Seattle, where he and his partner plan to stay.

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

Happy new year, ’09s! Christopher Blankenship married Sasha Kelemen in Charlottesville, Virginia, on September 22. High school friend DeVan Ard, brother Jon Blankenship, Brice Acree, Steve Durham, and Matt Beale ’08 were groomsmen, and sister Jennifer Demoff ’99, Alex Barsamian ’04, Daniel Belkin ’08, and Sandra Levy ’11 made sure Dartmouth was well represented at the party. Courtney Collins and her husband, Dan, welcomed identical twin boys, Teddy and Rafa, in September. They are hoping to introduce them to old friends at the reunion next summer. Alex DiBranco and Emily Carian ’11 cofounded the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS) in October 2019 with four collaborators from the United States and Europe. IRMS is committed to exposing and challenging common narratives that provide shelter to male supremacist movements, advancing new theoretical understandings and practical analyses of contemporary threats, and providing resources for media and activists to improve their ability to challenge male supremacism and misogyny. The website can be viewed at theirms.org. Sarah Leners has been elected and appointed to the auxiliary board of the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. Let her know if you are in town and would like a tour! In November Nat and Christine Wells moved to Park City, Utah, from Washington, D.C., with their daughter, Yardley! Ryan Wilson is happy to report that he married Heather Estby up on top of a mountain at Jay Peak, Vermont! He is currently completing his clinical neurophysiology fellowship after finishing a neurology residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock. He will be working in Burlington, Vermont, where his wife is a resident in radiology. He would love to hear from any ’09s passing by northern Vermont! Joanne Nachio married Harrison D. St. Germain (Wake Forest ’09, Notre Dame Law ’12) on October 19, 2019, in Plantation, Florida. Stefanie Zychowski was the maid of honor. Also in attendance were Angela Chou, Alexandra Gakos ’11, and Cynthia Terzakis Gakos ’81.

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

Scott Decker wrote to share that, “I just started a game of bigger better to see if I can get an island in Alaska: www.coloradoforalaska.com. Let me know if anyone wants to play!”

Nathan Empsall was ordained as an Episcopal priest on June 15, following his graduation with two master’s degrees from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Yale Divinity School in May. He and his wife, Diana, will continue to live in New Haven, Connecticut. He is serving as the new campaigns director for Faithful America, which brings the online organizing approach of groups such as MoveOn to progressive Christian causes. He will also serve as a priest part-time at the church of St. Paul & St. James (PJ’s!) in Wooster Square and continue to run the Facebook page and website Episcopal Climate News.

Kyle Fortune-Lad and Clare Fortune-Lad had a baby, Benton Reed Fortune-Lad, on a snowy March night in Lowell, Massachusetts. She shared that he is not named after Doc Benton, the ghost of Mount Moosilauke, but he is not not named after him, either. Ayla Glass is an associate producer on the feature film Changeland, written and directed by Seth Green and starring Green, Breckin Meyer, Macaulay Culkin, and Brenda Song! The movie came out June 7, and you can learn more at www.changelandmovie.com.

Johanna Hauer graduated from medical school! She wrote, “Nothing really changes for me because I am continuing in my oral and maxillofacial surgery residency at UConn, but it is an exciting milestone to reach at the halfway point in my residency. The best part is that I still get to stay a palindrome—D.M.D. M.D.!” Jarrett Mathis has been the executive director of his own nonprofit, Empowering Ourselves, for about seven years. He founded it with the mission to empower and uplift at-risk African American youth in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, which is largely inspired by the late Sen. Robert Kennedy. He shared that they have been struggling as of late but an anonymous donor just donated a $5 million contribution to endow his job.

After stints in Chicago and New York City, Weston Sager and Victoria (Toumanoff) Sager moved back to Weston’s home state of New Hampshire and bought an 18th-century farmhouse in Weare, New Hampshire. Weston is practicing law at Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, PC, in Concord, New Hampshire, and continuing his legal research on U.S. state-funded media in his spare time. Victoria is teaching at the Well School in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and establishing herself as a professional painter and portraitist. Kelsey Sheehan and Luke Mann-O’Halloran both welcomed daughters into the world on June 10. Kelsey gave birth to Vivian Beverly Simonov (her dad is Michael Simonov, a Michigan grad), and Laura ’10 delivered Samantha James O’Halloran. They have been friends since they met on the third floor of Bissell back in freshman year. Jack Sisson married Sarah Grossman ’11 on June 15 in Huntington on Long Island, New York. They celebrated at their reception with classmates from the graduating classes of 2008-12.

I’m saddened to share that our classmate DeVon Mosley passed away late last year. You can read more about him and his involvement in our community in the magazine’s online obituary section. I did not have the opportunity to know DeVon personally, but send my condolences to his friends and loved ones.

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d. kahane@gmail.com

It is hard to believe it has been 10 years since we left Hanover! A decade out, we have lots of exciting moves, marriages, and additions to ’09 families to report.

The end of 2018 was a whirlwind for Nick Brown and his wife, Adrienne Hoarfrost ’11. They welcomed Henry Hoarfrost Brown into the world on November 11, Adrienne finished her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina, and they moved from Durham, North Carolina, to Pennington, New Jersey, with a 5-week-old Henry in December. Whew! Come visit them if you need a pit stop in between Philly and N.Y.C. Suzanne Lehrer Dumaine is opening Three Owls Market, a market and all-day café in the West Village, this April. Dartmouth alums should stop in and say hi! Sander Duncan was married in September in northern California to Adrianne Nickerson, whom he met while working in N.Y.C. He shared, “She’s awesome. Ben Beisswenger was one of my groomsman and Alan Shanoski, Alex Olshonsky, Anthony Arch, Zach Hyatt, Peter Keshtkar ’11, Miles Suter ’11, and Doug Hayes ’08 all attended.” Ayla Glass is an associate producer on the film, Changeland (written and directed by Seth Green), which has its world premiere at the Thailand International Film Destination Festival on March 31. She also shared that Molly Hallam’s film The Mustang premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year to rave reviews. Sophie Hood recently moved to Berkeley, California, with her partner, Matt Mukerjee ’10. She’s currently doing theater work in the area (building costumes for Berkeley Repertory Theater and California Shakespeare Theater) and hoping to open her own sewing teaching studio in the near future. Eric Kaufman and his wife, Stephanie, are relocating from New York to Austin, Texas, and would love to connect with any Dartmouth alums in the Austin area. Eric is leaving private equity to pursue entrepreneurial investing and Stephanie runs sales for real estate startup Bungalo Homes. Anna Krigel and Ben Wiener ’10 welcomed a son, Leo Robert Wiener, on December 28, 2018. They can’t wait for his first trip to Hanover!Nell (Pascall) Mackenzie and her husband, Campbell, welcomed their little girl, Abigail Rose Mackenzie, into the world on the 4th of October. She’s keeping them on their toes, and they think their dog Oscar has finally accepted that she’s here to stay. Lilian Mehrel shares that her latest film, Water Melts, will premiere in the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. Kareem Niazi will be starting an interventional cardiology fellowship at Northwell Health in Manhasset, New York, in July 2020, and he and his wife, Nadia, are expecting their first child this August! Virginia Deaton Ryan and C.J. Ryan ’08 report their second child, William Ives Ryan arrived on December 23 at 6 pounds, 12 ounces and 20.5 inches long. Big brother Ames, who just turned 2, is so proud of his “Baby Ives.” They are loving life in Rhode Island and happy to be closer to Hanover! Marcy (Van Arnam) Saltaformaggio and her husband, Robert, welcomed their baby girl, Hattie, into the world December 31—just in time for a tax deduction and champagne toast. On February 3 Lizzie Teague and Eric Klem ’08 welcomed Emma Harlow Klem into the world! Emma and parents are well and enjoying lots of winter walks around Boston. Bret Tenenhaus and Jenna Pfeffer ’12 welcomed their daughter, Sera, into the world on January 30. Dr. Seuss is already featured prominently in Sera’s growing library collection.

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

Happy holidays, ’09s! Jillian (Hamma) Chingos and Tim Chingos ’08 welcomed their first child, Emma Elise, on October 10, 2018. Their house in El Granada, California, has been in a flurry of renovations in preparation for her arrival.

Diana Dinescu wrote, “Lina Isabel Strother was born on May 14, 2018, right on her due date. She is the cutest baby we have ever seen, and we could not love her more.” Georgina Emerson teaches high school humanities in New York City. She loves it because she gets to design her own courses and teach about anything and everything. This year she launched a nonprofit called Teach About Women, with the goal of bringing intersectional feminist and gender-inclusive resources into K-12 classrooms. Among other projects, they are creating a global history curriculum that explores the relationship between gender and power.

Kyle Finnegan is an associate at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP and received an award from the Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights for his housing discrimination pro bono work. Denton King and Lauren King welcomed a little girl, McKell King, to the family on April 27. She joins big brother Wesley. Please let him know any advice on dealing with two!

David Kopec married Rebecca Driesen at Dartmouth in Rollins Chapel on October 6, 2018. Neil Kandler, Asafu Suzuki, Molson Hart, David Short, and Tom McDermott were in attendance, as well as professor Gordon Gribble.

Joanne Nachio and Harrison St. Germain (Wake Forest ’09, Notre Dame Law School J.D. ’12) got engaged on September 2, 2018, at the Hollywood Brown Derby at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World. They are planning a wedding in South Florida for October 19. She also recently started at McAlpin Conroy, P.A., in Brickell in Miami, practicing admiralty and maritime litigation.

Greg O’Sullivan married Jessica Felts on October 6, 2018, in Atlanta. I was there along with many other Psi U and Dartmouth ’09s to celebrate! Greg is starting the second year of his M.B.A. at MIT Sloan. Greg and Jessica will be spending the first half of 2019 studying and working in London.

Julian Thomas got married in July and will be starting an international M.B.A. in January at the Lisbon M.B.A. program in Portugal

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d. kahane@gmail.com

Hello, class of 2009! I hope all is well as we head into the fall. Congratulations to our classmates growing their families and starting new adventures.

Michael Bamberger and his wife, Melissa, joyfully welcomed son Jace to the world on April 24. They recently moved from N.Y.C. to south Florida to be near family. Josh and Elyssa (Campbell) Benedikt welcomed Aden Samuel Benedikt into their home on February 2. Elyssa shared, “We are so lucky to have a beautiful baby son. Also, Diana Dinescu, Alice Kogan, and Mike Belinsky ’08 had children in April and May.” Caroline Brandt moves to Geneva, Switzerland, in November. If any alums are in the city she hopes they’ll get in touch. Georgina Emerson recently started a not-for-profit organization called Teach About Women, which brings gender-inclusive resources and practices into schools. Its mission is to change the stories we tell about women, gender, and power in classrooms and beyond. Casey Diehl and his wife, Karen, Tu’13, welcomed daughter Eleanor on November 27, 2017. They are enjoying the wonders of being new parents, while also gearing up for a large renovation to their house. Never a dull moment! Alexandra Gortchilova recently got a position as an attorney at Bose McKinney & Evans and had her first child, a girl named Elena. Vanessa Hurley will join the Washington, D.C., alumni this August when she starts as an assistant professor in the department of health systems administration at Georgetown University. A.J. Jangalapalli and Medha Raj ’13 are engaged! He wrote, “We first connected over the phone as I was about to graduate in 2009, and Medha was about to enter Dartmouth as a freshman. It wasn’t until 2017 that we reconnected and immediately clicked. Though ’round the girdled earth I roamed, her spell on me remained (with apologies to the alma mater).” Virginia Ryan and C.J. Ryan moved from Nashville, Tennessee, to Rhode Island in May, where C.J. started a new job as an associate professor of law at Roger Williams University School of Law. Virginia continues to work in a remote capacity as the competitive intelligence senior analyst at Butler Snow LLP. Their toddler, Ames, is 18-months-old and loves his new life by the beach. They are expecting baby No. 2 in January. In their “spare” time Virginia and C.J. are renovating a 1950s colonial in Barrington, Rhode Island. They are happy to be closer to Dartmouth and to Northeast friends and would love to have visitors! Carl Sciacchitano has signed a publishing deal with Simon and Schuster/Gallery 13 to publish a graphic memoir that he’s writing and illustrating titled R.E.M.F., which tells the story of his father, a Vietnam veteran, and their relationship. It’s currently due for release in 2020. Jen Stebbins Thomas was recently back in Lebanon, New Hampshire, opening the new Hilton Garden Inn right off of exit 10 on I-89. She wrote, “It was so fun to be back in the Upper Valley, and I hope our classmates can check out the hotel when they are back to visit!” Katy (Whisenhunt) Townsend and her husband, Bruce, welcomed their first child, Reid Kenneth Townsend, on November 17, 2017. Layne Zhao had a baby on January 21, a day before her birthday (January 22). Baby Paul weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces.

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

It’s hard to believe summer is upon us again, and we’ve been away from Hanover for nine years! Enjoy some updates from our classmates, and please don’t forget you can send in your news at any time. Dylan Kane is in New Zealand on a volunteer program with seven other U.S. Forest Service wildland firefighters building trails and doing other conservation projects on New Zealand public lands. Kaitlin (Gallup) Licato and her husband welcomed their son, Theodore, in April. Claire McConnell and Chris Noel are engaged! Lilian Mehrel is teaching an immersive storytelling course this spring at New York University Tisch Grad Film with Ray Tintori. She was part of the Tribeca Film Institute Immigration Co/Lab and created an augmented-reality story experience. Kendall Reiley finished her master’s in educational leadership and policy studies from the University of Denver this spring. She’s giving herself the award for most days skied while teaching full time and in grad school. She wrote, “If any ’09s need to hire an elementary school principal, let me know. Also, I’m still living just outside of Aspen, so come ski!”

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

Happy holidays! Liz Baron and her husband, Art Baron ’07, are relocating to Ottawa, Ontario, and look forward to becoming hockey fans. Taylor Dryman married Harry Wilmer on October 14, 2017, in Atlanta with many fellow Dartmouth alums in attendance to celebrate! She also successfully defended her doctoral dissertation in September and will receive her Ph.D. in clinical psychology following the completion of her clinical internship year. Johannes Lohmann has finished graduate school in development economics and moved to New York, where he joined the Behavioral Insights Team to work on behavioral economics in development. Darcy Rose completed her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. She still lives in Christchurch, playing and coaching basketball in her spare time. After enjoying six months of unemployment, Peter Shellito is starting a job at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. He moves to Arlington, Virginia, in January. Andrew Son has been in Washington, D.C., since graduation. This summer he started a new job at JBG Smith, where he is a vice president of retail asset management, and he bought a condo in the city. He looks forward to hosting ’09s visiting the nation’s capital! Cinnamon Spear will spend the next two years as a participant in the world-renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the literary epicenter of Iowa City. She will receive a master of fine arts from the top writing program in the country. She wrote, “I am honored to have this time, space and opportunity to refine my craft of fiction writing. I continue to strive to make family, fellow alumni and the Northern Cheyenne Nation proud!” Jen Stebbins Thomas joined the board of Child & Family Services of New Hampshire. She shared, “It is the oldest children- and family-oriented social services organization in the state, serving residents of every age. They are doing some great work on substance abuse treatment and prevention, child advocacy and youth homelessness, among lots of other causes. If any classmates are interested in helping this great organization, I’d love to speak with them!” Page Wagley is leaving New York and moving to Seattle. She is looking forward to connecting with ’09s out west.

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

Hey, ’09s! As we finish up the summer, here are some updates from your classmates.

Christopher Blankenship finished his M.B.A. at the University of Virginia and moved to New York City in July to start at Goldman. Brian Chao received an A.M. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania and was advanced to doctoral candidacy there. He is active in the Philadelphia alumni club and hopes any alumni moving to the area join the club and its awesome series of events! Lauren and Ian Dumont welcomed their first child, Hadley Anna Dumont, on May 12. They’re hoping she will be a Dartmouth ’39! Katie Dutko started her next position with Catholic Relief Services as program manager for education programs in Pakistan. She is based in Nairobi indefinitely until her visa comes through and loving every minute of it! She would love to hear from any ’09s coming through Nairobi or Islamabad this year. Andy Han started a new job as a reporter covering science and the law for Retraction Watch, an organization interested in research misconduct. Josh Jacobson accepted a new job at Innovations for Poverty Action as data scientist, specializing in meta-level (cross-study) analysis. He is looking at the evidence across poverty and public health interventions to help figure out what works best. He is based in N.Y.C. and will be traveling to the field often. Melissa Lokensgard Allen shared that, “Courtney Merrill and I met up in Las Vegas to see Britney Spears in January. I started a new job at InhibRx, an antibody therapeutics startup adjacent to the Torrey Pines golf course. My husband and I remodeled our kitchen and bathroom, which now looks great, but it was not a fun process.” David Okun moved with his wife, Megan, and daughter Nora to Cincinnati this June. David joined the commercial real estate development team at Al. Neyer.John Storella ’77 wrote in to share that he attended a performance in May at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Berkeley, California, and the chamber chorus Sacred and Profane performed Will Raymer’s original composition, “Settings from Songs of Experience,” based on the writings of William Blake (with Will’s help as tenor). Nat Smith graduated from Tuck with Martha Canning and Andrew Zabel.He moved to Seattle and will marry in September! Ashley (Gleason) Spongberg married in April in San Clemente, California! Erin (McDonald) Sibley, Karen (Woolley) Bell,Kirsten (Costello) Cole ’10 and Alyssa Parker ’10 were in the bridal party. Haley (Wauson) Rosowsky, Sean Nelson,Lauren (LaDolcetta) Nelson ’10, Rob Young ’10, Stephanie (Riedler) Young ’11, Erik Bell ’08, Molly Khalil ’12, Hillary Barker ’12 and Erin Dornan-Liuzzo ’00 attended. As of August, Ediz Tiyansan moved back to the United States, to be based in Washington, D.C., as a White House correspondent for TRT World, a relatively new international news channel. He can’t wait to catch up with classmates who might happen to be there and looks forward to visiting Dartmouth once again after almost a decade!

Keep a look out for mini-reunions in your area and follow ’09s on Facebook (Dartmouth College Class of 2009), Twitter (@Dartmouth09) and Instagram (@dartmouth09). Share a picture with the class via dartmouthsocial@gmail.com.

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

Hello, ’09s! Spring is just around the corner and here is the most recent news from our classmates.

Caitlin Angelette and her husband, Luke Angelette, had their first child, a boy named Griffin James Angelette, born on October 24. Lauren Caracciola is excited to be moving back to the United States after two years in Amsterdam. She will be moving to Hanover, where her fiancé, Allan Reynolds ’07, will be attending Tuck. She is excited to be back “home” and to have lots of visitors!

Nanette Cedeno recently married and moved to Tampa, Florida. Scott Decker is expecting a second little boy in March and is hoping to build his subscribers to visualteamstatus.com to such a point that he can quit his day job before the baby arrives.

Lilian Mehrel is a Marcie Bloom/Sony Pictures Classics fellow this year, continuing improv and writing her thesis film. She is looking for stories of people who have lost their sense of smell (after head injury) and gotten it back. Her virtual-reality films have now played in festivals from Tribeca, Toronto, Seattle, Tacoma, Oxford and Slamdance. Kareem Niazi will be moving to New Jersey with his wife in June to start a cardiology fellowship at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Brian Scullin and his wife, Shannon, moved to the Phoenix, Arizona, area and they are excited about enjoying hikes, sunshine and their new home’s citrus grove. Emily Esfahani Smith’s book, The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life that Matters, is out! (See page 64 for more on her book.) Bret Tenenhaus and Jenna Pfeffer ’12 got married in September. Many Dartmouth alums danced to “Blame it on the Boogie” and Zachary Swiss did an A+ job walking grandma down the aisle.

Keep a look out for mini-reunions in your area and follow ’09s on Facebook (“Dartmouth College Class of 2009”), Twitter (@Dartmouth09) and Instagram (@dartmouth09). Share a picture with the class via dartmouthsocial@gmail.com.

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth. d.kahane@gmail.com

Brian Bensch founded SnowSchoolers.com, a peer-to-peer startup connecting ski and snowboard coaches directly to students, providing affordable private lessons, while paying their freelance instructors double market rate and simplifying the lesson-booking experience. Diane Cheney graduated from UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in May and moved to College Station, Texas, for a one-year small animal rotating internship at Texas A&M University. Will Chen got a postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study. Ryan Church graduates from his dermatology residency in July and is looking into post-grad job options. Meanwhile, he’s rock climbing and enjoying southern California weather. Diana Dinescu’s master’s thesis, “Is Marriage a Buzzkill? A Twin Study of Marital Status and Alcohol Consumption,” was published in the Journal of Family Psychology and benefited from an unexpected amount of attention from the press. Now she’s working hard to finish her dissertation! Emily Eichenberger is in her final year of an internal medicine residency at New York Presbyterian-Cornell and in July she will be chief resident at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Taylor Holt wrote that he left the great group of Jeff Crowe ’78, Casper de Clerq ’84, Ed Yip ’04, Jared Hyatt ’06 and Dave Kellenberger ’12 and joined John Huelskamp ’06 at Flexport. Christian Kiely started a new job at Todd & Weld LLP. He and Kristen Kiely recently moved to Charlestown, Massachusetts. After her short film haunt premiered in the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, Lilian Mehrel made another virtual reality film, Invisible, and is writing a virtual reality sci-fi series as well as a comedy TV show. DeVon Mosley lives in Dallas and works for an investment company. He is working on his master’s in public and business administration and is probably going to get married soon. Emily Esfahani Smith moved to Washington, D.C., with Charlie Dameron ’11, and her book, The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters, will be published by Crown in January.

Dan Romero and Julia DeWahl married in June, complete with Rocks and Aires voices at the ceremony and reception. With startup Opendoor for two years, she currently works as interim general manager of its Phoenix operations. Nathan Empsall married Diana Church (Sweet Briar ’01) in Washington, D.C., on July 23. The Rev. John Shellito ’07 officiated, Max Bentovim ’08 was a groomsman and, together with other alumni, Brian Chao, Rob Cousins, Kaili Lambe, Alessandra Necamp and Cinnamon Spear attended. Nathan and Diana will be in New Haven, Connecticut, for the next three years. Kaitlin Gallup married and is now Kaitlin Licato.Labor Day weekend Yoko Matsumoto married Andrew Gerba at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, and will travel through Asia this fall on an extended honeymoon. Virginia Deaton Ryan and Milo Rodriguez were two of her bridesmaids. Luke O’Halloran married Laura Gardner ’10 on August 6 in Sonoma, California. Kate Harney officiated and Nick Weir, Adam Frank, Catey Pease, Maggie Goldstein ’10, Katy Briggs ’10 and Steph Lee ’11 were in the wedding party. Kate Schmidt moved to London with her fiancé, whom she met at a Filligar concert. They marry next June in Virginia.

Chris McCune wrote that Garrett Lee McCune was born on July 29! Chris continues to work in finance at M&T bank and is in the middle of his M.B.A. at the University at Buffalo.In May Virginia Deaton Ryan, C.J. Ryan ’08, Taylor Hedrick, Grace Colloton, Tommy Albright and Martha Boyd Albright met in Munich for beer gardens, biking and late nights at Club Sheraton. Haoxiang Cai wrote that he “is now a chartered financial analyst charterholder and has his life back.”

—Liz Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

Diana Dinescu got engaged last November and will marry in May 2017. Elyse George changed her wedding date to July 28 to accommodate more family. David Okun and wife Megan welcomed Nora Emmeline on April 5. George Panos wed Kerry O’Brien ’10 June 11, nine years after meeting on her DOC trip. The reception was at the Yale (i.e., Dartmouth) Club in Manhattan. Mike Russell and wife Angela had their first, Colin B. Russell, on April 22. Melinda Wilson married Sean Fuller May 29 and best friend Gaby Davila was maid of honor.

Marissa Alert starts her psychology pre-doctoral internship at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University in July. Zinnia Amaya and May-Lieng Karageorge traveled to Mexico in April to catch up with friends. They saw Sunny Park in Mexico City, where Sunny works for the U.S. embassy. They traveled to a small town outside of Guadalajara to attend the wedding of Kimberly Kruge and Alexis Lopez. Julie Delphin, Tessa Murphy, Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Miesha Smith and Fiona Lundie attended and helped put together the gorgeous ceremony and reception. Brian Bensch left Google after five years, learned to code and founded a new startup in San Francisco called CitizenDebate.org, which aims to bring civility back to American political discourse. Allen Buansi, a recent graduate from the University of North Carolina School of Law, works as the research and policy director on the campaign of Josh Stein ’88, the Democratic nominee for the attorney general office in North Carolina. Robert Cousins started a new job as a critical care paramedic with the U.S. State Department. Scott Decker lives in Denver, looks forward to hitting the mountains this summer and seeks beta testers for a new product available at visualteamstatus.com. Katie Dutko was offered a fellowship with Catholic Relief Services in Niger, West Africa. She is excited for new adventures there! Agatha Erickson was accepted to Columbia Law School and moves from Anchorage, Alaska, to N.Y.C. in August. Quinton Klabon wrote that he partnered with the College and Wisconsin alumni to immerse seven inner-city Milwaukee eighth-graders in Dartmouth life. By observing classes and talking to professors and current students, St. Marcus students left focused for high school and ready to beat the odds. Casey Lauderdale has been living his dream working as a planner for the City of Fresno. He moves to Minneapolis this August to begin a master’s program in urban and regional planning at the University of Minnesota. Suzanne Lehrer and Elana Karp run the culinary team at Plated, a cook-at-home dinner service, delivering hundreds of thousands of meals across the country every week. Their cookbook, Plated: Weeknight Dinners, Weekend Feasts, and Everything in Between, was published by Clarkson Potter on May 17. Johannes Lohmann wraps up his first year in the master in public administration in international development program at the Harvard Kennedy School and will spend the summer working with the Africa Governance Initiative in Liberia. Neelima Marupudi finished her pediatrics residency at Emory in June and moves to San Francisco to start a pediatric intensive care unit fellowship at UCSF. Lilian Mehrel’s short virtual reality film, haunt, premiered in the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival in the interactive playground section. Milo Rodriguez graduated from Wharton in May and moved back to N.Y.C. to do investment banking at Barclays. Brian Scullin and his wife, Shannon, move to Arlington, Virginia, in June and are excited to settle in with their new puppy, Tempe!

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

There are lots of ’09s moving to new cities, more engagements and some other great class news.

After an amazing year in Boston working for the governor and hanging out with Boston ’09s, Molly Bode is moving back to San Francisco. She hopes to see more ’09s in the Bay Area soon! Alex Cook recently moved to San Francisco to join Gap Inc. in a product innovation and strategy role. He and Jarman Rogers are living in the Mission District. Scott Decker wrote, “We’ve moved to Denver, I’ve started my own software consulting company and we just celebrated our son’s first birthday.” Kaitlin Gallup moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and has a new job teaching English as a second language at Shawnee Middle School. She is getting married in July. Radha Kulkarni moved to San Francisco for a new job with Littler Mendelson and would love to connect with other Bay Area alums. Jenna Newgard moved to San Francisco and started working at the financial technology company Affirm.

Katie Farley got engaged to Harvey Jones, class of 2006 from MIT. Nathan Empsall got engaged as well. He wrote, “The week before Christmas, two days after finishing my first finals at Yale Divinity, I was decorating a Christmas tree with my best friend Diana Church. I ‘dropped’ the last ornament, and picking it up meant getting down on one knee. Usually marrying your best friend means becoming friends with your date, but I fell in love with the woman who was already my best friend, and I thank God everyday for how it’s worked out!”

Chris Brouwer is still in San Francisco after taking the summer off to travel. He has a new set of roommates after Greg Rolfes and Uday Seth went off to Wharton. Scott Henning moved in, so he has kept most of it in the Dartmouth family. Caitlin Pierce and Emily Koepsell spent Christmas climbing Mount Kinabalu, the highest peak in Southeast Asia. Emily finished a few months interning in Hong Kong and Caitlin was on break from Myanmar, where she works for a human rights nongovernmental organization. Gabrielle Santa-Donato is working at the Stanford Design School. She went from designing professional development in the K12Lab to delivering courses on how to use design thinking tools and strategies to figure out your life as a lecturer in the life design lab. So many labs!

Keep a look out for mini-reunions in your area and follow ’09s on Facebook (Dartmouth College Class of 2009), Twitter (@Dartmouth09) and Instagram (@dartmouth09). Share a picture with the class via dartmouthsocial@gmail.com.

—Liz Doolittle Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

Happy holidays! I’m happy to report we’re ending the year with some fun ’09 reunions, many engagements and marriages, a few new jobs and even two new babies. Lieng Karageorge hosted a wonderful mini-reunion at a gorgeous beach house in Nags Head, North Carolina, with Zinnia Amaya, Erica Anhalt, Alaina Smith, Udit Banerjea, Raymond Rodriguez, Dexter Mackie ’08 and their significant others.

Julia DeWahl and Dan Romero are engaged! They met in Boston in late 2011 and moved to San Francisco together in 2013. They are getting married next summer. Timothy Kim got married to Hyojin Yoon in Seoul, South Korea, in July. He also entered Emory Law School’s J.D. program in August as part of the class of 2018. Kareem Niazi is in his second year of medical residency at North Shore-LIJ in Long Island and recently became engaged to Nadia Tariq. They will marry next May. Jeremy Seidling and Linnea Johnson were married on October 17 in Kansas City, Missouri. They celebrated with family and friends, many from Dartmouth, at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Brian Scullin married Shannon Desmond in Tempe, Arizona, on September 5. He wrote, “We were blessed to be joined by a great crew from Dartmouth: Hudson Smythe, Alex Czarnecki, Josh Speicher, Brittany Agee, Julia Bronson, Andrew Ching ’10, Dan Volgenau ’10 and Sarah Klassen ’10. Shannon was a valedictorian in college and a Big East soccer star so I’m definitely marrying up!” Emily Esfahani Smith got married in Hanover during the summer to Charlie Dameron ’11 and they moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan. If you’re in the area or passing through, let her know emilyesfahanismith@gmail.com.

Tom McDermott started working at Adobe in San Jose, California, in August. Lilian Mehrel started as a resident storyteller for Portals, a global public art project by Shared Studios that connects people across the world through large, golden boxes with immersive audio-video technology. People enter the Portals to talk to someone across the world. They opened this fall in New York City, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Vanderbilt University and will be connected to Portals in Tehran, Iran, Havana, Cuba, Herat, Iran, El Progreso, Honduras, and Mexico City, Mexico. Cinnamon Spear, a public affairs specialist for Indian Health Service in Washington, D.C., has been promoted and transferred to the Phoenix Indian Medical Center in Arizona. She continues to screen her film Pride & Basketball, share her publications from the Off the Path anthology series and serve as a motivational speaker for Native youth across the country. Also, Molson Hart wrote that he “changed his name to Mike for Tinder.”

Margaret (Sullivan) ’08 and Matthew (Lashof-Regas) Lashof-Sullivan celebrated the arrival of their daughter, Cora, on June 19. Franklin Ordonez married Mirian Ruiz in January and they welcomed their son, Pablo Santiago Ordonez, on August 9.

Lastly, I moved to southern Nevada. Come visit if you’re near Las Vegas, and please feel free to send updates to my new address below. Keep a look out for mini-reunions in your area and follow ’09s on Facebook (Dartmouth College Class of 2009), Twitter (@Dartmouth09), and Instagram (@dartmouth09). Share a picture with the class via dartmouthsocial@gmail.com.

—Liz Doolittle Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com

I hope everyone is enjoying the summer. Lots of ’09s on the move, getting married, and some newly minted doctors starting residency. If you’re visiting a new city, don’t forget to look up your classmates!


Lauren Caracciola is moving to Amsterdam this summer and teaching at an international school. Kat Carmody is in London for the summer doing an internship at McKinsey. Elena Del Real moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in August to pursue her M.B.A. at Harvard Business School. Starting in August Sam Kaplan is taking a year off of from medical school to head to Cape Town, South Africa, as a National Institutes of Health Fogarty fellow. She’ll be doing research on antiretroviral treatment adherence in HIV clinics in a township outside of Cape Town. Mike Knapp moved to the beach and lives with his roommate Ishmael (his golden retriever) in Pacifica, California. He is still coaching rowing and teaching high school. His team won the national championship in 2014. Justine Modica is moving to the Bay Area this fall to start a Ph.D. program in the history department at Stanford University. She’s excited to explore the San Francisco area, but sad to be leaving New Orleans and hopes to live there again someday. Raymond Rodriguez took a new job as the director of policy and communications for New York City Councilman Ritchie Torres and will be driving his legislative agenda and media goals. Emily Esfahani Smith is moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in August for a year. After five years in Washington, D.C., Zach Swiss moved to New York to begin working as a manager of strategic business intelligence at Heineken USA. Ashley Zuzek moved to Los Angeles for her job.


Liz (Ellison) Baron and Art Baron ’07 were married March 21 in Chicago. They had a fantastic day celebrating with their families and dearest friends, many from Dartmouth! The classes of ’07, ’08 and ’09 were all represented, and Andrew Kempler ’08 was the best man. Michael Holman proposed to Cassie Rendon, DMS ’17, on April 6 in Pine Park in Hanover, followed by a very short engagement as they eloped on April 9 in Claremont, New Hampshire. 


Abi Ashcraft received her M.D. from the Medical College of Wisconsin in May and moved to Billings, Montana, for a rural family medicine residency. Mark Harris graduated from medical school and moved to Boston in June to start an anesthesiology residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Katie Nash graduated from Columbia Medical School and started a pediatrics residency at Boston Children’s Hospital in June. She wrote, “Just had a big Dartmouth reunion at the wedding of Anna Krigel and Ben Weiner ’10”!


Andrew Lebovich is in the second year of a Ph.D. in African history at Columbia University. He’ll be spending the summer doing research in France, Algeria, Mali and Senegal. Molly Roy lives in Washington, D.C., works at the U.S. Department of Energy in the energy-efficiency area and finished up a master’s in energy policy from Johns Hopkins University in May. She still plays ultimate Frisbee on Washington, D.C.’s women’s team Scandal and they’re two-time national champions, trying to three-peat this year! 


Keep a look out for mini-reunions in your area and follow ’09s on Facebook (“Dartmouth College Class of 2009”), Twitter (@Dartmouth09) and Instagram (@dartmouth09). Share a picture with the class via dartmouthsocial@gmail.com.


—Liz Doolittle Kahane, 255 Patroon Creek Blvd., Apt. 2219, Albany, NY 12206; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com


I’m truly sad to report that our classmate and friend Xavier Engle tragically passed away on November 30 in a kayaking accident in Washington State. Xavier’s mother, Pam Engle, and his life partner, Kaitlyn Kennedy, have created a website to post photos, text and videos celebrating Xavier’s life. Visit xavierengle.tumblr.com to share your thoughts and memories. 


Other news from ’09s includes Minal Caron moving back to Boston last fall after spending the previous year clerking in his home state of Maine. He’s now working as an attorney at Ropes & Gray, primarily in the firm’s healthcare group. Ibrahim Elshamy married Nawal Siddiqui at a sunset ceremony on December 21, 2014, in Valencia, California, after proposing to Nawal at Occom Pond during reunion weekend. Alim Shaikh was the best man and Bryan Chong and David Nutt served as groomsmen. Several other ’09s were in attendance: Diana Lopez, Joshua Mirkin, Kathryn Fay and Rehan Muttalib, along with Daniel O’Brien and Kaite Yang and Ian Dumont and Lauren Breach Dumont. He wrote, “The dance floor never was the same after ‘Blame It on the Boogie.’ ” Eric Lauritsen passed the California bar exam and is working as an associate in the Costa Mesa, California, office of Latham & Watkins. He’s doing copyright and trademark work, still with the hope of one day practicing more directly in the music industry. Lilian Mehrel is wrapping up her first thesis year as an M.F.A. candidate in film directing and writing at New York University. She is writing a comedy series inspired by her mockumentary project, taking viewers behind the scenes of a made-up British nature show, and is watching a lot of Planet Earth. Andrew Seidman is out in San Francisco. He cofounded a digital marketing company called Digital Reach and also still plays a little bit of poker. Emily Esfahani Smith is getting married in Hanover this summer.


Keep a look out for mini-reunions in your area and don’t forget to follow ’09s on Facebook (“Dartmouth College Class of 2009”), Twitter (@Dartmouth09) and Instagram (@dartmouth09). Want to share a picture with the class? Send it to dartmouthsocial@gmail.com.


—Liz Doolittle Kahane, 255 Patroon Creek Blvd., Apt. 2219, Albany, NY 12206; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com


Thank you so much to Peter Rothbard for all his work as the outgoing class secretary. I look forward to being in touch with our class over the next few years as your new class secretary. Many ’09s are on the move with lots of relocating, weddings, engagements and some other new adventures.


Take a look at who might be your new neighbor! Alexander Abate moved to Orange County, California, this summer and quickly realized why everyone loves southern California. He is looking forward to meeting up with any ’09s in the area. Brian C. Chao moved to Philadelphia, where he is a Ph.D. student (Benjamin Franklin fellow) in the department of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He also remains contributing analyst for the Asia-Pacific desk at Wikistrat Inc., a geopolitical consultancy. Eben Clattenburg moved to Oakland, California, to start his emergency medicine residency at Highland Hospital. Robert Cousins and his wife, Ellen Pettigrew Cousins ’08, moved from Colorado to the Bethesda, Maryland, area at the end of September. Kaili Lambe planned on moving to Denver in September and she is excited to connect with other ’09s in the Rockies! Sarah Leners will be attending the University of Chicago Booth School of Business this fall. She would love to meet up with other alums in Chicago. Luke Mann-O’Halloran moved to San Francisco with Laura Gardner ’10. He is psyched to be back in California and to adventure in his home state with Laura and all the other great Dartmouth alums out there. Virginia Deaton Ryan is moving to Nashville, Tennessee, because her husband, C.J. Ryan ’08, is pursuing a Ph.D. at Vanderbilt. She is looking for jobs in the area, so send her a note if you have any leads! Ian Wheat moved to Denver to start his psychiatry residency. He hopes to stay a while and take in the sights. If you’re ever passing through Colorado, join him for a ’14er or a day of skiing.


There are lots of weddings and engagements among our classmates. September 6 Caitlin Angelette married Luke Mitchell in Nashville. She writes, “We met in grad school. There was a mini-Dartmouth reunion among the guests.” Liz Ellison and Art Baron ’07 are engaged! They’re getting married in March. Craig Henderson and Ali Smrcina ’10 got married up at Quechee, Vermont. Dartmouth presence was out in force! Allie Landers and Dylan Nelson are getting married in Washington, D.C., in October and Kolleen “Bean” Burbank is officiating! Elliot Mattingly married Amy Flaster ’08 in Boston on July 12. Fellow ’09s Bret Tenenhaus and Tom Defalco served as groomsmen and there were many Dartmouth alums in attendance from both sides!


And, here are some other updates from fellow ’09s. Ray Di Ciaccio writes, “I’m currently hiking the Pacific Crest Trail and am in Oregon right now—just passed the 2,000-mile mark and expect to be done around mid September.” The company Josh Jacobson founded and runs, ItsPlatonic, launched! ItsPlatonic.com is officially the world’s largest site for making new friends and finding activity partners now. They are primarily in N.Y.C., but people everywhere are welcome to sign up and join! In August Stephanie Trudeau earned both her master’s in computer science from the University of Southern California as well as her black belt in karate. She continues to live and work in San Diego.


Keep the ’09s posted by sending me an email or giving me a call. Happy holidays!


—Liz Doolittle Kahane, 255 Patroon Creek Blvd., Apt. 2219, Albany, NY 12206; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com


Lots of weddings and graduate school news! Let’s get to it.


Casey Diehl writes, “In the midst of a January polar vortex in Minneapolis, Minnesota, I got engaged to Karen Olson (Williams ’07, Tu’13) and we’re getting married in Portland, Maine, next fall.”


EmilyEberle got engaged in February and will be moving to Berlin this summer. Congratulations!


Amber Gode and James Oakley ’11 will be married on August 2.


Layne Zhao is getting married on August 16 in Atlanta!


Kathryn Andrews and Nick Weir got engaged. Congrats, guys!


Michael Gabel has published a book titled She Can Fly: A Domestic Violence Survival Story. You can find out about the project through his website, shecanfly.org.


Emily Trentacoste received her Ph.D. in oceanography from UC-San Diego and is now living in Washington, D.C., working on policy for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.


Sophie Hood is graduating with an M.F.A. in costume production from Carnegie Mellon University and will continue to live and work in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.


Adam Frank will be starting the M.F.A. program in theater management at the Yale School of Drama this fall.


Owen Roberts is graduating in May from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor for the Harvard Law Review. He will be clerking for the Alaska Supreme Court in Anchorage next year. 


Noah Levinson is finishing medical school this May and will be sticking around for a neurology residency at Penn.


John Gibson is now a research associate covering oilfield services at AltaCorp Captial Inc. in Calgary.


Tyler Putnam sang in a recital in New York City with Emma Alexander ’10 and Amber Dewey ’12 on May 8 at the National Opera Center and will be singing at the Santa Fe (New Mexico) Opera as an apprentice artist this summer. 


Avnish Gungadurdoss and Johannes Lohmann are still working at Instiglio to “change the way social programs are designed and implemented. We have a contract with the Mexican government and are growing the team.”


Greg Rolfes is living in San Francisco with Chris Brouwer, Ry Sullivan and Thomas Donahoe. He works for the private equity firm FFL and recently ran the Boston Marathon with a time of 2:38.


Vanessa Hurley will be starting a Ph.D. in health services and policy at Berkeley this fall. 


Page Wagley is headed to Harvard Business School this fall.


Kaitlyn Sheehan will be starting at the Tuck School of Business in August.


Arun Goel will be working for one year in Philadelphia in preliminary medicine before heading to San Francisco to train in radiation oncology at California Pacific Medical Center.


Bret Tenenhaus will be leaving New York City to pursue his M.B.A. at Wharton with a focus on the healthcare industry.


Jeffrey Milloy is currently playing polocrosse throughout Australia for the 2014 season. “Cheers to Virginia Deaton, Page Wagley and Molly Bode for starting Dartmouth polocrosse.”


Sean Nelson is living in New York City and working at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.


Whitney Odden will graduate with a master’s in international development policy from the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University.


Natalie Todd-Zebell will be in Oregon for the next five years starting at Oregon State University in the M.D./M.P.H. program in July.


Julian Mateo is headed to Kellogg this fall for business school.


Katie Dutko finished her master’s in international affairs at the Fletcher School (Tufts) and is moving to Guatemala to work in international development this fall.


Emily Koepsell will start a dual M.S. in engineering and M.B.A. program at MIT in June.


That’s all for now, folks. Class of ’09 love!


—Peter Rothbard, 2490 Purdue Ave., #7, Los Angeles, CA 90064; (407) 421-4676; prothbard@gmail.com


Hello out there, you beautiful young alumni! Welcome to the second installment of Class Notes for the freshest group of people to hit the Alumni Magazine since the 18th century—the class of 2009! I am beyond excited to share with you all some updates from our classmates around the globe. 


Mallory McQueen blitzed in a few weeks ago to tell me that she will be spending some time selling office supplies door-to-door in St. Louis. As she says, “Fingers crossed I don’t end up like Willy Lowman.” Nice Arthur Miller reference, Mallory! Donald Pease would be proud. 


Shelley Miles reported that she recently moved to Denver to begin work with Community Bank Partners. She is nervous about the weather, especially since it snowed recently. However, she finally found an apartment. Any and all housewarming gifts are welcome. Shelley, I’m considering sending you a snuggie. They work miracles.


As of late August Shasta Small was still on campus finishing up her double major and her chemistry honors thesis, although she told me that she took a “much needed break” to tour with Phish for their last few shows. That sounds like it beats going to Novack for some fruit snacks and a blueberry scone. 


Karen Woolley recently moved to Boston and will be rooming with former track teammates Ricky Cedrone ’07 and Cassandre Tanner ’08. She plans to “pursue grand adventures and I hope find a job along the way.” 


David Short is also living in Boston now and working at Chatham Partners, a financial services consulting firm in Waltham, Massachusetts. Congrats, David!


Kate Schmidt told me that she is currently working her tail off doing investment banking with Deutsche Bank in New York City. Don’t work too hard, Kate! 


Kaili Lambe was offered a job with Repower America in New Hampshire and moved to Concord at the end of August to organize around climate issues. Thank you for helping our planet, Kaili.


Nell Pascall spent the summer in Perth, Australia, and moved to London in late August to pursue a three-month internship. She plans to stay there through December and perhaps even longer, so if you find yourself across the pond be sure to look her up.


Finally, Julie Plevin, who is still having an amazing adventure in Vietnam, wanted me to share with you all her blog address so you can follow her exploits: profoundfluxpudding.blogspot.com.


As I furiously type this document to get it in under my October deadline, it comes to my attention that Homecoming will have come and gone by the date of publication. I’m sure many of you who were able to attend will have wonderful tales with which to regale me and your fellow classmates, so please do so! Blitz in your stories of bonfire revelry with fellow ’09ers, conversations you had with the ’59s, that game of social you rounded up with people you hadn’t seen since June, anything! Tell me how you celebrated the weekend, even if you couldn’t make it to campus. I’ll try to put it all in a fun Homecoming-themed Class Notes next time. For now, though, thanks for reading. Keep doing your thing, and keep telling me all about your lives. Best class ever!


—Peter Rothbard, 2000 Via Tuscany, Winter Park, FL 32789; (407) 421-4676; class.of.2009@alum.dartmouth.org


Hello again, class! This month’s column will be a sparse one, as I received very few classmate updates since my last submission. This is primarily my fault: I have been away from Internet access for almost four months and couldn’t pester you guys with e-mails asking what you had been up to since my last column. However, you should always feel free to drop me a line even if you haven’t heard from me in a while. I am literally in a constant state of anticipation when it comes to classmate news, so never hesitate to tell me anything.


Since I have nothing to report I will offer an update on my own life. I recently finished up a theater conservatory program at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center called the National Theater Institute. It was a wonderful experience and has convinced me to move to New York City as soon as possible and try my luck as an actor, despite my initial plans to take the MCATs and apply to med school following graduation. It certainly feels like I’m doing a complete 180, but I think such a drastic change in direction was exactly what I needed to reinvigorate myself and start the new year with a fresh sense of purpose. 


That reminds me—I am submitting this column just a few days before New Year’s Eve, when the sun will finally set on what was certainly an important year in our lives. I encourage all of you to reflect on your favorite Dartmouth memories from 2009 and keep them close to your heart. And, as always, you should feel free to the send them to me! I will try to compile a Best of 2009 list of people’s favorite memories from our last two terms at Dartmouth and write about them next time. You should also send me your goals for 2010, and let me know how you plan to make our first full year away from Dartmouth the best one yet. It might seem impossible to top 2009, especially now that we are no longer living just a few yards away from the Green, but I know we have what it takes to let our Dartmouth spirit carry us into 2010. 


Just a few items of interest before I sign off: 


You should all be receiving copies of the ’09 newsletter (The ’09 Grapevine) in your mailboxes on a regular basis. Our newsletter editors continue to work hard to put out amazing issues. If you are not receiving the newsletter by mail, check that the school has your most recent contact information by going to this Web site: alumni.dartmouth.edu/default.aspx?id=324. You can also check out the newsletter online by going to our class Web site and clicking “news”: www.dartmouth.org/classes/class09. 


Our class project has been decided! We will be working with the class of 1959 on Dartmouth Partners in Community Service, supporting Dartmouth students working in the community service sector during off-terms. This is an amazing opportunity in which all ’09s can be involved. Find out more information here: www.dartmouth.org/classes/class09/partners.html.


Our first mini-reunions will be held in major cities on January 9, before this issue will go to print but after my deadline. Feel free to send me stories if you could make it to one of the reunions and I will try to include them in the next issue. 


That’s all for now. Please do send me updates (I crave them like I crave Collis breakfast sandwiches), and best of luck in the new year! 


—Peter Rothbard, 2000 Via Tuscany, Winter Park, FL 32789; (407) 421-4676; prothbard@gmail.com


Greetings, ’09ers! As I sit and type this in the cardboard box that I’m subletting from a pigeon in the East Village, it dawns on me that nearly a year has passed since our graduation. Let’s see how just a few of our classmates have been spending the time.


Shannon Prince has certainly been keeping busy: “I’m currently a postgraduate Lombard Fellow. In 2009 I traveled to Mongolia to collect oral history from the Tuvan and Darhad peoples on traditional practices, beliefs and forms of knowledge that were banned during communism. I’m currently using that oral history to create an ethnographic reference work that will be used by the contributing communities as a resource in rebuilding their cultures. I’m also writing a paper on changes in grazing practices from communism to democracy that the NGO I’m affiliated with, Bioregions International, will use as a reference as they aim to promote sustainable grazing practices. Finally, I’m writing the oral history of Mongolian-American immigrants.”


Annabel Seymour was recently accepted to USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and will be getting her M.F.A. in film production. She will be moving from New York to L.A. in the fall and is on the lookout for a roommate. Congratulations, Annabel!


Rembert Browne has some incentive to stay in New York for a few more years, as he was accepted to Columbia University’s M.F.A. in urban planning program. He will be starting in the fall. Well done, Rem!


Likewise, the lovely Lora Johns was accepted into the Ph.D. program for linguistics at UMass Amherst. Way to go!


Gabrielle Santa-Donato is currently finishing up her urban education fellowship year at the MATCH school where she started the first arts program the school has had. She will be organic farming in Italy this July and would love a travel buddy.


A few days ago I caught up with Adam Frank, who is currently working as the audience development assistant in the marketing department of the Public Theater in New York City. 


Thomas McDermott is finishing up his first year at UVA Law and will be spending the summer in Boston working for the public defender office in Middlesex County. 


Having finished his first year at Duke Law, Brian Flood will be spending the summer in Portland, Maine, as an associate at the firm Pierce Atwood. 


Filligar (featuring band members Pete and Teddy Mathias) wrote to tell me about their year. They were inducted into the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, attended and voted in the Grammy Awards, are currently recording a new album due out in June and will be going on tour for the second time this summer. Check out their dates at filligar.com!


Clare Fortune-Agan is living in her native southern Maine and working as a community educator at Caring Unlimited, a local domestic violence shelter. She recently starred in the Portland production of That Takes Ovaries.


Luke Mann-O’Halloran is living in Boston with Kate Harney. “We, along with Courtney Talmadge, Scott Henning and Megan Snively, are slowly but surely taking over CSN Stores, an up-and-coming online retailer.”


Brian Mengwasser, Awni Hannun, Ian Murphy and Matthew Siegfried ’08 are finalists in the Green Launching Pad business plan competition, a University of New Hampshire/Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network venture that is designed to promote the development of clean-tech and energy-efficiency businesses in the state of New Hampshire. Their entry in the competition is a self-programming thermostat that learns the occupancy patterns of a residence by incorporating motion sensors strategically placed throughout a home and then automatically adapts the home’s heating output to fit the user’s schedule.


If this is any indication of what our class can accomplish in only a year, I can’t wait to see what the future holds. Class of ’09 love!


—Peter Rothbard, 630 E. 9th St., #5, New York, NY 10009; (407) 421-4676; peter.s.rothbard.09@alum.dartmouth.org


Oh hello there, fellow ’09 classmate. How nice of you to join me in this big empty meeting area. Allow me to regale you with tantalizing tidbits of information that I have heard upon the whispers of the hill winds. 


Anthony Guzman enjoyed traveling through Central America this summer with Derek Brand and Greg Boguslavsky. He has since started medical school at the University of Pennsylvania with fellow ’09s Alexandra Ortega and Noah Levinson.


Radha Kulkarni moved to Los Angeles to start law school at UCLA and is loving the change of scenery. 


Melissa Lokensgard completed an M.S. program in chemistry/biochemistry at San Diego State University and will be enrolling jointly at SDSU and University of California San Diego this fall in a Ph.D. program in chemistry/biochemistry.


Sasha Prokhorova moved to San Francisco to pursue a job in energy management.


Meanwhile, on the East Coast Liza Wiley has moved to New York to start a Ph.D. program in micro-organizational behavior at Columbia Business School. 


Tom Huzarsky moved to New York and is working for an advertising agency called Digitas. 


Emma Virginia moved to Atlanta and is currently living with Shruthi Rereddy. She will be attending Emory University for a master’s in public health.


Jon Livadas completed a year at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. He also played on the Duke lacrosse team, which won the NCAA Championship this year. 


Andrew Pinkham moved back to Hanover to begin life as a graduate student in the computer science department. 


Brian Chao will be a 2010-11 Dartmouth general fellow in the international Chinese language program at the National Taiwan University in Taipei. 


Nathan Empsall spent his summer hiking through Idaho’s national forests, and has recently moved to Washington, D.C., to start a job with the Democratic National Committee. 


Andy Reza is now a founding member of City Year in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The program is an education-based community service nonprofit and an AmeriCorps affiliate. “I’ll be tutoring, mentoring, creating/running after-school programs, building playgrounds, etc., for the next 10 months.”


Shasta Small is working at ReKnew Energy Systems, a solar energy company in the Upper Valley. “ReKnew installed a solar hot water system at the Dartmouth Sustainable Living Center this spring and is currently installing solar hot water at President Kim’s house!”


Nick Weir, Kevin Scully, Luke O’Halloran and Minal Caron recently moved in together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 


Steve Chang and Allison Baker went to Peru this summer and had an interesting alumni encounter. Says Allison, “While on a boat somewhere in the Amazon we met up with another Dartmouth graduate, Fred Rothenburg ’64. Fred said he wasn’t at all surprised to meet three other Dartmouth graduates (my father is a member of the class of 1980) in the Amazon, as that’s the kind of ‘rugged individualism’ Dartmouth breeds.”


Rohre Titcomb is working in Seattle at a business run by her and her siblings. Check out their products online at fiveultimate.com and fivebamboo.com! She is also playing ultimate Frisbee for a team called Seattle Riot: “Third in the world at the championships in Prague this year!”


Robert Cousins is excited to report that he recently received his paramedic certification. Congrats, Robert!


Neil Kandler recently passed his Level 1 chartered financial analyst exam. Way to go, Neil!


Virginia Deaton and C.J. Ryan ’08 bought a house together in Lexington, Kentucky, and are both in their first year at the University of Kentucky College of Law. “We got a puppy too!” 


That’s all for now, dear friends. But like the leaves in autumn, our classmates’ stories are forever changing. Please return again to hear more of their journeys ’round the girdled earth and to share your own. I must go, for I crave a billybob. 


—Peter Rothbard, 412 W 129th St., Apt. 16, New York, NY 10027; (407) 421-4676; peter.s.rothbard.09@alum.dartmouth.org


Save the date! Our class of ’09 five-year reunion is June 13-15! Follow us on Twitter @d09reunion and watch for more emails. Registration details will come in March.


Elyssa Campbell married Joshua Benedikt on July 4, 2013, and they are now living in Brookline, Massachusetts. Congrats!


Mike Russell was married to Angela Antoun in Washington, D.C., on January 4. Best wishes!


Chris Koppel was promoted to captain and is finishing up his to deployment to Afghanistan. He will marry Carolyn Rippe ’10 in Hanover in July!


Brent Wesley Drummond interned at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, D.C., last summer and has since matriculated at Harvard Law School.


Tyler Putnam took a break from performing all over the country as an opera singer to tread the boards once more at Opera North in Lebanon, New Hampshire. He played Luther Billis in South Pacific and Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor.


Nathan Mazonson is enjoying the Bay Area and will be starting at Stanford Business School in the fall.


Kate Harney is in her second year of teaching at a small, nature-based elementary school outside of Boston.


Colin Treseler, his wife, Malin, and their 4-month-old Bjorn have moved to San Francisco from Stockholm. 


Julia Dewahl has recently moved to San Francisco as well!


Mike Knapp is now teaching high school English at Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep in San Francisco and is the head men’s coach at the Pacific Rowing Club. He is living with Ruslan Tovbulatov and Adam Schoenfeld. 


Aimee Moon also lives in the Bay Area, where she works on local policy and public affairs for Google.


Tom McDermott passed the California bar exam in November and is now the general counsel at a fast-growing tech company in Berkeley, California.


Quinton Klabon is the new development associate at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Saint Marcus School, a nationally recognized hub of education reform.


Georgina Emerson is back in Hanover working toward her M.A. in comparative literature and building up her teacher training and tutoring business. “It’s good to be at Dartmouth!”


Christina Castedo has recently graduated from the University of Michigan Law School.


Sam Blazek is in Austin, Texas, slowly pushing through the second year of his information systems Ph.D. at the University of Texas while producing music, practicing Krav Maga, and keeping fit during his free time.


Cinnamon Spear is now working at the Indian Health Service headquarters as a public affairs specialist in Washington, D.C.: “Reconnecting with Nathan Empsall, Karelle Hall ’08, Santiago Vallinas ’07, Josh Clause ’05 and Heather McMillian-Nakai ’02 has been fantastic!”


Kaitlin Gallup is back in upstate New York working as a substitute English as a second language teacher.


Noah Levinson is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania, currently applying for a neurology residency.


Josh Jacobson is moving to Manhattan, where he is setting up a new office and launching his startup, ItsPlatonic.com.


Brittany Crosby is living in Madison, Wisconsin, and working as a project manager for a healthcare software company by day and as a slam poet by night. “My primary customers are in Charlotte, North Carolina, Palo Alto, California, Portland, Oregon, Birmingham, Alabama, Boston and Little Rock, Arkansas. I travel almost every week so if anyone is in any of those areas or has suggestions for things to do in those places, let me know.”


Carol Szurkowski, Owen Roberts, Stacie Payne Fahsel, Annie Rittgers, Brent Wesley Drummond and Meredith Gringer’s cousin Zach (’09 once removed) send their love from Harvard Law School. 


That’s all for now. Class of ’09 love!


—Peter Rothbard, 2490 Purdue Ave. #7, Los Angeles, CA 90064; (407) 421-4676; peter.s.rothbard.09@alum.dartmouth.org 


Greetings, classmates! It’s been four years since we graduated, but it feels like four minutes. I miss the days when our lives were broken up into bite-size, 10-week chunks and each academic quarter felt like an ocean of time in which anything could happen. Nowadays I measure my life in years, and they seem to be slipping by at an alarming rate. But, as Eliot would have us remember, there is


“Time yet for a hundred indecisions,


And time yet for a hundred visions and revisions,


Before the taking of toast and tea.”


Let’s check in with our fellow classmates to see who’s been making the most of their time in these post-college years!


Lauren Foster and Brad Fierstein ’06 were married on June 1 in Garrison, New York. Many Dartmouth alumni were present, including bridesmaids Meg Montgoris, Zoe Dmitrovsky and Hillary Wool and groomsman Alex Nunez ’05. The night even ended with the alma mater. Congratulations! 


Craig Henderson is playing professional soccer in Switzerland and is engaged to Ali Smrcina ’10!


Molly Bode is spending the summer in Washington, D.C., working at an internship with the World Bank.


Kaili Lambe is moving to Chicago for a job as the women’s issues campaign manager at Organizing for Action. “Finally putting that major to use! Would love connect with ’09s in the Windy City.”


Annabel Seymour graduated from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts with her M.F.A. in film production. She is currently working for Lorne Michaels’ production company, Broadway Video, in Los Angeles. 


Katie Farley is teaching middle school science at Excellence Boys Charter School and living in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.


Nathan Empsall is now the senior digital innovation campaigner at the Sierra Club in Washington, D.C.


Brian Flood has been admitted to the New York bar and taken a job as the legal editor of the International Trade Reporter at Bloomberg BNA. 


Casey Diehl is moving to Minneapolis with his girlfriend Karen Olson, Tu’13. Karen is taking a business development position at 3M and Casey has been promoted to the manager of sales efforts for WegoWise in the Midwest region.


Whitney Odden is living in Kenya and working on development research projects for Georgetown University. She is focusing mainly on health clinics and sanitation access in the slums. 


Taylor Holt is living in San Francisco and working at Norwest Venture Partners. 


Britni Stinson is currently a ProInspire Fellow making the transition from the private sector in finance to the public sector managing a major city school system’s budget.


Jon Livadas, Martin Bernstein, Zach Hyatt, Jamie Coffin ’06 and Charlie Friedland ’10 recently invested in new San Franciscan Garrett Nicholson’s (’11) start-up called Invincible Picnic, which aims to revolutionize the holographic furniture market. 


Brian Chong is working as a photographer in Brooklyn, New York, and recently launched his own fashion magazine called Latent. Check it out at www.latentmag.com.


Shannon Prince finished her first year at a Ph.D./J.D. program at Harvard and will be attending the Newberry Library’s Newberry Consortium on American Indian Studies Summer Institute in Chicago. 


Asafu Suzuki finished her second year at Georgetown Law School and is working as a law clerk this summer at a small civil rights litigation firm in the D.C. metropolitan area. 


Liz Ellison is starting a new job with the Chicago wine importer H2Vino, and four of her plays had workshops around Chicago and Minneapolis this year!


Brendan Anderson recently completed his M.S. in geology at the University of Kansas and will be pursuing Ph.D. work at Cornell.


That’s all for now. Class of ’09 love!


—Peter Rothbard, 2490 Purdue Ave., #7, Los Angeles, CA 90064; (407) 421-4676; peter.s.rothbard.09@alum.dartmouth.org


Greetings, fellow classmates! It’s finally summer, and I hope that you all are filling your days with barbecues, wheelbarrow races, watermelon eating contests, swimming, and concerts in the park. As for me, I tend to spend the summer months indulging in my favorite warm weather activity: sitting in front of my air conditioner watching DVR-ed episodes of Pretty Little Liars in my underwear while eating Nutella out of the jar. I’m sure you’re jealous, but we can’t all be this sophisticated. Now let’s see how the rest of our classmates have spent the summer months:


Anna Bekker and Evan Carlson ’08, Th’10, are engaged! They will be married next May, after Anna finishes her third year medical school rotations. Congratulations, you guys!


Alanna Purdy has spent her summer traveling through Costa Rica and teaching English to Tibetan refugee monks in Dharamsala, India. She will soon return to Zuni Pueblo to begin her second year of Teach for America in New Mexico.


Zeke Turner will be moving to Berlin for a year starting in September: “I have a grant to study the German newspaper business, and I also hope to freelance for newspapers and magazines while I’m abroad. If anybody from Dartmouth is around, they should definitely drop me a line.”


Hillary Beach and Colin Treseler raced a sailboat from Boston to Bermuda this June.


Kaitlyn Sheehan sang “God Bless America” at a Mets game during opening weekend at CitiField in April. She performed in front of 35,000 people!


Ry Sullivan is moving to San Francisco to continue his work with Goldman Sachs. 


Angela Chou moved to Brooklyn, New York, recently and is now working as an intern at Glickman Schlesinger Design Office, an architecture firm.


Ediz Tiyansan has moved to Beijing, China, to begin his new job as a correspondent for TRT, Turkish Television. He says he thinks about Dartmouth now more than ever, because the last time he was in China it was during his FSP!


Adam Breuer will be starting a combined Ph.D. at the Kennedy School and a master’s in Engineering at Harvard this fall. 


Liz Ellison finished her M.F.A. in dramatic writing at Carnegie Mellon and will move to Chicago this July to begin working as a financial administrator at a nonprofit. 


Molly Roy is currently a legislative correspondent for Congressman Larry Kissell: “I’m in charge of constituent mail and interns, which can be both fun and insane. I’m still playing Frisbee in the majority of my free time, though, so that part hasn’t changed!”


Asafe Suzuki will be spending a few weeks with family and friends in Japan this summer before starting his first year of law school at Georgetown University. 


Saleha Waqar finished her master’s in international law and currently has a job in nuclear security at the International Atomic Energy Agency. 


Ian Murphy has decided to pursue his long-held dream of joining the Army. He is currently a specialist undergoing basic training at Fort Benning in Georgia. After graduating, he will attend the three-week airborne school at Fort Benning before moving to Camp Mackall/Fort Bragg in North Carolina to qualify for the Special Forces. Best of luck, and be safe!


That’s all for now, friends. Keep sending me updates on your amazing adventures, and enjoy the end of your summers. As for me, I’m out of Nutella. Class of ’09 love! 


—Peter Rothbard, 412 W 129th St., Apt. #16, New York City, NY 10027; (407) 421-4676; peter.s.rothbard.09@alum.dartmouth.org


Hey guys! There’s a ton of updates this time, so let’s get to it.


Hing Cheng married childhood friend Stephanie Ding in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, on July 24. Best man Enoch Chan ’10, Haoxiang Cai, Phyllis Luk and Annora Ng ’11 attended. Best wishes!


Elizabeth Teague and Eric Klem ’08 got engaged in early August. They plan on getting married during the summer of 2012. Congratulations!


Alex Fidel is living in Paris working for a French company that manages ads on search engines called Keyade.


Shasta Small moved to Colorado to continue working for the same solar company that she was working for in Vermont. She recently completed the Tough Mudder, a 10-mile obstacle course in the Rocky Mountains.


Page Wagley moved to La Jolla, California.


David Schmidt is moving to Keene, New Hampshire. He’s still working at Florentine Films. “If you hear about a 14-hour documentary on Franklin, Eleanor and Theodore Roosevelt, I worked on that. But after this blurb you’re not likely to hear about The Roosevelts until 2014. So hold your horses.”


Jon Livadas had this to say: “I quit my job at Bank of America in N.Y.C. and moved to San Francisco, where I am living in the Castro and painting the Golden Gate Bridge.”


Layne Zhao worked with the Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 this summer in Philadelphia.


Kaan Senaydin was recently invited to join the Madison (Wisconsin) Opera Choir (alongside long-time member Will Raymer) for their production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. 


Chris McCune just moved to Somerset, Pennsylvania, to take an area director role for Young Life, a nonprofit Christian high school outreach ministry.


Josh Jacobson moved to Denver to start his own business.


After teaching in Baltimore for two years, Hillary Wolcott is starting the M.B.A. program at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. 


Kate Harney just started a yearlong master’s program in elementary education through Lesley University. She’ll be teaching in a second-grade class this fall at Buckingham Browne & Nichols in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


Jordan Rose is still in Boston working at a digital advertising firm. “I’m currently training for the N.Y.C. Marathon in November in support of Grassroots Soccer. Donations are encouraged!”


Tara McNerney is working at the Center for Food Safety in D.C. after completing her master’s in strategic leadership toward sustainability.


Christiana Hollis started work in July as a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State. She will be in D.C. for the next year studying Turkish before she starts her first job as a management officer in Turkey.


Josh Curcio just moved out to Seattle, Washington, to work for a startup. 


Bill Lundin moved to Boston from Minneapolis to attend Boston College Law School.


Heather Luther is commencing a year of national service on the Lost Coast of California with YouthServe AmeriCorps, a program that assists at-risk students in overcoming barriers to higher education while earning their high school diplomas.


Neil Kandler passed his level 2 chartered financial analyst exams and was promoted to investment analyst at Nationwide Insurance. 


Boris Vabson is embarking on a Ph.D. program in applied economics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.


Chris Brouwer is in the process of moving back to San Francisco from Sydney, Australia. “While I was there I caught up with Annie Rittgers briefly. When I get back to San Francisco I’ll be moving back in with Greg Rolfes and Tom Donahoe and we’ll be pulling Ry Sullivan in as well.”


Hit me up with any more updates at the e-mail below. Class of ’09 love!


—Peter Rothbard, 412 W 129th St., Apt. #16, New York City, NY 10027; (407) 421-4676; peter.s.rothbard.09@alum.dartmouth.org


Winter is beginning to thaw and the promise of spring is just around the corner. As Robert Frost once wrote, “Nature’s first green is gold,” which I think is a great reminder that it’s never too late to start a new chapter in your life—there is always beauty in beginnings! Our fellow classmates are embarking on plenty of new adventures, so let’s check in with them, shall we? 


Jimmy Bramante and Grace Chua ’07 were married in Singapore in November! Congratulations, you two! 


Diana Dinescu will be entering the University of Virginia in the fall as a clinical psychology Ph.D. student.


Katie Farley is teaching biology and drama in Baltimore with Teach for America.


Ray Padgett started working as a publicist for Shore Fire Media, a PR firm that represents Bruce Springsteen, Bon Iver, Elvis Costello and Lana Del Rey.


Chris Koppel recently returned from his deployment to Iraq in December. He completed his time as a platoon leader and is now a staff officer. He hopes to enjoy some time at home in Ft. Hood, Texas. 


Nathan Empsall got a new job at the Sierra Club as the national online organizer for its “Beyond Oil” campaign. 


Johanna Hauer was accepted to dental school at both Columbia and Tufts. Congrats!


Lilian Mehrel is in her first year of graduate school for Film at NYU, where she’s currently in pre-production for a short film adaptation of an Etgar Keret piece, creating videos for James Franco’s website and “avoiding large rats on my walks around the city. If any Dartmouth filmmakers want to collaborate, I’m looking for exciting summer projects!”


Raymond Rodriguez moved to New York City and is now working for BerlinRosen, a political consulting firm handling communications for issue and policy-based campaigns.


Josh Jacobson wrote in with this update: “I left my job to found the next big Internet company, ItsPlatonic.com, and I am applying to startup accelerators. I also moved to Denver to work with my cofounder and am always looking for people nearby to play pong with.”


Ediz Tiyansan was just assigned as the Jerusalem correspondent for TRT, a Turkish TV network: “I’m covering news reports all over Israel, West Bank and Gaza.”


Jon Livadas recently teamed up with fellow San Franciscans Jeff Kolovson, Conlan O’Leary, Johari Wiggens, Conor Leary, Chan Park, Ben Beiswinger, Alex Rapp, Phil Galigan and Jamie Coffin ’06 in a new nonprofit called Holy Shirts and Pants: “We take the wool from sheep and turn it into thread for the homeless to sew, which they in turn make into clothing for other homeless people to sell.”


Dylan Kane is currently living in Laramie, Wyoming, with his girlfriend. Starting in May he will be serving as a wildland firefighter with the Snake River hotshot crew in Pocatello, Idaho.


Finally, C.J. Ryan ’08 proposed to Virginia Deaton on top of Baker bell tower on the Friday of Homecoming while the bells played “My Old Kentucky Home.” Virginia said “yes!” and the couple celebrated at Phi Delta Alpha with Milo Rodriguez, Anna Dev, Yoko Matsumoto, Cynthia Galvez, Taylor Hedrick, Andrew Lane, Andrew Son, Tommy Albright, Michael Gabel, Doug Brown, Ryan Moody, Greg Detwiler, Alex Bowers, Zach Foda, Jorge Rodriguez ’12, Michael Sloan-Rossiter ’08, Pat Delgado ’08, Andrew Kempler ’08 and John Alekna ’10, among others. There is a video of the proposal available, courtesy of Dartmouth, on the Dartmouth Facebook/YouTube page. They hope to see lots of Dartmouth friends at the wedding in Kentucky on August 10.


That’s all for now folks! 


—Peter Rothbard, 542 Eastern Parkway, Apt. 3-B, Brooklyn, NY 11225; (407) 421-4676; peter.s.rothbard.09@alum.dartmouth.org


We are coming up on March, which was a month I particularly loved during our Dartmouth days. The winter term was finally over and everyone was coming back to campus for the start of spring. We were ecstatic to be reunited with our friends, especially those who had been off campus the previous term. We trudged through the melting snow, knowing it was only a matter of time before it was gone completely and the grass would start to grow. We would choose our classes, swear that this time we weren’t going to skip our PE’s, and vow to spend more time outside as soon as it was warm enough. Everyone was already looking forward to Green Key, when the barbecues would line Fraternity Row and we would all get a little rowdy in the sunshine.


March used to be the month of anticipation and new beginnings, and I hope 2013 has already offered you all some beautiful new beginnings. Let’s see how some of our classmates have been spending the first few months of the new year.


Caitlin Kelly is now the senior web producer for The New Yorker. Congratulations!


Mary Katherine Flanigan is pursuing her M.B.A. at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She’d love to see any alums in the Bay Area!


Dylan Kane is enjoying his seven-month off-season from fighting wildfires and has moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, to enjoy the outdoors until the West starts to burn again next summer.


Mark J. Harris finished his clinical training in Cooperstown, New York, and by the time of this writing, will have finished Step 1 of his boards, too. He’s moving back to New York City in April and is excited to reconnect with classmates!


Liz Chang, Julia Koo, Erin Choo, Layne Zhao, Aimee Lim, Caroline Shin and Faye Yu all enjoyed a reunion cruise over Thanksgiving. It was short but sweet trip to the Bahamas. Some of the highlights of their trip: watching several girls get hit by 5-foot waves and roll onto the beach (think sand in hair, gasping for breath) and having to send out a search party for one girl on the last night. Sounds like a crazy trip!


Nell Pascall wrote in with this update: “I left London in mid-December. I have just finished a one-week road trip across Australia from Perth to Brisbane (about 3,000 miles through the desert). Now it’s two weeks in Queensland for Christmas and New Year’s and then three weeks skiing at Whistler (life is hard). I will then be settling back in my hometown of Perth, Western Australia, for 2013. Plans as yet unsettled, but hoping to go back to school for a postgrad diploma in mining engineering.”


That’s all for now, folks. Keep writing with any new developments. Class of ’09 love.


—Peter Rothbard, 2490 Purdue Ave., #7, Los Angeles, CA 90064; (407) 421-4676; peter.s.rothbard.09@alum.dartmouth.org 


My fellow classmates, I write this to you only hours after the northeastern blizzard of 2010 tore through New York City and I find myself caught in a moment of reflection. As I stare out the window at the frozen tundra that was once called South Harlem (but will henceforth be referred to as “Winter WonderwhyImovedhereinthefirstplace”), I am reminded of freshmen snowball fights, skating on Occom Pond, hot chocolate in Collis, collapsing snow sculptures and the rest of the things that made those Hanover winters bearable. With a little help from liquid parkas, we certainly found great ways to get each other through those cold nights in Hanover. I will certainly miss having you all around this winter, but let us gather ’round the figurative hearth that is the Class Notes and catch up on some piping hot updates from our classmates around the globe. 


First some news to warm your heart: I ran into Will Hanson recently, who was beaming with pride to tell me he was engaged to NYU grad Jen Messina. They will be married in the coming year. 


And the wedding bells just keep chiming, according to Ray Di Ciaccio: “We had a little class of ’09 reunion over the weekend of November 20 for the wedding of Liz Nelson up in middle-of-nowhere Wisconsin (Rhinelander, to be specific). Kyle Sherry, Ignacio Rueda, Mandy Lobel, Diana Lopez, Faye Yu and myself were up there. It was cold but great to be back together (and in Hanover-like weather, too!). Of course we were surrounded by tons of other Dartmouth alums, and we all had a grand old time dancing to ‘Blame It On the Boogie’ and the ‘Salty Dog Rag’ at the reception.”


Thomas McDermott is having a great second year of law school at the University of Virginia, and will be working on prisoners’ rights litigation as a clerk for the National Prison Project of the ACLU in Washington, D.C., this summer. 


Vanessa Hurley will also be around D.C., as she just started working for the New America Foundation as a health policy analyst. 


Courtney Davis got rave reviews in the Denver Post for her portrayal of Aida in the eponymous musical by Elton John and Tim Rice at the Carousel Theater in Fort Collins, Colorado. According to the Post, Davis “carries off her every line with the poise, elegance and evident intellect of the princess she embodies.” Courtney will be moving to New York City this coming spring. 


Matt McDonald will also be heading to the Big Apple soon and is excited to start working with consulting firm Booz Allen. 


Scott Decker and his wife, Kate, recently moved to Providence, Rhode Island. Drop them a line if you’re in the area!


Max Copello started working as an agribusiness analyst in central California. 


Jordan Sedlacek graduatedfrom her master’s of agriculture program at Colorado State University and will be spending the winter snowboarding before starting a combined master of public health/doctor of veterinary medicine at CSU during the summer. 


Stephanie Morales informed me that she recently got a job as a paralegal for Windels Marx Lane and Mittendorf. Way to go, Steph!


Casey Lauderdale certainly had some awesome news: “I’d like to share that I recently got engaged, got a promotion and am enjoying an energetic puppy with my fiancé. Life is good, and I hope that my classmates are well, too.”


That’s all for now, friends. Keep the updates coming, throw another log on the fire and pour a little extra peppermint schnapps into the cocoa for me. Class of ’09 love!


—Peter Rothbard, 412 W 129th St., Apt. #16, New York, NY 10027; (407) 421-4676; peter.s.rothbard.09@alum.dartmouth.org


Well, kids, it’s been three years since we flew the coop. Tempus sure does fugit, huh? It feels like only yesterday I was grappling with a wicked hangover and stumbling toward a tree-trunk podium to endure the formidable handshake of James Wright, who, in my half-asleep state, resembled a gigantic Willy Wonka handing me a golden ticket to the future. So far the only thing I’ve done with my golden ticket is check to see if there was a chocolate bar inside (there was not) and mount it on my wall, but our fellow classmates seem to be putting their degrees to better use.


Brent Wesley Drummond is working in Senegal with the Peace Corps as an agroforestry extension agent and serves on the board of Peace Corps Gender and Development Organization as the fundraising coordinator. Brent writes, “There’s a small contingent of Dartmouth alums here. I’ve hung out with Dave Glovsky ’08 and Jessica Chervin ’07.” If anyone visits Senegal let him know!


Lauren Foster got engaged to Brad Fierstein ’06 after he proposed to her while on vacation in Antigua!


Tate Preston and Emma Virginia got engaged and will be moving to Boston’s South End this summer, where Tate will continue to work for the engineering consulting firm PTC and Emma will be starting her Ph.D. in environmental health at Boston University.


Alan Kwan is currently getting his Ph.D. in finance in New York City.


Christine Paquin recently graduated from Duke Law School and is moving to Manhattan, N.Y.C.


Brian Scullin relocated from Washington, D.C., to New York City and is living/working in midtown.


Lee Cooper is moving to New York this summer to start graduate school at Columbia University.


Lilian Mehrel is getting her master’s in film at NYU, creating videos for James Franco’s website, and “avoiding large rats on my walks through the city.”


Andrew Gregory and James Caballero’s band Tubetops has released its second EP and is performing around New York City. Check out their site for more info: www.tubetopsmusic.com.


Pete Kitlas will be starting a master’s in modern Middle Eastern and North African studies at the University of Michigan this September. Hit him up if you’re around Ann Arbor!


Emily Huang and Leah Williams graduated from the University of Michigan Law School on May 6. After lots of serious classes they spent their last semester sipping sangria at Dominick’s and taking a seminar on “Faking It.” Leah is moving to Chicago to work at the law firm Jenner & Block and Emily is returning to New York to work at the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton.


Erin Gu will be getting her master’s in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 


Shannon Prince will begin her J.D./Ph.D. in African and African-American studies at Harvard Law School and Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences this fall.


Glenn Randall kicked some serious ass in the Boston Marathon in April. To read an interview and a recap of his stellar performance, check out this website: http://fasterskier.com/2012/04/the-view-from-the-front-of-the-boston-mar....


Agatha Erickson moved to Anchorage, Alaska, to start working for Senator Mark Begich as his rural liaison to the state. 


Asafu Suzuki is finishing her first year of law school at Georgetown University and will be working for the National Organization of Women (NOW) in Washington, D.C., during the summer.


That’s all for now folks! Class of ’09 love.


—Peter Rothbard, 542 Eastern Parkway, Apt. 3-B, Brooklyn, NY 11225; (407) 421-4676; peter.s.rothbard.09@alum.dartmouth.org


The holiday season is upon us, and evidently so is the season of love. All over the country Dartmouth alumni are making honest men and women out of each other, so be sure to send them some tidings of comfort and joy!


Kaitlyn Sheehan is now engaged to Rodrigo Ramirez ’06.


Marcy Van Arnam and Alexander Abate got engaged over Labor Day weekend and plan to get married on campus next spring.


Karen Woolley is now engaged to Erik Bell ’08, Th’10.


There’s only one thing as magical as Dartmouth engagements, and that’s Dartmouth weddings!


Lauren (Breach) Dumont and Ian Dumont tied the knot in Atlanta at the end of September surrounded by a great group of ’09s, including groomsmen Nick Smith, Rick Berger and Shawn Leamon and bridesmaids Devin O’Connor and Emily Marshall.


Virginia Deaton and C.J. Ryan ’08 were married in August in Lexington, Kentucky. Participants in the wedding included Andrew “Cheese” Kempler ’08, Pat Delgado ’08, Page Wagley, Milo Rodriguez, Yoko Matsumoto, Anna Dev, Courtney Valentine, Cynthia Galvez and Andrew Lane. Guests were entertained with Kentucky specialties, including fried chicken, live bluegrass and a bourbon distillery tour. “And, yes, there was Phi Delt ‘Batch’ post-wedding.”


John Beck wrote in to update us on his adventures abroad: “It’s not too late to take a gap year, is it? While everyone else is getting married or engaged I left my job in the admissions office and have fled the country. I spent October in Morocco, and after visiting India and Nepal for admissions, I’ll be in Southeast Asia through at least mid-February. Would love to meet up with anyone who’ll be the region!”


Robert Cousins moved to Louisville, Colorado, with his wife, Ellen Cousins ’08. “It’s sad to say goodbye to the Upper Valley after six years (eight for Ellen) but we’re excited for this new adventure.”


Malcolm Freberg is a contestant on this season of Survivor: Philippines and, in this writer’s humble opinion, is playing the game phenomenally well. You can follow Malcolm’s exploits and cheer him on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on CBS. 


Taylor Dryman has moved to Philadelphia to start a Ph.D. program in clinical psychology at Temple University. She’d love to catch up with any ’09s in or around the city. 


Jeff Koh just started a judicial clerkship in Delaware and is looking forward to hanging out with any alums in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.


Chris Brouwer has finished working for Bain and is taking some time off before “jumping into whatever comes next.” He is currently residing in San Francisco after completing a three-week road trip from Maine during which he visited Casey Diehl, Elias Tapley, Kat Rice, Caitlin Cunningham and Anne Megargel. 


Shawn Leamon has moved to Madrid, Spain, to obtain his international M.B.A. at IE Business School. 


Tamar Groveman is getting her master’s of philosophy at Oxford in modern Japanese studies. She is focusing on the sociology of modern Japan, specifically the challenges facing women who wish to return to the workforce after having children. 


After getting his master’s in computer science from Dartmouth David Kopec moved to Pasadena, California, with his girlfriend Stephanie Cobau ’12. He is currently the co-founder and chief technology officer of CarHound. 


Lilian Mehrel is gearing up for the premier of Getting There, her NYU grad film pre-thesis. Her latest short film, Wipe Out, screened in N.Y.C.’s St. Mark’s theater in November. 


That’s all for now. Happy holidays everyone! Class of ’09 love.


—Peter Rothbard, 2490 Purdue Ave. #7, Los Angeles, CA 90064; (407) 421-4676; peter.s.rothbard.09@alum.dartmouth.org