Class Note 2001
I hope 2012 is off to a great start for each of you!
Jeff and Sena Ku Saret had an excellent excuse for missing the reunion last June: the arrival of “super-adorable” Rylan Ku Saret. Marisa Jupiter and husband Jonathan Miller ’00 welcomed Samuel Jupiter Miller on October 2. They hope he is left-handed like his dad. Dean Krishna and his wife, Reena, had a daughter, Asha Vaidya Krishna, on October 28. Big brother Veer is older by two years and one day. Ryan Bouton and wife Jennifer (Conrad) Bouton ’02 had a son, Josiah, on November 9. He has four older sisters to show him the ropes! Evangeline (Choe) Lehr and husband Jackson Lehr ’00 happily welcomed baby girl Aerin Montgomery Lehr on November 15. Greg Buth and wife Shannon had twin boys on December 6, which happens to be Greg’s birthday. Quite a present! Greg writes, “Ben and Shay were born at 6 1/2 and 7 pounds, respectively. They join our 20-month-old boy Kase in what has quickly become a very crazy house in Chicago.” Congratulations to the happy moms and dads! May the new year bring you some sleep.
Best wishes to the newlyweds and newly engaged, too! During Labor Day weekend Kim Vu married Nathan Dau (Columbia ’00). She writes, “The wedding party included Helen Chen, Ricky Wong, Caroline Chang and Elenor Mak. A number of Dartmouth friends also attended: Candice Ling, Hsin Lin, Wendy Yu ’02, Masashi Kiyomine, Soon-Hyouk Lee, Annie Chung ’03 and Henry Chen ’99.” After five years with Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York, Kim joined Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago and continues to do mergers and acquisitions transactions.
Richard Sherman wrote to say he and Amanda Morganroth ’04 wed in Portland, Oregon, this past fall. Dartmouth grads in attendance included groomsman Josh Morey, Kelly Fisher and a whole bunch of ’03s and ’04s. Amanda Cook and Zak Mazeika both love to travel, so they fittingly got engaged on a weekend trip to Amsterdam. The couple met in Las Vegas and dated long-distance between Paris and London before Amanda moved to London almost three years ago. Stay tuned for wedding details!
I received word that Sanctuary for Families honored Brooke Purcell with an award at the nonprofit’s annual Above & Beyond Pro Bono Achievement Awards & Benefit in New York. The award served as recognition of Brooke’s work on a team of Covington & Burling LLP attorneys who exhibited remarkable compassion while working tirelessly on the asylum case of a severely traumatized victim of domestic violence and her two young daughters. Brooke now works at Arnold Bloch Leibler in Melbourne, Australia. Robbie Barbero ’01, Th’02, finished his Ph.D. in biological engineering at MIT on November 28. He continues to work at MIT while looking for a job in biotech or cleantech.
Andrew Heisen was ordained as a pastor on December 10. Nat Rink ’99, Chris Bowen ’02 and Colin McGlynn ’03 joined in the celebration. Andrew will serve at Mount Olivet Lutheran Church in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. He and wife Karilyn (Saunders) Heisen are also expecting their second child, a son, in April.
Sherryta Freeman was recently promoted to senior associate athletic director at Temple University. Sarah London is moving on from her position as an assistant attorney general in Vermont to serve as Gov. Peter Shumlin’s legal counsel. Sarah is replacing Beth Robinson ’86, who was appointed to the Vermont Supreme Court.
Stay warm and keep those updates coming.
—Kristina Panettiere, 20 Great Rock Road, Sherborn, MA 01770; dartmouth2001notes@gmail.com
