Class Note 2007
Kale Bongers and his wife, Nicole, welcomed their first child, a son named Everett in February! You can also hear their excitement: “Our first kiddo! We’re still working on the whole ‘sleep’ thing, but he has been pretty great!”
Sometimes ’round the girdled earth is right in your backyard. Nicole (Mahr) Cannizzaro shares that, “This summer I caught up with Lisa Warren Carney. After sharing news of my industry shift and new role, I learned that her husband, Tom Carney, has been at the company where I recently started for 10 years. Now I see him (among many other Dartmouth folks), and Lisa and I are working to get our families together for dinner.”
Remember Lauren Gorecki? We haven’t heard from her since graduation! For good reason: She’s keeping herself quite busy! She started pursuing a master’s in public health at Harvard this fall, while concurrently running sales operations at a health tech startup in Boston!
Audrey Knutson took the plunge and started law school last fall at Indiana University in Bloomington! She’s in her second year and hopes to use her science background to get into intellectual property litigation. “It’s kind of weird being in an academic environment without Tubestock, Milque & Cookies, or a death slide, but I’m adjusting. There is actually another Dartmouth alum in my year, Max Schmidt ’17. Talk about a Dartmouth decade!” Way to remind us of our age, Audrey.
This spring Laura Pearlstein Mills started working as an independent brand strategy consultant. She shares that, “I’m based out of the millennial pink oasis of The Wing in Washington, D.C., and have loved working as a hired gun strategist for creative agencies and directly with clients to craft their brands and bring them to life. I even collaborated with Kirsten (Murray) Ford on a brand name, tagline, and manifesto for a tech startup. Nothing like a couple of ’07 TriDelts to win a new business pitch right out of the gate!”
Linzi Sheldon won an Emmy! Her work as Weekend Anchor of the KIRO 7 News at 5 was voted as the top evening newscast of 2018 and won her a Pacific Northwest Emmy!
Danielle Strollo just started her second year of law school at the University of Idaho. She says she’s loving it and doing well. She shares that her wife, Rebecca Beasley-Cockroft ’08, is “crushing it at Clearwater Analytics, and we’re living the dream with our two poodles. We’re going to visit Gemma Ross ’08 in the Bay Area next weekend! Come visit us!”
In August Dax Tejera got married in Cartagena, Colombia! He and his wife, Veronica, were married at the Catedral Basílica Menor Santa Catalina de Alejandría and later celebrated under fireworks at the Sofitel Legend Santa Clara. Their first dance was to “At Last,” which was sung by a bridesmaid. They celebrated into the early hours of the morning with a 12-piece band and DJ.
And what a celebration it was, with Matthew Ailey ’05, Kevin Garland, Dave Zubricki, and Michael Greene standing up and Kevin Hudak,Kate Lyon ’05, Derrick Smith,Caroline Hribar ’00, Colin Barry ’05, Tom Huzarsky ’09, Jennifer Garfinkel ’08, Joe Pechter ’04, and Chrissy (Reinhold) Pechter ’06 among the guests. At one point, Dax’s brother and best man, Justin Tejera, even took over for the DJ and played a set.
David Waslen is living in Singapore. By day, he runs a tech company in the cryptocurrency sector. By night, he’s father extraordinaire to a baby girl and a son on the way.
—Jaime Padgett, 1837 W. Patterson Ave, #109, Chicago, IL 60613; dartmouth2007s@gmail.com
