Class Note 2002
Let’s start with some new additions to the extended ’02 family. Two days after the East Coast earthquake and two days before Hurricane Irene, Lauren (Smalkowski) Klentak and Matt Klentak welcomed Valerie Ava Klentak to the world on August 25 in Baltimore. The couple reports that they are thrilled and having a blast getting to know their little one!
Nina Markey and husband Chris Huber (Bucknell ’99) also welcomed a baby. Nina writes, “We are happy to announce the birth of Gavin Thomas Huber on July 23! Despite arriving three weeks early he was 8 pounds, 13 ounces and 20.5 inches long. We are excited to get him into some of the Dartmouth baby gear we stocked up on at reunion!”
In wedding news, I read in The New York Times about Julia Levy’s marriage to Ari Edelson on July 22 in Manhattan. Julia and Ari were at reunion and I had a chance to catch up with them both. Julia recently graduated from Columbia Business School and now works for the Council on Foreign Relations. Ari is the artistic director of the Exchange, a theater company in Manhattan.
I heard from Heather Kofke-Egger about her September wedding to Carolyn Phillips, MIT ’99. Heather graduated from the University of Michigan School of Public Health with an M.S. in health services research this past April and has been a health policy fellow at a small health policy think tank in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for the past year. The couple will be moving to Chicago after Carolyn gets her Ph.D. this December.
This past April I had the pleasure of attending Mara Buchbinder’s wedding to Jesse Summers in Durham, North Carolina. Many ’02s were in attendance, including Dan Almeida, Kari Hacker, Molly Johnson, Stephanie Kahn, Lauren Lafaro, Andrew Langworthy, Melinda Moore, Kristin (Shigley) Livingston and Allison (Stuntz) Schulte. Mara recently finished her Ph.D. in medical anthropology at UCLA, where the couple met as graduate students. Mara is now an assistant professor of social medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Kenny Gillingham recently finished his Ph.D. in management science and engineering and economics at Stanford University and moved back east to New Haven, Connecticut, in the middle of Hurricane Irene to start a position as assistant professor of economics at Yale University. Kenny will be teaching environmental and energy economics at the school of forestry and environmental studies. He writes, “I will be missing the California sun, but it will be great to be back in New England.”
Yanni Liu Mohabir was also faced with Hurricane Irene though in a different setting than she expected: “I started working last fall in Nassau, the Bahamas, at Inventages Venture Capital, a global life science and consumer nutrition venture fund headquartered in Geneva. It is ironic that after living in the Bahamas for a year I fled Hurricane Irene the day before it hit Nassau only to experience my first hurricane in New York City. Living and working in the Bahamas is wonderful, and the weekly commute between Nassau and New York, which my husband, Kapil, and I share, proved to be manageable. The locals’ Nassau is quite different from the tourists’ version, so if anyone is coming through town, definitely reach out.”
Last but not least, as New York City was drying out from the hurricane I heard from Jorge Montalvo, who was promoted to special assistant/advisor to the New York secretary of state in June. In this capacity Montalvo manages special operations and policy projects for the secretary and serves as a member of the secretary’s executive staff.
That’s all the news for now. Please keep sending along your updates.
—Anne Cloudman, 30 W 90th St., Apt. 3D, New York, NY 10024; acloudman@gmail.com
