Class Note 2005

Hello, ’05s.


Happy end of summer to everyone! I do hope you are all well and looking forward to fall weather in the near future. I want to start this month’s column by letting you know that our executive committee has been working on a new communications strategy to help streamline e-mail updates and keep you all informed about Dartmouth events, ’05 accomplishments, marriages, births and other news in between Dartmouth Alumni Magazine issues. We will send out an e-mail soon with more info! In the meantime please make sure you update your contact information on the Alumni Association website so we can be sure to keep you in the loop.


This month belated congratulations go out to Lindsay Ferstandig, who received her M.B.A. from Stanford University in June. Lindsay recently made the move to Minneapolis, where she now works in brand management for General Mills. Congratulations are also in order for Kate Strayer-Benton, who received her M.B.A. from Tuck School of Business and will start work at Health Advances in Boston this fall.


James Sham also recently moved to begin a new career in Washington, D.C. James wrote, “I will be starting work at George Washington University teaching sculpture in the fine arts department.” He is excited for this new opportunity and we look forward to hearing about his accomplishments.


We have had two Dartmouth ’05 weddings since the last issue. Eric Smith married Elina Rubin (Northwestern ’04) in Tuscany on June 19. Thom Pasculli, Andrew Dahl and Tommy Dickie were in the wedding party and some of the Dartmouth gang who made the venture overseas included Neel Tiruviluamala, Puja Dutt and Stephen Clarke, Andrew Verstein, Rachel Morris Watson and Cait Farrell. Congratulations to both of you on your marriage!


Jenny Goransson married Glenn Sewell on her family farm in Eliot, Maine, on August 6. Andrew Dahl, Rachel Morris Watson, Karisa Bruin, Eric Smith, Nicole Yokum, Sarah Fink and Sarah Messner all attended the wedding. Rob Strong ’04 was the official wedding photographer and Tommy Dickie read a sonnet in the wedding. Congratulations and best wishes, Jenny!


Tommy Dickie wrote with news of his own as well: “I am in my last year of my acting M.F.A. at Brown/Trinity Rep and I’ll be performing at Trinity Rep (the oldest repertory theater in the country) in Providence, Rhode Island, from October 14 to November 20. If anyone would like to see me in a big role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Clybourne Park, hit me up and I’ll get you access to cheap tickets and we can grab a drink after!”


Thanks to everyone for the updates. Please keep them coming and stay in touch!


All the best.


—Lindsey Horton, 1129 St. Augustine Place, Atlanta, GA 30306; lhorton27@gmail.com