Class Note 2004
Hey ’04s—thank you for sending in your updates throughout the winter. I have some very exciting news to share in this issue.
Tucker Murphy made us all proud as he represented Bermuda in cross-country skiing during the Winter Olympic Games. Tucker carried Bermuda’s flag at the opening ceremony. Eight additional Dartmouth alumni (making nine in total) competed in the Winter Olympics this year.
Jessica Lawson has co-founded the Mariposa Foundation, www.mariposafoundation.com, a nonprofit in the Dominican Republic. The organization is dedicated to ending poverty and social injustice through community-based programs.
The Bronx Arts Ensemble will play Oliver Caplan’s chamber piece “Illuminated by the Light of Two Ships Passing in the Night” (violin, cello, piano) on May 23—his first piece to have been presented by five different ensembles.
John “Doc” Kupiec graduated first in his class from Boston College Law School in May 2009 and moved to Providence, Rhode Island, for an appellate clerkship. He and Stephanie Owen, who recently moved to Providence to expand her jewelry company Elizabeth Cole (www.elizabethcolejewelry.com), are enjoying exploring the city together. In September Doc will move to New York to begin a federal district court clerkship. Doc is planning on frequent ski trips with fellow Dartmouth grads John Karl, Jon Kling and Anne O’Hagen Karl ’06.
Leigh Vicens was ordained an Episcopal priest in January. She now serves part-time at a church in Madison, Wisconsin, while working on her Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin.
Christie Kiefer graduated from UVA law last summer and married Tom Borton in Charlottesville, Virginia, on January 16. Joanne Sprague was Christie’s maid of honor and Suzanne Larimore Wahl and Carrell Weeks ’02 were bridesmaids. Other Dartmouth alums in attendance were Dan Wahl, Danielle Derocher, Jenny Cabot, Dan Phelan ’03 and Tracey Fung ’06.
Alex Robbins is graduating from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business this spring, along with Kane Russell and Brian Van Abel. After that she plans on doing a three-week trip to Africa and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro before moving to San Francisco.
Brad Bate reported that Michael Newton was engaged to Anne Himpens, a business school classmate, last October. Brad writes: “Though Michael had fastidiously planned his proposal for Anne’s surprise combination Halloween-and-birthday party in L.A. he had not fully considered the implications of proposing on October 31: namely that, when he got down on bended knee, he would be dressed as Fred Flintstone and she as Wilma.” Alexa Hansen and Stephanie Movahhed were also in attendance for the happy surprise.
Jesse Seymour became engaged to Gabe Perkins in November. The couple lives in Bethel, Maine, where they are restoring an old home they own together.
Lauren Talbot was engaged over Christmas to Dave Sertich in San Francisco, California.
Heather Lapin Hewitt married Jason Hewitt in Hawaii in January. Beth Rabbitt, Rob Karl ’03, Chelsea Lane-Miller, Catherine Dale, Jon Kling, Rebecca Perkins, Nic Duquette and Joanna Hurell Duquette ’05 were all in attendance. Heather is finishing her master’s in marine affairs at the University of Washington.
Ben Converse became engaged just after our five-year reunion. He is marrying Sophie Trawalter, who received a Ph.D. at Dartmouth last summer.
Ryan van Hoff and Sophia (Schippers) van Hoff ’06 welcomed son Miles Adrian on February 8. Ryan and Sophia are finishing medical school in Philadelphia.
Sarah Maxell Crosby and husband Dan Maxell Crosby ’02 had their first baby, Dexter Bruce, on January 15.
Finally, class president Kyle Smith and his wife, Mary Marshall Smith, welcomed their twin daughters into the world on January 25.
—Jess Leinwand, 1440 S St., NW, Apt. 2, Washington, DC 20009; jess.leinwand@gmail.com
