Class Note 2002
I made it back from Kathmandu and am happy to report that Katie Price is thriving working in the Bhutanese refugee camps in southern Nepal, has become a pro at arguing in Nepali with Kathmandu taxi drivers and she, Elizabeth Badger and I have officially seen Mount Everest. Now, since I’ve gotten lots of positive feedback about our April/May column’s section of random updates found on Facebook, I’ll start with that this time. As usual, feel free to write in with additions and clarifications to this news! Laura Grey is doing really cool art at Yale, where she’s a grad student. Marissa Harris lives in Las Vegas and is a belly dancer. Meaghan Gragg is a lawyer in New York, a fact I would like to confirm in person, but sadly the last time I saw her was for a karaoke Valentine’s Day H-crew reunion back in 2009. Nick Murphy is a lawyer too, in Washington, D.C. Riley Lochridge is at the University of Chicago.
On June 20, 2009, Kimberly Sarah Ballard-Perrin and Peter Kimball Brewitt ’03 were married at Yosemite National Park in California. It was a glorious day and a beautiful wedding, attended by quite a few Dartmouth alums. Peter and Kim are in Ph.D. programs at University of California, Santa Cruz. Congratulations to a very Dartmouth couple!
Dana (Greene) Korsten wrote in: “I can’t believe that it is almost a year since Tyler Blake Korsten was born July 22, 2009, in Manhattan. He weighed 6 pounds and 4 ounces and was 21.5 inches long. My husband Eric (UPenn ’97, Stern M.B.A. ’05) and I are loving being parents. I am busy juggling being a mommy and working as a private practice learning specialist. Eric continues to work in investment banking, specifically restructuring advisory, and his hours are long and grueling despite the improving economy.”
Alexandra Roberts sent this update: “Kendra Quincy Kemp married Andrew M. Knauf (Northeastern ’03) this past December in Duxbury, Massachusetts. I was a matron of honor, and the Dartmouth contingent—including Liz McKeon, Pam Piccola-Fales ’03, Jeff Saret ’01, Sena Ku ’01 and Case Dorkey ’99—tore up the dance floor. Kendra looked smashing in her white gown and red pumps, and then the two of them fled Boston for a honeymoon in Aruba.”
Julia Pinover forwarded a New York Times article featuring the Eureka Fund, a nonprofit organization started by Zach Berke, now its technology director. Based in San Francisco, the company gives the general public an opportunity to give donations toward scientific research being done by young scientists earning advanced degrees at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University. The projects they support attempt to solve problems in wind, transportation, water, solar and energy storage.
I got a press release about a grant Lynnie Rudner received from the American Medical Association. She is medical student at the University of Utah, studying a pediatric leukemia model in zebrafish to better understand the molecular mechanism of this disease.
Kristin Barlup is days away from graduating from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs program with a master’s in public administration. She works at the Robin Hood Foundation, overseeing grants to New York City NGOs in supportive housing, homelessness and social services.
Happy summer! Looking forward to hearing about your adventures!
—J.T. Leaird, 229 East 21st St., Apt. 16, New York, NY 10010; jt.leaird@gmail.com
