Class Note 1998
Well, let’s kick off this update with wedding bells! I heard over the summer from Anat Levtov, who reports that she and husband Nick Bowman recently had the official party! She wrote, “Over a year after our courthouse wedding in Ann Arbor, Michigan, we were finally able to celebrate properly with family and friends (I actually highly recommend this sequence of events; it makes the party far less stressful that way!). We spent the whole weekend at a lodge in Hartland, Michigan, with a ‘team’ of wedding helpers, including ’98s Abby Augusta, Uriel Barrera Vasquez and Caroline Kerner. Fellow members of the Activist Girl Posse from our Palaeopitus days—Rachel Gilliar, Candace Crawford and Marene Jennings—also made it out to Michigan with partners and redheaded baby twins (Rachel’s daughters, Leah and Vivienne) in tow. Appropriately, we took the Dartmouth photo in front of the moose head over the fireplace. Abby gave the world’s best toast, the hora was a chance for all the Dartmouth alums to show off the dancing skills they learned salty-dogging, and it was only when Uriel put his music on that the dancing really got going.” Congratulations, Anat!
And now for some happy baby news: Heather (Charles) Wells and husband Justin Wells ’95 welcomed son Angus Charles Wells on May 9. As Heather reports, “Angus shares his parents’ love of dramatic timing, arriving 11 days early on Mother’s Day.” Heather and Justin are excited to be working together next year at a small private school in Mill Valley, California, where Justin teaches English and Heather will teach French and Spanish. Congrats on the new addition, guys!
And finally, how about some outstanding career news, plus a little touch of the Big Green: Obianuju Anya checked in this summer and wrote that she’s presently completing her Ph.D. in applied linguistics and second language acquisition at UCLA. And guess what? Uju was recently awarded the 2010-11 Dartmouth College Thurgood Marshall dissertation fellowship to write her doctoral thesis in residence from August 2010 to August 2011 in collaboration with faculty from the African and African-American studies, Spanish and Portuguese, and linguistics departments! That’s fantastic! Uju, her husband, Robert Vaindiner, and their son Dimitri will be moving to Hanover for a year. Uju reports that the family will “be living at Choate Cottage because, in addition to being the Marshall fellow, I will also be resident advisor for the Cutter/Shabazz Affinity House. I’m absolutely thrilled to be completing my university education at the same place where it began, and welcome all Dartmouth friends and classmates living in New England, New York or D.C. come up and visit.” Congrats, Uju! I hope a bunch of us will see you on the Green!
That’s it for this update, everyone. Have a great rest of the fall. See you at Homecoming (October 29-30)!
—Jo Weingarten Golub, 93 Arlington Ave., Kensington, CA 94707; jgolub@kvn.com
