Class Note 2006
Hi, ’06s! Lots of news to share and lots of babies to welcome! Andrew Miller and his wife, Erin, recently welcomed their first child into the world, son Harrison. Crawford Arnold and his wife, Adair, welcomed their first, son Hunter. Class of ’06 couple and now ’06 parents Lindsay Barnes and Kilsy (Torres) Barnes welcomed son Theodore to their family in Washington, D.C., where they will do their best to raise Ted an Orioles and Mets fan. Richie Winn and his wife, Bonnie, welcomed their first, daughter Hazel Adell. Both currently work at Frankfurt International School. Charlotte Lord and Nicolas Chu welcomed baby boy Leo into the world in October 2015. Both parents report that they’re excited to show him where mom and dad met! Katherine (Brill) Bell and husband Matt Bell ’05 welcomed their first daughter, Genevieve, in February. Katherine will soon return to her neonatology fellowship at Harvard. Doing “babies, round two,” are Josh Cain and wife Agnieszka, who are expecting their second (the pair already has one son, Alex). Jessica Watson and husband Zach Smith welcomed their second, son Baxter, little brother to 2-year-old Rosemary. The couple lives and works in Iowa City; Jess is a vitreoretinal surgery fellow at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics and Zach is a clinical assistant professor in the internal medicine department. In March Danielle Mohilef-Rudner and her husband, Jonathan, welcomed their son, Dylan. The couple also has a daughter, Olivia. Congratulations to all of the parents, and may all of your children end up classmates at Dartmouth!
In wedding news: Lauren Botcheos is getting married during Memorial Day Weekend at a winery in Sonoma Valley, California. Several Dartmouth ’06 friends will be in attendance, including Gwen Barnes, Christine Tsu, Sara (Niazi) Bahnassi and Jesse Holliday. Adams Baker reports that he proposed to his fiancée last fall on top of Tennent Mountain in the middle of the Shining Rock Wilderness in western North Carolina. Jesse Brush recently married Liza Turkel in New York City. The groomsmen included Ethan Rothstein, John Gontijo, Anthony Keating and Benjamin Shear. Heidi Immesberger is getting married on July 3 to Charles Schmechel in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Heidi is currently in her fourth year of veterinary school at Colorado State University. Patrick Lee married Monica Kim this past July in Manchester, Vermont, with fellow ’06s James Barkley and Nan Wang serving as groomsmen, with music provided by Sarah Ball and Bill Quirk. The event even featured a mini-homecoming, including a bonfire and pong! Patrick is currently in the second year of a Ph.D. program in industrial and organizational psychology at Baruch College.
In other news, Sean Anthony was recently promoted at Kforce to field recruiting director for the company’s information technology division in Columbus, Ohio. John Kelsey will be graduating from the University of Minnesota Medical School and will be starting his neurology residency in June at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Jessica Ovici, Nathan Rugger and Alexis Rugger took an ’06 vacation to Europe, where they met up with Dave Peranteau ’04 and Christine Benally in Vienna. In related news Nathan’s space adventure TV pilot, Nautilus, has advanced to the second round of the Sundance Episodic Labs, thanks in no small part to the scientific consults of classmates Doug Urban and Ryan Michney. Zach Hall is assistant director of NANANordic, a ski program that teaches Nordic skiing and biathlon to kids in more than 40 Alaskan villages each spring. This year they worked with more than 4,000 students.
Finally, Cole Entress is in an endless line at Whole Foods, where he is likely to die. He regrets so much.
—Jessica Tory, Schwab Residential Center, 680 Serra St., Stanford, CA 94305; jessica.e.tory@gmail.com