Class Note 2009

As we’re entering summer ’09s are on the move, getting married and having kiddos.

After five years in Philadelphia Taylor Dryman is excited to be finishing her Ph.D. in clinical psychology. She will be moving to Boston with her fiancé, Harry Wilmer, to complete her internship year at McLean Hospital, and they look forward to getting married in Atlanta this October! A.J. Fox relocated to Berkeley, California, after five years in New York City, where he will be starting a new position as the media relations manager at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. It’s his first time living on the West Coast and he is very excited to explore the Bay Area. If any Dartmouth folks live nearby, he would love to hear from you at ajfox61@gmail.com.

For the last couple of years Max Hopkins has been fixing up a 40-foot expedition sailboat in Florida and this spring he is taking it through the Panama Canal for a move to San Francisco or Seattle. Estimated time of arrival is mid-summer, he hopes! Tom Huzarsky finds work distasteful and so has decided to no longer do it. He is currently in Melbourne, Australia.

Lilian Mehrel iswriting and directing a new short comedic series in June, when she will graduate with her master of fine arts from New York University Tisch Grad Film. She will be looking to join a comedy show writers’ room. Qinggong Wu recently received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan and become an assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong after having spent six years in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Marcy Van Arnam married Robert Saltaformaggio on March 25 at the Winery at Bull Run in Centreville, Virginia, with fellow alums Emily Esfahani Smith, Taylor Dryman, Emma Palley and Meghan Lawrie in the wedding party. They spent their honeymoon exploring Venice, Tuscany and Rome, Italy. Katie Miller and Jeff Wiltsey got married on March 18 in a small ceremony at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, in front of family and close friends.

Cassandra Rendon and her husband, Michael Holman, welcomed a son, Elliott Biboonkeonini Holman, on January 17. Max Copello and his wife, Jenny, welcomed their first child, a son, Luca Louis Copello on January 20 at 10:42 a.m. He was 6 pounds and 5 ounces and 18.5 inches long. Max wrote that everyone is happy and healthy. Nell (Pascall) Mackenzie wrote, “We bought a house! Still living in Perth, Australia. We moved in last May and in September we got a dog! His name is Oscar and he is awesome, except when he’s chewing up the garden drip irrigation pipes (they’ve been chewed and repaired about four times now).”

Keep a look out for mini-reunions in your area and follow ’09s on Facebook (“Dartmouth College Class of 2009”), Twitter (@Dartmouth09) and Instagram (@dartmouth09). Share a picture with the class via dartmouthsocial@gmail.com.

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com