Class Note 2011

Steve Avila reports that he is alive. That’s all. Just kidding. He also writes in, “I’ve been living in southern China for the last two and a half years and work for an overseas education consulting company. I’ve been taking Mandarin classes (and took a few Cantonese classes) and can now go to KTV and ‘sing’ with my colleagues. (I was a Romance studies major, Spanish, Portuguese and French, but these languages have nothing in common with them.) Hong Kong is a border hop away (90 minutes to the island) and they have a pretty active alumni club. Caught up with Betty Jiang and Kevin Jae Hoon Koo at the Dartmouth Club of Hong Kong summer event. (We rented a yacht. Super sweet.) Oh! And I met up with Trevor King in Shanghai! The Bund is super awesome.”

Abigail Ogilvy also wrote in about her contemporary art gallery, the Abigail Ogilvy Gallery in the South End in Boston, which featured Katherine Taylor ’97 and Natalia Wrobel during an exhibition that ran October 4-29. (See a profile on her and the gallery on page 55.)

Bill Gerath dropped a line about Denise Hotta-Moung and Lane Donald Zimmerman’s July marriage at New York City Hall and their first dog, Yoshi, a corgi.

Jessica Krug also has a wedding announcement to make: She married Boston University graduate Lauren Ranieri at Paradise Ridge Winter in Santa Rosa, California, with Marisa Gilmore, Mike Abendroth, Alicia Driscoll, Vera Bergengruen, Ali Herdeg, Sam McIntire, Travis Whitfield, Eliana Piper ’12 and Myesha Jackson ’02 attending. Sadly, the winery burned down in the Tubbs Fire, so the happy newlywed sends a PSA to drink more Sonoma and Napa wine so the wineries can rebuild!

And we can expect at least one more wedding to come: Florence Ling said yes to Matt Mizuhara when he proposed! Congratulations, all!

—Hillary S. Cheng, 16013 Legacy Road, #304, Tustin, CA 92782; (603) 546-8452; hillary.s.cheng@dartmouth.edu