Hello, '99s! I hope you all made the most of the warm days of summer and that your fall is off to a great start.
As the class of 2014 arrives in Hanover for the first time some members of our class are finding it hard to leave. Ann Sharfstein writes that her husband, Dan Mielcarz, has graduated from Dartmouth again, completing his Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology. Ann adds, "We're remaining in the Upper Valley as Dan has a postdoctoral fellowship at Dartmouth Medical School researching immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis". Their 5-year-old daughter Sadie started kindergarten this fall and her sister Helena turned 2 in July.
Debbie Bender writes that she is enjoying life in Santa Monica, California, where she is a partner for HawkPartners, a firm that specializes in marketing consulting and market research.
Catherine Hutasuhut also had lots of news to report. Catherine notes that Aiyana Thompson has moved to Chicago from Seattle to become an in-house counsel with Sears. Jen Anderson has also moved, returning to Washington, D.C., after a trek in Ghana (whose soccer team, as I write this issue of the Class Notes, has just taken America out of the World Cup!). Meanwhile, Sonia Price Kallstrom is enjoying the warm Hawaiian sun and teaching her sixth-grade students.
Catherine adds that Denise Hobson has become the proud parent of her third son, Padraig, in Arizona, where she works as a prosecutor. Catherine writes: "She is busy building a Navaho-Irish rival to the Jonas Brothers since Padraig joins older brothers Liam and Aidan [and] is showing the same musical gifts that his brothers have".
Finally, those of you in the New York area might consider cheering Sara (Bauer) Alexander on as she runs in the ING N.Y.C. Marathon on November 7. Sara will use her run to raise money for the U.S. fund for UNICEF, and any contributions or moral support would be more than welcome!
That's all the news for now, but I look forward to sharing more updates with you soon!
Tony Perry
tony.perry.99@alum.dartmouth.org