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Hi, folks. Lots of news this month. Leading off, Lea Goryn wrote in to let us know that she and her husband, Saki, welcomed a baby hoy, Jorge, on April 26. "He was a big and healthy kid and we are now enjoying a handful of sleepless nights but lots of giggles."

Nima Taylor has moved to New York from London, where he was finishing up a J.D./LL.M. dual-degree program at Columbia Law School and the London School of Economics. He has begun a job at a midtown law firm, and plans to use his pro bono time to continue to work for Tibet.

Ashley Wendus and Bill Cook were engaged in March. Ashley writes that they are currently living in New York and busily planning a September 2005 wedding. "I'm keeping busy with my stationery business, which I launched in 2003. It has really grown in the past year and has so far been well-received. People can check out the business website at www.smashingcards.com if they are interested."

At the end of July Katherine Horner finished flight school and is now winged naval aviator for the Marine Corps. In the fall she will relocate to North Island, California, to start SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) school and then will be stationed for six months at MCB Camp Pendleton, where she will learn how to fly the AH-1 W Super Cobra attack helicopter.

Josie Lauer, Susan Barbour and Jenny Viele met up with ex-pat Lilly Wollman at the Wollman's pony farm in Isle La Motte, Vermont, for a ladies-only pong-fest. Hours later a caravan of guys crashed the party—among them, Mike Lewis, who insisted on break dancing around the bonfire while Jeff Eldrige spun tunes on his way to the closing parties in Ibiza. Speaking of Jeff, in July he raced in the North American M- 20 Sailing Championships and won the fourrace regatta and in August he celebrated the first anniversary of his bar and nightclub, The Highest State, located in Colorado. The club has three floors and has played host to a lot of great bands and DJs over the past year.

Lindsay Bowen and Marcus Coe were married in August in Rhode Island. Friends and family celebrated the couple with a kick-off BBQ,featuring local Rhode Island fare and a late-night pool party, where Drew Pluhar "met his match." The beautiful wedding ceremony was followed by the couple in a swinging first dance and a rousing rendition of the alma mater. After a honeymoon in the Canadian Rockies, Marcus and Lindsay returned to their home in New Haven, Connecticut.

Katie Taylor and Eric Walania '98 were married in Boca Raton, Florida, on April 17. "It was a beautiful weekend filled with lots of fun events and wonderful friends. We partied it up and the reception was followed by a keg party on the beach, where a lot of our guests decided to go for a 2 a.m. swim in the ocean! We just relocated from New York to Chicago in June, and are hoping to catch up with other Dartmouth alums in the Chicago area!"

David Black-Shaffer was recently married to Annica Heyman in her hometown of Soderkoping, Sweden, this June. "We are both at Stanford as graduate students and we've got some time left before we finish up our degrees here so we'll both be in California for the foreseeable future."

Lastly, Kristin Veley and Lifan Shen will no: be getting married next June 17-19, 2005, in Hanover as that is the class reunion. They hope to see all of you in attendance.

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