1994

Hi all. I begin with a quick editorial amendment on behalf of Beth (Breckenridge) Ottsen, whose May 2003 wedding to Christopher E. Ottsen I reported on last issue. I neglected to mention the Dartmouth folks in the wedding party—Cari (Silberfein) Sobolewski and Amy Corrigan '93—who were only two of several Dartmouth grads in attendance. Beth and Chris are still enjoying married life north of Chicago! Another couple who has been enjoying married life for the past few months is Erin (Hoey) Mclntyre and husband Charlie, who were married on September 20,2003. "He's wonderful and I am truly the luckiest woman in the world," writes Erin (I'm sure you could have an arm-wrestling contest with several women in our class over this claim, Erin). Charlie and Erin met at the Norfolk District Attorney's Office, where Erin was (and still is) working as chief of the juvenile unit and Charlie was working as counsel to the drug task force. Charlie left the DAs office in the spring and became chief legal counsel to the Massachusetts State Lottery. "There were not many Dartmouth alums at the wedding due to the enormity of my family," writes Erin. However, Erin's sister Christine DeMatteo 'B9 was the matron of honor and Jenn (Carroll) Zurcher was a bridesmaid. Erin also explains, "Nina (Cook) Silitch was also supposed to be a bridesmaid but due circumstances beyond her control (she and her husband live in Switzerland, where Nina teaches at a boarding school and where she is currently pregnant with their first child) was unable to make the festivities. However, she was there in spirit." Erin and Charlie have bought a house in Canton, which they have been in the midst of renovating since the wedding! Congrats to both of you!

Jessica Cormier married Norberto Leon in Boston last August. Jessica has been teaching for- eign languages to middle school students in Nat- ick for the past four years, and Noberto works as an architect in Cambridge.The couple is current- ly at work restoring their house to its original 19th-century charm and caring for their two dogs, Lily and Jack. They hope to take a belated honeymoon this summer to Norbertos hometown of Barcelona.

Well, it looks like more people from our small world are making big splashes in the wider world: Zola Mashiriki was on the cover of the January 2004 issue of Black Enterprise, looking stylish as ever and talking candidly about her creative career path, her personal and professional goals that led her to pursue her dreams to become an executive in the film industry, and explaining how Dartmouth helped her get there. "I had the best time, writes Zola in the issue. "I walked away from that experience thinking my new motto would be, 'Try anything, fear nothing.' And I spent the rest of those college years doing all sorts of things I had never done before—horseback riding, directing plays, studying abroad. Something happened to me at Dartmouth that made me say to myself, 'Of course I should be studying in Spain, of course I should be teaching at Harvard, of course I should be a filmmaker, making films with Halle Berry and Nicole Kidman.' I really felt I could anything and I owed it to myself to try." Zola's upcoming pro- jects with Searchlight Pictures include a thriller titled. My Soul to Keep and Halle Berry's upcoming October Squall. Another classmate in the film industry who has received some air time recently is Randi Dottin.Randi, whogothis start with Spike Lee's Forty Acres and a Mule studio, has been associated with several films. Last year he played the role of Bayard in Corporate Dawgz, a film that explored cinematic myths about race. His next project, A-Alike, which won him a Director's Guild of America Award for writing and directing, premiered in December on HBO. Wow, you '94s are quite inspiring. Maybe I'll write that dissertation n0w...Or tomorrow.

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