2001

Hello all! As usual, my in box was flooded with fabulous '01 news when I issued my bimonthly plea for updates. Here's the word on the street:

Dan Pollock, finished with year one of law school at Georgetown, is in D.C. doing health care litigation work with AARP and enjoying the pool on the roof of his new apartment. Dave Castleman, also finished 1L, is in San Diego working for a federal judge. Soon Lee just moved to N.Y.C. and is working at Oxford Bioscience Partners, a biotech venture capital firm in Westport, Connecticut. Also in New York, Caroline Kovas just shot her first commercial and is working on a demo CD of original music.

In the Boston area, Rebecca Jacobs Cook-Dubin is working as an advisor to student theater groups at Brandeis University, where she just successfully coordinated and hosted the first Sundeis Film Festival, featuring student films from across New England (including Dartmouth), film workshops and professional seminars. The best part, however, sounds like the "fun 70-foot red carpet at the awards ceremony and a Chevy truck with search lights lighting up the Mass Pike!"

David Gates is "an unofficial ski bum in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina," this summer and will begin his master's in politics of the world economy at the London School of Economics in the fall. Also moving on to grad school, Ben Knipe will begin his studies for a Ph.D. in clinical psychology this fall at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. Matt Deninger and Adam Tanney will be at the Harvard Graduate School of Education this fall in masters programs. Also going crimson, Kristen Verdiani, Phil Saumweber and Carolyn Roth ill be at the Harvard Business School. Jen Murray, on the other hand, is headed back to Dartmouth for med school. Go green. Rachel Richardson writes that she's starting a Stegner Fellowship in poetry at Stanford, "a sweet deal where I get the next two years to do nothing but write poems." Not bad.

Sena Ku recently graduated with a master's degree in City & Regional Planning from UC Berkeley and is working for EDAW, a worldwide planning and design firm, and will be in the Bahamas this summer, "developing a master plan for downtown Nassau's harbor and retail district!" Mike Bayer graduated from Cornell Law and is moving to Boston with his wife, Kara House Bayer. Emily Nytko, pursuing her Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry at MIT, just won a graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation.

Kristen Luckenbill is in Los Angeles this summer training with the U.S. National Soccer Team. If everything goes well, she'll be at the Olympics this summer! In other athletic developments, Ivan Cestero, Andy Trief, Craig Davis, Michael Holmes, Minh Le and Christopher Taylor will compete at the World Beach Ultimate Frisbee Championships in Portugal this August. Finally, Erin Dromgoole competed on the U.S. women's team for the Beijing International Ekiden Relays (a marathon distance road relay) in April, and Team USA finished third—the best finish by a U.S. women's team since 1992! Congrats.

Sara Tantillo is psyched to report that she's finally gotten her Actor's Equity card and will be stage hianagmg Glass Menagerie and Looking Overthe President's Shoulder next season at the Delaware Theater Company. In the meantime she has been keeping herself busy as a bridesmaid for Margaret Grace and James Mills' May wedding in Seattle, Washington. Margaret kindly advised me (before the wedding), that there were "lots of Dartmouth alums in attendance, of course." Surprise, surprise! The same goes for the May wedding of Kathy Kurlander to Chris Cabral in Chicago. Congratulations to all.

In other nuptial happenings, Gretchen Bell will be married to Tom Biggins (Amherst '01) this summer, and Jessica Sokolik and Dan Hutchinson are planning an August wedding. Greg Chittim is engaged to Jen Hughes (to be married this fall in New Hampshire), Dominic Germana is engaged to Sarah Piecuch '99, and Nicole DioDato is engaged to Steve Park. Kascha Semon and John Snavely are engaged and moving to Cambridge this fall, where John will start his master's in architecture. Best wishes to all!

Have wonderful summers.

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