2001

Using 10 words or less, I asked you all to answer the question, "What would most surprise your freshman year roommate about what has happened in your life since September 1997?" Give or take a word or 20, here's what I got.

Missy McDaniel: I can't come up with anything that would be shocking to my first-year roommate; she knows I'm crazy. But it is at least newsworthy that I have performed my first surgery! Hallmark really should make a card for that: "Congratulations, you have removed your first uterus."

Pete Leckerling: I consistently experience the hours between 7 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Kara House Bayer: Mike Bayer and I are expecting our first baby in January!

Kimberley Tait: Not necessarily a big surprise but I've started the M.B.A. program at Columbia Business School.

Jeff Kinkaid: I've spent more money on artwork than dining this year.

Shazia Ahmed: I've launched my own company (www.dormasphere.com) and I'm moving back to Bangladesh and getting married! My soulmate's name is Shazly (yes, Mr. and Mrs. Shaz).

Jenny Alden: Vince Vaughn taught me how to play poker on the set of Wedding Crashers (I played the bride in the wedding they crashed). And Owen Wilson's dad went to Dartmouth!

Christine Campbell: I'm finishing a master's, expecting a baby and starting medical school. Plus I'm in Alabama.

Emily Schoonmaker: This puppet-show aficionado now performs for a packed jury box.

AN Rashid: I am in medical school and I had my white coat ceremony here in Tampa, Florida, today (August 26).

Miena Meek Hall: My husband, Dan, and I welcomed our daughter Aubrey Mari Hall on February 5. Our 3-year-old son Xander has a baby sister!

Erik Wright: I'm getting married and becoming a pilot and I can run 50 miles. (Editor's note: Erik, would the latter two pursuits be in response to the first?)

Shelley Sandell: Since my freshman room- mate was the Suze, I'm picturing her reaction to the statement, "I am going to be a Navy wife."

Adrian Loehwing: I've lived in England for the past two years. Ten words or less is not a lot of words! So that's nine from me.

Corrie Francis: In October I will be helping 40 high school students sail the Spirit of NewZealand, a square-rigged barquentine, across Cook Straight.

Elizabeth McGarvey: My husband and I have a beautiful baby boy, born on Thanksgiving Day 2004.

Jennifer Feltner: This reckless party girl has been transformed and regained her faith as a Christian.

Megan Anderson: I'd say that the most surprising thing for Kelly Guld would be that I am marrying James Macintosh.

Melissa Miranda: I spent this summer shooting weddings in Manhattan, blue-domed churches in Santorini, and Gaudi mosaics in Barcelona.

Joseph McKnight: I'm not pregnant, but I'm starting to show.

Bonnie Jeanne Regan: Meg Smoot is engaged to Bryan Stonehouse, the British boyfriend she met while living in Singapore. Louisa Sadler, Meg Hitchner, Ryan Fagan '02 and I met Bryan while visiting Meg in Asia.

Susan Feakins: Speaking of my freshman year (and every year after) roommate, Stephanie Babbidge was married to Adam West on August 13 in Kennebunk, Maine.

Mark Uranga: Although it doesn't fulfill the requirement, this summer I married Becky Gannon (University of Portland '01), a fellow fourthyear medical student at the University of Washington. The lone Dartmouth support came from Lydia Dixon and her dog Targhee.

Nice work everyone. More juicy morsels to come on the soon-to-be-launched five-year reunion Web site. And if you make it to Hanover for the bonfire, check out the '01 mini-reunion on Saturday! I remain your loving secretary and reunion co-chair.

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