2001

This winter has been full of '01 happenings! Read on.

Plenty has been going on for '01s in the media world. Ben Mandelker and Joe Fahs started up a television blog called "TVgasm" (www.tvgasm.com), and Michael Levy is selling corporate partnerships for the Southeastern Basketball Conference in Atlanta. Pam Crikelair is one of 10 contestants on the reality show, The Big Break III:Ladies Only, that began on February 8 on The Golf Channel. Elena Ghanotakis completed a documentary about HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Check out her Web site at www.elenaghanotakis.com/ cover.html.

In the legal scene, Nicholas Kovner is an attorney in N.Y.C. at Kaye Scholer LLP, and Anna Nika (having graduated from Baylor Law in November) is looking for a job in the Fort Worth area. Chiara Grabill has left teaching and is starting at Columbia Law in the fall.

In other graduate school developments, Jane Serene will be at Harvard Medical School in the fall, and Chris Cutul is looking to do graduate work in architecture (location to be announced). Right now he's working with organizations in renewable energy development and environmental sustainability. Negarra Kudumu reports that she had a very successful first term in grad school at Leiden University in the Netherlands, as did Erica Schwartz in her masters of industrial design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

Overseas, Liz Sullivan is the administrative director of the new Dartmouth Rome Center, and Anna Rudberg is surviving the Polish winter in Warsaw and teaching English in a local Polish school. Adrian Loehwing, doing graduate work at Cambridge, rang in the New Year in Paris by the Eiffel Tower with her British beau. Hilke De Smedt has begun "a 12-month adventure that includes learning how to run a ranch in Uruguay and a game reserve in Malawi." Chance Hill is "still being a naval intelligence officer for VFA- 94 Strike Fighter Squadron attached to the USSNimitz," and spent several months in the Pacif- ic this fall.

Terra Beaton and Christina Topping are telemarking as much as they can in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and organizing trips for a small outdoors company with Ryan McDermott '03. Morgan Heater and Misa Peterman are in Boulder, Colorado; Morgan is getting his master's in civil engineering at CU and working for the National Renewable Energy Laboratories and Misa is doing a number of jobs, including working as a commercial fisherwoman in Alaska. They're getting married on Waldron Island in the San Juan Islands in june.2006!

In other nuptial news, Ali Sophocles is engaged to Nicholas Mavro (Babson College). They will be married in Boston in June with Alyssa Rower and Melissa Oliver as bridesmaids. Alissa Abbey was recently engaged to Don Stoltz; they're planning a wedding for spring 2006. Miriam Ingber and Pete Vassilev '00 were engaged in late August, during a romantic weekend trip to Quebec City, and Brian Maloney and Alice Gomstyn '03 will be married in August. Congratulations to all!

On the family front, Kerry Lenehan Johnston and Christopher (CJ) Johnston are happy to announce the arrival of their second child, Bradley James Johnston, bom on December 13,2004. Their 21/2-year-old daughter, Natalie, is adjusting to her new role of big sister, while Kerry is taking a semester off from her masters of architectural conservation at Penn to "hang with the kiddos," and CJ is "enjoying life behind the options desk."

In closing, I am very sad to pass on the news of the death of one of our classmates, Nilanjan Banerjee. Please see the obituaries section for more details. All of our hearts go out to his family and friends. Be well.

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