2001

Hello! The '01 class was as busy as ever this winter. Here's what I've heard...

Alex Schindelar spent the winter in Jordan working on analysis of the Jordanian economy for the Oxford Business Group. "Really enjoying living in Amman," he wrote. "Life is nice. Weekends at the Dead Sea and Aqaba give some warm weather to complement an otherwise cold winter (several days of snow)." Hilke De Smedt also sent an update from her travels: "Am currently [March] in Uruguay working on a ranch and learning how to set my work schedule according to the rising and setting of the sun...very painful! After this on to Malawi for another four months to work on a game reserve! After all this it is back to reality and possibly back to London."

To be sure, '01s have been busy in less exotic locales as well. Bradford Crevier, in his second year of law school, was recently accepted into the combined J.D./M.8.A./M.S.A. (accounting) program at Northeastern University and Katie Stewart is moving to Durham this summer to begin the doctor of physical therapy program at Duke. Also down south, Katrina Sawyer is studying for her doctorate in community health sciences at Tulane University in New Orleans.

In legal developments, Lara Belkin will be working at the Legal Aid Prisoners' Rights Project in N.Y.C. this summer. She will graduate from Fordham Law School in 2006. Meanwhile, Dave Castleman was recently selected to be an executive editor of next years Penn Law Review, replacing fellow Dartmouth '01 Bill Burgess. Julia Gertsberg graduates from NYU Law this spring and hopes to move back to Boston. And speaking of Boston, Steve Hallowell writes that he recently got a new job with Commonwealth Capital Ventures in Waltham and is living near Davis Square in Somerville.

On the more artistic side of'01 happenings, Caroline Kovas just finished a demo CD with all original country/pop tunes. Check it out at www. carolinekovas.com.

Shane Heath is in San Diego and beginning his second year as a wildlife biologist for the nonprofit Institute for Wildlife Studies, where he conducts research and restoration efforts on a federally endangered songbird, the San Clemente loggerhead shrike. He's living with Lauren Hierl, an ecology research fellow at San Diego State University working on a project assessing San Diego County's multiple species conservation plan.

Also on the West Coast, Sarah Honorowski Molir is teaching an interdisciplinary English and social studies course at Crossroads Middle School in Pasadena, California: "I teach seventh graders and love them. If you want to check out Crossroads, there is a full article on us in the March 2005 Vanity Fair."

As usual, there is some fabulous '01 nuptial news as well: Eric Shoemaker and Kathryn Payette '04 are getting ready to move into the house they've built in Pembroke, New Hampshire, and will be married July 16 in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Roxanne Stahl and Chris O'Hara met on their very first day on campus for DOC trips and will be married in the spring of 2006. Adam Nemser and Kim Taylor '02 were engaged in October and will be married at Dartmouth this coming September. Bernette Tsai and Sam Quan (UC Davis 1999) were engaged this winter and will be married in June 2006.

Finally"there were two Valentines Day engagements this winter! On February 14 Elizabeth Hoeffner was engaged to Kevin Smith and James Macintosh and Megan Anderson were engaged in Paris, where "James surpised [Megan] at the Eiffel Tower by getting down on one knee and asking [her] to marry him," a mere seven years after meeting on their first day at Dartmouth. Congratulations to all!

Enjoy this long-awaited springtime, and do write me soon.

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