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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Geeta Anand is now the author of The Cure:How a Father Raised $lOO Million—and Bucked theMedical Establishment—in a Quest to Save His Children, an inspirational tale about a family whose two youngest children were diagnosed with a disease so rare there was no available treatment. Geeta specializes in health and biotechnology as an investigative reporter and feature writer for TheWall Street Journal. She lives in New York with her husband and two daughters.

Janine Ledford Bowechop was the recent subject of a profile in a publication called Living onthe Peninsula, which detailed how Janine blends her heritage and her work. Since 1995 she's been the executive director of the Makah Cultural and Research Center in her hometown of Neah Bay, on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. The MCRC is home to nearly 60,000 artifacts from a Makah fishing village that was unearthed in 1970 after being buried for five hundred years. She also serves as the tribes historic preservation officer and on the Governor's Advisory Council for Historic Preservation. She lives near in Neah Bay near Hobuck Beach with her husband, Chad, and three children.

Betsy Heafitz Drucker rolled the dice on a third baby and hit the jackpot with the arrival of Sasha Chance Drucker, on September 1. She joins her siblings, Solomon Ace, and Lesley "Lucky" Lilah, a nod to Las Vegas, where Betsy and her husband were engaged. They live in Santa Barbara, where Betsy was recently honored by Hadassah with a 2006 National Leadership Award for "exemplary deeds as a leader" and for "commitment to the Jewish People and the Zionist ideal." Betsy has also been in charge of alumni interviewing for the California central coast region and has volunteered with her local Hospice and Visiting Nurses chapters to help with fundraising activities.

Chris Belanger left Charlottesville, Virginia, back in early November to return to Dartmouth as the new assistant chaplain at Aquinas House, the Catholic Student Center. He'll miss Charlottesville but says he's thrilled to be going back to Hanover.

Jenny Tyler recently got a promotion at Steelcase, the office furniture corporation, and moved her family from Michigan to Atlanta, where she lives with her husband, Lee, and daughters Lauren, 8, and Lindsey, 6. Jenny now manages the Steelcase Atlanta factory.

And Seth Rosenblatt is keeping it all in the Dartmouth family, joining Optimost, a company founded five years ago by our classmate Mark Wachen. Seth says Optimost is the leading provider of testing solutions for online businesses looking to increase their conversion rates. He opened the West Coast office just south of San Francisco almost two years ago. He and his family, including children in kindergarten and second grade, enjoyed their big summer trip to Italy while the Wold Cup was being played.

Finally, Zach Levine (your secretary's spouse) had a nice time catching up with Todd Cromheecke in Chicago in October when Zach was visiting to present a paper at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons on deep brain stimulation. He also ran into Bob Noone, a colorec- tal surgeon in Philadelphia at Lankenau Hospital. And he got an update on fellow neurosurgeon and former roommate Chris Ames, currently the director of spinal surgeiy in the department of neurosurgery at UCSF.

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