2001

I hope everyone had a happy holiday season. Lots of engagement and wedding news to report: Chris Tully wrote in to announce that Catherine Zusky and Eric Hogenson recently got engaged. Halsey Morris married Laura Little in Tiburon, California, this November. The wedding was well attended by Dartmouth alumni, including Scott Harrison, Jon Mingle, Bob Levine, Emily Levine '05, Frank Thorn '00, Darcy Morris '04, Grinnell Morris '92, Katie Miller, Adam Tanney and Ben Knipe.

Katie Reichardt married Jim Bishop in September. The celebration rivaled Dance Party USA with the rockin' Dartmouth '01 crew of Ken Luallen, Esther Freeman, Adam Young, Christine Ennis, Jeannie Eisberg, Fran Anderson, Lindsey Bishop, Caroline Kovas, Ali Waggener Boyd, Josh Holman and Abby Gillard. Bill Peter and Kersti Miller '02 were to have gotten married in January in California, after which they will be moving to Melbourne, Australia. Lucy Goddard, a fourth-year Yale medical student, married Paul Kalanithi in September at a wedding held in a beautiful Connecticut state park. Michael Lisi and Alexandra Mendez-Diez were there to celebrate, along with Matt Egalka, who is celebrating his recent engagement to Susan Jun. Betsy Parks married Benjamin Altz-Stamm this past summer and Julia Gertsberg recently got engaged to Jonathan Schart—congratulations to all of our current and soon-to-be newlyweds!

Michael Lewis '99 recently visited Mike Abbate in London, where they caught up with fellow UK-based Dartmouth alumni Chris Pedrick'99 and Phil Saumweber. Mike and Chris are both working for hedge funds and Phil is working for a real estate investment and development firm. In mid-November Jess Webster, Adrian Loehwing and Naz Dana climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and were greeted with a spectacular sunrise when they reached the peak; they then went on to explore Zanzibar and a bit more of Kenya.

After completing a two-year program at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Chris Pandolfi moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to start a new band with other young musicians. The Infamous Stringdusters (www.thestringdusters.com) signed with Sugar Hill Records in the spring of 2006 and their first record, Fork in theRoad, will be in stores across the country on February 13. The band will be touring all over the country in support of the first releasecheck them out in a city near you.

Kim Vu graduated from Michigan Law School in May. After the bar exam Kim traveled with Caroline Chang all over Europe and Asia and met up with Candice Ling in Singapore. Kim is now in New York and working for Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. Paul Biggs and his girlfriend Erin have settled in Portland, Oregon, after spending three months and 8,000 miles exploring this summer in search of the next great place to live. He's working for a small search engine marketing agency and extends a welcome to all fellow travelers with a place to crash on their way through.

And last but certainly not least, a special congratulations to Ryan and Jenny '02 Bouton, who had a beautiful baby girl named Alethea this past May.

Please continue to send me updates.

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