2005

Happy New Year '05s! There is lots of great information to welcome you back into your Class Notes. First, as you're probably aware, the voting on the new alumni governance constitution was completed on October31. With 24,834 alums voting (nearly one-third of all eligible!) the constitution failed to garner the two-thirds majority needed for passing. Thanks to every one of you who worked to help get other alums interested and votingon either side of the issue!

Also the '05 executive committee would like to introduce our three new newsletter editors: Megh Duwadi, Joe Rago and Katy McCarty. A big thank you to all of the other '05 s who have volunteered to help out as well!

A big congratulations is in order for Antonio Valla and Sagine Gousse, who were engaged this past fall. The pair is looking forward to a late summer wedding in New Jersey!

More happy wedding tidings from Christian Weeks, who married Rebecca Eley '02 on September 30 in Hot Springs, Virginia. Matt Bartek, Matt Oppenheimer, Brian Mason '03 and Tucker Ballard '02 were all in the wedding party. The couple met during Christian's freshman fall on the Collis porch!

Bob Swander e-mailed to say that he moved to Boston during fall 2006 and has begun working at WGBH "as a development assistant in their Ralph Lowell Society (part of their major gifts department)." Enjoy Boston!

Also in Massachusetts is Jhiiam Biswas, who updated saying she is a class of '1O at the medical school at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester. She says that there are eight other Dartmouth alums (various years) in her class of 100 students. Sounds like a mini-reunion.

Across the world Anna Moschet and Erin Fifield are "still kickin' it in Kyrgyzstan," while volunteering with the Peace Corps. Anna wrote to say that, "We've even managed to celebrate Dartmouth holidays over here. For Homecoming we burned a box at a local trash pit, ran around it a few times and sang the alma mater. Hilarious." I, for one, hope they took tons of pictures.

Margaret Thering is a second-year student at Columbia Law School and is enjoying an extemship at Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem. Keeping busy, she also started a part-time job as a figure skating coach for the program Figure Skating in Harlem and has just accepted her summer job at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

That s it for this months notes! Please keep the information coming—I love hearing from you.

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