Class Notes

2001

May/June 2007 Kerry Blum
Class Notes
2001
May/June 2007 Kerry Blum

Hi'01s! Thanks in advance to everyone for sending updates, please keep them coming! Starting with news from abroad, Chance Hill is in Japan with his NavyF-18 squadron and is transferring to a new command in Seoul, Korea, in May. Peter Leckerling moved to Shanghai to be vice president of a U.S. retail development firm and has had a few opportunities to catch up with Dan Battle and Adam Williams '02, who are also in Shanghai. Hilke Smedt spent the las year working toward her M.B.A. at INSEAD, studying in both Singapore and Paris, and is working in Switzerland for a private equity fund.

Georges Dyer moved to Boston with his girlfriend Michelle McKay after completing his studies in Sweden. Georges has launched a new Sustainability consulting firm, Greenland Enterprises, and is working on President Bush's Climate Commitment global warming initiative. For the past five years Jackie Lippe had been working in Switzerland for the World Health Organization and just recently moved to Atlanta to work for the Centers for Disease Control.

Karyn Brudnicki graduates from Penn Law in May after she finishes a joint degree program in law and bioethics and will begin working at Ropes & Gray in Boston next fall. Corrie Francis finished an M.F.A. in animation and relocated to South Lake Tahoe California, to teach animation; Albert Lee and Kathy Hubbard '02 recently visited Corrie from the Bay Area. Murphy Stein is in his first year at the masters program in mathematics at NYU's Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Chad Goodridge is also in New York City, acting in the New York Premiere of Passing Strange at the Public Theater/NYSF. which begins previews May 1.

Hank Leukart relocated to Los Angeles to work for CBS Network Television in show development. Kristina Klebe is also living in L.A. and is filming two big studio movies. Keep an eye out for her in The Accidental Husband and the re-make of Halloween. Jenny Alden has a role in the upcoming film Blind Dating (www.blinddatingmovie.com). Aseem Gandhi will graduate from business school at MIT Sloan this June and is moving to Los Angeles to work with the Boston Consulting Group.

David Tatkow is finishing his M.B.A. at the University of Chicago and will be working for hedge funds in Chicago. Dave Chalmers graduates this spring from Wake Forest Medical School and is starting a residency at University of Connecticut; over the summer he married Margie van Orden '00 in a beautiful ceremony in Maine. Jacqueline Dresow is at business school at UCI and will spend the summer working for Hewlett Packard in San Diego. Emmett Hogan is in his final semester of law school at Michigan; he'll be moving to Philadelphia in September to start working at a law firm. Kay Weston and Greg Walsh '98 are getting married this summer in Kay s home town in Germany. Julia Gertsberg recently got engaged to Jon Scharf; they met at NYU Law and are planning an October wedding in Cape Cod.

Lynne Grossman, Meghiann GaneyJulie Clark '02 and I recently visited Carly Prior in Australia; Carly is living outside Sydney and has been hosting lots of Dartmouth visitors over the past few months. Finally, thanks to Chris and Roxanne O'Hara who recently hosted more than 30 Dartmouth alums for their annual ski weekend in Windham, New York. There might not have been a lot of skiing, but there was certainly a lot of fun.

Please continue to send updates to me.

298 Mulberry New York, NY10012;kery.blum@alum.dartmouth.org