1996

Greetings class of '96! Liz Rawson reports that she and her husband have been languishing in the Midwest while she finished up a veterinary surgery residency at the University of Illinois next month. Mainly cats and dogs benefit from her expertise. She will soon be heading to Coral Springs, Florida, to start practicing down there. "Can't wait to get out of the Midwest. No offense to the Midwesterners, but its not for me," says Liz.

Neesha Ramchandani, a veritable font of information, reports that Shannon Smith just graduated from nursing school (though technically she is not done until August). Nancy Toth will be traveling east on vacation in August. Neesha's research paper that was published in December was presented in Jerusalem, Israel, in April. "And of course, I went with it!" For the nth year in a row Neesha pedaled her way to glory in a 50k bike-a-thon (Tour de Cure) for diabetes with Cynthia Vodopivec '98, Th'99, and her husband, Eric Felkel. Her team got awards for being some of the top fundraisers for the event. Derek Shendell and his wife, Margaret Tuohy, also participated in Tour de Cure, but down in Georgia.

Keeping the class of '96 light burning in Hanover, Sandy Maruszak just graduated from Dartmouth Medical School this spring and matched in emergency medicine. "My husband, Eric, and I are happy that we will still be able to enjoy the outdoors while I complete my residency in Albany, New York."

Sandy also reports that Meredith Martin Davis is living in Vermont with her husband, Wes, and their 1-year-old daughter Lila. Meredith is running High Mowing Seed—an organic seed company in Wolcott, Vermont, and teaching business classes part-time. Matt Fulton is also still in the area, working as a paramedic and as ski patrol director extraordinaire at the Dartmouth Skiway.

Elizabeth Harrold Ratchford just moved from N.Y.C. to Baltimore because she and husband Jack both got new jobs at Johns Hopkins Hospital after seven years at Columbia. Jack is a neurologist and will be doing a fellowship in multiple sclerosis. Liz is an internist specializing in vascular disease; her new title at Hopkins is director of clinical vascular medicine. Along with their 2-year-old boy Declan they just bought a house in the Baltimore suburbs, which they report is quite a change from Manhattan. They report that there is a slew of Dartmouth folk in the area: Leigh Elmore Matlaga, who is an ob-gyn in Baltimore. Her husband, Brian Matlaga '95, is a urologist; they have two girls, Olivia and Sophie. Wendy Witten Tannenbaum lives in Bethesda with her husband, Andrew Tannenbaum '97, and their 2-year-old son Eli.

It has been a pleasure to serve as class secretary, but I must report that I have resigned my commission so to speak. My recent excursions into the world of prep school administration have rendered me relatively useless. Please feel free to send me updates and I will forward them along to our yet-to-be-named new secretary. Look for them in the next issue! Onward and upward.

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