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Hello everyone! I hope you have enjoyed your summer. I'm sure you were busy and saw a lot of classmates, so please share whom you've seen and what you've been up to. Inquiring minds want to know! Kicking off, Jennifer (Preston) Robles wrote in with the following update: 'After Dartmouth I started a clinical psychology Ph.D. program at Ohio State University, where I met my husband, Ted Robles (University of Wisconsin-Madison '99), who was in the same program. We both graduated in 2006, after spending a year in Pittsburgh completing our clinical internships. The year 2006 was quite busy, with a two-week span in August-September that involved finishing internships, graduating from OSU, moving to Los Angeles, getting married and starting new jobs! Our wedding was in my hometown of Columbus, Ohio, on September 9 and was attended by Fremonta Meyer. We moved to L.A. because my husband accepted a faculty position in the UCLA psychology department, and I found a postdoctoral fellowship that has turned out to be a great learning experience. We are enjoying living in L.A. and are soaking up the wonderful weather!"

On May 6 Marcia Yablon married Geordie Zug (Penn '92), in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. "We met three years ago in London when we were both law firm summer associates. Although I didn't marry a Dartmouth alum, plenty of other Dartmouth alums were there to celebrate with us. My sister Sara Yablon-Smith '03 was my matron of honor and Danya Pincavage was one of my bridesmaids. In addition a number of other Dartmouth alums were in attendance. Stefanie Tjaden, Jacob Waldman '97, Adi Herzberg, Megan (Costa) Perna, Mary Ellen Swanson Julia Levy '02 and my brother-in-law Andy Smith '98." Geordie and Marcia honeymooned in Southeast Asia, and when they returned to the States they moved from New York City to Columbia, South Carolina, where Marcia has accepted a teaching position as a law professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Marcia will be teaching family law and Native American law starting in the fall. "If any other alumni are living in South Carolina, drop me a line and say hi. It's going to be quite a change from N.Y.C. but we're really looking forward to it."

I recently got word that Geoff Nickerson joined Krokidas & Bluestein LLP, a Boston-based law firm in June. Geoff practices in the firm's transactional group, where he advises nonprofit, public, corporate and individual clients in real estate acquisition and finance, regulatory compliance and other business-re-lated matters.

In other career news, having spent three years as an associate in the structured finance group of Cleary Gottlieb in Washington, D.C., Jelena Madir moved to Croatia, where she is currently working as an associate at DIA Piper, with the focus on mezzanine finance transactions in the CEE region.

Brian Sleet recently sent in the following update: "Many of you knew that I had opened up my law practice and was out working with the people. Nonetheless, I am downsizing my practice currently while I decide if I am going to go into a strictly transactional practice or if I am going to expand in order to have some other attorneys handle most of the in and out of court work. The reason I am downsizing the court work is because I just took a job with Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. as his deputy district administrator, which basically means that I help handle intergovernmental affairs and coordinate with other elected officials, including Jesses wife, who just joined the city council in the area."

That's it for now. Please keep your updates coming!