1996

Hi all. Hope you’re having a swell spring and getting ready for the summer!

Ahsan Rahim and his wife, Aneeqa, are the proud parents of a 2-month-old baby boy, Yaseen, in Ann Arbor, Michigan; hoping to visit Hanover with baby soon.

Last September Sharon Karlsberg and Craig Sakowitz ’93 welcomed their newborn Zachary Rubin Sakowitz just in time for the Jewish high holidays. Sharon continues to work with ZA Associates in sales and marketing consulting for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry, while Craig is with Gap’s interactive division in San Francisco.

I caught up with Michael Zigmont and his wife, Margot, on their way to visit some friends for dinner. Margot works for fashion consultancy firm TLP Consulting and she loves it. Ziggy is with a small hedge fund, Harvest Volatility Management, doing well; up last year, up both months so far in 2009 and launching a new fund soon.

A great big Dartmouth sweatshirt was approaching up Broadway and it turned out to be Mark Griffin and his fiancée Kn Chin, shopping near Lincoln Center Plaza. Mark’s mother was visiting and helping the couple with nuptial shopping.

I had drinks over the holidays in downtown Chicago with Justin Heather. He and his wife, Kim, live with their two children Justin II (a.k.a. “J2”) and Lena Jane. A lawyer with Skadden in itsChicago litigation department, Justin recently received the Illinois Young Lawyer of the Year Award from the Illinois State Bar Association. Let this gate hang high and hinder none.

One-liner updates that might be news:

Aleph Henestrosa is working with Tony Blair on a big strategy project in the Middle East. Sean Donahue is working as communications director for the anti-Iraq war group Military Families Speak Out and launching a practice as a community herbalist. AlixPartners, the global restructuring, consulting and financial advisory firm, announced Michael Roberts as the new director of strategy and operations based in New York. Congratulations!

Sophia Zalios is prepping for a good day tomorrow. Monica Oberkofler Gorman was in Bangladesh when the BDR police mutinied and is now in Delhi as senior director of corporate responsibility and international trade at American Eagle Outfitters, ensuring the company works with factories that treat workers well. Kristen Havens is grant-writing for the 2010 season of the New York Summer Music Festval (nysmf.org). Kate Shanahan has a stack of papers to grade and then comments to write. Help? Deanna J. Dick is tired and has writer’s block. Laura Bright enjoyed her first week at her new job. David Hemmer is off to the topology seminar.

Suzie Brown is livin’ it as a singer-song-writer, www.myspace.com/suziebrownsongs. Rebecca Oettinger Feder is looking for donations toward her and her cousins’ efforts to raise $10k at the Susan Komen three-day breast cancer walk in Philadelphia for breast cancer research. (Go to the3day.org, select “donate,” select a “participant” and enter her cousin’s name: Heather Williams.) Suniti Chauhan is uploading pictures of new arrival Anish Kiran Dhar, born late February, a little brother for Nikhil. Megan Gaphardt was excited to hear the news!

Malia Brink is laughing at her daughter’s consternation over finding out the dog is older than she is.

Leo Stezano is staring at an M.B.A. diploma, freshly arrived in today’s mail. Thankfully, it is not his, and Peter Alphonso is thinking about the old Green.

That’s all for now. Keep on keeping on.

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