2001

REUNION | JUNE 17-19

Reunion is just around the corner now! If you haven’t registered yet or need more information, there are lots of helpful details at dartmouth.org/reunions.

Congratulations to Pavan Nihalani, who married Avni Doshi at Burning Man on September 4, 2015. The happy newlywed wrote me to say, “There was an intense dust storm all day long and at 6 p.m., the scheduled time of the wedding, we couldn’t get to the chosen venue because of the storm and our minister failed to show up. In true Burning Man style, however, order emerged from chaos, our photographer found us a new location and one of the guests announced that he was an ordained minister and could marry us! Our beautiful, intimate group included ’01s Pablo Stern, Puck Wheaton and Schuyler Minert as well as Ariel Diaz ’02. Avni and I are living in Dubai, so please get in touch if you pass through.”

And best wishes to Adrian Loehwing, who is engaged to marry Patrick Carroll, an Irishman from Dublin, this summer. The two met in London three years ago. Of the proposal, she wrote, “He took me to Paris one weekend last August and proposed with an emerald ring at Sacre Couer at sunset with all of Paris lit up below us. Very romantic! The wedding is happening in New York two weeks after reunion, so it will be a great way to catch up with old friends in Hanover and, I hope, see many of them again at the wedding two weeks later!”

We have new babies in the ’01 family, too. Amelia Kahl and Alan Green welcomed their second daughter, Ginevra River Kahl-Green, on December 5. Their older daughter Eleanor (3) is excited to be a big sister! Elizabeth (Walter) Shelly and her husband “welcomed son Rowan in December—the best early Christmas present possible! Big sister Hazel is cautiously optimistic about this new family development, especially as baby brother’s arrival also came with lots of grandparent attention and presents.” Jessica Wirth Strine and her husband, Todd, had their second baby boy, Jonas Michael Strine, on December 27. Jessica told me, “We are keeping it real in our den of toddler toys and fuzzy vibrating infant nests in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.”

Last November, after more than eight years with Schwab, Robin DeGracia left for “a small, fast-growing financial services firm called AssetMark to join its newly created product management team. Then very shortly afterward, my husband and I bought our first home, here in the Bay Area. We and our two children are now nicely settled in and looking to have years of wonderful memories here.” Ali Rashid is enjoying his new job and home, too. From sunny Fort Lauderdale, Florida, he wrote, “I’ve been working in the ICU and operating room getting a very broad variety of work and spending a lot of time working with my brother (and roommate) Omar Rashid ’00, who is a cancer surgeon at the same hospital. We are doing a lot to move forward (and I’d like to think pioneer) enhanced recovery after surgery and comprehensive surgical care. It’s rare to have a close periopertive team like we do and the hospital has been very supportive so we’re just running with it!”

Finally, we’re nearing the end of the school year—last chance to pay your class dues! You can get it done in two minutes right now at our class website: 2001.dartmouth.org.

I hope to see you all in Hanover in June!

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