1995

1995

Notes overflow this time, so thank you and keep the updates coming! Shamyune Truman Jones offers that her life is hectic and blessed. She is the Pennsylvania Convention Center general counsel; in 2012 her board appointed her vice president of legal affairs. With one huge event over (the papal visit) and one to come (the Democratic National Convention), personally she juggles active 7and 12-year-old boys who won both the YMCA championship and all-star games and traveled forthree weeks to Chile and Peru with the Keystone State Boychoir sans their parents!

Deborah Smith shares her first Class Notes entry: “After several nomadic years of living in Berlin, New York, London, Paris and Dubai, I’ve settled down back in London and work as legal counsel to the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs. I got married a couple years ago to Stuart, who I met when I sat next to him on night three of the BBC Proms production of Wagner’s ‘Ring Cycle.’ After six hours of sitting next to each other, you’re bound to start chatting at some point! We now have a gorgeous 9-month-old son, Alexander, who much to our dismay seems to only want to boogie to Burl Ives’ rendition of ‘Froggie Went a Courtin’ ’ orto ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun’ by Cyndi Lauper. We were really hoping he would have more refined taste in music!”

Andrea Useem writes: “I’ve just become a registered nurse, after earning my bachelor of science in nursing at George Washington University. It was a little crazy to go back for another bachelor’s, I know, but totally worth it. There was another Dartmouth alumnus in my class, Andrew Pierce ’05, and I reconnected with Sarah Inwood, who too is becoming a nurse! I’m an ICU nurse at Virginia Hospital Center and serve on the board of the local chapter of the American Association of Critical-care Nurses. Many Dartmouth friends encouraged me on this career-change journey (from journalism) and I’m grateful for their constant support!”

Tim Rodenberger offers: “Life in Andover, Massachusetts, with my wife, Diana, and our two daughters, Isabel and Julia, is good. I am general counsel at American Dental Partners Inc., with about 300 clinics around the country. I coach both of my girls in soccer and was elected to the board of directors of the Andover Soccer Association. My wife is from Mexico, so we frequently travel south of the border and we made our first family trip to Europe (two and a half weeks) this past summer, visiting Germany (including our family’s ancestral home in Rothenburg), Austria, Belgium and France. It was a fantastic time and the kids loved it.”

Hosea Harvey shares: “I’m serving on the board of visitors of what we used to know as the Tucker Center as it divides into two centers: The Tucker Center for Spiritual Life and the Dartmouth Center for Service,” which he describes as “a fascinating transition.”

Finally, Dr. Clifford Weiss presented his work, “Bariatric Embolization of Arteries for the Treatment of Obesity (BEAT Obesity),” at the April Society for Interventio nal Radiology meeting. Cliff worked with fellow Johns Hopkins colleagues as well as others at Icahn Med School at Mount

Sinai and Piedmont Healthcare. Cliff shared in EurekAlert! of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, “Obesity is a highly prevalent, detrimental and costly disease in the United States and abroad. We will be able to gain more insight into the role interventional radiology can play in the critical battle against obesity.” Natalie Herring, 1911 Rex Ave., #41, Joplin, MO 64801; (417) 553-7419; 1995dcn@gmail.com; Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes, 2 Bishops Lane, Hingham, MA 02043; kaja.k.fickes.95@dartmouth.edu