2007

2007

Happy summer, ’07s! By the time you read this our 10th-year reunion will have passed and you’ll have a new class secretary reporting the notes! Thank you for sharing your stories with me for the past five years—it’s been my pleasure helping to celebrate your lives. Please give my successor as difficult a time as you gave me trying to fit all your news and accomplishments into 600 words! Onto the notes!

John Wilson married Mary BethBuchignani on February 25 in Memphis, Tennessee. Dartmouth ’07s in attendance included Dan Linsalata. Mike and Kerry (Snow) Greene, Kevin Hudak, Stethers White. Dax Tejera and Andrew Eastman, along with Bruce Gago ’05, Jeff Cooperman ’06, Eric Crawford ’08, Matt Ailey ’09 and Clark Warthen ’10. John is senior vice president at Jamestown, LP, a real estate investment firm. “We will live in Atlanta and welcome any classmates to contact us if passing through in the future.”

Melissa Machaj writes, “I’m currently enjoying Canadian life north of the border. I’ll be at the reunion with my fiance, Scott McAuley—we got engaged in March! He’s looking forward to seeing Dartmouth in June because he’s heard so much about it and has never been. I’m looking forward to it too!”

Michael Amico received his Ph.D. in American studies from Yale. His dissertation, “The Union of the Two Henrys,” is about the “peculiar and rarest intimacy” between two men in the Civil War.

Ariel Eckstein announces, “My wife gave birth to our first child! Simon Asher Eckstein was born on March 14 at NYU Langone during the big blizzard. He’s a Pi(e) Day baby, which is a special day to us because of my love of math and my wife’s love of baking. The whole family will be up in Hanover for reunion.”

Nadia AM shares, “I finished my hematologyoncology fellowship at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in June and then I’ll be starting my first real doctor job as an assistant professor of medicine in the division of hematology at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University in Philadelphia August 1. So I will be moving to Philadelphia in June and I hope to hang out with Derrick Smith for happy hour all the time.”

Featured in the news: Sara Segall and her husband founded a high-performance skiwear company, Orsden. Check it out at orsden.com.

Tanner Glass was spotlighted in a New York Times article with the intimidating headline, “Tanner Glass, Called Up by Rangers, Adds Physical Element at Forward” (March 16).

Chris Polashenski is hard at work on NASA’s SnowEx proj ect, which will serve as the basis for NASA’s future satellite missions to measure water content in snowy environments.

May you all continue making headlines, experiencing joy and finding meaning, dear friends.

See you around!

—Jesse Shaw, Unit 3120 #9, DPO, AA 34055; jesseashaw@gmail.com