2005

2005

Hope the fall treated everyone well as we head into the holiday season. There were several updates for the class. Lauren (Hoehlein) and Steve Joseph welcomed Oliver Pascal Kemeny Joseph in April. Oliver, big sister Vivian, and parents are currently living in Berlin, Germany. Kemeny is a no d to the College’s 13th president, John Kemeny.

In more baby news, my wife, Casey’06, and I welcomed our fourth son, Knox Jammet Nicholson, in May. Big brothers Thomas, Holt, and Callum have initiated him appropriately and look forward to the next full family trip to Hanover.

Merrick (Johnston) Mordal is living in northern Norway and trying to spend as much time as possible in Alaska. After starting one of the first female ski guiding companies with two other ladies in 2021, she works half the year as a ski guide and the other half as a consultant in circular economy projects. If anyone wants to experience snow-covered, mountainous islands, reach out to Merrick and go visit.

Jhilam Biswas lives with her husband, Danny, and their two kids, Avi (6) and Raya (3), in Newton, Massachusetts. Jhilam has been a councilor-at-large for the Dartmouth Alumni Council for the past three years and on the nominating and trustee search committee (NomCom) for the past two years. She is looking forward to chairing the NomCom this upcoming year and working closely with the Dartmouth Alumni Council to build a strong network of alumni.

Matt Heineman has a new documentary, Retrograde, that will play in several fall film festivals and be released by Nat Geo before the end of the year. It is an immersive look at the U.S. Special Forces support and work with the Afghan army from January 2021 through August 2021, during the time the United States was pulling out of Afghanistan.

Lastly, Mindi Laine is retiring after 12 years as our class Dartmouth College Fund manager. We thank her for her efforts and tremendous partnership for so long and wish her well in her next chapter.

—Matt Nicholson, 5308 Yorktown Road, Bethesda, MD 20816; mtnicholson3@gmail.com