1999

1999

Hello, ’99s!

It is great to hear from you, thank you for writing to me with your news!

Ben Guaraldi wrote in with a happy update to his family. “My wife, Rachel (Earlham ’07), and I had our third child, Gwynevere, this March. Gwen is peaceful, adorable, and surprisingly curmudgeonly— if I didn’t know better I would think she was a grumpy old man! Her two siblings are finding their place in our new family, and it’s so sweet to see them all cuddle together.

“Not much else to report, as the kids and the pandemic have greatly decreased my activities. I still see Marty Vona frequently. My improv troupe (valleyimprov.com) is weathering the pandemic doing mostly outdoor shows, including Belinda Chiu ’98 whenever she is in town.

“And I’m still working on data for accountability, transparency, and impact monitoring, the installation of the open-source health management information system district health Information Software 2, which collects information about U.S.-government-funded AIDS interventions around the world for the president’s emergency plan for AIDS relief.

“I am getting on a plane to go to a friend’s wedding this summer. It feels surreal—I haven’t been away from my house, wife or kids almost at all in forever.”

Christopher Rea wrote in with news of his new book. “On April 1 University of Chicago Press will be releasing my new book, Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project that Matters to You (and the World). My coauthor, Stanford professor Thomas Mullaney, and I spent almost 20 years coming up with this guide to starting a new research project, one that we hope will be of use to everyone from high school students to professors to entrepreneurs. We offer some new advice to a book series that includes titles such as The Craft of Research. You have atopic of interest, so how do you design your study such that the results will matterto anyone else? Orwhenyou’re assigned a research project, how do you make it your own? I started my own research journey at Dartmouth, and I hope that this book will prove useful to other researchers aiming—with every new project—to do something original.”

Sara Braca is the author of the book, The Other Half of Single, published by New Degree Press. Sara describes, “My story begins when the church where I was supposed to get married burned down one week before my wedding. Seriously. Somehow I did not perceive this as an omen and still went through with the wedding (just in a different church). Not surprisingly, the marriage didn’t work out.” Her publisher writes, “By sharing a collection of her often hilarious and always unexpected real-life adventures since that eventful fire, Braca’s goal is to inspire single people everywhere to find their joy and live the amazing lives they want and deserve.” Sara is based in Tuscany, Italy, and is the lead marketer for Beyond Better Foods.

Finally, it is with great sadness that I report the death of James “Dylan” Karczewski on February 9. My heartfelt condolences to his family and friends.

Until next time.

—Jackie Rioux Gladstone, 21 Westwood Circle, Dover, NH03820; (603) 834-0517; jackie.dartmouth99@ gmail.com

Jackie Rioux Gladstone