2001

2001

CLASS NOTES

We made it to summer, and I hope that many of you have been able to visit with fellow ’01s you may not have seen in a while. Joe Sondheimer and I have enjoyed getting to see and celebrate with classmates during the past few months. We took our kids, Sasha (11) and Simon (9), down to Birmingham, Alabama, to celebrate the bat mitzvah of Violet Levine, daughter of Bob Levine and Emily (Hess) Levine ’05. It was a multigene rational Dartmouth crowd with Donald Hess ’70, George LeMaistre Jr. ’70, Doug Turner, Tu’94, andKevin Goldman’00 andhis wife, Sasha, taking part in the festivities. We also caught up with Suzanne (DeVries) Decker and her husband, Adam, this winter. In addition to her real estate practice at Fried Frank, Suze and Adam recently started a commissary kitchen for short-term rentals called Hudson Valley Beta Kitchen (HVBK, www.hvbetakitchen.com). Located in Croton on Hudson, New York, HVBK provides fully licensed kitchen space for caterers, bakers, and other food makers who have outgrown their home kitchens. There was a New York Times crossword puzzle clue about How I Met Your Mother’s “Bro Code,” not that long ago, prompting me to check in with Matt Kuhn. He is happy to report that Doogie Kamealoha, M.D., for which he is an executive producer and writer, was recently renewed by Disney+ for a second season. Matt will be in Hawaii for filming this summer with new episodes expected to air this fall.

Meredith (Rubin) Slawe wrote in about recently joining the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York, where she is a partner specializing in the defense of class actions and mass arbitration. Meredith and her husband, Daniel Slawe, were excited to celebrate the bar mitzvah of Billy, the oldest of their four children, this spring. Congratulations are in order for Jim Noonan, who had his first book published this past April. Professor Figgy’s Weather and Climate Science Lab for Kids is full of science projects for the whole family. To learn more about Professor Figgy (hint: it’s Jim!) and his line of science kits, visit www.ProfessorFiggy.com. Finally, Kevin Stanhope (widowed) recentlyproposedto Stephanie Roy, his girlfriend of more than two years. While no wedding date has been set, they are looking forward to their household of four, with each of them bringing aboyin their blended family in Kevin’s home state of Maine. Congratulations to all!

—Rachel Milstein Sondheimer, 143Branchville Road, Ridgefield, CT06877; (203) 645-6938; rachel. sondheimer@gmail.com

Rachel Milstein Sondheimer