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Allie Beck sends the news: I am pursuing a second bachelor’s in Environmental Engineering at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering. I’ll be working in Salt Lake City this summer for CH2M Hill in their Environmental Business Services group and living at home in Little Cottonwood Canyon, which means lots of time for hiking and biking! Rob Cotter and his wife are the proud parents of baby Ben, born last fall. Elizabeth Dyke Barker and Ford Barker were married June 30, 2012, at the Basin Harbor Club in Vergennes, Vt. Annie Watson Goody was the maid of honor and Will Dyke ’03 was the best man. Also in attendance were Stuart Watson ’73 P ’97, ’98, ’01, ’06 and Banc Jones ’85 P ’18, ’21.
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After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012 and being released in theaters by Roadside Attractions, the award-winning ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare by Matt Heineman (Alumni Award Recipient in 2012) and Susan Froemke was recently picked up by CNN Films and premiered on the network last March. A New York Times, Washington Post and NY Magazine Critic’s Pick, the film is now available on DVD. Jessie Vascellaro Lessin married Sam Lessin last September in Carmel, Calif. The couple are living in San Francisco where Jessica is senior technology reporter and news editor for The Wall Street Journal.
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NCCS was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Stephanie Becker† on Oct. 4, 2012. Our thoughts are with Stephanie’s family and friends. The family has set up the Stephanie Becker Fund (www.stephaniebeckerfund.com), whose mission is to promote emotional health and resilience and remove the stigma associated with psychological health issues and their treatment. Jean-Marc Monrad is engaged to Meredith Brown. He lives in Geneva where he trades commodities. Sarah Rathbone writes: I just got engaged to an absolutely wonderful man, Charlie Graham! I closed escrow on a house in Santa Barbara and am the owner and director of a small local seafood company, Community Seafood. I couldn’t be happier!
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Ashley Overlander Boggia married Matthew Boggia on Oct. 1, 2011.
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Will Bartholomew has been named editor-inchief of the New York Law School Law Review. He will spend the summer in Philadelphia in a federal clerkship for Judge Joel Slomsky of the Third Circuit and will receive his J.D. in 2014. Harrison “Hank” Simpkins is serving in the Marines until spring 2016. He trained on the East Coast and then was deployed to Bahrain. After the September attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, Libya, his platoon was sent to Yemen to reinforce the embassy there. He is currently stationed at Camp Pendleton in California, training for his next deployment to Okinawa, Japan, in the fall.
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Jill Greiner received her M.S. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia, where she conducted research on the importance of sea grass habitat restoration to “blue carbon” sequestration in shallow coastal waters. Catherine Monrad is teaching in Boston. Amary Wiggin is a writer living in Brooklyn and working on a memoir. Her essay, Limping Toward the Truth, was published in the Modern Love section of The New York Times in March.
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Katherine Brislin writes: I actually decided to go into film after Loomis and studied cinematography at the School of Visual Arts. I worked on a bunch of TV/documentary film stuff during college, and now I’m a production coordinator on two A&E shows, The First 48 and After The First 48. Katharine “Kari” Cholnoky shares: I’m finishing up my first of a two-year graduate program in painting at Cranbrook Academy of Art outside of Detroit, Mich. For news of Will Dyke, see Class Notes for 1998. Left to right: Elizabeth Dyke Barker ’98, Ford Barker, Annie Watson Moody ’98 and Michael Moody
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