Alma Matters The Class of 1999 Newsletter Winter 2004 Class News by Michelle Sweetser South/Midwest Jennifer Moore graduated from Emory Law School in May and started working at a law firm in At- lanta, Georgia (Alston & Bird). She reports that Tully Pruden married Mark Murphy in Mexico in November. Three ’99s were members of the wedding party - Megan Hjermstad, Kate Berkely and Jennifer. Many other ‘99s were in attendance, including Kaitlin Reidy, Michelle Park, Carrie Bourdon, Sommer Pio, Will Leicht, Gus Moore, Jen Holden, Kristen Lucas, and Ali Wiener. The newlyweds now live in San Francisco. Also in Atlanta is James Mykytenko, who is currently a second year general surgery resident at Emory. He will be starting two years of research this summer in the cardiothoracic lab as he is thinking about doing cardiothoracic surgery. James has kept in touch with Matt Delaney and Nat Rink who both live in Somerville, MA, and he saw them most recently in Octo- ber when he also saw Andy Butterworth and Sean Taylor, whom Nat had invited for his birthday. James reports that there are a few other residents at Emory who went to Dartmouth, including Tommy Slaubaugh ’96, who is a fourth year urology resident. James has been doing some activities with the Dartmouth Club of Geor- gia, attending their wine tasting in November and a holi- Muhammad Hutasuhut poses in front of a huge bust day party in December. of Saddam Hussein (adjacent to the palace). Anne Newman is in dental school in San Anto- Muhammad is in Iraq until July, working for the Coa- nio, Texas, and is excited to be in her final year. lition Provisional Authority. After taking two years off between freshman and sophomore year for a Mormon mission to Spain, Justin Bunker graduated from Dartmouth with the class of ’01. After graduation, he went to work for AMS, an IT con- remain there until July 1 when the Coalition transfers sulting firm in Fairfax, VA, and loves the DC area. In sovereignty to the Iraqi people. The couple is planning June, he married Heidi Sessions in Salt Lake City (where an August 2005 wedding. both of their families reside) and the couple is now back Bloomington, Indiana is the new home for John in Virginia, living in Falls Church. Justin’s best man was Foulks, who is in his first year of graduate school in the Matt Walker ’01. Matt’s wife Michelle Gauvain Walker ’02 Germanic Studies department at Indiana University. John and Kristin Romberg ’01 were also in attendance. is working for the present on mostly linguistics, philol- Catherine McCarthy attended Ros ogy, and Scandinavian languages. He expects to re- Prabharasuth’s wedding in California and then spent ceive his PhD in 2008. time with Jeannine Murray-Roman in LA before Jeannine left for research in Paris. Cat also saw Grace West Eboigbe off to LA from Washington, D.C. Cat recently Camilo Ramirez has been in L.A. since gradua- was engaged to Muhammad Hutasuhut. Muhammad tion where he’s been working as an internal consultant proposed to her in the Shenandoah mountain range, for Countrywide Financial Corporation. He’s hung out outside of Charlottesville, VA where Cat attends law with Justin Duda ‘00 and met up a few times with James school. A week later, Muhammad went off to Baghdad Kaiser (when he is not out writing one of his nature to work for the Coalition Provisional Authority and will Continued on page 6 Winter 2004 Alma Matters Page 2 Class of 1999 Alumni Council Update Executive Committee by Adrienne Wilson Wagner Dear Fellow ‘99s President Attendance at this past December’s Alumni Council weekend met me with the usual in Hanover: Dartmouth’s amazing undergradu- James Gallo ate experience, persistent commitment to progress, discussions with opinionated students and alums who share a passion for the place, the Vice President chance to work hard and play hard, and a blizzard. Typical Dartmouth. th Kendra Kosko The highlight of my official duties December 4-6 was the im- passioned discussion and vote on the proposed constitution that would unite the Council and the Alumni Association. The constitution passed Treasurer the required 2/3 vote in the Alumni Council Saturday morning after Jeffrey Fine thorough scrutiny in lengthy meetings that negated the emailed con- cerns of the current SA President, which many of you received. How- Newsletter Editor ever, the constitutional amendment failed at the Alumni Association meeting by 10 votes, receiving only 71% of the required 75% to pass. Michelle Sweetser Let’s hope that the proposed changes that came out of the discussion will fine tune the document to please all parties the next time around Secretary so that we can move forward with some much-needed amendments Seth Kelly like increasing representation and internet voting. Athletics saw its best recruiting year in recent memory and is working to better coordinate student athlete commitments with pro- Mini-Reunion Chairs fessor requirements. DOC is still reaching over 90% of all students. Catherine Maxson As far as the Greek System and affinity houses are concerned, the Brian Salazar college seems to be rewarding houses that uphold “Standards of Excel- lence” instead of just requiring “Minimum Standards.” An undergradu- Rahsaan Sales ate woman spoke about the need to improve pre-major advising, and it seems that the administration is listening. Student-administrative Head Agents relations are still tense: rebuilding trust after Swimming & Diving deci- Scot Berg sion last year. We are still harping on the severe space crunch for events/ Jonah Sonnenborn rehearsals/gatherings, and the current wave of construction seems to be (in part) a response to the Student Life Initiative and the call for Alumni Councilor more student social space. Plans for future construction include a new Adrienne Wilson Wagner dining and social center north of Maynard, a Math and Interdisciplinary Departments building on the former Kiewit site, and more dorms. Student health programs see increased demand for psychological services. Sexual Abuse Prevention, Response and Recovery support is starting. There is a dramatic in- Alma Matters crease in attention to security and health for international The Class of 1999 Newsletter programs post-9/11. The Board of Trustees will expand from 16 members Winter 2004 to 22 by the year 2010. As usual, all nominees for the com- ing year are rock stars. An alumni mentor program, for stu- Michelle Sweetser dents or young alumni, is in the initial stages. Should class Editor dues fund the Alumni Magazine or should the College? And if class dues continue to fund it, should classmates who never pay dues still receive the magazine? Good questions up for Landis Fryer, Dave Sussman, Adrienne Wilson discussion in alumni circles. Wagner & Jeffrey Fine, Columnists Ways to stay in touch with what’s going on in the Brian Salazar, Graphic Artist larger Dartmouth Community: The Alumni Association launched the new young alumni website, YADA, earlier this year. Check it out and use it while we still can (http:// The editor can be reached yada.dartmouth.edu/)! Also, the college has launched the e- via email at newsletter, Speaking of Dartmouth. And contact your friendly [email protected] Alumni Councilor with any little thing I can do for you. I’ll see you guys at reunion! Winter 2004 Alma Matters Page 3 Happy New Monkey Year! by Landis Fryer Hey, folks! By the time you read this several buttercream—easy truly magical and significant things will have occurred: enough. I made the Chinese New Year (Jan. 22); my graduation from Chipotle Pasta with the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts (Jan. 24); The Lime Marinated Return of Saturn/Golden Birthday (I’ll be 27 on Jan. 27); Shrimp in an Avo- and the BIG Birthday Bash to celebrate these previous cado Cream Sauce events (Jan. 31). But let me handle a couple of things for my creative— before we get to discuss these in further detail. child’s play. The tough First, I would like to thank Jeff Fine and Michelle part was the damn written Sweetser for their terrific work heading the Reunion Com- exam, where after page seven my hand got tired from mittee, and a special thanks to all those members of writing so much. The bad news is that there were four- the committee who are working ridiculously hard to in- teen pages after that, including essay questions. I don’t sure a great time for us in Hanover June 18th-20th. We’ve recall taking anything nearly as extensive at Dartmouth. received a magnet, a pre-invitation, a nice “Time” maga- It was insane! You tell me the fourteen steps to making zine-like bulletin and several e-mail reminders from the a perfect confit or the difference between Burgundian group, and I do hope many of you have RSVP’d (I haven’t and Brittanian cuisine. Well, I passed the three, and I yet because of dinero issues, but that’s for another dis- will get my Professional Chef’s Degree the 24th. Whew! cussion). Anyway, apologies for being a slacker and I did want to get education after D, I just never thought kudos to you all for your work! Thank you in advance! it would be from cooking school. I also want to take this time to send out a spe- On the 27th, I’ll be 27. Now I remember a couple cial whassup to Matt Delaney, Rebecca Prestel, and John of people at Dartmouth who share this special day— Muckle, all of whom I have seen around Boston in the Jeana Chung and Courtney Shuster.