Erika Hall was featured in a book titled How They Got There: Interviews with Digital Designers About Their Careers, by Khoi Vinh. In her interview she talks about her experience of using BlitzMail and networked computers as a student, which sparked her interest in doing “Internet-y things.” Erika is the cofounder of Mule Design, a firm that creates strategies, brands, applications and publications across platforms, including radio. She’s also the author of Just Enough Research and truly dislikes corporate jargon (see the very funny unsuck-it.com). Her company recently launched the National Audubon Society’s new website.

Christopher Wall spent some time on campus this past summer when VoxFest, a collaboration between theater alumni and current students, featured one of his plays. The Calamity was partially written at Dartmouth during a writer’s retreat two years ago and was presented as a staged reading last July. The pieces performed during the annual VoxFest are in various stages of development and are presented in formats ranging from bench readings to stagings with music. In Christopher’s play (directed by Patrice Miller, with songs by Howard Fishman), a deadly plague sweeps across the country, spawning an epidemic of paranoia and fear in a small town. The Dartmouth wrote: “The show portrays a modern take on the Middle Age practice of towns closing their gates during the plague. Wall said that he hoped to explore the human decision-making process. ‘I was very curious in kind of an existential way when we say we might help each other out,’ Wall said. ‘But what about when something like that really happens?’ ”

As I write this summer is winding down (and I’m really looking forward to my annual trek to Hanover for Class Officers Weekend in September), but baseball season is still in full swing. Two classmates reported the status of their personal ballpark-visiting odysseys.

Brian Gordon: “I was in San Francisco last week for the Western Pension & Benefits Council conference, in part so I could add new ballparks to my all-time list (20 down, 13 to go, the total of 33 accounting for new ballparks for the Yankees, Mets and Expos/Nationals). Got to see a game with David Budd in Oakland, California—he had relocated in San Francisco after a couple of years in Paris and was awaiting the arrival of his wife and son the next day. A week later I got to see the Giants in San Francisco with Brunel Bredy and two of his three kids, with whom my wife and I went to the San Francisco Zoo the next day. He’s practicing medicine in Sacramento, returning to California after several months in Texas.”

Mike Mahoney: “Jenn Novik and I are headed to Citi Field this weekend to see the Red Sox play the Mets. I have a bucket list to see the Sox in every Major League Baseball park, this will be No. 19 on that list (and I’m actually at 21 if you include the old Yankee Stadium and the old Busch Stadium in St. Louis). Not looking forward to Saturday, when the giveaway is a Jesse Orosco bobblehead celebrating the Mets’ 1986 World Series win, but Jenn (a Mets fan) sure is!” Mike still lives in Philadelphia, working as the director of athletic communications at the University of Pennsylvania, but in August he started the Ohio University professional master’s in sports administration program.

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; news@dartmouth92.org