Class Note 2004
Isabel Casariego is heading off to the Harvard Graduate School of Education in the fall to pursue a master’s in higher education. Eleanor (Pessin) Correa is doing the same program part-time over two years.
Jess Arnold, Laura Nieskens and Joan Kearns graduated from Tuck Business School this spring. Jess is moving to Boston to work for CSN Stores, an online furniture and home goods retailer. Laura is also moving to Boston to work for the Chartis Group, a management consulting firm specializing in healthcare delivery. Joan Kerns will be in Boston as well, working for Procter & Gamble. Jess writes that there are plenty more ’04s starting up their second year of Tuck who get one last year to enjoy Hanover!
Kevin Davis, Brian Kent, John Eichlin, Stephen Lee, David Roseman and Moez Shivji got together for an informal reunion in Lake Tahoe, California, this summer. The group carried Dartmouth’s flag to the top of an 800-foot waterfall at an elevation of 7,000 feet.
Adrienne (Draper) Olson married Mark Olson on September 13, 2009. They wed at the chapel in Squirrel Island, Maine. The bridesmaids included Brittany Copenhaver, Danielle Polebaum, Stephanie Feldman and Susan Edwards. Adrienne met Mark four years ago in Washington, D.C., where the couple continues to live. Adrienne is a marketer for the Advisory Board Co., which keeps her busy traveling the country each week visiting various universities.
Thomas Crafts just got back from a month-long trip to India. Thomas taught macroeconomics to a group of eighth- and ninth-grade Indian students as part of a collaboration between Duke Talent Identification Program (TIP) and the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. He is now working full-time for Duke TIP, which provides educational opportunities for academically gifted youth. Tom also joined the executive committee of the local Alumni club here in North Carolina and is the treasurer of the Dartmouth Alumni Club of the Piedmont.
Thomas’s wife, Liz (Wilson) Crafts, finished her first year of residency in the anesthesia program at Duke.
Matt Burgess’s first novel, Dogfight: A Love Story, comes out this September with Doubleday. In a starred review Publishers Weekly called it “a post-9/11 shout-out to the borough of Queens, with its roiling mix of cultures. Burgess’ gritty, punchy narrative, propelled by fresh gusts of language, should remind readers of another outstanding outer borough literary debut—Richard Price’s The Wanderers.”
James Wrubel is beginning his second year of Osteopathic Medical School at Touro University in the East Bay in northern California and still performing as much as possible in the area. He is also working on a new project recording to teach pianists to play jazz by ear for Hear and Play Inc.
Matt Drossos ’02 and Katie (Baines) Drossos welcomed their daughter Madeline Ashcroft Drossos on May 28. Katie writes, “We have been dressing Maddy in Dartmouth onesies in the hopes of subtly influencing her future college selection.”
Vanessa Vega ’05 and Jeff Coots were married on August 21 in New York. The ’04s in attendance included John Harlow, Aaron Gillespie, Remy Wildrick, Courtney Stone, Phil Peisch and Greta Milligan. Marisa Clementi ’05, Rebecca Scully ’05, Christine Prentice ’05, Saleema Moore ’05 and Michal Jalowski.
Greta Milligan married Phil Peisch on August 27 in Petoskey, Michigan. They celebrated with a group of ’04s including Sam Stein, Jess Leinwand, Heather Wininger, Christina Palmer, Laura Nieskens, Christopher Hooper, Ryan Abraham, Simon Weber, Dave Hodapp, Leo Twiggs, Rolaine Ossman, Jesse Nisselson, Nick Danoff, Mike Curley, Jeff Coots and Claire Superfine.
—Jess Leinwand, 1440 S St., NW, Apt. 2, Washington, DC 20009; jess.leinwand@gmail.com
