Class Note 2006
Hi, class of 2006! Welcome back to our class news section. First of all, I hope to see many of you in Hanover for Homecoming—for the first time in what seems like years, it dovetails with Columbus Day weekend, so here’s hoping that the long weekend and extra day off will convince many of you, like me, to make the trek home to Dartmouth.
On to the news! First of all, some exciting professional news. Kaethe Henning is working in Palo Alto, California, for a startup pre-choreography group fitness company, Xercise Lab, as director of business development, where she teaches four of the six current programs. She also completed her 200-hour yoga certification in March—congratulations, Kaethe, that is a long time to spend in downward dog!
Jessica Magidson has recently started a postdoc in global psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. She will be living in Boston and will be traveling to Cape Town and Harare regularly. Also in professional news, Hank Alexander was recently promoted to be special assistant to the CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is also recently engaged to his former Harvard Business School classmate Soraya Gheissari.
Another recent one-two punch of new job and new fiancée was had by Josh Cain, who graduated from Duke Business School in May and recently started work at NBC, where he is product manager for its TV Everywhere apps for the Xbox, Windows phone, Roku and Smart TVs. Josh is getting married at the Yale Club (also known in Hanover as the Dartmouth Club) in New York City in October.
Adamah (Ricky) Cole recently celebrated his last year before turning the “dirty 30” in style by hosting his own Dartmouth birthday event in Los Angeles. In attendance to celebrate the end of Ricky’s youthful indiscretions were Jacquelene Moghaddam and Jenna Hasenkampf, as well as Lense Gebre-Mariam ’09. Ricky was in Los Angeles interning for Universal Studios and has returned to Philly for his final year at Wharton Business School.
Finally, a column wouldn’t be complete without some wedding bells, and this time they come to us from Will Pierce, who recently wed Kristie Bernhard. The wedding was in April on the Hawaiian island of Kauai and a huge Dartmouth contingent made the long trip—the only picture that managed to capture the whole crew in attendance is one taken on the dance floor during the finale to “Shout,” complete with some gratuitous shirtlessness. Fellow men and women of Dartmouth who attended were Brad Heritage, Alec Hufnagel, Crawford Arnodl, Jared Hyatt, Mike Reiss, Joe Killefer, Alex Tonelli, Paul Huelskamp, John Huelskamp, Jamie Coffin, Joe Boswell, among others.
After the wedding Will and his wife relocated back to New York City, where he has rejoined his family business working as a summer camp director of Pierce Country Day Camp and Pierce Camp Birchmont. Will is also a real estate consultant during the non-summer months. Congratulations, Will!
Stay in touch, send me some updates, and give me a holler if you’re going to be in Hanover for Homecoming: jessica.e.tory@gmail.com—use it or see an empty column again!
—Jessica Tory, Schwab Residential Center, 680 Serra St., Stanford, CA 94305; jessica.e.tory@gmail.com
