Happy summer, ’06s! It seems that summer has finally arrived everywhere, and there’s lots of news to go around and to share. So grab a glass of your favorite sundowner and enjoy the updates. First off: After a successful first set of “06/06” days around the country, it seems like we’ve got a fun new tradition for mini-reunions. Special thanks to all of the chairs around who made it happen. We had 61 attendees in four cities across the country—thanks to Amanda Prentice, Christine Benally Peranteau and Jen Bordeau for organizing! Thanks also to the chairs of each city as well, Jess Magidson (Boston) and Alex Middleton (Chicago). Thanks to everyone for the strong attendance and for posting updates to our Facebook page. A special thanks to Christine for organizing all those mini-reunions despite being busy with her newborn baby—she and her husband, Dave Peranteau, welcomed their first child in June. Congrats!
Other classmates who are parents…Chelsea Carroll is the model of the modern working mom—balancing care for her 3-year-old daughter Josie with the pursuit of her M.S.Ed. in higher education and student affairs, which she just completed. She started a new job at Indiana University Bloomington as assistant director of orientation and outreach for international services in April. Congrats, Chelsea! Also a working mom is Alexis Lanzet-Cloutier, who lives in Vancouver and has a 2-year-old son and works in finance for a large helicopter company. According to her Facebook post, she loves Canada, which means she has exquisite taste, as Canada is the best (and the best at hockey). Rachel Gasana,who lives in Boston and works her self-described “dream job” at Partners in Health, has one son, 4-year-old Tristan, and is about to welcome her second child in October. Congrats!
Lots of people pursuing advanced degrees in our class. Ali Krzton lives in Alabama with her husband and is pursuing her Ph.D. in anthropology at Texas A&M, has been selected for a Fulbright scholarship for 2013 and is going to China to do research on the social cohesion of golden snub-nosed monkeys. (Those monkeys sound so fancy.) Congrats, Ali! A couple other smarties pursuing their Ph.D.s are Julia Crudele, who is pursuing her Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology at the University of Pennsylvania, and Carlo Ordonez, who is pursuing his Ph.D. in math at Northern Illinois University.
Victoria Allen issued all of us an open invitation on Facebook to visit her in northern Arizona and tour around Grand Canyon National Park, where she works as a park ranger. Let’s go! Also in Arizona is Alexa Spielhagen, who is a sociocultural anthropology grad student at the University of Arizona.
Alana Finley works as a federal government analyst/auditor in Dallas and got her M.S. in math/statistics at Georgetown while working for the government. Impressive! Naomi Bishop lives in Seattle with her fiancé and her puppy and works as a marketing manager for a group of Seattle-based grocery stores. Bridgette Hylton runs a small start-up called Shop Rag House (shopraghouse.com)—check out the site to support her! Diana Bradford is finishing her pediatric residency at Brown University and is moving to D.C. this summer to start a fellowship at Children’s National Hospital. Congrats! Also in D.C.: Teri Delgado and Tommy Thompson got married three years ago and live there. Tommy is in his third year of general surgery residency at Washington Hospital Center and Teri is getting her M.B.A. at Georgetown. Nice Dartmouth power couple!
That’s all for now—be sure to either keep posting news on our class Facebook page or sending me direct e-mails.
—Jessica Tory, Schwab Residential Center, 680 Serra St., Stanford, CA 94305; jessica.e.tory@gmail.com
