Class Note 2007
Happy 2014, dear ’07s! We finally can fit in one column!
Michael Amico co-wrote “You Can Tell Just By Looking”: And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People with Dartmouth professor Michael Bronski (and Ann Pellegrini of NYU). Mike shares that, “Reviews have ranged from ‘rigorous,’ ‘groundbreaking’ and ‘stirring’ to—even better—‘false, insulting and dangerous.’ ”
Sonia Faruqi writes that she is continuing to live in Toronto and is working on her investigative book about animal agriculture. “I have also just written an article for The Atlantic titled, ‘Agriculture Needs More Women.’ The article argues that food will be safer and animals will live better if more women work in animal agriculture.”
Christina Luccio shares that Erika Ruberry and Adam Goldfarb ’08 were married in Seattle on September 14, 2013. The festivities all took place on the beautiful University of Washington campus, where Erika is pursuing her Ph.D. in clinical psychology. “There were more than 20 Dartmouth grads in attendance and, while no Phi Delt batch was thrown, we did all sing a glorious rendition of the alma mater.”
Ruchita Dhawan and Bart Butler ’06 got married on September 1, 2013, in Maryland and live in Menlo Park, California. Zach Hall ’06, Bea Hahn ’06, Anjali Deshmukh and Justin Zalkin were in attendance at the wedding. They met at Dartmouth in September of 2003.
Yuki Kondo-Shah married Philip Chamberlain in San Francisco City Hall December 19. “Thanks to Cara Yang and Connor Shepherd for being there! We’re back in Bolivia now but will move to Beijing fall of 2015 for our next Foreign Service tour!”
In 2013 Deborah Newburg moved to Brooklyn (from Manhattan) and in 2014 will be continuing her work developing affordable housing at a new position with Dunn Development Corp. “Also, I’ll be running the Boston Marathon again this year in Dartmouth gear—I’d love to hear a ‘Go Big Green!’ ” She also wants to congratulate Margi Smith and Hayley Stevens on their recent engagements!
Kazi Ahmed wishes to congratulate Jeremy Schneider, who got engaged to Rachel Shamash in San Francisco, and Kwabena Badu-Nkansah, who moved to North Carolina to do a Ph.D. at Duke.
Ione Curva is several months in working as a deputy attorney general for the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office. She also recently got engaged to Dan Hayden, who she went to law school with at Rutgers School of Law in Newark. Dan is a lawyer with JP Morgan Chase. “We haven’t started planning yet but are thinking of getting married sometime in the spring of 2015.”
Lance Labun has been postdocing at National Taiwan University for the last year, during which he had papers published on what happens when two neutron stars collide and how the Higgs particle (discovered last year at the Large Hadron Collider) can reveal the existence of new, so-far undiscovered particles. In July he married Ou Zhang, who is finishing her Ph.D. in physics at the University of Arizona, where they met three years ago. She studies the substructure of the proton and related high-mass particles. They had a pseudo-honeymoon working together for seven weeks at the theory division in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Lance hopes that a new postdoc in the coming year will cut his 14-hour trans-Pacific odyssey to see her to at most four hours.
Hearty congratulations to all, and here’s to wishing all of you many more odysseys, short or long, in 2014!
Cheers!
—Jesse Shaw, 733 Amsterdam Ave., #15H, New York City, NY 10025; jesseashaw@gmail.com
