Class Note 2007
Happy summer, ’07s! I hope your days are being filled with sunshine, vacations and day drinking. Here we go!
A recent press release from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth announced that Laura Bozzuto was selected as a Rolf C. Syvertsen Scholar for the 2012-13 school year. Based on her academic achievement, leadership qualities, personal attributes and community involvement, she was chosen by a faculty committee to receive this prestigious distinction. A big congrats, Laura, and another congrats for graduating this month!
Christina Luccio writes in that she, Severina Ostrovsky and Jordan Kutcher each made the move from N.Y.C. to Chicago in the second half of 2012. Christina and Severina were able to transfer their jobs with Teach For America and Deloitte, respectively, while Jordan has taken on the new role of master teacher at an UNO charter school. How awesome to move to a new city and bring your best friends with you? Wishing all three of you the best in Chicago!
Sara Studebaker shares, “I’ve been continuing my journey toward the Sochi 2014 Olympics in biathlon (cross-country skiing and target shooting) and collecting several other Dartmouth alumnae along the way! Susan Dunklee ’08, Hannah Dreissigacker ’09 and I recently made up three of the four women on Team USA at the Biathlon World Championships in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic. I hope we’ll all be able to proudly represent both the USA and Dartmouth next year in Russia!” Who runs the world? Girls. We’ll be cheering you all on, Sara!
Yuki Kondo-Shah was recently featured in the April edition of Glamour magazine, serving some real talk about careers. She will be in Bolivia in July on her first assignment as a Foreign Service officer! Can’t wait to visit you everywhere you go, Yuki!
Speaking of the Foreign Service, Christine Lahens recently won the Charles B. Rangel Graduate Fellowship! The fellowship will support Christine through a master’s program and place her in two summer internships (one on Capitol Hill and one at a U.S. embassy abroad). Upon graduation Christine will join Yuki (coincidentally, also a Rangel Fellow) and Jesse Shaw (a.k.a. me, who’s in a similar fellowship, the Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Fellowship) as a Foreign Service officer. Congrats and welcome to the family, Christine!
Lynn McGrath and Anika Mirick got engaged in September, both graduated from medical school in May and are both starting medical residency at University of Washington (Anika in radiology and Lynn in neurosurgery)! Can you two be more of a power couple? Congrats, Doctor and Doctor!
Lastly, George Oh writes, “I’m in South Bend, Indiana, at Notre Dame. I finished my grad work already, so now I’m just a lab monkey. Yay!” He also shares that Kiran Parkhe recently defended his Ph.D. in mathematics at Northwestern—adding a less sarcastic “Yay!” for Kiran. Congrats to our two newest Northwestern Ph.D.s! “Lab monkey” (George’s modest code-word for “postdoctoral research associate”) or mathematician, we are proud of you!
That’s it for this time, friends! The next time you read this column, summer will be coming to an end and you will be basking in its afterglow. Wishing you all a summer full of new experiences and vivid memories.
—Jesse Shaw, 733 Amsterdam Ave. #15H, New York City, NY 10025; jesseashaw@gmail.com