Class Note 2008
Hi, ’08s! You guys certainly didn’t let the polar vortex slow you down this year. It comes as no surprise that Dartmouth alumni would laugh in the face of blistering cold and continue killing it personally and professionally.
Khadijah Bermiss is very proud that her best friend Louisa (Thompson) Olushoga is graduating from medical school from the University of Illinois at Chicago! “I am so very proud of my sister! Go girl!”
Ben Davis got engaged to Elena Weissman right before the new year.
Chad Detloff got married to Kevin Miller last September and Jeremy Warburg got married on February 16 to Meg McCue ’11 in St. Thomas.
Emma Coultrap-Bagg got married to Jon Guarino (Cornell ’06), earned a master’s from NYU and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and teaches high school Latin south of Boston.
James Marlow quit his job as a web developer and is starting up a website business, Draco’s Sky, a community-based social network for sharing information. It’s still in development, but keep an eye out for it in the near future!
Pam Phojanakong’s research group at Penn is moving to Yale and she decided to continue being the research coordinator. She’s keeping up her streak of working for the wrong Ivy.
Ephraim Froehlich is graduating in May from the University of Maryland School of Law. After the bar exam this July he will be traveling the world with Matt Mckeon, who is graduating from the University of Montana School of Law. Open invite for all those who like to make party.
Veronica de Zayas finished clerking for the chief judge of the Southern District of Florida and started with the firm of Stearns Weaver Miller in Miami, where she practices complex commercial litigation.
Simon Trabelsi has been recording rap music about mental health issues and works as a senior account exec for an ad agency called Matlock. He returned to Dartmouth for the first time since our fifth reunion with Earl Williams, Michael Simoni and Kelvin Quezada. Unsurprisingly, it was cold and rainy.
After living in N.Y.C. for almost two years Brooks Smith will be moving out and thru-hiking the full length of the Appalachian Trail starting in March. He’s going northbound, from Georgia to Maine and is looking forward to being one of the grungy hikers walking through Hanover sometime around early August. After that is to be determined, but right now he’s thinking of a move to Australia.
Evan Meyerson is moving to Washington, D.C., in May for a year-long clerkship with a federal judge, after which he hopes (finally) to return to N.Y.C. forever.
Jon Hopper moved jobs to the Daily Mail. Reading celebrity gossip all day is surprisingly similar to writing the Class Notes, he says.
After graduating with his Ph.D. in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian studies from the University of Chicago Jeffrey Coleman will start as assistant professor of Spanish at Marquette University.
Phillip Bracikowski and Laura Young traveled for a couple weeks in Japan in early March. They were really excited to visit Phil’s younger sister who lives outside Tokyo.
Tyler Frisbee and Travis Green moved to San Francisco. Daniel Dittrick moved to Seattle—and everything that comes with a new move. Visitors welcome.
Leo Gong got married to Dana Chou in October 2013. They first met when Leo visited Kevin Tang in Taipei during freshman summer. Dana was one of Kevin’s high school classmates also back in Taipei on summer break. They are now happily living in San Francisco with their cat Tigger and new dog Uni.
Till next time!
—Jon Hopper, 1590 2nd Ave., Apt. 5FN, New York City, NY 10028; (203) 539-1225; jonathan.r.hopper@alum.dartmouth.org
