Class Note 2008
Hi, ’08s! Jeez, you guys keep having amazing life changes. Forgive me as I live vicariously through you.
Devin Fallon and his wife, Liz, had their baby daughter Nina in October. Class of 2024?
Dr. Sarah Bankoff got engaged to her boyfriend of 11 years, Anthony Leone, and Meli Garber got engaged to Andrew Browne. She has yet to ask me to be in her wedding party (hint, hint).
On July 28 Kristen Carloni (nee Bulkowski) married Dorian Carloni (’08 exchange student) at a vineyard in Sonoma, California. Kristen’s bridesmaids included Danielle Strollo ’09 and Rebecca Beasley-Cockroft, who after nearly seven years together were also married this summer!
The big news for Neil Willis this year was that he got engaged to Lilly Li, and after graduation from Wharton in May they’ll be moving to Chicago, where he’ll be working at GTCR.
JB Cholnoky was hired as the varsity assistant coach for Brown men’s crew and will be extending his “one-year master’s” into next fall.
Dana Cushing was admitted to Columbia University Teacher’s College master’s program in industrial/organizational psychology and started this January. Frank Glaser transferred to Columbia Business School this January.
Ephraim Froehlich returned from four months in South Africa working at Legal Aid, their public defenders office, for credit during his second-to-last semester at Maryland Law School. He graduates this May from Maryland Law and if anyone wants to give him an amazing job, he wants to take it.
Dr. Marc Lajoie successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. And David Lamb, Lauren Bennet and Dunia Rkein passed the bar exam.
Felicia Read got engaged in August to David Schnur ’05! He proposed during a sunset hike near the Matterhorn in Zermatt, Switzerland. Felicia just wrapped up five and a half years at a Lebanon, New Hampshire, biotech company called Adimab and finally moved out of the Upper Valley. After Christmas she moved to Mountain View, California, and joined pharmaceutical giant Genentech as a part of the protein analytical chemistry team.
Josh Federer has made the move back to Connecticut to start a job as a math teacher and theater director at the Kingswood Oxford School.
Valerie Arvidson and Barton McGuire bought a house in Seattle. Valerie is teaching and writing and Barton is developing websites and playing lots of rock ’n’ roll music as well as hand-making boutique custom guitar pedals. There’s lots of creative energy in Seattle!
James Marlow is working as a programmer in a tech firm in Manhattan
Bridget Alex is spending the year doing archaeological research in Israel on a Fulbright. Read her blog at bannelia.com; she promises that it’s funny.
Teryn Williams and husband Jonathan Grudis (M.P.H. ’08 from DMS), headed to Tahiti, Bora Bora, and the Society Islands for some Christmas R&R, scuba diving and hiking. Good way to end 2013!
Drew Jennings quit his finance job and gave up his N.Y.C. apartment in the winter of 2013 and headed down to Springer Mountain, Georgia, in March. From there he thru-hiked the entirety of the Appalachian Trail (2,185 miles) and summited Mount Katahdin in Maine on August 1. Drew missed the five-year reunion as he went through Hanover two weeks too late, but had lots of support from Paul Heintz ’06 and Adam Platz. Drew accepted a job offer at Google and moved to the Bay Area.
Charlie Stoebe finally got an iPhone. Follow him on Snapchat.
Congratulations on an amazing 2013! I hope your 2014 will be just as successful.
—Jon Hopper, 1590 2nd Ave., Apt. 5FN, New York City, NY 10028; (203) 539-1225; jonathan.r.hopper@alum.dartmouth.org
