Just a year until our reunion, and ’08s all over the world are up to amazing things….


Lots of ’08s are crushing grad school.


Glavy Cruz just got admitted into the doctoral program in clinical psychology at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and will be starting this fall. She is super excited about the new challenges that await her!


By the luck of the residency-match process Nora Ward and Mita Sharma will very soon be reunited as co-interns! They start their obstetrics and gynecology residency training in June at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.


Laura Myers is graduating from Harvard Medical School this May and beginning her residency in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital.


Also graduating from medical school, Chris Abrecht will spend the upcoming year interning at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and then doing his anesthesia residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He encourages people in either place to say hi!


Some ’08s are crushing it internationally.


Abe Holland is working with the Centre for Micro Finance in Chennai, India. His group leads randomized controlled trials on the impact of rural banking and self-help groups on economic, social, agricultural and health outcomes in rural communities. If you’re interested in a hot south Indian vacation or learning about microfinance, let him know!


Still living in Beirut, James Marlow is teaching English and waiting tables at a bar while writing physics papers in his free time. He is headed back to the United States for work this fall.


Domestically, ’08s are crushing work and life and everything in between.


In February Adria Buchanan visited Ian Tapu in Hawaii and, although she broke his shower and it rained the whole time, they had a blast!


In April Adria grabbed Korean barbeque with Loni Ajagbe, Meghan Wendland and Jane Choi, reminisced about Dartmouth and got pumped for the five-year reunion!


We have an exciting update from William Ryan. After graduation he worked for the Federal Reserve in New York until dropping everything a year ago to move to the San Francisco area. He is currently working for a venture-funded mobile health startup called Azumio, in addition to launching his own consulting business. The real update, though, is that he is getting married to Divia Melwani (Harvard ’06) next month—and she is pregnant with their first child!


Nick Williams married Rianne Subijuncto in June 2011 in a traditional Muslim Indonesian wedding in Jakarta. They celebrated their loosely Christian wedding in Ohio this December with stateside family and friends. Anna Guenther served as best man and Sammy Fox made it from D.C.! Nick will be doing research in Indonesia for the next year and a half as he works on his linguistics Ph.D. at the University of Colorado, Boulder.


Besides serving as best man in the wedding, Anna also graduated in 2010 after a Dartmouth hiatus. She now lives happily with two cats and a view in very rural Vermont. She manages the Canoe Club restaurant and manages VonBargensJewelry.com. She keeps a lovingly watchful eye on Panarchy and Tabard and enjoys being an informal alum resource for current students.


Finally, Anne Liu and Adam Belanich got engaged this year. He proposed in the Frick after reciting her favorite poem. Anne is currently completing a master’s in architecture at Harvard and Adam runs his own business, Joyride Coffee Distributors. They live in Astoria, Queens, and would love to catch up with any alums in the area!


Keep crushing and, as always, send any updates my way!


—Yasmin Mandviwala, 6 Nollet Drive, Andover, MA 01810; yasminm@gmail.com