Class Note 2008
So. Many. Updates.
Meghan Wendland is joining the class of 2015 at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry at USC this fall.
Elliot Dial is returning to the Northeast to begin a master’s program at Harvard’s School of Education.
In May Tomi Jun will be biking from Dallas to D.C. with the Ride for World Health at http://rideforworldhealth.org. After, he will be starting at Harvard Medical School.
Sarah Stern is attending Tuck next year, and invites everyone to visit!
Becca Auritt tells us that Emily Weisburst is beginning her Ph.D. in economics at University of Texas, Austin. Let her know if you’re around and like to party.
Nora Johnson tells us that Jenny Fisher is starting nursing school at Columbia in June…and Jenny Fisher tells us that Lindsay Deane and Zach Mayer completed the Boston Marathon in five hours, 28 minutes, with a big smooch at the finish line!
Lauren Moser has been serving in the Peace Corps in Jordan since October 2009 and recently competed in a 150-mile race from the Dead Sea to the Red Sea!
Kiersten Hallquist is spending the summer working as a program manager at the Center on Disability and Community Inclusion at UVM. She gets discounts on outing club boats and invites everyone to come play on Lake Champlain.
Benjamin True won the world-class Boston Athletic Association 5k, finishing in a time of 14:07. He set a new course record by more than 22 seconds!
Leaving behind the corporate world of New York City, Riley End is now the Colorado business development manager for VillageVines (www.villagevines.com), a startup that discreetly gives its members a 30-percent discount at their city’s most popular restaurants. Now living in Denver, Riley enjoys many outdoor activities and competes in the occasional triathlon.
Daniel Cohen, Ling Guo and Meredith Druss write in to say they are currently watching Modern Family on Daniel’s couch in Boston.
Jon Scherr is starting an education nonprofit called Blueprint Schools Network that works with school districts around the country to use evidence-based practices. They are looking for expertise in education, management consulting and public policy, so reach out to Jon if interested!
After three years at Choate J.B. Cholnoky is moving to Jackson Hole to try and make pro ski patrol this coming winter. He says he’ll take all the help he can to land the job.
Andrew Blancero is the manager of the N.Y.C. Compost Project on Staten Island, where he maintains school programs, gardens and composting and is bringing a small-scale organic farm to Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden.
Meeka Droese is engaged to Brandon Charles ’05. They met on a DOC trip, where he was her trip leader! The wedding will likely be next May in Sonoma, California.
Bridget Alex is still getting married at Bates. Date TBA, man TBA, location announced.
Maryanna Brown has thrown away her LSAT prep book and devoted her life to science and becoming a nutritional epidemiologist. Or Oprah’s nutrition guru. She might even author the next Skinny Bitch.
On a recent trip to New York Adria Buchanan met up with Erica Jones, Lena Martinez-Watts, Abe Holland, Liz Sherman and Josh Wexler to bring some West Coast love after the cold winter. Adria also watched Ian Tapu and his dance troupe from Hawaii win the 2011 World of Dance Hip Hop Competition in Los Angeles!
I am spending the summer working with coffee farmers in Rwanda to assess demand for mobile payments and training. If you are near Kigali, give me a shout!
—Yasmin Mandviwala, 6 Nollet Drive, Andover MA, 01810; yasminm@gmail.com
