Class Note 2008
Hi everyone! Thanks so much for all your updates since I returned back to the United States. Can’t wait to see all of you at our reunion, June 14-16. Save the date!!
Megan Strout got married October 6 in St. Louis, Missouri, to Ryan Maher. They had a ton of Dartmouth alums at the event, ranging from ’05s to ’10s. She would love to update everyone on her new name, Megan Maher!
Will (Ryan) Eden reports major updates. Will says, “I decided to settle down and have kids at the end of last year. I got married to Divia Melwani, Harvard ’06, on May 27 in the beautiful Tilden Regional Park in Berkeley, California. During the ceremony we both changed our last name to Eden (formerly Ryan). Then just two weeks ago on October 10, our daughter Lydia Ariadne Eden was born.”
Nicole (Newman) Kessler also has a name change following her wedding to Craig Kessler in August in San Diego. Class of ’08s in attendance were bridesmaids Sarah Isbey and Jacquelyn Crane, as well as Elizabeth Dupuy, Elizabeth Wegener and Jaime LaFauci.
A confidential source writes, “Nora Ward is engaged! She and her wonderful fiancé, Brian, met one year ago in N.Y.C. and it wasn’t long before they fell in love. Nora, who thought Brian was traveling for the weekend, was surprised by a scavenger hunt that Brian had prepared for her, which included clues and photos highlighting memories of their year together. They are in the midst of planning their wedding, next summer at Nora’s childhood church in Syracuse, New York.”
Leo Gong just joined Dropbox in San Francisco, California, working in the business operations team. He says they are looking to hire! Julia Jacobsen is living the dream in San Diego, working at High Tech Elementary teaching fourth grade. Riley End co-founded a company with Cameron Houser ’07 called Given Goods Co. (givengoods.co/), based in Boulder, Colorado. Riley reports, “Given Goods connects products that give back with consumers who care. We aggregate products from socially responsible brands that have a charitable give back as part of their company DNA.” They officially launched November 12, so check out their website!
Owen Zidar recently wrote a piece on The New York Times “Economix” blog using his own research on the effects of tax cuts for different income groups to criticize Mitt Romney’s tax plan in terms of its likely impact on job creation. Josh Feder is back in New York City, developing a new play and a new musical for future production.
Rose Mutiso is in the final year of a Ph.D. program in materials science and engineering at UPenn. During a conference to London this summer she got to hang out with Roxana Mirica and Alex Leonard ’07, who “are quite the Brits these days.” She also gets to see fellow Philadelphian Pam Phojanakong quite regularly and is very excited to be visiting Lahore, Pakistan, this December to attend the wedding of Aneesa Agha.
Andrew Berry just started a Ph.D. program in human-centered design and engineering at the University of Washington. Matt McKeon is in Missoula, Montana, starting his second year of law school. Contrary to popular belief, he has yet to make friends with salad.
Bridget Alex is in the fourth year of her Ph.D. program at Harvard. She is now living with undergrads as a “house tutor” and constantly pitying them for having not gone to Dartmouth. Daewoong “Dillon” Lee is in his third year of medical school at Columbia and reports he’s “lucky enough to be a member of the Columbia-Bassett track.”
That’s all for now. Until next time!
—David Glovsky, 10 Rowes Wharf, Unit 901, Boston, MA 02110; dglovsky@gmail.com
