Arjun Chandrasekaran reports that Homecoming was a “bust,” a vague, sickly sweet blur of drunken/hungover nostalgic self-loathing for still being wasted at 4 p.m. for four days straight. This feeling of self-loathing was cured, of course, by more drinking. Lest the old traditions fail, indeed.


In related Homecoming news, Jenny Fisher spotted Zach Mayer fleeing from Safety & Security this weekend down frat row.


In more mature Homecoming news, C.J. Ryan proposed to Virginia Deaton ’09 on the Friday of Homecoming atop the Baker bell tower while the bells played “My Old Kentucky Home” (since Virginia is a Kentucky native). A video of the special moment can be found on the Dartmouth Facebook and YouTube pages. Afterwards, they had a cocktail party attended by tons of Dartmouth friends, including Mike Sloan-Rossiter, Andrew Kempler, Pat Delgado and Rich Denton.C.J. tells us, “It was a fantastic weekend, and Virginia and I just wanted to send our sincere thanks to all those who were able to attend. We definitely missed our friends who couldn’t join us in Hanover, but we hope everyone is doing very well, enjoying and generally dominating life. If anyone finds him or herself in Lexington, or anywhere in the Bluegrass State, especially for the Keeneland meet or Derby, please plan on paying us a visit!”


Another Dartmouth couple was engaged in Hanover as well. Congratulations to Rachel Strohm, who recently got engaged to Andy Shamel ’05 on top of the Gile fire tower!


On July 9 Erike (Sogge) Schneider was married to Kyle Schneider, whom she met while teaching in rural Alaska. Lots of Dartmouth guests were in attendance and Matt Mackey and Emmy Frank led guests in the “Salty Dog Rag.”


Elliot Dial is currently teaching at the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut. Let him know if you are around the area!


Leo Ospina has embarked on a new journey working for Grand Circle Foundation. He is working in Cuba and the United States, leading groups of Americans in a cultural exchange with the passionate and warm Cuban people.


Alix Toothman moved to Singapore in early October for her second rotation of the WPP Fellowship. She will be working at a media agency called Maxus and plans to travel throughout Asia. If anyone is in Singapore or has friends there, let her know—she is on the hunt for friends and travel buddies!


Also far, far away from Dartmouth, James Marlow is living near Hamra Street in Beirut, Lebanon. He is working for Hibr, an activist newspaper published in English and Arabic, and looking for work to keep him in the city in the near future.


Zach Scott and Wheaton Simis report that they have been living in the so-cool secular urbanite dreamland known as Brooklyn, New York, for nearly eight months. Monday through Thursday Zach gallivants around the world with his consulting job and Wheaton waits tables at Balthazar restaurant. On the weekends they play board games in relative silence. 


Matt Siegfried wants everyone to know that Ephraim Froehlich is awful at fantasy football. Thanks, Matt.


As always, send any updates my way!


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