Class Note 2008
You know what they say, ’08s, “Fall is a time of romance and change.” Okay, they don’t say that, but they should, because that’s what’s happening. Be it wedding, a move or a career switch, we’ve got some major life changes happening around our class.
Michelle Wilson (nee Gladstone) hit all three. She just graduated with her master’s in business and leadership, married her best friend and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Not surprisingly, Simon Trabelsi is surrounded by love. In July he was the best man when Johnathan Ball married Sherry Marrs ’07. Shortly thereafter his frat brother Kelvin Quezada proposed to his girlfriend Austin Willis.
Call our future doctor classmates cardiologists, because they have messages related to the heart. Matt Mackey, starting his final year at Dartmouth Med School, tells us that Pete “Socks” Bonanno just got married to Angie “Snitch” Xiong, whom he met while playing Ultimate as an undergrad. And Sindhura Kodali just graduated from the Harvard School of Public Health, is finishing up her final year of medical school and sends congratulations to Erin Leavitt on her engagement to Nick Tackett.
Who else is still working on their studies? Jessica Long is starting at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester. Julia Hecht is moving to Chicago this week to start business school at Kellogg (Northwestern) with Alex Cushman and Jake Pawlowski. Adria Buchanan just moved from L.A. to get her master’s in urban affairs and public policy at the University of Delaware. Come visit!
Others are wrapping up their studies. Katherine Gorman just graduated from Columbia Law, Sarah Stern from Tuck (and now off to San Francisco as a consultant at Bain & Co.) and Vanea Morrell passed the bar. Congrats!
We’ve got a long list of classmates making career changes. David Jones was traded from the Colorado Avalanche to the Calgary Flames. Kelsey Noonan just returned from five years working in international development in luxurious locales such as Afghanistan and central Africa and is now a consultant with SwitchPoint LLC working with the strategy team at the Gates Foundation in Seattle.
Joshua M. Feder just spent his sixth summer at the New London Barn Playhouse up in New Hampshire and is looking forward to being back in Hanover this fall to direct Cymbeline at Hanover High School. Still based out of N.Y.C., Josh tends to be getting most of his directing work back in the Dartmouth area.
Joshua Kernoff recently started as associate product manager for the innovation group at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. Kiersten Hallquist scored a new job—administrative assistant of student affairs in the office of medical education at the University of Vermont’s College of Medicine. Yikes, what a mouthful! Wonder what the business card might look like.
Josh Turnbull gave up his adult dream of writing (for now) to follow through on his childhood dream of running—and owning—the family business. Turnbull, the manager of Bull’s Tavern, Ligonier, Pennsylvania, is in the process of purchasing the 33-year-old business from his father, becoming the third-generation “Bull,” and is renovating the attic into a studio-living space. Visitors welcome, as B.G. says: “Refresh, enjoy and travel on.”
Thanks for sharing all the great news. Keep staying in touch!
—David Glovsky, 10 Rowes Wharf, Unit 901, Boston, MA 02110; dglovsky@gmail.com
