Class Note 2008

Hi, everyone! Time for another update! Tomi Jun is back at Dartmouth finishing his senior year with the ’10s and putting out new Pinces & Phillips comics at pincesandphillips.com. Chuck Flynn reports that Mike Giovacchini is playing basketball in Iceland and is tearing it up, and though the link he sent me to Mike’s stats is in Icelandic, it looks impressive nonetheless.


Cher Zhao began her first year this fall at the University of Michigan medical school and Meg Whicker started medical school at Yale. Lindsay Leone began law school at Boston University. Veronica de Zayas is in her second year of law school at Notre Dame and is spending the year studying in London. Nick Ortiz transferred to Columbia Law School, where he is in his second year. He will also be in Miami this summer.


Adam Levine got his master’s in art history and has started his Ph.D. at Oxford. He has also started an art finance company, Art Research Technologies. Laura Rodriguez just finished her master’s in international relations and is working as an asset analyst in Miami.


Emily Frank lives in Berkeley and teaches seventh-grade life science with Teach for America in Vallejo, California. Frances Kalich has started a teaching program in Louisiana and is enjoying her time in the South. Chad Detloff is teaching Spanish to grades nine through 12 at the Chadwick School and living in Venice, California. He would love to connect with any other Dartmouth alums in L.A.


Kristin Li, Kristen Limbach, Jamie Wallace, Sarah Shaw, Sarah Stern and Kelly Cockerill all flew out to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to attend Annette Sacks’ wedding to Tom Richard. Sarah and Kelly stayed with Sheila Dunning, who is at Michigan Law School.


Sarah Stern saw Becca Auritt and she still looks okay. Jenny Fisher moved to Boston. Emerson Curry is continuing his education by taking driver’s ed classes. Jessie Long has been working with the youth at her church, where she co-directs the youth choir and the youth group and is a mentor to the youth liturgical dance group.


Dana Cushing moved to New York City, where she lives on the Upper East Side with Jon Hopper. Dana works for CUNY and tends bar on the side (Jon says she makes great drinks). Jordana Kier recently started a new job working at New York City Opera in Lincoln Center and says everyone should check out their 2009-10 season at nycopera.com. Corey Chu began a job last month at NBC Universal working as a research analyst for Syfy.


Dexter Mackie is living in Washington, D.C., and working as a technician for a private optometry practice while he continues to research optometry schools. He is also choreographing a dance performance for a new R&B artist. Taylor Kauer has been living in San Francisco since January working for an environmental consulting firm. He vacations frequently in Santa Barbara, California.


Emmett Knox is touring the northeast with his band The Van Burens in support of their debut EP. They will be touring nationally in the spring. Joshua Feder is the assistant director on Band Geeks! for the National Alliance of Musical Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals and is performing in and choreographing Nunsense: Amen! with the BrooklynONE Theater.


—David Glovsky, 18 Old Connecticut Path, Wayland, MA 01778; david.n.glovsky.08@alum.dartmouth.org