Class Note 2008
Issue
Hope you’re all enjoying the summer or whichever season it may be in your neck of the woods. Class of ’08s are hanging out in all corners of the world. James Marlow writes in to say that he is spending the summer in Beirut and then starting a Ph.D. program in evolution and tropical tree ecology in Southeast Asia at Texas Tech in Lubbock and hoping to travel to China as part of the program. Will McMahan is going to Niger in July to serve with the Peace Corps and welcomes any visitors. He also plans to visit Dave Glovsky, who is currently volunteering with the Peace Corps in rural Senegal, spending his time speaking Pulaar, riding his bike, watching the World Cup and occasionally sighting monkeys.
Other ’08s are coming and going from Hanover. Jonathan James just returned to Dartmouth from a two-year break, when he ran a small web design firm, tracked and produced several records and worked on a horror novel, and will, he hopes, be in Hanover straight through fall 2011. Tomi Jun just graduated with the ’10s and will be working at a biology lab at Dartmouth next year. Erica Jones completed her teaching fellowship at the Thacher School, is spending the summer working for Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth in Hanover along with Elliott Dial and Khiet Chhu and is then moving to New York to teach history at the Dalton School.
Speaking of New York, Constantinos Stavrakis writes in to tell us that he has been frequenting the meatpacking district “three sheets to the wind” with Kendrick Li and Harrison Sonntag, but will be attending Rutgers School of Law-Newark this fall along with his good friend Michael Volodarsky. Also on the legal track this fall, Dave Lamb will be starting at Yale Law School.
Valerie Marie Arvidson and Barton McGuire are engaged to be married and are moving to Seattle, where Valerie will be working toward her M.F.A. in creative writing at the University of Washington.
Also pursuing her M.F.A. in creative writing, Meredith Fraser will be starting at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington this fall. In other higher education pursuits, Whitney Waugh is moving to Pittsburgh this August to start at the University of Pittsburgh’s clinical/developmental psychology program.
Nick Ware has launched nickwarehealth.com this March in order to spread good health through fitness, nutrition, and natural health information, and invites all ’08s to check it out and follow on his Facebook site.
That’s all for now, feel free to send any updates my way!
—Yasmin Mandviwala, 6 Nollet Drive, Andover MA, 01810; yasminm@gmail.com
Sept - Oct 2010
Hope you’re all enjoying the summer or whichever season it may be in your neck of the woods. Class of ’08s are hanging out in all corners of the world. James Marlow writes in to say that he is spending the summer in Beirut and then starting a Ph.D. program in evolution and tropical tree ecology in Southeast Asia at Texas Tech in Lubbock and hoping to travel to China as part of the program. Will McMahan is going to Niger in July to serve with the Peace Corps and welcomes any visitors. He also plans to visit Dave Glovsky, who is currently volunteering with the Peace Corps in rural Senegal, spending his time speaking Pulaar, riding his bike, watching the World Cup and occasionally sighting monkeys.
Other ’08s are coming and going from Hanover. Jonathan James just returned to Dartmouth from a two-year break, when he ran a small web design firm, tracked and produced several records and worked on a horror novel, and will, he hopes, be in Hanover straight through fall 2011. Tomi Jun just graduated with the ’10s and will be working at a biology lab at Dartmouth next year. Erica Jones completed her teaching fellowship at the Thacher School, is spending the summer working for Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth in Hanover along with Elliott Dial and Khiet Chhu and is then moving to New York to teach history at the Dalton School.
Speaking of New York, Constantinos Stavrakis writes in to tell us that he has been frequenting the meatpacking district “three sheets to the wind” with Kendrick Li and Harrison Sonntag, but will be attending Rutgers School of Law-Newark this fall along with his good friend Michael Volodarsky. Also on the legal track this fall, Dave Lamb will be starting at Yale Law School.
Valerie Marie Arvidson and Barton McGuire are engaged to be married and are moving to Seattle, where Valerie will be working toward her M.F.A. in creative writing at the University of Washington.
Also pursuing her M.F.A. in creative writing, Meredith Fraser will be starting at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington this fall. In other higher education pursuits, Whitney Waugh is moving to Pittsburgh this August to start at the University of Pittsburgh’s clinical/developmental psychology program.
Nick Ware has launched nickwarehealth.com this March in order to spread good health through fitness, nutrition, and natural health information, and invites all ’08s to check it out and follow on his Facebook site.
That’s all for now, feel free to send any updates my way!
—Yasmin Mandviwala, 6 Nollet Drive, Andover MA, 01810; yasminm@gmail.com