Class Note 2008
I have many updates from around the world so here goes!
With fall in full swing many ’08s are attending school. Katherine Scovner is in the class of 2014 at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. Theresa Yang is starting at Albany Medical College and reports that being unemployed feels awesome! Dunia Rkein has started as a ’13 at Cornell Law and Katherine Gorman is having a great time at Columbia Law with Hallie Damon and Rachel Tishler. Sara Ludin started a Ph.D. program in jurisprudence and social policy at UC Berkeley. Evan Meyerson is delaying his inevitable return to New York for three more years while attending law school at Harvard. Claire Dunning is also starting at Harvard, getting her Ph.D. in American history.
Several ’08s are starting school after having spent some time in Africa. After spending two years working in Rwanda, the Congo and Ghana, Rachel Strohm is getting her M.A. in international relations at Johns Hopkins. Eric McFeely is starting at Columbia Medical School after working at a Rwandan NGO with Zack Scott and Lauren Penneys. While in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Benjamin Jastrzembski and Ben Robbins learned that they will be attending Harvard Medical School this fall, along with six Dartmouth alumni! Zak Kaufman is leaving South Africa to study epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on a Marshall Scholarship.
Dave Glovsky, still in Africa, has “creeping eruption.” Yikes.
Fueled primarily by Coca-Cola and buffalo jerky Alix Toothman and Lindsey Wolf completed a tour of six western National Parks, meeting moose and bears, stargazing and scaling canyon cliffs. Alix had just spent two months in southeast Asia and Australia (austrolasianadventure.wordpress.com). She is beginning a WPP Group fellowship at the Futures Co. in New York. Lindsey is starting as a volunteer coordinator for the Boys and Girls Club in Austin through AmeriCorps VISTA.
Daniel Dittrick just returned from England with an M.A. in conflict resolution from the University of Bradford department of peace studies. He adds, “Did I hear that the average job hunt is taking nine months? Sweet.” Don’t fret, Dartmouth grads are finding cool jobs. Andrew Blancero is the new manager of the N.Y.C. compost project on Staten Island at Snug Harbor. Owen Zidar spent the summer working at the White House and will stay on for a year as a staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisors, focusing on housing and tax reform, before returning to Berkeley. Joe Cavanaugh tells us that Thad Olchowski has founded the Diesel Dream Team, which will drive across the country promoting awareness of clean diesel. They’re in discussions with the Speed Channel to film an online documentary. Apparently they’re identifiable by matching cars and black satin jackets.
Under the leadership of Charles Stoebe and David Lamb, a group of ’08s, including Bryan Siegel, Devin Fallon, Dana Cushing, Ashley Mas and Jon Hopper, has assembled an unstoppable kickball team that reigns champion in New York City. In true Dartmouth form they’ve won the coveted bar championship for three seasons. One champion, Devin Fallon, recently married his high school sweetheart, Elizabeth Davis!
Jenna Sherman, Stephanie Zamorano, Alexandra Mesa and I recently visited Sheila Dunning on Cape Cod to celebrate Jenna’s birthday and Sheila’s return from three months in Cambodia!
I am currently last-minute packing for my move to Hyderabad, India. I’ll be spending the next eight months working within the energy portfolio of Acumen Fund, traveling and having adventures. Let me know if you are ever in the area and, of course, send any updates my way!
—Yasmin Mandviwala, 6 Nollet Drive, Andover MA, 01810; yasminm@gmail.com
