Class Note 2008
Greetings, ’08s!
You guys love to roam ’round the girdled earth, don’t you? We have a lot of people making big moves and starting exciting chapters of their lives.
Maura Pennington moved from D.C. to Philadelphia, where she is a reporter. She had her television debut on a journalists’ roundtable on PCN, the CSPAN of Pennsylvania.
Anton Kunayev still works in Kazakh agribusiness and is based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. This summer he will be traveling with Jon Silverthorne and Helen Gurina to Georgia (the country) en route to the wedding of Alexandra Prokhorova ’09.
Dave Glovsky will spend the summer doing research in Portugal and Senegal.
Daria Red Earth has embraced her M.A. in economics and moved to Doha, Qatar. If there are any alums living in or visiting the gulf region, she would love to link up.
Laura Cherka and Mike Trapp have moved from New York to Los Angeles. Mike is writing and acting in videos for CollegeHumor, and Laura is working as a freelance book copyeditor, proofreader, and project manager. They’re excited to connect with other Dartmouth folks in the L.A. area.
Anna Thompson is moving to Philadelphia in August to start business school at Wharton and would love to see ’08s in the area.
We have a lot of new doctors! Kristen Limbach is “finally graduating from med school and will be starting my residency in general surgery at Oregon Health and Sciences in Portland, Oregon, this July.” Liz Embick will be starting her residency in general surgery in Grand Rapids, Michigan, this summer. Matt Mackey matched in family medicine at Group Health Cooperative in Seattle. He is looking forward to hanging out with J. Watson Sallay and other friends. He tells me that Mike Holmes is out there for anesthesia at the University of Washington and he got engaged to Laura Kehrl last year!
Dr. Marc Lajoie finished his Ph.D. and is now on the market for postdoctoral research positions. He can make bacteria glow green when irradiated under a blue light, which might be the coolest thing on anyone’s resume.
Laura Reyes has successfully defended her dissertation proposal and has advanced to Ph.D. candidacy. She is currently studying evolutionary neuroscience in the hominid paleobiology program at George Washington University.
Professor Owen Zidar will be moving to Chicago in June to be an assistant professor of economics at University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Sara del Nido will be starting a job this June as a clinical fellow at Harvard Law School, where she will be researching negotiation and conflict management and working as the supervising attorney for student organizations in those areas.
Jonathan Scherr is wrapping up his first year of a three-year joint-degree program between Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. This summer he will be splitting his time between Zurich and Washington, D.C.
Dexter Mackie is finally getting his math education startup, Algebrility, off the ground. His goal is to educate the world, and make all his students apply to Dartmouth.
In a move that will shock few, Travis Green and Tyler Frisbee got engaged in December! Travis is still working at Google and Tyler left her job on Capitol Hill and is now the policy director for the San Francisco Bike Coalition.
Joe Hanley and Liz Zagare got engaged at 21 Club during Easter weekend. Craig Breslawski, Stu Reid, Chris Laakko ’06, Clea Barnett and Paul Bousquet were there to witness the big event. Not to be outdone, Paul proposed to Rebekah Diamond soon after.
Congratulations to you all on these big milestones. But no matter where you roam, remember that the granite of New Hampshire is part of you ’til death.
—Jon Hopper, 1590 2nd Ave., Apt. 5FN, New York City, NY 10028; (203) 539-1225; jonathan.r.hopper.08@dartmouth.edu
