Spring is here! At least, once you’re reading this it will be. As I write, I’m staring at a giant pile of snow and regretting that I didn’t move to Key West, Florida, after graduation. But the snow hasn’t stopped our class! If you’re half as productive in warm weather as you are in cold, I can’t wait to see the next Class Notes.


Julianne Mifflin Austin and her husband welcomed their daughter, Grace Mifflin Austin, this February. Congratulations to the new parents!


Maura Pennington is in Philly where she spends her nights and weekends writing and performing with a sketch comedy team that recently won a competition. Nickelodeon’s Pete & Pete were judges. Unfortunately, the prize was not a Casio keyboard.


Caroline Lee and Tiger Huang got married.


Rena Fried and Vivian Chung ’07 are getting married on May 30.


Scott Muir celebrated the completion of his comprehensive exams for a religious studies doctorate at Duke this March and immediately went to Tahoe, California, for a ski reunion with some ’07 Bones Gates brothers. Last fall he married Sarah Brittingham at Camp Rockmont, his old summer camp just outside Asheville, North Carolina. Emmett Knox and his band, the Van Burens, threw down for a marathon dance party. 


Ephraim Froehlich was hired to the personal office staff of Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) in Washington, D.C.


Michael Kreicher and Mike Belinsky were named to Forbes’s 30 Under 30 list for their accomplishments in finance at Morgan Stanley and social entrepreneurship founding Instiglio, respectfully. 


Anna Stork killed it on Shark Tank while pitching her company LuminAID. After receiving offers from all five sharks, Anna decided to partner with Mark Cuban. Go, Mavericks!


Zack Dorner went to sea for five weeks studying maritime trade interactions for his Ph.D. program. Craig Breslawski saw him in N.Y.C. before he set sail.


Corinne Headley writes in from a beach in New Zealand as she got married to her husband, Ryan, at Cape Rienga and stayed in New Zealand for the honeymoon. They successfully hiked the first half of the Te Araroa trail (about 1,800 kilometers) and took some beach time before heading back stateside. They’re thrilled they’ve missed so much of the winter snow.


Kara Pydynkowski will be graduating from MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations M.B.A.-M.S. program and heading out to Portland, Oregon, to work for Nike. If you’re an ’08 in the area, hit her up!


Krystal Elkins writes in from Sydney, Australia, where it is currently summer in January. She lives near Bondi Beach, where her only worries are unfiltered sun rays (no ozone) and sharks. She recently joined a rugby team, the Waverley Warriors, and hopes to get her visa extended. If anyone is down and around, she says, “look me up and we can hang out at the beach.” 


Matt Mackey writes in from Seattle, where he is doing his family medicine residency—in the same place Mike Holmes is practicing anesthesia. Matt recently got dinner with Watson Sallay and Lydia Islan, who are also Seattle locals. Climate change has been giving Seattle an incredibly pleasant winter.


While receiving her M.F.A. from the Art Center of Design in Los Angeles, Margo Dunlap’s graphic design was chosen by her home state of Vermont’s Renaissance Faire and Festival Council to appear in its 2015 marketing collateral. A nonpareil achievement, fair maiden!


Until next time!


—Jon Hopper, 51 Astor Place, 9th Floor, New York City, NY 10003; (203) 539-1225; jonathan.r.hopper.08@dartmouth.edu