Class Note 2008
Issue
Sept - Oct 2015
Hi, ’08s! I hope the summer treated you well. Here are some updates from your classmates.
Joe Hanley, Dana Cushing and Ben Davis are each having a wedding on the same day this August. Surprisingly, it’s not August 8 (08/08), which would have been an even better coincidence.
Chelsea Jia moved back home to the USA after five years of living the good expat life. Dan Weisman is opening a menswear retail store in SoHo, New York City. He would love to connect with fellow ’08s who have worked in menswear or retail. Bud Simis is living in N.Y.C., where he is currently writing and videotaping for BarkPost.com. Offices are on Canal Street, so if any alums want to share pro tips over $3 Chinese he knows a few spots!
This summer Kiersten Hallquist is spending some of her precious free time promoting CarShareVT, as a member of a 10-person #LetsShareVT team; plotting fun adventures across the Northeast with her Marshallese dog, Poki! Follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram! #shamelessplug
Adria Buchanan just graduated from her master’s program in urban affairs and public policy at the University of Delaware. She is now an independent consultant and has started a company to help governments and other agencies engage stakeholders in community development. She also had a girls weekend in Austin, Texas, with Zainep Mahmoud, Denise Abeita, Uma Ramaswamy and Lena Martinez-Watts.
Jenny (Croteau) Deren and her husband, Matt, welcomed a baby boy, Mark, on April 30. She’s home with Mark for the summer and in September she will start a new job as a visiting assistant professor of English at Providence College.
Jessica Long writes in to tell us that Michele Smith-Hattan will be starting school soon in Tennessee, Louisa Thompson Olushoga will start a residency in Chicago and RuDee Lipscomb came to stop and stay “at the house by the side of the road in the City of Sin.” This year Jessica has embarked on clinical rotations. “It’s been a great time thus far!”
Irena Kyuchukova sends greetings from London and gives thanks to Ashia Sheikh for giving her a shout when she visited for a few days. She hopes others will say hi when they’re jumping across the pond!
Anastasia Kendrick-Adey received her M.D. from the Weill Cornell Medical College and is now starting her emergency medicine residency at the University of Washington in Seattle. Annette Richard is graduating with her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Eastern Michigan University and starting a postdoc in pediatric neuropsychology at the University of Michigan Health System in September.
Erica Jones started graduate school this June for a master’s in private school leadership from Columbia. She also vacationed to Trinidad and Tobago for her birthday earlier this month with a bunch of friends, including a big crew of ’08s: Laura Assis, Jackie Benson, Sheila Dunning, Schuyler Mapp-Williams, Jenna Sherman, Anne Stava-Murray and Stephanie Zamorano.
Simon Trabelsi has been using all his personal time off going back and forth to Sweden to work on new music and perform with his group, Blänk. The album they released in March was well received so he’s finally back in creative mode. He also recently saw Essien Ukanna for the first time since graduation, since he now lives in Atlanta.
Keep up the great work!
—Jon Hopper, 51 Astor Place, 9th Floor, New York City, NY 10003; (203) 539-1225; jonathan.r.hopper.08@dartmouth.edu
Joe Hanley, Dana Cushing and Ben Davis are each having a wedding on the same day this August. Surprisingly, it’s not August 8 (08/08), which would have been an even better coincidence.
Chelsea Jia moved back home to the USA after five years of living the good expat life. Dan Weisman is opening a menswear retail store in SoHo, New York City. He would love to connect with fellow ’08s who have worked in menswear or retail. Bud Simis is living in N.Y.C., where he is currently writing and videotaping for BarkPost.com. Offices are on Canal Street, so if any alums want to share pro tips over $3 Chinese he knows a few spots!
This summer Kiersten Hallquist is spending some of her precious free time promoting CarShareVT, as a member of a 10-person #LetsShareVT team; plotting fun adventures across the Northeast with her Marshallese dog, Poki! Follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram! #shamelessplug
Adria Buchanan just graduated from her master’s program in urban affairs and public policy at the University of Delaware. She is now an independent consultant and has started a company to help governments and other agencies engage stakeholders in community development. She also had a girls weekend in Austin, Texas, with Zainep Mahmoud, Denise Abeita, Uma Ramaswamy and Lena Martinez-Watts.
Jenny (Croteau) Deren and her husband, Matt, welcomed a baby boy, Mark, on April 30. She’s home with Mark for the summer and in September she will start a new job as a visiting assistant professor of English at Providence College.
Jessica Long writes in to tell us that Michele Smith-Hattan will be starting school soon in Tennessee, Louisa Thompson Olushoga will start a residency in Chicago and RuDee Lipscomb came to stop and stay “at the house by the side of the road in the City of Sin.” This year Jessica has embarked on clinical rotations. “It’s been a great time thus far!”
Irena Kyuchukova sends greetings from London and gives thanks to Ashia Sheikh for giving her a shout when she visited for a few days. She hopes others will say hi when they’re jumping across the pond!
Anastasia Kendrick-Adey received her M.D. from the Weill Cornell Medical College and is now starting her emergency medicine residency at the University of Washington in Seattle. Annette Richard is graduating with her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Eastern Michigan University and starting a postdoc in pediatric neuropsychology at the University of Michigan Health System in September.
Erica Jones started graduate school this June for a master’s in private school leadership from Columbia. She also vacationed to Trinidad and Tobago for her birthday earlier this month with a bunch of friends, including a big crew of ’08s: Laura Assis, Jackie Benson, Sheila Dunning, Schuyler Mapp-Williams, Jenna Sherman, Anne Stava-Murray and Stephanie Zamorano.
Simon Trabelsi has been using all his personal time off going back and forth to Sweden to work on new music and perform with his group, Blänk. The album they released in March was well received so he’s finally back in creative mode. He also recently saw Essien Ukanna for the first time since graduation, since he now lives in Atlanta.
Keep up the great work!
—Jon Hopper, 51 Astor Place, 9th Floor, New York City, NY 10003; (203) 539-1225; jonathan.r.hopper.08@dartmouth.edu