Hi, everyone! I’m back from two-plus years in Senegal, West Africa, with the Peace Corps, and was so glad to hear from many of you.


Ben True finished 12th at the U.S. Olympic Trials in the 10,000-meter run.


Trak Lord is in San Francisco working in high-tech computer vision software. Whitney Norton started a new job as a marketing and communications specialist in Manhattan Beach, California. Glavy Cruz is starting a doctorate in clinical psychology at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology.


Amanda Webb was at Annie Stanley’s bachelorette party in Chicago with Monica Martin de Bustamante and Carolyn Wendell. Amanda is an assistant coach with the women’s soccer team at Bucknell University.


Shamis Mohamud is working at the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. Simon Trabelsi was laid off the first week of June, and “now I’m leaving the country for a while to go be a rap star.”


Chuck Flynn married A. Emma Regev in June with 16 or so Dartmouth alums in attendance. Emma’s maid of honor was Veronica de Zayas. Marc Lajoie married Kimberly Rocio in late June. Diane Ellis married Paul Scalisi August 4. Evan Carlson married Anna Bekker ’09 in May.


Irena Tzekina married Nedko Kyuchukov ’07 in Bulgaria. Tess Reeder was a bridesmaid. Meeka Droese Charles married Brandon Charles ’05 in Sonoma, California, with roughly 35 Dartmouth alums in attendance. Cher Zhao, Kate Wooler and Bridget Alex were bridesmaids.


Ciara Barr is engaged to Zack Foda ’09. Ren Chen got engaged this past March to Jen Chiang.


Lizz (Sigler) Schaefer moved to the Catskills, New York, and is a partner in a produce/beef farm with her husband. They were named the Young Farmers of the Year in New York. She notes, “I also just had a baby a month ago.” Joshua Kernoff moved with his wife, Kathryn Kernoff ’07, to Burlington, Vermont, where he works for Vermont Teddy Bear.


Ben Davis is “returning to the Hanover Plain” to start at Tuck this fall. Alex Tarzy is starting Stanford Business School this September.


Elise Braunschweig got a Reynolds Scholarship to do an M.Sc. in public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Lizzie Krasner is taking a break from getting her M. Arch. at the University of Toronto to work on a project for the Venice Biennale.


Anton Kunayev graduated from a master’s program at Harvard and will be moving to Almaty, Kazakhstan. Anna Stone graduated with an M.A. in international affairs from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and is moving to Tel Aviv to work at a small business fund.


Brett Lowe graduated from law school at the University of Virginia and will be working for a firm in Washington, D.C. Haley Bolin graduated top of her class at UPenn Law School. Andrew Kim graduated from Medical School at SUNY Downstate and started his family medicine residency in Memphis, Tennessee.


Lena Martinez-Watts spent the summer working in Honolulu for the Native Hawaiian Legal Corp. before finishing her last year of law school. Brooks H. Smith graduated from the M.S.C.E. program at UMass-Amherst and is a forensic structural engineer in N.Y.C.


On a more social note, Charlie Volanakis reports that 13 people recently made it to the Raicek compound in Stowe, Vermont (Charlie, Doug Raicek, Dave Villagra, Brian Wang, Rich Denton, Ben O’Donnell, Rob Friedman, Pat Delgado, C.J. Ryan, Zack Chestnut, Kendrick Li, Andrew Kempler and Dan Duray).


Jon Hopper sent me an update name-dropping himself, Ashley Mas, Charlie Stoebe, Dave Lamb, Dana Cushing, Bryan Siegel and Devin Fallon. One of them got fake married in N.Y.C., but Jon wouldn’t tell me who.


—David Glovsky, 10 Rowes Wharf, Unit 901, Boston, MA 02110; dglovsky@gmail.com