Class Note 2008
The fall brings us tons of ’08 news!
Elizabeth Silvey and Tom Healey were married in June. Class of ’08s in attendance included Victoria Fener and Julia Schwartz as bridesmaids; Adam Chmelynski, Eric Crawford, John Mitchell and Jamie Wallace as groomsmen; and many othersthere to celebrate. Congratulations!
Timothy Chingos is happily married to Jillian (Hamma) Chingos ’09, and they’ve begun renovations on their new home in Half Moon Bay, California.
Congratulations to Marc Lajoie and Kim Rocio, who got engaged in July!
Anastasia Kendrick-Adey will be attending Weill Cornell Medical College. She spent the summer traveling through Europe with Elizabeth Lane.
After two years in Berlin and one in Brooklyn Samantha Fox is moving uptown to start a Ph.D. in anthropology at Columbia.
Meli Garber is starting a master’s in public health program in sexuality and health at Columbia.
Zach Nass is nearby, starting at Columbia Business School.
After a year and a half in D.C. Owen Zidar is back in Berkeley, California, to finish his last year of coursework and work on research on the Great Recession with Atif Mian.
Lauren Bennett is transferring to Penn Law from UMiami Law this fall.
Craig Lee is beginning a Ph.D. program in art history at the University of Delaware in Newark. For anyone who needs a stopover on I-95, it’s halfway between D.C. and N.Y.C.!
Laura Reyes started a Ph.D. program in hominid paleobiology at George Washington University.
Tim Shen just started at the Ohio State University College of Medicine.
Sindhura Kodali is in her third year of medical school at UMichigan and recently started interning for the Groundswell Movement: A Multifaith Initiative for Social Justice Leading up to 9/11.
Glavielinys Cruz is beginning her second year at Harvard’s clinical psychology master’s program and is also working as the alternative medicine program coordinator at the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, where she gets to witness hypnosis and remove needles from acupuncture patients!
Mitalee Patil’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, home has been torn asunder as Mandy Dauten starts medical school at University of Vermont, Montpelier, Becca Auritt moves to Philadelphia to teach, and Emily Weisburst starts a Ph.D. program at the University of Texas, Austin, leaving Mitalee at her third year clinical rotations at Harvard Medical School.
Ilissa Samplin graduated from Stanford Law School and will be working in litigation at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and then clerking for the Honorable Joseph F. Bianco in New York.
Emi Ito tells us that Nick Ortiz graduated from Columbia Law School and will be working for federal judge Gabriel Gorenstein in New York. Emi will be working at Adduci, Mastriani, & Schaumberg, LLP, doing international trade and intellectual property litigation.
Jennifer Lopez recently cofounded Culture Kitchen, a company that shares culture through food, and invites you to check it out on Facebook!
After spending two weeks petting wallabies and re-enacting The Lord of the Rings through Australia and New Zealand, Laura Little is starting a new job at Grove Street Advisors in Boston.
Dana Cushing is starting an internship at the Guggenheim in September.
James Marlow is moving to Beirut to volunteer at Hibr, a civil society newspaper, and plans to stay in the area for the near future.
Leo Gong recently transferred to San Francisco with Bain. He visited Dartmouth for Green Key and reports that nobody rages anymore. Leo is starting a social-event planning company and is open to talking to any ’08 software engineers who are interested!
Lydia Islan is moving to Seattle next month and would love to get in contact with anyone there.
As always, send any updates my way!
—Yasmin Mandviwala, 6 Nollet Drive, Andover, MA, 01810; yasminm@gmail.com
