Class Note 2008

Hope everyone has shaken off the winter blues by the time this gets to you!


Congratulations to David Chodounsky, who was named to the 2011 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships team at the end of January!


And another congratulations to Meghan Feely, who was recently awarded the Mayo Clinic Fellows’ Association Humanitarian Award for 2010. She received the award for her work as the founder and chair of Aid for Africa and Asia, which collects textbooks and ships them to medical schools in Third World countries. In the past three years they have sent more than four tons of books to Africa!


Marc Lajoie was just invited to go to Lindau, Germany, to participate in the Nobel laureates’ meeting in physiology and medicine—a meeting in which 20 Nobel laureates meet with a group of graduate students for a week to discuss their science, experiences and thoughts. He says he may be staying in Germany for a few days after the conference is done, so it’d be cool to know if any ’08s are around in the area. Marc also tells us that Kim Rocio was just accepted to the Tufts M.E. program for mechanical engineering!


After living in her home state of Oklahoma for two years working in land conservation and tribal government, Lyndsey Girod writes in to tell us that she has seen very few Dartmouth alums there and is hoping her next move will help! In May she will be starting a master’s program in natural resources and environmental science at the University of Illinois in Urbana. She also says she has developed a crush on the city of Chicago and will be spending a lot of time there, so would love to see ’08s in the area.


Leo Ospina recently started working for Grand Circle Travel and is going to Thailand and Tokyo in April/May!


Thanks to everyone who sent in updates—and as always please send any news my way. We all love to hear what our classmates are up to.


—Yasmin Mandviwala, 6 Nollet Drive, Andover, MA 01810; yasminm@gmail.com