Class Note 2009
Greetings, fellow classmates! You know what’s the coolest part about writing this column? There’s a six-week delay between my submitting it and your reading it. Now this might sound a little frustrating at first. For instance, what if I write about Joe Somebody getting a job at a bank, but said financial institution goes up in smoke by the time you actually get to read about poor Joe? Well, those things are bound to happen, but there’s an obvious upside to the whole ordeal that didn’t occur to me until just now…I’m writing a letter to the future! You, my dear readers, are just like Sandra Bullock in the seminal classic The Lake House and I am your Keanu Reeves. Now, if you can just figure out how to send me a letter backwards in time (please include stock tips), we can commence our epistolary romance. In the meantime, here are a few updates from your classmates around the globe—all of which were true at some point in the past.
Kaili Lambe was elected president of the New Hampshire Young Democrats and was hired as a political campaign manager at Democracy for America. Double whammy!
Christopher Brouwer was transferred to Bain’s office in Sydney, Australia, for six months and hopes to pick up surfing. I’m more than a little jealous.
Brian Flood will be working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s office of civil rights and civil liberties this summer. Sweet!
Scott Decker and his lovely wife will be moving to Washington, D.C., where he will be working for MITRE. As he puts it, “I plan on turning into a Virginia redneck, buying a bunch of flannel and shooting squirrels for dinner…all while redesigning our nation’s airspace.” This might sound offensive, until you realize that Scott’s just being honest.
Zeke Turner got a job as a financial reporter with The New York Observer, which puts him somewhere between Lois Lane and Harriet the Spy.
Speaking of journalism, Andrew Lebovich recently coauthored a piece in Foreign Policy online with colleagues Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann titled, “How Many Gitmo Alumni Take Up Arms? Not as many as the Department of Defense is claiming.” Look it up on foreignpolicy.com!
Katie Silberman, who is currently in her second year of film school at Columbia, landed a job as a writing intern on a new NBC pilot called Smash, produced by Steven Spielberg—all of which means she’s that much closer to figuring out how to clone dinosaurs.
That’s all for now, folks. As always, send me your updates at the address below. And enjoy living in the future, you lucky ducks! If it’s anything like I imagine, the 4G satellite has become self-aware and we’re all being hunted down by smart phones. Class of ’09 love!
—Peter Rothbard, 412 W 129th St., Apt. #16, New York City, NY 10027; (407) 421-4676; peter.s.rothbard.09@alum.dartmouth.org
