Class Note 2009
Greetings, classmates! I received a lot of updates, so let’s jump right in!
Chris Koppel and Carolyn Rippe ’10 are engaged! They hope to marry in Hanover when Chris returns from his deployment to Afghanistan as a battery executive officer.
Andy Reynolds is engaged to Valerie Hutchins! They will be married in Washington, D.C., in May of 2014.
Diep Pham is currently a reporter for Bloomberg News in Vietnam. She got married last November and was happy to have Haoxiang Cai, Hing Cheng, Gaby Davila, Paopao Vissuta Jiwariyavej, Phyllis Luk, Melinda Wilson attend her wedding.
Jeffrey Wiltsey is on his second deployment to Afghanistan. Thank you, Jeff! Stay safe over there.
Laura Sayler is finishing her 2L at Cardozo and will be working as a summer associate at Hogan Lovells in N.Y.C.
Cassandra Rendon has been admitted to the Geisel School of Medicine class of 2017!
Emily Esfahani Smith is working as a journalist in N.Y.C. and finishing up a master’s in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Scott Decker changed careers from an engineer to a software developer. “I’m working for a company in Dallas and we’re looking for developers! And we got a golden retriever puppy named Oliver!”
Ry Sullivan, Thomas Donahoe, Greg Rolfes and Ruslan Tovbulatov all ran in the Nashville Country Music Marathon on Saturday, April 26!
Quinton Klabon is “making my way through the thrilling, satisfying world of education reform. I hope the children I’m helping will find their ways to Dartmouth someday.”
Josh Jacobson says, “I graduated from a Berlin-based startup accelerator and just moved to N.Y.C. to live with Molson Hart. Everyone should join ItsPlatonic.com when we launch this summer.”
Nikhil Jain is “loving Boston now that it’s spring. Just passed my first wine exam—it’s sommelier time!”
Aimee Lin is currently a high school teacher in northern Virginia. She is going to Ghana this summer to learn about global education issues. She remains “forever thankful for the Lone Pine above her and the loyal ones who love her!”
Kathleen Farley is moving to Brooklyn, New York, to teach at a charter school in Bedford Stuyvesant.
Emily Eberle says, “After almost four years in San Francisco, I’ve relocated to Seattle to be closer to family. Ping me if you’re in the area!”
Jesse Victor will be heading to Muscat, Oman, in June for his two-year assignment with the State Department, and he’d love to get in touch with anyone in the area.
Fiona Murguia finished classes at NYU Tisch’s grad film program last May and is writing her thesis, which she hopes to direct in summer 2014.
Brian Flood graduated from Duke Law and is starting work as a legal analyst for the International Trade Reporter at Bloomberg BNA.
Whitney Odden is traveling to Nairobi, Kenya, this summer to work on a development project for gui2de, the Georgetown University initiative on innovation, development and evaluation.
Diana Dinescu says, “I’m going to France this summer for a conference in Marseille, but first I’ll stop in Paris to see Amaury Boscio and Fiona Murguia!”
Molly Roy is working at the U.S. Department of Energy, playing frisbee and getting her master’s of science in energy policy and climate at Johns Hopkins.
Michael Bamberger quit his job and is now running a digital media services company in Manhattan.
Anthony Guzman is a third-year medical student at UPenn. He is living in Philadelphia with his girlfriend Emily Watson, a third-year dental student at UPenn.
Nathan Empsall was just promoted to senior digital strategist at the Sierra Club in Washington, D.C.!
That’s all for now. Class of ’09 love!
—Peter Rothbard, 2490 Purdue Ave., #7, Los Angeles, CA 90064; (407) 421-4676; peter.s.rothbard.09@alum.dartmouth.org
