Well, kids, it’s been three years since we flew the coop. Tempus sure does fugit, huh? It feels like only yesterday I was grappling with a wicked hangover and stumbling toward a tree-trunk podium to endure the formidable handshake of James Wright, who, in my half-asleep state, resembled a gigantic Willy Wonka handing me a golden ticket to the future. So far the only thing I’ve done with my golden ticket is check to see if there was a chocolate bar inside (there was not) and mount it on my wall, but our fellow classmates seem to be putting their degrees to better use.


Brent Wesley Drummond is working in Senegal with the Peace Corps as an agroforestry extension agent and serves on the board of Peace Corps Gender and Development Organization as the fundraising coordinator. Brent writes, “There’s a small contingent of Dartmouth alums here. I’ve hung out with Dave Glovsky ’08 and Jessica Chervin ’07.” If anyone visits Senegal let him know!


Lauren Foster got engaged to Brad Fierstein ’06 after he proposed to her while on vacation in Antigua!


Tate Preston and Emma Virginia got engaged and will be moving to Boston’s South End this summer, where Tate will continue to work for the engineering consulting firm PTC and Emma will be starting her Ph.D. in environmental health at Boston University.


Alan Kwan is currently getting his Ph.D. in finance in New York City.


Christine Paquin recently graduated from Duke Law School and is moving to Manhattan, N.Y.C.


Brian Scullin relocated from Washington, D.C., to New York City and is living/working in midtown.


Lee Cooper is moving to New York this summer to start graduate school at Columbia University.


Lilian Mehrel is getting her master’s in film at NYU, creating videos for James Franco’s website, and “avoiding large rats on my walks through the city.”


Andrew Gregory and James Caballero’s band Tubetops has released its second EP and is performing around New York City. Check out their site for more info: www.tubetopsmusic.com.


Pete Kitlas will be starting a master’s in modern Middle Eastern and North African studies at the University of Michigan this September. Hit him up if you’re around Ann Arbor!


Emily Huang and Leah Williams graduated from the University of Michigan Law School on May 6. After lots of serious classes they spent their last semester sipping sangria at Dominick’s and taking a seminar on “Faking It.” Leah is moving to Chicago to work at the law firm Jenner & Block and Emily is returning to New York to work at the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton.


Erin Gu will be getting her master’s in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 


Shannon Prince will begin her J.D./Ph.D. in African and African-American studies at Harvard Law School and Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences this fall.


Glenn Randall kicked some serious ass in the Boston Marathon in April. To read an interview and a recap of his stellar performance, check out this website: http://fasterskier.com/2012/04/the-view-from-the-front-of-the-boston-ma….


Agatha Erickson moved to Anchorage, Alaska, to start working for Senator Mark Begich as his rural liaison to the state. 


Asafu Suzuki is finishing her first year of law school at Georgetown University and will be working for the National Organization of Women (NOW) in Washington, D.C., during the summer.


That’s all for now folks! Class of ’09 love.


—Peter Rothbard, 542 Eastern Parkway, Apt. 3-B, Brooklyn, NY 11225; (407) 421-4676; peter.s.rothbard.09@alum.dartmouth.org