Class Note 2009
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Greetings, classmates! I recently asked a friend to tell me her favorite memory from Dartmouth. She told me about the first day she came back to campus after an off-term. As she walked through campus to buy books and supplies for the new term, the familiar faces of friends she had missed while she was away greeted her with screams, squeals and hugs. Is there anything better than walking through Dartmouth’s gorgeous campus and seeing the smiling faces of your closest friends? Well, pretty soon we’ll all have the chance to relive those memories at our five-year reunion! Be on the look for out for early registration emails in the coming months. Now, let’s check in with our classmates around the globe! David Okun is now engaged to Megan McMahon, whom he met in law school. They will be married next year and Josh Curcio and David Nie stand to be groomsmen. Christian Kiely made an honest woman out of Kristen Rounds on September 14 in Newport, Rhode Island. They are currently living in Boston with their British shorthair Winston. Brenna Hughes is in her second year at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. “I also got engaged this past July to a childhood friend, and we are excited to be getting married in Maine this May!” Molly Roy is still working at the U.S. Department of Energy in the office of energy efficiency and renewable energy. She has also started a master’s of science in energy policy and climate through Johns Hopkins. Finally, her women’s ultimate Frisbee team, Scandal, just won the national championships! Jamie Caplan Smith and Hunter Smith were married on September 1, 2013, in Plainfield, New Hampshire. Congratulations, guys! Carl Sciacchitano has drawn a new comic book called The Army of Dr. Moreau, which is available on the Comixology website and app. Georgina Emerson is ecstatic to be back in Hanover for an M.A. in comparative literature. While thinking about French Modernism this year she is also working on expanding the English teaching certification program she runs in Paris (www.TEFLinParis.com). Danny Rangel will soon complete the final requirements to become an aerial videographer in the Air Force. He’ll spend the next few years making short documentaries onboard Air Force cargo planes, jets and Army helicopters. Jeff Koh is now living in Chicago and has joined the board at the Steppenwolf Theater. Caitlin MacDonald has moved to Perth, Australia, and is really enjoying the new surroundings. Dan O’Brien left Washington, D.C., for Philadelphia to do quantitative analysis for a market research company specializing in the pharmaceutical industry. Virginia Deaton Ryan graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Law in May, passed the Kentucky Bar and was sworn in as an attorney. She is now working for Bingham McCutchen LLP in Lexington, Kentucky. Caitlin Pierce now works for Open Society Foundations, an international justice and human rights organization. Sam Blazek is headed to Washington, D.C., next summer for an internship in data analytics. In the meantime he is enjoying Austin, Texas, making music and doing machine learning and business research. 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
Jan - Feb 2014
Greetings, classmates! I recently asked a friend to tell me her favorite memory from Dartmouth. She told me about the first day she came back to campus after an off-term. As she walked through campus to buy books and supplies for the new term, the familiar faces of friends she had missed while she was away greeted her with screams, squeals and hugs. Is there anything better than walking through Dartmouth’s gorgeous campus and seeing the smiling faces of your closest friends? Well, pretty soon we’ll all have the chance to relive those memories at our five-year reunion! Be on the look for out for early registration emails in the coming months. Now, let’s check in with our classmates around the globe! David Okun is now engaged to Megan McMahon, whom he met in law school. They will be married next year and Josh Curcio and David Nie stand to be groomsmen. Christian Kiely made an honest woman out of Kristen Rounds on September 14 in Newport, Rhode Island. They are currently living in Boston with their British shorthair Winston. Brenna Hughes is in her second year at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. “I also got engaged this past July to a childhood friend, and we are excited to be getting married in Maine this May!” Molly Roy is still working at the U.S. Department of Energy in the office of energy efficiency and renewable energy. She has also started a master’s of science in energy policy and climate through Johns Hopkins. Finally, her women’s ultimate Frisbee team, Scandal, just won the national championships! Jamie Caplan Smith and Hunter Smith were married on September 1, 2013, in Plainfield, New Hampshire. Congratulations, guys! Carl Sciacchitano has drawn a new comic book called The Army of Dr. Moreau, which is available on the Comixology website and app. Georgina Emerson is ecstatic to be back in Hanover for an M.A. in comparative literature. While thinking about French Modernism this year she is also working on expanding the English teaching certification program she runs in Paris (www.TEFLinParis.com). Danny Rangel will soon complete the final requirements to become an aerial videographer in the Air Force. He’ll spend the next few years making short documentaries onboard Air Force cargo planes, jets and Army helicopters. Jeff Koh is now living in Chicago and has joined the board at the Steppenwolf Theater. Caitlin MacDonald has moved to Perth, Australia, and is really enjoying the new surroundings. Dan O’Brien left Washington, D.C., for Philadelphia to do quantitative analysis for a market research company specializing in the pharmaceutical industry. Virginia Deaton Ryan graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Law in May, passed the Kentucky Bar and was sworn in as an attorney. She is now working for Bingham McCutchen LLP in Lexington, Kentucky. Caitlin Pierce now works for Open Society Foundations, an international justice and human rights organization. Sam Blazek is headed to Washington, D.C., next summer for an internship in data analytics. In the meantime he is enjoying Austin, Texas, making music and doing machine learning and business research. 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