Class Note 2009
Jul - Aug 2014
Lots of weddings and graduate school news! Let’s get to it.
Casey Diehl writes, “In the midst of a January polar vortex in Minneapolis, Minnesota, I got engaged to Karen Olson (Williams ’07, Tu’13) and we’re getting married in Portland, Maine, next fall.”
EmilyEberle got engaged in February and will be moving to Berlin this summer. Congratulations!
Amber Gode and James Oakley ’11 will be married on August 2.
Layne Zhao is getting married on August 16 in Atlanta!
Kathryn Andrews and Nick Weir got engaged. Congrats, guys!
Michael Gabel has published a book titled She Can Fly: A Domestic Violence Survival Story. You can find out about the project through his website, shecanfly.org.
Emily Trentacoste received her Ph.D. in oceanography from UC-San Diego and is now living in Washington, D.C., working on policy for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Sophie Hood is graduating with an M.F.A. in costume production from Carnegie Mellon University and will continue to live and work in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Adam Frank will be starting the M.F.A. program in theater management at the Yale School of Drama this fall.
Owen Roberts is graduating in May from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor for the Harvard Law Review. He will be clerking for the Alaska Supreme Court in Anchorage next year.
Noah Levinson is finishing medical school this May and will be sticking around for a neurology residency at Penn.
John Gibson is now a research associate covering oilfield services at AltaCorp Captial Inc. in Calgary.
Tyler Putnam sang in a recital in New York City with Emma Alexander ’10 and Amber Dewey ’12 on May 8 at the National Opera Center and will be singing at the Santa Fe (New Mexico) Opera as an apprentice artist this summer.
Avnish Gungadurdoss and Johannes Lohmann are still working at Instiglio to “change the way social programs are designed and implemented. We have a contract with the Mexican government and are growing the team.”
Greg Rolfes is living in San Francisco with Chris Brouwer, Ry Sullivan and Thomas Donahoe. He works for the private equity firm FFL and recently ran the Boston Marathon with a time of 2:38.
Vanessa Hurley will be starting a Ph.D. in health services and policy at Berkeley this fall.
Page Wagley is headed to Harvard Business School this fall.
Kaitlyn Sheehan will be starting at the Tuck School of Business in August.
Arun Goel will be working for one year in Philadelphia in preliminary medicine before heading to San Francisco to train in radiation oncology at California Pacific Medical Center.
Bret Tenenhaus will be leaving New York City to pursue his M.B.A. at Wharton with a focus on the healthcare industry.
Jeffrey Milloy is currently playing polocrosse throughout Australia for the 2014 season. “Cheers to Virginia Deaton, Page Wagley and Molly Bode for starting Dartmouth polocrosse.”
Sean Nelson is living in New York City and working at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
Whitney Odden will graduate with a master’s in international development policy from the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University.
Natalie Todd-Zebell will be in Oregon for the next five years starting at Oregon State University in the M.D./M.P.H. program in July.
Julian Mateo is headed to Kellogg this fall for business school.
Katie Dutko finished her master’s in international affairs at the Fletcher School (Tufts) and is moving to Guatemala to work in international development this fall.
Emily Koepsell will start a dual M.S. in engineering and M.B.A. program at MIT in June.
That’s all for now, folks. Class of ’09 love!
—Peter Rothbard, 2490 Purdue Ave., #7, Los Angeles, CA 90064; (407) 421-4676; prothbard@gmail.com