Lots of ’09 weddings, engagements, new jobs and graduate school updates.


In September Matt Fisher-Post married Isaura Zelaya Favila ’08 in Rome and is working at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Katie Gray and Connor Shields got married on September 20 in Kelowna, British Columbia, and went on their honeymoon to St. Lucia. In Calgary, Alberta, Katie is a completions engineer for Encana Corp. and Connor works for the Royal Bank of Canada. Chris Koppel married Carolyn Rippe ’10 in Hanover last summer. Chris transitioned out of the Army and is an engineer at Abiomed, a medical device company. Elisse Lockhart and Scott Limbird live in San Francisco, are engaged and getting married in 2015. Mallory McQueen finished her M.B.A., started as a product innovation manager at Athenahealth and got married to Griffin Mahoney! Dylan Nelson and Allie Landers got married on October 25 in Washington, D.C., just eight-plus years after meeting in Irish history class freshman year. Kat Rice got engaged to Marshall Wallach in July while hiking in Wyoming. Brian Scullin writes, “After completing the Chicago Marathon I proposed to my girlfriend. She said yes and we plan to schedule the wedding for some time in 2015!”


Julia DeWahl lives in San Francisco and works at a startup called Opendoor. Katie Dutko moved to Guatemala in September and enjoys her work as the youth leadership programs coordinator at the NGO Common Hope. Will Imbert lives in Princeton, New Jersey, and teaches a class on juggling at the Princeton Adult School. Josh Jacobson’s startup, ItsPlatonic, launched. Email him at josh@itsplatonic.com to be given access.


Tyler Putnam performed Count Ceprano in Rigoletto at Opera Omaha in October, then the title role in Carlisle Floyd’s Markheim off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters in December. He’s off to the Sarasota Opera in January. Virginia Deaton Ryan has a new job as the competitive intelligence senior analyst at Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC, in Nashville, Tennessee. Ediz Tiyansan writes, “I’m still the Jerusalem correspondent for the Turkish News Network. I had a hectic summer covering the Gaza war from the field, underneath constant bombardment. Currently back in Jerusalem, still tied up with all the happenings, but at least now in relative safety.”


Jessica Lane is finishing her last year of medical school in Burlington, Vermont. This August she got engaged to Max Bickelhaupt. They’re looking forward to getting married and moving wherever the match takes them. Page Wagley started the M.B.A. program at Harvard Business School. Ted Newhouse started at Tuck. Melinda Wilson completed her second master’s in education during the summer and now works as a preschool autism teacher for the Washington, D.C., public schools.


Molly Bode finished up graduate school at the London Business School this fall. Marika Austin graduated from Boston University with her master’s in occupational therapy and moved to San Francisco in March. She works at a school for kids with behavioral and emotional needs in Palo Alto, California, and a private pediatric clinic in Sausalito, California. Lilian Mehrel is a thesis M.F.A. student in film directing and writing at New York University, where she just finished a comic mockumentary about the search for the loneliest whale (www.theloneliestfilm.com) and currently works on writing TV comedy.


Visiting a new city? Look up your classmates! Federico Sequeda lives in Boston and looks forward to planning mini-reunions. Follow ’09s on Facebook (Dartmouth College Class of 2009), Twitter (@Dartmouth09) and Instagram (@dartmouth09).


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