Class Note 2009
Greetings, fellow classmates! It’s finally summer, and I hope that you all are filling your days with barbecues, wheelbarrow races, watermelon eating contests, swimming, and concerts in the park. As for me, I tend to spend the summer months indulging in my favorite warm weather activity: sitting in front of my air conditioner watching DVR-ed episodes of Pretty Little Liars in my underwear while eating Nutella out of the jar. I’m sure you’re jealous, but we can’t all be this sophisticated. Now let’s see how the rest of our classmates have spent the summer months:
Anna Bekker and Evan Carlson ’08, Th’10, are engaged! They will be married next May, after Anna finishes her third year medical school rotations. Congratulations, you guys!
Alanna Purdy has spent her summer traveling through Costa Rica and teaching English to Tibetan refugee monks in Dharamsala, India. She will soon return to Zuni Pueblo to begin her second year of Teach for America in New Mexico.
Zeke Turner will be moving to Berlin for a year starting in September: “I have a grant to study the German newspaper business, and I also hope to freelance for newspapers and magazines while I’m abroad. If anybody from Dartmouth is around, they should definitely drop me a line.”
Hillary Beach and Colin Treseler raced a sailboat from Boston to Bermuda this June.
Kaitlyn Sheehan sang “God Bless America” at a Mets game during opening weekend at CitiField in April. She performed in front of 35,000 people!
Ry Sullivan is moving to San Francisco to continue his work with Goldman Sachs.
Angela Chou moved to Brooklyn, New York, recently and is now working as an intern at Glickman Schlesinger Design Office, an architecture firm.
Ediz Tiyansan has moved to Beijing, China, to begin his new job as a correspondent for TRT, Turkish Television. He says he thinks about Dartmouth now more than ever, because the last time he was in China it was during his FSP!
Adam Breuer will be starting a combined Ph.D. at the Kennedy School and a master’s in Engineering at Harvard this fall.
Liz Ellison finished her M.F.A. in dramatic writing at Carnegie Mellon and will move to Chicago this July to begin working as a financial administrator at a nonprofit.
Molly Roy is currently a legislative correspondent for Congressman Larry Kissell: “I’m in charge of constituent mail and interns, which can be both fun and insane. I’m still playing Frisbee in the majority of my free time, though, so that part hasn’t changed!”
Asafe Suzuki will be spending a few weeks with family and friends in Japan this summer before starting his first year of law school at Georgetown University.
Saleha Waqar finished her master’s in international law and currently has a job in nuclear security at the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Ian Murphy has decided to pursue his long-held dream of joining the Army. He is currently a specialist undergoing basic training at Fort Benning in Georgia. After graduating, he will attend the three-week airborne school at Fort Benning before moving to Camp Mackall/Fort Bragg in North Carolina to qualify for the Special Forces. Best of luck, and be safe!
That’s all for now, friends. Keep sending me updates on your amazing adventures, and enjoy the end of your summers. As for me, I’m out of Nutella. Class of ’09 love!
—Peter Rothbard, 412 W 129th St., Apt. #16, New York City, NY 10027; (407) 421-4676; peter.s.rothbard.09@alum.dartmouth.org
