Class Note 2009
Hey guys! There’s a ton of updates this time, so let’s get to it.
Hing Cheng married childhood friend Stephanie Ding in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, on July 24. Best man Enoch Chan ’10, Haoxiang Cai, Phyllis Luk and Annora Ng ’11 attended. Best wishes!
Elizabeth Teague and Eric Klem ’08 got engaged in early August. They plan on getting married during the summer of 2012. Congratulations!
Alex Fidel is living in Paris working for a French company that manages ads on search engines called Keyade.
Shasta Small moved to Colorado to continue working for the same solar company that she was working for in Vermont. She recently completed the Tough Mudder, a 10-mile obstacle course in the Rocky Mountains.
Page Wagley moved to La Jolla, California.
David Schmidt is moving to Keene, New Hampshire. He’s still working at Florentine Films. “If you hear about a 14-hour documentary on Franklin, Eleanor and Theodore Roosevelt, I worked on that. But after this blurb you’re not likely to hear about The Roosevelts until 2014. So hold your horses.”
Jon Livadas had this to say: “I quit my job at Bank of America in N.Y.C. and moved to San Francisco, where I am living in the Castro and painting the Golden Gate Bridge.”
Layne Zhao worked with the Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 this summer in Philadelphia.
Kaan Senaydin was recently invited to join the Madison (Wisconsin) Opera Choir (alongside long-time member Will Raymer) for their production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.
Chris McCune just moved to Somerset, Pennsylvania, to take an area director role for Young Life, a nonprofit Christian high school outreach ministry.
Josh Jacobson moved to Denver to start his own business.
After teaching in Baltimore for two years, Hillary Wolcott is starting the M.B.A. program at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Kate Harney just started a yearlong master’s program in elementary education through Lesley University. She’ll be teaching in a second-grade class this fall at Buckingham Browne & Nichols in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Jordan Rose is still in Boston working at a digital advertising firm. “I’m currently training for the N.Y.C. Marathon in November in support of Grassroots Soccer. Donations are encouraged!”
Tara McNerney is working at the Center for Food Safety in D.C. after completing her master’s in strategic leadership toward sustainability.
Christiana Hollis started work in July as a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State. She will be in D.C. for the next year studying Turkish before she starts her first job as a management officer in Turkey.
Josh Curcio just moved out to Seattle, Washington, to work for a startup.
Bill Lundin moved to Boston from Minneapolis to attend Boston College Law School.
Heather Luther is commencing a year of national service on the Lost Coast of California with YouthServe AmeriCorps, a program that assists at-risk students in overcoming barriers to higher education while earning their high school diplomas.
Neil Kandler passed his level 2 chartered financial analyst exams and was promoted to investment analyst at Nationwide Insurance.
Boris Vabson is embarking on a Ph.D. program in applied economics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Chris Brouwer is in the process of moving back to San Francisco from Sydney, Australia. “While I was there I caught up with Annie Rittgers briefly. When I get back to San Francisco I’ll be moving back in with Greg Rolfes and Tom Donahoe and we’ll be pulling Ry Sullivan in as well.”
Hit me up with any more updates at the e-mail below. 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
