Class Note 2010
Merritt Jenkins moved out to Boulder, Colorado, for the winter term. He is on an internship with the Rocky Mountain Institute, an environmental think tank and consulting firm. Linda Cummins is working as a business and systems analyst for a math software company. Linda also now owns two kittens, Tigger and Duchess, whom she adopted last July. Leslie Adams is working as a scientific program analyst at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, with a fellow ’10, Zienna Chang. Robert Zbeda is doing sports medicine research for a team doctor of the New York Giants at the Hospital for Special Surgery. Rob recently returned from Israel on a birthright trip with Justin Amirian. Rob says, “I think we ate hummus for breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday.” Emily Baumrin recently finished a six-month job at Partners in Health Prevention and Access to Care and Treatment project, where she was working with high-risk diabetes and HIV patients in Boston. Now Emily is in N.Y.C., where she will be relaxing and traveling and deciding where to go to medical school. Emily, being the humble person that she is, did not mention which medical schools she is deciding between; however, a legitimate and elderly resource reported, “Emily crushed M school applications.” Beau Trudel moved to New York City in September to work for a brand strategy consulting company. Beau recently helped Starbucks redesign their logo and has thus spent a lot of time thinking about mermaids and the meaning of the color green (like Gatsby green?). Aside from thinking about mermaids, Beau has been trying to survive the bizarrely cold and snowy winter in N.Y.C. Thankfully there are tons of Dartmouth ’10s around to help the big city feel a little smaller.
Most of the time when I e-mail fellow ’10s for an update I receive an e-mail back a week later with two factual sentences, with a maximum of three adjectives. However, when I e-mailed our classmate Evan Nogay I received a quick response with three paragraphs of beautiful prose and even an attached picture. I have included some of the update for your enjoyment (minus the picture).
“So I’ve been living and working in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, working as a Teach for America (TFA) kindergarten teacher at Lanier Charter Elementary school (recently featured on an episode of NBC’s show School Pride). The day after graduation I left Hanover and made my way to the heart of the Mississippi Delta (Cleveland, Mississippi) for the start of my training. Five o’clock a.m. wake-up calls and the harsh reality of life in the poor rural South stood in stark contrast to the sheer awesomeness of senior week, and I was pretty depressed for the first several weeks. We were thrown into teaching after only a week of training, however, I quickly grew to love the job that I was doing and formed some very close friendships with the other members of my TFA south Louisiana corps. Weeknight barhopping and the World Cup kept us sane in the midst of the absurdity of our new lives. The Delta is crushingly poor and remote, yet we still had a ton of fun on our trips to Memphis and at the area bars and sights. Through this type of fun, the training flew by and my buddies and I moved to a home in mid-city Baton Rouge to begin the rest of our corps experience.”
If you would like to see the picture of Evan Nogay’s class, just e-mail me. And while you are at it, please include your own beautiful prose of your post-Dartmouth life. Would love to hear from you!
—Victoria Stockman, 1730 N. Clark St., Apt. 1215, Chicago, IL 61614; (203) 561-0394; vbstockman@gmail.com
