Class Note 2010
Hey, ’10s, so I have learned that in the real world deadlines are really non-negotiable. No more slipping the paper under the professor’s door a few hours after class; those days are oh-ver. So yes, I sent in last issue’s Class Notes a few days late, hoping no one would notice. People, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine means business and as I deserved, the Class Notes were rejected. Lesson learned. I bring this to your attention mainly to explain why some of the updates below are a bit old, yet still totally worthy of inclusion.
We had a 10-to-10 marriage and now a 10-to-10 engagement. Ben Young is engaged to Briana Carroll as of August of this year. Briana and Ben will be married at Sugarbush next summer. Doug Zarbock and Kelly Weed (now Kelly Zarbock!) married in September.
There are two updates on the class of 2010 senior executive committee. First, our newsletter editors (Abbe Sokol, Dan Moore and Rob Hoffman) received the prestigious Newsletter Editors of the Year Award as this year’s Class Officers Weekend. Second, our head agents raised $19,971 in funds from our class, setting a new participation record for first-year-out alums, 54-percent participation.
Speaking of head agents, Kelly Bogaert recently (in the fall) moved to Burlington, Vermont, to do a premedical post baccalaureate program.
After a year in Hong Kong Tom Shanahan moved to New York City to take a job at a brand strategy firm. He moved to Harlem and lives with Cord Phil Rehayem ’08. While he misses the 100-degree and humidity of Hong Kong and the amazing food, he is “so stoked to be back stateside in the good old US of A.”
Benja Wurzel has been dancing and choreographing in L.A. and is represented by McDonald Selznick Associates agency. He writes, “Even though I thought this was literally my dream and am still signed with my first-choice talent agency, I realized a Hollywood lifestyle is not for me long term. A change of pace may be in order. I’m currently home, reading Buddhist books and taking one-on-one’s with a tai chi master to totally counterbalance L.A.”
Karen Iorio, Jon Adelson and Zach Gottlieb all moved in together in an apartment in N.Y.C. They recently adopted two kittens, Dobby and Lovey. Karen reports, “We hope their triple-legacy will help make them the first feline Dartmouth students.”
I received a call from Dr. John B. Chittick ’70, who gave updates on two amazing ’10 volunteers. John runs an all-volunteer nonprofit that educates teens to be peer HIV/AIDS prevention leaders (called TeenAIDS).
Jimmy Kircher accompanied John Chittick on a trip called the “Heart of Africa.” Jimmy worked at the grassroots level in Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya and the Congo. Since his service trip Jimmy has received his master’s at Hunter College and teaches high school with disadvantaged youth in N.Y.C.
Samantha Monkman, who is the executive assistant at TeenAIDS, went to Haiti and the Dominican Republic, where she was the trip co-leader working with teens in the most impoverished slums in these countries (the two have 75 percent of all Caribbean AIDS cases). Her French opened many doors in both rural and urban areas. She has also led the social networking component of their outreach. She moved in June to Los Angeles and is staying with Brendan Lynch-Salamon, who apparently has a music business.
John Chittick is always looking for more volunteers. If this interests you, please contact him at his Harvard office, (757) 352-2055; website, www.teenaids.org; or e-mail, chittick@post.harvard.edu.
It’s 2012!
—Victoria Stockman, 1730 N. Clark St., Apt. 1215, Chicago, IL 61614; (203) 561-0394; vbstockman @gmail.com
