Hey there again, ’11s. We’ll get straight to the updates this round, but just as a reminder, we’re always looking for news to feature in the column. As I write this we’re just a few days away from 2014, so let me know if the new year is bringing any changes for you. Or just let me know how things are going even if there aren’t big changes in store.


Joe Coleman wrote in from Ethiopia, where he was hiking in the Simien Mountains before heading back to San Diego for Christmas. Joe’s working with McKinsey on a project in South Africa at a construction site north of Johannesburg. “Every week I fly up on a 12-person plane near the border of Botswana,” Joe writes. “Highlights have definitely been the travel outside of work. I’ve been taking a bunch of random weekend trips to Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Victoria Falls, Kruger National Park and up to Munich for Oktoberfest. For Thanksgiving I met up with some friends from work to camp in the Serengeti and then hang out in Zanzibar.” All right, Joe, thanks for making the rest of us insanely jealous. Joe was also in South Africa when Nelson Mandela died. “It’s been incredible to witness one man’s influence and the reaction of the local community,” he writes. “The morning after he passed away I went to his residence in Johannesburg and was overwhelmed by the chanting and dancing in the streets.”


Back stateside, Katherine Roddy, now Katherine Lavine, writes: “I’m in North Carolina, in the triangle (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area) where after some soul-searching I left the mathematics Ph.D. program at UNC Chapel Hill with a master’s of science in math in May. I got married this summer to Noah Lavine, Haverford ’11, with quite the Dartmouth contingent in attendance: Ali Tercek, Matt Gallira ’12, Emily Dreissigacker, Courtney Chapel, Emily Garvin, Anna Harty ’14, Molly Davis ’10, Nick Foukal ’10, Molly Schloss, Casey Gardiner and Jessi (Merry) Samuels ’12. Now I’m teaching high school math in Durham.”


I know from stalking your Facebook pages that there have been a number of other ’11s getting married. Any dispatches from those? Definitely send them my way.


And in case you missed it, Elle Anderson was profiled back in October by CyclingNews.com. The article (which you can find at www.cyclingnews.com/news/rising-cyclo-cross-star-anderson-aiming-for-eu…) highlights how Elle took up cycling at Dartmouth. Now it looks like Elle has written a dispatch for the site from Belgium, where she’s taking on her first races in Europe. “Here in Belgium I am surrounded by a different kind of cyclo-cross fan, not fellow participants and their families but crowds that are so passionate that they undoubtedly know as much or more about the sport than I do,” she writes. “Where the U.S. fans yell encouragement and cheer for their fellow racers, the Europeans quietly regard the racing with a respectful intensity.” You can read the rest of her piece here: www.cyclingnews.com/blogs/euro-cross-camp-xi/feeling-at-home-away-from-….


That’s it for this round, ’11s. Hope you are having a great start to the new year, and please let me know what’s going on with you. 


—Drew Joseph, 109 West French Place, #D105, San Antonio, TX 78212; (510) 418-2244; aqjoseph@gmail.com