Class Note 2011
Hey there, ’11s, we’ve got some good updates this round, so let’s get straight to them.
Here’s a note from Meredith Greenberg, who recently launched her own company: “Hoping to extend my career as a professional homework-doer, I recently started a college counseling company called College Prep Partners, helping high school students navigate the treacherous waters of college admissions. Obviously Dartmouth is a required school on all of my students’ lists, unless they have an aversion to spending their evenings in dark basements or wearing a floor-length down coat for three months a year.
“If, in fact, they don’t want to apply to Dartmouth I reluctantly help them create their college lists, brainstorm all of their essays, untangle special requirements for athletes or artists and generally avoid hair-pulling, fist-fighting and other stress-induced altercations with their parents and siblings.
“Right now I’m the only ‘partner,’ but if all goes well I could be looking for fellow Dartmouth alum to join me in the future! Check me out at www.collegepreppartners.com!”
I’ve heard through the grapevine that a few more of our classmates have started their own businesses. Are you one of them? Let me know and I’ll be sure to include your update in the next column. Who knows? Maybe some older alum will have his or her interest piqued and will become your angel investor?
Back to the updates.
Sophia Golvach took a break from finals to pass along an update. She’s in the first year of law school at University of Texas, and will be there for three more years as she finishes her law degree and her master’s in Middle Eastern studies. She’s concentrating in Arabic. “It has been a pretty grueling start, but I’m really looking forward to learning how to integrate my love for the Arabic language and Middle Eastern culture into a course of study that will guide me into a career using legal concepts to address international social and commercial issues,” Sophia says.
Kathryn Arffa sends us this update: “Every morning I drive out of the fog of San Francisco over the Golden Gate Bridge to Sonoma, California, known by some as wine country and by others as farm country or simply rural America. Exactly a month ago I moved to San Francisco to work for Scribe, a small sustainable vineyard and winery.”
That’s it for this edition. Don’t hesitate to get in touch with me or to hype what your friends are doing. I know our classmates are up to some pretty amazing things professionally, artistically and athletically. And I always love hearing a funny story involving ’11s.
—Drew Joseph, 429 Fillmore St., San Francisco, CA 94117; (510) 418-2244; aqjoseph@gmail.com
