Class Note 2011

Welcome to your first Class Notes, ’11s! Thanks for reading.


Check back here with every new issue of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine to keep updated on what your classmates are up to, and please never hesitate to contact me with what’s going on in your life—new jobs, new spouses, some great vacation or just spending time with other ’11s. 


I know it seems that graduation was just yesterday (does that mean the freshman fall feels like last week to anyone else?), but our classmates are already doing some pretty amazing things or will be doing so shortly.


Bryan Giudicelli, a member of the men’s soccer team at Dartmouth, is heading to Lusaka, Zambia, for a year to work for Grassroots Soccer. And this fall Erin Larson is going to be doing an internship in marine research diving in the Caribbean before moving to Boise, Idaho, to work in environmental education. ’Round the girdled earth they roam, indeed!


Speaking of spending time abroad, Alex Maceda is doing a fashion design program this summer in Paris through Parsons. But never fear, ’11s, because Alex, one of your mini-reunion chairs, is returning stateside in the fall and starting at Bain & Co. in New York. Joining her in that city are just a few of you, so keep me updated on your antics there and I’ll be sure to write about them in future columns. Your other mini-reunion chair, Mike Lewis, will be in Boston working for Bain Capital (yes, that’s a different company) and living with fellow ’11s Mike Bush, Eric Durell and Bennett Siegel.


There are some ’11s, of course, who just love Hanover so much they simply can’t leave! Two-time football captain Tim McManus will be back just for the fall for a final season. So Tim, how about beating Harvard this year so we can finally say an ’11 helped Dartmouth win over our dreaded rival? (Just kidding, football players! I think you’re all great…and a lot bigger than me.)


Alex Taylor will also be staying close to Dartmouth for the fall, working at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge. Come January he and some of our other classmates are thinking about working and organic farming in New Zealand, which is probably about as far as you can get away from Hanover. 


Many of our classmates are spending their first year out of college trying to give back. Anna Levine and Ahmad Nazeri, two of the many ’11s participating in Teach for America, will be in Baltimore. Anna will be teaching secondary French and Ahmad will be teaching high school social studies.


Remember John Vineyard IV? Pen, as he was more commonly known, was so on top of his game that he graduated in June 2010 and has spent the past year teaching English in Madrid, Spain. He’s undecided as to what is coming next, but he might do a reversal and return to the United States to teach Spanish.


And, finally, ladies and gentlemen of the class of 2011, I am pleased to announce (what I believe is) the first ’11-’11 marriage. Charlie Clark and Sarah White tied the knot two days after graduation in Rollins Chapel and celebrated with a reception at the Hanover Inn! They met during orientation at the English department open house and had their first date in December 2007 at Lou’s. Congratulations to them!


Remember, ’11s, to keep getting Dartmouth Alumni Magazine and other College news and information, be sure to send your addresses to alumni records (alumni.records@dartmouth.edu).


Thanks for reading, and keep me updated!


—Drew Joseph; (510) 418-2244; aqjoseph@gmail.com