As I write this at the end of October, I know many of you are gearing up for this upcoming weekend as it’s Homecoming, our sixth one. I couldn’t make the trip, but I’m sure there were some great ’11 hangouts—maybe fill me in on some of the magazine-appropriate ones so I can include them in an upcoming Class Notes column? 


For now though, it’s on to the updates from the past few months.


A big congratulations to Rebecca Glover, who was recently engaged to her high school sweetheart Mark Higgins. Rebecca spent the first year after graduation in London earning her master’s in medieval studies at King’s College London and is now enrolled in a doctorate program in Romance languages and literatures at the University of Chicago. She’s not quite sure what she wants to do when she finished with school, but would love to teach.


Janna Fennell is working with AmeriCorps as a Minnesota Reading Corps literacy tutor for a year in North Saint Paul, Minnesota. She’s working with kindergarten through third-grade students one-on-one on their reading skills and said she is starting to see improvement in their reading scores a few months into her year there.


Nick Devonshire has partnered up with Joe Indvik ’10 on a startup focused on clean-tech finance.


After a year in Washington, D.C., Katie Paxton is working in marketing for the architecture firm Perkins Eastman in New York. She’s working on urban design and large-scale developments and is getting away from some education projects she’s worked on in the past.


And Maya Granit is, in her words, “Livin’ the dream,” and I think most of us would agree: She’s working at a chocolate factory in San Francisco. She’s in charge of order fulfillment and logistics at Dandelion Chocolate, which was started about a year ago and has fewer than 10 employees. She helps make sure all the orders get to the right places and that the chocolate makers have enough sugar and beans, which come from the Dominican Republic, Madagascar and Venezuela. A heads-up to the Dartmouth alumni in the Bay Area: Dandelion Chocolate is moving its factory to the Mission District and is planning on opening a store and café. My favorite part of Maya working at a chocolate factory is she’s quite generous with the samples—and I can tell you firsthand the chocolate is delicious.


That’s it for now. Please be sure to send any updates about Year Two in the real world my way. I know there have even been some ’11s getting married, and I’m sure our classmates would love to hear updates from the weddings in our next column.


—Drew Joseph, 108 Hillside Ave., Piedmont, CA 94611; (510)-418-2244; aqjoseph@gmail.com