Hello there again, ’11s. Let’s go straight to the updates.


First off, some exciting news: Christie Miles and Erik Snider are two of our latest classmates to get engaged. The exciting news happened while they were on a whitewater rafting trip on the Colorado River in Utah. A big congratulations to the two of them, who are both in medical school at Columbia, with Erik in his third year and Christie in her second. 


Alex Maceda, who has been in New York for the past three years, is moving back home to the Bay Area to lead retail operations at Everlane, an ecommerce startup. She plans on living with Caroline O’Loughlin, another recent transplant. Be sure to pass along any apartment leads. And good news for those of you in San Francisco—Alex is one of our class’s mini-reunion chairs, so I’m sure she’ll be planning lots of fun events for you.


Aoife Duffy, who is in law school at NYU, spent her summer in Beirut, Lebanon, interning with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). “Lebanon has a population of about 4 million people, but is currently hosting an additional 1 million Syrian refugees alone (not to mention Iraqis, Sudanese, South Sudanese and Somalis), so UNHCR Lebanon is in full crisis mode trying to provide legal protection and social services for the rapidly growing refugee population while also helping support the Lebanese national infrastructure,” Aoife writes. She adds that, “Lebanon is a beautiful country and I highly recommend Beirut to anyone interested in spending time in that part of the world!”


And lastly, an update from Isaiah Berg, who is in the Australian Northern Territory nearing the end of his first deployment with the Marine Corps. Isaiah writes that he’s a rifle platoon commander with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment. He joined the Marine Corps in fall 2012 at officer candidate school, and from there moved onto the basic school and infantry officer course. After that he headed to Camp Pendleton, California, where he is based. Since April he has been training in Australia with defense forces there. For those who don’t remember, Isaiah and his brothers rode their bikes from Alaska to Argentina in the year after we graduated, so he’s been up to some pretty incredible things the past few years.


That’s it for this round, but be sure to pass along any updates or just drop a line if you have a chance. Hope you’re all doing well.


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