Some exciting news for Peter Sutoris: He has won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which he will use to pursue his master’s in education at Cambridge University. This was such a big deal that Dartmouth Now wrote a story about Peter, and, according to that, Peter “plans to research the scalability of educational reforms across diverse cultures, with a focus on South Asia.” Peter is just the second Dartmouth alum to earn the scholarship, which was started in 2000. You can read more about Peter here: http://now.dartmouth.edu/2015/04/peter-sutoris-11-named-a-gates-cambrid….


(Meanwhile, Peter has been in Nepal teaching, and as I write this it’s just a few days after the earthquake that struck there. According to Dartmouth Now, Peter was far from the affected area and is fine.)


More exciting news to report, this time on the engagement front for a number of our classmates: First up is Ryan Speers, who proposed to his fiancée, Kelsey Woerner ’12, on Baker Tower. Ryan is living in the Washington, D.C., area working as the director of applied research at a startup called Ionic Security. Brandon Cohen was recently engaged to Julie Gross, an ’11 at the University of Vermont. Brandon proposed on the ski slopes and he and Julie live in Philadelphia, where Brandon is working as an environmental engineer at CSL Services. And some news from an ’11-’11 couple: Amy Stanesco and Tom Robbins are engaged. They are living in the Bay Area, where Amy is teaching elementary school and Tom is earning his doctorate at Stanford in chemistry. Congrats to all!


Lastly, something to share that concerns all of us from Shayla Mars, our class president, who herself recently relocated to Chicago. Shayla says that we have two reunion chairs in place: Katie Paxton and Julia Floberg. There’s also a reunion committee in the works. Thanks to all the volunteers for taking on these jobs. I believe by the time this issue comes out, we’ll be about one year from our reunion—let the countdown begin!


As always, please pass along any updates—big and small—to me. Looking forward to hearing what’s going on with you all. 


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