Class Note 2011

Hey there, ’11s! Lots of exciting news to share in this column: new jobs, grad school, engagements and weddings, and an ’11 baby!

First up, Katherine (Roddy) Lavine had a baby boy, Henry McKenzie Lavine, on June 5! A big congratulations to her and her husband, Noah! And they had a busy summer—in July they moved from North Carolina to the Seattle area, where Katherine will be teaching math at the Overlake School in Redmond.

Hillary Cheng is living in New Hampshire and working in immigration law, representing people at deportation hearings. She also was kind enough to pass some updates along about some other classmates: Jennifer Robinson recently graduated from Georgetown Law School and moved to North Carolina. Jenny Zhao and Roger Zhu got engaged and are planning their wedding—congratulations to them! “Jenny loves her new-ish job in marketing and design,” Hillary wrote, while “Roger is attending Harvard Business School.” Betty Jiang also started at Harvard Business School this fall.

Garrett Simpson has joined the growing contingent of ’11s in San Francisco and is working as a software engineer at SolarCity. He moved out there a few months ago from New York and spent the first two years after graduation working in India at a startup.

Kareem Halim writes that he and Anna Sonstegard were recently engaged—congratulations to them! Kareem moved to New York from Boston for his dermatology residency, while Anna is in med school at Hofstra.

And last but not least, Katie Pine, now Katie Henderson, passes along this note that one of her bridesmaids wrote about her wedding this summer: “Katie Pine married Reid Henderson (Hanover High ’06, St. Andrews ’10) in August. Dartmouth had a strong presence at the wedding, with Jeff Spielberg ’10 and Casey Gardiner in the wedding party and Sarah Galligan ’09, Sara Weeks ’10, Catherine Armstrong ’10 and Vera Bergengruen tearing it up on the dance floor (including a rousing rendition of sophomore summer throwback ‘Love Story’ by Taylor Swift). The Hendersons honeymooned in France and are now enjoying married life at home in Concord, New Hampshire, where Reid is a software developer and Katie teaches high school social studies.”

That’s it for this round. As always, please pass along updates big and small—it’d be great to hear from you!

—Drew Joseph, 49 Grove St., Somerville, MA 02144; (510) 418-2244; aqjoseph@gmail.com