Hello, ’11s. I hope you enjoyed the premiere edition of our Class Notes in the last Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Please, please, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me about what you’re doing (whether you’re jetting off to some far-off land or living in your parents’ basement), what other ’11s are doing or what you think I should be writing about.


All right, let’s get to the updates.


Proving that old dogs can indeed learn new tricks, Manhattanite Emily Hirshey is taking driving lessons! (Okay, I know we’re not that old, but as of this writing, it’s been exactly two weeks since we graduated and I’m already anticipating my first joint replacement.) But seriously, that’s one small step for Emily and one giant risk for New York City. (Kidding, Hirsh, I’m sure you’re doing great.)


Emily Unger and Andrew Purpura, the Dartmouth Outing Club first-year trips director and assistant director, are busy in Hanover trying to get ready for the arrival of the ’15s. Purps informed me in June that 82 percent of the incoming class had already signed up for trips, so it sounds like he and Emily are doing a great job. I know come September I’ll certainly be longing for a good ol’ “Salty Dog” on Robo lawn.


Big Green defensive end Charles Bay has been continuing his football career, playing in the International Federation of American Football Senior World Championships in July in Austria. Also going international is Isaiah Berg, who is setting off in August with his brothers on a bike trip that will take them all the way from Alaska to Argentina. Yes, that’s right, they’re riding their bikes from Alaska to Argentina. Isaiah told me that he should have a blog set up soon, and I’ll be eagerly reading each post. Best of luck to the Berg brothers on what sounds like quite an adventure.


Also taking a road trip this summer (albeit a slightly less intense one) were Dan Hochman and Reid Hartman. The two flew into Los Angeles, got themselves an RV and headed up through California en route to Oregon, Washington, Montana, Wyoming and Utah.


Mayuka Kowaguchi spent a month over the summer in her native Japan helping people displaced by the March earthquake and tsunami return to their homes. Check out Mayuka’s blog at http://mayukainjapan.tumblr.com. After her work in Japan, Mayuka headed back to Hanover to start as a presidential fellow in the advancement office.


A fleet of ’11s is headed to graduate school this fall. Kimberly Waters is off to get her master’s in world history at the University of Pennsylvania. Another ’11 who is really standing out to me (considering I made it two days in Math 8 before switching into a history class) is Katherine Roddy. She started her Ph.D. pursuit in August at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She told me she’s in the pure math program, as opposed to the applied math program, so congratulations to those of you who know what that means!


As for me, I’ve been in Portland, Oregon, for the summer and am heading to Washington, D.C., in the fall, trying to make it in journalism (I swear it’s not dead!). There I’ll be living with fellow ’11s Bill Mergner and Dan Van Deusen. Be sure to drop us a line whenever you’re in town. And please keep the updates flowing.


—Drew Joseph; aqjoseph@gmail.com