Hello again, ’11s. Let’s start the updates with some of our classmates who are working as teachers.


After a year working as a caseworker in the medical foster care program at Children’s Aid Society, Anya Perret is now teaching pre-kindergarten at Hunts Points Alliance for Children in the South Bronx. And Addie Gorlin and Amy Stanesco, who are both teachers in the Bay Area, spent three weeks over the summer backpacking through Europe. They went to Ireland (where they saw our classmate Anise Vance), France and Italy, and, according to Addie, they “ate and drank a lot.” And here’s a tip from Addie on booking your next trip—they used Airbnb.com to book their stays and would highly recommend it. 


Shayla Mars is in New York working for a nonprofit called the Posse Foundation as a program coordinator. She’s also volunteering with an organization called High Water Women teaching financial literacy workshops to urban youth and women. As of her writing she had been in New York for three months and was loving it. And after spending the year in Washington, D.C., Elena Falloon is off to get a graduate degree in global governance and diplomacy at Oxford. 


And to end, here’s some dramatic news to report from the class of 2011. Lindsay Wahl, a swimmer at Dartmouth and now a medical student at the University of Rochester, helped rescue two kids who were trapped in a stroller that had rolled into the Erie Canal in August. “I knew right away that I was going in once I saw them, that wasn’t a question for me,” Lindsay said after the incident, according to the Democrat and Chronicle newspaper in Rochester, New York. Check out more on the heroic rescue here: www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012308160027.


That’s it for this round of updates, but please keep sending them my way!


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