Class Note 2011

It’s about the end of the summer as I write this, so I think that means a lot of you are launching into grad school or new jobs. It’ll also be just after Homecoming when you read this, so I hope I’ll have gotten to see many of you at the Year 0 reunion in Hanover that weekend. Anyway, please be sure to keep in touch with me about the new things in your lives. Don’t hesitate to write about anything.


Let’s get to the updates:


Kanika Searvance is on her way to get her master’s in biomedical science at Tufts Medical School. After that she is thinking of working for a year or pursuing a master’s in public health and eventually going to medical school.


I know there are numerous groups of ’11s who are living together, and from what I hear Anna Dobbin and Kelly O’Brien just moved in to an apartment in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Kelly is working as a production assistant for Fox Report and Studio B for Fox News Channel, cutting clips and making sure things run smoothly over there. And the hard-working Anna is navigating two jobs. She is the assistant to the vice president of Clarion Books, a children’s book imprint of Houghton Miller Harcourt, and working for Lois Sharzer Associates, an educational sales company.


Also in the New York area is Kathleen Wallace. She’s taking on an assistant coaching position for Hartwick College’s lacrosse team in Oneonta, New York. She’s running the offense up there for the Division 3 program.


Lia Grigg spent a couple weeks this summer trying her hand at archaeology. She was at the Tel Dor site, which is one of the largest active sites in Israel right now. Here’s what she has to say about the city: “It’s a port city that was intermittently inhabited from the late Bronze Age through the Crusades—in short, more than 2,000 years. A number of civilizations occupied Dor over its history, such as the Canaanites, Israelites, Greeks, Romans and Persians, so we can discover much about the way these different groups of people lived.”


I asked Jared Bookman, who is just starting medical school at New York University, to explain to us non-future doctors what the beginning of med school is actually like. He said the first few months are all about the “core foundations of medicine,” meaning he is taking lots of hard science classes. In a few weeks Jared and his classmates will start learning about the “practice of medicine,” focusing on bedside manner, ethics and patient histories. Potential job tip for those of you still looking for some work: The med students get their feet wet working with patient actors in a simulation center.


That’s just a brief recap of what a few members of our class are up to. Again, be sure to keep me updated with what is going on with you guys and our classmates. Also be sure to check out the class of 2011 Facebook group and Twitter accounts for up-to-date info about what’s going on with the youngest alumni of the College on the Hill.


—Drew Joseph, 2727 29th St. NW, Apt. #233, Washington, DC 20008; aqjoseph@gmail.com