Class Note 2013
Issue
Nov - Dec 2016
Our classmates are doing their best to live up to the oft-cited stat that 10 percent of Dartmouth alumni meet their spouse at the College—and we couldn’t be happier for them. Casey Griffin and Bryan Giudicelli ’11 were married in August, with many Dartmouth friends in attendance.
And congratulations to Kate Burns and Dan Rosengard on their recent engagement! Kyra Hansson and Jackson Floyd were also recently engaged—congratulations, you two!
In other very exciting classmate news, Jonathan Gault spent 10 days covering all the track and field action during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics for the website he writes for, LetsRun.com. He wrote in: “During my free time I checked out the men’s rugby sevens gold-medal game, USA-Spain men’s basketball and Italy-Serbia men’s water polo. I also caught up with Anthony Romaniw (a ’13 who transferred after two years at Dartmouth), who ran the 800 meters for Canada. It was awesome to see Anthony realize his dream of competing at an Olympics. Despite an average bedtime of about 3 a.m., it was an incredible experience. I’m already getting excited thinking about Tokyo 2020!”
Troy Dildine isstarting a Ph.D. program, going back and forth between the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden during the next four years.
Still working in the startup space, Matt Sturm was elected to the board of the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network of D.C. He’s hosting regular open entrepreneurial happy hours—check dendc.org and come on by!
Qian Zhang sent in the following update (and I have to say, it’s stories like this that make me love Class Notes!): “I have been working in Boston since graduation, but recently took a job offer with Alibaba Group. I am moving to Hangzhou, China, to work at its HQ for a year beginning in October. I will transfer back to one of its U.S. offices at the end of the year. It feels strange to be booking a one-way ticket—the only other time I did that was exactly seven years ago, when I packed up everything to move from Shanghai to Hanover for college. As if all of this is not making me nostalgic enough, I just found out that I will be on the flight back to China with John Guo, the first Dartmouth classmate I met outside Terminal E at Logan Airport on September 7, 2009. How far we’ve come!”
Remy Franklin is heading to COP22, the international climate negotiations in Marrakesh, Morocco, this November. He will be participating in the negotiation as part of SustainUS, a nonprofit advancing justice and equity by empowering young people to engage in advocacy. The COP22 delegation includes activists, writers, artists and researchers who are leading voices around climate change and social justice. The delegation is led by Morgan Curtis ’14.
Lots of our impressive classmates also started graduate school this fall. Eric Finkelberg just started at Cornell Law and Sandra Gonzalez recently moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to start at Harvard Law School. David Connelly started his first year at Tuck School of Business, along with classmates Richard Asala and Chris Zhao.
Sophie Palitz just started her second year at Temple University in their clinical psychology Ph.D. program, where she’s now seeing therapy patients in addition to continuing her research on child anxiety treatment.
Sara Stone moved back to Boston from London in September to begin a curriculum development position at the Planetary Health Alliance, housed at Harvard.
In May Melissa Gordon, Laura McFeely, Sharon Zhang and Liza Huntington ’14 ran the Brooklyn Half Marathon.
—Emily Fletcher, 1375 Fairmont St. NW, Apt. 809, Washington, DC 20009; emilyefletcher@gmail.com
And congratulations to Kate Burns and Dan Rosengard on their recent engagement! Kyra Hansson and Jackson Floyd were also recently engaged—congratulations, you two!
In other very exciting classmate news, Jonathan Gault spent 10 days covering all the track and field action during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics for the website he writes for, LetsRun.com. He wrote in: “During my free time I checked out the men’s rugby sevens gold-medal game, USA-Spain men’s basketball and Italy-Serbia men’s water polo. I also caught up with Anthony Romaniw (a ’13 who transferred after two years at Dartmouth), who ran the 800 meters for Canada. It was awesome to see Anthony realize his dream of competing at an Olympics. Despite an average bedtime of about 3 a.m., it was an incredible experience. I’m already getting excited thinking about Tokyo 2020!”
Troy Dildine isstarting a Ph.D. program, going back and forth between the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden during the next four years.
Still working in the startup space, Matt Sturm was elected to the board of the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network of D.C. He’s hosting regular open entrepreneurial happy hours—check dendc.org and come on by!
Qian Zhang sent in the following update (and I have to say, it’s stories like this that make me love Class Notes!): “I have been working in Boston since graduation, but recently took a job offer with Alibaba Group. I am moving to Hangzhou, China, to work at its HQ for a year beginning in October. I will transfer back to one of its U.S. offices at the end of the year. It feels strange to be booking a one-way ticket—the only other time I did that was exactly seven years ago, when I packed up everything to move from Shanghai to Hanover for college. As if all of this is not making me nostalgic enough, I just found out that I will be on the flight back to China with John Guo, the first Dartmouth classmate I met outside Terminal E at Logan Airport on September 7, 2009. How far we’ve come!”
Remy Franklin is heading to COP22, the international climate negotiations in Marrakesh, Morocco, this November. He will be participating in the negotiation as part of SustainUS, a nonprofit advancing justice and equity by empowering young people to engage in advocacy. The COP22 delegation includes activists, writers, artists and researchers who are leading voices around climate change and social justice. The delegation is led by Morgan Curtis ’14.
Lots of our impressive classmates also started graduate school this fall. Eric Finkelberg just started at Cornell Law and Sandra Gonzalez recently moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to start at Harvard Law School. David Connelly started his first year at Tuck School of Business, along with classmates Richard Asala and Chris Zhao.
Sophie Palitz just started her second year at Temple University in their clinical psychology Ph.D. program, where she’s now seeing therapy patients in addition to continuing her research on child anxiety treatment.
Sara Stone moved back to Boston from London in September to begin a curriculum development position at the Planetary Health Alliance, housed at Harvard.
In May Melissa Gordon, Laura McFeely, Sharon Zhang and Liza Huntington ’14 ran the Brooklyn Half Marathon.
—Emily Fletcher, 1375 Fairmont St. NW, Apt. 809, Washington, DC 20009; emilyefletcher@gmail.com