Class Note 2013
Issue
Jul - Aug 2018
Hi, class of 2013! After five years of gracing your inboxes every other month and sharing your impressive achievements and exciting life events, this will be my last Class Notes as your secretary. Thank you for making my job so easy and enjoyable, and please know it was truly a joy to hear from so many of you over the last few years! And now, back to all of you—the real stars of this show.
In April Deidra Willis was promoted to senior systems engineer I at General Mills (GMI) and moved to the Los Angeles area to work at the Yoplait yogurt plant—congratulations! She has been with GMI for five years and was a systems engineer II for fruit snacks in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, since 2015. If you’re in the L.A. area, give Deirdre a shout!
Globetrotter Dan Marcusa writes in, “I’m graduating from medical school in May, starting residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in internal medicine in June, and am writing this from New Zealand, halfway through a four-continents-in-four-weeks tour of Thailand, New Zealand, Guatemala, and Colombia.”
Kelly Hanen has been elected to serve on the Houston Young Lawyers Association’s board of directors for the 2018-19 bar year. Kelly is a trial associate in Baker Botts LLP’s Houston office and represents clients in litigation matters, including commercial disputes, energy and securities litigation, personal injury, and property damage claims.
Jane Lu will be starting at MIT’s Sloan School of Management in the fall to pursue her M.B.A. and says, “I’m super excited to stay in the Cambridge area and always happy to meet up with ’13s who are in town!”
Sahil Joshi will be attending the Harvard Kennedy School next year, getting a concurrent M.P.A. with his M.B.A. from Sloan.
Jack Boger just got back from a deployment to East Asia and left active duty with the Marines in May. This summer he’s moving to San Francisco, where he’s looking forward to catching up with fellow ’13s in the Bay Area and rejoining the civilian world.
Sara Stone moved on from Boston and is pursuing sailing full-time. At the beginning of May she joined the team at Oakcliff Sailing and is now based out of Long Island, New York.
Emily Blackmer will be moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in August to begin a dual M.S.-M.P.P. at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and the Ford School of Public Policy. She says, “While I will certainly miss mountain life in California, I’m looking forward to hanging out with Ellen (Roy) Thompson, John Thompson,and Steph (Crocker) Ross ’12!”
In May Luisa Sperry graduated from medical school and matched at her first choice, Mount Sinai, for her internal medicine residency, which means that Luisa and husband Michael Adelman ’10 will be staying in New York. Congrats, Luisa!
Nora and Roland Mansilla are loving life in San Francisco. Nora begins class at the Stanford Graduate School of Business this fall, and Roland continues his work as a product manager at LendingClub.
Callista Womick’s band The Melted Chapstixs performed in South Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Sean Kaufman reports, “I’m happily humming along in the actor’s life! After Dartmouth I completed the two-year program at the Maggie Flanigan Studio, a school for the Meisner technique in N.Y.C., and have been the lead in two independent films. One of them, a short dramedy called Maturing Youth, recently premiered on the silver screen and is now onto the independent film festival circuit for the next year and a half before entering major distribution platforms. Other than that, I’m producing, writing, and directing some smaller projects while I really get my sea legs here.”
—Emily Fletcher, 822 South Main St., #4, Ann Arbor, MI 48014; emilyefletcher@gmail.com
In April Deidra Willis was promoted to senior systems engineer I at General Mills (GMI) and moved to the Los Angeles area to work at the Yoplait yogurt plant—congratulations! She has been with GMI for five years and was a systems engineer II for fruit snacks in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, since 2015. If you’re in the L.A. area, give Deirdre a shout!
Globetrotter Dan Marcusa writes in, “I’m graduating from medical school in May, starting residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in internal medicine in June, and am writing this from New Zealand, halfway through a four-continents-in-four-weeks tour of Thailand, New Zealand, Guatemala, and Colombia.”
Kelly Hanen has been elected to serve on the Houston Young Lawyers Association’s board of directors for the 2018-19 bar year. Kelly is a trial associate in Baker Botts LLP’s Houston office and represents clients in litigation matters, including commercial disputes, energy and securities litigation, personal injury, and property damage claims.
Jane Lu will be starting at MIT’s Sloan School of Management in the fall to pursue her M.B.A. and says, “I’m super excited to stay in the Cambridge area and always happy to meet up with ’13s who are in town!”
Sahil Joshi will be attending the Harvard Kennedy School next year, getting a concurrent M.P.A. with his M.B.A. from Sloan.
Jack Boger just got back from a deployment to East Asia and left active duty with the Marines in May. This summer he’s moving to San Francisco, where he’s looking forward to catching up with fellow ’13s in the Bay Area and rejoining the civilian world.
Sara Stone moved on from Boston and is pursuing sailing full-time. At the beginning of May she joined the team at Oakcliff Sailing and is now based out of Long Island, New York.
Emily Blackmer will be moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in August to begin a dual M.S.-M.P.P. at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and the Ford School of Public Policy. She says, “While I will certainly miss mountain life in California, I’m looking forward to hanging out with Ellen (Roy) Thompson, John Thompson,and Steph (Crocker) Ross ’12!”
In May Luisa Sperry graduated from medical school and matched at her first choice, Mount Sinai, for her internal medicine residency, which means that Luisa and husband Michael Adelman ’10 will be staying in New York. Congrats, Luisa!
Nora and Roland Mansilla are loving life in San Francisco. Nora begins class at the Stanford Graduate School of Business this fall, and Roland continues his work as a product manager at LendingClub.
Callista Womick’s band The Melted Chapstixs performed in South Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Sean Kaufman reports, “I’m happily humming along in the actor’s life! After Dartmouth I completed the two-year program at the Maggie Flanigan Studio, a school for the Meisner technique in N.Y.C., and have been the lead in two independent films. One of them, a short dramedy called Maturing Youth, recently premiered on the silver screen and is now onto the independent film festival circuit for the next year and a half before entering major distribution platforms. Other than that, I’m producing, writing, and directing some smaller projects while I really get my sea legs here.”
—Emily Fletcher, 822 South Main St., #4, Ann Arbor, MI 48014; emilyefletcher@gmail.com