Class Note 2013
Hello again, classmates! It was wonderful to see so many of you at our year-zero reunion during Homecoming. Thank you to those who updated me, and I want to hear from the rest of you soon. Here is a sampler of what your (terrifyingly accomplished and endlessly cool) fellow ’13s have been up to. Congratulations are in order for Greg Buzzard, who competed on Jeopardy on October 11! His championship appearance netted him $26,000 overall, in addition to all of my awe and respect. In September DOC trips director Chris O’Connell and assistant director Anneliesse Duncan wrapped up another wildly successful trips program. Good work, team! While my diploma hasn’t even made it out of that cardboard tube they gave us at Commencement, a number of our classmates are already well on their way to earning advanced degrees. Blaine Johnson is living in Shanghai and working on her master’s in public management at Fudan University. She also recently bought her first bicycle—very exciting!—and is enjoying exploring the city. Julie Campbell has finished her first semester of medical school at the University of Washington in a program that allows the Montana native to complete her first year of school in Bozeman. Andy Zureick is also currently in his first year of medical school at the University of Michigan. Grace Afsari-Mamagani is as sleep-deprived as ever but is haunting other libraries now as a graduate student in English and American literature with a concentration in the digital humanities at New York University. She also teaches math and works at a small-cause marketing firm when she’s not in class. Around the country and the world, other members of the class of 2013 are adjusting to exciting new jobs and cities. Svati Narula is loving her work as an editorial fellow at The Atlantic in Washington, D.C., where she mostly writes and produces stories for TheAtlantic.com. She gets to see Catherine Treyz and Melody Zhang often, since they are both fellows at the Atlantic Media Co.-owned National Journal. Sara Stone is working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention out in Fort Collins, Colorado, for the next two years. Closer to Hanover, Jessica Gagner is working in Boston at DigitasLBi and living with Isa Guardalabene. Caroline Liegey moved to New York City and is living with Rachel Abendroth and their fish Eleazar Wheelock. Caroline started work in corporate philanthropy with the Wildlife Conservation Society, headquartered at the Bronx Zoo. In October Phil Royer and Jonathan Gault traveled to Japan as part of an Ivy League alumni team that participated in the Izumo Ekiden, a six-stage road relay race between Japanese universities. Phil is still running competitively as a grad student at the University of Tulsa, and the fleet-footed duo raced a 5k against Japanese runners. After Sam McPherson finished Tuck Bridge and before Sara Marcus started work in October, the pair traveled to Europe for two weeks and uploaded the entirety of Oktoberfest. They also visited Maya Herm in Amsterdam. Danny Freeman moved to Medellin, Colombia, at the end of August and is working as a political journalist for an online international newspaper called Colombia Reports. Eliza Relman is working as a teaching fellow at the Asian University for Women, an international liberal arts university in Chittagong, Bangladesh. During her first semester she worked as a teaching assistant for comparative politics and social and political thought classes, a writing tutor and an assistant to the registrar. That’s all for this installment of Class Notes. Email me or send a carrier pigeon with updates for next month! —Emily Fletcher, 30 Lebanon St., Apt. 5, Hanover, NH 03755; emily.e.fletcher@dartmouth.edu
