Hello, my dear classmates, and welcome to 2017. Though you’re reading this at the beginning of January, I am writing this on the Friday of Homecoming weekend and my Instagram feed is full of pictures of the bonfire, Dartmouth Hall, brilliant orange and yellow leaves and people in warm-looking deep green sweaters. Many of those sharing these images are a few years younger or a few years older; it doesn’t seem like many ’14s went up to campus for Homecoming 2016, likely because of increasing work or school obligations. I’m sure many of you also scrolled past these images and were filled with the same sense of nostalgia as I am feeling presently.

But life goes on, and we are presented with other chances to see people we care about. Like how I recently went to the wedding of Chelsea Stewart ’12 and Connor Flint ’12 (congrats!) and got to celebrate with Brian Flint, Kristen Flint, Stefan Deutsch, Brendan Nagle, Harry Gates, Steve Muenzen and Jenna Vickers. Class of ’14s roll deep.

Anyway, enough of my musings. On to the updates. Thanks to the kind souls below who responded to my call.

Last summer Alex St. Romain, Molly Grimes and Kara Hedges spent three weeks hiking the John Muir Trail. They completed their 220-mile journey with a sunrise summit of Mount Whitney on July 2. After quite a successful summer trip Alex began law school at New York University this past fall. She is excited to reconnect with the many other ’14s in New York City! 

Jane Cavalier is also in New York and actually works just two floors away from me at the Museum of Modern Art. After receiving her master’s in the history of art last spring from the Courtauld Institute in London (where she concentrated on contemporary American art) Jane accepted a 12-month curatorial internship in the department of drawings and prints at MoMA.

Stefan Deutschreported,“For the past year I worked as a team leader for AmeriCorps National Civilian Corps, so I did a variety of service projects throughout the southwestern United States. Now I’ve started my M.S. in chemical engineering at UC Berkeley and am looking for friends in the Bay Area!”

Rohail Premjee currently works for the impact investing initiative at the Aga Khan Development Network’s offices in Washington, D.C. He is excited to be moving for a year to Karachi, Pakistan, to consult for the Aga Khan University and Hospital System on its grants and investment strategy, as well to assist with a World Bank study that is evaluating the system’s social and economic impact in Pakistan. Let him know if you’ll be passing through!

Cal Steffen also wrote in with an exciting update of a different sort: She and Luke Suydam are engaged! The couple recently moved to Hong Kong, where they will be for the next year. Luke is working at Bain Capital’s Hong Kong office as a private equity associate and Cal is working remotely at Rent the Runway as a software engineer. Congrats, Cal and Luke!

Looking forward to hearing good tidings from more of you all! Here’s to a great year.

—Jessica Womack, 11 West 53 St., New York, NY 10019; jrwomack1991@gmail.com