Class Note 2014
Issue
Jul - Aug 2018
Hello, ’14s! Happy summer! I hope you all are enjoying the weather and are able to spend some dog days with family and friends. I’ve been traveling for research the past few weeks and am excited to go to Chicago in August with a few fellow ’14s. If anyone is there over the first weekend of the month, let me know!
It’s absolutely wild to me that we’ve almost been out of school for five years. Time has really flown, and it’s time to start thinking about our first reunion! You will hear from the College and our class officers about the planning, but hold the date! We will be back in Hanover June 14-16, 2019! So excited to see you all then, and if you have any suggestions or questions, please don’t hesitate to email me. What’s super exciting about this for us is that our fifth-year reunion will overlap with the revelry for Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary. Celebrations abound.
Anyway, enough of the business; on to the news!
Recently, I was reading Forbes online and came across two classmates making moves! Andrew Lim and Simon Zhang launched their new direct-to-consumer wedding band company, Holden, in late April. Holden allows customers to easily and affordably design a custom wedding band online. Utilizing innovative 3D printing technology, Holden crafts each ring to order in Manhattan and delivers it direct to the customer’s door. Find more about Holden at www.hiholden.com.
Speaking of wedding bands, John Daniels and Allie Taikowski got engaged on March 30 in Austin, Texas! John and Allie became friends during freshman orientation in September 2010 (they were freshman floor-mates in McLaughlin) and started dating during Sophomore Summer in 2012. They moved to Texas in January 2017 and have been loving life in Austin with their dog Olive! Sending best wishes and big congrats to you two!
Anoush Arakelian wrote in about her experience this year at the Boston Marathon. “It was one of the slowest Boston Marathons since the 1980s due to downpours and wind.” Despite the wild weather, she and Caitie Meyer both ran personal bests at 3:11 and 3:15, respectively. Along the route, they saw another ’14, Laura Goodfellow, who was also running the marathon. Congratulations on the feat, ladies!
Devin Chu emailed in with an update on his graduate research. As a Ph.D. student at University of California, Los Angeles, in the department of astronomy and astrophysics, Devin recently published a paper as lead author making an important breakthrough about the star S0-2. Devin and his team have found that S0-2, previously considered a binary star, has no significant partner star; this important finding means that the star is a prime candidate for testing Einstein’s theory of general relativity, a portion of which states that strong gravitational fields stretch and bend light. Good luck with future observation and testing!
Thanks to those of you who wrote in! Have a great rest of the summer, and I am looking forward to reunions next June!
—Jessica Womack, 8 Spring St., Princeton, NJ 08542; jrwomack1991@gmail.com
It’s absolutely wild to me that we’ve almost been out of school for five years. Time has really flown, and it’s time to start thinking about our first reunion! You will hear from the College and our class officers about the planning, but hold the date! We will be back in Hanover June 14-16, 2019! So excited to see you all then, and if you have any suggestions or questions, please don’t hesitate to email me. What’s super exciting about this for us is that our fifth-year reunion will overlap with the revelry for Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary. Celebrations abound.
Anyway, enough of the business; on to the news!
Recently, I was reading Forbes online and came across two classmates making moves! Andrew Lim and Simon Zhang launched their new direct-to-consumer wedding band company, Holden, in late April. Holden allows customers to easily and affordably design a custom wedding band online. Utilizing innovative 3D printing technology, Holden crafts each ring to order in Manhattan and delivers it direct to the customer’s door. Find more about Holden at www.hiholden.com.
Speaking of wedding bands, John Daniels and Allie Taikowski got engaged on March 30 in Austin, Texas! John and Allie became friends during freshman orientation in September 2010 (they were freshman floor-mates in McLaughlin) and started dating during Sophomore Summer in 2012. They moved to Texas in January 2017 and have been loving life in Austin with their dog Olive! Sending best wishes and big congrats to you two!
Anoush Arakelian wrote in about her experience this year at the Boston Marathon. “It was one of the slowest Boston Marathons since the 1980s due to downpours and wind.” Despite the wild weather, she and Caitie Meyer both ran personal bests at 3:11 and 3:15, respectively. Along the route, they saw another ’14, Laura Goodfellow, who was also running the marathon. Congratulations on the feat, ladies!
Devin Chu emailed in with an update on his graduate research. As a Ph.D. student at University of California, Los Angeles, in the department of astronomy and astrophysics, Devin recently published a paper as lead author making an important breakthrough about the star S0-2. Devin and his team have found that S0-2, previously considered a binary star, has no significant partner star; this important finding means that the star is a prime candidate for testing Einstein’s theory of general relativity, a portion of which states that strong gravitational fields stretch and bend light. Good luck with future observation and testing!
Thanks to those of you who wrote in! Have a great rest of the summer, and I am looking forward to reunions next June!
—Jessica Womack, 8 Spring St., Princeton, NJ 08542; jrwomack1991@gmail.com