Class Note 2014
Issue
January-February 2022
Happy New Year, ’14s!
It’s been great to see ’14 entrepreneurs represented in the Magnuson Center’s virtual events during the past few months. As part of the Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum 2021 in September, two ’14s took part in the Dartmouth Angels Startup Showcase: Janna (Wandzilak) Colucci presented her startup Bundle, a one-stop shop for buildings materials procurement, and Travis Kuster discussed Frio, which he cofounded with fellow ’14 Alex Brown to produce energy-efficient controllers for heating systems. And in October, Meegan Daigler, founder and chief technology officer of healthcare startup Reia,was the first entrepreneur to hold one-on-one meetings with other alums in the center’s new office hours initiative.
Anna Winham is currently working as the grant writer for the Poetry Society of New York and also recently became editor-in-chief of Passengers Journal, “an online literary and visual arts publication that seeks artists whose work challenges and perhaps offends prevailing artistic or societal sentiment.”
You might have seen a familiar face during ad breaks this past summer: Jacqui Calloway appeared in commercials for Bud Light, Giant Grocery, and Laurel Road. Jacqui also starred in the web series The Electrics, which was featured in the American Black Film Festival in November, and was nominated for a B. Iden Payne Award for her performance in the audio theater production of The Frog Prince. Recognizing outstanding theater in Austin, Texas, the awards council nominated The Frog Prince in 11 different categories!
Congrats to Caitie Meyer, who completed the Boston Marathon in October!
Grace Russo married Michael Fitzgerald, M.D., on June 26, 2021, in New York City with a strong ’14 crowd in attendance, including Abby Cohen, Shelley Wenzel, Grace (McDevitt) Loveland, Eric Waskowicz, John Hong, Lauren Kwan, Nik Medrano, and Hannah Rowe. Grace also received her M.D. from Brown Medical School and is currently doing her residency at New York Presbyterian-Columbia.
September was a busy month for weddings: Wendy Xiao and Dylan Assael were married in Vermont. They first met when randomly paired for an Alpha Xi Delta-Sigma Epsilon pong tournament, which they relived with a “first pong game” at the wedding against best man Bobby Arao ’13 and maid of honor Lucia Qian. Ellen (Daily) Stephen, Sid Sathe, Joe Yi ’13, and Dan Marcusa ’13 were also in the wedding party, and Sean Kaufman ’13 officiated. On September 4 Lauren Jenny married Peter Foley in Rhode Island, and on September 18 Julia Herringer married Kyle Beilman.
Jonathan Pedde was engaged to Bethan Saunders in July, and the couple moved to Boston in August.
Holly Wakeman had a whirlwind summer: In the final steps toward her Ph.D. in clinical psychology, she defended her dissertation in May and began an internship at Children’s Hospital Colorado in June. And in July Holly was engaged to Ben Campbell, who proposed on a hike in Telluride, Colorado.
After the past two crazy years, it seems as though everyone has something new going into 2022: weddings, babies, new cities, new jobs, and new schools. Even my familiar underground line somehow managed to come out of this mess with two new stops.
In other words, I know you all have updates, so send them in! Drop us a note on what you’ve been up to at dartmouth2014classnotes@gmail.com.
—Sarah Rossow, 119 Heath St., London NW3 6SS; (651) 769-7344; s.m.rossow@gmail.com; John Daniels, 1495 Wisteria Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48104; (617) 240-6007; john.h.daniels.14@gmail.com
It’s been great to see ’14 entrepreneurs represented in the Magnuson Center’s virtual events during the past few months. As part of the Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum 2021 in September, two ’14s took part in the Dartmouth Angels Startup Showcase: Janna (Wandzilak) Colucci presented her startup Bundle, a one-stop shop for buildings materials procurement, and Travis Kuster discussed Frio, which he cofounded with fellow ’14 Alex Brown to produce energy-efficient controllers for heating systems. And in October, Meegan Daigler, founder and chief technology officer of healthcare startup Reia,was the first entrepreneur to hold one-on-one meetings with other alums in the center’s new office hours initiative.
Anna Winham is currently working as the grant writer for the Poetry Society of New York and also recently became editor-in-chief of Passengers Journal, “an online literary and visual arts publication that seeks artists whose work challenges and perhaps offends prevailing artistic or societal sentiment.”
You might have seen a familiar face during ad breaks this past summer: Jacqui Calloway appeared in commercials for Bud Light, Giant Grocery, and Laurel Road. Jacqui also starred in the web series The Electrics, which was featured in the American Black Film Festival in November, and was nominated for a B. Iden Payne Award for her performance in the audio theater production of The Frog Prince. Recognizing outstanding theater in Austin, Texas, the awards council nominated The Frog Prince in 11 different categories!
Congrats to Caitie Meyer, who completed the Boston Marathon in October!
Grace Russo married Michael Fitzgerald, M.D., on June 26, 2021, in New York City with a strong ’14 crowd in attendance, including Abby Cohen, Shelley Wenzel, Grace (McDevitt) Loveland, Eric Waskowicz, John Hong, Lauren Kwan, Nik Medrano, and Hannah Rowe. Grace also received her M.D. from Brown Medical School and is currently doing her residency at New York Presbyterian-Columbia.
September was a busy month for weddings: Wendy Xiao and Dylan Assael were married in Vermont. They first met when randomly paired for an Alpha Xi Delta-Sigma Epsilon pong tournament, which they relived with a “first pong game” at the wedding against best man Bobby Arao ’13 and maid of honor Lucia Qian. Ellen (Daily) Stephen, Sid Sathe, Joe Yi ’13, and Dan Marcusa ’13 were also in the wedding party, and Sean Kaufman ’13 officiated. On September 4 Lauren Jenny married Peter Foley in Rhode Island, and on September 18 Julia Herringer married Kyle Beilman.
Jonathan Pedde was engaged to Bethan Saunders in July, and the couple moved to Boston in August.
Holly Wakeman had a whirlwind summer: In the final steps toward her Ph.D. in clinical psychology, she defended her dissertation in May and began an internship at Children’s Hospital Colorado in June. And in July Holly was engaged to Ben Campbell, who proposed on a hike in Telluride, Colorado.
After the past two crazy years, it seems as though everyone has something new going into 2022: weddings, babies, new cities, new jobs, and new schools. Even my familiar underground line somehow managed to come out of this mess with two new stops.
In other words, I know you all have updates, so send them in! Drop us a note on what you’ve been up to at dartmouth2014classnotes@gmail.com.
—Sarah Rossow, 119 Heath St., London NW3 6SS; (651) 769-7344; s.m.rossow@gmail.com; John Daniels, 1495 Wisteria Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48104; (617) 240-6007; john.h.daniels.14@gmail.com