Class Note 2014
Happy August, ’14s! I hope everyone is having a lovely summer! I recently moved to New York City to start a new job working with the junior associates young patrons group at the Museum of Modern Art. I love the city in the summer and it’s great running into friends and other Dartmouth alumni here. Now for the updates from our classmates!
Abigail “Abby” Cohen writes in, “I moved to Paraguay in March and on May 18 I swore in as a Peace Corps volunteer in the community economic development sector. For the next two years I will be living in Paso de Patria, a town at the southwestern tip of Paraguay. I will be working with Paraguayan counterparts in the local schools and municipal government and the local youth group, getting involved with community projects.”
Harrison “Harry” Gates is currently living in Boston working as a technology consultant at Mindstream Analytics. Outside of traveling for work he has been keeping up with Frisbee with a pickup group at Harvard.
Rachel Decker-Sadowski just finished her mechanical engineering degree this year at Thayer and has been in Los Angeles since June pursuing her dreams to be an actress. Jacqueline “Jacqui” Calloway is also in L.A., living with Emma Steele, Charlie Laud and Michelle Khare. “I’ve signed with a commercial agent,” she writes, “and have been going out on auditions! I’m appearing in Jeremy Thibodeau and Ben Edlin’s next feature, Circle. Other than that I’ve been soaking up the sun!”
Julia Berkowitz emailed, “During my gap year I had worked as an intern in the clinical department of Partners In Health. My responsibilities included helping the team in Boston to support the Ebola response in Sierra Leone and Liberia, working to reduce maternal mortality in Haiti and reanalyzing existing malnutrition protocols for improvements.”
Samantha “Sam” Oh reports in, “I quit my job the first week of 2015 and joined my brother Kevin, a ’12, to work full time on bringing Axel Audio to life. Believing that only you know for yourself how to listen, look and feel, we created three distinct soundscapes—or sound profiles—to cater to the music you listen to and adopted a fully customizable design to match your unique personality. Since raising more than $200,000 on Kickstarter earlier this summer we’ve been gearing up for our official launch this fall!”
This past year Rebecca “Becca” Rothfeld has been published in The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bookforum, Slate and the Los Angeles Review of Books. “This fall,” she writes, “I will begin a master’s program at the University of Cambridge before continuing on to the Ph.D. program in philosophy at Harvard.”
Hugh “Joseph” Miller says, “I’m doing a teaching fellowship at Success Academy charter schools, teaching first grade. I’m also working toward a master’s in elementary and special education. It’s been incredibly fast-paced; Success Academy is intense and the days are long. However, I’ve fallen in love with teaching and my students and I’ve learned so much about education and myself. It’s endlessly fulfilling to journey with my students during the year. Next year I’ll be completing my master’s and teaching first grade again! Other than work and school a large part of my life has been keeping my attention on Madagascar, where Charles “Tyler” Bradford is for the Peace Corps. I miss him dearly, but it’s been an adventure for us both to be doing things that require our passions and a desire to do good by the world.”
Thanks to all who wrote in, and I look forward to hearing from more ’14s soon!
—Jessica Womack, 228 West 140, Apt. 3C, New York, NY 10030; jrwomack1991@gmail.com
