Class Note 2015
Issue
Nov - Dec 2018
As I put together this issue’s column, summer is coming to a close. I hope that each of you had a wonderful few months and that you are looking forward to autumn. Below are a few updates from our classmates. Thank you to those of you who sent in updates, and a heartfelt thank you to everyone who takes the time to read this column.
Evan Landau writes, “I recently published an article called ‘Finding New Meaning in a Career Using the Same Old Tools of the Trade’ about my time interviewing individuals experiencing homelessness in N.Y.C. for a research project. I relate my experience and background in qualitative research to anyone with a career who wants to branch out and do something more purposeful with their professional skills.” The article can be found on Medium.
Logan Briggs ’16, now a medical school student at Harvard, writes, “The HMS Docs Who Lift is a team composed of four, first-year Harvard Medical School students and a Reebok employee (coming from Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, and Augustana University). We aim to promote well-being, fitness (including, but not limited to lifting weights), and healthy lifestyles across Boston, all while raising money for cancer care and research. We see the Pan-Mass Challenge as an incredible opportunity to live out our passion of a healthy lifestyle and encourage others to do the same while also bringing awareness and fundraising to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and its mission of ‘providing adults and children with cancer with the best treatment available today while developing tomorrow’s cures through cutting-edge research.’
“Accordingly, we have partnered with the Zakim Center at DFCI, a department providing cancer care and pursuing research specifically concerning integrative therapies and healthy living, to further our mission. In setting out to accomplish these goals, our first objective was to demonstrate our commitment to fitness and active lifestyle—and to infuse some fun into our training. We accomplished just that with our official ‘training’ video.
“We have now moved on to spreading our message throughout the Boston medical community in fun and creative ways. Two prominent examples include recruiting 20 Harvard Medical students into a Spartan Race this June and recruiting medical students from Harvard, BU, and Tufts as well as residents and physicians from Boston hospitals to join us in a triathlon.
“Thirty-one members of the HMS Docs Who Lift competed in the Harvest Triathlon. One other Dartmouth grad, Andrew Wong, now studying physics at Harvard, competed with us as well.
“With this triathlon, aside from getting 31 of our peers out and active, we raised more than $600, which put us at a total of almost $22,000 out of our $25,000 fundraising goal for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. It was an awesome event, and I was blown away at how well we did as a team (especially since it was most people’s first triathlon). It was also really inspiring to see one of our teammates, a combat-injured Army vet who lost his legs, and his relay win their division.”
If you’re interested in guest-authoring a column, please let me know! I would love to have some fresh ’15s featured in this space.
As always, please send any column ideas, thoughts, or updates to 15classupdates@gmail.com.
—Samantha Webster, 665 Washington St., Apt. 711, Boston, MA 02111; (484) 356-3678; samwweb15@gmail.com
Evan Landau writes, “I recently published an article called ‘Finding New Meaning in a Career Using the Same Old Tools of the Trade’ about my time interviewing individuals experiencing homelessness in N.Y.C. for a research project. I relate my experience and background in qualitative research to anyone with a career who wants to branch out and do something more purposeful with their professional skills.” The article can be found on Medium.
Logan Briggs ’16, now a medical school student at Harvard, writes, “The HMS Docs Who Lift is a team composed of four, first-year Harvard Medical School students and a Reebok employee (coming from Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, and Augustana University). We aim to promote well-being, fitness (including, but not limited to lifting weights), and healthy lifestyles across Boston, all while raising money for cancer care and research. We see the Pan-Mass Challenge as an incredible opportunity to live out our passion of a healthy lifestyle and encourage others to do the same while also bringing awareness and fundraising to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and its mission of ‘providing adults and children with cancer with the best treatment available today while developing tomorrow’s cures through cutting-edge research.’
“Accordingly, we have partnered with the Zakim Center at DFCI, a department providing cancer care and pursuing research specifically concerning integrative therapies and healthy living, to further our mission. In setting out to accomplish these goals, our first objective was to demonstrate our commitment to fitness and active lifestyle—and to infuse some fun into our training. We accomplished just that with our official ‘training’ video.
“We have now moved on to spreading our message throughout the Boston medical community in fun and creative ways. Two prominent examples include recruiting 20 Harvard Medical students into a Spartan Race this June and recruiting medical students from Harvard, BU, and Tufts as well as residents and physicians from Boston hospitals to join us in a triathlon.
“Thirty-one members of the HMS Docs Who Lift competed in the Harvest Triathlon. One other Dartmouth grad, Andrew Wong, now studying physics at Harvard, competed with us as well.
“With this triathlon, aside from getting 31 of our peers out and active, we raised more than $600, which put us at a total of almost $22,000 out of our $25,000 fundraising goal for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. It was an awesome event, and I was blown away at how well we did as a team (especially since it was most people’s first triathlon). It was also really inspiring to see one of our teammates, a combat-injured Army vet who lost his legs, and his relay win their division.”
If you’re interested in guest-authoring a column, please let me know! I would love to have some fresh ’15s featured in this space.
As always, please send any column ideas, thoughts, or updates to 15classupdates@gmail.com.
—Samantha Webster, 665 Washington St., Apt. 711, Boston, MA 02111; (484) 356-3678; samwweb15@gmail.com